'Darkness of Dragons' is the tenth book in the New York Times bestselling series Wings of Fire and the
fifth book in the second arc. The main protagonist is Qibli. The book
was officially released on July 25th, 2017.

Darkness of Dragons follows Talons of Power, and precedes The Lost Continent.

## Summary

Time is running out.

Qibli knows Darkstalker must be stopped. And he knows he could stop him
— if he had animus magic|magic. With even a sliver of the ancient
dragon's all-powerful Darkstalker's scroll|scroll, Qibli could rewrite
history the right way: end war forever, make every Dragons|dragon happy,
perhaps even Animus enchantments|cast a very small spell so that
everyone would like him…

Instead, as Darkstalker's dangerous influence spreads across Pyrrhia,
entrancing or killing every dragon in the seven tribes, Qibli can only
grasp the small animus objects he's borrowed from Turtle. With some
clever thinking, Qibli's talons finally hold the power to make a
difference.

But prophecies are not easy to rewrite. Can Qibli be the magical force
Pyrrhia needs, or will he be the one to bring Jade Mountain — and his
family, his friends, his whole world — crashing down?

## Quote on Back of Hardcover

"Um," said Qibli, "Wait. How exactly do we know Darkstalker is humble
and unambitious now?"

"Because it's obvious," Winter said, rolling his eyes. "It's not like he
immediately demanded to be made king of the NightWings or anything."

With impeccable comic timing, the slate in Qibli's pouch gave a little
jump. He waited until no one was looking, then pulled it out and hid it
under his desk. The message from Turtle appeared, agonizingly slowly.

Darkstalker wants to be NightWing king. NightWings deciding what they
want.

Qibli nearly laughed, but he didn't want to draw attention to the slate.

Oh, and also, it was too terrifying to be funny.

## Dedication

For Elliot and Jonah, my heroes and my heart, who make me happy every
single day

With thanks to Robert Doar and Aayush Srivatsa for Typhoon and to Amy
Doar for supporting Lifting Hands International

## Plot

### Prologue

The prologue was from Palm's perspective. She was shown running away
from Queen Oasis' soldiers, who intended to take her back to the
SandWing stronghold|SandWing Palace and execute her for having eggs with
Smolder, which could lead to more challengers for the SandWing throne.
She fled, running for hours in the baking sun, and tried to find the
home of her sister, whom she had not visited in a year. On the verge of
passing out, she found her sister, Prickle, in her hut near an oasis.
Prickle reluctantly let Palm in, and they started arguing about how she
should not have been with Smolder. Palm begged her sister to allow her
to stay even for a day. In return, Prickle took Palm's earrings, her
last connection to Smolder, as payment. Palm realized that it was the
only thing she could do, so she hesitantly unclipped them and gave them
to her sister. Prickle examined them and decided she wanted to keep them
rather than sell them, clipping them onto her own ears and demanding an
explanation. Palm explained how she tried to elope with Smolder but was
caught before the two could meet up. Prickle and Palm had a hunch it
might have been the SandWing Dragon royalty|princesses who told the
queen about their attempted elope.

After a while, the guards then burst in, arresting Prickle by mistake
since the sisters were almost completely identical and she was wearing
Palm's earrings. Agave, who was one of the guards, recognized the real
Palm but did not mention it, as the two had been good friends when they
were dragonets (because Palm had noticed how shy and scared Agave was in
the hatchery), allowing Palm to escape. Palm lied and pretended to be
Prickle for the sake of Onyx|her dragonet, and they took Prickle away.
Prickle swore that she would set the moons on fire and drop them on
Palm's head, which, ironically, was how she died: from skyfire falling
on her head. Palm then decided to run away and travel to the mountains.
As she ran away, she caught sight of three scavengers heading to the
SandWing Palace, but soon forgot about it as she planned to raise her
child to show that the throne did not matter and to be ordinary, in the
way Smolder could not.

### Part One: Storm of Sands

The book then flashed to when Moonwatcher, Turtle, Darkstalker, and the
other dragons who followed him flew away from Jade Mountain Academy.
Qibli noticed that the dragons fell behind Darkstalker, despite him not
knowing where NightWing village|the village was because he acted as
their leader, so they followed him. He noticed different observations
about Anemone and worried about Turtle. He wondered if he should have
gone with them. Qibli flashed back to his time before the Scorpion Den
and his life with his horrible mother, Cobra, and siblings Rattlesnake
and Sirocco. Qibli had a flashback to when he was a little dragonet and
tried to steal a coconut for his mother. His mother yelled at him for
not being worried about his own survival and caring too much about other
dragons, drawing the attention of her client, Thorn, who became
interested in Qibli. Thorn then took him in after his mother sold him to
her. She soon won his loyalty when she complimented him, as she was the
first one ever to have acknowledged that he had done something right. He
later had a conversation with Winter, stating mentally that it seemed
like "his brain is wrapped in walrus blubber," referring to
Darkstalker's spell.

