Line #75 Characters/WingsOfFireNightWings


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4	* AliensNeverInventedTheWheel: They are the most technologically and scientifically advanced tribe and know about things like desalinization, genetics and germ theory, but those facts are merely remnants of the more comprehensive knowledge their ancestors had.
5	* BroughtDownToNormal: After seeing how much of a risk dragons like [[SuperpowerLottery Darkstalker]] could be to the world, the tribe chose to prevent their descendants from developing their natural psychic powers. It's unclear whether they ''deliberately'' concealed the importance of moon-hatching or the knowledge was just forgotten as generations passed, but present-day [=NightWings=] have no idea why they can't do what their ancestors did.
6	* CrystalSpiresAndTogas: The [=NightWing=] city that Darkstalker remembers [[spoiler:and later recreates with magic]] is all gardens and statues and marble terraces. It even had a public school, a civic accomplishment that the other tribes would not equal for hundreds of years. Unfortunately, [[Main/{{Atlantis}} most of it has sunk]] or crumbled now. The archaeologist team studying its ruins have to fly in their own supplies, because there is simply no wildland left on which they can hunt.
7	* DarkIsEvil: A lot of them are villains, and [[spoiler:the tribe in general made up the prophecy and is trying to kill all of the [=RainWings=].]]
8	* DarkIsNotEvil: But they also have the most protagonists and general major good characters of any tribe, to the point where [[spoiler:in the epilogue of ''The Brightest Night'' the seven dragons talking consist of three [=NightWings=], a [=NightWing=] hybrid, and only three dragons of other tribes. And guess which tribe the protagonist of the next book is from?]]
9	* DiurnalNocturnalAnimal: They are obviously night-themed, but live diurnally nonetheless. [[spoiler:Normally they would be nocturnal, but in the volcano they could never even ''see'' the sky. Foeslayer, who lived 2,000 years ago, has a hard time adjusting to the diurnal sleep schedule when she comes to the rainforest.]]
10	* DrivenToMadness: The first thing a telepathic dragonet is taught are mindfulness techniques that allow them to visualize the thoughts invading their head without focusing on them. Without this help, any but the isolated of dragonets would quickly go insane. Moon has a hard time in Jade Mountain at first because of constantly hearing everyone's thoughts, until Darkstalker teaches her how to suppress them.
11	* FatalFlaw: [=NightWings=] tend to let their fear rule them. It's why they abandoned their genetic heritage, why they [[ViolenceIsTheOnlyOption kidnapped]] [=RainWings=] instead of asking them for help, why Darkstalker felt he needed to kill his friends, why Moonwatcher kept her telepathy secret, and so on. Pride is also one, as they believe that they should be able to overcome anything because of "superior [=NightWing=] genes", and look down on the other tribes.
12	* ForcedIntoEvil: During the volcano era, it was mandatory that [=NightWing=] dragonets attend classes teaching them how to lie.
13	* FreudianExcuseIsNoExcuse: Queen [[spoiler:Glory]] tells the tribe this, upon saving them. She places emphasis on the fact that her tribe will help the [=NightWings=] [[spoiler:who intended to massacre them]] ''not'' because they deserve it, but because the [=RainWings=] themselves are [[AllLovingHero just that good]].
14	* GoneHorriblyRight: Their depowerment plan meant that no future [=NightWings=], animus or otherwise, would be able to use their psychic abilities for evil. It also meant that they couldn't use their psychic abilities for ''good''. Which becomes really important when an animus/psychic dragon from the past comes back, and there's no one able to counter his plots.
15	* {{Lunacy}}: [=NightWing=] PsychicPowers come from the moon. [[spoiler: Hatch under one full moon, and you get either precognition or mind-reading. Hatch under two moons, and you get both. Nobody knows what hatching under a meteor shower does.]]
16	* MirroringFactions: They and the [=IceWings=], despite hating one another, are fairly alike, believing in their superiority over the other tribes, and many of them being arrogant blowhards.
17	* NeutralNoLonger: Subverted. They appear to be this trope, but secretly they were planning on allying with [[spoiler:Blister]] all along.
18	* NoGoodDeedGoesUnpunished: Their attempt to forestall another Darkstalker meant they could no longer compete effectively with rival tribes for territory and resources, or see them as equals.
19	* NoTrueScotsman: Moonwatcher has issues with this growing up in the rainforest after the [=NightWings=] move in; many of them are jealous of her or don't think of her as a "true" [=NightWing=] because she didn't grow up on the volcano island.
20	* PlayingWithFire: They can breathe fire.
21	* PropheticNames: They name all their dragonets this way, like an assassin named Deathbringer or a prophet named Morrowseer.
22	* ProudScholarRace: In their heydey, they had plenty of libraries and were the most scientifically and technologically advanced tribe. While they had an expansive library at the volcano, they had forgotten much of their knowledge.
23	* PsychicPowers: [[spoiler:Some among them used to possess these, but they haven't had them in centuries.]]
24	* ReducedToRatburgers: The reason they eat the aforementioned rotting food in the first place, besides being actually able to eat it if they're raised [[spoiler:in the volcano]], is that [[spoiler: the tribe is starving.]]
25	* SchizoTech: They could create glass 2000 years ago in ''Darkstalker'', but knowledge of it (among many other things) was lost when they fell.
26	* {{Seers}}: They can see the future [[spoiler: if they are born on two full moons, [=NightWings=] born in one have either this or mind reading.]] This comes in the form of prophecies, visions, prophetic dreams, and for the more advanced and powerful ones, knowing every possible future, like Clearsight.
