Koiwings

### Language

An underwater language made of flashing lights like aquatic, can speak normal dragon on land

## Description

### General Appearance

Koiwings are strange looking dragons, with large circular wings, which are more of fins than wings. These "wings" are extremely circular and upright, and are incapable of being folded in properly. When a Koiwing is on land, they do not waste energy holding their incredibly stiff fin-wings upright, they just let them droop to the side. Because of their Silkwing ancestry, they have four wings, but their second pair is very small, and a bit useless. The wings are partially transparent.

On their head, there are frills just like a Rainwing's, but a bit more fleshy. They can show a Koiwing`s mood. They also have fins on their legs, but only Female Koiwings seem to have them. (Koiwings who identify as Non-binary or Agender have them as well, but much smaller.) They have very rough and hard scales around their neck, so it is hard for any enemies to kill a Koiwing by biting/scratching/stabbing their neck. They have several glowing spots across their body, two on each side of their shoulders, and a big glowing tail. Koiwings, just like their fin-wings, have semi-transparent webs on their feet. They sometimes have fins on either side of their tail (vertically).

### Colours

Koiwings, like Koi, have a wide range of colours. Their colours can be gold, orange, black, red , and many others, but they somehow can only be colours that appear on koi, and they have convergantly evolved the same patterns as the fish.

## Abilities

Koiwings have a wide range of very strange abilities. They all can go underwater for almost a year, though it takes about a day to get the air back when they have to go to the surface. They have many adaptations to the open ocean, such as being able to swim faster than the average Seawing, caused by their streamlined bodies and fully webbed feet. However, this causes them to be very clumsy on land and almost incapable of holding objects. Because of this, many Koiwings are illiterate. Koiwings can flash the glowing areas on their shoulders and tail to communicate with other members of their tribe in a pseudo-more code. It is hard for even a modern-day Seawing to learn said language.

### Slimespit

Slimespit is a rare ability/condition in the Koiwing tribe, and occurs in about 1 in 150 dragons, making it still pretty rare but more common than conditions like Firescales. Slimespit, is a thick, slightly warm, slime created from glands in the back of a Koiwing's jaws. The slime is very viscous, and lasts way longer than flamesilk, as long as it is kept in a cool place. However, it looses it's heat very quickly, going from its usual luke-warm temputare to freezing cold in a couple of hours. Slimespit is very sticky, and can be used as make-shift bandages, or even as traps for fish. Like it's predecceser flamesilk, slimespit is often genetic and parents with the ability have more of a chance of producing slimespit dragonets.

## Evolution

### The escape

Many years ago, as tensions where rising before the tree wars, some Silkwings where on edge about Queen Wasp getting more and more power hungry. They where afraid of her. And when the tree wars started, it just got lost. Queen Monarch letting Wasp take over the Silkwing throne, for many, provided only confusion and fear, and many Silkwings went into hiding in disapproval of Monarch's choice. When the dragons who (begrudgingly) accepted the new rule where drafted into the tree wars, it just felt wrong to them. "Why would Clearsight want this? For dragons to be killed and maimed for possibly unjust means? Why should possible genocide be committed, for such ways?" Said Silkwings though, as they helped the Hivewings mow down squadrons of Leafwing soldiers. As their doubts grew, they found and joined the Silkwings in hiding.

#### The secret organisation

The fangs of vengeance was a top-secret rebellion group in the depths of the Silkwing towns during the tree wars. No Hivewings or Leafwings where allowed in, and you could only join with an invite. The meetings where originally once a month at the start of the war, but as members grew and as they watched the Leafwings loose, they grew quicker. The fangs of vengeance was lead by a Silkwing named Cercropia, who planned to slow down and kill the Hivewings and other Silkwing soldiers from within, and as they started to loose, join the Leafwings, making the balance more equal, then make Cercropia's daughter, Pipevine, the new queen of the Silkwings.

After the poison plot to kill off commander mite succeeded, and the Hivewings where starting to falter in the war, Cercropia got his group to fly other to the Leafwings and help them. However, as they where flying to the remaining forests, Mimic, a spy, told queen wasp about the organisation. She was absolutely furious. The group was ambushed by Hivewing soldiers, and even though the Silkwings gave them a good fight, they lost and Cercropia was killed. The fangs of vengeance who where still alive then realised that they could never make it to the Leafwings, and all their efforts would fail, so they decided to fly to the ocean, and try to get help.

### The ocean

The Hivewings, seeing it as a suicide mission, did not follow them over to the ocean. However, the Silkwings also saw it as suicide. They didn't know what was across the vast ocean that never seemed to end. There where loads of arguments and discussion on what to do. Some decided to try to find the distant kingdoms and beg for help. And maybe, just maybe the magnificent dragons from that distant continent would come with an army, and destroy Wasp once and for all. Some Silkwings thought that they should just stay at the ocean for a while, then fly back to the Leafwings. Tensions where rising, but before a fight could break out, Pipevine spoke up and said that they where flying to the distant