'Chameleon' is an adult male RainWing who was formally introduced in Escaping Peril. He hatched with an
incurable snout deformity that disallowed him to sleep for more than an
hour at a time, inhibiting the RainWing ability to change scale colors.
He is the father of Peril and Sky, and was formerly the partner of
Kestrel, in his SkyWing form, Soar.

After being banished from the Rainforest Kingdom, Chameleon found
Darkstalker's scroll. Using its Animus magic|magic, Chameleon created
new physical forms: Bog the MudWing, Cirrus the IceWing, Shapeshifter
the NightWing, and Soar the SkyWing. He said that he possessed a
different shape for every Dragons|dragon tribe of Pyrrhia, but only five
have been introduced.

After the events of Escaping Peril and Darkness of Dragons, Chameleon no
longer owns Darkstalker's scroll or the scraps of parchment that allowed
him to transform into his other forms. His current whereabouts and
status are unknown.

## Description

<tabber> |-
Chameleon has scales that are the colors of
limes and jungle parakeets, and were described to be a yellowish-green.
He is skinny, with narrow shoulders, dull teeth, a deformed snout, and
several rings around his claws. He is much scrawnier and less
intimidating in comparison to his other shapes.

|-
Bog has mud-brown scales and is almost completely covered in
different kinds of jewelry: gold chains around his neck that dangle from
an elaborate ruby-encrusted headpiece clashing with the rows of silver,
emerald, and topaz earrings in each ear; silver chain mail studded with
sapphires on his chest; golden silk veils wreathing his wings; giant
bejeweled rings on his talons; and a gold tail band shaped to look like
dragon claws clutching every inch of his tail, each claw tipped with a
sapphire. He also wears a pouch tied firmly under one of his wings where
he kept his pieces of Darkstalker's scroll.

|-
Cirrus is severe-looking, with silvery-white scales and
wings and pale purple underscales. His eyes are glittering, cold, and
snakelike, and he has a voice like icicles dripping. He is larger than
Winter and fiercely thin, with claws that look even sharper than normal
IceWing claws.

|-
Shapeshifter has black scales, narrow black eyes, and
was described to be angry-looking, ominous, eerie, and still. He is
quite large, described as hulking and enormous, with sharp talons like
wicked fishhooks. He wears a mess of dark jewelry and compact iron boxes
on chains, including a case that held Darkstalker's talisman around his
chest, as well as three bracelets, a ring, and a couple of necklaces. He
has extra strength, extraordinarily hot fire, and invulnerable scales.

|-
Soar has warm golden-orange scales, large orange wings, and
hooded amber eyes. He has no visible scars, long horns with faint golden
markings on them, and a deeper, stronger voice than that of Chameleon.
He also looks wealthier than the average SkyWing: he wears gold rings on
three of his claws, a black leather necklace with gold spikes circling
his throat, and an armband weaving like a snake all the way up one of
his forelegs, with tiny rubies glittering like eyes at one end. He has a
black metal sheath fitted tightly across his chest with a padlock on the
outside, containing a small pouch full of coins or jewelry, and formerly
a piece of Darkstalker's scroll wrapped in black leather binding. He is
large and strong-looking. </tabber>

## Personality

Chameleon was a lot grumpier than other RainWings, and several RainWing
healers stated that he was horrible; they would wake up from
RainWings#Description|suntime to find Chameleon just staring at them.
Scarlet described him as strange and unreliable. He has an old, fierce
anger in his eyes, and is aggressively protective towards his
animus-touched shapes. He is often angry and avaricious, unable to
resist the lure of any treasure. He is arrogant, self-important,
conciliatory, pleased with himself, sly, irritable, evasive, bitter,
brooding impatient, defensive, dry, unsympathetic, cowardly,
untrustworthy, and is not much of a fighter. He is hard to read, and
Peril thought it difficult to tell whether he is being sly or desperate.
He hates RainWings to the extent that he severely injured the innocent
Kinkajou with no provocation, an action that Peril considered to be
brutal and unnecessary. He is dangerous and power-hungry, once looked at
Peril scornfully, like he highly doubted anyone could possibly be a
match for him.

While in his Cirrus form, Chameleon is cold, calculating, and not much
of a talker.

