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The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel) is the graphic novel adaptation of the third Wings of Fire book, The Hidden Kingdom. The art is done by Mike Holmes. The book is written from the point of view of Glory. It was officially released on October 15th, 2019.
Synopsis[]
In the rainforest, danger is everywhere ...
The Dragonet Prophecy didn't call for a RainWing dragonet, but Glory knows she's far more powerful than she gets credit for. So it's devastating when she finally finds the rest of her tribe and discovers RainWings do seem a little lazy. They nap every day, no one really wants to be queen, and worst of all, only a few have noticed that RainWings are disappearing - mysteriously vanishing from the safety of the rainforest without a trace.
Glory is determined to find the missing dragons, even if it means dragging her peaceful tribe where they never wanted to be: right into the middle of the war.
The #1 New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire climbs to new heights in the third graphic novel edition, with art by Mike Holmes.
Plot[]
Prologue[]
The prologue began with the false dragonets, who were mentioned in the epilogue of The Lost Heir. They were Squid, Flame, Fatespeaker, Ochre, and Viper. Nautilus and Morrowseer conversed, ending with Morrowseer deciding to train the dragonets personally, disapproving of what the Talons of Peace had done so far.
Part One: Rainforest Monsters[]
The dragonets and Webs were traveling through the borders of the Rainforest Kingdom. As they did, they crossed paths with a pair of MudWing soldiers and hid in the rain and mud as the soldiers passed. After the MudWings passed, Glory decided to try and go after them while camouflaged. However, she heard a scream and then discovered both of the soldiers had died with their throats cut.
As the dragonets and Webs progressed into the rainforest, the dragonets discussed with Webs about Glory's origin before Tsunami noticed something was off. Starflight noticed that Sunny had mysteriously disappeared. Tsunami and Clay both felt something sting their necks, while Starflight dove into a bush and Glory dodged something. As Clay and Tsunami passed out, Glory spotted camouflaged talons. She ordered the mystery dragons to show themselves. The "mystery dragons" turned out to be two RainWings, Liana and Jambu, who showed Glory and Starflight that their friends were just knocked out, and then agreed to take them to the village. While her friends were unconscious from the darts, Glory took her first sun time nap in the rainforest village, after Jambu insisted. When she woke up, she found a sloth lying on her back, which she eventually named Silver. Glory discovered that RainWings do not have parent and family systems, but she and Jambu learned that they were related using their venom, when Glory's venom cancels out Jambu's. They returned to find their friends waking and they went to meet Magnificent after learning about RainWing queen systems. While waiting in line, she met Mangrove, a grumpy RainWing, who mentioned that his partner Orchid was missing as well as at least twelve other RainWings, and Bromeliad, a venom trainer, who mentioned that a dragonet named Kinkajou had also gone missing. Glory suggested that they go to the queen together since they were both there about missing dragons. When Mangrove, Bromeliad, and Glory saw Queen Magnificent, Glory suggested someone investigate, but Magnificent boredly said that the missing dragons would turn up eventually and that investigating was tiring. Mangrove suggested that Glory help investigate, and Magnificent agreed, though Glory protested that she did not have time for that kind of stuff. When Mangrove and Bromeliad left, Tsunami, Starflight, Clay, Webs, and Sunny came in and asked for help for Webs, which Queen Magnificent was reluctant about. After some prompting from Sunny, the queen directed them to the RainWing healers.
After they left the queen's treehouse, Tsunami, Webs, and Sunny headed off to the healer's hut, and Starflight and Clay joined Glory as she set out to find the missing RainWings. They spoke to Mangrove, and he led them to a giant fallen tree. Glory picked up a horrible stink and asked Starflight if he can identify it since he seemed to have a stronger sense of smell. They found a dying sloth as the source of the smell, and Clay killed it to put it out of its misery. Glory searched around and discovered an animus-made tunnel in a boulder. Starflight and Mangrove returned to the village, while Glory and Clay stayed to watch the tunnel overnight. While they watched, something passed by, ate the sloth, and disappeared. In the morning, Sunny, Tsunami, Starflight, and Jambu arrived, and they discussed what to do about the tunnel. They settled on Glory and Clay going in with vines. When they walked through, they found themselves in the Kingdom of Sand, within sight of Burn's stronghold.