27	* SelfFulfillingProphecy: The [=NightWings=] know they are dying out, and they would do anything to save their tribe. This desperation drives them to follow various charismatic-but-awful leaders whose plots inevitably fail and get more [=NightWings=] killed.
28	* SmugSnake: During the War of [=SandWing=] Succession, they thought of themselves as superior to all of the other tribes and attempted to come off as mysterious and powerful to manipulate the tribes into doing what they want. This resulted in them being feared for their rumored powers, but also hated by many for their cryptic ways and when it came out they couldn't read minds ''or'' see the future, and were lying to the whole continent. Many have this attitude even after they come under Glory's rule, though they seem to have been broken out of it in the aftermath of ''Darkness of Dragons''.
29	* SnarkToSnarkCombat: Tend to do this, to the point where Fierceteeth is shocked that Strongwings doesn't react to her sarcasm in this way.
30	* StarPower: They have star patterns on their wings and names that often fit the theme, and they can see the future.
31	* {{Telepathy}}: They can also read minds [[spoiler: (again, by being born on two full moons or having a chance of it if they're born in one)]] though they can only hear surface thoughts and there are several ways to block the power.
32	* ThemeNaming: Like all of the other tribes. [=NightWings=] are named after various night objects like Moonwatcher and Starflight, bodily features like Mightyclaws, Strongwings, and Fierceteeth, wishful traits like Secretkeeper, Mastermind, and Morrowseer, or values like Prudence, Vengeance, Fearless, Vigilance, and Wisdom.
33	* UnwittingInstigatorOfDoom: Only [=NightWing=] telepaths can tell that scavengers are sapient, so when they died out, scavengers fell to the level of prey in dragons' eyes.
34	* WellIntentionedExtremist: Their goal was noble, but they didn't have to commit genocide to reach it.
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37	[[folder:Battlewinner]]
38	!!Queen Battlewinner
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40	* TheChessmaster: Came up with the plan to manipulate all of Pyrrhia with a [[spoiler:false prophecy]].
41	* TheBlofeldPloy: After questioning [[spoiler:Deathbringer]] for [[spoiler:betraying the [=NightWings=] for Glory]], she has [[spoiler:Vengeance]] killed instead as a warning.
42	* DarkLordOnLifeSupport: If she doesn't bathe in lava, she'll freeze from the inside out due to having had frostbreath shot down her throat.
43	* [[spoiler: DelayedTimeDeath]]: When she leaves her cauldron full of lava, she doesn't die ''immediately'', but she doesn't last long outside of it.
44	* DontYouDarePityMe: Tells Starflight not to pity her because she will get her revenge.
45	* FightingForAHomeland: She and Morrowseer's plans to involve their [=NightWings=] in the [=SandWing war=] and attack the [=RainWings=] are designed to find the [=NightWings=] an acceptable home, since the tribe is dying out due to the volcano.
46	* GodSaveUsFromTheQueen: As queen of the [=NightWings=], she and Morrowseer [[spoiler:plan the extension of the war for the [=NightWings'=] own purposes, set up a genocide of the [=RainWings=], and make up the prophecy.]]
47	* LargeAndInCharge: She's as large as Morrowseer.
48	* TheManBehindTheCurtain: Never leaves her chambers, in order to hide the fact that she [[spoiler:has to live within a volcano so she doesn't die from her frostbreath injuries]].
49	* NoPlaceForMeThere: Starflight notes that she must know that she'll never be able to [[spoiler:go to the new home that she has dedicated her life to and planned to commit genocide for]] - she was just doing so for her tribe.
50	* WalkingSpoiler: As she's behind a huge amount of stuff in the first arc, naturally she'd be this.
51	[[/folder]]
52
53	[[folder:Deathbringer]]
54	!!Deathbringer
55	Narrates ''Assassin''.
56	----
57	* BigDamnHeroes: Shows up in time to protect Glory and Kinkajou from the [[spoiler: [=NightWings=]]].
58	* BodyguardingABadass: He is Glory's bodyguard, and he can easily figure out and stop assassination attempts on her thanks to being a former assassin himself. But he does realize that Glory is quite capable of handling herself and would beat him in a fight.
59	* DayInTheLimelight: In ''Assassin'', which he narrates.
60	* DeadlyDisc: His weapon for assassinations.
61	* DeathbringerTheAdorable: It's ''literally'' his name. Despite his name and profession, though, he's [[HitmanWithAHeart not without a sense of morality]], and he has a rather flippant and comical personality.
62	* DefectingForLove: Why he betrays the [=NightWings=], though he was already having second thoughts and being disobedient ever since eight years ago.
63	* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: While his mother Quickstrike was never motherly to him, he still cared about her.
64	* FailureKnight: Is protective of [[spoiler:Glory]] due to not wanting to let her down like he did to [[spoiler:Quickstrike]].
65	* HitmanWithAHeart: Seems to be the case with [[spoiler:Glory as of ''The Hidden Kingdom''']]. He was even this beforehand, vowing to think of other ways to influence the war other than killing after his first mission.
66	* InLoveWithTheMark: [[spoiler:To Glory.]]
67	* LetsYouAndHimFight: Does this to [[spoiler: the MudWings and SeaWings]] by killing [[spoiler: Commander Tempest]].
68	* LikeParentLikeSpouse: He sees Glory as a replacement for his mother Quickstrike, [[spoiler:wanting to protect her so she won't die like Quickstrike did.]]
69	* LoveRedeems: Him meeting Glory saved his life, giving him meaning beyond simply killing and letting him see himself as more than just an assassin.
