'Blaze' is an adult female SandWing who was introduced in The Hidden Kingdom. She was
one of the three rival sisters who fought for the SandWing throne during
the War of SandWing Succession and the only sister who survived the war.
She is well-known within Pyrrhia as being the most self-absorbed and
ignorant among them. She currently resides in the SandWing stronghold,
and is happily uninvolved with the Kingdom of Sand|kingdom's royal
affairs.

## Description

Blaze has polished, white-gold scales, a long neck, and pitch-dark eyes
similar to those of her sisters. She has been depicted with three
glittering rings on her talons.

## Personality

Blaze is weak, spacey, spirited, silly, happy, cheerful, self-absorbed,
and braindead, caring more about her own safety than that of others. She
is gossipy and curiously watchful, as well as unintelligent, and she
only seems to care about keeping her scales polished and her gems
sparkly. She dislikes dragons whom she deems as "too pretty",
considering them to be annoying. She has been described as rather
air-headed and "about as smart as a concussed sheep." She is confident
about her own dazzling charisma and persuasion skills and believed she
could convince the SkyWings to change alliances. As soon as she could
walk, she began following any Dragons|dragon she could find who was
wearing treasure, and had a knack for zeroing in on dragons who wore the
most glittering jewelry. Much of her thoughts are dedicated to treasure,
and she prefers the prettiest items, even if they are fake. Even
Glacier, her ally, described her as a "cheerful brain-dead goose".

## Biography

left
Pre-Series
After Queen Oasis was
murdered by three scavengers, Blaze became embroiled in conflict with
her two older sisters, Burn and Blister, starting a war over the
SandWing throne involving nearly all of Pyrrhia.

Blaze had the support of most of the SandWing tribe and had allied
herself with Queen Glacier of the IceWings, who built her a Blaze's
fortress|fortress on the border of the Ice Kingdom. If she won the war,
Blaze promised the IceWings a large area of land from the Ice Kingdom to
where the desert starts.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy
Blaze was mentioned by Burn in the prologue, saying
that she "hates anyone younger and prettier than she is."

Blaze was also mentioned again later in the book, as Starflight
unwillingly took the role of her when the dragonets act out the history
of the war.

Queen Scarlet also commented that Tsunami and Clay probably are not from
Blaze's prison camps, saying that "prison camps wouldn't fit in with her
'everybody love me act.'"

left The Lost Heir

Blaze was mentioned multiple times while the dragonets of
destiny|dragonets are being asked who they think should be queen and
while Queen Coral and Blister talked about the war.

left The Hidden Kingdom

In the prologue, Nautilus recounted the Dragonet Prophecy to
Squid, explaining how the dragonets of the prophecy have to choose
between Blister, Burn, and Blaze to be the queen of the SandWings and
end the war.

Blaze was first introduced when Glory and Jambu disguised themselves as
IceWings in order to enter her fortress. They convinced her
toFile:Blaze-fortress.png|thumb|Blaze's fortress come out to meet the
rest of the dragonets of destiny. While she was outside, Deathbringer
attempted to assassinate her (to get out of trouble for not killing the
dragonets), but failed. In addition, it was revealed that she was in
fact rather vain, but she was either generous or not very thoughtful
about giving away a lot of her territory for an ally.

She always assumed Queen Glacier would back her up in fights, as heard
when she replied to Tsunami's question about if she could survive a
challenge for the throne. She also claimed that she would be such a
great queen that no one will even want to challenge her. In addition,
Blaze was confident enough to tell the dragonets that if they said that
she was queen, she would give each of the dragonets their own palace in
the Kingdom of Sand. Blaze also did not know that the Unnamed
characters#SkyWings|SkyWing from the prophecy was replaced by Glory
before she met her.

left The Dark Secret
Blaze stated that she was annoyed that Glory was more beautiful than
her and she was confused that Sunny was a little different-looking when
she was speaking to the dragonets of destiny with Queen Glacier. Glacier
planned to eliminate the dragonets if they did not choose Blaze.

left The Brightest Night

In the prologue, Oasis ran into her daughters, Blister and
Blaze, while going to check on her treasury. Oasis accidentally stepped
on Blaze's foot and Blaze remarked about it in a dizzy, sleepy way.
Afterward, Oasis thought about her, saying "She'd make a terrible queen,
but she's an acceptable daughter."

The dragonets invited Blaze to come to SandWing stronghold through the
use of a dreamvisitor so they could peacefully choose a queen, but the
Glacier stated that Blaze would not be present for the meeting, for her
safety. However, the dragonets said that if Blaze was not present, she
would forfeit her chance of becoming queen.

