Diamond Caves
The Diamond Caves are a system of ice caverns in the Ice Kingdom where The Diamond Trial take's place. They were named after the trials creator, Queen Diamond. The caves are also called the Gift of Vengeance.
History
Pre-series
Queen Diamond trapped Foeslayer in the Diamond Caves after Foeslayer supposedly "stole" the IceWing's last animus, Prince Arctic. She put her in shackles and enchanted them to freeze Foeslayer until she was touched by a diamond-tipped spear. The shackles would only release her if the frostbreath of a royal IceWing was breathed upon it.
Winter and Hailstorm were instructed to enter the cave and touch the ice sculpture of a dragon with the pointed tip of their diamond spears. 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.
Description
The Diamond Caves are caves made of ice, filled with stalactites and stalagmites like any other cavern. Near Foeslayer's cave, there are a lot of frozen IceWing statues, who were previous victims of the Diamond Trial. An underground river runs near the entrance to the cave, into a dark chasm.