70	* MinionWithAnFInEvil: He's a [=NightWing=] assassin intended to kill dragons who are too close to end the war or who might discover the tribe's secrets, but despite being very good at his job also has a conscience, and once he realizes the implications of what he does, refuses to kill for them any longer.
71	* MyGodWhatHaveIDone: Seeing the results of his assassination of Commander Tempest shakes his faith in the [=NightWing=] cause (not that he had much to begin with) and he essentially swears off of killing except in certain circumstances.
72	* ProfessionalKiller: A [=NightWing=] assassin sent to dispose of the Dragonets and to kill other dragons from each side of the war who might be making it end too fast..
73	* PleaseWakeUp: He attempts to wake up his mother after she's struck by lightning.
74	[[/folder]]
75
76	[[folder:Fatespeaker]]
77	!!Fatespeaker
78	The energetic, plucky, and optimistic alternate NightWing dragonet, who Starflight befriends, and who believes herself to have foresight powers.
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80	* BecauseYouWereNiceToMe: Starflight is the first person who ever treats her with any kind of kindness or decency and as such, she's stuck like glue to him.
81	* BrokenPedestal: Like Starflight, she [[spoiler: has only heard stories treating the [=NightWings=] positively]], so it is a shock for her to see [[spoiler: their island.]] She also has this reaction to the other alternate dragonets, who she thought were her friends, when Viper seriously tried to kill her.
82	* ClingyJealousGirl: Not to [[IfICantHaveYou Peril's]] extent, but she still expresses jealousy over Starflight's infatuation with Sunny.
83	* {{Cloudcuckoolander}}: Her fervent belief in her psychic powers comes across as this [[spoiler:when it's revealed the [=NightWing=]s haven't had psychic powers in generations]].
84	* CommonalityConnection: With Sunny. They were both raised outside their tribe and find they have similar views of the world.
85	* TheCuckoolanderWasRight: At one point she predicts that a gigantic comet will crash into the ground and kill them all. While the comet doesn't crash, it still arrives and [[spoiler:ends up waking up Darkstalker.]]
86	* DramaticIrony: She claims that the comet will fall on them, which everyone else dismisses (not without reason) as hysterical. In the next book, it turns out that the comet('s shards) ''did'' fall on someone- [[spoiler:Palm, Onyx's mother]]- though none of the people she said it would.
87	* {{Determinator}}: She is incredibly brave and persistent.
88	* DidYouJustFlipOffCthulhu: Has absolutely ''no'' problem sassing Morrowseer, despite the fact that he hates her, is either going to kill her or her love interest depending on who proves themselves the most useful, and is generally, much bigger and stronger than her, and very bad-tempered.
89	* HandyHelper: Becomes this for [[spoiler: Starflight]] after he loses his sight.
90	* HorribleJudgeofCharacter: She genuinely thought that the [[spoiler:rest of the alternate Dragonets]] were her friends.
91	* GenkiGirl: She is compared to Sunny numerous times, and the two quickly become friends.
92	* MarkOfTheSupernatural: [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]]. The silver scales under her eyes would mark [[spoiler:PsychicPowers]] in most [=NightWings=], but she [[spoiler:may or may not have those powers, and if she does, they are weak and unreliable.]]
93	* MaybeMagicMaybeMundane: It's never made clear whether she has visions of the future, or is she's just imagining things. [[spoiler:Darkstalker theorizes she ''may'' have very weak psychic powers, or was ''supposed'' to have been born with them but wasn't.]]
94	* PluckyGirl: Despite having the kind of life that would render most people hopeless, Fatespeaker has an incredible amount of optimism, energy and tenacity.
95	* ThePollyanna: Even more so than Sunny.
96	* PsychicPowers: She claims to have visions of the future, [[spoiler:though it turns out no Nightwing has had those powers in over a century]].
97	* SavvyGuyEnergeticGirl: The energetic girl to Starflight's savvy guy.
98	* YouShallNotPass: Does this to [[spoiler: Morrowseer]], taking the place of Sunny when she runs away from the volcano.
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101	[[folder:Greatness]]
102
103	The daughter of Queen Battlewinner, who speaks on her mother's behalf.
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105	* AbdicateTheThrone: Chooses to give her position to [[spoiler: Glory]], and begs Battlewinner to do the same. [[spoiler: She still abdicates after Battlewinner dies, leaving her the natural choice for queen.]]
106	* DecoyLeader: She presides over councils and issues decrees from Battlewinner, who communicates to her through a vent in the cave wall.
107	* HeelFaceTurn: She [[spoiler:betrays Battlewinner and supports Glory's bid to rule the [=NightWings=] because she thinks it will give her tribe a better future than killing another tribe.]]
108	* IronicName: Her name is Greatness, but that [[UnfitForGreatness doesn't exactly describe her.]]
109	* TheManBehindTheMan: Starflight and Fatespeaker suspect that Greatness is this for Queen Battlewinner, since the Queen never appears in front of her subjects, and gives all orders through Greatness. [[spoiler: In reality, Battlewinner is the one pulling the strings, and is merely using Greatness to avoid revealing her injuries to her subjects]].
110	* MouthOfSauron: Her role is to speak for Queen Battlewinner, who barely any dragons have seen in years.
111	* UnfitForGreatness: She's a much kinder dragon than her mother, but she just isn't fit to be queen, no matter what her [[IronicName name]] implies.
