Palm

"If it is a girl — it feels like a girl — then I shall give her the name you chose and hide her away somewhere secret and safe. She'll get the chance to be ordinary that you never had. By the moons of Pyrrhia, I swear she will never have anything to do with thrones or queens or battles or crowns, for as long as we both shall live."

— Palm's thoughts toward Smolder and her unhatched dragonet, Darkness of Dragons

Palm was an adult female SandWing who was introduced in Darkness of Dragons. She was the mother to Onyx and twin sister to Prickle.

Palm fled the SandWing stronghold after attempting to elope with Smolder, and after several years of living as a fugitive within the Kingdom of Sand, she was killed by a falling piece of skyfire.

Appearance

Palm had patterns of light brown scales freckled across her paler yellow scales. Compared to Prickle, she was round and soft due to her work in the palace kitchens. She had sand-colored wings and a small scar on her left wing from when she fell off the wingery roof when she was young. She used to own earrings made of fire opal, given to her by Smolder, before giving them up to her sister as payment to stay the night at her hut.

Biography

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Hidden Kingdom
When Glory and Jambu disguised themselves as IceWings to enter Blaze's fortress, it was explained to them by Blaze that one of the tapestries was made in the memory of a romantic story of Blaze's brother, Smolder, falling in love with a dragon that her mother did not approve of, and thought that Queen Oasis might have killed her. The dragon in the tapestry is Palm, Smolder's love.

The Brightest Night
In the prologue, Blister asked if Smolder was running off with his girlfriend again, and Queen Oasis said that she took care of that. Smolder later mentioned Palm and recounted a story about their love, similar to Blaze's story in The Hidden Kingdom.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising
When Onyx told Moonwatcher and Ostrich about how she found the piece of skyfire, she explained how it killed Palm when it went through her head. She considered it to be beautiful and deadly, which made her love it even more. This suggested that she did not have a strong connection with Palm, perhaps caused by their constant wandering.

Darkness of Dragons

The prologue was in Palm's PoV. She was running away from the queen's soldiers, who were trying to take her back to the palace. Just as she was about to pass out, she found Prickle's oasis and hut. Prickle, her somewhat mean sister, grudgingly let her in, though she made Palm hand over her earrings in exchange for letting her stay the night, and they started arguing about Smolder. The guards burst in, but instead of arresting Palm, they arrested Prickle because the sisters looked alike and because Prickle was wearing her sisters' earrings. One of the guards, Agave, recognized the real Palm but didn't mention it to the others because of their friendship from when they were dragonets. Palm decided to run away and travel the continent after she realized that she was with egg.

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Winglets

Deserter
Shortly before Oasis' death, Smolder was shown crying about Palm's disappearance and possible death. Six-Claws mentioned that he had known Palm due to working in the kitchen with her. No one mentioned if she was really dead or just imprisoned.

Relationships

Onyx

She and her daughter did not have a very loving relationship since it was rather one-sided. Palm wanted to assure that Onyx would never be power-hungry one day, so she raised her far away from royalty. Onyx mentioned that her mother often told her sad stories, which annoyed her. She also said that Palm "Would have kept me buried under a rock if she had to."

Prickle

Palm and her twin sister had a rocky relationship. Even before Prickle's unfair imprisonment, the two sisters did not seem to get along, and Prickle only agreed to help Palm to gain the fire opal earrings that Smolder had given her. After her imprisonment, Prickle hated Palm with a passion. Palm still felt guilty about what she had done many years afterward and was still having nightmares about it even though she was certain that her sister had been released after only a few days.

Smolder

Palm loved Smolder before Oasis' death despite the risk after Smolder came to compliment on the camel stew. The two started sneaking out at night and talking about the future. Even after fleeing from the guards, she remembered her partner and named their dragonet on an agreed name.

Family Tree

Char

Oasis

2 Dragons

Scald

Singe

Burn

Blister

Blaze

Prickle

Palm

Smolder

Onyx

Quotes

"But I'm not going to die, […] Not today."

― thinking

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"But it isn't fair! […] Why can't he fall in love? Why does his whole life have to be wasted just so his mother won't feel threatened? Other royal families aren't like this. […] Besides, […] it could be male, and then no one would even care about it."

― about Smolder and her unhatched dragonet

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"I'm sorry, Palm. You brought this upon yourself."

― pretending to be her sister to escape with her egg

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"If it is a girl — it feels like a girl — then I shall give her the name you chose and hide her away somewhere secret and safe. She'll get the chance to be ordinary that you never had. By the moons of Pyrrhia, I swear she will never have anything to do with thrones or queens or battles or crowns, for as long as we both shall live."

― thinking about her unhatched dragonet

Trivia

• When Agave and Torch arrested Prickle, she screamed that she would set the moons on fire and drop them on Palm's head. Ironically, Palm was later killed by a meteorite.

Gallery

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  Reference by OutsmartingBasilisk

References

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