Sunfyre

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Eunoia's entry for the Historical Ruler Character Contest.
Name 	Sunfyre 	Age 	84 at death 	Hatching Date	2926 AS
Creator 	eunoia 	Artist 	eunoia 	Theme Animal 	Lammergeier
Nickname 	Sunless-freak 	Gender 	Female 	Pronouns 	She/Her
Orientation	Straight 	Voice Claim	Zoey Mikaido 	Theme Song 	
Family 	SkyWing Royalty	Affiliation	SkyWing Tribe	Romances 	None
Tribe(s) 	SkyWing 	Occupation 	Queen 	Status 	Deceased
Overview
Sunfyre was the most controversial Queen in SkyWing history. She is known in the history scroll as the 'bastard Queen', and her legacy is quite divided, some modern historians saying that she was right to fight for the crown meant for her and was stolen by an imposter. Others say that she is a traitor to the SkyWing Queendom who tried to usurp her younger sister's throne. She hatched fireless from a twin egg. Sunfyre was Queen a couple generations before the events of Darkstalker, her reign ended just before the Winglet Runaway. She is the aunt and predecessor of Queen Carmine.
Appearance
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Sunfyre's presence was felt before she was actually seen. Hers was a firey anger that could make the greatest warriors shift uneasily. Her voice was a thunder, cracking across any room she was in and immediately drawing one's attention to her. She never raised her voice though, she didn't need to, her aura of power kept everyone quiet and she barely spoke above a normal tone.
When Sunfyre appeared it was obvious that she was Queen. Ignoring the crown of gold laruals and diamonds, everything about her just screamed 'fear me, respect me, worship me'. She was imposing and towered over her subjects. Sunfyre's scales are red-orange, like the colour of drying blood and the scales along her spine are a dark tangerine colour. She has dark brown horns, spines and claws. Her descendant, Scarlet, would be told over and over again that she bears a great resemblance to her great-great-something-aunt. Although Scarlets eyes are yellow unlike Sunfyre's, which are a startling, firey blue.
Personality
Before she was crowned, Sunfyre was a very timid dragonet, not wanting attention from any dragon. She hated not having fire and saw at as a weakness and that she should be ashamed of it. Things didn't get any better once her younger siblings were born either, as Opal and Tempest would often tease and bully her for her disability. 
Sunfyre is a ruthless negotiator, she was willing to exterminate the MudWing tribe if Crane did not help her get her throne.
But she was also capable of showing compassion and empathy, as shown when a grieving Carmine came to her for comfort and she reassured Carmine that the world wasn't out to get her, and she acted her motherly towards her niece.
However, Sunfyre has a major manipulative streak, and is willing to do anything and everything to stay in power, that included manipulating her niece to believe that she was the only dragon who cared for her and guilt tripped Carmine into thinking that challenging her was going to doom the entire SkyWing Queendom.
She was very ruthless as he didn't hesitate to engage and torture Opal, Tempest, and their respective hired assassins, according to some historians. She was not above harming her own niece, after she questioned Sunfyre. Even going as far as drawing blood from her niece and grabbing Carmine by ear and dragging her around. She appears to know of her own cruelty.
She is quite power hungry and she was incredibly wrathful and oppressive to the point that her subjects feared her more than they respected her.
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Sunfyre is a tall woman with tanned skin and short red hair that just comes above her chin. She is said to be built like a stone angel, looking delicate but a lot stronger than one would initally think. She is most often seen wearing a gold band around her neck and a white chlamys fastened with a gold buckle over her armour.
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Abilities 
Despite the fact that Sunfyre was a fireless dragon, she was very proficient at claw-to-claw combat and even armed combat. She was able to take on several armed SKyWings with just a shield. She has years of experience of fighting dragons two or three times herself. She is also immune to fire, and it was believed that if Stormfront had survived, she would be resistant to her twin's flaming scales. She effortlessly fought through swaths of her own tribe and easily killed her brother with a spear.
