Scarlet

A typical Skywing. Art by Joy Ang.

Queen Scarlet was the queen of the Skywings.

History

Queen Scarlet is the longest lived Skywing queen, surviving 14 challangers. She decided to ally with Burn and the Mudwings in the war, and she began to use it to intertain herself. She would pit the prisioners against each other, saying that if they winned a certian number of fights, they would go free.

Years before, Kestrel entered the breeding program and yeilded one egg with twin dragonets. The quantity disapointed her, and she ordered her to kill the dragonets and stay out of the program for life. Dispite this, Kestrel tried to flee with them, promting Scarlet to change the order: kill one, and the other with you will go free. Kestrel killed the one with too little fire, and then Scarlet revealled she lied. She kept the one with too much fire and let Kestrel escape. She named the dragonet Peril, and due to her invunerabliity, she trained her as her champion of the arena. To ensure loyalty, she told her she killed her brother and her mother abandoned her. She also told her she needed black rocks to survive, poisning her food so she would belive her the day she did not eat them.

Years later, a Scavenger stole treasure from her and fleed. This lead her to stumble across Clay and Tsunami, who where escaping the Talons of Peace. Angered by the Seawing, she told them to come with her after Clay answered a question wrong. To escape, Tsunami impalled her tail into the ground, making her infuriated. This led to her following their signal and capturing them, killing Dune in the process.

Scarlet caged Sunny in her hall, made Glory an artpiece, and put Clay, Tsunami, and Starflight into the arena. She wanted to place Starflight in first, but Clay talked her out of it. She pitted him against Fjord, telling Peril to stay away from him. An unknown substance killed Fjord, so she allowed Clay to live. After Burn arrived, she took the three dragonets into a cave for singing. She ominuslly refrered to the trail where Kestrel was sentenced to death, Osprey killed, and Peril learning who she truely was. After Peril helped them escape, she told the queen where they were to save Clay. The next day, her hatching day, she first pitted Tsuanmi against a mad Seawing, Starflight against her, and then the two of them against scavengers. However, they defeated them. Before able to pit them against Icewings, Morrowseer saved Starlfight.

She then procceded to pit Peril against Clay, knowing Peril was using the champions shield (a champion may stand in for a prisoner; the prisoner goes free if they kill their next opponet). During the battle, she asked clay to use his venom, the one she thorught he had. Ironically, upon saying "I didn't get to see it last time!", Glory reared up and spat it into her eyes. She is presumed dead from the venom.

Personallity

Scarlet was always unafraid of conflet. She demonstrated this through her brutal areans, which she used Peril in respectivlly. She was a harsh and cold ruler, not able to be defeated or outsmarted. Her tendency also proved to be a weakness, distracting her for Glory to attack her. She also bellieved that using fear would carry out her orders unquestinoed. However, this lead to her losing Peril and Glory, for both she had lied and threatened death more than once. She also used trickery, shown when she told Peril about black rocks.