The third continent
Wings of Fire #16
by Tui T. Sutherland
Umber was never supposed to be a hero . . . .
As the youngest sibling of his MudWing hatching, Umber doesn't have the responsibilities of his bigwings, Reed, nor the heroic destiny prophesied for his brother, Clay. He's always been content with his role as the cheerful, goofy, little brother. But when his sister, Sora, causes a tragedy at Jade Mountain Academy, Umber finds himself on the run and thrown into a whole new role--that of protector.
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Umber and Sora fly south in search of a place where they can live far away from other dragons . . . until a kind, hybrid dragon named Mulberry saves him from a kraken attack, and Umber realizes they don't have to survive alone after all. In fact, there's an entire community living on a forgotten island, full of dragons hiding from their own dark pasts.
As the two MudWings settle into the Court of Refuge, they start to realize that nothing in this place is quite what it seems, and the protection it offers comes with a price. Even as Umber falls for Prince Mulberry, he learns he must find a way to unlock the past of this mysterious island to ensure he and Sora have a future. And when the dragons in power try to stop him, he'll have to decide what he cares about most . . . and whether he can be the hero these dragons need after all.
Visitor, (January 21, 2024)Cloud wings should breath lightning that would be sick!If they do that, they should be called StromWings, or TempusWings
Visitor, (March 19, 2024)Yeah but he wouldn’t like peril’s fierceness in my opinion. Maybe if there was cloudwings in the fourth arc sky could find out that he’s part cloudwing, maybe cloudwings are soft like silkwings and that’s why he’s so soft. Still I’d like the idea of keeping it with the original two continents because adding more will probably just ruin the series and I don’t like the idea of more tribes and more evil queens, plus if tui keeps adding tribes the book will get confusing and boring. I’d like a view on bumblebee or dusky, maybe they were older and could possibly get married at the end. Or a possible revival of freedom?Yeah, but isnt Sky is part rainwing and skywing. How could he be part Cloudwing?
That got off topic oops.
Visitor, (June 11, 2024)Correction, sky isn't part rainwing. Cameleon was in a full Skywing body. There wasn't any rainwing dna in his skywing form.Visitor, (March 19, 2024)Yeah but he wouldn’t like peril’s fierceness in my opinion. Maybe if there was cloudwings in the fourth arc sky could find out that he’s part cloudwing, maybe cloudwings are soft like silkwings and that’s why he’s so soft. Still I’d like the idea of keeping it with the original two continents because adding more will probably just ruin the series and I don’t like the idea of more tribes and more evil queens, plus if tui keeps adding tribes the book will get confusing and boring. I’d like a view on bumblebee or dusky, maybe they were older and could possibly get married at the end. Or a possible revival of freedom?Yeah, but isnt Sky is part rainwing and skywing. How could he be part Cloudwing?
That got off topic oops.
Prologue
Kallima was a graceful Tribrid of all the tribes of Pantala (SilkWings, HiveWings, and LeafWings). She had four wings, but the front two were butterfly wings, but the back were clear like bees'. She had faint leafspeak and a curved LeafWing-like snout and head; Her eyes were bright brown and all the rest of her scales were green, with specks of black and yellow, with blue, teal, and pink splotches here and there. When she flew, her different wings rubbed together making a repetitive *fwoopbzzfwoopbzz* sound with some kinda *bbbb* sound sometimes, so you could tell that her wings were rubbing together. She was treated unequally by the HiveWings, and sometimes even the occasional SilkWing. But the LeafWings let her live where they live, and didn't mind if she was different. There were several LeafWing-SilkWings or (maybe) LeafWing-HiveWings, so she didn't really feel like she was very special for her acceptance into the LeafWing tribe, but still, she was relieved she at least had some dragons who weren't cruel to her. She met many a LeafWing-SilkWing, such as Milkweed, Garden, Leafdew, etc. But she had only heard LeafWings in low whispers talking about LeafWing-HiveWings.
"Honor such a hybrid, if any have spot a thing here," one LeafWing (Green Beetle) whispered. She leaned in secretly. "Fine by me," another LeafWing (Stump) whispered a little more loudly. "Stump, shhhh, don't give us away!" A third LeafWing (Lichen) whispered, quieter than the rest. "If you want to give us, The Plantation Trio, away, then you are gonna get kicked!" Stump shrugged with a flutter of his wings. "Why would I care?" He said in a normal voice. "HEY WORLD!" He yelled loudly. "WE ARE THE PLANTATION TRIO AND WE ARE GOING TO LOOK FOR THE FORBIDDEN HYBRID, THE LEAFWING-HIVEWING! DO, DODOOOO! IF ANYONE WANTS TO JOIN SIGN UP HERE FROM LICHEN!" There was a dreaded silence, and then, in a flash, Kallima felt talons sink into her and felt the blood soaking her odd scales.
Then Chapter one is about the GoldWings in hiding from the ultimate MetalWings who want to conquer all of Delrmad (The Third Continent) This is the rating of power, and the lower it is on this, the higher the strength:
GemWings (weak)
GoldWings (stronger)
AmberWings (even stronger)
SteelWings (strong and tough)
MetalWings (strongest)
ColdHeart Tribe (foreign tribe to Delrmad) [Strength is unknown]
Visitor-14MWZJ (September 2, 2024)Definitely have a new continent. I was thinking something like The Lost Isles? Which would have dragons who have left their kingdoms and never stayed in Sanctuary until it became a new continent. It would have dragons from the original two continents and new ones likely caused by so many hybrid relations.That way you don't add too much confusion by adding new evil queens and all. Maybe make animus magic come back by either a future generation or some animus had a scroll like Darkstalker that had their magic in it.
