Diamond Caves

The Diamond Caves are a system of ice caverns in the Ice Kingdom where Diamond Trials take place. They were named after Queen Diamond for this reason.

History

Pre-series

Queen Diamond trapped Foeslayer in the Diamond Caves after she stole the IceWing's last animus, Prince Arctic. She put her in shackles and enchanted them to freeze Foeslayer until she was stabbed by a diamond-tipped spear. The shackles would only release her if the frostbreath of a royal IceWing was placed upon it.

[[Winter]] Turning

[[Winter]] and Hailstorm were instructed to enter the cave and touch the ice sculpture of a dragon with the pointed tip of the spear. They wandered the caves together looking for the dragon sculpture for hours. Eventually, they stepped into a room that held many frozen IceWings. As they walked around they noticed a large frozen NightWing. Hailstorm instantly lunged towards her and tapped her with the spear.

As the huge NightWing unfroze, she explained her job was to try to kill them. As they fought it turned out that the dragon they were fighting was none other than Foeslayer herself, enchanted by an animus IceWing to live to try to kill them.

Once Hailstorm killed her she instantly froze back into ice. Then [[Winter]] realized one of them was supposed to kill the other and the living one would survive to tell the tale and gain glory. However, Hailstorm refused to kill [[Winter]]. [[Winter]] promised to leave the kingdom forever, and unfroze Foeslayer. He freed her, presumably preventing the trial from ever happening again.