## Biography

left
Pre-Series
At an unknown point in
time before the series, the RainWing queen at the time banished
Chameleon from the Rainforest Kingdom because of his inability to change
the color of his scales, which made the other RainWings "uncomfortable."
This came from a snout deformity that stopped him from sleeping for more
than an hour. The lack of sleep made it so that he could not change his
scales' color, which had also affected his personality. This led to many
of the RainWings thinking he was creepy, different, and weird,
especially since he would sometimes be seen staring at them while they
slept. Sometime afterwards, he found Darkstalker's Scroll and got
someone to teach him to read. By reading some of what was written on the
scroll, Chameleon figured out what it could do and learned how to write.
Using the scroll, Chameleon created many shapes for himself. He moved
into the Sky Kingdom and helped Queen Scarlet spy on the Talons of Peace
as Cirrus. While he served Scarlet, he made a Pyrite mask to hide
Hailstorm for Scarlet. In his SkyWing form, he fathered Peril and Sky
with Kestrel in the breeding program, however Scarlet told him that both
of his dragonets were dead, and so Chameleon did not know that Peril was
his daughter until Escaping Peril.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Lost Heir

Chameleon, disguised as Cirrus, was part of Nautilus' group that found
Webs after the SkyWings abducted the dragonets of destiny. He demanded
Webs to tell them how the SkyWings found them, and Webs explained the
dragonets' plans to escape and how it was played out. Cirrus asks why
they had anything to do with the SkyWings, and Webs simply said that
they followed Tsunami and Clay back to the opening of the cave. Cirrus
was enraged because he knew they would not be able to survive ex-Queen
Scarlet's arena. When Webs suggested that the Talons attack the
SkyWings, Cirrus hinted that there were only about forty members of the
Talons of Peace, while there were countless SkyWings. Nautilus mentioned
his backup plan and said that Webs would be a problem, in which Cirrus
pinned him down, stating that Webs had failed them. He was instructed to
kill Webs because of the SeaWing's lack of knowledge of the Talons of
Peace's backup plan and allowing the dragonets to escape. He also seemed
to take morbid pleasure in the idea of killing the confused SeaWing,
stating that he would feed Webs' heart to the fish. However, both he and
Nautilus were thwarted and knocked out when Crocodile tackled them,
which allowed Webs to escape the execution attempt.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising
As
the NightWing known as Shapeshifter, Chameleon spoke with Ex-Queen
Scarlet in the epilogue, holding and tapping Darkstalker's scroll.

left Winter Turning

Chameleon was indirectly mentioned as a lime green RainWing who could
not sleep because of a snout deformity or change their scale color by Bullfrog, a RainWing healer when Winter was visiting
Glory. He was also said to have watched other RainWings in their sleep.
This was the description of Chameleon.

Winter, Qibli, Kinkajou, and Moonwatcher later went to the Talons of
Peace to find a SkyWing that could help them locate the mountain that
Moon saw in Icicle's dream when Scarlet visited her. Upon their arrival,
they found a dragon named Pyrite, and Chameleon, disguised as Cirrus,
did not want them to take her. Winter thought maybe Pyrite was an animus
and Cirrus wanted to reintroduce the magic back into the IceWing
bloodline, but forgot the idea when he noted that he showed no sign of
returning to the Ice Kingdom. Winter also noted that he and Cirrus
should have recognized one another, as he was royalty. Winter asked if
Cirrus knew his parents, Narwhal and Tundra, and Cirrus said he might.

Later, on the way to Winter and Hailstorm's Diamond Trial, Queen Glacier
said to Winter, "We haven't had a Cirrus in many years," and said she
would look into the matter, claiming that he may have been on the
outside of the kingdom and therefore did not have a rank on the IceWing
wall.

Wearing his NightWing mask Shapeshifter, Chameleon was overheard by
Moonwatcher, Winter, and Qibli talking to Scarlet. He later went to the
dragonets' camp to retrieve Pyrite and attacked Kinkajou, smashing her
into a tree and leaving her in a coma. It is mentioned in Escaping Peril
that he did this because of his grudge against the RainWings. He failed
to capture Pyrite and left with his eyes burnt by Moon and frozen by
Winter, although his injuries healed when he changed shape.

left Escaping Peril

As Cirrus, Chameleon stopped Peril and Turtle on their adventure with
the Talons of Peace. When Avalanche mentioned Kestrel in a speech she
gave about how she wanted to kill Peril when she was a dragonet, Cirrus
asked questions about Kestrel and found out that Peril was Kestrel's
daughter.

