Jade Mountain Academy

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**The** **Jade Mountain Academy** was founded by the Dragonets of Destiny after the War of the SandWing Succession. It is an inter-tribal school located in the tallest mountain in Pyrrhia, Jade Mountain. Jade Mountain is located in the southern half of the Claws of the Clouds Mountains, which can be observed in the Sky Kingdom. The Academy is currently divided into five winglets: the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the Copper Winglet, and the Quartz Winglet, each containing a dragonet from each of the seven dragon tribes. Groups of two or three dragonets (excluding Peril) from a winglet share a cave, making them clawmates. Stonemover  lives alone in a cave near the school.

## Winglets

### Jade Winglet

**Students:**

* **IceWing:** Winter
* **MudWing:** unknown (formerly Umber)
* **NightWing:** Moonwatcher
* **RainWing:** Kinkajou
* **SandWing:** Qibli (re-enstated, formally left to help Queen Thorn rebuild her palace)
* **SeaWing:** Turtle
* **SkyWing:** Peril (formerly Carnelian)

**Known Clawmates:**

* Moonwatcher, Kinkajou, and a new female MudWing (formerly Umber)
* Winter and Qibli
* Turtle and Umber

**Former Students:**

* Winter (currently living with the Talons of Peace)
* Umber (fled with Sora)
* Carnelian (deceased)

**Royalty:**Prince Turtle (son of Queen Coral); Prince Winter (nephew of Queen Glacier, and cousin to Queen Snowfall)

### Gold Winglet

**Students:**

* **IceWing:**unknown (formerly Icicle)
* **MudWing:** unknown (formerly Sora)
* **NightWing:** unknown (formerly Bigtail)
* **RainWing:** Tamarin
* **SandWing:**unknown (formerly Onyx)
* **SeaWing:** Pike
* **SkyWing:** unknown (formerly Flame)

**Known Clawmates:**

* Icicle and Sora (both are gone, but new clawmates are unknown)
* Bigtail, Pike, and Flame (Flame is gone, but Bigtail and Pike are still clawmates)
* Onyx and Tamarin (Onyx is gone)

**Former Students:**

* Icicle (on trial in the Ice Kingdom, from attempting to kill Starflight and killing an unnamed Nightwing)
* Sora (fled with Umber to escape prosecution for the murders of Carnelian and Bigtail)
* Bigtail (deceased)
* Onyx (left to take the SandWing throne but failed; now recovering from injury in the Kingdom of Sand)
* Flame (left for attempted murder; now working with the SkyWing healers)

**Royalty:** Icicle (niece of Queen Glacier and cousin to Queen Snowfall)

### Silver Winglet

**Students:**

* **IceWing:** Changbai
* **MudWing:** Sepia
* **NightWing:** Fearless
* **RainWing:** Boto
* **SandWing:** Ostrich
* **SeaWing:** Anemone
* **SkyWing:** Thrush

**Known Clawmates:**

* Anemone and Ostrich
* Sepia and Fearless
* Boto, Thrush and Changbai

**Royalty:** Princess Anemone (daughter of Queen Coral)

### Copper Winglet

**Students:**

* **IceWing:** Alba
* **MudWing:** Marsh
* **NightWing:** Mindreader
* **RainWing:** Coconut
* **SandWing:** Pronghorn
* **SeaWing:** Snail
* **SkyWing:** Peregrine

**Known Clawmates:**

* Alba, Mindreader, and Snail
* Marsh and Coconut
* Pronghorn and Peregrine

### Quartz Winglet

**Students:**

* **IceWing:** Ermine
* **MudWing:** Newt
* **NightWing:** unknown (formerly Mightyclaws)
* **RainWing:** Siamang
* **SandWing:** Arid
* **SeaWing:** Barracuda
* **SkyWing:** Garnet

**Former Students:** Mightyclaws (making houses for the NightWings in the rainforest)

## Founders and Staff

Clay is the hall monitor, healer, self-defense teacher and prey organizer.

Tsunami is the head of school. (refers to her being the "leader" of the dragonets)

Starflight is the librarian.

Sunny is the main founder (as the school was her idea).

Webs is the history teacher.

Fatespeaker is Starflight's assistant and a helper at the Academy.

## Rooms and Caves

### The Great Hall

The Great Hall is the unofficial entrance of Jade Mountain Academy. Moonwatcher described the cave to have a dimmer light in comparison to that of outside, having enough room to fit four hundred dragons comfortably, with room for more to fly overhead. It was mentioned to have sunlight pouring into the cave, with twisting stalactites that sometimes reached the floor, forming twisted columns. A huge bronze gong hangs against the back wall, with three flying dragons carved into its surface. When the school first opened, a huge banner made of woven green vines reading "welcome, students!" in giant purple-and-white flowers hung from two stalactites. Two tunnel openings form along the left wall of the cave, with two more on the right wall. Next to each opening, a map is hung, displaying tunnel routes.