112	[[/folder]]
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114	[[folder:Mastermind]]
115	!!Mastermind
116	A [=NightWing=] scientist, [[spoiler: and Starflight's father]].
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118	* AbsentMindedProfessor: He loves going on and on about his work and usually isn't organized, to the point where a lot of [=NightWings=] like Fierceteeth wonder if he really is the genius he is supposed to be.
119	* AndIMustScream: The [=RainWings=] [[spoiler: never had need for a prison until him, so their makeshift prison involves him slowly being [[QuicksandSucks sucked in by quicksand]] and fished out every few hours when he is about to die, only to be placed back into it.]]
120	* CutLexLuthorACheck: Starflight notes that his science could accomplish a lot for the [=NightWings=] if they weren't busy [[spoiler: experimenting on [=RainWings=]]]. This isn't fully accurate since he does undertake projects like desalinization and vulcanology when he's not working with [[spoiler: [=RainWings=]]].
121	* ForScience: One of his justifications for what he has done.
122	* HeelFaceDoorSlam: At the end of ''The Dark Secret'', he is noted to show an expression of genuine guilt when he realized how the [=RainWings=] have been harmed, and talks to Starflight about [[spoiler: how he will be hated by the [[PersecutionFlip now ruling]] [=RainWings=]]], asking for forgiveness, but Starflight says that he should be hated for what he has done, and Glory decides to imprison him until a trial can be held.
123	* IgnoredExpert: The other [=NightWings=] refuse to listen to him when he points out that Battlewinner's armor is not complete and his venom protections are still prototypes, choosing to attack the [=RainWings=] anyway.
124	* JustFollowingOrders: Claims that his [[spoiler: experimentation on captured [=RainWings=]]] was this, although considering his love for experimentation in general, it's disputable whether this is true or not.
125	* LeanAndMean: He's malnourished thanks to [[spoiler:living in the volcano.]]
126	* MadScientist: He's a scientist experimenting on other dragons.
127	* PropheticName: His name is Mastermind, and he ends up being a MadScientist.
128	* SesquipedalianLoquaciousness: Tends to use this, especially when describing his work. Just like his son.
129	* [[SmartPeopleWearGlasses Smart Dragons Wear Glasses]]: Not exactly glasses, but he wears eyewear that is as close as he can get to goggles without access to any transparent material, in order to protect his eyes from [[spoiler:[=RainWing=] venom.]]
130	* WellDoneDadGuy: He desperately wants Starflight's approval, but because of his experiments on innocent [=RainWings=] he's not willing to give it to him.
131	[[/folder]]
132
133	[[folder:Morrowseer]]
134	!!Morrowseer
135	->"I've been trying to make it happen for ten years."
136
137	* BreakingSpeech: In an attempt to destroy the Dragonets' resolve, he reveals that [[spoiler:he made up the prophecy as part of an elaborate plan to secure the [=NightWings=] a new home in the [=RainWings=] jungle just before being killed]].
138	* CavalryRefusal: He appears with the [=NightWings=] [[spoiler:just when it seems like Scarlet is going to execute all of the dragonets except Glory, starting with Tsunami and Starflight]]. However, he [[spoiler: just rescues Starflight, kills the [=IceWings=] about to be unleashed on them, and leaves without the other dragonets]].
139	* DragonInChief: A quite literal example. He is Battlewinner's subordinate (given she is the queen), but has a larger role in interacting with the dragonets and putting their plan to action thanks to her [[spoiler: having to live in a volcano so she won't die from her frostbreath injuries]].
140	* DramaticIrony: He is obsessed with the idea that all other dragons are gullible pawns easily manipulated by his brilliance... and yet, all history will remember him for is his relation to Moonwatcher, the first [=NightWing=] prophet in centuries and one of Jade Mountain's saviors, and nothing else, if even that. None of his schemes or entitlement made him anything more than a footnote.
141	* EvilAllAlong: He is allied with [[spoiler:Blister]], but his true goal was [[spoiler:to use the war to steal a new home for the [=NightWings=].]]
142	* EvilIsBigger: He's noted to be a huge dragon, dwarfing the main characters and even Kestrel.
143	* EvilIsPetty: Once the dragonets foil the [=NightWings'=] plan to invade the rainforest, he tells them that the prophecy is fake and there's no need to stop the war, leaving all of Pyrrhia to continue suffering endlessly for a false prophecy wondering where their heroes went, for no reason other than to [[BreakThemByTalking break the group's resolve.]]
144	* EvilMentor: To the dragonets.
145	* FairWeatherMentor: Since the dragonets have replacements, he's perfectly happy to be cavalier about their lives, put them through TrainingFromHell, or outright try to have one killed if they aren't fulfilling the prophecy the way he wants them to.
146	* FantasticRacism: Everyone assumes he wanted to have Glory killed because she didn't fit the prophecy. [[spoiler:His actual reasoning is more pragmatic: [[HeKnowsTooMuch He wants Glory dead so that she can't warn the RainWings about the [=NightWings=]' planned invasion in case the Dragonets put two and two together.]]]]
147	* FightingForAHomeland: Morrowseer's plans to involve the [=NightWings=] in the [=SandWing war=] [[spoiler:and attack the [=RainWings=] are designed to find the [=NightWings=] an acceptable home.]]
148	* ItsPersonalWithTheDragon: The dragonets barely meet [[spoiler:his ally, Blister,]] or [[spoiler:his queen, Battlewinner]], his role being mostly to interfere in their [[spoiler:and the alternates']] lives, so they have a particularly personal hatred for him [[spoiler:even more so after his death, when he reveals that he'd made up the prophecy all along.]]