Later, Turtle saw a dragon, most likely Chameleon, diving into the
forest behind him and Peril. The next morning, Turtle found talonprints
that did not belong to him or Peril beside their sleeping spot. They
likely belonged to Chameleon. When Peril and Turtle flew away, Peril
spotted Chameleon in his NightWing form staring at her.

As Peril perched on the sandstone formation outside of Possibility, a
large SkyWing came flying towards her but was distracted by Winter and
Foeslayer's arrival. After Winter and Peril's fight, Peril flew away
from the scene, and the SkyWing started flying with her. He told her his
name was Soar and then revealed that he was her father. Ex-Queen Scarlet
joined them, and Soar informed Peril that he was a RainWing named
Chameleon. He offered her a gift of a strange necklace that he claimed
would cancel the effects of her SkyWings#Abilities|firescales. Peril
accepted the gift, but unknown to her, it was also rigged with a loyalty
enchantment to Scarlet, and it made her forget Clay.

When Ruby/Tourmaline retook the throne, a guard came running, saying
that a NightWing had appeared inside the throne room. This was Chameleon
in his NightWing form.

Peril and the Jade Winglet confronted Chameleon, but found he was too
powerful for them to take on. Turtle used his magic to steal his scroll,
smashing it onto Chameleon's face, injuring him severely. Peril cried
out for the dragonets to stop, believing that Chameleon did not deserve
his punishment no matter what he have done. The dragonets then ran away,
leaving Chameleon with his shapes.

left Talons of Power
Turtle had memories about beating up Chameleon, worrying that he had
damaged his soul.

left
Darkness of Dragons
Chameleon,
disguised as a MudWing named Bog, appeared as a false hostage in
Vulture's lair. He told Qibli and Winter that the MudWings were causing
the explosions in the Kingdom of Sand and preparing to start a war,
though Qibli could tell that he was lying.

Later, when Qibli, Winter, Cobra, and Ostrich were trying
to escape Vulture's compound, they ran into Bog as Winter was attempting
to free Vulture's scavenger prisoners. He asked what they were doing and
recognized them from his time as Shapeshifter. Qibli and Winter tried to
fight him, but he threatened to kill the scavenger if they did not let
him go. Winter did not continue fighting after that. Qibli and Winter
then managed to get back to Cobra and Ostrich.

Bog later appeared in the Night Kingdom, and Kinkajou, who was
investigating the area, started to "stealthily" follow him. Bog walked
into a room and closed the door, later coming out as Chameleon's
superpowered NightWing form, Shapeshifter. Kinkajou relayed this
information to Qibli, who quickly realized that the two dragons were
Chameleon, and most likely arrived with Vulture. Qibli and Kinkajou
devised a plan to steal Chameleon's pieces of Darkstalker's Talisman.
Qibli walked up and acted as a distraction, while Kinkajou grabbed
Chameleon's earring, which had the pieces of talisman in it. Qibli
quickly told off Chameleon, then knocked out by Kinkajou. The pieces of
the scroll were later used to give Darkstalker a new life as Peacemaker.

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### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World

Chameleon was mentioned as one of the dragons Scarlet wanted dead.

## Relationships

### Kestrel

Upon hearing Kestrel's name, Chameleon flared his wings and asked for
more information. He was fully a SkyWing upon meeting her, and she did
not know that he was originally a RainWing. She did not know who he was
and thought that he was assigned to partner with her in the breeding
program, but he stated "but I knew her. I am unquestionably your
father."

### Peril

Upon first meeting his daughter, Chameleon smiled. After talking with
him, Peril realized that he sounded a lot like herself, and they were
able to bond over other dragons misunderstanding them. As soon as
Chameleon had realized that Peril was his daughter, he rushed to meet
her; additionally, he described her as powerful, amazing, and
terrifying, stating "Who wouldn't be proud of that?" He acknowledged his
absence in Peril's life, but stated that he would like to change that by
giving Peril a necklace that would take away her firescales. He trusted
her with the secret of his animus shapes and stated that his loyalty was
to Peril first and to Scarlet second.

Despite feeling that something was wrong, Peril tried to convince
herself that Chameleon gave her the necklace because he loves her and
understands what it is like to be different and the desire to be normal.
However, as soon as Peril discovered that he had tricked her with the
necklace, he quickly offered other alternatives with magic, to which
Peril declined, bristling. After stating that she could not trust him,
he wilted a little, but Peril was far from feeling sorry for him. She
considers him one of the worst dragons she has ever met, and when he
escaped from the Sky Kingdom, he said nothing to Peril, causing her to
believe that he maybe had not thought of her at all, despite her
deliberately not telling Ruby about his shapes because he loved them so
much.