Part Two: Sand, Ice, and Smoke[]
Glory and Clay took a look around from the mouth of the tunnel's end in the Kingdom of Sand before returning to the rainforest. The dragonets and Jambu talked over the missing RainWings and the tunnel. After a suggestion that the missing RainWings could be on the other side, Mangrove suddenly dashed out of the trees and into the tunnel and flew off to the Ice Kingdom in an attempt to find Orchid.
After flying for the rest of the day, they settled down for the night in rocky terrain. In the morning, Glory flew ahead, sighted Princess Blaze's fortress, and saw a NightWing assassin named Deathbringer settling down. Using an IceWing disguise based on Fjord, she questioned him on what he was doing.
Then Glory and Jambu, disguised as IceWings, headed to meet Blaze who was staying at the Ice Kingdom in her fortress. After telling her that the dragonets of destiny wished to see her and taking her outside the fortress, Deathbringer then attempted to assassinate Blaze.
Blaze's neck was cut by one of the two "sharp silvery discs" and Tsunami's wing, after shielding Blaze, also got cut. Glory attacked Deathbringer when they heard the IceWings coming and took his weapons, using one to threaten him. This made Deathbringer surrender. In fear of getting imprisoned again, the dragonets left before the IceWings arrived. Later, when they returned to the rainforest, Glory was kidnapped by the NightWings. She escaped with the help of Clay, Deathbringer, and another captured RainWing named Kinkajou. When she got back, she told Magnificent about what happened. Seeing that the NightWings had the missing RainWings, Magnificent refused to save them. As a result, Glory challenged Magnificent to the throne.
Part Three: A Throne in the Treetops[]
Through the RainWing tradition of peaceful royal transfers, Magnificent and Glory each assembled their teams. Jambu and Exquisite competed in the tree gliding and Exquisite cheated using her sloths, nearly killing Jambu. Tamarin, a blind RainWing, and Fruit Bat competed in the flower finding hunt. Tamarin won by finding the winning flower with her extremely good sense of smell. Glory and Magnificent competed in a camouflage contest, and Glory lost because Magnificent spooked Silver, who gave her away. Mangrove and Dazzling competed in a fruit scavenger hunt and even though Dazzling cheated by previously stashed fruit, Mangrove won by a point as Dazzling ate some of her fruit. The last contest was between Grandeur and Kinkajou, in venom shooting. In the first part, Kinkajou lost. However, in the second part, Grandeur accidentally shot at a sloth, and Kinkajou leapt in front of it, so the venom hit her instead. Glory panicked and tried to do the venom test. This revealed she was related to Grandeur, so she successfully saved Kinkajou. Grandeur, who was the original queen, realizing Glory was the rightful queen, forfeited, and Glory became the Queen of the RainWings. Suddenly during the celebration, Clay crashed in and told her that Starflight had left and may have warned the NightWings that the RainWings would attack.
Epilogue[]
Fatespeaker and the false dragonets were upset about being brought to the Night Kingdom. There was no food, it was dark, hot, and smelly, and every one of the false dragonets was fighting and complaining. Fatespeaker spotted some NightWings carrying an unconscious dragonet to the fortress. Fatespeaker believed the dragonet was an important part of her destiny.
Variation from the novel[]
- The NightWing Guide to The Dragons of Pyrrhia is missing. The other Wings of Fire graphic novels share this trait.
- The graphic novels do not include chapters.
- The prologue is shorter and changed dramatically.