Stats
Strength
Charisma
Endurance
Loyalty
Agility
Intelligence
Stealth
Perception
History
Sunfyre hatched from a twin egg and had an identical twin named Stormfront. Stormfront was a firescales dragonet and sucked out all the fire out of her twin. Storm was drowned the exact moment she started crawling out of her egg. The guards at the hatchery had seized her with iron prongs and held her underwater until the little dragonet stopped thrashing. Sunfyre was raised within the palace and was actively shunned by her future subjects- no one wanted a fireless Queen.
Sunfyre spent the entirety of her life fighting for a throne she believed was hers. Her mother held fast to the belief that the eldest daughter would ascend to the throne. However, Sunfyre and her twin Stormfront were bastards. In ancient SkyWing culture, purity of blood was very important due to the ‘dangerous’ blood with animus and firescales dragonets.
Sunfyre was raised with the expectation that she would become Queen causing her to get a lot of hate from her future subjects. Eventually, Queen Alexandrite got married and had three more dragonets: Opal, Tempest and Sulphur. Despite now having a ‘worthy’ candidate for the SkyWing throne, Alexandrite was adamant that Sunfyre would succeed her. Causing Princess Opal to resent Sunfyre. Most of the SkyWing Queendom agreed that Opal would be the better Queen than a fireless and impure Princess, regardless of the fact that she was the eldest child of Queen Alexandrite.
This eventually would lead to Alexandrite’s assassination by her subjects. Queen Opal was crowned by the SkyWings and sent soldiers to kill her older half-sister.
Sunfyre fled the SkyWing Queendom with a few close friends and flew to the MudWing Queendom for support on taking back the throne that was rightfully hers. Queen Crane was sceptical about helping another Princess gain the throne and was very vocal about these concerns. Sunfyre offered her immunity from attack for the entirety of her reign as Queen or else she would have her throne without Crane’s assistance and once she achieved what she wanted, she would destroy the MudWings. Crane reluctantly agreed, and the New Alliance flew back to the SkyWing Queendom with the MudWing army in tow.
A great battle happened over the SkyWing palace that night, which today is referred to as the ‘Night of the Midnight Sun’ because there was so much fire that it looked like it was the middle of the day.
Sunfyre’s brother, Sulphur found his eldest sister on the battlefield and engaged in a bloody fight which ultimately led to the discovery that fireless twin dragonets are immune to fire (and presumably their twin’s flaming hot scales), and the death of Sulphur via spear through the eye socket and out the back of his head.
Sunfyre then sought out her imposter of a Queen and sister, the armies of the MudWing and SkyWing Queendoms both gradually stopped fighting as they realised what was happening. Sunfyre issued an impromptu challenge to her younger sister and the two fought over the arena of the SkyWing Palace. Opal is eventually defeated after taking a claw to the eye.
Per ancient SkyWing tradition, Opal surrendered to her sister and was removed from the Cloud throne and spent the rest of her days as Sunfyre’s personal slave. Sunfyre was extremely bitter about the years of resentment and attempted her attempted murder, so as a little revenge, she had her best doctor shatter Opal’s tailbone, effectively paralyzing her tail and making it impossible for her to fly.
A year after Opal’s surrender to Queen Sunfyre, Princess Tempest had a dragonet with Beaumont, the son of Ex-Queen Opal’s top war general. The two got married and made sure to tend to the new Princess.
Sunfyre didn’t announce that she had a chosen heir, but secretly hoped that it was her niece Carmine who succeeded her when she died or got challenged.
Even after Opal’s defeat at the talons of her older sister, she still tried to assassinate her sister and reclaim her throne. However, she had fallen out of grace with her former subjects. One thing that SkyWings’ see as a bigger weakness than not being able to breathe fire, was the inability to fly and that any dragon without that ability should be actively shunned for their disability.
