Pantala

Pantala, also known as the Lost Continent on Pyrrhia, is one of the the two known continents in the Wings of Fire series, the other being Pyrrhia. It takes multiple days of flight (or swimming in the case of Turtle and Tsunami) from the west of Pyrrhia to get there. Its existence was hinted at occasionally, before being confirmed at the end of Darkness of Dragons. Several dragons have traveled between the continents: Luna was blown to Pyrrhia by a storm, Princess Tsunami and Prince Turtle swam to Pantala, and Clearsight flew to Pantala to warn the Pantalans of a dangerous hurricane, as well as the whole of the BeetleWing tribe in the Legend of the Hive. The Pantalan dragon types are based on insects (the BeetleWings and their descendants) and plants (the LeafWings). Hope mentions this in Darkness of Dragons and it was also confirmed by Tui. In the epilogue, Hope showed Moonwatcher Pantala's possible position on the planet via an example, which showed it on the opposite side of the from Pyrrhia.

Tribes

There are currently four known tribes on Pantala. One is the HiveWings, who are currently ruled by Queen Wasp. The second is the SilkWings, who after the Tree Wars, accepted the HiveWing queen as their queen, so their ruler is also Queen Wasp, but before the Tree Wars, their tribe was led by Queen Monarch. The third tribe is the LeafWings, who were nearly driven to extinction in the Tree Wars, and were believed to be extinct by the Pantalan dragons, though they are just in hiding in the Poison Jungle. The fourth tribe is the BeetleWings, whom have gone extinct after Clearsight's arrival, as she split them into the SilkWings and HiveWings. As of The Poison Jungle, it has been revealed that Queen Sequoia is still alive, but after the othermind had been released and Sequoia had been controlled, her great-granddaughter, Hazel, took her place as the new queen.  

History

Darkstalker

When Clearsight is at Darkstalker's house, she notices he has a scroll titled Myths of the Lost Continent. Later, after betraying and imprisoning Darkstalker, Clearsight decides to go and find this lost continent. It is shown in Clearsight's visions to have animals she has never seen before and colorful dragons of unknown tribes, as well as a possibility of new love and dragonets. Tui confirmed that Clearsight flew there.

Darkness of Dragons

In the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons, Qibli and Moonwatcher find the residence of Jerboa II, daughter of the original Jerboa, who was an animus. She shows them a dragon who she is taking care of, who turns out to be Luna. Qibli notices that she looks nothing like any dragon tribe he has seen before. He believes Luna is a hybrid until he realizes that she has features lacking in any of the seven dragon tribes, including her four wings, bright metallic scales, and antennae horns. Jerboa states that this dragon is their first visitor from the Lost Continent. 

The Lost Continent

Pantala officially makes its debut in The Lost Continent, as the main setting for the book. At the beginning of the book, there is a reference to Pantala's tribe and queen. In the prologue, Clearsight is seen flying towards the continent to warn its inhabitants about an incoming hurricane. The rest of the book takes place on Pantala, other than the epilogue, which takes place on Pyrrhia during the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons.

The Hive Queen

Pantala is also the base setting of this book, except in the prologue and second part of the epilogue, which takes place on the western coast of Pyrrhia. Most of the book takes place in Jewel Hive, and a substantial part of the story in Dragonfly Bay. The Poison Jungle is revealed to be the home of the last living LeafWings, and in the epilogue, it is also shown to be as dangerous as it was rumored to be, especially when Tsunami and Turtle were almost killed by a giant snake. They were then rescued by a LeafWing named Willow.

The Poison Jungle

Pantala (specifically the Poison Jungle region) is the main setting of this book. The prologue took place near Bloodworm Hive, prior to its burning in The Hive Queen. The future of the dragons of Pantala was revealed to be in danger after the truth about Queen Wasp's mind control and the breath of evil was discovered, with hundreds of dragons fleeing to Pyrrhia.

