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HiveWings are a Pantalan tribe, one of the three that live on the continent. The HiveWings used to rule over the SilkWings, enslaving them as servants,[citation needed] and almost killing off the LeafWings to extinction.[citation needed] Their queen used to be Wasp,[citation needed] before the events of The Flames of Hope occurred. The HiveWings are now ruled by Queen Jewel.[citation needed] HiveWings are descended from BeetleWings and Clearsight, the ancestor of all HiveWings.[citation needed]
Appearance
HiveWings, as their name may imply, appear bee or wasp-like. They have slim figures and four wings that resemble dragonfly wings, contrary to their Pyrrhian counterparts.[citation needed]
HiveWings can have the following scale colors: red, yellow, orange,[1] black[2] and green.[3] Every HiveWing will have at least a few black scales mixed in (inherited from their NightWing common ancestor, Clearsight).[1][2] Their eyes can also have these colors, with HiveWings being known that have eyes with black,[4] dark red,[5] yellow-gold,[6] green[7] and dark orange colorings.[8] Some other colors include brown[9] and amber.[citation needed] However, when they are being mind controlled, their eyes will turn white,[10] and they will become unresponsive.[citation needed]
HiveWings have three horns on their head. Two that all tribes have at the back of their head, one on their forehead, and one on the tip of their snout.[citation needed] Their tongues are blackish-purple.[citation needed]
Abilities
Many HiveWings do not have abilities,[11] but the few who do can vary. The abilities are genetic, and thus, can be passed down.[12] The abilities include deadly stingers extending from the wrists, venomous teeth/fangs, a paralyzing toxin (known as nerve poison) in the claws or the tail stinger which immobilizes those stabbed with it,[13] spraying boiling acid from the tail stinger,[1] and emitting a terrible stench that is described to smell like "dead rotting things picked in sulfur".[14]
Because of the Breath of Evil, Ex-Queen Wasp was able to mind control HiveWings she had injected the Breath of Evil into.[citation needed] When being controlled by Wasp, the HiveWings' eyes would go white and move in unison, taking on an eerie tone to their voice.[citation needed]
Names
HiveWings are named after insects, which include ants, bees, beetles, crickets, mantids, wasps, weevils, and possibly even spiders.
History
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References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 A Guide to the Dragons of Pantala, books 10-15
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 The Lost Continent, chapter 2, paragraph 29. "Every HiveWing had at least a few black scales, inherited from their common ancestor, Clearsight, but this dragon [ Hawker ] was almost entirely black, [...]"
- ↑ The Hive Queen, chapter 19, paragraph 47. "His [ Treehopper ] scales were a dark greenish black with pale orange stripes along his wings, tail, and face."
- ↑ The Lost Continent, chapter 1, paragraph 26. "Her [ Wasp ] [...] eyes were large and completely black, surrounded by an oval of yellow scales."
- ↑ The Hive Queen, chapter 14, paragraph 32. "Lady Scarab's eyes were like small dark coals, with flickers of dark red in their depths."
- ↑ The Poison Jungle, chapter 13, paragraph 62. "Patches of black scales circled her [ Bumblebee ] yellow-gold eyes, [...]"
- ↑ The Hive Queen, chapter 18, paragraph 2. "Thin lines of black scales outlined her [ Jewel ] iridescent green eyes and dotted her cheekbones; [...]"
- ↑ The Lost Continent, chapter 21, paragraph 65. "[A]bruptly, the eye rolled back and became a normal eye. Dark orange irises and dilated pupils stared up at Sundew."
- ↑ The Lost Continent, chapter 6, paragraph 63. "She [ Cricket ] had [...] warm, dark brown eyes that made him think of owls and tree hollows."
- ↑ The Lost Continent, chapter 5, paragraph 88. "They hadn't just stopped talking; every HiveWing in sight was frozen, right in the middle of whatever they'd been doing. [...] And then the HiveWings lifted their heads, all of them at once, and tilted their chins toward the east. [...] All of their eyes had gone pure white."
- ↑ The Hive Queen, chapter 11, paragraph 40. "I don't have a natural weapon, but neither do a lot of HiveWings."
- ↑ The Hive Queen, chapter 16, paragraph 71. "[B]ut Cadelle blocked her path, baring the venomous teeth that neither her child, nor grandchild, had inherited."
- ↑ The Lost Continent, chapter 11, paragraph 25. "[T]hey had a nerve poison in their claws or tail stinger. Once the criminal — or 'misbehaver' — was stabbed, that dragon wouldn't be able to move for an entire day"
- ↑ The Hive Queen, chapter 13, paragraph 61. "A moment later, the smell rolled over the party. Cricket had heard of dragons with Scarab's power, [...] But this had to be the full-force weaponized version of it, like dead rotting things picked in sulfur."