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When the war has lasted twenty years … the dragonets will come. When the land is soaked in blood and tears … the dragonets will come.

I recently reread the entire wings of fire series for the first time since late highschool and fell in love with them all over again. I could not get this vision to stop plaguing me until I put it down on paper. Arc 1 you are so beloved to me.

Wings of Fire Headcannons

Phyrria Edition

Mudwings

While Mudwing families aren’t nuclear, they are the most culturally protective of their dragonets. The center of most Mudwing villages are “nurseries” large spans of protected land where eggs are lain. (Basically, Cattail was the outlier)

Mudwings produce some of the most skilled trades-dragons on the entire continent. Their education is less school-like, and more like apprenticeships. Each dragonet in a sib group is encouraged to pursue their interests and what they are good at by apprenticing with an adult in their village.

Mudwings have the richest food culture on Phyrria, because of their naturally larger, bulkier bodies, mudwings typically cook their food into filling dishes, such as stews, rice pots, and other such dishes.

Seawings

Seawing apearences adapt to their environment over time. The more sun that a seawing is exposed to, the lighter their scales. For most seawings, this tends to lead to fairly saturated scales. Extremes can be seen in completely surface dwelling seawings, who tend to have slightly bleached out scales along their spine and snout, and deep seawings that are almost black.

Queen Coral’s decree that all her texts being taught in schools has put a strain on seawing education. The first program to be cut was geography outside the sea kingdom and history, so much of the sea kingdom, especially around the capital, know little history beyond the Sandwing Succession War

Icewings

Icewing breath is supernatural in nature. It was the first animus gift

The blood of icewings is blue because of the “gift of superiority”

Common-born icewings are rarely allowed to leave the ice kingdom because they would be “poor representatives of the tribe”

Replicas of the Gift of Order in tradition can be found dotted around the Ice kingdom in lower class villages.

Skywings

Skywing royalty have historically been the most accessible to the common dragon.

The Skywing Stadium was originally built as a theatre, but fell into disuse because of the militaristic culture created by Scarlet and her mother.

Fire scales is passed down like Animus magic. Unlike animus magic, the entire Skywing tribe holds the recessive gene. A dragon that could have been a flamescales but did not have a twin in the egg are known as smokescales and are considered bad luck. Smokescales radiate heat from their scales after breathing fire, repeatedly burning their scales and darkening them.

Young Skywings who develop feathers are stigmatized but not outright executed. If they are not plucked in their youth, feathered Skywings are typically faster than their peers.

Rainwings

The colors that a Rainwing chooses to represent themselves is called a dragon’s “Common Color.” Not all Rainwings choose to do this. (Ex: Glory’s green and orange)

The Rainwing tribe gained their reputation as a useless, lazy tribe because they were among the first tribe to form after the scorching, and because they acted as assassins and mercenaries for the other forming tribes, they tried kept their malicious activities under wraps. After the ceasing of their business and the implementation of sun-time each new queen began to lean further into the stereotypes.

Sandwings

Sandwings have the most celebrations of any tribe.

Sandwing culture is hostile towards royalty, as most settlements are quite self sufficient.

Because of the spread out nature of the sand kingdom, news travels very slowly, if at all. As such, there have been quite a few animus dragons whose communities have kept them a secret.