NightWings

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NightWings are a tribe of dragons that lived in a secret kingdom off the coast of the Sky Kingdom (but is not shown on any known map of Pyrrhia, yet known to be north). They have portals to the mainland - one into the Rainforest Kingdom, and from there into the Kingdom of Sand made by Stonemover an animus dragon. In addition, they were secretly allied with Blister, although this alliance was most likely broken when they surrendered to the RainWings. NightWings tend to be arrogant, mysterious, and very full of themselves.

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Click here for a list of NightWings.

History

Template:Spoiler The Dragonet Prophecy was written by Queen Battlewinner and a NightWing prophet named Morrowseer, who had also delivered Starflight and Fatespeaker's eggs to the Talons of Peace. They consider themselves superior to all other tribes and too mysterious and powerful to take part in the war, though they are secretly working with Blister in exchange for land in the rainforest.

IceWings and NightWings have hated each other going way back to a war they once fought against each other. Morrowseer even ordered the death of all of the eight IceWing prisoners in the rescue of Starflight, showing that NightWings do not care much about the IceWing tribe. This is also shown in the prophecy, which does not include an IceWing dragonet.

Starflight.....

They had kidnapped seventeen RainWings for their experimentation on RainWing venom. Their goal was to make venom-proof armor for an attack on the RainWings, but all experiments were lost when the NightWings fled their home. Additionally, they seem to have some kind of portal, perhaps a wormhole, possibly created by an animus dragon, which they use to visit their kingdom, the Kingdom of Sand, the Mud Kingdom, and the Rainforest Kingdom. It is possible that there could be other unknown portals.

In The Dark Secret, it is shown that the NightWings are being threatened by the volcanic island they inhabit, which is slowly building up to an eruption and diminishing the main source of food. Although Greatness claimed that scientific estimates had placed the eruption at least twenty years into the future, at the end of the book, the volcano explodes. Shortly before this, the NightWings surrendered to the RainWings in exchange for a safe place to live and food to eat, and most of them escaped through the rainforest portal unharmed. However, Morrowseer was likely killed, and Starflight was indicated to be critically injured.

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Society

NightWings form lifelong partnerships, similar to SeaWings. Their dragonets live in dormitories located in caves on the sides of the volcano. They are not allowed to go to the mainland until they are 10 years old. These dragonets are usually named according to their talents; for example, Morrowseer got his name for "seeing" the "morrow." Morrow is short for tomorrow, meaning the future. Deathbringer's name refers to his job as an assassin. Queen Battlewinner presumably got hers for military strategy, or perhaps a future battle which was predicted to be won by her. In the stories about them, that is usually how they are named. NightWings are also sometimes named for physical traits, like Fierceteeth, Mightyclaws and Strongwings, or after character virtues, like Greatness or Vengeance. Exactly how they know what a dragon's talent will be when it hatches is unknown (they might wait and see for it to appear, or have another NightWing predict it). Glory mentions in The Hidden Kingdom that in scrolls, NightWings always had 'mouthful names'. 

Description

NightWings have purplish-black, dark gray, dark purple, eggplant or inky black scales with white, dark grey, silver, light black, purple, or dark blue undersides. In The Dragonet Prophecy when Morrowseer dropped off Starflight, it said that the sun picked up glints of purple and deep blue on his body. The underside of their wings are speckled with silver scales, giving it the appearance of a night sky filled with twinkling stars, allowing them to fly at night without detection. Starflight's father, Mastermind, has done studies about genetic wing patterns, although this remains unproved (except that both he and Starflight have star patterns that spay upwards like water, but Morrowseer's curl up, like a snail shell). They also have forked black tongues.  NightWing names are commonly made up of two words (for example Mind-reader or Fate-speaker) though others are just made of one word (like Wisdom or Greatness). Their names usually describe the dragon's powers, superiority, personally or knowledge.

Notable NightWings

Starflight

Starflight is one of the dragonets of destiny, and the main protagonist of The Dark Secret. His replacement dragonet is Fatespeaker, with whom he becomes friends. He relies on his mind rather than his pathetic skills of battle. He does not posses abilities of mind-reading and foretelling the future. He has strong feelings for Sunny, the SandWing dragonet of the prophecy. He is the half sister of Fierceteeth and the son of Mastermind and Farsight.

Morrowseer

Morrowseer is one of the most notable NightWings, and has unlimited access to Queen Battlewinner's throne room. He is excluded from the rotating food schedule that NightWings have due to the lack of prey on the island, as he is too important to the tribe's future to eat so little. He gave the Dragonet Prophecy. He is shown to be grumpy all the time and tries to use Starflight to make the dragonets choose Blister, but Starflight only ends up antagonizing Blister. He is presumed dead after he is engulfed in lava and fire from the volcanic explosion at the end of The Dark Secret.

Queen Battlewinner

The NightWing tribe's queen. Her existence is kept a secret and she communicates through telepathy most times. She lives in a pool of hot lava, because her vital organs were frozen by an IceWing's freezing death breath while she was on the continent. The lava counteracts the ice freezing her from the inside. Morrowseer is granted full access to her throne room. She freezes to death after exiting the lava pool for more that a few seconds.

Greatness

Greatness is the Queen's daughter. Battlewinner speaks through her using telepathy. She wears a diamond necklace. She agrees to Starflight's plan of the NightWings coming to the Rainforest Kingdom. Deathbringer is known sometimes as her "pet assassin".

Deathbringer

A NightWing assassin hired to kill the dragonets (or certain dragonets). He is described by Glory as "a lot younger and smaller than Morrowseer, wiry and graceful in his movements even when he was startled". He clearly has feelings for Glory. He uses sharp silver discs as weapons against the dragonets and Blaze. He is the "pet assassin" of NightWing Princess Greatness, and in The Dark Secret, he is imprisoned for aiding Glory, Kinkajou, and Clay in their escape from the kingdom.

Abilities

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They are described as "the night sky coming down on you" if they are to attack. They move unseen through the shadows and blend into the night, which gives them a fearful reputation and make them more deadly. They can also be described as being able to melt into the shadows, becoming invisible.

In scrolls, NightWings are said to possess mystical abilities. They are claimed to have the ability of mind-reading and telepathy, as well as being able to prognosticate and tell prophecies; this was proved false by Stonemover, who said that no NightWing had had either of these abilities in the last hundred years. In addition, these dragons are also able to breathe fire at any time, like SkyWings and SandWings. However, the wormhole used by the NightWings to spy on other dragons may be what spawned the myth of appearing out of nowhere.

In addition, they seem to have some kind of bacteria living in their saliva that does not affect them (similar to Komodo dragons). They use this to incapacitate their prey, ensuring it can't go anywhere, then come back later for it when its wound has become infected or it has died. Eating decayed food doesn't affect them to a noticeable extent either.

NightWings have been shown to be more awake at night.

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