Winter told Qibli to stop moping in the next chapter, and Qibli
protested, saying Winter was the one who was moping. Winter denied it
haughtily. Qibli then modified the term to "brooding," and Winter
claimed that it would be a better description, but he was not doing that
either. He told Qibli that it was time to go to History Class, but Qibli
said they were in the middle of history right now. Winter scoffed,
saying the excitement was in the Rainforest Kingdom|rainforest now, and
they were just the footnotes, much to Qibli's disappointment and
irritation. He gave up the argument, and they went to the History cave.

When they got there, Tamarin was tapping cave walls and sniffing the
air, and Qibli asked her what happened. She asked Qibli if he smelt
smoke, and he denied it. Tamarin decided it was just that she had not
been able to get the scent of smoke cleared from her nose since the
explosion. Qibli read her scale colors, and Tamarin admitted that the
burns hurt and that she was worried about Kinkajou now, and Qibli
agreed. He thought back to the talisman and wished his friends had let
him have it so that he could have used it to help Tamarin see, and so
Darkstalker would still be trapped, Kinkajou would be healed, and Moon
would still be around him. Pike burst in, asking where Anemone was, and
Winter responded that she went to the rainforest. Pike started freaking
out about Anemone alone and unprotected and that he must go after her,
so he did not get in trouble with Coral. Winter said that Turtle went
with her, and Pike was not in the least reassured. Qibli pointed out
that Turtle would be great at protecting her, deciding not to reveal
Turtle's invisibility spell. Tamarin added that Anemone was an animus,
so she could protect herself. Pike decided to go after Anemone anyway,
but Webs ordered him to stay, and Pike protested to no avail at all.

Webs said that since the Jade Winglet and Gold Winglet had shortages in
population, the Silver Winglet will be joining them. Qibli was excited as his friend, Ostrich would be joining him. However,
Ostrich was not among her winglet, much to his disappointment. Thrush
asked if they could learn about Darkstalker, and Changbai agreed, saying
he did not seem like the legends. Boto was worried if Darkstalker was
likely to murder them. Webs was irked, saying Darkstalker's legend
happened 3,000 years after where they currently were in their lesson,
but Tamarin interjected, saying they desperately needed to know about
him now. Winter snapped that they could see what Darkstalker was like
without a history scroll, adding that he trusted his own instincts more
than a scroll. Sepia and Winter then started pointlessly arguing about
who was more villainous, Icicle, or Sora. Qibli interjected, saying
Icicle did try to kill Glory and Starflight, which did not help Winter
at all. Webs finally gave in, telling what he knew about Darkstalker.
Qibli received a message on Turtle's slate saying that Darkstalker
wanted to be king. Sunny then entered the classroom and asked to have a
moment with Qibli, only for him to learn that Ostrich was missing from
the school.

Qibli and Sunny searched Anemone's room and found animus enchanted bands
that can control the weather, which Sunny took. After searching the
mountain with Sunny, Qibli realized that Onyx was also missing and was
upset that Ostrich was in danger because of him. Turtle sent him a
message that said Darkstalker was the new NightWing king. Qibli then got
frustrated at Turtle for not adding more details. Then, Qibli tried to
put his earring on Winter, but Winter refused, saying it would clash
horribly with his scales. Then, Qibli thought of trying to multiply his
earrings (that remove any of Darkstalker's spells from whoever wears it)
with Turtle's bowl, meant for multiplying food. He got the bowl and got
frustrated when he could not remember the command words. Peril came
along and joined in with insulting the bowl, then gave Qibli the idea of
asking the bowl politely. Then, Qibli started to multiply the earrings.
With the new earrings, he doubled them for Sunny, Tsunami, the other
dragonets of destiny, and the students at Jade Mountain (Peril was
unable to wear one due to her firescales). Sunny told Qibli that by
using the dreamvisitor, she saw Ostrich with a dragon covered with
tattoos, who Qibli confirmed to be Vulture|his grandfather in the
Scorpion Den. Qibli decided to go there, and brought Anemone's weather
bands and prepared to face the terror of his grandfather to rescue
Ostrich, and Winter insisted on coming along.