Queen Sunfyre made an amendment to the SkyWing tradition that Queens’ or challengers’ could not surrender to their opponent and made it mandatory that the dragons fight each other to the death. If the challenger or Queen tried to surrender, it was considered a sign of weakness and the spectators of the challenge could interfere and attempt to kill the dragon who was trying to surrender. Obviously Sunfyre didn’t write that in the law stating that once a challenge was issued neither party could surrender, but it was heavily implied it was allowed when the amendment was made to the law. Firestorm redacted that law, generations later, saying that it was forbidden to interfere with a Royal Challenge as it was up to the dragon that was being offered the surrender whether to kill the other or not.
Sunfyre did eventually get married and brought forward a single egg to the Royal Court. Apparently the pregnancy was really hard on Sunfyre's body and she almost didn't survive the birth and almost crushed her daughter's egg. In the end Sunfyre survived as did her egg, but something happened between her laying the egg and it hatching that caused the dragonet inside to die. Some speculate that Tempest had something do with the stillbirth.
Tempest, after all that Sunfyre had done to prove that she was a good Queen, still didn’t believe that her sister belonged on the throne, tried to stage a coup and have her sister assassinated as ‘revenge for killing her siblings, Opal and Sulphur’. Sunfyre’s guards stopped the assassination from happening and as punishment, Tempest was locked underground with all the dragon’s who attempted to assassinate Sunfyre. No one knows what happened to those dragons, but two popular rumours arose after the Princess’s disappearance. One was that the dragons were sealed underground, never seeing the sunlight and never being fed, until they either suffocated, starved or went insane from the isolation. Others say that they were taken underground and quietly killed so as to not cause anymore drama.
With the death of her mother, three-year-old Carmine was understandably upset, but was taken under the wing of her aunt. Carmine developed a sort of stockholm syndrome and was unwilling to admit that Sunfyre was not her actual mother. Sunfyre did not help in the matter as she emotionally manipulated and gaslit the dragonet that she was the only one who cared for her.
Sunfyre would go on to have another dragonet with a dragon who was not her husband but he became a topic of great controversy. It was public knowledge that the Queen had not married her son's father and the egg was seen as a stain on Sunfyre's 'perfect' image. Once Prince Cordovan was born however, it was clear that no dragon would ever accept him. His scales shone like backlit alabaster and his eyes were darker than a moonless night. Dragons started speculating whether he was a pure SkyWing. Sometime later, with the limited technology the SkyWing's, had at the time, it was determined that Cordovan's parent's were both SkyWings and perhaps the gene that caused his aunt to possess firescales and his mother to possess no fire had been passed down to Cordovan and that had turned his scales ivory. Nevertheless, Cordovan simply vanished from the royal court and was never seen again just before his first hatching day.
Tensions were rising between the SeaWing and and SkyWing tribes as Queen Torrent was building villages on the shores of her Queendom and Sunfyre was worried that the villages were just a coverup for a full-scale invasion of the SkyWing tribe. At the same time, one of Sunfyre's close friends from dragonethood rose through the ranks and became head of a batilltion in the SkyWing Army. Hao was extremely devoted to Queen Sunfyre and was very loyal. He had a tendancy to put his well-being first over everything, but he would never flee a battle. His tendancy to put himself first sparked suspision in Sunfyre, but she let it slide, knowing what it was like to put yourself first in dangerious situaltions. Eventually it all cam to a head when Sunfyre killed him by putting a knife in his back out of paranoia. Hao was remembered as a hero and she grieved him for about a week.
Sunfyre grew more paranoid by the day and started love-bombed her niece, making the dragoness feel amazing for a span of weeks and then physically and emotionally withdrawing herself, leaving Carmine to believe that she'd done something wrong and chase her aunt's validation.
It took about two decades to undo all the manipulation that Sunfyre had basically installed into Carmine’s head. She eventually challenged her aunt when the Queen was about 84. Carmine won, eventually and even managed to burn her aunt’s seemingly fireproof scales.
After Sunfyre’s death, SkyWing doctors and scientists took her body and conducted various experiments on it to see what could actually harm fire-resistant scales. Her scales helped further develop the production of fire-resistant metal.
Carmine had the painting of her aunt removed from the dining hall of the SkyWing Palace; it now hangs in the Palace library above the history section.
