Grandeur

"We used to keep track of the royal eggs, but my daughters were useless, so we merged our eggs with the tribe's, hoping to find successors who were queens in spirit, if not blood. There were a few who might have been great if they'd ever tried for the throne, but the truth is, I've never found a dragonet who both wanted to be queen and deserved to be. Until now."

— Grandeur to Glory, The Hidden Kingdom

Grandeur is an elderly female RainWing who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom. She served as queen of the RainWings before reluctantly allowing RainWing volunteers to rotate months on the throne with her. One of the six RainWing queens who ruled before Glory became queen, she was the only one who was a descendant of the original RainWing royal family.

Appearance

Grandeur keeps her scales a pale lavender color, seemingly glittering with tiny dewdrops, and her ruff a pale orange. She is described as a stately older dragon with half-asleep eyes and a sour expression.

Personality

Unlike the rest of her tribe, Grandeur is cold, sour, stately, regal, and one of the last RainWings worthy of the throne. According to Glory, she is the only RainWing who looks, moves, and sounds like a real queen, and has a royal elegance about her. She is unsatisfied with how lazy her tribe has gotten and misses the time when camouflage was needed for survival and royal blood mattered. Back when the RainWings shared the throne, she only saw petitioners once a week and said no to pretty much anything during her turn. The throne was originally hers and she merely tolerated all the other queens on it. She thought it would eventually turn them into better dragons but she now believes she was mistaken. Grandeur's venom skills are impressive and she was willing to execute Glory's plan during the events leading to the NightWing Exodus.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Hidden Kingdom

During the contest to determine the queen, Grandeur participated in the venom accuracy test. She was one of the only two RainWing queens who made no known attempt to cheat during her event (the other being Fruit Bat), as she was sure she would win, and was truthful in the claim. Towards the end of the venom targeting, a sloth fell in front of the target, and Kinkajou dove into the line of venom to push it out of the way. Glory and Grandeur test their venom and find a match to neutralize Kinkajou's injury. This also reveals that Glory is a member of the disbanded RainWing royal family. Grandeur forfeited, allowing Kinkajou to win, and Glory to become queen. She believed in the royal family, which the RainWings had abandoned, as her daughters were "useless." She told the other queens that Glory would indeed be a better queen than any of them, saying that she had only "allowed them to be queen in hopes that the experience may transform them to be worthy of the throne," which they were not.

The Dark Secret
When Starflight dreamvisited Kinkajou, Grandeur was watching her. She assisted in activities such as battle planning. Grandeur and Liana were usually working together in Glory's command. She helped to free the RainWings using a spear during the attack on the NightWings.

The Brightest Night
Grandeur assisted Glory in organizing the NightWings when they sought refuge in the rainforest. She and Mangrove were later left in charge of the rainforest while Glory attended the peace summit at Burn's stronghold. Later, when Sunny is preparing to meet her family, she thinks about how all her friends have some family, Glory having Jambu and Grandeur.

Relationships

Glory

Grandeur sees Glory as a worthy queen and generously crowned her. Grandeur is her personal advisor and aided her. Because she is Glory's assistant, she is trustworthy enough to run the kingdom alongside Mangrove when Glory had left for the Great War's peace summit.

Family Tree

More

Jacaranda

Several Generations

Grandeur

Several Dragons

Quickstrike

Unknown

Jambu

Glory

Deathbringer

Firefly

    = Possible timeline

Quotes

"I remember when we actually needed our camouflage, to protect ourselves from invading dragons. It wasn't a game back then. It was what we had to do to survive."

― when Handsome says one of the challenges is camouflage

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"We used to keep track of the royal eggs, but my daughters were useless, so we merged our eggs with the tribe's, hoping to find successors who were queens in spirit, if not blood. There were a few who might have been great if they'd ever tried for the throne, but the truth is, I've never found a dragonet who both wanted to be queen and deserved to be. Until now."

― to Glory

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"It's my throne anyway. I have merely tolerated all of you on it because I thought experience might transform you into worthy queens."

― talking to the (now) ex-queens.

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"I know she'll be a better queen than you."

― to Magnificent, about Glory being the new queen

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"Behold! Your new queen! Queen Glory of the RainWings!"

― announcing Glory as Queen of the RainWings

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"I could do it. Attack another dragon with my venom, I mean, for the sake of my tribe. But I agree, the others would have trouble."

― when Glory mentioned about possibly having to use venom on NightWings

Trivia

• In the minigame Speed Wings on Scholastic's Home Base, Grandeur is a playable character.
• During Glory's challenge to become queen of the RainWings, it was mentioned that Grandeur used to be an excellent treetop racer, but that she was much too old for it now.

Gallery

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  Reference by SpaceshipEarth
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  Granduer from The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes
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  Grandeur's icon in Speed Wings, a game on Scholastic HomeBase

• Art by Mike Holmes, from the Wings of Fire Graphic Novels
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