They got to the Scorpion Den and met Qibli's siblings, Sirocco and
Rattlesnake, who brought him to his grandfather, Vulture. He greeted
Qibli and assumed he must be there to join him. He told Qibli about a
group he had made called the Talons of Power. Winter and Qibli realized
that might be what The Jade Mountain Prophecy|the prophecy meant by
"beware the talons of power." He also showed them a MudWing witness who
confirmed that the MudWings were behind all the attacks on the Kingdom
of Sand and that Thorn had not been doing anything. Then it was revealed
that Cobra was being held captive. Qibli also discovered Ostrich, who
was betrayed by Onyx and captured here. Qibli had the choice of freeing
Ostrich and giving Thorn's secrets away or find other means of escape.
He pretended to choose to join them and started writing gibberish
instead of secrets, and Cobra played along by scolding him for
misspelling "Capybara." Eventually, they had a chance to escape. Cobra
knocked out the guards, and Winter, Ostrich, Cobra, and Qibli escaped
(with Cobra's help since she knew the layout of the hideout). They
confronted the MudWing, and he turned out to be Chameleon|Peril's
father, who was pretending to be a MudWing called Bog and was working
for treasure as always. They also found the hideout treasury and steal
the Obsidian Mirror.

The four fled to Thorn's stronghold after Cobra dramatically blew up a
dragonflame cactus. Qibli found Thorn and talked to her for a bit,
having convinced her to wear an earring, which Smolder suspiciously
objected to. After they exchanged quick greetings, Qibli realized
something wrong and brought Thorn and the others to Ostrich, Winter, and
his mother. Qibli claimed that she was meant to escape and then when
inside, assassinate Thorn, so Cobra was then arrested after proving
guilty. Thorn, Qibli and a SeaWing-IceWing hybrid named Typhoon
discussed the trouble in the Ice Kingdom, and how there was a plague
caused by Darkstalker, so Qibli asked them to bring earrings to the
IceWings. Typhoon volunteered. Just as they were discussing the
IceWings, Winter came inside, curious about what was going on. As soon
as he heard about IceWing plague|the plague, he attempted to take off to
ask Darkstalker for help, but Qibli and the SandWing guards pinned him
down. Winter breathed ice on Qibli's arm in anger, and Thorn managed to
put his earring on Winter, but both he and Qibli passed out. Qibli woke
up, but soon after he did, they were confronted by Vulture and the
Talons of Power. Vulture claimed he had the Eye of Onyx, and that meant
he should be in control of the throne, but Thorn laughed it off before
revealing the real Eye of Onyx. She said that the real Eye was an animus
enchanted object which only those worthy can hold, and all others would
die (implying Vulture was not worthy, and would die if he held the real
Eye). Qibli noticed not seeing Onyx there while his grandfather was
threatening Thorn, which was strange. He warned Thorn just in time as
Onyx tried to sneak attack her. It was revealed that Onyx was the
daughter of Prince Smolder and Palm, which meant she was of royal blood
and could take the throne.

Thorn suggested battling for the crown, and Onyx agreed. Qibli worried
about Thorn's lack of royal blood and called a storm using Anemone's
weather bracelets to interrupt the battle, but instead of a
thunderstorm, he summoned a huge sandstorm, forcing the dragons to take
cover in the palace. While waiting out the storm, Thorn revealed that
the Eye does not discriminate against the lack of royal blood and
instead chose the most worthy successor, so Qibli did not need to worry.
After the sandstorm finally cleared up, the dragons began to clean up
and dig out trapped dragons. Thorn worries about Smolder, so Qibli,
Thorn, Six-Claws, and Winter go down in the dungeons. They find Onyx
badly injured with Smolder by her side. Next to them was a "mad
prisoner" who would not keep quiet. Onyx recognized the dragon as
Prickle, who, after being captured twenty years ago, had been forgotten
by Oasis. As they were discussing, from the outside, Ostrich opened the
window to the dungeon and got rid of the darkness. They carried Onyx
back up to the surface, and as soon as they did, Turtle sent a message
to Qibli saying, "Darkstalker knows about me. Trapped in the NightWing
palace|NightWing Palace. Help!"

