Jade Mountain Academy

(The winglets are not to be confused with Winglets, which are short e-books in Wings of Fire.)

Jade Mountain Academy is an intertribal school located within Jade Mountain and was founded by the dragonets of destiny after the War of SandWing Succession. The school opened and accepted students from all tribes six months after the end of the war, dividing them into five winglets: the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the Copper Winglet, and the Quartz Winglet, each of which includes one dragonet from each of the seven dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. With the exclusion of Peril, groups of two or three dragonets from the same Winglet will share a sleeping cave, making them clawmates.

Winglets

Founders and Staff

• Clay is the hall monitor, healer, self-defense teacher, herbs and healing teacher, and prey organizer.
• Tsunami is the head of the school/principal.
• Starflight is the head librarian.
• Sunny is the main founder of the Academy.
• Webs is the history teacher.
• Fatespeaker is Starflight's assistant and a helper at Jade Mountain Academy. 
• Queen Glory is a helper whenever they need her or she visits.

Rooms and Caves

The Great Hall

The Great Hall is the unofficial entrance of Jade Mountain Academy. Moonwatcher described the cave to have a dimmer light in comparison to that of outside, having enough room to fit four hundred dragons comfortably, with room for more to fly overhead. It was mentioned to have sunlight pouring into the cave, with twisting stalactites that sometimes reached the floor, forming twisting columns. A huge bronze gong hangs against the back wall, with three flying dragons carved into its surface. When the school first opened, a huge banner made of woven green vines reading "Welcome, students!" in giant purple-and-white flowers hung from two stalactites. Two tunnel openings form along the left wall of the cave, with two more on the right wall. Next to each opening, a map is hung, displaying tunnel routes to help students find their way around the huge caves.

The Library

The entrance, as described by Moonwatcher, starts off as a side corridor lined with hanging scrolls. Many of them have quotes on the such as "Knowledge is a flame in the darkness" and "The claws of war are no match for the wings of wisdom." At the end of the hall, a room full of iridescent green sunlight is present (the result of the sun shining through large semi-transparent leaves placed over windows, one of those windows was torn open by Icicle who escaped out of it in Moon Rising). Scrolls are arranged all over the cave, in cubbyholes on the walls, racks, and cylinders around the cave. Every corner had a spot to curl up and read in, sometimes a rock ledge, sometimes a pile of moss, sometimes a bed of reeds and sometimes carpets. Sunlight comes down from skylights in the roof and filtered through leaves covering the windows. There's a circular wooden desk labeled 'LIBRARIAN' in the center where Starflight manages the scrolls. Starflight has stamps of every student's name that he stamps on a scroll slot/card. Library stamps are part of the library system in Jade Mountain Academy. Every scroll in the place has a wooden stamp, which, if taken out, its stamp is stamped on the parchment corresponding to the borrowing student. When returned, their personal library stamps are stamped on the first one to show that it was returned. 

The Prey Center

The Prey Center, which Clay set up, is a large cave open to the sky on one side (with this side covered by a wall of rocks to prevent the prey from escaping) and was often described as chaotic, due to students and animals running around yelling, shouting and catching prey, or eating. It is usually filled with animal prey, as well as a pile of fish, caught by expeditions, and a pile of rainforest fruit for RainWing students. This was one of the main places where Moonwatcher's head hurt the most before Darkstalker taught her how to stop this. This is where Moon met Qibli and Winter after Qibli accidentally released Winter's pet scavenger, Bandit.

The History Cave

The history cave is where Webs teaches history to the students of the academy. It was described to be covered in maps, each marked with a different year, and with stacks of scrolls that overflowed the wooden racks provided. This cave was also destroyed by Sora's dragonflame cactus in an attempt to kill Icicle during the events of Moon Rising, forcing history class to be relocated to a different cave.

Stonemover's cave

This cave is where Stonemover is located. Students are welcome to come and go through this cave as they please, but most students find the company too boring. During The Brightest Night, Sunny encountered her father, Stonemover, for the first time. During Talons of Power, Flame was trapped in this cave by Darkstalker for the attempted murder of Stonemover, though, he was released during Darkness of Dragons. The cave is shown to be big enough for Darkstalker to fit inside, but just barely.

The Art Cave

The Art Cave is the room where students learn all sorts of art forms, including painting, pottery, glass-working, metalworking, weaving, and woodworking. The room was filled with art supplies tucked into every crevice, and wooden dragon sculptures placed on little stone shelves.

The Music Cave

The Music Cave is a vast, round cave filled with various instruments including harps, marimbas, maracas, and drums. It is designed so that sound bounces around the cave. Students can enjoy playing music there. It has a skylight above it.

"Weapons Cave"

First mentioned in Darkness of Dragons, the so-called Weapons Cave is where weapons were kept if needed to defend the school. The room contains a locked wooden box that holds three daggers (two, after the events of Darkness of Dragons), one sword, and one club (or, as Qibli describes it, a "big stick").

Healing Center

First introduced in Darkness of Dragons, the Healing Center is where Clay teaches basic medicine and treatment. It contains a colored diagram of a dragon (MudWing) which shows where muscles are located.

Known Classes

History

Taught by Webs, this class is meant to teach an in-depth history of Pyrrhia to the attending students. The class is structured in units, with the first unit being Scorching and going chronologically throughout history afterward. The next known unit is 500 years after the Scorching, which is described as a rather chaotic time period.

Herbs and Healing

Suggested by Peregrine and Tamarin sometime between Talons of Power and Darkness of Dragons, this class, taught by Clay, is meant to teach the basics of healing to students. The class is shown to outline dragon anatomy to students as a basis for learning proper technique and presumably teaches some botany, as "herbs" is in the title.

Music

While not an official class, there is a music cave that dragonets visit as a part of their schedule to learn to play different instruments from across Pyrrhia through their own intuition. As of Darkness of Dragons, there is no known teacher for this class yet.

Small Group Discussion Class

Though the official name of this class isn't well known, nor is it known if this class even still exists. There are several of them, and they are lead by Tsunami, Clay, Starflight, and Sunny. It is meant as a sort of bonding area for all the dragonets within a Winglet to become closer.

Art

There is an art cave in the mountain, though the class does not have a known teacher. There are materials for weaving, sculpture, and painting, among other things. It's mentioned that the teachers could have also made small sculptures in there before school started, and several students (such as Mightyclaws) are sent there by Starflight to calm down and enjoy themselves in creating art of their own.

Trivia

• Jade Mountain Academy is the first known school where dragons of all tribes are taught together.
• The school currently houses all the dragonets of destiny apart from Queen Glory.
• Books six through ten focus on Jade Mountain Academy, specifically the Jade Winglet.
• Princess Anemone, Prince Turtle, Ex-Prince Winter, and Princess Icicle are currently the only known royal figures to have been in the Winglets.
• The Copper Winglet is the only winglet that has all of its original students present.