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- Second Arc Protagonists note
- Third Arc Protagonists note
- Main Antagonists note
- The Talons of Peace note
- MudWings note
- SkyWings note
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- NightWings note
Scavengers and other animals
Rose ('Flower')
One of the three human siblings who robbed the SandWing treasury and killed Queen Oasis, thus causing the succession crisis. She was left behind due to an injury, and was adopted by Prince Smolder as a pet.- Going Native: She was caught twenty years ago, and since that time has become extremely accustomed to dragon culture. She trusts Smolder enough that she regularly asks to sit on his shoulder so she can observe courtly events (a request he understands despite the language barrier), and enjoys sketching dragons although they're fearsome predators three times her size.
- Human Pet: To Smolder.
- I Was Named "My Name": Justified example. When she saw a tapestry depicting flowers, she dashed over to it, pointing at the flowers and then herself until Smolder got the hint.
Word of God says that her real name is more specific than "Flower", but it's close enough. Dragonslayer reveals her actual name to be Rose. She did the same thing with Smolder; he pointed at a smoldering fire and she called him "Ember" for 20 years until Wren told her his real name. - Offscreen Moment of Awesome: She and her brothers killed the SandWing queen with swords, cut off her tail-barb as a trophy, and stole sacks of treasure as they fled the palace. She got caught eventually, but any one of those deeds would be nigh-impossible for a dragon. The offscreen part is averted come Dragonslayer, where we get to see how exactly they did it.
- Replacement Goldfish: Smolder's brothers let him keep her because he could serve as a replacement to Palm and help Smolder with his grief over her.
- Small Role, Big Impact: She doesn't have much of a role in the book, but she is responsible for the death of Oasis, which starts the entire war and finding the Eye of Onyx, which ends it.
- Dragonslayer would reveal that Leaf, Ivy, and Stone is this to her, funnily enough. If they hadn't found her and brought up that dragons were burning down villages to look for the stolen treasure, Rose wouldn't have gotten the idea to dig up the Eye of Onyx to end the war.
- Token Human: Is the only human character with an important effect on the storyline. At the time, anyways.
Heath
One of the three human siblings who robbed the SandWing treasury and killed Queen Oasis, thus causing the succession crisis. He is the self-styled Dragonslayer, using his heroic image to lord over the human town of Valor.- Blatant Lies: His story is, to put it nicely, exaggerated. When people from other villages plead for his help, he would promise to help them defend it. Guess what happens next.
- Berserk Button: Don't question him about his story and don't get too close to his treasure.
- Dirty Coward: Even after becoming famous for killing a dragon, it's clear that he would rather be as far away from danger as possible. He would banish anybody who questioned his story and disregard his own laws, using his title to do so, but he's quick to run away the second he sees a dragon to save his own hide. When Wren brings Sky to confront him, he crumbles to the ground and immediately confesses that Stone is the real dragonslayer.
- Greed: Big time. Heath loves treasure more than anything in the world and is extremely hostile towards the idea of anybody taking it from him, not even to save people's lives.
- Jerkass: When you deliberately leave out the fact that you left your partner behind in your story to make yourself look better, are more concerned with treasure than the people in your village, and banish people who has even the slightest of chances to call you into question, you're definitely this.
- Hate Sink: There's barely any redeemable elements that Heath has, assuming he has any at all. See the above and below examples for why. A short-tempered, selfish, cowardly, greedy, and manipulative man, he would rather let other people die than give up the treasure or give up his title as lord of Valor.
- Miles Gloriosus: After Stone kills Queen Oasis, Heath doesn't bother looking for Rose when she goes missing and runs away with the stolen treasure. Once the two of them were safe, he takes all the credit for slaying the dragon. While Heath could be somewhat excused for those two things (they had next to no time to look for Rose and Stone didn't want the attention), he just gets worse after that.
- The Paranoiac: He's always paranoid in general, but it reaches new heights when Leaf gives him a message from the Invincible Lord, not realizing that it's a threat. Heath soon announces to Valor that the Invincible Lord set a price on his head, orders the Wingwatchers arrest for plotting against him, and calls Leaf an assassin. He plans on capturing Leaf so that he can execute him and the Wingwatchers altogether.
- Screw the Rules, I Make Them!: When Pine went too close to the old village, Heath made up a law to banish him from Valor. He considers himself to be above the law and gets pissed with Foxglove when she says that the law applies to everyone.