Relationships
Queen Alexandrite : Sunfyre and her mother had a very complicated relationship. She hated her for not marrying her father and causing her to be a 'bastard' and she also blamed her mother that she was fireless and that her twin was dead.
However, she also loved her mother because she was one of the only dragons to actually believe in her and rather than hating her for something beyond her control. Sunfyre also recognized her hatred of her mother is misplaced and she just need someone to blame.
Princess Opal : Sunfyre and Opal have the worst possible sibling relationship. Sunfyre despises her younger sister for the years of relentless teasing because of Sunfyre's disability. Opal was very smug and flaunted the fact that most dragons in the Sky Queendom wanted her to be Queen.
Princess Tempest : Tempest didn't like her older sister, but she didn't hate Sunfyre. She was terrified of her other sibling, Opal though. Opal would order her around and had a habit of spreading nasty rumours about her sister to disgrace her. Tempest still thought that Sunfyre was an abomination and didn't deserve a shot at the throne or the title of 'SkyWing'.
Tempest wasn't afraid of cheating, and was willing to hire an assassin to kill her sister and then ascend to the throne. She was not worried about ridiculed for taking a short cut and planned to kill any dragon who mentioned her 'unworthy' ascension to the SkyWing throne. However she never had to as she never became Queen and was supposedly murdered by her sister for her attempts
Prince Sulphur : Sulphur didn't hate his eldest sister by any stretch of the imagination, but he always favoured his full sister, Opal. He was willing to fight to the death over his 'true' sister's throne to protect her and was a very loyal dragon.
Sunfyre did feel a stab of pity when she killed him, reflecting, if not for their messed up family situation, they could have been friends.
Princess Charcoal : Despite Sunfyre's daughter never hatching, she cared very much for her stillborn daughter. Sunfyre would often speak to her daughter through the egg and she was devastated when she didn't hatch.
Prince Cordovan : Her son on the other talon was an abomination. Physically and socially. Cordovan was also a bastard like his mother and was either killed or discreetly adopted by a poor SkyWing couple.
Queen Carmine : Queen Sunfyre loved her niece. She treated Carmine like the most precious thing in the world and constantly told her so. Despite her apparent love for Carmine, that didn't protect her from the emotional abuse that she would suffer. Sunfyre deliberately made Carmine feel like the best dragon in Pyrrhia so she would feel guilty about every thinking about challenging for the throne. Sunfyre also conditioned Carmine to always be seeking her approval and affirmation. She did this by love bombing her for weeks at a time and making her niece feel amazing before emotionally withdrawing herself. Making Carmine feel the need to please Sunfyre to receive all the praise and adoration. She made sure to select a husband for Carmine that would take care of her, showing on some level that she genuinely cared for Carmine.
Princess Sunset : Sunfyre didn't nesessarily hate her grandniece, but she was a constant thorn in the Queen's side, reminding her starkly of her younger half-sister Opal. The two dragons were basically identical at a distance. And even up close, Sunfyre was hard-pressed to find a visual difference between her sister and her grandniece. She hoped Sunset would never be Queen. Fortunatly for Sunfyre, Sunset never became Queen. Though the latter was dead before she could ascend to the throne, but Sunfyre had died about five years prior and would have no way of knowing this. 
General Hao : Hao and Sunfyre were very good friends when they were dragonets and they remained good friends even after about a decade apart. She deeply regretted killing him out of paranoia.
Queen Crane : Queen Crane and Queen Sunfyre are allies, Sunfyre held up her side of the bargin when she ascended the throne and helped with defending the Mud Queendom on more than one occasion.
Queen Torrent : Queen Torrent and Sunfyre had slightly negitive relationship. Sunfyre saw the offshore villages as a front for a full on invasion. Torrent didn't intend for this message to be sent across, she genuenlly wanted to set a little village for the SeaWing who wanted to live above water.