### The Library

The entrance, as described by Moonwatcher, starts off as a side corridor lined with hanging scrolls. Many of them have quotes on the such as "Knowledge is a flame in the darkness" and "The claws of war are no match for the wings of wisdom." At the end, a room full of iridescent green sunlight is present (produced by the sun shining through tree leaves placed over windows, one of those windows were torn by Icicle escaping out of them in Moon Rising). Scrolls were everywhere, in cubbyholes on the walls, racks, and cylinders around the cave. Every corner had a spot to curl up and read in, sometimes a rock ledge, sometimes a pile of moss and sometimes carpets. Sunlight came down from skylights in the roof and filtered through leaves covering the windows. There's a circular wooden desk labeled 'LIBRARIAN' in the centre where Starflight manages the scrolls. Starflight has stamps of every students name that he stamps on a scroll slot/card.

### The Prey Center

The Prey Center, which Clay set up, was often described as chaotic. It is a large cave open to the sky on one side (with this side covered by a wall of rocks to prevent the prey from escaping). It is usually filled with animal prey. There is also a pile of fish, caught by expeditions, and a pile of rainforest fruit for Rainwing students. This is because students were everywhere either catching prey or eating. This was one of the main places where Moonwatcher's head hurt the most before Darkstalker taught her how to stop this. Moon met Winter and Qibli for the first time there after Qibli (or, as Winter called him, "the idiot clawmate") released Winter's pet scavenger, Bandit, that many dragons tried to catch and eat before Moon caught him and gave him back to Winter ( after much arguing )

### The History Cave

This was where Webs taught history to the students of the Jade Mountain Academy. It was described to be covered in maps (each marked with a different year) and with stacks of scrolls that overflowed the wooden racks provided. This cave was also destroyed by Sora's dragonflame cactus during the events of Moon Rising forcing history class to be relocated to a different cave. New cave is unknown.

### The Art Cave

The Art Cave was the room where students learned all sorts of art forms, including painting, pottery glass-working, metalworking, weaving, and woodworking. The room was filled with art supplies tucked into every crevice, and wooden dragon sculptures placed on little stone shelves.

### The Music Cave

The Music Cave was a vast cave filled with various instruments including harps, marimbas, maracas, and drums.

### The Weapons Cave

First mentioned in Darkness of Dragons, The Weapons Cave is where weapons were kept if needed to defend the school. The room contains a locked wooden box which holds three daggers, (two after the events of Darkness of Dragons) one sword, and one club (or as Qibli describes it, a "big stick")

### The Healing Center

Also first introduced in Darkness of Dragons, the Healing Center is where Clay teaches basic medicine. It contains a colored diagram of a dragon (MudWing) which shows where muscles are located.

### The Sleeping Caves

along one tunnel, many small circular caves branch off known as sleeping caves. Along the hall and inside the caves are "lanterns" which dragons light with their fire. The lanterns are different colors and make the light a color like green, purple, or orange, depending on the color of the lantern. Inside the caves are scroll racks and scrolls, and each student gets a scroll rack of their own. Their are two or three sleeping spots like rock ledges, hammocks, or moss. The type of material used for the sleeping spot is selected specially for the student. Two or three students, known as clawmates, occupy each cave from the same winglet.

## Known Classes

### History

Taught by Webs, this class is meant to teach in depth the history of Pyrrhia to attending students. The class is structured in units, with the first unit being The Scorching and going chronologically throughout history afterwards. The next known unit is 500 years after The Scorching, which is described as a rather chaotic time period.

### Herbs and Healing

Suggested by Peregrine and Tamarin sometime between Talons of Power and Darkness of Dragons, this class, taught by Clay, is meant to teach the basics of healing to students. The class is shown to outline dragon anatomy to students as a basis for learning proper technique and presumably teaches some botany, as "herbs" is in the title.

### Music

While not an official class, there is a music cave which dragonets visit as a part of their schedule to learn to play different instruments from across Pyrrhia through their own intuition.

### Group Discussion Class

Though the official name of this class isn't well known, nor is it known if this class even still exists, it is lead by Tsunami and is meant as a sort of bonding area for the dragonets within a Winglet to get to know one another.

### Hunting Expiditions

This is a time around "lunch" time where hunting expeditions, often lead by Clay, go out to hunt food and to learn how to hunt better. It may not be an official class. Hunting expeditions are also sometimes held after Group Discussion Class. If Clay does not lead it them Tsunami usually will

### Lunch

This is a period of time set aside in the middle of the day to eat. Students go to the Prey Center to eat and hang out.

### Free Time

This is a time set aside after lunch when students can do whatever they want. It was set up at this time so that RainWing students can have suntime at the correct time. SeaWings often go to the uderground lake, SandWings often lie on a ridge in the sun to talk, MudWings often go find some mud or go to the prey center, and RainWings sleep for suntime. The Art and Music cave is open during this time, and so is the Library and Prey Center.

## Schedule

Not known, but there are six known official classes and set aside time, and each winglet has a different schedule. Two different winglets sometimes pair together and share some classes. All students have lunch and free time together.

## Trivia

* Jade Mountain Academy is the first known school where dragons of all tribes are taught together.
* The school currently houses all the dragonets of destiny apart from Queen Glory.
* Books six through ten focus on Jade Mountain Academy, specifically the Jade Winglet.
* Anemone, Turtle, Icicle, and Winter are the only known royal figures in the winglets.