Darkness of Dragons
Template:Infobox BookDarkness of Dragons is the tenth book in the Wings of Fire series. The main protagonist of Darkness of Dragons is Qibli. This book was released on July 25, 2017, with 31 chapters and 385 pages. Darkness of Dragons is the last book in the second arc. Tui also said that a Wings of Fire fan could have their character in this book if they won an auction she held. The auction ended on May 2nd, 2016. A wiki user named TyphoonSeaWing won the auction, and the character they made that is in the book is named Typhoon, a SeaWing-IceWing hybrid.
Darkness of Dragons follows Talons of Power, and precedes The Lost Continent.
Summary
Dedication
For Elliot and Jonah, my heroes and my heart, who make me happy every single day
With thanks to Robert Doar and Aayush Srivatsa for Typhoon and to Amy Doar for supporting Lifting Hands International
Plot
Prologue
Part One: Storm of Sands
Part Two: King of Shadows
Part Three: The Light of Dragons
The IceWings decide to attack the NightWings because of Darkstalker's cruel IceWing plague that killed 20 dragons, including their queen. The IceWings fly to Jade Mountain Academy to demand the whereabouts of Darkstalker and are confirmed to be the "ice" in the Jade Mountain Prophecy. The NightWings arrive shortly and a battle springs out between the two tribes. Qibli summons a storm using Anemone's weather bands to prevent the IceWings and NightWings from fighting.
The storm quickly goes out of control and Qibli realizes that the "thunder" that would bring down Jade Mountain in the prophecy was him. He gets Anemone to drive off the storm and tells the dragonets of destiny to evacuate the school along with the rest of the students.
Qibli then retreats back to Moon, Turtle, Kinkajou, and Anemone just as Moonwatcher receives a new vision about a strawberry picking NightWing. Anemone sends away the storm a few moments later. Moon suggests trying to talk to Darkstalker through his mind and Qibli agrees, despite the fact she may be overwhelmed with the ongoing battle around them.
After thinking over Moon's ability to connect with other dragons with her mindreading, Qibli devises a spell that connects the minds of all the IceWings and NightWings to realize the thoughts of the other side, and make both sides show compassion for each other, and then teleports them back to their own kingdoms. Anemone is the one to cast the spell using Qibli's library card and also takes off the love spell she cast on Kinkajou. The spell works and the two tribes are sent home.
Darkstalker swoops in and carries Qibli off to his original prison, which is under Agate Mountain. There, he asks Qibli if he wants animus magic under one term, he cannot harm Darkstalker. He then proceeds to show him all the wonderful things he could do to bad dragons if he were to have powers, using Vulture to show him. Darkstalker wants Qibli to be his best friend who will help guide him through tough times. The last thought he has before his choice is, "Say yes." Then, he looks at Darkstalker in the eyes, and tells him, "No". Darkstalker doesn't like this answer for in the futures where Qibli is not his best friend he continues to find clever ways to stop him and eventually ends up killing him.
Just as Darkstalker is about to rip off Qibli's earring and enchant him to be his best friend, he hears the sound of the soul reader spinning in Qibli's bag. When it finally stopped rotating, it was pointed at Darkstalker and showed him just how bad he really was, with the bottom half filled with white sand and only a few grains of black sand at the top. Darkstalker doesn't believe this because his soul is protected and enchants the soul reader over again. It again shows him that same results and Qibli explains to him that he lost his soul not because the magic ate it away, but because of his terrible actions.
Darkstalker suddenly gets a vision and is dumbfounded. He demands to know if Moon, who was hidden behind a camouflaged Kinkajou the whole time, can see it, too. It is revealed that the vision is about Foeslayer, who is waiting for Darkstalker on the peaks of Jade Mountain. They embrace and Darkstalker admits that the soul reader sees him as an evil dragon. Foeslayer proceeds to tell him that he should not try to get revenge on the current IceWing tribe and wishes that she could start over.
Moon then shares the vision she had of the strawberry picking NightWing dragonet. That dragonet is Darkstalker but with a new life that has no animus magic or NightWing powers. Darkstalker is reluctant about this future as he eats the strawberry Foeslayer offered him. He says that he is immune to all animus spells but Kinkajou says that there is one dragon's magic that will still work on him. Darkstalker says that she's wrong. Kinkajou says she's right and he asks whose. Kinkajou says his own magic will still work on him. The strawberry was enchanted to remove Darkstalker's memories and to turn him instead into a NightWing-RainWing hybrid with no powers. Kinkajou is revealed to be the mastermind behind the enchantment, using the scraps of Darkstalker's enchanted talisman, the ones Chameleon used to transform into his different dragon forms.
