Koiwings

### Diet

Omnivorous, have a very wide ranging diet due to lack of food in their territory

### 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, and they have small, barely visible gill flaps (more similar to real-life bony fish, rather than the gill slits of sharks). 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 convergently evolved the same patterns as the fish.

## Abilities

Koiwings have a wide range of very strange abilities. They can stay underwater for however they like, because of their gills. 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 of a brownish-orangey-yellow colour created from glands in the back of a Koiwing's jaws. If a Slimespit uses a lot of the smile, they will have to wait till it regenerates after about 20 minutes. Slimespit glands, though they are small and barely visible, can be visible from inside a Koiwing who has the power`s jaw, and if it is removed, said Koiwing will loose the ability to use Slimespit. 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 temperature 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.

## 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 some Silkwings lost all hope and respect for her . 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 kingdoms.

Since the now-dead Cercropia wanted her to become queen of the Silkwings, all of the escapees followed her rule. And so they decided to find the distant kingdoms. However, since they didn't have the book of Clearsight, they didn't know the route, and soon as they took off to find the other continent, they where already taking the wrong route, but just didn't know it. On what they thought was the way, the Silkwings would rest on islands, and occasionally supplement their diet with meat from sealife, though it wasn't that good for them. The remaining Fangs of Vengeance didn't know the way of the ocean, and the ocean would always pound with it`s waves over the makeshift huts, dragging unsuspecting Silkwings into the watery depths, the rain and hurricanes from storms battering them. When they tried to go into the water, new dangers approached. There was barely any fruit on the islands, and for the very few plants that grew under the waves, dangerous sharks prowled around them, ripping apart the Silkwings who had no idea on how to fight back. It was like a dangerous alien world for them. And yet, they would still hop from shore to shore, island to island, and across the seas, going back and forth and left and right to find the rumoured lost continent.

Though at first they where determined to find the distant kingdoms, after a 5 whole years of flying in circles trying to find a continent which wasn't Pantala, the belief of the distant kingdoms amongst the lost Silkwings began to falter. And when one horrible night Pipevine died of malaria, the council, who now where sick and tired of this stupid journey, where called to the biggest makeshift den, which was on the beach. There, they decided that the distant kingdoms where just a dumb fairy-tale and didn`t exist. They then announced to their followers that this place was their new home, and the second-in-command, Peacock, was the new queen. The fact that Pipevine was dead and that the journey had been abandoned shocked many Silkwings, but they had to obey their new leader. Over time, they would venture into the water more and more, and eat meat more and more, until in a few hundred years, they had evolved gills, webbed talons, and their wings where used more like fins than wings.

## Society

### Royal family and shoals

For a tribe that came from Silkwings who ran away from the Hivewings during the early days in the tree wars, how their royal family is structured is frightenley similar to the Hivewings. The Koiwings are separated into different shoals, each with one "duke" or "duchess" ruling it. Said "shoals" live in large cave networks in various different undersea cliffs, mountains, and other similar areas.

Each shoal area is different, and they are usually not connected to Each other, and random maps carved in stone are really the only way from shoal to shoal. To become a shoal ruler, you need to be at least tenth cousin with the queen, and be chosen to be the shoal leader by the Queen. Any gender can be a shoal ruler When the current shoal ruler dies, the Queen will choose a new one, sometimes, but usually not, a close blood relative of the former shoal ruler. The shoals are named after their founders. If a Shoal ruler has a dragonet, the ruler is not allowed to keep them, and said dragonet must be "donated" to the great spire (see below), though the parent may make visits.

#### Current Shoals and their rulers

**Natatrix shoal-** Duke Halfbeak

**Jellyfish shoal-** Duchess Salp

**Copepod shoal-** Duke Phylliroe

**Goldband Shoal-** Duchess Sunfish

#### The royal family

**Queen Porgy**

**King Mackerel**

**Princess Bluefin**

**Prince Devilray**

**Dolphinfish (unhatched, gender currently unknown)**

### The great spire

Queen Porgy, unlike the Queen Wasp her ancestors where running away from, does not live in a shoal of her own. Instead, she lives Inside *the great Spire.* The great spire is a huge and magnificent spire of rock thatreaches from the ocean depths to 15 meters above the Sealine, and about 50 meters below it, making it 65 meters tall in total. It is covered from top to bottom in all sorts of colourful stuff like jewels, corals, and any other thing that can be found in the ocean or the islands above it. Inside, the floors, ceilings, and walls are covered in elaborate paintings of ocean creatures, seascapes and Koiwing history. This is similar to some of the fancier Shoals like Goldband , though the paintings in the great Spire are more commonplace, more detailed, and more expensive. It is also full to the brim of servants such as maids, who sleep in caverns in the lower eastern area of the spire. The great spire had many, many hallways that go upwards in a huge spiral, connecting to rooms along the way, so it is slightly narrower than the passageways in the shoals, and harder to get past when lots of dragons are charging through. For this reason, there's hundreds of very small and tight tunnels that would require dragons to swim through in single file connected to the main hallways, so the tunnels never overflow.

Queen Porgy herself sleeps in a huge room above the Sealine, near the top of the Spire. She has her own personal tunnels to the hatchery and a private bathroom. Her bed is very large. She also has her own private study, though it is further down into the rock, at the surface of the water. At the very top of the spire, and with a small hole to let the sun in, is the royal hatchery.

The royal hatchery is for the unhatched princes and princesses, or the eggs of the lords and ladies that rule over the shoals of the wide open waters. The room, like all the others in the great Spire, is round, but is large in comparison of most other rooms. The eggs are seated on tied-down cushions, and are arranged in a wide circle, with the royal eggs at the back. At the centre, far above the eggs, is a small hole letting in sunlight. There is an entrance hole going into an underwater tunnel directley below it, which gets wider as it goes deeper. Guards are usually postponed directley above and below the tunnel, but are sometimes near the Queen's secret entrance.

### Everyday life

#### Diet

Koiwings eat a very large range of food to cope with the barren seascape they live in, and are omnivorous. Many dragons will sometimes group together in small "pods" of Koiwings to hunt shoals of fish, and sometimes even whales. Most of these "pods" are unofficial, but the Koiwing armies, (Who are actually called Pods, which is where the name for small hunting patrols come from) regularly sends out hunting patrols. Most meat from official pod patrols is sent to above-water factories where it is processed and prepared, but many catches from unnoficial pod patrols is processed at home. On the island of sunlight (see territory), there is a huge seaweed farm that covers the majority of the south-west end of the island. Blood pancakes and mead are also commonly served.

#### Traditions, culture and superstitions

Koiwing culture differs from Shoal-to-Shoal. For example, Goldband shoal is considered the fanciest, similar to the modern-day Jewel hive of the Hivewing kingdom, but with slightly better security, and far fewer members. Copepod shoal is not at all like it, and is less furnished and the security is by far better. Natatrix shoal has by far the most criminals, and many dragons (mostly Natatrix shoal members) either blame the poor security on the high population, but many also (mostly dragons who are not from Natatrix shoal) blame it on the poor security.

##### Shoal Steryeotypes

###### Copepod-

Members of Copepod shoal are often stereotyped as loyal followers of Queen Porgy, but can also be stereotyped as either dependent or cruel

###### Jellyfish-

Members of Jellyfish shoal are more often than not, stereotyped as artistic and intelligent.