Stone
One of the three human siblings who robbed the SandWing treasury and killed Queen Oasis, thus causing the succession crisis. The one who actually killed Oasis (albeit accidentally), but was left wracked by grief and depression after the loss of Rose.- My God, What Have I Done?: He feels extremely guilty about losing Rose, even twenty years later. When he had a dream about Rose's survival, he went looking for her in the desert, although he was forced to return to Valor.
- Offscreen Momentof Awesome: After his first search for Rose turned up fruitless, he wound up trapped in the desert. How does he manage to get back to Valor? By taking advantage of his invisibility chain and riding on the back of an IceWing. When the dragon becomes aware of something on its back, he manages to hold on for long enough that he forces the dragon to crash in the forest near Valor. For a human, that's pretty ballsy.
- Properly Paranoid: He always suspected that Heath would want to get rid of him eventually. Just in case, he made a secret tunnel in his room to escape the town.
Leaf ('Fluffy')
A resident of the village of Talisman, and Wren's brother. He is one of the protagonists of Dragonslayer.- Fantastic Racism: He has an absolute hatred for dragons due to them supposedly killing his sister Wren, who he was very close to. Said hatred vanishes completely when he finds out the truth.
- Contrived Coincidence: That scavenger Clay helped in The Dragonet Prophecy? That scavenger that Sunny met and named Fluffy in The Brightest Night? They're the same person.
- Meaningful Name: The name that Sunny gives him, Fluffy, is due to his fluffy-looking hair.
- Too Awesome to Use: He never spent any of the treasure he inherited, presumably out of guilt (it was the reason his parents' village got destroyed) and because when you live in a subsistence economy, there is nothing you can buy that could possibly be worth the only dragon hoard that scavengers have ever gotten their hands on... except the freedom of a loved one.
- Tragic Bigot: As noted above, the reason Leaf is so prejudiced against dragons was because they "killed" Wren. Then he finds out it wasn't entirely the dragons' fault...
Ivy ('Holler')
One of Valor's residents, and Heath's daughter. She is one of the protagonists of Dragonslayer.- Meaningful Name: The name Sunny give her, Holler, is due to how loud she is.
- Stockholm Syndrome: A downplayed example. Although temporarily held ransom by Sunny, Ivy understands that the dragonet is only trying to get back what Ivy's father stole from Sunny's queen years ago and doesn't actually want to hurt her. Also, she gets to ride on a dragon's back in the meantime, which is just as awesome as it sounds.
Wren
A resident of the village of Talisman, and Leaf's sister. She is one of the protagonists of Dragonslayer and appears in the last two books of the third arc.- Accidental Misnaming: She mistranslates Deathbringer's name as "Murderbasket" due to not being completely fluent in Dragon at the time.
- Boomerang Bigot: She hates humans despite being a human herself due to how they mistreated her and attempted to sacrifice her to the dragons.
- He Knows Too Much: She was sacrificed because she read a book about the illegal acts of the dragonmancers.
- Heroic Neutral: Wren just wants to be safe and left alone along with Sky. Regardless, she's still willing to risk being killed to save him after he gets captured. Even months later, she prioritizes being left alone over establishing communications with dragons. She only agrees to go to Pantala with Sky when Snowfall and the other queens pass an edict banning dragons from eating humans in exchange for her assistance.
- The Hermit: Becomes this with Sky after the failed sacrifice. They live in hiding for around seven years, relying only on each other. Downplayed once she reunites with Leaf. She still shows signs of this in The Dangerous Gift.
- Human Sacrifice: When Wren was seven, she was supposed to be sacrificed to the dragons. However, she managed to escape.
- Interspecies Friendship: Forms one with Sky.
- Jade-Colored Glasses: Becomes more cynical of humans after escaping her sacrifice attempt and justifiably so. Her interactions with other people are kept to a minimum; she avoids her former home, never stays in other villages for more than a night, only entering to trade in her old books, and refuses to enter buildings for any reason, not even if they invite her a meal. Even after revealing that she can speak Dragon to Snowfall and the others, she believes that the dragons will just eat her regardless.
- Minor Living Alone: Or rather, living alone with a dragonet. After Wren escapes her sacrifice attempt, she decides to live in hiding with Sky when she was seven years old. She keeps this up even after she turns fourteen.
