Sequoia

"I can STILL HEAR YOU […] I am trying to COUNT until I FEEL CALMER and less like MURDERING EVERYONE."

— Sequoia to Hazel, The Poison Jungle

Sequoia is an adult female LeafWing who appeared in The Poison Jungle and is the great-grandmother of Hazel. She has ruled the LeafWings for approximately fifty years. After the events of the Tree Wars, Sequoia, and what are now known as SapWings by the PoisonWings, fled to the Poison Jungle.

She currently resides in the Poison Jungle and is under the control of the othermind.

Appearance

Sequoia is depicted as dark green in a mural within the Mosaic Garden at Cicada Hive. Her tail is scarred with claw marks and drags behind her, and she is missing one ear and half of one of her horns. She is enormous and long-necked.

Personality

Queen Sequoia once had an angry personality, according to her great-granddaughter, Hazel, though this may likely have been caused by many of her subjects' deaths. After the Tree Wars, she became a more calm and tranquil dragon, which was presumably the reason she stayed with the SapWings. She uses a counting-to-ten strategy to control her temper, especially during meetings with Commander Belladonna. She was against fighting the HiveWings, but when they were preparing to attack the LeafWings, she was willing to help Belladonna fight against Queen Wasp. Sundew says she has a royal aura surrounding her.

Biography

The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Lost Continent

While visiting the Mosaic Garden with Luna, Blue and his half-sister came across the Salvation Wall, which is a giant mural depicting the end of the Tree Wars. Blue noticed a dark green LeafWing who was supposed to resemble Queen Sequoia, and he wondered why she refused to accept Queen Wasp's rule as Ex-Queen Monarch did. Blue attempted to imagine himself as Sequoia, leading her tribe into a single-outcome war. Later, when reading the Book of Clearsight, Sundew says that Queen Sequoia would only agree to Queen Wasp's demands if she saw it written in Clearsight's handwriting.

The Poison Jungle

Queen Sequoia is revealed to be alive. She rules the SapWings and when Sundew and Willow are first reunited in the book, she finds them and takes them both back to the SapWings' village. There, she learns about the PoisonWings and their plan to burn down the hives. While they are in the Poison Jungle, Queen Sequoia tells the PoisonWings and the SapWings about the "Legend of the Hive," where groups of mind-controlled insects and animals attack the first dragons on Pantala. She explains that the plant Queen Wasp used to mind-control the HiveWings is the breath of evil. She sends Sundew, Willow, Mandrake, Cricket, Bumblebee, and Nettle on a mission to find Hawthorn, who supposedly was sent to research the breath of evil because he might have found a cure. When Sundew, Willow, Mandrake, Cricket, Bumblebee, and Nettle reach Hawthorn, they discover that Queen Sequoia did not object to Hawthorn's plan of mind-controlling Queen Wasp. Sundew then decides to be mad at Queen Sequoia after Queen Wasp has been defeated. After they returned from the quest, Sequoia aided in the preparations to defend the Poison Jungle from invading HiveWing forces. At the end, when Sundew and the rest of the dragons of Pantala who weren't mind-controlled by the othermind left for Pyrrhia with the aid of a map hidden in the Book of Clearsight, Queen Sequoia is mind-controlled by the othermind and does not come with Sundew and the others.

The Dangerous Gift
Sequoia was mentioned by Swordtail when he remembers how the breath of evil infected the LeafWings. Later, when Snowfall asks Hazel about what happens to the earlier queen, Sequoia is mentioned to be possibly still alive. She was also mentioned to by Blue that Wasp wanted her dead but the othermind didn't let Wasp.

Relationships

Belladonna

Sequoia and Belladonna often get into fights, as they lead contradicting organizations. In the end, however, Belladonna convinced Sequoia to join her in the battle against the HiveWings.

Hazel

Sequoia seemed to love her great-granddaughter very much, treating her like her own daughter by fussing over her and worrying about her. This is because Hazel is the only known heir to the LeafWing throne.

Quotes

"I can STILL HEAR YOU. […] I am TRYING to COUNT until I FEEL CALMER and less like MURDERING EVERYONE."

― to Hazel

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"I don't care what you don't want to do! I am not going to let your dragons die, […] You may have been apart from us for fifty years, but you're still my tribe. If we don't work together now, we don't stand a chance."

― to Belladonna

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"I know Wasp. She strikes back the moment she's struck. I estimate we have a day, maybe two, while they put out the fire, tend to their wounded, and relocate their eggs and dragonets. Then perhaps a day to gather her horde and travel here ― more likely less. If they're not on the border of the Poison Jungle by tonight, they will be by tomorrow morning."

― about Queen Wasp

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"No, […] I won't be able to think clearly with you there. I need to know you're safe here, and that the rest of the tribe is safe, too, because you'll be in charge of them. If Wasp gets past us, you'll need to decide what to do … fight her, or run."

― to Hazel

Gallery

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  Reference by Sands of Lost Time

References

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