Wren

"We don't need anybody else, right, little dragon? If they don't want us, we don't care. We can look after each other, can't we?"

— Wren to Sky, Dragonslayer

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Dragonslayer

Wren is a human born in Talisman, but when she was seven, she was sacrificed to the dragons because she read a book featuring information about the illegal acts of the dragonmancers. She managed to free herself from the ropes that were supposed to prevent her from escaping and rescued Sky, a mountain dragon, from a bush. She hid him from the dragon who had tried to kill him (Kestrel). Sky and Wren became friends. Soon, they began teaching each other their respective languages.

While traveling through the mountains, they stumbled upon the cave that the dragonets of destiny grew up in, spotting the dragonets through what may be the sky hole. By then, Wren and Sky could already communicate in broken sentences. A year and a half later, she tried to get into the Indestructible City and met a boy named Undauntable and his cat named Dragon.

Eight years later, Wren and Sky traveled to a dragon city (the Scorpion Den), where Sky was captured by General Sandstorm, and Wren left to find and rescue Sky. During her quest, Wren learned that Sky was being held at Burn's stronghold and encountered Deathbringer (mistaking his name to be Murderbasket), who was traveling to the Ice Kingdom under orders to assassinate Glory, Starflight, and Tsunami. Wren asked Deathbringer to put his mission on hold to fly her to the Kingdom of Sand to rescue Sky. He, believing that she is some hallucination, agreed. After Deathbringer dropped Wren off, she snuck into the stronghold where she encountered Rose, another human who was Ivy's aunt, who was left behind when Stone and Heath killed Queen Oasis.

Rose led Wren to Sky, and with help from Smolder, the duo escaped from the stronghold. Nearby, Wren was reunited with her brother Leaf, who was accompanied by Ivy.

The three then returned to Valor and Talisman to expose the truths that had been hidden from them as children, using Sky to scare the humans into doing what they wanted them to.

Relationships

Deathbringer

Wren first met Deathbringer, whom she referred to as "Murderbasket," she tried to convince him to take her to the SandWing palace. Deathbringer is also her second 'favorite dragon.'

Leaf

Leaf is Wren's brother, and the two were very close until the dragonmancers attempted to sacrifice Wren to the dragons. After that, they did not see each other for roughly seven years. Sometimes, when Wren could not help it, she thought about Leaf, prompting that he was the only person she liked in the whole of Talisman. When she met Leaf again, she was shocked and delighted that her older brother, whom have carved her a snail when they were younger, traveled around the world to find her again.

Rose

Wren met Rose in the kitchen of Burn's Stronghold. Rose stated she was overexcited to have a conversation with her since she had not talked to a human in years, especially a person who has the ability to speak Dragon. Rose helped Wren collect mouse poison to kill Sandstorm, while Wren trusted Rose enough to tell her about Sky, and even thinking of her as a friend.

Sky

Wren found Sky as a newly hatched dragonet and saved him after Kestrel attempted to drown him. She relates to him through the fact that they were both abandoned by their kind. The two spent most of their life avoiding people and dragons in favor of growing up alone, traveling around Pyrrhia together.

Wren often goes into extreme lengths to ensure Sky's safety, even murdering a grown dragon and diving into the midst of a dragon war to save him. She constantly worries about him throughout the book, caring deeply when he felt insecure about his loss of normal dragon abilities. Sky playfully teases Wren on multiple occasions and calls her his "pet" when other dragons interrogate him.

Undauntable

Wren first met Prince Undauntable when she goes to the Indestructible City. Wren shows no interest in him, thinking that he is arrogant, spoiled, and rude. However, Undauntable likes Wren, and each time she comes to the city, Undauntable begs for her to stay. When they are fourteen, he asks her to marry him, but Wren simply turns him down.

Family Tree

Unnamed

Unnamed

Rowan

Bluebell

Unnamed

Camellia

Leaf

Wren

Quotes

"I bet they didn't! […] I bet the dragons don't even care! […] They'd eat anyone they found all tied up! If they could choose, they'd pick someone bigger and yummier than me. Like Camellia! She would make a much better sacrifice to the dragons! Why didn't they pick her?"

― thinking about why the dragons chose her

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"Stop crying, So people are terrible and can't be trusted. That shouldn't be such a big surprise, Wren. They've never stood up for you before. Nobody cares about you and so you shouldn't care about them either. Well, I think I shall NOT get eaten, […] That will SHOW THEM. I don't need a village! Or parents! Or any of them! I'm smarter than all of them and smarter than the dragons, too! I don't have to be someone's breakfast if I decide not to be. So there!"

― thinking, shortly after escaping dragonmancers' ropes

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"We don't need anybody else, right, little dragon? […] If they don't want us, we don't care. We can look after each other, can't we?"

― to Sky

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"I think that was a yes. Hello, Sky. When you grow up, will you burn down my village for me? Especially the dragonmancers' houses. That'll show them. I'm going to grow up on my own just fine and then come back and be like, ha! I did NOT get eaten by dragons and now my pet dragon is going to eat YOU, take THAT!"

― to Sky

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"Let's go, […] You're safe with me. Safe us."

― to Sky

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"I'd love you with or without fire, […] You're perfect just the way you are. Even if you are weirdly obsessed with snails."

― to Sky

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"Start with a dictionary, […] Look up the word never. And stop acting like people are just more things you can buy."

― to Undauntable

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"It is not actually my responsibility to fix your life by giving you everything you want, […] I'm not a rare dragon scale to add to your collection. I am a person. You are not entitled to have me along with everything else."

― to Undauntable

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"I can say STOP BEING A DIMWIT AND LISTEN TO ME!"

― to Cereus in Dragon

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"And you can't make us go back into that city full of dragons to say, 'hello, we escaped, no problem, but we thought it would be fun to come back and get eaten instead.' SERIOUSLY."

― to Snowfall

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"I can take care of myself. Sky's the one I'm worried about. He is not a 'super-stealth' or a 'fighting evil' kind of dragon. He is a 'but do the bad guys know about pandas because then I bet they wouldn't be evil anymore' kind of dragon."

― to Winter about Sky

Trivia

• Wren is not entirely fluent in Dragon, as she mistook Deathbringer's name for Murderbasket, and still does not know every word in the language.
• Wren hated spiders.
• "Snail" was the first word Wren learned in Dragon.
• Wren loved reading. When she was young, she had been so desperate for a new book to read that she stole the dragonmancers' books.

Gallery

• Wren on the cover of Dragonslayer, by Joy Ang
  Wren on the cover of Dragonslayer, by Joy Ang

References

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