WWverse

Not to be confused with the Weighted Whispers series.
“Evil Whispers—what you do after the whisper determines your sin or victory.”
— John M. Sheehan
Weighted Whispers Universe
The War of SandWing Succession is over, there are no prophecies or fairy tales to handle the problems of the government anymore. The Weighted Whispers universe takes place years after the events of the first arc, in which political stability is one priority but just as much of a difficult goal to accomplish. And someone always has their eyes on the throne, who should be sitting upon it, or what dark secrets hide behind it.
Tribes
“Our tribes have worked alongside each over for over two decades; through times of war and through times of peace. As the new queen of the SkyWings, I have no desire to destroy the alliance our predecessors have put so much faith in and will gladly continue their work. And what better queen to do it with than with you, Queen Everglade?”
— Queen Quail of the SkyWings
M U D W I N G S
Queen: Queen Everglade
Capital City: Salina Spate
Salina Spate, located east of the Diamond Spray Delta, is the capital city of the Mud Queendom and the home to Queen Everglade’s palace. It is built over a massive mangrove swamp, held afloat by sturdy wooden support beams and plank platforms.
Unlike lower class villages, Saline Spate is far more organized and cleaner when it comes to infrastructure. Almost all of the structures are constructed from bamboo, straw, and wood, organized in a sophisticated and extravagant manner, some reaching towards the sky, others low to the ground, some even built into the water. A good portion of the population has made housing beneath the city, creating a secondary underwater residence, where the insides have two doorways: one to get out of the water yourself, the other to keep the water from getting inside.
Queen Everglade’s palace, large, rectangular towers formed from thick, tarnished mud-brick, can be found just outside the city and swamp.
Post SWS Developments & Current Society:
Class Structure
Lower-class and less wealthy MudWings live on the outskirts of the queendom, near the Diamond Spray Delta, while the middle-class live everywhere in between the delta and Saline Spate, which the richer, higher-class occupy. The lower your class, the less access you have to more ornate material, such as bamboo, to build housing, and the less structured your community. Thus, this results in lower-class building resorting to being more mud-based.
Change in Power
After forty-seven years of serving her tribe dutifully, Queen Moorhen succumbed to an unknown illness. This resulted in Queen Everglade, her great-niece and the eldest, most willing MudWing heir to ascend the throne in her place.
Education
During her queenship after the war, Queen Moorhen worked alongside Queen Ruby and the SkyWings to bring better education and schooling to the MudWings. Various MudWing schools were built across the queendom, even more so in the lower-class villages. Queen Everglade continued the work of her predecessor, and when Queen Quail took the SkyWing throne, they completed the unfinalized development of another open school, set between their two queendoms. A year later, Canyon Concaves Academy would open to MudWing and SkyWing students alike.
MudWing education standards are fairly ordinary. They’ve come to believe it’s necessary for success and is an important part in raising dragonets, but aren’t overly harsh in regards to failure.
Family Units
With the end of the War of SandWing Succession came a resurgence of family units. Due to sibling troops not needing to be bred for war, MudWings began to consider branching off, falling in love, and caring for dragonets of their own. That isn’t to say that most MudWings are comfortable with the prospect, though, quite the contrary actually, and thus many have chosen to stick to keeping their twenty-year tradition of sibling dependence.
S K Y W I N G S
Queen: Queen Quail
Capital City: Jadeite
Jadeite, found north of the Diamond Spray River, is the capital city of the Sky Queendom and the home to Queen Quail’s palace. To outsiders, the city looks perilous, but its SkyWing residents couldn’t be more oblivious. Tiers of buildings, stacked upon one another, are built into a mountainside, with bridges reaching from one side to another and stairs strung over ravines from one tier to another, some even lacking railings. Trees vertically decorate the faces of the cliffs and cascades of water were caught by occasional waterwheels. 
A dragon’s place in the city is reflected by their surroundings. The higher up the mountain one climbs, the nicer the buildings are; towering skyscrapers and flourishing gardens, while the lower one descends, the rougher the condition of the city is; ruined by fallen rocks and shattered windows.
Post SWS Developments & Current Society:
Illegal Underground Fighting Rings
After the defeat of Ex-Queen Scarlet, the SkyWings faced a usurp in underground fighting rings. Queen Ruby had them outlawed, but that did not diminish the number of rings that popped up around the queendom. Those that are discovered are shut down immediately, with the participants facing time in prison.
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“Soon enough, this war will simply be a monument to the past. The sins we commit will be eroded away by the sand in the wind and all that will be remembered was a monumental movement from the Queendom of Sand. While the Rainforest withers, the desert will be here forever.”
— Queen Andhi of the SandWings
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