The DayWings

## History

The DayWings claim ancestry with the NightWings and the SkyWings.

## Location

Many years before the events of the Scorching ever occurred, the DayWings inhabited the area between the Sky Kingdom and the Kingdom of Sand, where the mountains recede into hills before converting into desert. They built their kingdom there, and it prospered and thrived.

Nothing remains of it today.

Now, the DayWings live in Pantala. They have adopted technology from the CloudWings, and built their own floating cities above much of the continent.

## Biology and Physiology

### Eggs

The eggs of the DayWings are small; only about the size of an adult scavenger's head. However, what they lack in size they have compensated with beauty. DayWing eggs are smooth and firm with a glossy sheen, as if the sun's light radiates from some inner source within them. One to three eggs will be laid in a clutch during the day, and they will hatch during the day after a period that lasts around three weeks.

### Lifespan

A typical DayWing lives to be about 45 years old.

### Appearance

The DayWings are often perceived to be classically beautiful, with their lithe frames and gracefully arched necks. They have a slender pair of long, curved horns affixed to a neatly shaped head. Their refined arrangement of scales mimics the colour of the sky that individual DayWings are laid and hatched under. The membranes of their wings, however, will always be a blue of translucent opacity. It does not matter what colour a DayWing's scales might be; their wing membranes are always as blue as a clear midday sky. A DayWing's eyes seem to lack any visible evidence of pupil, iris, or sclera, instead appearing as solidly-coloured orbs that hold the sun within them.

### Abilities

DayWings have an extraordinary amount of cones in their eyes compared to the eyes of other dragons. This enables them to see twice as many colours, and to even see different wavelengths. DayWings can see infrared and ultraviolet light.

They are able to emit heat and light from their scales.

### Diet

Flying creatures of the day, such as birds and bugs, are what comprise a large part of the DayWing diet.

## Culture

### Values

The DayWings value brilliance, flamboyance, ingenuity, cheerfulness, and merriment, for they know that there is no great abundance of these qualities. They know that these things are brief in life, and so emphasize them as reminders of their significance.

### Beliefs

It is believe by the DayWings that their ancestors were the first dragons: a primitive breed of SkyWing which diverged into two tribes, the NightWings and the DayWings.

The SkyWings, being the parent tribe, held dominion over the two. Where they ruled the sky,

All other extant tribes came after these three and are unrelated to them. Instead, they are descendants of the earliest form of SeaWing and a tribe that the DayWings call EarthWings; which, according to them, would have looked the most like hybrids of modern MudWing and SandWing parentage.

#### Religion

The DayWings will praise the brightness of a mind as they praise the brightness of the sun. For to the DayWings, it is the sun that birthed all life, and it is the the sun that all life is provided for. To the DayWings, the sun is Tieos.

Tieos. The Sun Deity. The Day Star, the Morning Sphere. Tieos, the Wielder of Fire and Light. She of the Giving Warmth, She of the Unforgiving Heat.

Tieos has scales of brilliant orange and gold. She radiates warmth from her body, and shines with a burning light. Upon her arched horns the sun disk rests, and it is she who carries it from East to West. Her mighty wings are as vast as the sky, and unlike an ordinary DayWing, the undersides are capable of changing colours.

Tieos is all-knowing and all-powerful. There is nothing which occurs below her that escapes her eye, and there is nothing which is born below her that has strength enough to serve as an opponent.

Thus, fire and drought ravaged the land. It is the sun that birthed all life, and it is the sun that all life is provided for—but so too can the sun take life away. The heat from Tieos was too intense, too fiery. Those below her had no reprieve. The constant glare of her light scorched the ground and dried every lake and stream. Death raged across the land, as those lowly mortal dragons fell to starvation, dehydration, and exhaustion.

There was no escape. None born below Tieos has strength enough to oppose her. None born below Tieos can prevent her from destroying all which she has made. There is, however, Uanae.

Uanae, The Moon Deity. The Night Jewel, the Evening Sphere. He is Tieos's mate, and where Tieos is all mental and physical strength, Uanae is concerned with spiritual and emotional strength. Uanae saw the devastation that Tieos had brought to the world. He heard the pitiful cries of the lowly mortal dragons, the suffering pleas of creatures who linger too long between life and death. He saw and heard all this, and he vowed to end it.

Yet, not even Uanae has strength enough to oppose Tieos. e convinced her to . He detered her from a path of destruction.

#### Taboo

Fear the Night. The Night brings what we cannot see.

## Society

### Government

A queen rules the tribe, in the way that queens rule many of the tribes. However, the queen of the DayWings is unique in that she must be changed with each equinox.

#### Punishments

The worst offenders of the law are buried beneath the ground, all alone and surrounded in complete darkness.

### Names

Names are chosen from an idea or concept. Among these would be names like Wish, Harmony, Spirit, Miracle, Freedom, Truth, Blessing, Serenity, Dream, and Wonder.

## Intertribal Relations

### SkyWings

The DayWing respect the SkyWings out of their belief that the tribe descends from a shared ancestor.

### NightWings

Ah...what to say about them? The DayWings