Even after her father's betrayal, Peril believed that Chameleon had a
part of him that wanted to accept her as part of a family. He believes
that Peril betrayed him, and while he is willing to admit that he also
betrayed her, he thinks that she does not want to see him again.

### Scarlet

Scarlet first met Chameleon as he was changing forms, and gave him the
options of coming to work for her or explaining how he did it. Scarlet
later stated that nobody but her wanted Chameleon anywhere, and although
he worked with her to scare Peril's friends, he lied to Scarlet about
the limitations of his power and does not want her to know about the
scroll. He believes that she would take it away from him and kill him
afterwards if she knew the extent of his abilities, and he does not
trust Scarlet at all.

## Quotes

Wait. No, no, no. Not SORE. SOAR, S-O-A-R, like flying high
over the kingdom. Oh, good grief. Have other dragons been thinking my
name is Sore all these years?
to Peril about his name when
they first met Escaping Peril
141

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I know what you mean. You can do and say everything exactly the
same as everyone else, but if there's one thing different about you,
that's all that they care about.
to Peril
Escaping Peril
142

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My daughter is powerful and amazing and terrifying. Who
wouldn't be proud of that?
to Scarlet, about Peril

Escaping Peril
145

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It's not just a necklace. Peril, don't you understand what I
can do? I can turn you into anyone you want. I could make you a SeaWing
or an IceWing or even a scavenger, if you particularly wanted to get
eaten for some reason. I could make you a MudWing. I could take away
your firescales. Don't you see? You could be normal. You could be a
dragon who can touch other dragons. You don't have to be this monster
everyone is afraid of. I can change you.
to Peril

Escaping Peril
157

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This is a special case. […] I'd do anything to help my
dragonet.
to Scarlet about Peril
Escaping Peril
158

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Don't listen to those SkyWings. You're the second in command of
this place. I wish I had that much power in my tribe. I'd have made
everybody regret every moment of disrespect, every mocking laugh and
disgusted whisper.
to Peril
Escaping Peril
205

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Ha. As long as you aren't too different, sure. But I had one
problem the tribe couldn't understand: I can't change my scales. You saw
my RainWing color. When I'm a RainWing, I'm stuck that way. That same
green all the time — no camouflage, no flamboyant emotional outbursts,
no self-absorbed displays of clever special effects. I could never play
their little RainWing games. The healers guessed that it was because of
my sleep problem — as myself, I can never sleep for longer than a few
minutes at a time, an hour at most. They thought it affected my
scale-shifting abilities. But knowing that didn't help. Everyone still
teased me … and then whispered about me … and then avoided me. Finally
the queen banished me, saying I was making everyone uncomfortable, and
perhaps there was a better tribe for me outside the rainforest
somewhere.
to Peril about his snout deformity

Escaping Peril
206

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It's the strongest magic in the world. I've never read the
whole thing … But then, I only had to read the beginning to realize what
it could do.
to Peril about Darkstalker's Scroll

Escaping Peril
210

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If Scarlet knew I had unlimited power, she'd make me do much
more terrible things than anything I've done so far. I'm not an evil
dragon, Peril … I'm not going to give anyone all this power, especially
not Queen Scarlet.
to Peril about Darkstalker's scroll Escaping Peril
211-212

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I have a very nice life, though. And so can you, once this
kingdom is all sorted out. We'll be her right-claw dragons, and we'll be
together. Maybe you can help me come up with clever uses for the scroll.
It'll be nice to have family at last.
to Peril

Escaping Peril
212

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But it's mine. I found it, I get to keep it. Why should you
have it? What makes you all any better than me?
to
Moonwatcher, Peril, Qibli, and Winter, about Darkstalker's scroll Escaping Peril
262

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You can't do this to me! I'm nothing without my shapes! You
can't leave me as a useless RainWing! Where am I supposed to go?

to Kinkajou and Qibli
Darkness of Dragons
231

## Trivia

  - Whenever he changes into a different form, it "resets;" (i.e., when
    he puts on the Soar mask, all traces of previous battles or other
    activities from when he was previously Soar would disappear).
  - Chameleon is not a fan of caterpillars, and considers them nasty and
    crawly.
  - There is a wall of humming between Moon and his shape as
    Shapeshifter, so she cannot read his mind.
  - Chameleon has scratched, crooked handwriting.