- My Hovercraft Is Full of Eels: Her mistranslation of Deathbringer's name, as mentioned above. She improves with this in general come book 14, where she can more or less speak Dragon fluently.
- Only Friend: Sky is this to her.
- Refusal of the Call: Initially wants nothing to do with the plot in the third arc. Snowfall persuades her by promising to have the other queens pass an edict to ban eating humans in exchange for her help.
- Screw This, I'm Outta Here: She instantly changes her mind on trying to enter the Indestructible City when she learns that she'll have to be stamped and turned over to the city upon entry. Fortunately, she bumps into Undauntable and cuts a deal with him; he'll buy her anything she needs in exchange for one of Sky's scales.
- The Unfavorite: It's heavily implied that Wren is this to her parents, who constantly chide her for being disobedient and didn't mind when she was about to be sacrificed.
Bandit
- Human Pet: To Winter.
- Shoo the Dog: At the beginning of Winter Turning, Winter is forced to free Bandit since he'll likely freeze to death in the Ice Kingdom.
Raven
One of the humans on Pantala living underground.- Fearless Fool: She's willing to tease the dragons when they go underground, where the vast majority of the dragon race see humans as prey or a non-sentient nuisance (except recently, but none of the dragons on Pantala know about it at that point). It's mentioned at one point that she even tried to get one of the Silkwings to chase her to the abyss and didn't bother to tell anybody about it. The only reason why it didn't end with her getting eaten is because they weren't interested in her and she deemed baiting one of the Leafwings too risky.
Mole
One of the humans on Pantala living underground and the younger brother of Vole.- Dramatic Irony: After talking to Raven about how they were going to bring a dragon to the abyss, Raven says that they're a lot smarter than they look, to which he responds:Mole: Next you'll be telling me they have feelings like us, too. As though there are dragons who care about their brothers or something. Or dragons who would do anything for their best friends.
Vole
One of the humans on Pantala living underground and is the older brother of Mole. He was infected by the abyss also known as the Othermind as part of a human ceremony and tells Raven at the end of The Dangerous Gift to bring "the" dragon to the abyss.- Walking Spoiler: It's difficult to bring him up without mentioning that it's all but outright stated that he's infected by the Othermind, the true Big Bad of the third arc, and the humans on Pantala are going to play a major role in stopping it.
Silver
Glory's pet sloth.- Ridiculously Cute Critter: Even Glory thinks so, though she vehemently tries to deny it at first.
Blob
A carved wooden octopus, animated by Fathom's magic and given to Indigo as a pet.- Born of Magic: Fathom creates him using his animus powers.
Characters in the third series go here.
SilkWings
In General
- Animal Motif: SilkWings are based off of butterflies and moths.
- Extreme Doormat: SilkWings are commonly stereotyped as this.
- Fairy Dragons: While the same size as other dragons, they're brightly-colored, have four wings, are said to be beautiful, and have no offensive abilities.
- Our Dragons Are Different: Unlike the two-winged Pyrrhian tribes, SilkWings have four.
- Puberty Superpower: SilkWings go through a process called metamorphosis when they turn six, where they gain wings and the ability to spin and shoot silk out of their wrists.
- Theme Naming: SilkWings are often named after various kinds of moths and butterflies.
Morpho
One of the members of The Chrysalis in Jewel Hive.- Jerkass: He is unfriendly and drives away other SilkWings from their rebellion by being so picky about who is worthy.
Cinnabar
One of the members of The Chrysalis in Jewel Hive.- Shrinking Violet: Is withdrawn and often hides in her blanket.
Tau
One of the members of The Chrysalis in Jewel Hive.- Everyone Can See It: Cinnabar notes that Tau and Treehopper's affection for each other is obvious.
- Nice Girl: She is a geniunely kind dragon who believes that not all HiveWings are bad and helps Cricket escape from prison.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Treehopper.
Io
Swordtail's sister.- The Bus Came Back: She appears in The Poison Jungle after her last appearance two books earlier, and is revealed to be staying with the SapWings along with Tsunami and Turtle.
- Cool Big Sis: While whether she's older than Swordtail is unknown, she is this to Blue, helping him escape from the HiveWings and telling him about the Chrysalis.
