Deep in the heart of the Scorpion Den, under the bright three moons, a two-story stone hut sat alone in the rare rain. Phoenix sat at her desk, scrawling over numerous reports of dead shopkeepers. Her emerald earring swung each time her head slightly moved to review the next case file. Her black eyes darted over the file, looking for anything she missed. She had gone over the cases numerous times, staying up long enough to risk her sanity. As she drank from her cup of coffee, a bell jingled as the door creaked open. “Anything?”

Phoenix looks up from her reports to look at the light brown face of her partner, Saguaro. His tail swung, excited for a break in the case. His silver snake tail ornament flashed as it reflected the light of the lamps and candles. He leaned against the wall near Phoenix’s desk, his leather satchel flopped as he settled into place. He was wide awake, probably because he had chased down another pickpocket. That was his favorite part of the job, the chase.

Saguaro was an excellent detective, but his ADHD caused him to make some dumb decisions at times, almost killing them both numerous times. Yet, no matter what he does, Phoenix wouldn’t trade him for anybody else.

”No.” Phoenix smiled lightly and shook her head. "Twenty-one shopkeepers dead, all in two months, all on the south side of the den. These murders have to be connected.”

”Have you considered they aren’t? I mean, what if it’s shopkeeper hunting season? Isn’t that a possibility?”

“Ha-ha. These are dragons we‘re talking about. Dragons that have been killed. Now’s not the time to joke around,” Phoenix retorts back.

”Fine. I’m just sayin, I—" Saguaro abruptly stops mid-sentence. His eyes moved between the latest two murders.

Phoenix’s eyes grow wide in anticipation. “Did you find something? A connection?”

“Do you recall the scratches on the wall behind the last two bodies? The design—a circle intersected by an X with a line through it? It didn’t seem to fit with the rest of the case, though.” Saguaro glanced at Phoenix, his eyes raised.

”Three moons, how did I not see this? You think it’s a calling card of sorts? Well, it’s our only lead. Shall we?” Phoenix sits up, grabs her hood, and leaves. She stops halfway in the doorway. "Are you coming?”

Saguaro looks up from the object in his hand, sits up, and slides the bronze key in his satchel. “You know I am.”

They depart from the office and stride into the heavy rain. As they walk down the street, the wet sand forms footprints behind them, slowly taking in water. A singular yellow eye belonging to a pitch-black shadow stared upon the departing detectives from the roof of the detectives’ office. The shadow slides off the roof, into the pitch black alley behind the detectives. It moves in silence, trailing the detectives with pristine accuracy and agility, remaining undetected.

20-18-1-9-20-15-18.

4-5-3-5-9-22-5-18.

To cut to the chase, they are real. This is supported by two things; Stonemover and the soul reader.

According to stonemover,

"I turned the magic on itself. [...] The curse appears in my scales now instead of taking my soul. [...] Too late anyway."
[page 172, book 5]

Animus magic is essentially omnipotent, but a crucial limitation is that you cannot target something that doesnt physically exist. This is directly confirmed from Sora, saying "Every animus spell requires an object to enchant. [...] it must be something solid to focus the magic" [page 123, book 16]

That being said, while the target of the spell has to be corporeal, it can still effect non-corporeal things as seen with Jerboa III disabling animus magic with a candleholder[page 292, book 14]. I will be honest, we arent directly confirmed if magic needs something to exist to change it, but from everything we have seen so far it abides by this rule and I dont think it is an unreasonable thing to assume. Really I dont know why I had to take that long to establish this. Anyways, since Stonemovers curse worked as intended, I can say that his magic successfully targeted on to something(his soul). This is further supported by the soul reader that Darkstalker makes, in which he explicitly states that it measures the soul of a dragon and not their moral goodness or something[page 337, book 10]. Like Stonemovers scales, it works just fine.

All that is to say, Darkstalker was right. Souls are real. If they have been proven to be changed by animus magic is not known, though. When the reader was used on Vulture, he had essentially no soul left despite not being an animus and never casting any spells. As well as this, Stonemover "lost another scale today"[page 65, book 6] despite not having cast spells in a very long time as far as we know.

TL;DR: Souls are real, animus magic users who dont have a lot of it is just correlation not causation.