### Part Two: King of Shadows

Qibli started panicking because Turtle did not give any useful
information like where the old Lost city of night|Night Kingdom even
was. Winter and Qibli then argue about rescuing Turtle. Qibli and Winter
next use the Obsidian Mirror to see their friends. When they used it on
Moon, she was arguing with Kinkajou about her behavior and about
Darkstalker. Moon said that they should go back to Jade Mountain, and
Kinkajou agreed. Winter remarked that Kinkajou was making more sense
than Moon. They then move on to Turtle, coiled in the corner of what
Qibli assumed was a cell. He hoped that this was not their fault. They
then move on to Darkstalker, who was praising one of his NightWing
subjects for doing a good job with clearing the weeds from one of the
derelict gardens. Darkstalker said that he could give the dragon some
master gardener magic, and the other dragon politely declined, saying he
would prefer seeing the future. Darkstalker disagreed, saying that he
could see the future and one seer was enough for the tribe. He said that
lots of gardeners would be great and that the other dragon could think
it over. The other dragon hastily apologized and accepted Darkstalker's
offer. Thorn was surprised that it was that easy for Darkstalker to use
his magic to give wondrous powers, and Qibli agreed. After listening to
Darkstalker greet some more of his subjects, Qibli said there was only
one thing they can do, and that was to go back to Jade Mountain. He said
that Moon and Kinkajou should be there in a few days. He shook his head,
saying he wants to get Turtle now. He also thought about how Moon and
Kinkajou were in danger every second. Winter said to try Tsunami to see
if she gave the earrings. Qibli said with a sigh that she was probably
back at the academy, but he whispered the name to the mirror. This
showed Tsunami yelling at a captor that she evidently cannot see. The
chapter ends when Qibli, Thorn, and Winter realize with horror Tsunami
was not at Jade Mountain and was a hostage.

The two set off to the Kingdom of Night, finding Anemone on the way,
trapped in Darkstalker's spell to "shut up." Qibli freed her by giving
an earring, and the three head off to find Darkstalker. At the Night
Kingdom, Winter worried about the spell bordering the kingdom that
killed IceWings, but the spell was blocked because of the earring. The
IceWings called that area "Darkstalker's Teeth." In the Night Kingdom,
Darkstalker was testing out powers with the NightWings, all of them
fighting with each other in an arena. Qibli and Winter realized that
Darkstalker was planning revenge against the IceWings. They found
Kinkajou but realized Bog was there too. They developed a plan to take
away his forms, and Qibli approached him when he turns into
Shapeshifter. Qibli calmly told Bog a lie that he ran into Peril in
Possibility, and she asked Qibli to buy a matching earring for him if
they ever ran into him. Bog angrily accepted the earring, but he was
reverted into his normal RainWing form. He got furious, but Kinkajou
knocked a brick down from the tower, hitting Chameleon's head, and he is
knocked out. As they entered the library, Qibli found Moon, and everyone
reunited. Qibli offered Moon an earring to protect her. Darkstalker came
up to them and asked about the earring suspiciously. He also introduced
them to what seems to be Clearsight in the present time.

"Clearsight" was very monotone, and she did not seem to be interested in
being a seer again. Darkstalker said that they are getting married and
that she was tired, so they go away. Moon was very confused about this,
as they go to their apartment where Winter, Anemone, and Kinkajou are
at. Qibli gave her the earring, and Anemone gave Moon skyfire, but she
said that she does not feel any different and genuinely likes
Darkstalker. Winter got so shocked about it that he accidentally broke
one of the vases. Qibli tried to intervene, which causes more trouble.
Moon and Kinkajou threw the broken pieces away. Qibli explained to Moon
that Darkstalker created the plague that targeted the IceWings and
locked Turtle away. They agreed that Anemone and Kinkajou should go off
to rescue Turtle, while Moon and Qibli go to confront Darkstalker.

They found Darkstalker testing his spells out on the dragon who appeared
to be Clearsight, trying to get her "perfect". He eventually gave up and
groaned that he really missed Clearsight. The dragon he was
experimenting on turns out to be Fierceteeth. Moon walked up to
Darkstalker, saying that enchanting and rewriting someone like that was
wrong. She also told him that he created the IceWing plague. Darkstalker
protested that the IceWings would have killed them anyways, which Moon
replied that they were at peace until Darkstalker came along.
Darkstalker reverted Clearsight back into Fierceteeth and sent her to
tell the NightWings they were at war.