Blaze eventually arrived with Queen Glacier and watched in horror when
Burn was attacked by a dragonbite viper, which was Blister's plan to get
the throne without fighting her stronger sister. Sunny described that
when the viper attacked, all dragons were screaming, but Blaze's scream
was the loudest as if she had been bitten.

After Burn died, Blister told Blaze that they were to fight for the
throne. Blaze pleaded to Queen Glacier, begging her to fight for her.
Although Glacier had hoped for the extra land Blaze offered, she wanted
to be just and fair. Glacier backed off, and Blister attacked Blaze,
intending to toy with her before finally finishing her off. Blaze kept
shouting and screaming, "Three moons! I'm bleeding!" when Blister made
a tiny cut on Blaze's scales.

While they were fighting, Sunny found the Eye of Onyx and presented it
to Thorn. Blister tried to take it, but the enchantment turned her into
dust, leaving Blaze as the surviving sister. Blaze then bowed to Queen
Thorn, accepting her as the new SandWing queen.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising
While
Qibli and the other SandWing students at Jade Mountain Academy were
discussing the recent war, Moon heard Pronghorn's thoughts about how
Blaze would have been a good queen, but was glad that Thorn was the new
queen instead.

left Winter Turning

Blaze was indirectly mentioned by Winter when he and Hailstorm passed by
the Great Ice Cliff. Winter thought of how one of Blaze's SandWings had
been shot by the cliff's spears.

left
Darkness of Dragons
She was briefly
mentioned early on as having said the school would be a disaster.
Starflight remarked that "Blaze was literally the least intelligent
royal" ever and it was impossible for anything she said to be true.

Blaze, along with her brother, Smolder, attended the royal challenge
between Onyx and Thorn. She seemed shocked by the news that Onyx was
Smolder's daughter, and was later forced back into the stronghold by the
sandstorm. Her scream was again described as the loudest. During the
sandstorm, she used a curtain to make herself a hammock.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left
The Dangerous Gift
After Glacier
asked her daughters to promise her that they will not have their kingdom
fight in a war similar to the War of SandWing Succession for the IceWing
throne, Snowfall thought how Mink knew little about the War of SandWing
Succession and would not be able to name Blaze and her sisters since she
was only two years old.

She was also mentioned in Snowfall's last vision by Glacier, referring
to Blaze as "a cheerful brain-dead goose" after flying back to the
IceWing palace from a meeting with her.

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### Winglets

left
Assassin
Blaze was briefly mentioned
when Quickstrike warned Deathbringer about trying to kill any of the
SandWing sisters.

left
Deserter
Blaze was seen walking
directly into a sandstorm to retrieve her crown, which was said to have
been a gift from her mother, Queen Oasis. She called Six-Claws a
"big-shouldered big head" before he picked her up and brought her to
safety. Upon being brought to safety, she burst into tears and called
Six-Claws disgusting for his abnormal talons. Her father, Char, scolded
her, and she complained and left the room.

Blaze was brought up as an excuse for Blister not to have to fight Burn,
saying that it would be unfair to exclude her from the decision of who
would be Queen. When every dragon was looking at dead Queen Oasis,
Six-Claws said she could be sleeping buried under fancy pillows or
wearing fancy earplugs.

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### Field Guides

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A Guide to the Dragon World
Blaze
was mentioned in the SeaWing chapter of Coral's scroll about the War of
SandWing Succession.

She was later mentioned in the SandWing chapter by Smolder in his
observations on Rose.

Mink mentioned Blaze in her Jade Mountain Academy application.

## Relationships

### Blister

Blister was fully willing to murder her younger sister in order to
eliminate a possible heir to the SandWing throne. She considers Blister
to be awful and believes that she is prettier and friendlier than
Blister is.

### Burn

Burn was fully willing to murder her younger sister in order to
eliminate a possible heir to the SandWing throne. She considers Burn to
be awful and believes that she is prettier and friendlier than Burn is.

### Glacier

Blaze was allied to and depended on the IceWing queen greatly, and had a
good relationship with her, though it was mostly due to the offer of
land she gave to Glacier. Nevertheless, Blaze was quite thankful to her
for looking out for her.

### Oasis

Blaze had a good relationship with her mother, as Oasis considered her
harmless and would have been a terrible queen, but finds her an
acceptable daughter.