Queen Diamond : Though the SkyWings and IceWings would go to war in a couple years after Carmine ascends to the throne, Sunfyre and Diamond had a respectful, but neutral relationship. Diamond though Sunfyre was impulsive and brave for going to war over a throne, but respected the dedication Sunfyre put into her Queendom, leading the MudWing army against the her own tribe.
Sunfyre feared the IceWing Queen more than she respected her, but that was mostly because of her animus magic. She found the IceWing Queen to be annoying the first time they met in person, but was willing to stay on the dragoness's good side because she feared what war with an animus dragon would reduce both their tribes to.
Queen Scorpion : Scorpion and Sunfyre have never met in person. She occasionally gets a complaint about the settlement dispute on the Five-Tail River between her Queendom and the desert, but that doesn't really bother her as much as other matters.
Queen Anaconda : Admittedly, no one really knows about the RainWing Queen, only rumours and stereotypes of the elusive Rainforst dragons. Sunfyre bases her opinions on those stereotypes.
Queen Vigilance : Sunfyre met the NightWing Queen only once when they were both princesses and Vigilance's Mother met with her mother in the SkyWing Palace for a diplomatic meeting. She remembers the NightWing monarch being very stoic and demanding, and her daughter being a mirror image of the older NightWing.
Miscellaneous
*Despite not loving the arena as much as other SkyWing Queens', Sunfyre still wore the traditional SkyWing crown: a golden laurel wreath with diamonds inlaid in the leaves and the small 'berries' of the laurel plant were replaced with rubies.
*Zoey Mikaido is Sunfyre's voice claim, specifically her voice role as Winifred from Amygdala: The August Few.
*Sunfyre tried to undo the custom of killing firescales dragonets at point during her rule, she was not successful.
*It is believed by few that Cordovan survived and has living descendants today. Kestrel and her dragonets are those descendants and it is just based off rumours.
*The dragon language has evolved over the centuries, now a days Sunfyre's name would be spelt as Sunfire. 
*It is really annoying when editing because FANDOM says 'Sunfyre' spelled wrong. I know, that was on purpose.
*Sunfyre is not inspired directly by any real life monarch or political figure, any resemblance to any person alive or dead, was purely coincidental. 
*Probably had a python or other snake as a dragonet.
*While Sunfyre was immune to fire, that didn't mean she couldn't feel the heat of the flames.
**She probably wouldn't survive swimming in lava either.
*Hao is not a love intrest, just a protective friend that knew when he was in over his head.
Family Tree
note: this is why i wanted you to keep the side rail closed- it makes the family tree look better
⌖ = Assassinated
† = Dead before/after hatching
Quotes
"You do realise that you are the biggest jerk, right?" ~Sunfyre to Sulphur
"You had no right to sit on my throne for all of those years! Mother said that I was to take her place!" ~Sunfyre to Opal
"I was willing to give her a place in my palace- yes -preferably out of sight most of the time, but she would had the rights of a Princess. History is going to twist my words, but I was willing to let Sunfyre live as a Princess. [...] And you know what she did?! The bastard turned me down! I was so generous to her and she had the audacity to turn me down." ~Opal to Sulphur about Sunfyre
"You're my smart little dragon, darling Carmine, and you know what challenging me will do to the Queendom; it'll fall apart if I'm not on the throne. The Queendom would go through so much turmoil if their was a changing of Queens. Besides I don't have any other heirs, so when I die, you can take the throne, without any violence." ~Sunfyre to Carmine
"You are my Queen [...] Sunfyre, I'm your friend, you'll always have me-" ~Hao to Sunfyre moments before his death
"Mommy? Where's mommy? Are you her?" ~Carmine as a dragonet to Sunfyre
Gallery
File:Sunfyre base by Atashi vanpaia.png|By Atashi vanpaia on the WoF canon wiki
File:Human Sunfyre, updated and edited.png|Human Sunfyre created on Baydew's Picrew
File:Sunfyre basefill by PrincessSharpThrustOfTheThornWings.webp|Base by Mezepheles, filled by PrincessSharpThrustOfTheThornWings
File:Sunfyre by Phe0nix the skwing.jpg|By Phe0nix the skwing
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