#IceWing wings of fire

[eraeight]

I woke up in a cold sweat with the idea of an icewing with splotches that resemble ice sheets floating in arctic waters.

[scrollwyrm]

I wanted to do an analysis of Albatross... (spoilers for DarkStalker legends, obviously.)

I know everyone and their grandmother has already done this, but I made a creepy drawing to go with it so CLEARLY my ideas are the best.

Albatross was confirmed by Tui NOT to be a sea-ice hybrid in an interview. I disagree and therefore it's still canon (I don't have the power to do that. Let's pretend I do because I like fun and what is canon anyway?). This is almost certainly where he got his animus powers as no SeaWing had them before that. It's also why only the royal family gets it. This means that the IceWing ,probably his father because Tui has also said that in Wings of Fire, the maternal side is the side that passes down most of the traits, was of relatively high status, because of how the IceWings had early animus dragons in the first circle, and it is implied that these dragons later married into the IceWing royal family, because of Diamond and Arctic, passing the genes down. (I have a theory about that too somewhere.)

I think that Albatross's father was close to the IceWing royal family, but wasn't royalty, and didn't have animus magic. He probably ran away with Albatross's mother, who had already had Sapphire and Lagoon. Sapphire and Lagoon were the only dragons who knew about this, and since their mother already had a mate, and that mate killed Albatross's father. Albatross never learned about any of this. He endured his sisters' years of bullying, until he eventually snapped, using his magic to enchant the clamshell to bite Sapphire's claws off. How did he know to do this? It's never really confirmed, which is frustrating. I think Albatross had actually convinced himself at the tine that the objects around him were alive, but his mother later explained the truth to him.

Lagoon then forced him into doing whatever she wanted, turning him into her shadow, and convinced him he could never make up for what he did. He became bitter, but eventually found solace in a mate who genuinely loved and cared for him. They had Manta, Fathom's mother, but then Albatross's mother and his mate died unexpectantly of an illness sweeping the Sea Kingdom at the time.

Lagoon kept baiting Albatross over and over again, convincing him to explode and shout at her so that she could tell him that he was dangerous and volatile. He believed it and forced himself to stay near her so he could continue making up for what he did to Sapphire. It drove him slowly insane, and he occasionally had small outbursts, but all in all kept himself to himself. Eventually, he found out that Fathom also had his 'gift'. Finally he had someone to talk to again. He saw a lot of his mate in his grandson.

Eventually, Lagoon drove him over the edge at the party, and Albatross realised she was using them both. All the resentment for Fathom over the fact that he was being replaced, resentment he didn't even know he was feeling, washed over him, and he... y'know... killed everyone. Anyhoo, that's me. Tw for blood and eyestrain below.

[smoldragonblood]

When ur gf (click for better quality bc tumblr fucked up my hard work)

[dwaynedadwagon]

hailstorm and pyrite!

hailstorm would be a drag queen in some way in his life even without the necklace thing happening . to me . he is a girlboy

[toadslug]

(Pre-Pyrite) Hailstorm! He's the biggest brother ever and I love him for that 🥺💕 Would love to see his character explored more or more interactions between him and his siblings.

The orange of the jacket DEFINITELY isn't meant to forshadow anything 🤫 Also gave him some armor.

[verrixstudios]

Last Tribe A Day run cycle was today so I decided to combine them all to show the differences!

ID under the cut

[ID: Seven sketchy animated run cycles, all of the original dragon tribes from Wings of Fire. They alternate sides as they go down, starting with the top one on the left and the second on the right, and so on. The background is a blank white. Each dragon has shaded limbs to help see the differences while in movement. The right wing is the darkest shade, followed by the left wing (closest to the screen), the the right legs are the lightest shaded. Descriptions are in order from top to bottom:

Mudwing: Drawn in a dark red. The thickest dragon by far, opening is mouth in a smile as its front legs hit the ground. Its large wings have four toes as if they were a third set of talons, which is used as another set of legs while running. The wings lift off after the back legs. The entire body bobs with its weight while it runs, lunging with its back legs. One of its back legs disappears while it runs (oopsies) and its large tail flicks with the run.

Skywing: Drawn in a darker red. Much skinnier dragon with longer limbs and larger wings. Its large wings remain slight open above its border, slightly bobbing as it moves. The body itself doesn’t move up and down, instead just twisting with movement of its limbs. Its tail is a little stiff, again just moving up and down. As it runs, one foot touches and leaves the ground at a time.

Icewing: Drawn in a dark blue. Its body and shape is ridgid, its head swooping up and down like it lunges with every time its front talons land. Again, its wings are used as a third pair of legs, however they are mostly used after the other limbs are mid-air. Its talons are visibly sharper, as well as its wings. Sharp spines on the back of its neck and end of its tail are visible as well, which bobs with the movement.

