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"The first forty times, Queen Diamond killed me herself."
--Foeslayer, Winter Turning, page 308
Foeslayer is a female NightWing who appears in Winter Turning. She is one of the causes of the rivalry between NightWings and IceWings, as well as the mother of Darkstalker.
Biography
Pre-Series
Only days away from the IceWing animus Prince Arctic's gifting ceremony, Foeslayer and the NightWings supposedly kidnapped him and took the future gifts by pretending to offer an alliance against the SkyWings and then abducting him. However, this is only a lie told by Queen Diamond. What really happened was that they fell in love with each other but the Icewings never listen. Queen Diamond enchanted her so that every time she dies she freezes. As she only ages in moments when she is unfrozen she has probably only aged a few weeks in 2,000 years.
To win the Diamond Trial, you have to kill her and then freeze your opponent. When Hailstorm and Winter find her, Hailstorm melts the icy layer that covers her and attacks her. She fights back and immobilizes him, and when she moves in to kill him, Winter, to her surprise, attacks her to prevent her from killing Hailstorm. She then is killed by Hailstorm later. When Hailstorm leaves, Winter wakes her up again, and she remarks that she has never been woken up by the same dragonet twice. Winter asks why she took Prince Arctic, but she objects saying she fell in love with him as he fell in love with her. Winter felt sorry for how she keeps getting punished for over 2,000 years after she fell in love with the Prince. As Winter tries to break the shackles that keep her from leaving, she tells him the story of how she fell in love with Prince Arctic. Winter finally freezes the shackles off and offers for her to come with him. However, she declines and says that she's going to the Night Kingdom, so Winter decides that this will be a chance to find the lost kingdom of night since Foeslayer and Darkstalker are the only ones who know where and then join her with his friends.