149	* TheLongGame: As the page quote shows, he has been motioning the prophecy for ten years [[spoiler:and made up the prophecy specifically to invoke this.]]
150	* MeaningfulName: Glory [[LampshadeHanging lampshades it in ''The Hidden Kingdom''.]]
151	* {{Seers}}: Was the one who made the Dragonet prophecy. [[spoiler: Even if is was fake.]]
152	* TrainingFromHell: For Morrowseer, training Starflight and the alternates means [[spoiler:ordering the alternates to try to kill Starflight, making them fly a very long distance over water to the border of the Sky kingdom, and then making them all fight each other in a volcano, leading to Viper being killed and Flame being seriously injured.]]
153	* VerticalKidnapping: Does this to [[spoiler:Starflight]] in ''The Dragonet Prophecy''. Right after [[spoiler:killing eight [=IceWing=] prisoners.]]
154	* VisionaryVillain: He's literally a seer [[spoiler:supposedly]] trying to fulfill a prophecy, and his ultimate plan is [[spoiler:to launch a genocidal attack on the [=RainWings=] to save his tribe and give them a new home,]] and then use [[spoiler:the tunnels and the prophecy]] to aid [[spoiler:Blister in ending the war with her as victor,]] thus ensuring [[spoiler:protection from their ancient enemies the [=IceWings=] now that their location has been revealed.]]
155	* WellIntentionedExtremist: All he did was to save his tribe.
156	* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Does this to [[spoiler: Kestrel]], letting Queen Blister kill her.
157	[[/folder]]
158
159	[[folder:Fierceteeth]]
160	!!Fierceteeth
161	Narrates ''Prisoners''.
162	----
163	* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brains to Strongwings' Brawn.
164	* CainAndAbel: Would very much like to kill Starflight for being the prophecized [=NightWing=] dragonet, being weak, and for conspiring with the other tribes, all of which she takes as unforgivable crimes.
165	* TheChosenWannabe: She wishes that she was the [=NightWing=] dragonet in the prophecy instead of Starflight.
166	* ConvenientlyCellmates: She and her co-conspirator Strongwings are cellmates when [[spoiler:Thorn]] imprisons them.
167	* DayInTheLimelight: In ''Prisoners''.
168	* EvenEvilHasLovedOnes: She genuinely cares about Strongwings and refuses to leave the prison without him.
169	* GreenEyedMonster: She is jealous of Starflight for being in the prophecy when she is not.
170	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The Tiny Girl to Strongwings' Huge Guy.
171	* ItsAllAboutMe: Her attitude. Her letters to her guard in ''Prisoners'' are full of her talking herself up and thinking she'd be a much better queen of the [=NightWings=] than Glory.
172	* LeanAndMean: She's malnourished thanks to [[spoiler:living in the volcano.]]
173	* TheNapoleon: She's small for her age and not at all a friendly dragon.
174	* OddCouple: With Strongwings.
175	* ParentalAbandonment: By the time Starflight meets her, both of her parents are dead; her father died a few years before she hatched, and Farsight died several years later.
176	* ParentalNeglect: Her mother Farsight ignored her in order to spend time with Starflight's egg, knowing it would soon be taken for the prophecy.
177	* PromotionNotPunishment: After being captured by [[spoiler:Glory and Darkstalker]] for trying to kill Glory, the latter decides to promote her to his lieutenant rather than punish her. Of course, this doesn't prove to be such a good thing for her, as Darkstalker barely pays attention to her and [[spoiler:even uses her body as a guinea pig to try and bring back Clearsight.]]
178	* TerribleTrio: With Strongwings and Preyhunter.
179	* TinyTyrannicalGirl: She loves ordering around Strongwings, who's twice as big as her.
180	* VillainProtagonist: Of ''Prisoners''.
181	[[/folder]]
182
183	[[folder:Strongwings]]
184	!!Strongwings
185
186	* BrainsAndBrawn: The Brawn to Fierceteeths' Brains.
187	* ConvenientlyCellmates: He and his co-conspirator Fierceteeth are cellmates when [[spoiler:Thorn]] imprisons them.
188	* DumbMuscle: He's a very large dragon, though not particularly smart.
189	* HugeGuyTinyGirl: The Huge Guy to Fierceteeth's Tiny Girl.
190	* TheIgor: He's Mastermind's DumbMuscle assistant.
191	* OddCouple: With Fierceteeth.
192	* TerribleTrio: With Strongwings and Preyhunter.
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:Preyhunter]]
196	!!Preyhunter
197
198	* TalkingInYourSleep: About his mother, making Sunny feel bad for him.
199	* TerribleTrio: With Fierceteeth and Strongwings.
200	[[/folder]]
201
202	[[folder:Quickstrike]]
203	!!Quickstrike
204	* MentorOccupationalHazard: Is Deathbringer's mentor as well as his mother. [[spoiler: She is executed by Blister after being knocked unconscious by lightning and discovered during a search for the assassin of Tempest.]]
205	* ProfessionalKiller
206	[[/folder]]
207
208	[[folder:Farsight]]
209	!!Farsight
210
211	* DeceasedParentsAreTheBest: She is Starflight's mother, but died a few years before the start of the series. Flashbacks in ''Moon Rising'' and ''Prisoners'' show her to be a very kind dragon.
212	* HeroicSacrifice: She dies protecting a [=SeaWing=] from two [=SkyWings=].
213	[[/folder]]
214
215	[[folder:Stonemover]]
216	!!Stonemover
217
218	* AmicableExes: With [[spoiler:Thorn.]]
