Jade Mountain

**Jade Mountain Academy** is an intertribal school located within Jade Mountain and was founded by the dragonets of destiny after the War of SandWing Succession. The school opened and accepted students from all tribes six months after the end of the war, dividing them into winglets: the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the Copper Winglet, the Opal Winglet, the Diamond Winglet, the Emerald Winglet, the Sapphire Winglet, and the Ruby Winglet. each of which includes one dragonet from each of the seven dragon tribes of Pyrrhia. With the exclusion of Peril, groups of two or three dragonets from the same winglet will share a sleeping cave, making them clawmates.

## Description

The school is located within Jade Mountain, which has fang-shaped twin peaks. The entrance to the school is on a mountaintop.

## Notable Features

### The Art Cave

The Art Cave is the room where students learn 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 Great Hall

The Great Hall is the unofficial entrance of Jade Mountain Academy. The cave has a dimmer light in comparison to that of outside, with enough room to fit four hundred dragons inside comfortably and still have enough space for more to fly overhead. There is also sunlight pouring into the cave, with twisting stalactites that sometimes reached the floor, forming twisting 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 cave's left wall, with two more on the right wall. Next to each entrance, a map is hung, displaying tunnel routes to help students find their way around the huge caves.

### Healing Center

First introduced in *Darkness of Dragons*, the Healing Center is where Clay teaches primary medicine and treatment. It contains a colored diagram of a dragon (MudWing), which shows where muscles are located in the body.

### The History Cave

The history cave was where Webs taught history to the students of the 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. Sora's dragonflame cactus destroyed this cave in an attempt to kill Icicle during the events of *Moon Rising*, forcing the history class to be relocated to a different cave.

### The Library

The entrance starts as a side corridor lined with hanging scrolls. Many of them have quotes 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 of the hall, a room full of iridescent green sunlight is present (the result of the sun shining through large semi-transparent leaves placed over windows, one of those windows was torn open by Icicle who escaped out of it in *Moon Rising*). Scrolls are arranged all over the cave, 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, sometimes a bed of reeds, and sometimes carpets. Sunlight comes down from skylights in the roof and filtered through leaves covering the windows. There's a circular wooden desk labeled 'LIBRARIAN' in the center where Starflight manages the scrolls. Starflight has stamps of every student's name that he stamps on a scroll slot/card.

Library stamps are part of the library system in Jade Mountain Academy. Every scroll in the place has a wooden stamp, which, if taken out, is stamped on the parchment corresponding to the borrowing student. When returned, their library stamps are stamped on the first one to show that the student returned it.

Starflight is working on making scrolls that blind dragons could read. He is also working on making inflammable scrolls.

### The Music Cave

The Music Cave is a vast, round cave filled with various instruments, including harps, marimbas, maracas, and drums, with a skylight above it. It is designed so that sound bounces around the cave with smooth walls. Students can enjoy playing music there.

### The Prey Center

The Prey Center, set up by Clay, 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 was often described as chaotic due to students and animals running around yelling, shouting, catching prey, or eating. It is usually filled with animal prey with a pile of fish hunted by expeditions, and a pile of rainforest fruit for RainWing students.

### Stonemover's cave

This cave is where Stonemover is located. There is a torch flickering from a post near Stonemover's head. Students are welcome to come and go through this cave as they please, but most students find the company too dull. The cave is shown to be big enough for Darkstalker to fit inside, but just barely.

### Underground Lakes

There are multiple underground lakes in Jade Mountain. The largest underground lake Turtle took Moonwatcher to is deep inside the mountain. It sits in the middle of a huge cavern studded with stalactites, with a hole big enough for dragons to fly through at the top. The moons are visible through the hole, which casts silvery-green light throughout the cavern.

### "Weapons Cave"

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

### Winglets

#### Jade

* SeaWing: Lapiv
* LeafWing: Blossom

#### Opal

* SeaWing: Piranha
* NightWing: Destinyspeaker
* SandWing: Kingsnake
* IceWing: Adelie
* SilkWing: Bronze
* HiveWing: Centipede

#### Sapphire

* SeaWing: Reflection
* SandWing: Creosote
* IceWing: Archipelago