Jade Mountain Academy
Template:SpoilerDoD The winglets are not to be confused with the Winglets, which are short e-books in the series.
Jade Mountain Academy was founded by the Dragonets of Destiny after the War of the SandWing Succession. It is an inter-tribal school located in the tallest mountain in Pyrrhia, Jade Mountain, in the southern half of the Claws of the Clouds Mountains in the Sky Kingdom. The Academy is currently divided into five winglets: the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the Copper Winglet, and the Quartz Winglet, each containing a dragonet from each of the seven dragon tribes. Groups of two or three dragonets from a winglet share a cave, making them clawmates. Stonemover, Sunny's father, lives in a cave deep in the mountain, slowly turning to stone.
The Winglets
Jade Winglet
The Jade Winglet was the winglet that the second series was most focused upon.
- IceWing: Prince Winter
- MudWing: Umber
- NightWing: Moonwatcher
- RainWing: Kinkajou
- SandWing: Qibli
- SeaWing: Turtle
- SkyWing: Flame
Known clawmates:
- Moonwatcher, Kinkajou, and an unknown female MudWing
- Peril (lone cave in case of accidental burning)
- Turtle (maybe the new IceWing and SandWing will be his clawmates)
No longer students:
- Winter (with the Talons of Peace)
- Qibli (helping Queen Thorn)
- Umber (ran away with Sora)
- Carnelian (deceased)
Royalty or trusted by royalty: Turtle (son of Queen Coral), Kinkajou (because of Queen Glory), Peril (because of Queen Ruby), Moonwatcher (because of Queen Glory)
Currently, the unknown female MudWing, the new IceWing, the new SandWing, Turtle, Peril, and Kinkajou remain at the school, while Moon is with former SandWing student Qibli, Jerboa, and the Pantalan Visitor.
Gold Winglet
Students:
- IceWing: New IceWing
- MudWing: Possibly a new MudWing
- NightWing: Possibly a new NightWing
- RainWing: Tamarin
- SandWing: Possibly a new SandWing
- SeaWing: Pike
- SkyWing: An unknown male SkyWing
Known clawmates:
- Pike and an unknown male SkyWing
No longer students;
- Icicle (on trial in the Ice Kingdom)
- Bigtail (deceased)
- Onyx (working with the SandWing healers)
- Flame (left for attempted murder, working with the SkyWing healers)
- Sora (ran away with Umber)
Royalty or trusted by royalty: Pike (because of Queen Coral, sent to take care of Anemone), Tamarin (because of Queen Glory)
Silver Winglet
Students:
- IceWing: Changbai
- MudWing: Sepia
- NightWing: Fearless
- RainWing: Boto
- SandWing: Ostrich
- SeaWing: Anemone
- SkyWing: Thrush
Known clawmates:
Changbai's clawmates are either Sepia and Fearless, or Boto and Thrush.
Royalty or trusted by royalty: Anemone (daughter of Queen Coral), Ostrich (because of Queen Thorn)
No longer at Jade Mountain: All of the dragonets in this winglet are still at Jade Mountain.
Copper Winglet
Students:
- IceWing: Alba
- MudWing: Marsh
- NightWing: Mindreader
- RainWing: Coconut
- SandWing: Pronghorn
- SeaWing: Snail
- SkyWing: Peregrine
Known clawmates:
No longer at Jade Mountain: All of the dragonets in this winglet are still at Jade Mountain.
Quartz Winglet
Students:
- IceWing: Ermine
- MudWing: Newt
- NightWing: Mightyclaws (making houses in the Rainforest)
- RainWing: Siamang
- SandWing: Arid
- SeaWing: Barracuda
- SkyWing: Garnet
Known clawmates: None
No longer at Jade Mountain: Mightyclaws (making houses for the NightWings in the Rainforest)
The Founders and Staff
Clay is the prey area overseer, healer, and teacher of Herbs and Healing, which was a RainWing suggested subject
Tsunami is head of school. (Refers to her being the "leader" of the dragonets)
Starflight is the librarian. (not history because Webs would know more about that subject)
Sunny is the main founder. (As the school was her idea)
Webs is the history teacher. (read Starflight's job for more)
Fatespeaker is Starflight's assistant.
