Morrowseer
- "Now there's no point - the NightWings are already in the rainforest, so we have no reason to join the war. It'll drag on endlessly, and more dragons will die every day, probably for generations. All of them wondering what happened to the amazing dragonets who were supposed to save them, but obviously, he failed."
- — Morrowseer to Sunny, The Dark Secret
Template:Charbox Morrowseer was a large adult male NightWing who was introduced in The Dragonet Prophecy. Before being killed by the volcano explosion in The Dark Secret, he was well known for creating and delivering a false prophecy known as the Dragonet Prophecy, with the aid of Queen Battlewinner, as part of a scheme to exterminate the entire RainWing tribe and take over the Rainforest Kingdom.
Appearance
Morrowseer's black-on-black scales were described to be as black as a bottomless pit.[1] He was enormous, according to Clay, about three times larger than Kestrel, and twenty times more terrifying. He also has a ridged back, a long black snout, large talons, and a long, strong tail. The star-like scales on his jagged, bat-like wings curled inward like a snail shell[2] that seemed to glitter from a great distance and cast a cold glow. His teeth are fierce and bright like lightning, and he had black eyes[3] with a sharp, threatening gaze. He was also noted to have a deep menacing voice. Clay found him to be very intimidating.
Personality
Morrowseer was seen as manipulative and didn't seem to care how many dragons died for his cause. He only cared about his tribe and reputation, considering himself and his tribe superior. He was shown to be narcissistic, snobbish, and heartless. He was also deceitful, lying to thousands of dragons about the Dragonet Prophecy without showing any guilt. He was very intelligent and cunning and could be seen as very loyal to his tribe (he made up the prophecy to try to save them). He was also more than just an adviser to Queen Battlewinner , considering his oversight of the kidnapping of Starflight, the murder of the IceWing prisoners, and the murder of the SkyWing soldiers. He seems to be an officer or general of some sort, but this has never been confirmed by Tui. Morrowseer was never told about the existence of his daughter, Moonwatcher, by Secretkeeper, since she was worried that he would take Moon back to the NightWing Island. Because of this, he had no idea that he even had a daughter - he just knew he and Secretkeeper were going to have a hatchling, which he believed had died as an egg.
Biography
| Pre-Series |
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| After the first eruption of the NightWing Island's volcano, Morrowseer and Queen Battlewinner wrote The Dragonet Prophecy, intending to use it to steal the rainforest from the RainWings by taking advantage of the War of SandWing Succession. He personally "delivered" the prophecy and gave Starflight and Fatespeaker's eggs to the Talons of Peace, to whom he then remained a close ally. Morrowseer also spoke to Thorn after she fought with her secret lover, Stonemover, an animus NightWing, blaming her for being responsible for Stonemover's fate. Sometime before the events of Moon Rising, he fathered Moonwatcher's egg with Secretkeeper, as it is revealed at the beginning of the book. |
The Dragonet Prophecy
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| The Lost Heir |
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| In the epilogue, Morrowseer met with Nautilus and Blister after the destruction of the Summer Palace. Blister complained about how annoying the dragonets were, and Nautilus and Morrowseer offered her the false dragonets as the backup. |
| The Hidden Kingdom |
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| Morrowseer is seen with Nautilus discussing the backup plan and observing the false dragonets during the prologue. Squid is the only dragonet who actually talks to Morrowseer and complains that he wants gold and jewels. (He also says Morrowseer is 'nonagoshabibble', in response to Morrowseer saying that Flame was 'non-negotiable.') Morrowseer is mad at the Talons for failing to raise them obediently. He takes over their training and decides to bring them to the Night Kingdom. |
| The Dark Secret |
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Morrowseer ordered the kidnapping of Starflight and brought him to the Night Kingdom. He expressed great displeasure in Starflight's failure to bring the dragonets to Blister's side and chastised him for lacking NightWing superiority. He also introduced Starflight to his father, Mastermind, after noticing that the two talk in a similar way. After introducing Starflight to the false dragonets, he ordered them to kill Starflight. This was both to test the new dragonet's abilities and to see if Starflight was worth keeping. This ended with Starflight surviving, and Flame and Ochre were arrested by NightWing guards and imprisoned for a night. The next day, he sent Starflight and the false dragonets to convince a remote outpost of SkyWing guards to switch to Blister's side. When the mission failed, several NightWing guards appeared out of nowhere to burn the fort down, which Starflight suspected would have happened even if they had succeeded. Afterward, Morrowseer sent Squid away after the dragonet complained about the training. Later, he announced that they were going to train for battle and told Ochre and Flame to fight, saying that he would step in when necessary. Flame clawed Ochre, who