War of SandWing Succession
Template:Spoiler The dragon world of Pyrrhia has been locked into a war for eighteen years over who shall become the queen of the SandWings. The war has resulted in many battles, therefore a massive number of dragons have been killed.
Look below for a detailed list of all battles and meaningful events that have occurred as a result of the war.
The Death of Queen Oasis
The entire war began when Queen Oasis, the queen of the SandWings, was assassinated by a scavengers, who had stolen a small amount of her treasure. At the time, there were three heirs to the throne: Burn, Blister, and Blaze, daughters of Queen Oasis. Burn immediately seized the SandWing palace as her own, with it being renamed to Burn's Stronghold. Some say that Burn chased off her sisters, Blister and Blaze, but others claim that the two knew that Burn could kill them, and fled willingly.
Forming of Alliances
Blister knew that she could not defeat Burn by herself, so she allied herself with the SeaWings, and later on, a secret tie with the NightWings and favor from the Talons of Peace. Seeing that Blister now had an army, Burn allied herself with the SkyWings and MudWings. Queen Glacier of the IceWings has joined forces with Blaze, but, according to the The Dark Secret, her decision is based on the fact that Blaze has offered to give up a large portion of her territory in exchange for an alliance. Blaze also has the support of most SandWings, although the tribe is still split between the three heirs.
The Prophecy
In order to get a better home for their tribe, the NightWings hatched an elaborate plan. Queen Battlewinner and Morrowseer wrote a prophecy stating that five dragonets are to choose the successor to the SandWing throne. Once a queen was chosen, that queen would help take over the Rainforest Kingdom, along the NightWings, in gratitude for the dragonets choosing them. The five dragonets were supposed to be a SandWing, a SkyWing, a MudWing, a SeaWing, and a NightWing, all to hatch together on the brightest night.
The Eggs
On the night before the brightest night, the Talons of Peace put five dragons in charge of retrieving The Dragonets of Destiny's eggs. They were as follows: Kestrel, a former SkyWing soldier, Webs, a prior SeaWing subject, Dune, a SandWing soldier, Asha, a MudWing soldier, and Hvitur, an IceWing whose past is unknown.
Dune stole Sunny's egg from her mother, Thorn. Webs drugged the guards of the SeaWing Royal Hatchery in order to get Tsunami's egg. Asha paid her sister, Cattail, with cows so she would hand over her blood-red MudWing egg. Asha was later caught in battle between Blaze and Blister's forces, and she made it out alive, but died of her wounds shortly after delivering the egg. Hvitur stole the SkyWing egg from the SkyWings, but was caught by Burn on the way out. Burn killed Hvitur and dropped the egg off a cliff, killing the dragonet inside it. Kestrel and Webs later found Hvitur's body and a few shards of the egg at the bottom of the cliff. Webs then went to the RainWings to get a fifth egg.
All other SkyWing eggs hatched on the brightest night were killed to stop the prophecy from occurring, under Queen Scarlet's orders.
Escape of the Dragonets
Six years later, Morrowseer came to check up on the Dragonets of Destiny. He deemed Clay, Tsunami, Starflight, and Sunny satisfactory, but was dissatisfied with Glory, as she was a RainWing instead of a SkyWing, and ordered her to be killed. The other dragonets refused so see her die, so Clay and Tsunami fled through the underground river, planning to free the others from the outside.
However, they encountered Queen Scarlet of the SkyWings, who wanted to take them prisoner. Clay and Tsunami attacked her and fled back to the mountain. However, Queen Scarlet and her SkyWing soldiers had followed the smoke coming from the cave. She killed Dune, and took the dragonets and Kestrel prisoner. Webs managed to escape.
Queen Scarlet invited Burn to her palace to see the dragonets and to take Sunny back with her as a gift. But, while she was there, the dragonets escaped after Glory sprayed Queen Scarlet with her venom.
MudWings vs. Blaze's Forces (Battle)
Around that time, Blaze's army attacked the MudWings. It is hinted that the MudWings sent a message to the SkyWings for help, but Queen Scarlet refused because it would disrupt her hatching day festivities. The only named casualty of this battle was Crane, one of Clay's siblings.
Attack on the Summer Palace
During the dragonets' stay in the Kingdom of the Sea, the Burn's alliance bombed the Summer Palace of the Sea. They were able to locate the palace because Crocodile, a Talons of Peace infiltrator, followed Webs there. The SeaWings fled to the Deep Palace of the Sea, breaking their alliance with Blister.
The Backup Plan
Soon after, Nautilus, the leader of the Talons of Peace, and Morrowseer came up with a set replacements, known as The False Dragonets. They were as follows: Ochre, Squid, Flame, Fatespeaker, and Viper.
However, in The Dark Secret, Viper was killed and Squid fled. In The Brightest Night, Ochre returns to the Talons of Peace, and Flame is reunited with his mother, Avalanche.
The Choosing of the SandWing Queen
In The Brightest Night, Sunny came up with an idea that the three SandWing sisters would choose one of themselves to be queen, peacefully, or the SandWing tribe would choose.
They met up at Burn's Stronghold, and Blister gave Burn a gift, and seemed to be willing to let Burn be queen. However, the gift contained a dragonbite viper, which Burn pinned in her talons. Burn took a few steps toward Blister, hoping the viper would kill her, but a second viper leaped out of the box and bit Burn's ankle, which shortly killed her.
Blister then attacked Blaze, only moments away from the throne. Sunny then found the Eye of Onyx, buried with Queen Oasis, and gave it to her mother, Thorn. Blister, angered, took the Eye of Onyx from Thorn, but the enchantments of the Eye of Onyx caused Blister to explode into a pile of black dust.
Thus, Thorn is the queen of the SandWings, ending the Great War.