### Part Three: The Light of Dragons

The IceWings decided to go to NightWing-IceWing War|war with the
NightWings because of Darkstalker's plague that killed twenty IceWings,
including Glacier|their queen. The IceWings flew to Jade Mountain
Academy to demand the whereabouts of Darkstalker and were confirmed to
be the "ice" in the Jade Mountain Prophecy. The NightWings arrived
shortly, and a battle sprang out between the two tribes, killing
Winter's Narwhal|father as well as many other dragons.

Qibli summoned a storm using Anemone's weather bands in attempt to stop
the IceWings' and NightWings' fighting. The storm quickly went out of
control, and Qibli realized that the "thunder" that would bring down
Jade Mountain in the prophecy was his storm. He got Anemone to drive off
the storm and told the dragonets of destiny to evacuate the school and
the rest of the students just in case.

Qibli then retreated to Moon, Turtle, Kinkajou, and Anemone just as
Moonwatcher received a new vision about a strawberry picking NightWing.
Anemone sent away the storm a few moments later. Moon suggested trying
to talk to Darkstalker through his mind, and Qibli agreed, despite the
fact she might be overwhelmed with the ongoing battle around them.

After thinking over Moon's ability to connect with other dragons with
her mind-reading, Qibli devised a spell that connected the minds of all
the IceWings and NightWings to realize the thoughts of the other side,
and make both sides show compassion for each other, and then teleported
them back to their own kingdoms after a hundred heartbeats. Anemone was
the one to cast the spell using Qibli's library card and also took off
the love spell she cast on Kinkajou. The spell worked, and the two
tribes are teleported home, along with Winter.

Darkstalker suddenly swooped in and carried Qibli off to his original
prison under Agate Mountain. There, he asked Qibli if he wanted animus
magic. He then proceeded to show him all the wonderful things he could
do to bad dragons if he were to have powers, using Vulture to show him.
Darkstalker wanted Qibli to be his best friend who would help guide him
through tough times. The last thought Qibli had before his choice is,
"Say yes." Then, he looked at Darkstalker in the eyes and told him,
"No." He reasoned that there would definitely have to be something more
than that. Darkstalker admitted that there would be a "tiny spell,"
which would enchant Qibli to not being able to do him any harm.
Darkstalker did not like Qibli's meddling in the futures, where Qibli
was not his best friend. However, Darkstalker noted that he could simply
take off Qibli's earring and forcibly enchant him.

Just as Darkstalker was about to rip off Qibli's earring and enchant
him, he heard the sound of the soul reader spinning in Qibli's bag. When
it finally stopped rotating, it was pointed at Darkstalker and showed
him how bad he really was, with the bottom half filled with white sand
and only a few grains of black sand at the top. Darkstalker did not
believe this because his soul was protected and enchanted the soul
reader over again. It again showed him the same result, to Darkstalker's
fury, and Qibli explained that he lost his soul not because the magic
ate it away, but because of his terrible actions.

Darkstalker suddenly got a vision and was dumbfounded. He demanded to
know if Moon, who was hidden behind a camouflaged Kinkajou the whole
time, can see it, too. It was revealed that the vision was about
Foeslayer, who was waiting for Darkstalker on the peaks of Jade
Mountain. As Darkstalker flies off, Moon praises Qibli's choice of not
accepting animus magic, and they fly to Jade Mountain. Foeslayer and her
son embrace, and Darkstalker admitted that the soul reader saw him as an
evil dragon. Foeslayer told him that he should not try to get revenge on
the current IceWing tribe and wished that she could start over.

Moon then shared the vision she had of the strawberry picking NightWing
dragonet. That dragonet was Darkstalker but with a new life, in which he
had no animus magic or NightWing powers. Darkstalker was reluctant about
this future as he eats the strawberry Foeslayer offered him. He then
announced that he was immune to all other dragons' animus spells, but
Kinkajou said that one dragon's magic will still work on him.
Darkstalker disagreed. Kinkajou said she was right, and he asked whose.
Kinkajou stated his own magic could still work on him. The strawberry
that Darkstalker ate was enchanted to remove his memories and turn him
into a NightWing-RainWing hybrid with no powers and no memory. Kinkajou
was revealed to be the mastermind behind the enchantment, using the
scraps of Darkstalker's enchanted scroll to write the spell, the ones
Chameleon used to transform into his different dragon forms.

Foeslayer decided to rename him Peacemaker and rename herself Hope,
using Qibli's suggestion, and went to live with what remained of the
NightWings in the rainforest.