- In the prologue of the original novel, all of the false dragonets are fighting.[1] In the graphic novel, only Flame, Viper, and Squid are fighting, while Fatespeaker is making a prediction and Ochre is eating a pig.[2]
- In the prologue of the original novel, Morrowseer says, "Well, [...] They are ... energetic."[1] In the graphic novel he does not say this. Instead, he says, "So, these are the dragonets you raised as alternatives in case something ... happened ... to the real ones."[2] This replacement dialogue was never in the original novel.[1]
- In the original novel, Morrowseer never says, "I'm disappointed, Nautilus. I expected more from the leaders of the Talons of Peace. The SandWing and SkyWing are brainlessly violent. All MudWings are dim, but that one is ... exceptional. The NightWing I sent you seems to be deluded. I don't even know what to say about that pipsqueak SeaWing. You shouldn't have put him in just because he's your son. However, since they're all we have, I will take them to the Night Kingdom, and train them myself."[2][1]
- Fatespeaker never makes her prediction that Morrowseer brought her and the other false dragonets something great for breakfast.[2]
- Squid never calls Morrowseer "nonagoshabibble."[2][1]
- Nautilus, Squid, Flame, Tsunami, Glory, and Webs are missing their wing membranes.
- While in the original novel, it was described that the dragonets were making comments to Glory that she should love the rainforest weather because she is a RainWing[3], it was not specifically said that Tsunami said "You must love this weather. Right, RainWing?"[4]
- In the original novel, Starflight never helps Sunny move on top of a log and says, "Here you go, Sunny."[5]
- Sunny never says, "Oof. Thanks, Starflight." in the original novel.[5]
- Clay never says, "Put more weight on me, Webs." in the original novel.[5]
- Glory never says, "Still hilarious. Keep it up."[4]
- One of Webs' lines was changed. Originally he says, "Can we stop?", but "Clay" was added to the beginning of the sentence.[5]
- Sunny never says, "Wow, Clay. SandWing venom really is nasty." in the original novel.[6][7]
- One of Clay's lines was changed. Originally he says, "I hope the RainWings can help him, [...] This isn't exactly like their venom. But maybe they'll have more ideas than we do."[7] In the graphic novel, this was changed to, "I hope the RainWings can help. Their venom is different, but they must have ideas."[6]
- Glory never yells at Webs in the original novel.[8][9]
- Glory never says, "First, Webs can't fly. Now he needs to stop every ten steps. Do you even want us to get to the RainWings?" in the original novel.[6][10]
- Sunny never exclaims, "Glory!" after Glory yells at Webs, which she also did not do in the original novel.[6]
- Glory never says "Webs was going to let our guardians kill me. Am I the only one who remembers that? Well, Webs, as long as we're stopped, why don't you tell us about the RainWing Kingdom? You stole my egg there. You must know something." in the original novel.[6][10]
- Starflight does not shove fruit down to Clay.
- In the first chapter portion of the Graphic Novel, Glory changes her scales to red when thinking about their prisons in the past.[11] In the original book, she changes her scales to yellow thinking about how the RainWings will not care that she is in a Prophecy and that she'll find somewhere where she will belong.[12]
- Liana and Jambu never offer to knock out Glory and Starflight for easier travel.[13]
- The part about the screaming monkeys is left out.[14]
- The dragonet that was brought with the older RainWing in line to see Queen Magnificent since they were shoving berries up other dragons' snouts is green, yellow, and pink and appears to still think it is funny.[15] In the original novel, this same dragonet was sad and grey because they were being punished.[16]
- The RainWing that brought the dragonet with them to see Queen Magnificent for shoving berries up other dragons' snouts is green.[15] In the original novel, the dragon is pale orange.[16]
- The animus tunnel to the SandWing Kingdom was not described to have purplish-black mist around it in the original novel.[17]
- In the regular novel, Sunny never exclaims in delight when in the desert.[18][19]
- Glory and Jambu never use the aliases Penguin (for Jambu) and Storm (for Glory) as they did in the original novel.
