(Spoiler warning for books 11 and beyond) HiveWings: plothole or propaganda?
I have a theory. What if HiveWings aren’t really all descended from ClearSight? Clearly none of them have defining NightWing traits like NightWing powers, stars under their wings, or anything like that. This could just be due to the traits being bred out, but it’s a whole tribe, and they all have the same lack of obvious NightWing traits, despite being descended from a NightWing? No. Another problem with this idea is the lack of any major problems stemming from the horrific amount of incest that this would imply. So, what’s my theory?
Here’s what I think: when ClearSight arrived on Pantala, she saved both resident tribes- BeetleWings and LeafWings, from certain death. Everyone was impressed, and she was treated like a queen. Many of the BeetleWings disliked her though, and found her constant warnings to be condescending. They moved to the centre of the continent, the Savanna. The ClearSight supporters started to become more fond of black scales, like ClearSight’s, and yellow scales, like SunStreak’s. The offshoot tribe, meanwhile, hated this development and wanted nothing to do with it. They became the SilkWings, evolving separately. The BeetleWings kept growing as a tribe, and evolved into HiveWings. They wanted more power though, so they started spreading rumours that all HiveWings were descended from ClearSight, and put out propaganda depicting ClearSight as some kind of deity, watching over their futures from the past. A deity who looked a lot like a HiveWing.
ClearSight warned against all of this corruption in the book of ClearSight, but one of the earliest known HiveWing queens tore out those pages, rewriting the end to say that they were all her descendants. This also goes into why the bookbinding looked so wrong, as Hazel said.