219	* ButtMonkey: A lot of the dragons in Jade Mountain Academy spend their time making fun of him for his consistently poor lot in life and the whole "turning himself to stone" thing, especially Anemone.
220	* FreakOut: Has one after [[spoiler:Darkstalker tries to heal the parts of his body turned into stone.]] It turns out it may have been because [[spoiler: Darkstalker might have been trying to [[PeoplePuppets control him]] at the same time.]]
221	* INeverGotAnyLetters: He thought that [[spoiler:Thorn]] had abandoned them because she never sent him letters. It turns out that [[spoiler: they were all in Burn's palace, as Smolder later revealed.]]
222	* MeaningfulName: His name is Stonemover, and not only is he an animus, but he turned half of his body into stone to avoid the normal negative effects of his power.
223	* TakenForGranite: Much of his body is turned into stone as a result of a curse he placed on himself to avoid [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity going insane from his powers.]]
224	[[/folder]]
225
226	[[folder:Mightyclaws]]
227	!!Mightyclaws
228
229	* ConditionedToAcceptHorror: While attending Jade Mountain, he fears that other dragons will think he's greedy if they know he eats three meals at the day. This is perfectly normal for a dragon, but Mightyclaws doesn't know that because he grew up in a society where '''nobody''' ever had enough to eat.
230	* DealWithTheDevil: He accepted Darkstalker's offer of magic so he could easily bring his architectural sketches to life. It turns out better for him than most of Darkstalker's followers, because his wish was selfless (so he isn't too dismayed when Darkstalker is overthrown). After the battle, he lives a peaceful life building houses for the displaced [=NightWing=] tribe.
231	%%* EmnityWithAnObject:
232	* MutualEnvy: He's jealous of Moonwatcher because she didn't grow up desperate and malnourished. She is jealous of him because he didn't grow up [[DaddyHadAGoodReasonForAbandoningYou alone]].
233	* NiceGuy: He's the most friendly and open of the [=NightWing=] dragonets, so Starflight quickly accepts him as a guide.
234	* NobleBigot: He never lets on how deeply he resents Moon, because he knows that it's irrational; she did absolutely nothing wrong other than have the [[DramaticIrony "perfect life"]] he wishes he could have had. But he is still human and he still has feelings.
235	* NoTrueScotsman: Internally, he defines '[=NightWing=]' as 'someone who suffered living under the volcano'. Dragons who grew up elsewhere aren't the same tribe, even though they're the same species.
236	[[/folder]]
237
238	[[folder:Mindreader]]
239	* EvilCounterpart: Though not necessarily ''evil'', when Darkstalker gives her mind-reading powers she proceeds to act entirely ''unlike'' Moonwatcher, meaning that she reads the minds of everyone around her and blurts out their thoughts with no regards to their own privacy, which Moon never does.
240	* IronicName: Despite entirely lacking mind-reading powers. Later is ''not'' an ironic name as Darkstalker grants them to her, then becomes ironic again when those powers are taken away.
241	[[/folder]]
242
243	[[folder:Vengeance]]
244
245	* CruelAndUnusualDeath: He's pushed into lava and kept under with spears until he doesn't come up again.
246	* YouHaveFailedMe: He's executed by Battlewinner's orders for jeopardizing the [=NightWings'=] plan.
247	* VerbalTic: He punctuates nearly everything he says with "yeah".
248	[[/folder]]
249
250	[[folder:Slaughter]]
251	* WeHardlyKnewYe: He exists in ''Assassins'' specifically to provide a test for Deathbringer, who kills him.
252	[[/folder]]
253
254	[[folder:Secretkeeper]]
255	!!Secretkeeper (Secret)
256	Moon's mother, and Morrowseer's wife, who raised Moon outside the tribe.
257	----
258	* AffectionateNickname: She refers to Moon as 'my weird little diamond'.
259	* IntroOnlyPointOfView: In ''Moon Rising''.
260	* ParentalNeglect: She does love Moon, but is poor at showing it. Exacerbating this trope is the fact that she had to keep Moon a secret, and could only occasionally sneak away to see her.
261	* PropheticName: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in Secret's own narration. She kept her own child secret for months, and is the only other dragon who knows that Moon has telepathy.
262	* RaceTraitor: Is branded as one by other [=NightWings=] for not raising her daughter on the island.
263	[[/folder]]
264
265	[[folder:Foeslayer]]
266	!!Foeslayer
267	Darkstalker's mother, and a hated villain of [=IceWing=] legend.
268	----
269	* {{Ambadassador}} A [=NightWing=] diplomat and also one of the best fighters in the tribe.
270	* AssInAmbassador: She came as an ambassador for the [=IceWings=] only to kidnap their prince. [[spoiler: Unbeknownst to modern [=IceWings=], she [[StarCrossedLovers didn't actually kidnap him.]]]]
271	** Played straight, as of [[spoiler:Runaway]]. Foeslayer herself had no nefarious plans, but... [[spoiler: her mother certainly did, bringing her along in the hope of her getting pregnant by Arctic and hatching dragonets with animus powers.]]
272	* GoodParents: To Darkstalker and Whiteout.
273	* DeusExitMachina: In "Escaping Peril", she leaves to find help when [[spoiler: Peril accidentally burns Winter]], leaving the dragonets with no one to find the Lost City of Night and stop the destruction of Jade Mountain Academy only halfway through the series.
274	* HumanPopsicle: Thanks to [[spoiler: Diamond's curse]], she was [[spoiler: trapped in the diamond caves to be killed and frozen over and over again, remaining in this]].
