Sequoia
- "I can STILL HEAR YOU (…) I am trying to COUNT until I FEEL CALMER and less like MURDERING EVERYONE."
- — Sequoia to Hazel, The Poison Jungle
Template:Charbox Queen Sequoia is the queen of the LeafWings, and ruled about fifty years prior to, during, and after the Tree Wars. She is depicted as dark green in a mural within The Mosaic Garden[1] in Cicada Hive. As of now, she is presumably infected by The Othermind.
Appearance
She was shown to be a deep green color on a mural in the Mosaic Garden. She has dark forest green wings and a dark shade of light green on her underscales, with a small scratch on the "leaf" at the tip of her tail. In The Lost Continent, she was described as enormous and having a long neck[2] and an aristocratic way of moving. She has a missing ear, a heavily scarred tail that drags along on the ground, and one half-broken horn[2]. She has also been described to have long claws.
Personality
Queen Sequoia once had an angry personality, according to Hazel. However, she later believed that this had been the cause of many of her subjects' deaths. After the war she became a more calm and tranquil dragon, which was probably the reason she joined the SapWings. She uses a counting-to-ten strategy to control her temper, especially during meetings with Belladonna. Otherwise, "she might end up strangling her". She did not want to restart the Tree Wars, but when the HiveWings were preparing to attack the LeafWings, she was willing to help Belladonna fight against Queen Wasp.
Biography
While visiting the Mosaic Garden with Luna, Blue and his half-sister came across the Salvation Wall, which is a giant mural depicting the end of the Tree Wars. Blue noticed a dark green LeafWing who was supposed to resemble Queen Sequoia, and he wondered why she refused to accept Queen Wasp's rule as Ex-Queen Monarch did. Blue attempted to imagine himself as Sequoia, leading her tribe into a single-outcome war.
Queen Sequoia is revealed to be alive. She rules the SapWings and when Sundew and Willow are first reunited in the book, she finds them and takes them both back to the SapWings village. There, she learns about the PoisonWings and their plan to burn down the hives. While they are in the poison jungle, Queen Sequoia tells the PoisonWings and the SapWings about the 'Legend of the Hive', where groups of mind-controlled insects and animals attack the first dragons on Pantala. She explains that the plant Queen Wasp used to mind-control the HiveWings is the Breath of Evil. She sends Sundew, Willow, Mandrake, Cricket, Bumblebee and Nettle on a mission to find Hawthorn, who supposedly was sent to research the Breath of Evil, because he might have found a cure. When Sundew, Willow, Mandrake, Cricket, Bumblebee and Nettle reach Hawthorn, they discover that Queen Sequoia did not object Hawthorn's plan of mind-controlling Queen Wasp.
After they returned from the quest, Sequoia aided in the preparations to defend the Poison Jungle from invading HiveWing forces.
At the end of The Poison Jungle, when Sundew and the rest of the dragons of Pantala who weren't mind-controlled by the Othermind left for Pyrrhia with the aid of a map hidden in the Book of Clearsight, Queen Sequoia is presumably mind-controlled by the Othermind and does not come with Sundew and the others.
Quotes
Trivia
- The giant sequoia tree is the most massive individual tree in the world, as well as the oldest living organism on Earth.
- When she is angry, she uses a counting strategy to help herself calm down.
Gallery
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A typical LeafWing, by Joy Ang -
Reference by Platypus the SeaWing
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LeafWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing -
Queen Sequoia reference by DraconicArtist
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Queen Sequoia by XSabxManiacX -
Modified Queen Sequoia reference by TwilightWoF
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A real life Giant Sequoia tree, which Queen Sequoia was named after
References
- ↑ The Lost Continent, page 31
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Poison Jungle, page 94