The Rooms and Caves
The Library
The entrance, as described by Moonwatcher, starts off as a side corridor lined with hanging scrolls. Many of them have quotes on the such as "Knowledge is a flame in the darkness" and "The claws of war are no match for the wings of wisdom." At the end, a room full of iridescent green sunlight is present. Scrolls were everywhere, in cubbyholes on the walls, racks, and cylinders around the cave. Every corner had a spot to curl up and read in, sometimes a rock ledge, sometimes a pile of mosses and sometimes carpets. Sunlight came down from skylights in the roof and filtered through leaves covering the windows. There's a circular wooden desk labeled 'LIBRARIAN' in the center where Starflight manages the scrolls.
The Prey Center
The Prey Center, which Clay set up, was often described as chaotic. This is because students were everywhere catching prey or eating. This was one of the main places where Moonwatcher's head hurt the most but luckily Darkstalker taught her how to stop this. Moon meets Winter and Qibli for the first time there after Qibli (or as Winter called him, “the idiot clawmate”) released Winter's pet scavenger, Bandit, that many dragons tried to catch and eat.
History Cave
This was where Webs taught history to the students of the Jade Mountain Academy. It was described to be covered in maps (each marked with a different year) and with stacks of scrolls that overflowed the wooden racks provided. This cave was also destroyed by Sora's dragonflame cactus during the events of Moon Rising forcing history class to be relocated to a different cave.
Art Cave
The Art Cave was the room where students learned all sorts of art forms, including painting, pottery glassworking, metalworking, weaving, and woodworking. The room was filled with art supplies tucked into every crevice, and wooden dragon sculptures placed on little stone shelves.
Music Cave
The Music Cave was a vast cave filled with various instruments including harps, mbiras, maracas, and drums.
The "Weapons Cave"
First mentioned in Darkness of Dragons, The Weapons Cave is where weapons were kept if needed to defend the school. The room contains is a locked wooden box which holds three knives, (two after the events of Darkness of Dragons) one sword, and one club (or as Qibli describes it, a "big stick")
Healing Center
Also first introduced in Darkness of Dragons, the Healing Center is where Clay teaches basic medicine. It contains a colored diagram of a dragon which shows where muscles are located.
Known Classes
History
Taught by Webs, this class is meant to teach indepth the history of Pyrrhia to attending students. The class is structured in units, with the first unit being The Scorching and going chronologically throughout history afterward. The next known unit is 500 years after The Scorching, which is described as a rather chaotic time period.
Herbs and Healing
Suggested by Peregrine and Tamarin sometime between ToP and DoD, this class, taught by Clay, is meant to teach the basics of healing to students. The class is shown to outline dragon anatomy to students as a basis for learning proper technique, and presumably teaches some botany as "herbs" is in the title.
Music
While not an official class, there is a music cave which dragonets visit as a part of their schedule to learn to play different instruments from across Pyrrhia through their own intuition.
Homeroom
Though the official name of this class isn't well known, nor is it known if this class even still exists, homeroom is lead by Tsunami and is meant as a sort of bonding area for the dragonets within a Winglet to become closer.
Trivia
- Jade Mountain Academy is the first known school where dragons of all tribes are taught together.
- The school currently houses most of the dragonets of destiny.
- Books six through ten focus on Jade Mountain Academy, specifically the Jade Winglet.
- Anemone, Turtle, Icicle, and Winter are the only known royal figures in the winglets. (Qibli could count since Queen Thorn adopted him.)
Gallery
Jade Winglet
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The Jade Winglet by Rhynobullraq
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By Angelturtle
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By Sahel
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By Foxlover16
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By SeaWing1983
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Jade Winglet by Winter-The-IceWing
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The Jade Winglet (Peril included) By: Blacksvoid the Nightwing
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The Jade Winglet
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Jade Mountain students as people, by Bone
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The Jade Winglet by Chartonk
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If the Jade Winglet Were Cats...
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Moonwatcher with everyone
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Real jade
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Jade Winglet Wings of Fire by MadisonTheNightWing
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Qibli, a former student in the Jade Winglet, by Atlantic
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by ninja27boss
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Kinkajou and Moon by ask phyrria dragonet
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Jade Winglet drawn by xTheDragonRebornx
Other Winglets
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Pike and Anemone, art by Hawky
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Anemone laughs as she gets tagged - By Flare
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Barracuda, Mightyclaws, and Garnet
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Real gold
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Real silver
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Real copper
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Real quartz
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Tamarin by Crookedstar