Snowfall

"Oh, how funny, I wouldn't have thought you'd want him to, […] Have you forgotten that the Diamond Trial must also be undertaken by a defending challenger? That's whoever is currently in first place, of course. But only one dragon can survive the Trial. Dear me, that means it'll be brother against brother, won't it? Tsk, tsk. What a conundrum for poor Hailstorm."

— Snowfall to Winter about Hailstorm, Winter Turning

Snowfall is an adult female IceWing and the main protagonist of The Dangerous Gift. She is the daughter of Queen Glacier and the sister of Mink and Crystal.

She is the queen of the IceWing tribe and currently resides in the IceWing palace.

Appearance

Snowfall is large, with snow-white scales and dark blue eyes. She owns a heavy metal crown studded with diamonds and metallic spikes that look similar to icicles. Her crown is described as being too big for her head.

Personality

According to Winter, Snowfall is abundantly blessed with mean smugness. When Winter was raised to first place in the Circle rankings, Snowfall was fuming and gave him a glare that should have melted all of the ice in the palace courtyard. She also smirked at him as if she did not expect his new ranking to last even a week. She was described to smile outwardly, but her voice was all murderous stalactites, sugary-sweet and mocking.

Despite her rough exterior, Snowfall struggles with a lot of isolationist worries and fears. She is scared, but in a powerful, reactive way; she acts out very dramatically whenever she is upset. She has gone through enormous trauma due to the IceWing plague and her mother's death. She is heavily driven by anxiety and fear. She is terrified of any threat to her kingdom.

Snowfall does not seem to take IceWing traditions into heavy regard, as shown when she has many rebellious feelings about them and moved dragons' Circle Rankings the way she wanted instead of the way tradition shaped it. This is shown when she moved her uncle Permafrost's name down simply because he annoyed her.

Jerboa suspects that there may be a heart under Snowfall's icy exterior, but there are not many signs of it. Snowfall felt guilty when she yelled at her scout, which implies that she sometimes does sympathize with other dragons beneath her spiky cover. She is also perpetually anxious and incredibly paranoid, and when Jerboa tried explaining to her that her animus powers were not to be abused, Snowfall threw a tantrum and became frantic.

Biography

The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising
Icicle wondered if Glacier would appreciate a reason to get rid of Icicle so she would not threaten her or her daughters.

Winter Turning

When Winter scans the rankings of the IceWings in the First Circle, he notices that Snowfall has moved to the top position on the dragonet side in front of Lynx, who was in second place. When Winter is moved to take her spot, she shoots him a nasty glare that says that she hates someone else being in first place. When the IceWing dragonets are dismissed, Snowfall stays to congratulate him sarcastically and to stare at the rankings, along with Hailstorm, "as if she could reshape them with the sheer force of her eyeballs," clearly meaning that she was upset about the new rankings.

Darkness of Dragons

When Darkstalker enchanted a scroll to tell the news of the IceWings, it was revealed that Queen Glacier was dead, Snowfall had become the new queen, and that she had brought the entire IceWing army to Jade Mountain to fight the NightWings. Snowfall, Hailstorm, and Narwhal are shown demanding the Jade Mountain staff to tell them where Darkstalker is, which they didn't know. Winter shows up, and she is shocked, looking at Hailstorm as if expecting him to disappear, then demanding to know how Winter is alive. Winter exclaims that it's not important and begins helping his friends convince her not to fight the NightWings. Before she can consider, NightWing scouts with gifts of speed appear and start attacking, throwing the discussion away and officially beginning the battle. Narwhal is killed while blocking the NightWings from her, but Snowfall keeps relatively calm throughout the battle and launches her own frostbreath attacks. She was later teleported back to the Ice Kingdom along with the other IceWings, due to Anemone's spell. In the epilogue, it is mentioned that Snowfall wanted to close the borders and isolate the Ice Kingdom but reconsiders this after she receives large amounts of letters from her tribe requesting to attend Jade Mountain Academy. This change in heart is not very willing, though, as evidenced in book 14.

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The Lost Continent Prophecy

The Poison Jungle

In the epilogue, Snowfall and Jerboa II have a meeting outside of the Great Ice Cliff. Queen Snowfall's scouts have spotted hundreds of dragons on their way to Pyrrhia. These are likely the LeafWings, some SilkWings, the two HiveWings, Cricket and Bumblebee, Turtle and Tsunami. She demands that Jerboa II extends the Great Ice Cliff to prevent the "invaders" from taking her kingdom, as she became very paranoid after the plague that killed Queen Glacier and at least twenty-three of her tribemates. Jerboa II tells her that animus magic isn't currently working for anyone on the continent. To prove this, Jerboa enchants a stick to turn anything it touches green and offers it to Snowfall, who declines it. Jerboa then taps herself and a nearby rock; nothing happens, proving that magic isn't working. Snowfall becomes enraged and storms off, saying Jerboa was useless, concluding the epilogue.