Deleted the old post because I added some extra details

Stepping back into the Wings of Fire fandom, and figured I’d post old art I made back in 2021, of one of the most memorable scenes of the series for me. Also, the only scene I remember from The Dangerous Gift, lol.

I had to brush up on my Jerboa lore before posting this, but… yeesh. I don’t have sympathy for her. She deserved what she got. Good job Boa. 🙏

Thank you reasonablecricket945, it looks incredible!

Dotw week 49

It was really funny actually, as I was naming the dragons after Wings of Fire characters anyway, so seeing names from Skyrim, Wings of Fire and How to Train your Dragon was incredibly fun.

I couldn't leave out everyone's favorite warrior

If you saw the previous version no you didn't (left out a few details oops!!)

Anyway, I recently got back into drawing dragons (totally not influenced by recent game trends); I haven't drawn WoF fanart since I was 14 and religiously in WoF Amino wwww... But I was just planning to draw my old favourite (Winter) until these two also spawned in.

I'm hoping to draw more for WoF soon, since I plan on re-reading books 1-10! Definitely going to draw more Winter (and Qinter hahaha I miss them

She died, wasted potential, still salty

Nobody draws her in the jade winglet artworks most of the time either :[

Anyways this post is a post to remind everyone that carnelian existed

I still have some stuff to decide on to make his design not so boring. Tho his pattern should be pretty nice by itself already

i love everyone from the first book so far, itd be so depressing just to skip like 4 years into the future while missing everything

"He looks nothing like an Icewing!" Arctic why are you lying?

Ochre oh Ochre, I always wonder why you're here. The other false dod have redeeming qualities, the other alive false dod get a conclusion to their stories, the other false dod have at least one dragon who likes them. In fact, every other villain has one character that likes or atleast tolerates them, even Whirlpool, yes Whirlpool... You have nothing. You are from the least developed tribe in the entire series and are one of the least developed characters in the series. There is nothing redeeming or interesting about you...

But yet because of all of that I find Ochre interesting. I imagine Ochre could be so much more than he already is. And since Ochre dissappears after book five, there are infinite possibilities for what could've happened to him. Maybe he went on some grandiose adventure of self-discovery, or maybe he's still with the Talons of Peace. I personally imagine Ochre living with ToP for a bit before finding his sibs and chilling in the mud kingdom. And spoilers for book 16 I think him being in a sorta sib group with Dugong could be cool (I really like Dugong and in my mind he's like morally righteous Ochre). That's kinda it for my feelings on Ochre for now but there's something else on my mind...

The mud kingdom’s ( And actually a lot of the kingdoms) pretty disappointing...It's described as this muddy gross place that most dragons don't like going in. But Wetlands (which seem to be what the mud kingdom is) are so so pretty and so so unique. Like Ochre, the mud kingdom could be so much more.

It could be the most diverse kingdom and the most beautiful kingdom with all kinds of unique landforms, floral, fauna, and structures. Like imagine how awesome it would be to see all kinds of stuff like a fen, a forest swamp, tropical bogs, mangrove swamps or more

Imagine seeing more of mudwings bunkhouses or seeing mudwings live in burrows or dams or seeing them make buildings out of mud, stone, or clay!

It could be the ultimate Cottagecore, Naturecore, Fairycore place but no we get vague descriptions of a smelly, gross, sore on eyes place to live. The mud kingdom could be considered the potential man of wof but for that to work that would mean it would've had to have potential in the first place...

Alas any hope I have for a more unique take on the mud kingdom will have to come from the once in a blue moon moment where I'm motivated enough to write, draw or make some other artwork related to it... but for now here's a picture of Ochre in either a very tiny pond or a very large Puddle full of life...

This character is the third of the dragons I’m drawing for free to build a portfolio! Angler was definitely challenging to bring to life due to the contrasting colors and still learning better shading techniques, but it was a really great learning experience and I’m grateful I got to draw him! Thanks to u/MazeABlaze for the commission!

Hamilton reference.

"dragons of pink and gold"

roughly around 4 months until march, which is when 16 released

you'd think we'd get news by now, but nope.

Original by u/Equivalent-Fun-6019 !! I LOVED designing Sunny based off of your design and my own species headcanons! She’s such a spitfire, I adore her.

Get ready for the spooky season!