#queen monarch from wof

[puzzled-pegasus]

Oddly specific meme bc Edith Jr has the sweetest voice ive ever heard

[nirvanacuga]

haven't posted in a while grrrr

I'll try to post more content here, especially WoF canon related. In the meantime here are two more bust shots for fan ocs.

We have here, Monarch. He is in no way related to the silkwing queen Queen Monarch, and had gotten the name out of sheer coincidence (and from the orange colors of his wings). He is a professor who loves honey

The green/red leafwing is Aglaonema or simply Aglo for short. She is one of the few rare librarians of the Leaf Kingdom, storing books and literature from all over the continent.

They're both neeeeerds (if you don't see their glasses). The silkwing being the mellow geeky type while the leafwing is the straight-A-in-everything-top-of-the-class kid.

[lander64]

Finished reading the Wings of Fire guide book! Gonna give some overall thoughts.

I went in knowing it was going to be a lot of information we already knew with a few new story’s here and there. So I wasn’t personally disappointed as others were. Pretty much all of the old information was expanded upon enough for it to still be interesting, however the new information is the absolute highlight of the guide.

For the most part, each section is roughly the same in quality. Thankfully, that quality was quite high. I’d rather read the main books ofc, but the guide is still good. However, there were a few weaker moments. The Sandwing section started out strong, but fell off by the end and the Rainwing section was pretty dull overall. I also wish there was less of a focus on the lives of royal dragons and more on the lives of the commoners. The Seawing section particularly suffers from this. Not that there weren’t good stories in there focused on royalty, the Mudwing section has a great one at the end, for instance.

The art is phenomenal. It’s absolute eye candy, even the small drawings in some of the stories are super cute. Id recommend going to look at some of the art even if you have no interest in the book itself.

Overall, I’d say that the guidebook is a stronger whole then the sum of it parts, but a high recommendation if you’re a WoF fan. If number ratings mean anything to you, then it’s a solid 7/10.

Under the read more is some specific details that I thought was interesting. Quite a few spoilers in there so be warned.

- Sepia is funny definitely a new favourite

- the Mudwing succession story was really good. I liked the expansion of Mudwing royalty it presented and It had a nice twist at the end

- Queen Coral sections are surprisingly funny, I loved reading the blurbs of her stories gave me a good chuckle

- the font used in Fin’s letter (as well as Fierceteeth’s later on in the book) was super hard to read for me. That’s probably because I read a scan on my phone screen, so I’ll see how it looks in the actual book

- Kinkajou’s story was, interesting. Makes me happy we didn’t get a book about her in arc 2, I cannot imagine myself still liking Kinkajou if we did tbh

- honestly the Rainwing section as a whole was pretty lacking for me. Really only the last bit with Queen Jackranda got me intrigued but not as much as other stories in other sections

- Mastermind interview was neat, but could of been better

- Despite being a hassle to read, the Fierceteeth letter was really cool. I hope we see more of the small village they’ve set up in future material

- Getting some more information on Burn’s weirdling collection was pretty neat. I like the confirmation that the wing seen there was a Silkwing’s. It’s pretty intriguing how just the wing washed up to shore, I would of thought it’d be parallel to how Luna arrived. But instead of being helped, this unfortunate Silkwing would of be murdered

- Unfortunately over half of the Sandwing section was taken up by Smolder’s diary of taking care of Flower, which I wasn’t interested in at all and only read the first bit before skipping. Shame cause the Sandwing section was shaping up to be my favourite part of the book

- Mink’s letter was cute

- Was expecting the Icewing section to only focus on royalty like the Seawing or Sandwing sections, but Caribou’s letter was a pleasant surprise

- Super cool how there’s an actual Skywing anthem that you can play. I’m not really a musician or anything of the sort, and I did admittedly skim through it, but still very cool

- Skywing section should of been renamed the Queen Scarlet section. Tailwind’s story was great and a real highlight of the guide, might even my favourite story