asked to stop, and Morrowseer removed the MudWing and threw Fatespeaker in. Viper quickly joined in, and the two proceeded to chase Fatespeaker, who called to Starflight to help her. Starflight joined the battle and knocked Viper off of Fatespeaker, but the SandWing's barb sliced across Flame's face, who accidentally pushed her into the lava river. Morrowseer showed no grief at Viper's death but was horrified at Flame's injuries, as the SkyWing was not replaceable after the destruction of original SkyWing's egg. Soon after, Morrowseer attended an official meeting of the NightWings. Greatness announced that the NightWings would enter the rainforest at midnight and kill all of the RainWings. However, their plan failed when Queen Glory led her tribe in a preemptive invasion and freed the RainWing prisoners. During the attack, the volcano on the island began to erupt. He revealed to Starflight, Tsunami, Sunny, and Clay that the prophecy was fake, devastating Sunny. She fled through the portal, and Morrowseer took a step forward as if to follow her, but was stopped by Starflight and Fatespeaker. After he remarked that he had all of the dragonets he wanted to kill in one place, the volcano erupted, and Morrowseer was swallowed by the inferno. Morrowseer was likely been killed by the volcanic explosion, as mentioned in The Brightest Night. In Winter Turning a dead dragon (which is believed to be Morrowseer), now just a shape of ashes, is seen in front of the portal right where Morrowseer was standing when the volcano erupted. It was hinted that he might have survived the initial eruption but was likely killed by the heat of the lava. |
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The Jade Mountain Prophecy
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| Morrowseer is mentioned in the prologue when Secretkeeper regrets not being able to tell him about Moonwatcher's egg, but she knows that he cares too much about traditions to allow her to be raised outside the tribe. Moonwatcher later mentions hearing his name in Secretkeeper's mind, and it is confirmed that Morrowseer is, in fact, Moon's father. |
| Winter Turning |
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| When Winter, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou take the tunnel to the NightWing island, they walk by the ashy statue-like form of a NightWing, which Winter first thought was alive since it was a silhouette illuminated by fire. This was most likely the remains of Morrowseer, also confirming his death. |
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Legends
| Dragonslayer |
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| When Leaf, Thyme and Cranberry are crossing the mountains to get to the Sky Palace, Leaf notices a black dragon farther behind him flying away. Due to the Talons of Peace's hiding place for the Dragonets of Destiny being in that direction and Scarlet going after Mushroom after the trio get there, it can be assumed that this was Morrowseer leaving the cave after inspecting the dragonets. |
Winglets
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| Assassin |
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| Morrowseer first appeared in Assassin as Queen Battlewinner's "most trusted advisor", arguing with Quickstrike about whether to allow Deathbringer to go on the mission. They agreed to let him go on the condition that he must assassinate either Slaughter or Vengeance, two full-grown NightWings who were referred to as Morrowseer's pets. Later, he is seen ushering Slaughter out of his cave and telling him to kill Deathbringer before he could be killed himself, but Deathbringer had snuck up on them and murdered Slaughter. At the end of the book, Morrowseer met with Deathbringer to send the young dragon on a mission to kill Six-Claws, a SandWing general in Princess Burn's army, not knowing that Quickstrike had died on the mission. |
Family Tree
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Relationships
Morrowseer was a loyal member of the NightWing tribe. He justified his actions by the fact that he was trying to save his tribe, but seemingly had no empathy for non-NightWing dragons and barely hesitated when resorting to violence.
The dragonets were Morrowseer's idea, but he ended up trying to kill them since they wouldn't help the NightWings kill the RainWings and did not support Blister becoming the queen of SandWings. He especially hated Starflight, who he considered a weak and spineless failure, as well as Glory just because she was a RainWing and a potential threat to his plan.
Moonwatcher was Morrowseer's daughter, though he never knew of her existence, and she only knew his name by reading it from her mother's mind. Secretkeeper was mentioned to have wanted to tell Morrowseer but was convinced he would have told the entire NightWing tribe and forced Moonwatcher to grow up in the volcano with the rest of the NightWings as Morrowseer was too traditional to accept his dragonet being raised off the Island. However, He knew that he and Secretkeeper were going to have a hatchling; he just didn't know that he had a living hatchling or that she was female before he was killed.
Morrowseer and Blister were allied during the great war. He would help Blister become queen if she would help them destroy the RainWings to give the NightWings a safer home in the rainforest, in return for Morrowseer lending Blister the strength in numbers of the NightWings to assist her army in the war.
