War of SandWing Succession

The War of SandWing Succession was a war over the heir to the SandWing throne. All of the Pyrrhian tribes were involved, excluding the RainWings and NightWings. The event began twenty years before The Dragonet Prophecy in 4,992 AS.

Description

Twenty years ago, Queen Oasis was killed by Stone, a scavenger, in an attempt to steal the SandWing treasure with Heath and Rose. Among the stolen treasure was Eye of Onyx, which was used to choose the next SandWing queen. Blister allied with the SeaWings and MudWings, Burn allied with the SkyWings, and Blaze had most of the SandWings supporting her, also allied with the IceWings. The war ended with Sunny finding the Eye of Onyx and giving it to Thorn, who became the new SandWing queen.

Timeline

• Heath, Rose, and Stone break into the palace to steal the SandWing treasure. Oasis goes after them and is killed by Stone in the process.
• Burn tracks down the scavengers and burns down their dens Blister steals some of the treasure for herself in Burn's absence. Councils are held on who should be the next SandWing queen. Rose is found and adopted by Smolder.
• Blister allies with the SeaWings and MudWings. Burn later gets the SkyWings on her side and attempts to contact the IceWings, but they are already with Blaze, who also has the majority of the SandWings on her side. The war officially begins.
• Morrowseer and Battlewinner come up with the Dragonet Prophecy, and their plan to take over the rainforest. Blister is secretly allies with the NightWings and has favor with the Talons of Peace.
• Commander Tempest of the SeaWings is assassinated by Deathbringer, resulting in the MudWings to split from the alliance with Blister. Burn forces the MudWings to ally with her.
• The Talons of Peace gathers the dragonets of destiny's eggs. Hvitur and the SkyWing egg are killed by Burn, the latter is replaced with Glory's egg. Asha was caught in the crossfire between Blister and Blaze's forces, and dies of her wounds after delivering Clay's egg. Webs steals Tsunami's egg and Dune steals Sunny's egg. Morrowseer brings Starflight's egg to the Talons of Peace.
• All SkyWing eggs hatched on the brightest night were killed under Queen Scarlet's orders to stop the prophecy. According to the guards, the eighth egg escaped somehow.
• The brightest night occurs, and the dragonets hatch.
• Six years later, the dragonets of destiny attempt to escape their cave in the Claws of the Clouds Mountains. They are taken prisoner by Queen Scarlet, along with Kestrel.
• Queen Scarlet invites Burn to her palace for her hatching day to see the dragonets and to give Sunny to Burn as a gift. The dragonets soon escape after Glory sprays Scarlet with her venom, nearly killing the SkyWing queen.
• Around the same time the dragonets escaped from the Sky Kingdom, Blaze's army attacks the MudWings. The only named loss of this battle was Crane.
• Burn's alliance bombs the Summer Palace during the dragonets stay, due to Crocodile, a Talons of Peace infiltrator. The SeaWings flee to the Deep Palace, breaking their alliance with Blister.
• Nautilus, leader of the Talons of Peace, and Morrowseer come up with a set of replacement dragonets of destiny, known as the false dragonets.
• The MudWings and SkyWings plan to attack the IceWings, the idea being to "kill them all, take no prisoners." They decide not to after Sunny dreamvisited talked Queen Moorhen out of the idea.
• On the false brightest night, Sunny has the heirs and most of the tribes meet up at Burn's stronghold. Sunny plans for the sisters to peacefully choose who the next queen is, or have the SandWing tribe decide.
• Blister gifts Burn a dragonbite viper, which Burn pins in her talons. A second dragonbite viper leaps out of the box and kills Burn. Blister attacks Blaze after Burn's death.
• Sunny finds the Eye of Onyx and gave it to Thorn. Blister attempts to steal the Eye for herself, but is incinerated due to the Eye's enchantment.
• Thorn is crowned the queen of the SandWings, ending the war.

Trivia

• In a vision in Moon Rising, Clay first mentioned a scroll title about it to Starflight.

Gallery

• The Dragonets acting out the beginning of the war
  The Dragonets acting out the beginning of the war

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