RainWing village

The RainWing village is a collection of homes and buildings within the Rainforest Kingdom. It is home to most of the RainWings and sits next to the NightWing village.

Description

The village consisted of treehouses, fruits, platforms, hammocks, and trees. The roofs of the houses are made of leaves, making it harder to see the houses from the top. Wide vine walkways, shimmering with talon-sized orange orchids, hung between leafy platforms. A few of the treehouses had low walls or woven ceilings; others were open to the sky and carpeted with soft white flowers. Gray sloths ambled and swung between the walkways, and hammocks were strung between trees, sturdily woven of vines and lined with violet feathers and blue petals. There is a trampoline of vines in between two platforms, where dragonets bounced and flapped their wings as they learned to fly. RainWings are usually found standing on the trees.

The village has three hatcheries, with each hatchery holding a third of the village's eggs. The eggs are mixed together and dragonets are raised by the whole village, making it hard to find out whether one is related to another, unless they do a venom test. One hatchery was shaped like a gigantic green egg, with holes all over the roof that allowed sunlight through the overlapping leaves. The bottom was reinforced with tightly woven vines and sturdy branches, and the eggs closest to hatching are kept on the outer edge. Jambu explained that the eggs keep each other warm and hatch whenever they need to — every once a while, the RainWings stop by to check for newly hatched dragonets. Under the rule of Queen Glory, RainWings have begun to sort eggs and may begin to form family units.^{[citation needed]}

There is a large treehouse that houses the queen. It is not so different from all the other treehouses, although it is a bit higher and closer to the sun, with an open roof and five giant open windows in the curved outside walls. A short hanging walkway, where dragons line up for meetings with the queen, glowed with fuchsia flowers shaped like dragon tongues. The walkway led from a doorway to another dragon platform and to the queen's room, where a curtain of silvery yellow flowers that smelled of honey and vanilla hung in the doorway. Lacy scarlet flowers and scraps of russet monkey fur made up the queen's nest. There is a Royal Garden of which Tamarin, one of the gardeners, takes care of. The queen sleeps in a royal treehouse that is surrounded by eerie, glow-in-the-dark moths and pale night orchids.

Around twelve tree lodges down from the queen's treehouse sits the healer's pavilion. Red berries grew in its balcony. The hut is close to the sunning platform with skylights shining through its leafy roofs. Their houses are made in the trees with leaves as windows and the trees as a natural wall.^{[citation needed]}

At the center of the village is a structure called the Arboretum, which resembles a peaceful version of the SkyWing arena. The Arboretum has a huge platform made from woven branches, which is surrounded by more treehouses, some of which have been set up as fruit stands. Historically, the Arboretum was used as a meeting place for the RainWings,^{[citation needed]} while in modern day, it is where many public events take place, such as the RainWing Royal Challenge.

History

The Dragonet Prophecy

The Hidden Kingdom

The RainWing village was first introduced when Jambu and Liana took Glory and the other dragonets of destiny into the place. It is the setting of the majority of the book.

The Dark Secret

Starflight returned to the RainWing village after escaping the NightWing island. The other NightWings moved in by the end of the book, but were given a village of their own sometime later.

The Brightest Night

Sunny was kidnapped from the RainWing village shortly after the events of The Dark Secret. She returned to tell the other dragonets of destiny of her plans to end the war.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Winter Turning

The Jade Winglet visited the RainWing village in search of Icicle.

Talons of Power

Darkstalker advanced into the rainforest to gain more NightWing supporters, but some of the NightWings decided to stay instead.