Dusky
A young SilkWing that Luna meets and bonds with in The Flames of Hope- Children Are Innocent: He's a little kid with no parents present, but his good heart and fond memories of his father and school are part of what saves the day.
- Deceased Parents Are the Best: From what we see of him in Dusky's memories, his father was a very kind, gentle, loving dragon.
- Disappeared Dad: His father died in a construction accident when he was only a year old.
- Earn Your Happy Ending: Forced into heavy labor when he's around two years old, losing his father, and being forced to hide underground from an evil plant, meeting said evil plant, and having the threat of it taking over his body forever...but Luna manages to rescue him, and he gets to meet and be with his mother.
- Heartwarming Orphan: He's an orphaned SilkWing who bonds closely with Luna over the course of The Flames of Hope.
- Hearing Voices: He hears the Breath of Evil whispering to him, which terrifies him to no end.
- Missing Mom: His mother was reassigned to Vinegaroon Hive before he even hatched.
- Parental Abandonment: Due to his mother being sent to another Hive and his father dying in an accident, Dusky is all alone when Luna meets him.
- Tagalong Kid: He's utterly terrified of the Breath of Evil and pleads to accompany Luna everywhere she goes.
HiveWings
In General
- A Nazi by Any Other Name: For 50 years, the HiveWings have ruled Pantala, claiming they completely wiped out the LeafWing tribe and ruling over the SilkWings, treating them as servants that have varying levels of treatment depending mainly on the hive they live in.
- Animal Motif: HiveWings are based off of dragonflies, wasps, and beetles.
- Always Chaotic Evil: They are seen as this by some dragons, most notably Sundew, Swordtail, and the Chrysalis members.
- Because Destiny Says So: The Tree Wars began because they declared that the Book of Clearsight prophesized that they would rule all of the other tribes on Pantala. The SilkWings believed them, but the LeafWings didn't. The Lost Continent reveals they were lying, as Clearsight didn't see that far into the future other than a vague prophecy about how the trees were important, and telling her descendants to help the LeafWings protect them.
- Big Brother Is Watching: Their society is heavily based around paranoia, as everything is tightly controlled, dragonets have their lives planned out for them ahead of time before even hatching, and every HiveWing lives with the knowledge that Queen Wasp can take over their minds and bodies at any time. They have also been conditioned to live in fear of LeafWings after the Tree Wars.
- Beware My Stinger Tail: Some HiveWings have boiling acid that can be shot from a barb in their tail, as well as actual stingers in their tail.
- Blank White Eyes: They have these when being mind-controlled by Queen Wasp. The only exceptions are Cricket, Bumblebee, and a few old HiveWings with SilkWing descent.
- Conditioned to Accept Horror: Most HiveWings are used to being occasionally mind controlled and just think of it as a minor nuisance.
- Corrupt Church: Queen Wasp and many of her predecessors have justified their actions by claiming that it's written as part of Clearsight's prophecies. However, Clearsight barely saw anything about the current day other than that the trees were important and to help the LeafWings protect them, meaning that the HiveWings' claims are all lies that they're using to keep control.
- Fascist, but Inefficient: The Hive Wings operate under a system of absolute control, with Wasp having the final say on everything. Silk Wings have tattoos that let guards know where they're allowed to be, and also force them to wear bracelets that can paralyze them if they break the law. However, the Hive Wings' actions to keep Silk Wings under control and leave Leaf Wings with nowhere to hide also caused them to wipe out a huge swathe of Pantala's resources. Their hives, which are constructed out of various materials that come from trees, can never be expanded, for instance. They have to disassemble one part in order to build another because they left no trees on the vast majority of the continent after the Tree Wars. The kingdom is also very dependent on flamesilk, but keep them locked up and only letting them out occasionally to breed more flamesilks instead of just letting them live freely, a system that is implied to be unsustainable.
- Mind-Control Eyes: When being mind-controlled, HiveWings have white eyes.
- Poisonous Person: Some HiveWings have venom in their claws or teeth. Some might also have a paralyzing nerve toxin.
- Theme Naming: They're mostly named after other kinds of insects of all descriptions like beetles, ants, wasps, bees, and more.
- The Empire: They have taken over nearly all of Pantala barring a few inhospitable places like the Poison Jungle, the tribe's society is repressive and intolerant of dissent, and Queen Wasp will not stop until the HiveWings control the entire continent and have wiped out the LeafWings once and for all.
