creamywings

This will all occur in pre-history. It was extremely common for Nightwings to have animus dragons. The Nightwings were incredibly prolific in art and quite generous to the other tribes whom weren’t as ‘blessed’ as they were. In fact, it might have even been considered a burden that Nightwings all bore to help the other tribes in their problems whether those tribes wanted the Nightwing help or not. It was for their own good that the Nightwings acted as referees in their meaningless wars and petty fueds.

The first to grow fed up were the Seawings. They were the first to steal five Nightwing eggs. They were also the only to keep completely hidden out of Nightwing’s eyes. Unfortunately for the Nightwings they had been perhaps a little too generous to the Seawings and had recently given them the gift of seclusion. A kingdom no one could find, the Deep Palace. 

The Seawings wouldn’t be seen other than in rumors for many many years. The Nightwings were shocked, but took it in stride. They decreed that any dragon to steal their eggs would be given a nightmarish curse.

A cruse didn’t scare the Skywings. The Skywings stole only one egg and crushed the others. The Nightwings had too much power they said, the Nightwings didn’t need that much power, the Nightwings do not control the sky. Battle had erupted between the two tribes. The Nightwings had the fewest animus dragons in that generation and were no longer as formidable a force. No dragon among the Nightwings had intensive battle training like the Skywing’s, they never needed it. Battle after battle ended in blood raining from the sky and painting the earth red as Skywing scales. The Nightwing’s were weakened and no one was willing to help them.

The Mudwings acted as bystanders, and the Rainwings had long gone to isolation in their forest. The Sandwings were only a scraggly tribe wandering the desert with no established monarchy.

The Icewings, they were a noble tribe, the closest on par with Nightwings in their prime of social elite. The Nightwings needed help in their battle against the Skywings and the only force trained in battle they could rely on were the Icewings. An animus ambassador was sent with the promise of high reward if the Icewings fought for the Nightwings. The Queen of Icewings had agreed.

“The Icewings never abandon their allies,” said the Queen with a sharp look in her eyes.

The day for the Icewings to join Nightwing forces came. What came instead were the Seawing animus’ and army. The Nightwing battalion was crushed by the Seawing’s and Skywing’s. The Icewing’s were at the Nightwing queendom. They lay siege upon the queendom, preventing Nightwings from leaving or entering. The Nightwings were completely and utterly defeated.

The Nightwing Queen at the time was a hundreds of years old animus. She knew defeat when it stared her in the face even if she would never admit to it. There was only one thing she could do to prevent something like this from ever happening again. The Nightwings will be the most powerful tribe no matter if they have animus powers or not. She would cast her last spell before she surrendered to the Icewing’s and began the terms of defeat.

“Bless every Nightwing born under a moon with the power of foresight or mindreading, under two moons with foresight and mindreading, and under three moons make them have the strongest foresight and mindreading powers. Indicate they have any of these powers with a singular silver tearprop shaped scale on either side of their eyes. Let no one steal this new power from us.”

With that, she left her castle and approached the Icewing forces on her own. The Icewing Queen greeted her with cold calculation expected of an Icewing. They were the masters of war.

That day the Nightwings had lost all of their animus eggs, taken from them. There would be no animus among the Nightwings ever again. However they had a new power now, a power no one knew about. No one would know about it for a long time. 

The Icewing’s had taken the rest of the animus eggs and bred animus magic into their royal lines and begun the gifting process, limiting the use of animus powers to that singular gift. The first gift they gifted upon the world as agreed upon by those who had fought in the war against the Nightwings was to erase any historical record of the Nightwings having animus powers. It was stated that Nightwings have never had an animus and never will.

Many hundreds o years had passed, the Sandwings were now a more established Queendom and had interbred with some animus Skywing’s to have their own animus power. The Mudwings had refused to ever take on the curse of animus magic. No one had asked the Rainwings.