- I wish less of the Silkwing section was about the rules that Silkwings follow. I would of preferred more parts akin to the Queen Monarch message

- I wonder if the honey drop recipe is good, I’d try it myself but I don’t think I have the ingredients for it

- The list of the Hives was neat, it’s nice to have a little paragraph of information on each of them

- Book of Clearsight excerpts was cute, I could see a small book just detailing more of the future reading

- Leafwing’s detailing their favourite books was charming

- I’ve realised I don’t really have much to say about the Pantalian sections. They aren’t bad at all, I’m just not as invested in them

- Very happy the Scavenger section was so small. I don’t think I could of forced myself through that

- Favourite section was the Skywings, least favourite was Rainwings

[princedragonoverlord]

I've got my idea for each arc in the swapped WoF continent au mostly figured out now!

Also warning for spoilers since I use the same events as in the book for this.

Arc 1:

Takes place on Pantala. Leafwings are not at war and trees are not illegal but Hivewings still rule over the Silkwings and have uneasy alliance with the Leafwings. Queen Wasp has died and left everyone unsure of who will take over her hive/being the main Hivewing queen. Every Lady or at least a few of them (I imagine 3) who are interested are now at war and split the hives. Some side with Leafwings, Some force Silkwings to fight, and Some only have Hivewings but many of them. The book keeper declares there is a prophecy in Clearsight's book about ending this war.

(I'm not yet sure how the prophecy goes)

But it says that 2 Hivewings, 2 Silkwings, and 1 Leafwing will end it in 20 years.

And now like the normal plot the eggs are gathered, something goes wrong with getting 2 Hivewing eggs and it is replaced by another Leafwing egg instead.

The dragonets are

Clay - Leafwing

A very strong looking Leafwing, hatched first so was decided to be the Leafwing they wanted. Has no abilities but is believed to be feirce and dangerous due to Hivewing propaganda. He just wants peace and to be friendly.

Tsunami - Silkwing

They think she acts out because of not being properly raised by Silkwings under Hivewing rule and she probably wants to prove Silkwings are good leaders for prophecys and stuff. Related to either Queen Monarch or whoever the last Silkwing royalty was and is therefore the heir to the Silkwing throne which no longer exists. She does get her wings before they escape and was excited about it.

Glory - Leafwing

Glory has leafspeak instead of venom but no one thinks either she or Clay has it. They do probably treat her a bit better but she's still counted as an extra for hatching later and therefore is unwanted.

Starflight - Hivewing

The Hivewings want him to be the leader of the group. He has no extra natural weapons.

Sunny - An unusual looking Silkwing

Is a Silkwing with no antenna and some strange looking features. Considered the good Silkwing of the group for behaving but she is still very overlooked because of it. Can't wait to get her wings any day now. She is a Silk/Hive hybrid (Mother Silkwing and Father Hivewing) When she gets her wings later after they escape she has very unusual wings and she might also get some black scales during her metamorphosis.

At the end the prophecy is discovered to be a fake made up by 1 of the Hivewing Ladies in order to get the throne and rule over all 3 tribes, but it is still sort of fulfilled.

Arc 2: (Needs some work)

Takes place in Pantala. There is a school for all 3 tribes and Silkwings have their own tribe and queen again (Ruled by Sunny's mother.) Darkstalker who is a Beetlewing animus is awoken. He can somehow talk to Moon (unsure how)

Moon comes across Clearsight's book somehow and finds a real prophecy written in it.

Moon - Hivewing

Somehow able to talk to Darkstalker, can't hear thoughts however. (Unsure how else to make her unique)

Winter - Leafwing

Doesn't have leafspeak, part of the royal family.

Peril - Silkwing

She's a flamesilk. Hivewings tried to use her to produce it and she became useful as a war machine as well.

Turtle - Silkwing

Still an animus. Also part of the forgotten original Silkwing royalty same as his sister Anemone.