275	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: May have been a victim of this InUniverse like her son. [[spoiler:As it turns out, far more of a victim than her son, given that while Darkstalker was more complicated than the legends suggested he really did most of the evil things he was feared for, Foeslayer's only crime was loving a dragon from another tribe.]]
276	* MalignedMixedMarriage: The reason that [[spoiler:everyone assumed that her relationship with Arctic was not consensual.]]
277	* Really700YearsOld: About 2000 years old, to be exact.
278	* StalkerWithATestTube: She kidnapped Arctic for his animus genes. [[spoiler:At least according to the [=IceWing=] histories]].
279	* StarCrossedLovers: With [[spoiler: Arctic. The [=IceWings=] just assumed she must have kidnapped him]].
280	* UnwittingPawn: Her mother, Prudence, specifically brought her along to the Ice Kingdom in the hope and she and Arctic would have a fling and bear eggs, giving the [=NightWings=] their own animus dragons.
281	* WellExcuseMePrincess: GenderFlipped - she and Arctic spend the prologue of ''Darkstalker'' snarking at each other, with Arctic taking note of his higher status, [[spoiler:as well as falling in love.]]
282	* WhatDidYouExpectWhenYouNamedIt: [[LampshadeHanging Lampshades]] this when regards to Darkstalker, though she justified the name before by saying he would stalk the darkness to protect dragons from it.
283	[[/folder]]
284
285	[[folder:Clearsight]]
286	!!Clearsight
287
288	* ABirthdayNotABreak: Her fifth birthday party happens right before she has a vision revealing that [[spoiler:Foeslayer]] is heading into [[spoiler:[=IceWing=] territory]] and something horrible is about to happen to her.
289	* TheCassandra: Few dragons believe her about the horrible futures she has visions of [[spoiler:until she finally shows up Allknowing in predicting an [=IceWing=] invasion.]]
290	* ChildProdigy: Even as a three-year-old dragonet she was a much better seer than the most respected adults.
291	* ADayInTheLimelight: Gets a POV in ''Darkstalker''.
292	* BabiesEverAfter: Her best visions have her living happily with Darkstalker in a cliff house, having six dragonets, and maybe being able to save the tribe as well.
293	** After saving Pyrrhia from the threat of Darkstalker, she flies away to Pantala and mates with a [=BeetleWing=] named Sunstreak, as well as others. Their offspring eventually evolved into modern [=SilkWings=] and [=HiveWings=].
294	* DreamingOfThingsToCome: Some of her visions of the future come in dreams, which usually end up as horrible nightmares. She tries to ignore them, because she doesn't much like vague prophecies and prefers well-organized visions.
295	* EarnYourHappyEnding: After all she goes through, she finds happiness in Pantala, where she mates with several dragons and has lots of offspring, saves Pantala from disaster with her powers, and gets revered as a goddess for future generations.
296	* EstablishingCharacterMoment: Her first POV chapter in ''Darkstalker'' has her feverishly recording her visions of every possible timeline and obsessively recording them onto tables and graphs. At age ''two''. [[spoiler: It's implied (and friends and family speculate) that this might be the reason why the worst of her visions keep coming true, despite her constant attempts to avert them. She's so caught up in what ''might'' be that she often misses what ''is'' until the event has already passed. CharacterDevelopment eventually helps her grow past this.]]
297	* FondMemoriesThatCouldHaveBeen: While she didn't kill Darkstalker, for the rest of her life she mourns about the six dragonets they could have had together, the friendship they could have had with Fathom, and the life they could have lived together if the future had turned out well. She'd seen all of this in her visions, as well, making it hurt all the more.
298	* FreeTheFrogs: She joins up with Listener to help free the scavengers used for research.
299	* HardWorkHardlyWorks: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She was born under one moon like every [=NightWing=], but still is better at seeing the future than the SuperpowerLottery winning Darkstalker because of how much time she spends improving her powers.
300	* HerHeartWillGoOn: Darkstalker isn't technically dead, but the end of the book has her deciding to fly away to a new life despite her grief, with visions of how she can find happiness again on a new continent.
301	* HeroicTeamRevolt: Her and Fathom plot to betray Darkstalker after he [[spoiler:kills Arctic and tries to kill Vigilance]], to avert the worse futures.
302	* HistoricalVillainUpgrade: While she's revered and worshipped on Pantala, many [=LeafWings=] and some [=SilkWings=] hate her due to her prophecies supposedly allowing the [=HiveWings=] to dominate everyone else. Luna and Sundew at least start to grow out of this once they learn that the [=HiveWings=] are making up prophecies from her to justify their dominance of Pantala and that Clearsight wanted her descendants to all work together.
303	* IThoughtEveryoneCouldDoThat: As a young dragonet, she assumes that every future-telling [=NightWing=] has powers that work like hers.
304	* KidHero: She's the youngest of the ''Darkstalker'' narrators, at only five years old by the end of the book.
305	* LoveInterestTraitor: To Darkstalker.
306	* OneTrueLove: Of Darkstalker. They even have visions of each other meeting.
307	* PosthumousCharacter: Presumably died 2000 years ago.
308	* PowerTrio: With Fathom and Darkstalker, who made the dreamvisitors for them so they could always contact each other.
309	* RedStringOfFate: She and Darkstalker realize they're destined to be together, and while he could end up with someone else that would lead to the worst possible futures.