- Blaze is never mentioned to specifically be wearing a white cape, a tiara, and hoop bracelets on her right forearm.[20][21]
- When Blaze asks if she would be able to change color if she had a coat of RainWing scales, Sunny says "Yuck."[22] In the original novel, she does not say this. Instead, Glory is internally horrified, while Blaze twists Jambu's wing around, as if "trying to figure out how to take the scales off him."[23]
- When Glory is held captive by the NightWings, a NightWing wearing glasses shows up with the guards to take notes on her.[24] This dragon was never mentioned in the original books as wearing glasses.[25]
- In the original novel, Part Three starts right after Glory challenges Magnificent for the throne.[26] In the graphic novel, Part Three begins with Glory training for the royal challenge.[27]
- While Ex-Queen Scarlet dreamvisits Glory, the side of her face that had been sprayed with venom does not show up when her body flickered like it was in the original novel.[28][29]
- After Ex-Queen Scarlet concludes her dreamvisit to Glory, a shadow of where she was at the time (Burn's Weirdling Tower) was not depicted at the end like it did in the original novel.[30][29]
- During the Flower Hunt portion of the Royal Challenge, the elusive variety of the cinnamon orchid is described as orange, not red.[31][32]
- In the original books, Kinkajou's eyes are described to be dark green,[33] however, in the graphic novel, Kinkajou's eyes are a dark shade of pink.[34]
- Fatespeaker never mentions her walrus prophecy in the epilogue.[35][36]
Mistakes[]
- When Jambu does the venom test with Glory, he tells Glory to hit the same spot. However, the spot is burned completely through, so Glory cannot spit venom in the same spot.[37]
- Throughout the graphic novel, Tsunami's pearls are missing,[4][38][39][40][41][42][43][44][45][46][47][48][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56] when it is stated in the original book that she is still wearing them.[57]
- Glory's ruff and horn are not entirely colored in.[58]
- In the scene where the dragonets and Jambu are flying towards the Ice Kingdom, Tsunami is missing.[59]
- When Glory imagined her scales changing to an IceWing's color, one of her legs is missing.[60]
- A part of Glory's speech bubble is not colored in white.[61]
- The tapestry does not have a large dragon on the front,[62] but is then shown on the next page's tapestry.[63]
- When Sunny says, "Yuck!" her tongue was not forked.[22]
- Deathbringer's pouch changes color several times throughout his attack on Blaze.[64]
- The cut on Tsunami's wing is missing.[65]
- Deathbringer's eyes are not colored properly.[66]
- Kinkajou still has her band around her neck.[67] However, it disappears later.[68]
- The tail of Kinkajou's speech bubble is not colored in white when she asks, "Where should I meet you?"[69]
- Tsunami and Sunny's tongues are gray.[54]
- When Glory sprays venom on a leaf to heal Kinkajou, the leaf does not start to sizzle or melt.[70] It is later said venom melts anything living.[71]
- Jambu's dart pouch camouflages even though it is not part of his body.[72] It also appears[72][73][74] and disappears[75][76] throughout the book.
- One of Bromeliad's legs has Mangrove's scale colors.[77]
Trivia[]
- The hardcover version of this book has a different picture on the back; the paperback copies have a picture of Glory practicing fruit identification and her team behind her, while the hardcover copies had a picture of her flying towards the sky.
- In one panel, some of the spines on Deathbringer's back are detached from his body.[78]
Gallery[]
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International Releases[]
- French: Les Royaumes de Feu en Bande Dessinée. Au cœur de la jungle (June 2020)
- Korean: 불의 날개와 비밀의 왕국 그래픽 노블 (September 2022)
References[]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 The Hidden Kingdom, prologue
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), page 4-5
- ↑ The Hidden Kingdom, page 1
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), page 7
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), page 6
- ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 The Hidden Kingdom (graphic novel), page 8
- ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Hidden Kingdom, page 3
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- ↑ The Dark Secret (graphic novel), page 139
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