Qibli - Hivewing

Has extra natural weapons mostly for paralyzing. Very loyal to the new Silkwing queen who took him in when he was little.

In the end they defeat Darkstalker, they also prevent the Hivewings and Leafwings from going to war again.

Arc 3: (Needs work)

Takes place on Pyrrhia. One of the tribes has taken over several of the others or is at war with them.

Blue - Nightwing

Born under 1 moon. Can see the future. Gets visions and doesn't know what to do about it. Delivers the 3rd prophecy.

Cricket - Icewing

(Wanted to keep up the forbidden romance with her and Blue, also thought Icewing would be more interesting than Sandwing or any other dragon type that made sense for her) Not much else to say.

Sundew - Skywing

Might have firescales (Was unsure whether or not to give them to her) . Is part of a small group who spilt from the main Skywing kingdom.

Snowfall - Leafwing

Leafwing queen after what happens with Darkstalker.

Luna - Nightwing

Born under 1 moon with Blue. Can read minds. She ends up using this power to show Freedom the visions.

They end up reuniting the tribes and stopping the breath of evil which is on Pyrrhia now.

And that concludes what I have so far for this au, I'm almost done with the drawings for the 1st arc characters too. Let me know what you think :3

[midnightfluters]

Pages from the wof coloring book

So I have the wof coloring book,and I colored some of the dragon in.

We have 4 of 5 of the dragons of destiny, We have queen monarch of silkwings, we have two hybrids, peacemaker and whiteout, and lastly, we have a seawing that was supposedly Auklet.

[zardoru]

Excerpts of an unconcluded Fic

Quick introduction. I was working on a scorching-era fanfic that I’m probably never going to complete. (Sorry! A lot of it is just Bad and I don’t want to fix it.) There were a few other things that I liked, so I’m gonna post those in an uncertain schedule. It may be individual passages or scenes, or even small exchanges. You’ll see.

Anyway, I’m going to talk about the context for a bit before posting them. You can read them as they will be, but I think coming back to this “author’s notes” post may be useful. I warn you ahead that these are scattered thoughts.

First of all, these are unedited. I planned to do a proper edit but that was going to happen only if there would be a finalized product, which there wasn’t, so that’s that. The snips will, as a result, be inconsistent with one another. It also probably won’t be beautiful prose, haha.

The fic posts will be tagged “#scorching wof fic” in reference to the intended time period.

There are quite a few head canons and premises I ran with; from starters, the first recorded animus is an IceWing (for which there is strong evidence) and I presumed, the cause of The Scorching was this first IceWing animus dragon. It perfectly explains why, to the IceWings, other tribes are but a footnote.

Most of the dragon mutations came from a base form, and were adapted from this initial animus dragon’s own imagination. Posterior mutations would settle the tribes’ dominant attributes. This is, in a way, incompatible with the new lore (as this time of writing) of TPJ. Not saying how if you haven’t read it yet.

The longest part of this fic consisted of the tribe-stories told by the first queens, which of course, along with my interpretation of who The Great Ice Dragon is, are all OCs. Their names don’t follow the conventions of later times until it is brought up explicitly by one of the members of the Fire Wing, which, by the way, is the name given to this group of monarchs. I figured that would’ve been a cool way to tie in the name of the series in a vaguely meaningful way.

In any case, these tribe stories were supposed to expand a bit on their personal journey, read as a short story told by themselves in their voice to the protagonist, and more or less tell how the tribes brought their subjects together in very broad terms.

I got all the way to 62k words before losing interest. I still want to release something in case you like it!

I figured I wanted to make a story about the protagonist slowly being alienated from everyone due to their animus powers, and eventually finding some common ground with the scavengers, which would cause her to end up making a plan against the rest of her friends to stop the literal extermination of humanity. Not great, because I think most people would rather see humans being self-sufficient, but I figured I’d get a break from that since we’re talking about a single animus dragon with nobody to oppose her. Of course they’d be screwed, no matter their situation.

Anyway, look forward to that. Onwards!