Known Wildlife

Since all Pantalan dragons seem to be based off wildlife on the continent, any dragon name should also reasonably be an organism living on the continent. It is also reasonable to assume that most, if not all, real-world flora and fauna exist on Pantala, as most recorded organisms line up with ones on Earth (barring dragonbite vipers, breath of evil, etc.) It is refrenced that their used to be great forests of oak and redwood on Pantala, however, Queen Wasp ordered a cutdown of all trees, except in the Poison Jungle. ( Despite this, the map shows clusters of trees in various places and their are still tree seeds, as picked up and grown by Cricket in The Lost Continent.

Trivia

• Pantala is a genus of dragonfly, matching Pyrrhia, a genus of moth.
• The arrival of Clearsight had a significant effect on the dragons that lived there. The two main things she impacted were the language (she reintroduced the Dragon Language to Pantala) and religion (most dragons worship the Book of Clearsight and pray to Clearsight's spirit). She married a BeetleWing from Pantala named Sunstreak.
• This is the second instance of dragons being shown having a religion (the first is when it was shown in Escaping Peril that SkyWings believe in reincarnation) which is dragons believing in an afterlife (they pray to Clearsight even though she has been deceased for two thousand years).
• It is shown in Darkstalker that Pantala was known to dragons of Pyrrhia back then, but it appears that knowledge surrounding it has been lost over the centuries.
• Tui has confirmed that there is no animus magic on Pantala, due to its extreme prevalence in the second arc.
• The Legend of the Hive, a scroll mentioned by Hope in Darkness of Dragons, has to do with a plant native to Pantala.
• Pantala has biomes that we haven't seen on Pyrrhia, such as that of the grassland or savannah-like biome seen on The Lost Continent cover. It also reveals that zebras, wildebeest, and gazelle live on Pantala.
• The SilkWings and HiveWings having two pairs of wings may be a reference to Pantala's name coming from a genus of dragonflies.
• In Pantala, each Hive is ruled by one of Queen Wasp's sisters (Queen Wasp rules the Wasp Hive, Lady Cicada rules the Cicada Hive, etc). The only exception is Lady Jewel as she is Queen Wasp's cousin. 
• This confirms the names of Queen Wasp's other sisters and that she has at least eight other sisters (Vinegaroon, Bloodworm, Mantis, Cicada, Tsetse, Yellowjacket, and Hornet). Of these, only Lady Jewel, Lady Cicada and Lady Bloodworm have been confirmed, with Lady Cicada shown in The Lost Continent, Lady Jewel appearing in The Hive Queen, and Lady Bloodworm confirmed in a statement by Tui, which can be found here. Of all the ladies in Pantala, Lady Scarab is the only one known to not rule a hive.
• The currency in the Hives is called scales. These seem to be used as coins, as Luna uses them to pay for honey drops in The Lost Continent. It is unknown if they are real scales or simply called scales. From a discussion between Blue and Luna about how they haven't gone to a certain shop because they don't have enough scales, it seems that scales are the only form of currency and that all scales might be worth the same amount, as opposed to having them different values, similar to real currency.
• Pantala appears to be much more technologically advanced than Pyrrhia, with books instead of scrolls, glass, greenhouses, large-scale architectural projects, track schools similar to colleges, plumbing, playgrounds and even ID bracelets that can inject dragons with toxins from a distance. In The Hive Queen, it is mentioned that the dragons on Pantala make use of hydroponics, which is a type of hydroculture involving growing the plants in a solution made of water with minerals dissolved in it. Sometimes, gravel or mica rocks are used to support the plants.^{[citation needed]}

• Based of the bar/restaurant in the bottom left corner of the cover of The Hive Queen, it can be inferred that the Hives have indoor plumbing.
• Pantala is the first continent in the series to have books instead of scrolls, likely because they have access to SilkWing silk, making pages easy to form.
• The majority of Pantala is currently a police state.
• Pantala is the first place candy was actually shown.
• Pantala once had its own language, before Clearsight's arrival, the third dragon language shown in the series (after the language "Dragon" and Aquatic, which is used by the SeaWings).
• Such as how North America and Pyrrhia are similar, Pantala is much like Africa.
• It is possible that Pantala's technology and language(pre Dragon Language) was based off the Roman empire.

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