The RainWing village is a collection of homes and buildings within the Rainforest Kingdom. It is home to most of the RainWings and sits next to the NightWing village.
Description[]
The village consists of treehouses, fruits, platforms, hammocks, and trees. The roofs of the houses are made of leaves, making it harder to see the houses from the top. Wide vine walkways, shimmering with talon-sized orange orchids, hung between platforms covered with overlapping leaves, lay out to look like one giant leaf.[1] A few of the treehouses have low walls or woven ceilings; others are open to the sky and carpeted with soft white flowers. Golden sunlight slants sideways throught tall green trees. Gray sloths amble and swing between the walkways,[2] and hammocks are strung between trees, sturdily woven of vines and lined with violet feathers and blue petals.[2] There is a trampoline of vines in between two platforms, where dragonets bounce and flap their wings as they learn to fly.[3] RainWings are usually found standing on the trees.[4] RainWings use flowers for decorations the way other tribes use jewels and precious stones. One of the best places for sun time is a platform built right above the treetops, with no leaves between it and the sky. The surface dips in the center and is lined with cloud-soft pink blossoms, growing along the vines that were woven around the wood.[5]
The village has three hatcheries, with each hatchery holding a third of the village's eggs.[6] The eggs are mixed together and dragonets are raised by the whole village, making it hard to find out whether one is related to another, unless they do a venom test.[7] One hatchery is shaped like a gigantic green egg, with holes all over the roof that allowed sunlight through the overlapping leaves. The bottom is reinforced with tightly woven vines and sturdy branches, and the eggs closest to hatching are kept on the outer edge.[6] Inside the hatchery are the eggs of every RainWing in the tribe.[6] Jambu explained that they do this to ensure that the eggs keep each other warm and hatch whenever they need to.[6] Before Queen Glory's reign, they would not count or track their eggs,[6] only stopping by to check for newly hatched eggs every once in a while. These dragonets would be raised by the tribe, everyone pitching in a bit to help.[6] Glory aspired to change this when she became queen so that no more eggs would ever go lost again.[8]
There is a large treehouse that houses the queen. It is not so different from all the other treehouses, although it is a bit higher and closer to the sun, with an open roof and five giant open windows in the curved outside walls. A short hanging walkway, where dragons line up for meetings with the queen, glowed with fuchsia flowers shaped like dragon tongues. The walkway leads from a doorway to another dragon platform[9] and to the queen's room, where a curtain of silvery yellow flowers that smells of honey and vanilla[10] hung in the doorway.[11] Lacy scarlet flowers and scraps of russet monkey fur make up the queen's nest.[10] There is a Royal Garden of which Tamarin, who was one of the gardeners, took care of.[12] The queen sleeps in a royal treehouse that is surrounded by eerie, glow-in-the-dark moths and pale night orchids.[13]
Around twelve tree lodges down from the queen's treehouse sits the healer's pavilion. Red berries grow in its balcony.[14] The hut is close to the sunning platform with skylights shining through its leafy roofs. Their houses are made in the trees with leaves as windows and the trees as a natural wall.[citation needed]
At the center of the village is a structure called the Arboretum, which resembles a peaceful version of the SkyWing arena. The Arboretum has a huge platform made from woven branches, which is surrounded by more treehouses, some of which have been set up as fruit stands. It is unknown what the Arboretum was used for historically, but in the modern day, it is where many public events take place, such as the RainWing Royal Challenge.[15]
History[]
The Dragonet Prophecy[]
The Hidden Kingdom[]
The RainWing village was first introduced when Jambu and Liana took Glory and the other dragonets of destiny to their village. It was the setting of the majority of the book.
The Dark Secret[]
Starflight returned to the RainWing village after escaping the NightWing island, along with Fatespeaker and Flame. The other NightWings moved into the rainforest by the end of the book, but were given a village of their own sometime later.
The Brightest Night[]
Sunny was kidnapped from the RainWing village shortly after the events of The Dark Secret. She returned to tell the other dragonets of destiny of her plans to end the war.
The Jade Mountain Prophecy[]
Winter Turning[]
The Jade Winglet visited the RainWing village in search of Icicle, who was attempting to assassinate Queen Glory.
Talons of Power[]
Darkstalker traveled to the rainforest to gain more NightWing supporters, but some of the NightWings decided to stay in the rainforest instead.
Gallery[]
References[]
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 26
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Hidden Kingdom, page 27
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 39
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), page 28-29
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 242
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 6.5 The Hidden Kingdom, page 41
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 43
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 235
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 54-55
- ↑ 10.0 10.1 The Hidden Kingdom, page 62
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 60
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 252
- ↑ Winter Turning, page 125
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 66
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 248
| RainWings | |
|---|---|
| Queens |
Present: Dazzling • Exquisite • Fruit Bat • Glory • Grandeur • Magnificent • Splendor |
| Royalty (Present) |
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| Royalty (Historical) |
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| Jade Mountain | |
| Other Dragons |
Bright • Bromeliad • Bullfrog • Chameleon • Gibbon • Handsome • Heliconia • Liana • Loris • Mango • Mangrove • Orangutan • Orchid • Pineapple • Tapir • Tualang |
| Hybrids | |
| Kingdom |
Rainforest Kingdom • RainWing healer's pavilion • RainWing royal pavilion • RainWing village |
| Society | |