310	* SatelliteLoveInterest: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. She knows that she's destined to be in love with Darkstalker and devotes herself to him, including controlling him and stopping him from the best futures. But she also doesn't want to get credit for what Darkstalker does and his fame instead of what she does on her own, goes out of her way to be a hero herself without his help, and [[WhatTheHellHero calls him out constantly]]. She notes that a character who ''was'' like this with Darkstalker would likely lead to a horrible future for him. And after she betrays him, she notes that despite her sadness, she sees the freedom that having a life and future all of her own can give her.
311	* ScryVsScry: She uses her knowledge of the future to outwit Darkstalker's own visions of the future, with all of the mind games that ensues. Fortunately, she's better at it than Darkstalker because she has more practice, even if Darkstalker was born under three moons.
312	* ShipperOnDeck: She helps get [[spoiler:Whiteout and Thoughtful]] together.
313	* TogetherInDeath: She thinks about letting the collapsing Agate Mountain bury her along with Darkstalker, but ultimately decides against it because she sees futures where she can be happy again.
314	* YouCantGoHomeAgain: She never returns to the Night Kingdom after Darkstalker's fall because [[spoiler:her powers let her know that she will be seen as a collaborator with Darkstalker even if she tells them what she did to stop him.]]
315	[[/folder]]
316
317	[[folder:Whiteout]]
318	!!Whiteout
319
320	* {{Foreshadowing}}: She's basically Foreshadowing: The Dragon. A lot of things that come out her mouth reference things that will transpire later in the book, albeit, in a confusing cryptic way. For example, at one point while Darkstalker is discussing his animus magic with his parents she says he's "not going to snow for a while." Later on Darkstalker creates a Soul Reader which is a device that uses Black sand (like Nightwings) for good and White sand (like Icewings) for bad. While the reader is never used on him after he goes off the deep end (a ForegoneConclusion in and of itself) this could technically be considered him "snowing".
321	** It's a widely-accepted headcanon that she has weaker versions of moon-based Nightwing powers (mind-reading and prophecy) that she expresses peculiarly due to her synesthesia, although the actual canonity of this stands as being a bit more ambiguous.
322	* HeroicBSOD: When [[spoiler:Foeslayer is captured.]]
323	* OneTrueLove: To [[spoiler: Thoughtful]], which is why Clearsight introduces them [[spoiler: instead of letting him marry Listener.]]
324	* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: One time when Darkstalker talks to her, she seems to be talking normally. It turns out [[spoiler: that Arctic made her that way so she'd be more acceptable to the [=IceWings=] and would forget about Thoughtful.]]
325	** StrangeMindsThinkAlike: The reason she and Thoughtful click so well is that they have a somewhat similar thought process, and that Thoughtful is one of the few dragons who actually understands what she says.
326	* WhatDoYouMeanItsNotSymbolic: InUniverse, she accidentally knocks over some dragons' marbles and says that she thought the marbles symbolized chaos theory when it was actually just a game.
327	[[/folder]]
328
329	[[folder:Vigilance]]
330	!!Queen Vigilance
331
332	* TheParanoiac: She's very paranoid and kills anyone who she thinks might be a threat.
333	* SelfFulfillingProphecy: She's told about a future where Darkstalker kills her by Allknowing, causing her to try and have Darkstalker killed. This upsets Darkstalker enough that he ''does'' decide to kill her and take over the Night Kingdom for himself, something Clearsight calls her out on.
334	* SeeminglyProfoundFool: She has a reputation as one of the most astute, skilled and threatening queens, but she's actually just very paranoid and looks intimidating because she doesn't talk a lot.
335	* TheStoic: She rarely shows emotions or says much.
336	[[/folder]]
337
338	[[folder:Listener]]
339	!!Listener
340
341	* FreeTheFrogs: She comes up with the idea of freeing the scavengers used in research projects and joins up with Clearsight to do it for real.
342	* MarkOfTheSupernatural: She's a mind reader and has silver scales to show it.
343	[[/folder]]
344
345	[[folder:Allknowing]]
346	!!Allknowing
347
348	* HumblePie: She gets dramatically humiliated in front of Vigilance when Clearsight shows her up in her {{Seer\|s}} abilities [[spoiler:and Clearsight replaces her as the queen's top seer.]]
349	* IronicName: She's less omniscient than [[KnowNothingKnowItAll something else entirely.]]
350	* KnowNothingKnowItAll: She's respected as the greatest seer of the [=NightWings=] but really, to Clearsight's annoyance, just gives unnecessarily cryptic and/or rather obvious-sounding prophecies.
351	* TheMentor: She teaches a special seer class. She doesn't get a chance to be Clearsight's mentor, because Clearsight quits the class in a day.
352	* TheRival: To Clearsight.
353	[[/folder]]
354
355	[[folder:Prudence]]
356	!!Prudence
357
358	* AssInAmbassador: Besides not being the best mother to Foeslayer, she uses her position as a diplomat in the Ice Kingdom to [[spoiler:try to set up her daughter to fall in love with Arctic so she could leave and have potential animus dragonets, and the [=IceWings=] would never have to know.]] She didn't account for [[spoiler:Arctic wanting to run away with her.]]
359	* IWantGrandkids: Particularly [[spoiler:animus grandchildren.]]
360	* ManipulativeBitch: She specifically brought Foeslayer along to the Ice Kingdom in the hopes that [[spoiler:she and Prince Arctic would end up bonding and have sex, letting Foeslayer conceive eggs that they could then take back to the Night Kingdom to get their own animus dragons.]] While the plan didn't exactly work out the way she'd intended, it still got them Arctic and an animus dragon...who turned out to be ''[[GoneHorriblyRight too]]'' [[GoneHorriblyRight powerful.]]
361	[[/folder]]

Context Characters / WingsOfFireNightWings