## Quotes

Is it about Queen Scarlet? […] Did we find out if she's dead?
Are the SkyWings still following Burn? You know, if Glacier would let me
go to the Sky Kingdom, I bet I could convince the SkyWings to switch
alliances to us. I can be really convincing. Everyone likes me.
about an "urgent message" The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The Hidden
Kingdom
133

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Well, bring them here, bring them here! […] We can have a
feast! Or a party! We haven't had one of those in forever, because,
you know, Queen Glacier disapproves of that kind of thing, but for
something like this I'm sure we could! Oh, we'll definitely need more
dried lizards. We even have a pair of scavengers we could share! Maybe
we should roast a camel — one of them's a MudWing, right? He'd probably
like that. We don't have anything for SeaWings … maybe Queen Glacier can
send us some fish, or a penguin, or do you think she'd like a walrus?

about meeting the dragonets of destiny
The Hidden Kingdom
134

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Wow, I wish I could do that, […] I'd be a different color
every minute! […] Do you think the changing camouflage would still
work if I had someone make, like, a coat of RainWing scales for me?
[…] That could be pretty.
about RainWing scales

The Hidden Kingdom
140

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Because I'm prettier and nicer and friendlier than they are?
[…] Obviously? […] I mean, haven't you met them? Aren't they both
awful?
to the dragonets of destiny
The Hidden Kingdom
143

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Who cares? […] Don't even worry about it. I'll be such a
great queen that no one will want to challenge me. There, that's an
excellent plan. So how does this prophecy thing work? Are you guys going
to kill my sisters? That would make my life much easier.
to
the dragonets of destiny The Hidden Kingdom (book)|The Hidden
Kingdom
144

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Shouldn't we do that anyway? […] I mean, he did try to kill
me. Queen Glacier will be so mad. This one time, a SkyWing flew all the
way here and nearly got me while I was getting some sun and Glacier
literally ripped off his wings before she killed him. It was really
gross but also kind of sweet, you know, like she really cares about me.

about killing Deathbringer
The Hidden Kingdom
152

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It was delightful to meet you, […] Even if you are missing a
SkyWing. And some of you are a little funny-looking. I promise you'll be
pleased if you choose me. […] I can offer you whatever land you want.
You could each have land enough for a palace of your own!
to
the dragonets of destiny, about choosing her as queen
The Hidden Kingdom
153

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My neck hurts. […] Ow. Do you think it's going to scar? I'll
be so mad if it scars.
to Glacier, after Deathbringer
attacked her The Dark Secret

epilogue

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They seemed nice, […] Some of them were a little
funny-looking. And I still don't understand what that RainWing was doing
with them. Besides, she was a little too pretty. I think it's better to
be just the right amount of pretty, don't you? Too pretty is annoying.

to Glacier, about the dragonets of destiny
The Dark Secret
epilogue

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But they can't possibly choose her now that they've met me!
[…] Now they know I'm wonderful and would make a great queen!
They'll definitely pick me.
about the dragonets of destiny
choosing her The Dark Secret

epilogue

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Three moons, it's bleeding! I'm bleeding!
when
Blister attempted to kill her The Brightest Night (book)|The
Brightest Night
287

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To get my favorite crown, […] Don't you try to stop me, you
big-shouldered bighead! […] I'm going to get it back, because it's
MINE and Mommy gave it to me. […] Unless you go get it for me. Ooo,
that sounds like a good idea.
to Six-Claws
Deserter

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SIX-Claws? […] Ew! Three moons! You really do have six
claws on each foot! That's so weird! I can't believe you touched me
with those! […] Yeeeeeeee, […] I'm so glad I have the right number
of claws.
to Six-Claws
Deserter

## Trivia

  - Blaze is the only one of her sisters not seen killing someone in the
    books.
  - Blaze is the only SandWing shown as having horns curving backwards.
  - It was stated in The Dragonet Prophecy that Blister had no scars
    unlike her sisters, thus indirectly saying that Blaze had at least
    one scar. However, The Hidden Kingdom shows that Blaze has unscathed
    scales.
  - When asked about what happened to Blaze after the War of SandWing
    Succession, Tui stated that Blaze is in the SandWing stronghold with
    Thorn and Smolder. She wants to be happy, safe, and surrounded by
    pretty, peaceful things more than she wants to be queen.
  - As a young dragonet, Blaze would draw tiaras in the margins of her
    history scrolls.
  - There are rumors that Blaze or Glacier asked Cobra to kill Blaze's
    sisters. However, she was refused.
  - As a dragonet, Blaze would often sit by the treasury door, hoping
    her mother would unlock it so she could roll in the jewels.
  - In the graphic novels, Blaze was depicted with a tiara and white
    robe, although they were never stated in the novels.