- Token Good Teammate: Despite how many of them treat SilkWings as second-class citizens, things are somewhat better in Jewel Hive, where sometimes they're treated the same as HiveWings and can live relatively normal lives.
Lady Scarab
Queen Wasp's aunt who lives alone in Jewel Hive.- Cool Old Lady: Is an old dragon who is very cool as one of the most principled of the high-ranking HiveWings, who will absolutely call out injustice.
- Deadpan Snarker: Half of her dialogue is this.
- Establishing Character Moment: First appears in an early chapter in The Lost Continent calling out a customer for his racist treatment of SilkWing customers (specifically Luna and Blue) and insisting to let them buy their product before her, before using her noxious smell ability on them. It shows how she's rather intimidating and unfriendly, but she uses these qualities to do the right thing and call out those who adhere to here tribe's nasty beliefs.
- Good Is Not Nice: As Cricket says, she's not exactly nice, but she's "fiercely not awful".
- Grand Dame: A sympathetic example. She is an elderly, distinguished royal dragon.
- Hates Everyone Equally: Cricket notes that, in contrast to the rest of the royal family (and most of the tribe) who treat SilkWings as lesser, she treats everyone equally, but that doesn't mean she treats everyone nicely.
- Never Be Hurt Again: See above - she lives alone without any servants out of fear that the same thing will happen to them as what happened to Malachite.
- White Sheep: One of the only members of the HiveWing royal family who is principled, not bigoted against the SilkWings, and objects to her family's methods of ruling.
Jewel
The ruler of Jewel Hive. Queen Wasp's cousin and Lady Scarab's daughter.- Brainless Beauty: Is supposedly this. In reality she seems to be a competent leader who is making use of Obfuscating Stupidity and is interested in wearing glamorous attire.
- Foil: To Blaze. Both are portrayed to be incompetent and ditzy rulers who are nonetheless the nicest members of their screwed-up families. They also both share an interest for fashion and art. However, while Jewel is only pretending to be incompetent, Blaze actually is.
- Hero with Bad Publicity: Has a bad reputation, both as being shallow and incompetent and for "disappearing" prisoners to fates of presumed torture and horror. In reality she lets said prisoners off easy and is happy to let everyone think that she is doing horrible things to them.
- Like Mother Unlike Daughter: The beauty-obsessed and generally nice daughter of the grumpy and serious Scarab. When they interact with each other in The Hive Queen. Though both of the two are a lot better than the rest of their family.
- Obfuscating Stupidity: Scarab describes her as this, saying that she pretends to be stupid to further her goals. Jewel responds saying this isn't true, to which Scarab replies that maybe she actually is stupid, then.
- Noble Top Enforcer: One of the family members of Wasp assigned to lead a hive, she turns out to actually be kind to the dragons in her hive, unlike Wasp herself.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: Especially if you know the truth about her "disappearing" prisoners. She discreetly helps Cricket escape from being turned into another one of Wasp's mind control slaves.
- Silk Hiding Steel: Of the Obfuscating Stupidity variety. Jewel pretends to be a vapid, shallow, looks-obsessed socialite, even going so far as to cultivate rumors that she’s illiterate. Yet all this is a smokescreen to protect her from Wasp’s scrutiny as she “lets her subjects skate a little closer to the edge of the rules”, and actively helps condemned prisoners escape.
Katydid
Cricket's older sister, and the only member of her family she is really close to.- Anger Born of Worry: She is furious at Cricket for the amount of trouble her curiosity has led her into, because she knows how Cricket could end up imprisoned or dead for it.
- Secret-Keeper: Knows about Cricket being Immune to Mind Control and helps her hide from the rest of the tribe.
- Star-Crossed Lovers: With Malachite. It eventually ends up with Malachite sent to a probable Fate Worse than Death and her having to pass off their daughter as her younger sister to protect her from being punished as well.
Cadelle
Cricket's mother.- Abusive Parents: She is very cold towards her children and grandchild, especially Cricket.
- Disproportionate Retribution: One of the family's old servant SilkWings once burned her favorite meal. She proceeded to bite him with her venom-filled teeth, nearly killing him if her husband hadn't gotten the unfortunate dragon to a hospital.
