#Rainwings

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Rainwings Reference

Rainwings Reference

Fins:

Many types of fins

Used for expressions and hearing.

Even more styles then shown and there is no real rhythm or reason for the different appearances.

*Hooded is based on place of attachment. Hooded fins attach at the ears and extent down to the middle of the throat. Can be combined with other fin types.

Skin and Texture Mimicry:

Rainwings have very soft skin compared to the other tribes.

This soft, malleable skin and be manipulated by the Rainwing to take on many shapes much like a cuttlefish.

Rainwings’ skin (by an account of Nightwing researchers) is startlingly stretchy. Getting a proper grip is difficult. Removed skin loses its ability to change color or shape and turn an unpleasant grey color.

Color Expression:

Rainwings have the ability to turn any color that they can perceive. *More colors than humans can see

Colors are assigned to certain emotions, but context is also very important. Colors, just like words, can have double meanings and some combos make a more complicated expression.

Expression Colors show first on the face and the bigger the emotion further the color takes over a Rainwings’ base color. (Base color is the Rainwings’ favorite or preferred color and pattern.)

Blue (Bright)- Smugness or confident

Blue (Dark)- Sadness

Purple- In amor or Pride

Pink-Pleased

Red-Anger

Orange-Warning, frustration

Yellow- Alarm, excitement, hunger

Green (Bright)- Fear, startled

Green (Dark)- Envy or Jealousy or Tried

Black- Pain, Depression, Illness

Grey- Closed off, bored, being dead serious…or being dead.

Make sure to remember that context matters. Just because a Rainwings’ favorite color is red doesn’t mean that they are constantly angry. Genuine emotion is often a quick flash across the face much like human eyebrows. Rainwings can color how much or how little emotion they show, and some are better at it than others.

Extra:

Rainwing hands have thick and grippy pads on the fingers and palms. (They look like beans) Hands are different than the other tribes with the middlemost fingers being the same length and the other two acting like thumbs.

Wing talon is very long and strong, acting like a second pair of arms. A dragon might be able to hang in the trees with just their wings.

Have some of the fastest reflexes out of all the tribes. A Rainwing could spit before another dragon would even form a thought about breathing. (It’s a good thing they’re pacifist.)

Despite or because of their soft skin they have a far better healing factor. Wounds that might be permanent or deadly are recoverable for them. Damage that would take another dragon months takes a Rainwing weeks. (With them being in good health and having plenty of sunlight.)

Rainwing Venom is really an acid. Adult dragons have stronger acid and the older the dragon the more powerful it becomes. Dragonet’s acid is still painful, however, if a little less deadly. A bigger issue is young dragons also have less control and instead of spitting they will spray acid everywhere if frightened. (Testimony from a Nightwing researcher.)

[ilikebookssomuch]

why are Wings of Fire fans called "fantribe" and not FanWings bc I feel like that would make more sense

[toadslug]

wait can you please tell me more about your ocs thistle and ajax they look so cute 😭

YES I would love to!!!!

BASICALLY!!!! They're immortal and a couple thousand years old. And they have powers! Thistle has plant magic and Ajax has fire magic. (Long story short: aliens).

Ajax is super confident, friendly, energetic, and... dumb. Very dumb. But we love him for that!!! Thistle is kind of the opposite of him: also nice, but calm, gentle, and quiet.

They spend most of their time in the Rainforest Kingdom and live in a big, beautiful garden that Thistle has grown ☺️💞 He's very passionate about it! Ajax tries to help him out with it, but he doesn't really know what he's doing.

Thistle is also super into art!! He has tried all sorts of mediums, but he enjoys sketching, painting, and sculpting the most. Ajax is his favorite subject <3

Sometimes, when Thistle experiences really strong emotions (which isn't often because he's good at staying composed), plants will uncontrollably sprout around him (as seen in my last post about them).

They've been through a lot together (including a war), but they're doing great now 💖 They love each other a lot!!!

[verrixstudios]

Hey! I’ve recently gotten back into WOF and wanted to try drawing some of the characters! Who do you guys think I should draw first?

I think I might just take their in-book descriptions and see if i can draw em from memory or at least stylized, we’ll see!

Here’s an old tribe redesign I did that I’ll use as an example. No promises they’ll get this detailed since this is just for fighting artblock but hey, you never know!

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

Kinkajou!!! i miss her!

