Glacier has white scales and arctic-blue eyes.[1] She is tall[1] and was described by Winter to be majestic, the most beautiful and imposing queen in Pyrrhia.[2]
Personality
Glacier took good care of the IceWings.[3] She was practical and stoic in decision-making, as she refused to rescue Hailstorm due to potential conflict.[4] She was straight to business without any meandering preambles,[5] but had sympathy in her eyes before Winter was to face the Diamond Trial.[2]
She was a fair and just queen who put her tribe before anything else, even herself. She allied her tribe with Blaze - not for her liking of the SandWing princess, but because of the promise of territory for her IceWings. When the time came, she made Blaze fight her own battle, which shows she was an honest ruler as well. At one point, she did mention that she would kill the dragonets of destiny, but only if she had to. According to Blaze, she once literally ripped the wings off a SkyWing assassin before killing him to save her. Glacier seemed to care for Blaze (or the extra territory she would get if Blaze became queen) as she fought off some SkyWing soldiers for her during the War of SandWing Succession.
She appeared to be one of the more fair queens in Pyrrhia. She was good at putting together clues and figuring things out but could get enraged sometimes. Though Glacier said she would kill the dragonets of destiny in The Dark Secret, she seemed to have no hatred towards them, only deciding that because she wanted to protect her tribe from losing morale in the war. Unlike many other queens during the time she ruled, she was not opposed to the plans of the dragonets of destiny, and she made no extra effort to hinder them. In fact, she actually seemed quite fond of their plan to unite the tribes. She mainly ruled her tribe from her palace.
Although she did not formally appear, Glacier and her troops approached the cave that the dragonets were temporarily occupying within the Ice Kingdom's border. Blaze encouraged the dragonets to stay and meet Queen Glacier, but they left because they didn't want to be imprisoned again. This would mean possibly dying of the sub-zero temperatures in the dungeons. After already being kept captive by the SkyWings and the SeaWings, in their respective orders, they didn't wish to be imprisoned due to their experience.
In the epilogue, Glacier met with Blaze outside of her palace to discuss the dragonets of destiny. She threatened to kill the dragonets if they didn't choose her ally, Blaze, as the next SandWing queen since that would demoralize her dragons. She also said she had no problem with wiping out all of the NightWings when Blaze mentioned that Deathbringer tried to kill her during the meeting with the dragonets of destiny.
Glacier is present when the dragonets attempt to choose a SandWing queen. When Blister challenges Blaze to a duel, Blaze begs Glacier to fight for her. Glacier doesn't appeal to the idea of neighboring a kingdom ruled by Blister, but she does want to be just and fair. She apologizes to Blaze, and says it is her fight, giving the heavy implication that she is an honest ruler. Blaze manages to survive the fight without doing much, mostly because Blister didn't fight Blaze seriously. Then Blister attempted to steal the Eye of Onyx away from Thorn but ended up getting killed by it.
She is seen flying back to the Ice Palace after meeting with Glory to discuss Icicle's fate. Once Winter and Hailstorm return to the kingdom, Winter is placed at the top of the First Circle and Hailstorm in the last spot of the Seventh Circle. Due to Hailstorm's hatching day coming in two weeks after his arrival, he must reach the first or second beforehand if he was to live in the palace. To reclaim his rank, he challenges Winter to the Diamond Trial. On the way to the Diamond Caves, Glacier asks for Winter's side of the story after hearing Icicle's. Glacier only interrupts Winter's story once to ask about Cirrus, then wishes both Winter and Hailstorm luck during the Diamond Trial.
When Qibli objected that they should give Darkstalker's scroll to Queen Thorn, Winter snapped that maybe they should give it to Queen Glacier. Later, when Qibli suggested they use the scroll to protect Queen Glory and Thorn, Winter growled that they should include Glacier too, and that she is a good queen.
She is mentioned in the epilogue of Talons of Power when a messenger arrives with some news for Hailstorm, noting that Glacier was the first to catch a plague that was spreading across the Ice Kingdom. The messenger delivers a message saying that the queen of the IceWings is dead.
Glacier is mentioned very briefly when Darkstalker pulls out a scroll and enchants it to tell news of the IceWings. The scroll announces that Glacier is dead and her daughter, Snowfall, has taken the throne. Snowfall is leading an army to avenge Glacier and the other nineteen dragons known to have been killed by the plague.
In the prologue, she is mentioned when Moon recounts the bad deeds Darkstalker did that she could have stopped. She says that if she had seen Darkstalker as he really was, he wouldn't have killed the IceWing queen.
In the epilogue, Jerboa II mentioned Glacier, stating to Snowfall that she had usually arrived at their meetings after she did. When Jerboa said this, Snowfall quivered, which made Jerboa think that part of Snowfall mourned for Glacier. Jerboa II later had a thought about how Queen Glacier was a reasonable dragon to deal with, unlike Snowfall.
Glacier was quite friendly towards Blaze due to her promise of granting territory after the war. She also looked out for her, having fought off a SkyWing assassin who attempted to kill her. Despite looking out for her, she had to be fair and have Blaze fight on her own when Blister attacked her during The Brightest Night.
"You're sure about what you heard? [...] The NightWings have chosen to side with Blister, and they're trying to force the dragonets to choose her as well?"
"We're going to kill all of them, if we must, [...] I have no objection to the idea of wiping out the NightWings. But we should consider what to do about the dragonets of the prophecy."
"It's a good question. Queen Glory is… not like other queens. I thought she would demand Icicle's execution, but instead she said she would leave Icicle's punishment entirely to me in exchange for something unusual: a cutting from our moon globe tree."
