Silene

Queen Silene is a dragonet Skywing queen who is essential to the story.
== Personality ==
Before her mother’s death, Silene was an energetic troublemaker. She loved adventure and singing loudly at the top of her lungs.
After Silene’s coronation, the dragonet quickly realized that the weight of an entire kingdom would crush her, unless she started taking life more seriously.
Silene is dedicated, reasonable, and careful. However, she finds disrespect infuriating.
== Backstory ==
Princess Beaumont, the eldest heir, was expected to become the next queen. Silene was much too young, and much too troublesome, so the royal family relied on Beaumont to take the throne. However, Princess Beaumont developed a respiratory disease. The high altitude and low air pressure took a heavy toll on her. The royal family, devastated in more ways than one, moved to a fancy wooden lodge further down the mountains. Within only two days, Beaumont’s condition worsened. One night, she suffocated in her sleep and died.
The royal family was horribly shaken by Beaumont’s death. They knew the heir likely wouldn’t survive, but hoped that she would’ve had at least a few more days to live. King Jasper requested to stay at the lodge a few weeks longer, to mourn the loss of his eldest daughter.
The death of someone so made Silene realize how fragile life could be. Unless Queen Chert produced another heir, Silene was now the best candidate for the throne. Soon after Beaumont’s death, she was bombarded with “extra duties” that ranged from royal etiquette to war history. For a young dragonet, all of these sudden changes were very hard to process. During this time, Silene was prone to lashing out and hiding in the nearby forest for hours.
Two weeks after Princess Beaumont’s passing, another horrible incident occurred. The wooden lodge that the royal family lived in  was engulfed in flames. At the time, Princess Silene and Prince Jay were out playing in the woods. When they spotted the smoke, rising over the treetops, the siblings rushed back. In a state of panic, the young dragonet went into the flaming lodge in an attempt to rescue and locate her parents. Unfortunately, a small, burning wooden pillar fell over and landed on her wing.
If not for her mother, Queen Chert, rescuing her, Silene likely would’ve died there. Instead, she faded in and out of consciousness a safe distance away from the lodge. Queen Chert went back in, presumably to rescue King Jasper and any other survivors. Sadly, they never made it out. It collapsed on itself a few minutes later. The fire itself was later labeled as an assassination, based off of the peculiar burns in several parts of the estate. Many servants lost their lives as well. As the death of Princess Beaumont was still on many minds, losing most of the Skywing royalty took a toll on the kingdom’s morale.
After these events, Princess Silene was quickly crowned. From then on, Queen Silene devoted all of her time into bettering herself as a ruler. She has been a queen for almost a year now.