Night Kingdom (Volcanic Island)

The **NightWing island** became the secret home of the NightWings shortly after the tribe abandoned the lost city of night in fear of Darkstalker's return. It is connected to the Rainforest Kingdom by an animus-enchanted tunnel, but can also be reached by crossing the sea. It is located north of Pyrrhia, although the exact location is unknown.

After the island's volcano erupted in *The Dark Secret*, the NightWings fled to the Rainforest Kingdom and accepted Glory as their new queen (an event that is known as the NightWing Exodus).

## Description

The molten landscape is smaller than Winter had imagined when he thought of the NightWing's secret home. It made him feel instantly claustrophobic, and there is a vast ocean lurking in all directions. Dense ripples of black lava flows cover everything, still glowing orange and yellow where liquid fire is spilling through the cracks. The volcano cuts jaggedly into the sky, but it looks as though the top has been smashed in, leaving a smoking hole. Thick gray clouds, heavy with ash and smoke and sizzling with lightning, stretch across the sky, blocking the stars and moons.

Everything smells like sulfur and fire and death. There are sulfurous smoke vents dotting the ground, and the weather is typically grim and smells like sulfur. Fierceteeth described the experience to feel like sucking in particles of ash with every breath, causing the lungs to feel as though they are on fire and the throat to feel scraped.

The island was covered in trees when the NightWings arrived on it, but the volcano erupted several times over the next two millennia, so the forests were almost all destroyed. Wet black sand covered the ground near the tunnels, and there were often small fires posted in the tunnel entrances. The clouds would sometimes pour a dripping mix of rain and sleet.

## Notable Features

### Adult quarters

The adult quarters were mentioned as a series of caves where NightWings move to once they reach the age of ten. They are communal, and several dragons were once seen playing a game with bones and tiny skulls in one of their entranceways. Niches made of rock serve as sleeping spaces.

### Cafeteria

Battlewinner has a vent looking into the cafeteria.

### Council chamber

A place where the NightWings talked with their queen; it also had a lake of lava inside and a small rock spire that someone sits on to be questioned. It can be accessed through several back tunnels that emerge directly below the Queen's Eye. The space contains caves and jagged rock walls, and dark recesses. There is a perch located beside the Queen's Eye that was typically used by Greatness in order to hear Battlewinner's voice.

### Dungeon

Splendor, Deathbringer, Flame, and Ochre were all imprisoned here.

### Dragonet dormitory

A place where NightWings under ten years old slept. It is also assumable that there was a school nearby, due to Starflight thinking about what his NightWing acquaintances were learning as he and the false dragonets of destiny trained.

### Fortress

The NightWing fortress is a destroyed, wrecked structure. When it was still standing, it was built on the side to the main volcano, the NightWing fortress was a series of volcanic tunnels and a half-buried structure built to house the queen and most of the tribe. Part of the fortress was destroyed by an eruption of the volcano. All of the NightWings' treasure was lost until a tunnel was blasted to reach the treasure. A dreamvisitor was the only thing left behind other than the corpses of two NightWing guards. Starflight finds the dreamvisitor in *The Dark Secret*, hidden in one of the dead dragon's talons. The hallways of the fortress are cracked and contain coals within the walls.

### Hatchery

The hatchery was noted to be nearly empty.

### Library

A place once full of scrolls for school projects and more. Some are labeled 'For NightWing eyes only', but most appear to be scrolls that the NightWings have published across Pyrrhia.

### Mastermind's laboratory

A series of rooms where Mastermind performed experiments, usually on the venom of the captured RainWings. It also contained a desalination system that provided clean water to the tribe as well as a floor for volcanology. Some NightWings were also tested for toxins in their teeth there, though these experiments proved futile. The lab was one of the most well-protected rooms of the fortress. It was a gigantic inner room within the fortress, and was well-protected from the outside air.

### Queen's Eye

The screen Battlewinner hid behind and issued orders from. It was described to look like a stone screen.

### RainWing prison

The place where the RainWing prisoners were chained and venom-tested.

### Throne room

The queen's private chambers. The only way to enter was by a secret entrance behind a detailed map of Pyrrhia with scratched-off scavenger dens (most likely the meeting places of Morrowseer and Blister).