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| Tribe | SkyWing |
| Gender | Female |
| Age | 8 years |
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| First appearance | The Dragonet Prophecy |
| Last appearance | Darkness of Dragons |
Peril is an adult female SkyWing and is the main protagonist of Escaping Peril. She currently attends Jade Mountain Academy as a student. Peril hatched with a rare condition known as firescales: everything she touches is set ablaze. The only other dragons she can safely touch are Clay, because of his fire-resistant scales, and Darkstalker, because of his invulnerable scales.
Life
Peril was born to Soar and Kestrel.[1] She hatched as a twin with her brother Sky. She was born with too much fire, and her brother had too little.[2] Queen Scarlet ordered Kestrel to kill the two dragonets.[3] However, Kestrel tried to escape with them. Scarlet had caught up to them, and said that she would forgive Kestrel on one condition. She had to kill one of her dragonets for the queens' forgiveness. Kestrel chose to kill Peril's brother, but Scarlet changed her mind again. She ordered her guards to kill the other dragonet. Kestrel tried to flee with Peril, but Peril's firescales burned Kestrel. Kestrel was forced to drop Peril and leave her behind. Scarlet took Peril under her wing, and made her into her new champion.
One year later, during the brightest night, Queen Scarlet introduced Peril as her champion to her SkyWing subjects. Scarlet had planned to kill all the SkyWing eggs, to make sure that the dragonet prophecy would not commence.[4] She made Peril burn all the eggs in front of the entire SkyWing court.
During the next seven years of her life, Peril lived as Queen Scarlet's champion. She fought the prisoners in Scarlet's arena. Prisoners were to be freed if they won enough battles, but for their last battle, Peril was their opponent. No prisoner survived Peril's firescales.
- ↑ Escaping Peril, chapter 10, paragraphs 141–143. "Well," [Soar] said, "I doubt Scarlet would consider this useful, but among other things, it appears that I can father dragonets with firescales." [...] "Oh, really?" Peril said. "Do you mean me? Was that your idea of a heartwarming reunion? You're my father?"
- ↑ The Dragonet Prophecy, chapter 20, paragraphs 47–49. [Osprey: ...] "Kestrel was one of your most loyal soldiers. She was sent through the breeding program, on your orders, and brought forth one egg. Upon hatching, it turned out to hold twin dragonets." [...] "The dragonets were defective. One had too much fire. The other did not have enough."
- ↑ The Dragonet Prophecy, chapter 20, paragraph 49. [Osprey: ...] "As per SkyWing custom, you ordered Kestrel to kill them both and stay out of the breeding program for the rest of her life."
- ↑ Escaping Peril, prologue, paragraph 59. [Scarlet: ...] "Just to be perfectly safe, Queen Burn and I had a marvelous idea. We're going to make sure there are no SkyWings hatching on the brightest night. Not even one. Not even close. Bring them in!"