### Epilogue

Peacemaker was growing up in the forest with Hope, Moon, and others. He
was making mud pies and loved strawberries more than ever. Moon was
thinking about deciding who she should love. She had been thinking hard
for a long time and has finally made her decision. She talked for some
time with Hope and Peacemaker, asking about Pantala|the lost continent
as Peacemaker runs off to take a nap. Hope explained that according to
NightWing calculations, there was a high probability that there was
another continent on their planet and suggests that she search for the
Legend of the Hive, a story about the first dragons who came to live on
the lost continent. Moon thanked her and leaves to go to the Kingdom of
Sand, intending to do something about her vision of Jerboa III|Jerboa
and meet Qibli.

Winter (who was still hated by his family) decided to study scavengers
in the wild. He had left Jade Mountain Academy and was now living in
Sanctuary, the new city. Kinkajou came to talk with him, scaring away
the scavengers, and he asked if Moon came with her, to which she
responded no. He admitted that he was not the best towards her
sometimes, and Kinkajou said he can still work to mend their
relationship even though she believed Moon truly cared for Qibli. Winter
realized that he does not actually hate Qibli and considered his former
winglet his family. He then suggested for Kinkajou to help him catch
scavengers for examination, which she responded to positively.

Peril was contemplating the new school year, excited that she was in the
same Winglet as Turtle. She wandered down to the prey center, telling
herself that it was to make apple sauce for the RainWings, although she
really hoped that Clay would be there. When she arrived, she saw Clay
and the two have a brief conversation. She then instinctively asked Clay
to go flying in the rain with her, and he agreed.

Turtle read a message from Coral and Auklet. Kinkajou came up to Turtle,
and they start to joke around about Anemone's love spell that she put on
Kinkajou. She asked him if he could write more of the story he wrote for
class earlier, and he was surprised that she actually liked it. He
begins to think about how he was not perfect yet, but he was working
towards being the dragon he wanted to be and was currently satisfied
with himself.

Qibli was helping the SandWings rebuild Thorn's stronghold after his
sandstorm disaster. He was leaving the academy behind and was going to
be an advisor to Queen Thorn. During the break, Moon visited Qibli and
started talking to him. She admitted her feelings for him, and Qibli
said that she should be saying this to Winter right now. Moon seemed
confused and said that Winter will be fine without her. Moon then told
Qibli that she cannot live without him and asked if they can be
together, and Qibli said yes. She also convinced him to come back to
Jade Mountain. Moon then said that she had been having a vision and took
Qibli to see if it was true. The two of them head off towards the
further ranges of the Sand Kingdom, near the border with the Ice
Kingdom, and found a dragon named Jerboa, much to Qibli's surprise. They
learn that the dragon they find was actually the daughter of the
original Jerboa. She said that she wanted to show them somebody: the
Luna|first visitor from the Lost Continent.

## Mistakes

  - On the English cover, Qibli is missing his scar.[1]
  - The word people is used instead of dragons twice.
  - Moorhen is incorrectly spelled as Mudhen. This is later corrected in
    the e-book.
  - Winter is said to have pale blue eyes, even though they are dark
    blue.
  - Qibli's narration stated Kinkajou is the "first RainWing in a
    century to learn to write." However, Glory and Chameleon knew how to
    write too.
  - Darkstalker said that instead of than when he said, "I don't want to
    lose all my memories! I'd forget Clearsight … She'd be even more
    gone that she is now!"
  - Rattlesnake referred to herself as "sir," although she is female.

## Trivia

  - This book features a fan's character named Typhoon, belonging to a
    wiki user named . This was from an auction that Tui held, which
    ended on May 2nd, 2016.[2]
  - In a few places, the book was titled as Storm of Sands, which is
    both the name of Part One and the French title.[3][4]
  - Originally, the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons had ten sections —
    one for each of the featured POVs from the first arc to the second
    arc. However, Tui's Amanda Maciel|editor stated that it felt "too
    epilogue-y" and too much like it would be the end of the series
    forever.

## International Releases

  - 'Chinese:' 火翼飞龙. 逆转未来的草莓符咒 (March 2021)
  - 'French:' Les Royaumes de Feu. La Tempête de Sable (May 2019)
  - 'Russian:' Драконья сага. Драконья тьма (July 2019)
  - 'German:' Wings of Fire. Dunkelheit der Drachen (May 2021)
  - 'Korean:' 불의 날개와 어둠의 용 (April 2023)
  - 'Polish:' Skrzydła Ognia. Smoczy mrok (August 2024)