Seawing: Drawn in a dark blue. A thicker, long dragon with short but thick limbs and webbed frills along its spine and sternum. It’s thick tail continues the up and down curve it’s body makes with every move, flicking the end of the frills as it does. Its wings are semi open above its body, bobbing with the running movement and tilting up and down as its spine curves.

Sandwing: Drawn in a warm brown. Long limbs but thicker than skywing. All four feet lift of the air when they’re closest during the run, each foot hitting the ground one at a time. It’s barbed scorpion-like tail bobs up and down at the end. Its wings are folded and stuff near its shoulders, tilted diagonally. A solid frill lines its spine, biggest at the back of its neck and above the back legs.

Nightwing: Drawn in a dark purple grey, and by far the stiffest run cycle. Thick body with short but thinner legs than mudwings or seawings. Spikes line the spine all along its body, longest at the back of the neck and back of the body. Its wings are held stiffly and slightly folded over its body. Other than the legs and tail, most of the nightwing barely moves as it runs, and its legs hit the ground in pairs, front legs then back legs. They don’t even cross between each other at the closest part in the run. Its mouth opens and closes as it runs, not in any particular expression, I was just bored.

Rainwing: Drawn in a muted dark green. By far the bounciest run. It has a thin body and a head I accidentally drew a little big. It’s three-toed wings are used as a third pair of legs, used most right before it’s front legs hit the ground. Its front legs hit the ground at different time, however the back legs hit and leave together. Its tail is by far the longest, curled at the end and slightly unraveling as it flicks up and down. Beneath the curved horns is a frill with two connections that slight opens and closes with the movement. It’s grin also opens and closes with the movement.

END ID]

[glassshine]

queen Diamond shares her excellent plan of action

[electric-blue24]

well its June so that means some dragons based on different pride flags

feel free to give some suggestions for other designs

Now with a part 2

[the-ancient-dragons]

How to Spot a Dragon Before it Spots You!

(Written by a human for humans in the Wings of fire universe).

Transcriptions of my chicken scratch and closeups of each tribe can be found here (two separate posts)!

Otherwise, next week I begin Overcomplicating the Pantala tribes. See you then!

I was inspired by a bird of prey identification poster at my sister's school. It had a very similar layout. I really loved the coloured poses and the multiple silhouettes and thought it would work so well for the Wings of Fire dragons. I'd seen another artist experiment with their wings shapes and wanted to give it a try myself. This is the result! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do.

All the designs you see here are not final - I drew these without properly planning their full bodies, but the final versions I will try to keep as similar as possible. The only change I might make is the position of their wings. I also won't go back and change this because it doesn't need it. They look good enough like this and, who knows, the changes I make might not be enough that the final designs would be any different. I will be doing a lot of muscle and skeletal anatomy, possibly written in the perspective of a NightWing since they seem like the type to explore the insides of a dragon for science.

This, however, is written in the perspective of a very lucky human who saw these dragons and lived to tell the tale. Or maybe it was a collaborative effort between multiple people adding their own wisdoms, like the Dragon Manual in HTTYD 1. I haven't read Dragonslayer but I think they refer to the dragons as '[element] dragon' (not [Element]Wing at least). I also think that they're not sure RainWings exist (at least according to the 'Here Be Dragons?' over the rainforest, but I didn't want to exclude them from this piece).

The main purpose this guide would serve in-universe would be to help humans identify dragons, preferably before ever being seen. That's why I used a lot of auditory and movement descriptions unique to each tribe, ways that a person could identify a dragon without needing to be close.

I'll be splitting the closeups into 3 and 4 tribes each following this post so you're not scrolling for 10 years (you still will be but I'll try to keep it brief. Will I succeed? No!

Stay tuned next week for the beginning of Overcomplicating the Pantalan Tribes: SilkWings!!!

[latentwingz]

𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐟𝐚𝐥𝐬𝐞 𝐦𝐞

[sidyashchiy-na-plakhe]

Tribal variations (headcanon): part 1(?)

Icewings

The tribes live on quite large territories, and I think that within them there are different variations that differ in mentality and colours. Decided to start with icewings! I hope I will continue to do this. Who would you like to see next: skywings, seawings or leafwings?

[aestheticofstars]

He'll definitely come to their better future, but by what methods she should not know.

[talia8pie]

Whiteout my BBG,,

Plan to do more wof background/secondary characters later. I got some suggestions from my server, and hope to do them, but if anyone has ideas. (Not doing protagonists, they have enough art for now)

[flawseer]

#15 - "Fluffy"

Smaugust 2024

Here is Princess Blaze.

I imagine for a royal Icewing like Glacier, who is always expected to carry herself with immaculate, stoic grace, being exposed to Blaze's unbridled, uncompromising hedonism must be very therapeutic.

[dwaynedadwagon]

badger !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i redid his ref last week i think and i love him so much he's the number one man ever to me hes soooo edgy one of my oldest ocs

[toadslug]

My beloved idiots 😭💖 You can tell they're some of my favorites because of all the shit I've put them through

I usually draw them in a different style, so seeing them like this is weird to me.