Battlewinner
Template:Infobox Queen Battlewinner was the last known queen of the NightWings; the name "Battlewinner" most likely refers to her ability to fight, or her military strategy. Along with Morrowseer, she is the primary antagonist of The Dark Secret. Her name was a carefully guarded as a secret in the NightWing guide to the other dragon tribes which is featured near the beginning of the novels. The NightWing queen is not mentioned in The Dragonet Prophecy, The Lost Heir or The Hidden Kingdom except when Queen Scarlet speaks to Morrowseer, suggesting that the NightWing queen come discuss the matter of Starflight with her. She looks through a blocked off wall with dragon eye sized holes in the NightWings meeting room during tribe meetings to make herself seem more mysterious and powerful by keeping herself hidden from her own tribe, to the point where many of the NightWings does not even know what she looks like. When she is speaking, she uses her own daughter, Princess Greatness, as to speak. The messages flow through Battlewinner's mind and to Greatness's.
In The Dark Secret, Starflight and Fatespeaker crept into Battlewinner's private chambers behind the wall and found that she lived almost full-time in a pool of lava. After Starflight burst out about the scientific impossibility of surviving these conditions, the queen explained more about her reasons for keeping herself hidden. She was on a mission in IceWing territory years ago when she was attacked by an IceWing. She escaped alive, but the IceWing blasted her in the mouth with its freezing-death breath, which should have frozen Battlewinner from the inside and killed her. The only reason why she didn't die immediately was her ability to breathe fire; her internal fire reservoir counteracted the ice long enough for her to return home and dive into the pool. For this reason, she lives in lava, balancing out with the ice inside her. She was planning to wage war on the RainWings in lava-heated armour designed by Mastermind when she attempted to attack Starflight and Glory, tipping the balance between fire and ice in her body. Despite Mastermind's efforts to save her, Battlewinner froze to death within seconds.
Appearance
Battlewinner looks like a typical NightWing, but due to the ice inside her body, her eyes are tinged with blue, which also covers the entire inside of her mouth (and presumably all her internal organs). Starflight remarked that her teeth "looked more like icicles than fangs".
Trivia
- Queen Battlewinner is the only queen whose death has been shown in the series: Oasis died about twenty years before the start of the series. Scarlet never died: See The Hidden Kingdom in which Scarlet visits Queen Glory's dreams.
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