LeafWings
All LeafWings
- Green Thumb: They can’t talk to plants, but they can grow plants at an accelerated rate, and some have an unusual control over plants. They’re also accomplished gardeners.
- Some LeafWings have a power known as leafspeak, where they plants can "talk" to them(as plants have their own language), and helps them control them efficiently.
- No True Scotsman: Each half of the LeafWings consider themselves as real LeafWings, and call the other half by a different name (the PoisonWings call the other faction SapWings, and vice versa).
- Our Dragons Are Different: They’re the only two-winged Pantalan dragon, and have leaf-shaped wings.
- Proud Warrior Race Guy: It’s unknown what they were like before the Tree Wars, but most LeafWings seem to have become this.
- Well, the PoisonWings, at least.
- Theme Naming: Two different ones. SapWings under Sequoia are normally named after trees, while PoisonWings are normally named after poisonous or dangerous plants.
- The Power of the Sun: LeafWings can photosynthesize. However, they can also eat normally, and none of the LeafWing characters have photosynthesized yet.
- We ARE Struggling Together: The tribe has split in two over disagreements on how to fight back against the HiveWings. The SapWings, Sequoia's faction, wants to wait until Wasp dies and try again afterwards, while the PoisonWings under Belladonna (and Sundew's grandmother, who originally caused the split) want to burn down the HiveWing hives as revenge to kill as many as possible.
The PoisonWings
A faction of the LeafWings who believe in using force against the HiveWings and SilkWings as a way of revenge. Their names are based off of poisonous plants.Commander Belladonna
Sundew's mother, and the first-in-command.- Abusive Parents: She raised her daughter Sundew to be a weapon against the HiveWings, without any love or care for her, causing Sundew to be the way she is today.
- Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: Her launching the missions to steal the Book of Clearsight and burn down the HiveWing hives causes Wasp to not only realize that some LeafWings are still alive, but also figure out where they've been hiding and mobilize the entire tribe to stamp them out once and for all in a war the LeafWings have no chance of winning.
Cobra Lily
One of the other PoisonWings, and one of the few Sundew actually likes.- Only Friend: She's one of the few dragons in the PoisonWings that Sundew actually thinks of as a friend.
- Disproportionate Retribution: She never lets an insult towards her or dragons she cares about go unpunished, even trying to kill another LeafWing who insulted her sister after holding onto the insult for two years.
- Tranquil Fury: Her anger is quiet, calm, and deliberate, rather than obvious and shouty like Sundew's or Nettle's.
Mandrake
Sundew's would-be fiancé- Arranged Marriage: Was in one with Sundew because they both have the strongest leafspeak in the PoisonWings, though his is a great deal less powerful than hers. Neither of them actually want the marriage to go through, either.
- Foil: He and Sundew are essentially opposites; while Sundew is essentially The Ace among the PoisonWings, and her leafspeak powers are extremely strong, Mandrake has trouble hunting and using his powers and his family seems to look down on him. He's also quiet and kind, in contrast to how Sundew is constantly aggressive.
Nettle
Mandrake's sister, who hates Sundew.- Jerkass: She's not a very nice dragon at all, spending most of her screentime in The Poison Jungle insulting everyone else.
- Unknown Rival: She's very hostile to Sundew due to her skill and is constantly attempting to prove she's better than Sundew is. Sundew mainly treats her as an annoyance.
- Small Name, Big Ego: Despite all of her boasting she's far less skilled than Sundew is. The group even has to rescue her from a carnivorous plant at one point when she's more concerned with sniping at Sundew than looking where she's going.
The SapWings
A faction of LeafWings who believe in peace for all tribes. They are named after trees.Willow
Sundew's girlfriend.- The Cameo: She appears briefly in the epilogue of The Hive Queen, telling Tsunami and Turtle to leave and go back where they came from, or else they will be killed.
- Lipstick Lesbian: She is lesbian and is feminine, especially compared to her girlfriend Sundew.
- Missing Mom: She makes mention of her father in the village, but nothing about her mother.
- Odd Couple: With the much angrier and grumpier Sundew.
- Opposites Attract: Willow is dating Sundew, who is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold(with slight emphasis on the jerk part)who gets angry at the slightest things. Willow is a Nice Girl who's an All-Loving Hero and hates getting angry or yelling, though it's their differences that make them a good couple.
