Ex-Queen Scarlet

**Scarlet** was an adult female SkyWing who was introduced in **The Dragonet Prophecy**. Despite being challenged fourteen times for the throne, she reigned as the SkyWing queen for approximately twenty-nine years until she was killed by her daughter Tourmaline in a royal challenge. She was allied with Burn and the MudWings during the War of SandWing Succession.

## Description

Scarlet was majestic and strong, with dark orange scales and narrow, slitted,lidded, bright yellow eyes that were as sharp as talons, often full of flames, and contained a glimmer of menace. Her orange wings were enormous, and their top side had diamonds and rubies embedded around the edges. A row of tiny rubies and diamonds were also embedded between the scales over each of her eyes. She had a serpentine grin.

She was slightly bigger than Clay, but smaller than Kestrel and Dune. She was usually wreathed in white smoke that emitted from her nostrils in a steady stream that would coil thickly around her horns. She also had a purring, lilting, deep,slithering voice and a laugh like a high, strange, hollow cackle. She spoke clearly and coldly, with iron and ice in her voice.

During her reign, she wore a fine coat of golden chain mail, hung with rubies and amber drops, around her torso, as well as a circlet made of gold and diamonds, medallions around her neck, and rings on her claws. Occasionally, she would also wear a diamond-studded vest with small black chain links. She glowed like a poisonous orange.

After being severely injured by Glory's venom and being imprisoned by Burn, all of her earlier ornaments were gone except for the rubies above her left eye. The other side of her shimmering orange face was melted into a hideous dark mess of a scar that misshaped her snout and revealed a glimpse of her jawbone underneath. One eye was pulled down and out of proportion with the rest of her face.

Scarlet became thin and ragged after she escaped Burn's clutches, but began adorning herself with jewelry once she briefly managed to regain the SkyWing throne. She remained alight with fury, like a cold flame that would never go out. Her entire body radiated fury and vengeance, and she had strong wings capable of powerful strokes that were slow and majestic.

## Personality

Scarlet was malicious, dangerous, imperious, glowering, grim, scary, mean, terrifying, monstrous, power hungry, manipulative, vengeful, furious, sinister, insane, and murderous. Other dragons very rarely argued with her. She would often examine her claws as if the dragons around her were exceedingly boring, and she conveyed disdain in the tilt of her wings.

Living in excess, Scarlet took pleasure in adorning herself and her throne room with gemstones and precious metals and would grow petulantly upset when she did not get her way. She refused to let herself be uncomfortable, and she often made things a spectacle.

She also thought very highly of herself, and had portraits made in her image. She was not above lying and manipulation and would go to great lengths to control dragons around her to do her bidding, and she did not care for rules whatsoever. She was a smooth liar, sly and cunning with her words, as well as ruthless and unbothered by killing or having dragons killed, including her own daughters. Upon returning to the Sky Kingdom, she set three innocent guards on fire, one of whom was unconscious.

She used fear of her violent wrath to prevent her subjects from doing things she disliked, and she rarely lost challenges to her authority. Chameleon also stated that she was usually very convincing.

Her self-indulgent need for 'thrilling' forms of entertainment meant that her violent arena, fed by the war, was very important to her. She wished to continue the war, heedless of its impact on her subjects, for her personal entertainment and to keep her throne secure.

After being scarred by Glory's venom, Scarlet grew even more bitter and vicious, plotting vengeance and violence against Dragonets of Destiny and Ruby.

## Burn

She would occasionally give Burn gifts for her weirdling tower and Burn usually liked them. Scarlet was willing to give Sunny to Burn as a gift due to her unusual scale color and barb-less tail.

## Trivia

* One of Tui's favorite words is "thrilling," just like Scarlet.
* Scarlet firmly avoids dragonets.
* In *The Hidden Kingdom*, Scarlet was shown without her venom scar, despite it being glimpsed in the original text. This was corrected in *The Brightest Night*.
* In Scarlet's character profile, the word written in big letters at the top is "VAIN." Tui determined that vanity would be Scarlet's defining characteristic while searching for traits that are unusual to find in a villain.
* *A Guide to the Dragon World* will include who formerly married her and why. BEFORE SHE GOT SO GAY WITH BURN MMMM