Foeslayer decided to rename him Peacemaker and herself, Hope (Using Qibli's suggestion) and went to live with what remained of the NightWings in the rainforest.
Epilogue
Peacemaker is growing up in the forest with Hope, Moon, and others. He is making mud pies and loves strawberries more than ever. Moon is thinking about making a decision of who she should love. She has been thinking hard for a long time and has finally made her decision. Winter (who is still hated by his family) decides to study scavengers in the wild. Peril asks Clay to go flying in the rain with her, and he agrees. Turtle reads a message from Coral and Auklet. Kinkajou comes up to Turtle and they start to joke around about Anemone's love spell which she put on Kinkajou. Kinkajou then tells Turtle that Anemone has a crush on Tamarin.
Moon visits Qibli and starts talking to him. She admits her feelings for him and Qibli says that she should be saying this to Winter right now. Moon seems confused and says that Winter will be fine without her. Moon then tells Qibli that she can't live without him and asks if they can be together, and Qibli says yes. Moon also says that she has been having a vision and takes Qibli to see if it is true. In a room, they find a dragon named Jerboa, and Qibli is very surprised. Jerboa is actually the daughter of the original Jerboa. She says that she wants to show them somebody; the first visitor from the Lost Continent, who happened to be Luna.
Trivia
- The epilogue of this book is narrated by each of the "second Dragonets of Destiny", which are Moonwatcher the NightWing, Winter the IceWing, Peril the SkyWing, Turtle the SeaWing, and Qibli the SandWing, in the order these dragonets were featured in their own book (the second arc).
- This is the second mainstream book to have an epilogue where there are several different points of view and the only one with six total.
- The background in the cover is depicting the ruins of the Lost City of Night.
- It is the second book in the second arc of five books that don't include the protagonist's name in the title, instead, it follows Talons of Power's naming pattern as the title is a line from the Jade Mountain Prophecy.
- It is also the first mainstream book to feature a full-blood SandWing, as Sunny is only half SandWing. However, counting Sunny and Six-Claws with Deserter, it is the third book to have a SandWing PoV.
- This is the first and likely only book to feature a WoF fan's character in a book.
- This is the third Wings of Fire book to feature the POV sitting or standing on a rock or other object rather than flying or swimming, the other books being The Dark Secret and Winter Turning.
- This is the third book where a dragon on the cover of the book has an accessory, the others being Talons of Power and Escaping Peril, with Turtle wearing his armband, Anemone is wearing a small silver earring (Talons of Power), and Scarlet is wearing a necklace and bracelet (Escaping Peril). Qibli is wearing his earring.
- In a few places (such as Target), the book was titled as Storm of Sands, which Tui confirmed in the Winter Turning live stream that Qibli's name meant "storm of sands." Additionally, the first part of Darkness of Dragons is called "Storm of Sands."
- At 385 pages, this is the longest of the WoF books, including Legends. Including the prologue, the book is 399 pages.
- This book does not start out when Talons of Power ended. Instead, it takes place before part 2 in ToP, because Turtle was not present when Darkness of Dragons took place in Qibli's point of view.
- This is the second book in the second arc not to have another character on the back cover, the other being Winter Turning.
- Qibli does not appear to have a scar across his snout, on the cover art for Darkness Of Dragons, though he's described as having one in the series.
- This is the first formal appearance of Qibli's family, except his father.
- This is the only book in the second arc that the protagonist does not make an appearance in the prologue.
- Darkness of Dragons is the only book (Besides Darkstalker (Legends)) to not have distant silhouettes of dragons flying around on the background of its cover.
Gallery
Canon
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Audiobook cover
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Darkness of Dragons Full Cover
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Darkness of Dragons book
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the hard cover for DOD
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The small summary when you open the book taken by Moonflower's terrible iPad
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The excerpt in the back of the book taken by Moonflower's terrible iPad
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The page where Moorhen is spelled Mudhen. This was changed later. (I think)
Fanart
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Qibli by RhynoBullraq
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Angelturtle's illustration for Book 10's cover
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Helio's blank cover graphic (luster art)
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Qibli by Riftlight
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SandWing Sigil by Platypus the SeaWing -
qibli by voiidi
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Darkness of Dragons movie poster teaser thing by Infinity
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