History Literature / WingsOfFire

** Arc 3 gave us Blue and Cricket, Sundew and Willow, and Luna and Swordtail (although the latter two were already OfficialCouple status to begin with).

* ShipTease: Just about all of the dragonets have this in their stories; Clay with Peril, Tsunami with Riptide and Glory with Deathbringer. Starflight initially loves [[spoiler: Sunny, but it's one-sided and she pushes him towards Fatespeaker, who already loved him, and who he had faint feelings for]].

** In ''The Hive Queen'', the main cast carries around an egg that they [[spoiler:took from a nest to save it from being poisoned by Queen Wasp.]]

* EnemyCivilWar: Between the [=SandWing=] queens and their allies.

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: Being an animusmeans each use of your powers does further damage to your soul until you eventually go insane. [[spoiler:Except not. As the series goes on, it's revealed that the shift is more a psychological one -- the more you use your power, the more powerful you feel, and the more entitled you become. This was proven when a character decided to enchant an amulet that would protect their soul, so then they believed they could use their magic as much as they wanted without restrictions, and slowly started acting more spoiled and reckless. The basic conclusion that most of the characters come to is that it's themselves that these evil temptations are stemming from that were always there. In short, the power was corrupting them, but it's because the temptations of power itself were causing the shift rather than the animus magic itself making them go insane.]]

* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanityL Being an animusmeans each use of your powers does further damage to your soul until you eventually go insane. [[spoiler:Except not. As the series goes on, it's revealed that the shift is more a psychological one -- the more you use your power, the more powerful you feel, and the more entitled you become. This was proven when a character decided to enchant an amulet that would protect their soul, so then they believed they could use their magic as much as they wanted without restrictions, and slowly started acting more spoiled and reckless. The basic conclusion that most of the characters come to is that it's themselves that these evil temptations are stemming from that were always there. In short, the power was corrupting them, but it's because the temptations of power itself were causing the shift rather than the animus magic itself making them go insane.]]

On March 5, 2020, it was announced that an animated television series adaptation was in development at Creator/{{Netflix}} and would have been made by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation and Creator/AvaDuVernay. However, on [[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/netflix-animated-series-wings-of-fire-antiracist-baby-1235269747/ May 17, 2022]], Netflix suddenly announced its cancellation mid-development, alongside a bunch of animated projects. On February 22, 2024, [[Creator/AmazonStudios Amazon MGM Studios]] announced acquisition of the rights to develop the series, but with an entirely different creative team. Marc Resteghini of Jack Tar Productions will serve as executive producer.

On March 5, 2020, it was announced that an animated television series adaptation was in development at Creator/{{Netflix}} and would have been made by Creator/WarnerBrosAnimation and Creator/AvaDuVernay. However, on [[https://variety.com/2022/film/news/netflix-animated-series-wings-of-fire-antiracist-baby-1235269747/ May 17, 2022]], Netflix suddenly announced its cancellation mid-development, alongside a bunch of animated projects.

* {{Foreshadowing}}: In "Winter Turning", Pyrite remarks that simply by sleeping near Winter, she dreamt about [[spoilers: snow]], which also happens whenever she slept near Cirrus.

* MoreThanMindControl: Or in the case of [[spoiler: Darkstalker]], it's "More than Corruption". [[spoiler: Usually, when an animus goes bad, the culprit is that their magic stole too much of their soul. But as Qibli points out in Book 10, Darkstalker's corruption may have less to do with his animus magic and more to do with the fact he's not a good person.]]

** In "The Hidden Kingdom", [[spoiler: none of the members of the Rainwing Royal family ever win the competition.]]

** In ''The Dark Secret'', Starflight notices that many of the dragonets from the [=NightWing=] tribe have "horrendously bad breath," which he later realizes is because [[SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome they've only been able to eat rotten flesh for nourishment]]. The graphic novel even has him inwardly wondering why Fierceteeth's breath is so awful and visibly recoiling from Mightyclaws and remarking to himself that his breath is just as bad as hers.

* DaylightHorror: Turtle notes that a bright, sunny day on a beach doesn't really seem like a fitting time for [[spoiler: confronting [[WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity Anemone]]]].

%%* AnyoneCanDie: Not to the extent of most series under this trope, but it's never a good idea to assume someone's safe for structural reasons. Notable examples include:

* CrypticBackgroundReference: From the first book in the series, it's revealed that scavengers, not dragons, used to be the dominant power on Pyrrhia, until an event known as "the Scorching" happened. To the main characters, however, it's all boringly obvious history, so they never elaborate on it for the benefit of the audience. It takes until the final book of the third arc--Book 15 of the main series--for its events to finally be revealed to the audience: [[spoiler: Dragons used to be largely solitary creatures without any real coherent civilization of their own, existing mostly as scattered individuals across Pyrrhia. Humans, meanwhile, had several massive empires that sprawled the entire continent, and which were embroiled in war. Cottonmouth, a human general from the Diamond Empire, decided to try [[LivingWeapon training dragons to be weapons of war,]] so he began stealing dragon eggs and trying to train hatchlings for war in his lab. He ended up stealing eggs from one of the [[MonsterIsAMommy biggest, baddest females around]]--implied to be the progenitor of several different tribes, including [=MudWings=], [=SunWings=], and [=LeafWings=]--and she was so incensed that she organized several nearby dragons to get revenge on the humans, (heavily implied to be) becoming the first Queen. This turned into a continent-wide genocide against the human race, which destroyed their civilization, leaving the now-united dragons to spread across the continent. And yet, [[AllForNothing Cottonmouth escaped and became the driving force of the Overmind.]]]]

* TheDeadGuyDidIt: The dragon killing [[spoilers: Queen Coral's daughters before they hatch]] turns out to be [[spoiler: Orca, Coral's oldest daughter who died challenging her for the throne years before the story starts. She had used her secret animus powers to enchant a statue in the hatchery to kill any female relatives of hers, intending to kill potential competitors when she took power, but due to her death it ended up killing Coral's future children instead]]

* NotSoSimilar: In "The Brightest Night", [[spoiler: shortly after departing from her father, we have Sunny narrate how she's met both parents: her sandwing mother who takes action and her nightwing father who waits for the worst outcome. Considering she's currently being spurred to stop the war despite learning the prophecy isn't true, she lampshades she's nothing like her father.]]

** [[DownplayedTrope [=HiveWings=], however, do have glass, as well as things like bound books (the Pyrrhian tribes use scrolls), sugar, and currency, and are more technologically and architecturally advanced than the Pyrrhian dragons in general. However, while they have indoor plumbing, greenhouses, hydroponics, megacities and ''remote controlled tranquilizers'', they don't seem to have figured out concrete, candles or coal.

** [[DownplayedTrope [=HiveWings=], however, do have glass, as well as things like bound books (the Pyrrhian tribes use scrolls), sugar, and currency, and are more technologically and architecturally advanced than the Pyrrhian dragons in general.]]

* AlienSky: The planet both Pyrrhia and Pantala has three moons.

* AlienSky: Pyrrhia has three moons.