'Cobra' is an adult
female SandWing who was introduced in Darkness of Dragons. She is the
mother of Qibli, Rattlesnake, and Sirocco and daughter of Vulture.
Before being imprisoned by Queen Thorn at the SandWing stronghold,
Cobra's skills were legendary among certain circles, and she outshone
all of the assassins within the Scorpion Den.

## Description

Cobra has snakelike patterns down her spine. She looks beautiful and
deadly, with a dangerous glitter in her eyes. She is long, large and
thin, and has a toothy smile.

## Personality

Cobra is dishonest, untrustworthy, greedy, cold, deadly, smart,
nefarious, evil, scornful, and hates dragonets. She has a fierce
hostility towards other tribes and is very strict about grammar. Her
voice sounded bored when she was imprisoned within the SandWing
stronghold.

## Biography

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Pre-Series
Cobra was hatched to
Vulture and an unknown mother. She grew up to be a famous assassin,
rumored to have killed Oasis's sisters and two guests at Scarlet's
wedding. She had three dragonets; Qibli, Rattlesnake, and Sirocco with
an unknown dragon. Cobra abused and ignored Qibli, and possibly even his
siblings, before Thorn came to take him. She did not care what happened
to him, but she did not want to sell Qibli at first. But after a quick
negotiation, in which Thorn agrees to stay out of Cobra's way, she let
Thorn take him. She always insisted that he had to fend for himself in
the Scorpion Den. She said he cared too much for others and was
worthless.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Brightest Night

Cobra was indirectly mentioned when Sunny asked Qibli if
Thorn was his mother too, he said no and that Thorn had saved him from
his mother.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Moon Rising
Soon
after meeting Qibli, Moonwatcher had a vision about Qibli's early life,
including his mother. Later, Qibli asked "where is she?", the 'she'
being Cobra.

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Darkness of Dragons
In a flashback,
Qibli remembered the whispers of dragons wondering why he and his
siblings were allowed to live. He remembered lying awake night after
night waiting for his mother to show a hint of her hidden love. Yet,
Cobra never looked at her dragonets. When Qibli was three and half years
old, Cobra had ordered Qibli and his siblings out because she was
expecting a client. He came back later with a coconut and offered it to
Cobra. She was furious because when "you steal a coconut, you kept it
for yourself." Thorn noticed this and offered to take Qibli. Cobra
refused this but agreed after Thorn claimed that she and her Outclaws
would leave her alone.

After Qibli left, Vulture, Cobra's father, imprisoned her to get his
hands on her dragonets, to make them join his Talons of Power organization. He trapped her in an
oubliette until Qibli came to Vulture's compound|Vulture's fortress to look for Ostrich. When Cobra was freed by Qibli, she told
him to escape that night with her. Cobra stopped herself from calling
Qibli "lizard," and even tried to kill her other two dragonets for
trying to stop her escape. She, in fact, killed many Talons of Power
members on her way out of Vulture's fortress with Qibli, and also set
off a dragonflame cactus prior to stealing the Obsidian Mirror against
her father's wishes. It was later revealed by Qibli that Cobra and
Vulture were plotting against Qibli, by making it seem as if Cobra had
been trapped in the oubliette for years, although it had only been less
than a day. Vulture and Cobra had set a trap for Qibli, trying to make
him lead his mother to Thorn's stronghold. Cobra was arrested by Thorn
and was thrown in Thorn's dungeon. Later, when Smolder, Qibli, Thorn,
and Onyx visit the dungeons of Queen Thorn's stronghold, they meet
Prickle, who was thought to be Palm and thrown into jail. Once they
confirm her identity, Thorn thoughtfully wonders if she should let her
go, and Cobra asks in a bored voice if she is letting prisoners go and,
if so, can she be released. Thorn rejects her offer.

## Relationships

### Qibli

Cobra is dishonest and scornful towards her son, and did not care at all
what he did or how he was affected. Cobra considers him a half-witted
idiot with crazy ideas, completely ordinary and useless, and doubts his
ability to ever do anything important. Later on in life, she snapped at
him even while pretending to be loving towards him in order to
infiltrate the SandWing stronghold.

### Rattlesnake and Sirocco

Cobra did not pay much attention to Rattlesnake and Sirocco, and did not
care much what they did. She often spoke harshly towards them and showed
no qualms against killing them.

## Quotes

Get your ugly snouts out of here and don't come back until
dark, if you must come back at all.
to her dragonets

Darkness of Dragons
6

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Have I taught you nothing about survival? […] You survive!
That's all you have to do! Nobody is ever going to take care of you! A
dragon looks out for herself and no one else. You weak little worm, if
you steal a coconut, you keep it for yourself.
to Qibli
Darkness of Dragons
10

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He thinks about other dragons too much. It's going to get him
killed one day.
to Thorn about Qibli
Darkness of
Dragons
10

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Hoping for some last words of wisdom? […] Take care of
yourself, lizard. You'll never amount to much, so don't go trying to be
a hero, or you'll just get killed. And don't come crawling back here.
How's that?
to Qibli
Darkness of Dragons
13

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Has your handwriting gotten worse since you were a dragonet?
And your spelling is atrocious. What self-respecting SandWing can't
spell Capybara? I swear you've gotten stupider since I sold you.

pretending to criticize Qibli's handwriting
Darkness
of Dragons
109

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All right, Mr. Cleverclaws. You think you've got it all figured
out. But did it ever occur to you that I might be betraying him? That he
wouldn't have wanted me to take the Obsidian Mirror? That I might really
want to destroy him and take over the Scorpion Den with you at my side?

to Qibli, about betraying Vulture
Darkness of Dragons

141

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You really think he would give up that easily? You think he'll
go back to his gilded compound and lie around eating scavengers
peacefully for the rest of his life? Ha. Ha. Ha. Vulture will burn the
Kingdom of Sand|kingdom to the ground before he gives up.
to
Qibli about Vulture
Darkness of Dragons
186

## Trivia

  - Cobra loves coconut.
  - Cobra always eats roasted coriander seeds before a planned
    assassination.
  - Cobra was suspected of killing two guests at Scarlet's wedding and
    supposedly murdered Oasis's sisters, but no one could ever prove it.
    There were even rumors about the SandWing sisters attempting to
    commission her to kill the others during the War of SandWing
    Succession. According to those rumors, Cobra had refused as she
    found the war to be more profitable for her.
  - Cobra dismembered scorpions to study and extract their venom.
  - Tui might make a Winglet for Cobra and/or Vulture, though this is
    not certain.
  - Cobra's name was originally going to be used for Viper, but Tui
    decided against it.