Smolder
Template:Infobox CharacterPrince Smolder is a pale yellow SandWing and the only living brother of the three sisters, Burn, Blister, and Blaze. He is the sole SandWing prince. Similar in appearance to Blister, he has pale yellow scales, a narrow face, dark lidded eyes and diamond pattern on his scales. He keeps keys, pouches, and bells around his neck. Sunny described his voice as sardonic and fairly normal, unlike Blister's unsettling voice.
He fought on Burn's side in the great war, yet Burn seems to dislike him, possibly because he resembles Blister in his appearance, or because of the rivalry between him and her mother. He isn't the only brother of the SandWing sisters, but the other two "made the wrong dragons mad", probably his other two sisters, and were presumably killed.
Biography
In The Hidden Kingdom, Blaze says her brother fell in love with a dragon her mother would never agree with, and she broke his heart. This was Smolder, and his girlfriend was Palm, who was never seen again.
In the epilogue of The Dark Secret, he is seen in Burn's stronghold speaking to Burn about the Dragonets of Destiny. He and Burn plot to kill all of the dragonets. He also stated about a prisoner that was revealed to be Queen Scarlet. He also stated that he wasn't used to calling Burn "Your Majesty".
In The Brightest Night, Smolder is running Burn's stronghold while Burn is away, looking "for a certain quintet of dragonets." He leads Sunny to the tower where Burn stores her collection and "special" prisoners, such as Queen Scarlet. He introduces Sunny to his pet scavenger, Flower. He shows Sunny that Flower is trained to come when she hears Smolder ring a bell among other things about her. After this he proceeds to lead her to her cell in the tower. After seeing how miserable Sunny was, decided that he'd take her out at midday for a walk everyday. He is actually quite a nice dragon, even though it's Sunny thinking.
He later unchains Sunny, and orders Camel to watch her as he organizes troops to defend the stronghold. Thorn and the Outclaws were attacking the stronghold, and Smolder was successfully fending them off. Sunny begs Peril to stop the fight to save her mother, and she does so.
Smolder then leads Thorn, Sunny, and Peril to Burn's collection, on Thorn's orders to see the dead, stuffed NightWing that Burn owns.
Later, Smolder leads Thorn and Sunny into the library and locks them in there, claiming that Burn would kill him if she found out that he let them leave. Thorn and Sunny escape and part ways.
At the choosing of the SandWing queen, Smolder is present and hands Burn, her sister, Blister's gift. The gift happens to be two dragonbite vipers, one of which kills Burn, the other nearly kills Clay. Blister and Blaze fight until Sunny finds the Eye of Onyx and gives it to Thorn.
Smolder apologizes to Thorn, and Thorn claims that it would be hard to forgive him.
Although he does not formally appear in Winter Turning, there is a letter from him addressed to Vermillion on how to look after a scavenger, which is also in the special edition of The Brightest Night.
Gallery
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Smolder and Flower -
A typical SandWing. Art by Joy Ang, -
Art by Rhynobullraq.
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Smolder by QueenClam
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Smolder (right) by YlimE mooP
