Chaffinches and Chains

Some background: This takes place a thousand years after the current books. The tribes cultural structure has changed. Pantala is present (naturally) and many more cities exist. Slavery is a thing in the SandWing and SkyWing kingdoms. So it could be better.
== A Guide to the Tribes ==
==== MudWings ====
Description: Thick, armoured brown scales, sometimes with amber and gold underscales; large, flat heads with nostrils on top of the snout.
Abilities: Can breathe fire (if warm enough), hold their breath for up to an hour, blend into large mud puddles, usually very strong.
Queen: Queen Terracotta
Alliances: The MudWings have been allied with the SeaWings and the RainWings since Queen Terracotta took the throne.
Reputations: MudWings are mainly traders, messengers and ambassadors. Overall a peaceful tribe.
==== SandWings ====
Description: Pale gold or white scales the colour of desert sand; poisonous barbed tail; forked black tongues.
Abilities: Can survive a long time without water, poison enemies with the tips of their tails, bury themselves for camouflage in the desert sand, breathe fire.
Queen: Queen Bast
Alliances: The SandWings are allied with the IceWings and the SkyWings.
Reputation: Ever since the Fall of Queens when Bast rose from the Scorpion Den and took the throne, SandWings have been known as the cruellest tribe. They began enslaving their fallen enemies, and Bast has been attempting to expand her kingdom for years.
==== SkyWings ====
Description: Red-gold or orange scales; enormous wings.
Abilities: Powerful fighters and fliers, can breathe fire.
Queen: Ever since the Fall of Queens, Queen Bast has ruled the SkyWings in semi-slavery.
Alliances: Queen Bast does not allow the SkyWings to have alliances.
==== SeaWings ====
Description: Blue, green or aquamarine scales; webs between their claws; gills on their necks; glow-in-the-dark stripes on their tails/snouts/underbellies.
Abilities: Can breathe underwater, see in the dark, create huge waves with one splash of their powerful tails; excellent swimmers.
Queen: Queen Alcyoneum
Alliances: The SeaWings are allied with the MudWings, RainWings, SilkWings and IceWings
==== RainWings ====
Description: Scales constantly shift colours, usually bright like birds of paradise; prehensile tails.
Abilities: Can camouflage their scales to blend into their surroundings; shoot a deadly venom from their fangs.
Queen: Queen Astonishing
Alliances: RainWings are allied with the MudWings, SeaWings, GloryWings and LeafWings.
==== IceWings ====
Description: Silvery scales like the moon or pale blue like ice; ridged claws to grip the ice; forked blue tongues; tails narrow to a whip-thin end.
Abilities: Can withstand sub-zero temperatures and bright light; exhale a deadly frostbreath.
Queen: Queen Chalcedony
Alliances: IceWings have an alliance with the SeaWings, GloryWings and HiveWings, as well as an unsteady alliance with the SandWings.
==== GloryWings ====
Description: Very dark purple-black scales and scattered multicoloured scales on the underside of their wings, like a nebula; forked black tongues.
Abilities: Can disappear into dark shadows; some hatch with the power to read minds or see the future (or, very rarely, both).
Queen: Queen Eris
Alliances: GloryWings have had an alliance with the IceWings and RainWings since 5012.
== The Prophecy of Sky ==
When Night and Sky have fallen,
And Silk and Hive are equal,
A SkyWing of fire shall rise,
And bring equality to her people.
Glory and Rain shall ally,
With Ice and Sea and Tree,
Sand and Hive will fight against,
And fire will have victory.
So watch your back, queen of sand,
And keep safe against the tribes
Only Hive can be trusted,
All others must be bribed.
== Prologue ==
Twenty years ago...
Painful breaths cut through the cool, dry air as three princesses stood around a dying queen. "Mother-" the youngest, Ruellia, murmured, brushing against her mother's wings. "Don't pity me." Queen Parodia wheezed. "Don't pity yourselves. If you must pity someone, pity the kingdom."
"Why?" Vinca, the middle sister, asked. "One of us must survive. The kingdom will be okay."
"No." Parodia replied. "I have never seen an illness like this, but history records it. Queen Glacier of the IceWings was killed by a sickness like this. And what caused it?"
"Darkstalker." Vinca breathed after a pause. Parodia nodded, coughing.
"But he was destroyed." Veleno, the eldest, said. "Thousands of years ago. And he would have nothing against the SandWings."
"Did I say it was Darkstalker?" Parodia snapped. "An animus must have done this."
"But who?" Ruellia asked. "Who would be against us like this?"
"I don't know." Parodia replied. "But I want you to find them." Before her daughters could reply, Parodia descended into coughs. She grasped her daughters' talons, trying to speak through her coughs. "Save... our... tribe..."
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