Due to the "extra" dragonets who were deemed unnecessary, Morrowseer was tasked with getting rid of the added "problems". Eventually, Viper died and Squid quit, though it was Morrowseer who forced him out. He didn't favor any of them, disliking them as much as the original five; he was very cautious about the SkyWing, named Flame, though, for he was not as expendable as the others.
Morrowseer describes Secretkeeper as having "a good head on her shoulders" when comparing her to Starflight and Fierceteeth's mother, Farsight. Secretkeeper and Morrowseer most likely did love each other despite the actions of Secretkeeper when refusing to tell her daughter, Moonwatcher (therefore the daughter of Morrowseer) the name of her father, due to the fact that she believed he could not be trusted and would insist that Moonwatcher grow up on the NightWing island. However, when saying this, she also mentioned that she desperately wanted to tell her dragonet who her father was, showing that she probably loved him and wanted the family to be together.
Quotes
- "We made you. You dragonets are only important because of us, and we can destroy you just as easily"
- ― to Sunny (The Dark Secret, page 279)
- "On the contrary, I certainly can make my prophecy happen however I want, considering I'm the one who made it up in the first place"
- ― to Sunny (The Dark Secret, page 280)
- "Queen Battlewinner and I wrote it together after the last eruption destroyed part of the fortress. We knew we'd need a new home soon, and the prophecy was our plan to get it. The idea was that we would control the dragonets by including a NightWing, who, naturally, would be the leader of the group. Your abysmal failure in that department was our first problem. Then we'd choose a SandWing queen, and eventually, the NightWings would join the war, with our strength in numbers tipping the balance so our ally would be sure to win. [...] The only really important part of the prophecy; we couldn't be too obvious about it. The rest of it? Smoke and mirrors."
- ― to Sunny (The Dark Secret, page 282)
- "Now there's no point - the NightWings are already in the rainforest, so we have no reason to join the war. It'll drag on endlessly, and more dragons will die every day, probably for generations. All of them wondering what happened to the amazing dragonets who were supposed to save them, but obviously failed."
- ― to Sunny and the other dragonets (The Dark Secret, page 283)
- "Here's all the dragonets I want dead anyway, in one convenient place."
- ― to Clay, Tsunami, and Starflight, his last words (The Dark Secret)
Trivia
- His name means "Seer of Morrow," or tomorrow, which was explained by Starflight in The Hidden Kingdom. It refers to his 'prophetic' ability (although this was later revealed to be a lie).
- Sutherland has hinted that there is a possibility that Morrowseer survived the eruption. However, this was seemingly put to rest in Winter Turning: when Winter and his friends traveled through the tunnel to the NightWing volcano, there was a dragon corpse in the same location that Morrowseer was last seen. This was most likely him.
- Canonically, he has black eyes, despite the popular theory that he has yellow/orange eyes.
- Queen Battlewinner's lava cauldron was described to be twice his size.
- He is hated by almost all the dragons and tribes in Pyrrhia, such as the IceWings, SkyWings, and SandWings.
- The Dragonets of Destiny often use Morrowseer for size comparison, implying his vast size.
- In the graphic novel, Morrowseer’s snail shell-like star scale patterns on his wings are not shown. Instead, they appear to be scattered randomly.
- In an interview at the Rochester Children's Book Festival, Tui revealed that fan letters asking about why Morrowseer is the way he has helped her write Darkstalker's character.
Gallery
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A typical NightWing (colored), by Joy Ang -
A typical NightWing (lineart), by Joy Ang -
A typical NightWing from the German publication, by Max Meinzold
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Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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NightWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing -
Morrowseer & Starflight by ~demari30 -
Morrowseer by RhynoBullraq
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NightWing References by Trunswicked -
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Morrowseer by Riftlight
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Morrowseer by Madison the Nightwing
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Break Even by RealTense
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Morrowseer by Mollish
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Morrowseer by QueenClam -
Morrowseer Reference by QueenClam
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Morrowseer by RyhnoBullraq
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Morrowseer by Teisol
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Morrowseer by Saebira
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Morrowseer Night City by Saebira
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Morrowseer by Kaezerscooter
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Morrowseer profile by ThatWeirdDrawinChick
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Starflight and Morrowseer by Bedupolker
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Morrowseer & NightWing sketches by T-rexRoar
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Morrowseer by Sharkaiii
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Rasputin by Scourgeseer
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NightWing Seers by Cosmic-rust
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Just Another Fairy Tale by N3rdy-B1rdy
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Blister & Morrowseer by Superderpyfish212
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Volcano
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Blister and Morrowseer by Trunswicked
References
- ↑ The Dragonet Prophecy, page 34
- ↑ The Dark Secret, page 48
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, prologue