The Dangerous Gift

After the plague that Darkstalker sent to the IceWings, she was furious about the event and never wanted to see any other dragon tribes again. She mostly didn't care what other queens had to say and would have isolated the tribe, but the empathy spell convinced too many of her subjects to try to reach out to other tribes. Later, Snowfall was seen talking to Lynx over her problems, albeit the queen was stressed and angry. More information flying in soon …

Relationships

Crystal

Snowfall was at first distrustful towards her sister, and became paranoid when Crystal disappeared, wondering if her sister was conspiring with their cousin Winter to overthrow her. When Snowfall goes to Sanctuary, she sees an IceWing in the corner of her eye and chases them, and after confronting them realizes that the IceWing was Crystal. After a failed attack from Gharial, Snowfall is informed by Crystal that the reason she left the Ice Kingdom was because she was in love with Gharial, which was a reason why Glacier chose Snowfall over her to be queen. After realizing Crystal had no interest in taking the throne, Snowfall begins to trust her again, and even approves of her relationship with Gharial.

Glacier

In the books, she is never shown to have any affection towards her mother, but as shown in the epilogue of The Poison Jungle, whenever Jerboa II mentioned her late mother's name, her wings gave a little tremor. Snowfall's relationship with her mother is explored in The Dangerous Gift where it's revealed that Snowfall cared more about Glacier than she let on. Snowfall mentally noted that she intended to spend several more years with her mother before challenging her for the throne. Snowfall was devastated when her mother died from the plague.

Jerboa II

She saw Jerboa II as a way of making her tribe safer from the other dragon tribes with animus magic. This is likely due to her fear of what Darkstalker did to her mother and other IceWings in the past. However, it is likely that Snowfall only tolerated Jerboa II because of her animus magic, because when the SandWing proved that she could no longer enchant things, Snowfall called her 'useless' and stormed away.

Lynx

Tui has confirmed that in The Dangerous Gift, Lynx will help Snowfall with her anger issues. This is demonstrated in the book's second excerpt, where Lynx arrives in Snowfall's throne room to check up on her. Due to Snowfall's paranoia, the IceWing Queen questions Lynx's motives as Queen Snowfall feels threatened by the latter's presence. When asked if she (Lynx) was spying on her, Lynx confirms this but attempts to reassure her that it's not for the reasons her majesty feared. Lynx explains that she was concerned for her Queen's mental health due to the ordeals their tribe (particularly Snowfall) had been forced to endure by Darkstalker. Snowfall notes that she sometimes has a hard time not strangling Lynx.

Winter

She doesn't seem to like her cousin or care about the fact that he was fighting his brother during the Diamond Trial. She was also furious and in disbelief when he was placed ahead of her in the rankings. In The Dangerous Gift, it's revealed that Snowfall has become distrustful of Winter. Snowfall even suspected that Winter was conspiring with her older sister, Crystal, to overthrow her.

Family Tree

More

Glacier

Several Dragons

Narwhal

Tundra

Crystal

Snowfall

Mink

Hailstorm

Winter

Icicle

Quotes

"Well, […] That was unexpected."

― about Winter's placement at the top of the rankings

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"There's not quite enough distance between our numbers for you to be giving me orders. Besides, I'm sure I won't be the only dragon who wants to ask Hailstorm about the Diamond Trial. Are you considering it, Hailstorm dear? With only twelve days until you're seven, I certainly hope so."

― to Hailstorm and Winter

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"Oh, how funny, I wouldn't have thought you'd want him to, […] Have you forgotten that the Diamond Trial must also be undertaken by a defending challenger? That's whoever is currently in first place, of course. But only one dragon can survive the Trial. Dear me, that means it'll be brother against brother, won't it? Tsk, tsk. What a conundrum for poor Hailstorm."

― to Winter when he says Hailstorm should try the Diamond Trial

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"Twenty IceWings died of that plague, including our queen, […] They started this. They're going to pay for it."

― to the dragonets of destiny

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"Maybe not, but they might be interested in killing all of us! […] I can think of a very big scary awful dragon who was pretty recently interested in that exact thing! […] So I want you to expand the Great Ice Cliff for me, […] I want it to go all the way around, along the entire border of the kingdom. […] Something has happened. But you can't go tell Queen Thorn."

― to Jerboa II

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"And guess what one of them saw? […] DRAGONS! Hundreds of dragons! Coming this way! Across the ocean! I don't know from where! But they're coming for my kingdom and I won't let them! Build me more Ice Cliff RIGHT NOW!"

― to Jerboa II

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"How is that possible? […] Why is this happening NOW, just when I found you?! I NEED THAT MAGIC!"

― to Jerboa II, on the subject of animus magic not working

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"If you can't do magic, […] then what good are you? You're completely useless!"

― to Jerboa II

Trivia

• Snowfall was at first excited to inherit her crown from Glacier, but it has become a source of frustration because it is cumbersome and too large for her.
• Tui said to "not get too excited about a love interest" for Snowfall.
• Tui says that out of all of the characters she has written, Snowfall is the least like her.
• Mink, Crystal, and Snowfall were the three possible heirs to the IceWing throne, but Glacier chose the next heir on her deathbed as to avoid another succession war.
• She is the youngest IceWing queen in history.
• Snowfall was stated to have her own personal bathtub.^{[citation needed]}

Gallery

• Reference by Lumin the Whisperer
  Reference by Lumin the Whisperer
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  Snowfall on the cover of The Dangerous Gift, by Joy Ang
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  Snowfall on the full cover of The Dangerous Gift, by Joy Ang
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  Snowfall fullbody render, edited by Nathia Safira
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  Snowfall appearing on the poster for the 2020 Winter event on Scholastic Home Base
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  Reference by Queen Thorn of the SandWing