It's for the entire series safety that rainwings are friendly
(#296) To be fair I would too be terrified of lethal arcane saliva shooting dragons who could turn invisible.
meanwhile in an alternate dimension: doom music as rainwings melt entire cities and ruthlessly murder everyone
wings of fire dystopia book idea
Other Tribes? Sandwing war of succession? What are you talking about? Cmon it's almost sun time and there's a platform I want.
The platform is made out of the bodies of our enemies
I still find the complete lack of diplomatic attempts on the part of the NightWings a dumbass move. I think, had the NightWings just gone up to the RainWings and asked, "Hey, can we move into part of the rainforest," without kidnapping and experimenting on them, the RainWings would've welcomed them.
Yeh it was a dumbass move but remember they were in basically North Korea level diplomatic and worse living so from their point of view who would share a lush rainforest
If anyone, it would be the RainWings lol. They also didn’t think to use the kidnapped queen to negotiate?
They did, it's just that the Rainwings had multiple queens, and didn't seem to care that one was missing, so the Nightwings just scrapped the idea.
The Nightwings apparent concern, which is only mentioned in the Nightwing winglet book for some reason, is that they were afraid of the icewings coming to genocide them if they just settled in the rainforest, and believed that the rainwings couldn't protect them. So they came up with the prophecy to coerce an alliance from the other tribes so they'd be safe from the ice wings.
Aren’t the rain wings canonically more peaceful than they used to be?
Pretty sure that's right. They were too strong so they got hit with a "lazy" nerf for the sake of the story
The Rainwings in Darkstalker's time were a lot more aggressive. Being probably the most dangerous tribe to mess with
Yeah I’m kinda curious as to how they fell off, cause didn’t Glory’s relative say that she remembers the Rainwings being more aggressive?
Yeah, centuries of peace with literally all the natural resources you could want will do that to you. The rainwings were predominantly defensive, and once other tribes stopped messing with them, the rainwings kept to themselves, and pretty soon everyone forgot why invading the rainwings was ever a good idea in the first place. They were conquerors and traders until they realized nobody had anything they really wanted anymore, and they went from rarrrr to yaaawn.
That follows a good chunk of nations throughout history, war was their profession before no one wanted to fight them, and so they fell into decadence
Its cannon that because the rainwings were so fighty, all the rainwing heirs kept challenging eachother, so one of the queens decided to make things more peaceful.
Meanwhile Queen Anaconda :P
It’s the fact that in a guide to the dragon world, we see that they were a feared tribe with many successful assassins and even a school specifically for them
In an alternate reality the NightWings just asked the RainWings if they could live in the rainforest too and everything was wonderful forever
I wanna see a legends or winglit bloke of the old rainwing tribe just being top teir threats
A full book of just rainwings bullying literally everyone else.
Would be amazing
MAGICAL DEATH SPIT!!!
Rainwings are like the Airbenders in avatar. If they weren’t pacifists, they’d be effing people’s shit up for days.
To be fair, if hippies had tissue melting acid I would be terrified as well.