[bohne-bohne]

Hope and Peacemaker <3

[snow-jade]

Sneak Peek Images from "Wings of Fire: A Guide To The Dragon World":

[writer-room]

I personally like headcanoning Peacemaker as still being just a little too similar to Darkstalker in some aspects. He's obviously still a good dude, in fact he's an absolute sweetheart, but there's still some...characteristics. You know what I'll list them for the good of my inner child

Kid gets big. And I mean big. He's nowhere near Darkstalker's size, but he ends up really tall and heavy for a NightWing, let alone one thats supposedly half RainWing, which are not overly big dragons to begin with. This leads to most dragons trying to convince him to move into professions that require big guys, but his strength still helps him plenty with farming. It does make some people ask questions, though

He's not as narrow as Darkstalker was. As Darkstalker grew, his features became noticeably sharper, more IceWing in body type. Peacemaker has softer features, however his face never truly changed. It's not as jutting such as in the jawbone or horns, but he has a much more defined face that seems to stand out on a rounder body. He's terrified a few dragons on accident who saw him from a distance or as a silhouette and thought he was Darkstalker risen from the dead. He never understood why everyone was so scared

Doesn't quite like the RainWing part of himself. As a kid, he was never sure why. Sure, some dragons weren't very nice about it, but his mom loved him plenty, he had some really nice dragons like Moon and Kinkajou who who were really sweet, so he never quite got why he was upset about it. Maybe he was still mad at the dad who wasn't there? He wasn't sure why he was upset about that, either. He got better after having a lot of talks with his mom and friends, but that little piece of self-hatred never fully went away, and he can't for the life of him explain why

Had a lot of imaginary friends as a kid. They didn't always have names, but they were usually dragons he made up in his head. Like a scardy-cat SeaWing all the other dragonets accused of just being Turtle, or an actually scary SeaWing, or a super smart NightWing who knew all the answers to everything! Sometimes he made up a new NightWing queen or played a pretend war with the other dragonets. Occasionally, he said his friend that week was a big shadow. He said the big shadow seemed kind of angry and sad, but his shadow liked to listen. He slowly stopped after a while. Some of his older friends started looking worried. Imaginary friends were for babies, anyway.

He still has Darkstalker's horns. Those never changed, for some reason. Maybe a little less pointy on the ends, maybe a little thicker at the base, but they were still very much Darkstalker's Horns. Hope & the gang silently freaked out about this, but when some dragon brought it up in earshot of little Peacemaker, he loudly proclaimed he liked his horns, they were all funky and looked kinda like mister Winter's horns! Mister Winter is kind of rude sometimes, but he seems nice, so Peacemaker doesn't mind looking kind of like him! Winter was tormented over this for months

Sometimes he'll just...say things. That sound a little too similar to what some other dragon was thinking. Or make random guesses that are very close to what will actually happen. It's never by much, usually finishing other dragon's sentences or predicting the next thirty seconds, but it's enough to make Moon twitchy. He just thinks he has good luck

Once asked Hope if he could ever have a little sister. He never asked again. He'd never seen his mom cry before.

[otiksimr]

Trying to make sense of WOF tribes: Rainwings

(click image for better quality)

[starfeatheratelier]

This was a cute template going around on Twitter that I wanted to fill out! There's so many fun characters in this series, and this template gave me a chance to draw a few that I haven't drawn before. It's always fun to draw WoF characters because even though there's technically official references, the fandom is filled with all kinds of really fun interpretations. I like giving all the tribes little differences in design outside of obvious color, like rounded ears and curled horns for seawings, pointy elf ears for nightwings, thinner snouts for skywings and rainwings etc.

[maypl-syrup]

The first half of the rainwing designs (adoption status under the cut) really happy with all of then and I only have one more ref sheet in my que rn before I can do the other half :3

Swamp Lily - Sold

Nelumbo - $40 - Open

Corpse - Sold

Atheris - Sold

Apricot - Sold

[wings-of-fire-confessions]

Nobody can convince me rainwings aren't atleast partly inspired by Jurassic park's depiction of a dilophosaurus with their acid spit and frills /hj

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[axoboi]

My Apple Pencil has been broken for a bit so I’m sticking to traditional art for now until I can get it replaced 💔💔

BUUT have this rainwing!!!!

I’ve been trying out something new with them, basically I just play a little on the Graphic Novel designs/style and twist it a bit it’s pretty fun

[dinoridergirl]

Old drawings of Tapir and Orangutan from an unfinished sketch dump I dug up

[drippywing]

a much younger version of Grandeur :}

many of the colors got washed out in the scan, here is a more vivid photo :D

[pigeocore]

My Glory design is still a work in progress but I think she looks pretty cool