Visitor-8SI3TX (September 10, 2024)What if once every 2,000 years 7 island come and move in between phyrra and pantala the land is caused by the long lost seawing animus fathom. He cursed the former content in grief for his former friend darkstalker who had cursed him to destroy the seawing kingdom but he found the content that was war stricken and destroyed it instead so those 7 tribes would not wipe themselves out. And on each island there is a pillar hidden and it is guarded but each tribe thinks it will self destruct the island if it is activated but once it is activated it will take the curse off that island and once all 7 are activated the content will be reunited and it put back in its original place-inbetween phyrra and pantala.That sound really interesting! I'd love to see a story like that!
Visitor, (April 11, 2024)that made me sad, Lizard/Freedom never had a real life. :(Visitor, (April 7, 2024)What about GemWings. They can like, create jewels and they live on the third continent. And everybody except a few dragons want to rule over them so they can get rich. And GemWings have the power to create pretty much everything into jewels. And there is this huge antagonist, who is kind of like the mixture of Darkstalker and Scarlett. Not their kid, but like them. What if the antagonist is Lizard/Freedom?Keep in mind that Lizard/Freedom is dead, remember?
When is it coming out?
I think Gemsteel would be a good MetalWing name
A good SpaceWing name would be Astro
Me and my friend think Melt and Magma would be good LavaWing names
Seed would be a good GrassWing name
My friend says Storm would be a nice CloudWing name
I've thought of some of my own dragon tribes so here ther
Visitor-QTJXW0 (October 25, 2024)What if Turtle and Kinkajou had an animus dragonet, possibly named Dewdrop or something like that, and she heard Lizard/Freedom's story and wanted to bring her back to life so she enchanted her back to let her live a GOOD life. I think it would be cool to bring Lizard/Freedom back, because I hated how she died.I actually disagree. I think Freedom lived the life she needed to. She had her place in the world, as does every other dragon. That and one of the only things an animus can't do is bring a dragon back to life.
The Weirdo (DarkwalkerWoF) (November 2, 2024)Plus, Jerboa disabled animus magic remember? Says in Dangerous Gift.Visitor-QTJXW0 (October 25, 2024)What if Turtle and Kinkajou had an animus dragonet, possibly named Dewdrop or something like that, and she heard Lizard/Freedom's story and wanted to bring her back to life so she enchanted her back to let her live a GOOD life. I think it would be cool to bring Lizard/Freedom back, because I hated how she died.I actually disagree. I think Freedom lived the life she needed to. She had her place in the world, as does every other dragon. That and one of the only things an animus can't do is bring a dragon back to life.
Visitor-4CQ1DZ (April 7, 2024)What about GemWings. They can like, create jewels and they live on the third continent. And everybody except a few dragons want to rule over them so they can get rich. And GemWings have the power to create pretty much everything into jewels. And there is this huge antagonist, who is kind of like the mixture of Darkstalker and Scarlett. Not their kid, but like them. What if the antagonist is Lizard/Freedom?Omg I love that idea like maybe Freedom was actually alive but trapped in a mountain or something kinda like Darkstalker, and Freedom and Darkstalker meet and they are both really mad about what happened to them? And then they figure out how to conjure up animus magic (because Jerboa broke animus magic, says in book 14), and they, idk -destroy the world?! I think that's a really good idea.
Oh yeah and maybe we find out that Freedom is related to a Pyrrian dragon, like Queen Vigilant (the old Nightwing queen), that would be so sick lol!
qtp3 (January 8, 2024)bloodwings seems quite goryimagine a new character. a gay emo blood wing, who when they were young their family got killed by an assassin and they grew up trying to find out who killed them. then when they are older they meet this new slightly older dragon a sweet sunshiny gay male dragon. a few weeks into liking each other the original dragon finds out they find out their crush killed their family.
Visitor-1GY1Q5 (December 7, 2024)... Yeah, sounds like something our generation would come up with.qtp3 (January 8, 2024)bloodwings seems quite goryimagine a new character. a gay emo blood wing, who when they were young their family got killed by an assassin and they grew up trying to find out who killed them. then when they are older they meet this new slightly older dragon a sweet sunshiny gay male dragon. a few weeks into liking each other the original dragon finds out they find out their crush killed their family.
Glitchwings, who can telepotrt.
Cloudwings, lives on clouds and can summon thunder, rain.
Dreamwings, a bit like silkwings and rainwings, can travel in peoples dreams.
Winterwings, who live in ice, and they have these magical wings, where they can stuff things into a different realm.
Crystalwings, looks like crystals, can summon crystals that can be used for healing and made into weapons and jewlery.
Kinda weird but I thought it would be cool for book 16.
And in this world, the Cloudwings are trying to enslave the other tribes, and the glitchwings are teleporting, but their powers have a limit to how far, so no one ever really went to a new continet, and maybe they finnaly reach one of the other continets, to tell that the Cloudwings are going crazy and whatnot.
Good glitwhing names are Neon, or Starburst.