- Secret Relationship: With Sundew, due to them being from separate sections of the tribe who hate each other as well as how Sundew is supposed to marry someone else.
- Took a Level in Badass: When she musters the courage to shake off the threat of a dragonbite viper and kill Hawthorn.
Queen Sequoia
The former queen of the LeafWings, and the leader of the SapWings.- The Atoner: She regrets her actions during the Tree Wars and is always stopping to control her anger so she won't do anything rash again. In particular, she regrets giving tacit approval to the plan that led to Wasp getting her mind control powers in the first place.
- Cool Old Lady: An older dragon and veteran of the Tree Wars who is still plenty capable and competent as a leader.
- The High Queen: Sequoia is a powerful queen who genuinely cares for her tribe, knows her own flaws and tries her best to make rational decision to help the LeafWings, even the ones that walked out on her.
- Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a number of scars on her tail, which drags behind her, and she is also missing one ear and half of one horn, all injuries she got in the Tree Wars.
- Large and in Charge: Being an older dragon, is quite large and imposing.
- Properly Paranoid: She didn't believe Wasp when she told her and Queen Monarch, the former Queen of the SilkWings, that Clearsight's book had prophesied the HiveWings ruling the other tribes, asking to see the book for herself. It turns out, as the heroes find out in The Lost Continent, that she was right and Wasp was lying.
- Reasonable Authority Figure: She's a very reasonable queen, still thinking of the PoisonWings as her subjects and only fighting when she had no other choice, and constantly meeting with Belladonna in order to try and persuade her to rejoin the tribe.
- Reports of My Death Were Greatly Exaggerated: She is not only believed by the SilkWings and HiveWings to be dead along with the rest of her tribe, but even Sundew thought she was dead.
- My God, What Have I Done?: Deeply regrets allowing Hawthorne to try and take over Wasp's mind using the Breath of Evil, now knowing that all it did was allow her to enslave nearly the entire HiveWing tribe to her (and its) will.
- Vague Age: Sundew is confused about her actual age - she was supposed to be a young queen during the Tree Wars fifty years ago and dragons can live up to 200 years, but she seems fairly old in the present and is old enough to have a great granddaughter.
Hazel
Sequoia's great-granddaughter, and one of Willow's friends.- Genki Girl: Is very enthusiastic about the responsibilities of being the future queen.
- You Are in Command Now: Ends up being abruptly given command of her tribe when Queen Sequoia is among the dragons who are controlled by the Othermind.
- Young and in Charge: This all happens when she is only really a dragonet herself.
Other LeafWings
Hawthorn
- The Aloner: He is forced to live completely alone in the Viper's Den as punishment for feeding Queen Wasp the Breath of Evil in an attempt to control her, that only led to her being given the power to use the plant's effect on others.
- The Atoner: He feels horrible about the effects of his actions and spends his time researching the Breath of Evil to make up for it.
- The Beastmaster: He uses the Breath of Evil to control all the snakes living in the Vipers' Den.
- Brainwashed and Crazy: The Othermind eventually completely infiltrates his mind and uses him as a puppet for its plans.
- Broke Your Arm Punching Out Cthulhu: His leafspeak was so powerful that he managed to be responsible for making the Breath of Evil only work on HiveWings, but he also ended up being completely controlled by it in the process.
- The Exile: Was exiled to the Viper's Den from the rest of the LeafWings.
- Go Mad from the Isolation: Fifty years completely alone except for lots of plants' voices in your head thanks to leafspeak isn't good for one's sanity. Especially when one of those voices has very malicious intentions.
- The Scapegoat: He gets blamed and exiled by Sequoia for his crimes despite Sequoia herself knowing about them and not doing anything to stop him.
- Unwitting Instigator of Doom: With the best of intentions, he ends up being responsible for a lot of the horrible things that happened in the third arc.
- Unwitting Pawn: Of The Breath of Evil/Othermind. Cricket speculates that he was being completely honest when he was nothing but kind to her and the others in the Viper's Den, and the Breath of Evil had so thoroughly infiltrated his mind that he probably genuinely believed he had discovered an antidote.
- Well-Intentioned Extremist: He believed that trying to use a mind control plant on Queen Wasp during a peace meeting was justified given that Wasp had refused to listen to any overtures of peace and was threatening the LeafWings with destruction. Unfortunately turns out to really be Not Quite the Right Thing.
