(The winglets are not to be confused with Wings of Fire:
Winglets|Winglets, which are short stories in the Wings of Fire (book
series)|Wings of Fire series.)

'Jade Mountain Academy 'is an intertribal school located within Jade
Mountain, founded by the dragonets of destiny after they ended 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 five
winglets: the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the
Copper Winglet, and the Quartz 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 share a sleeping cave, making them Terminology#Pyrrhian
Titles|clawmates. Tsunami is the current headmistress of the school.

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## Description

The school is located within Jade Mountain, which has fang-shaped twin
peaks. The main entrance to the school is on a mountaintop, consisting
of a wide ledge with multiple trees. There is only one other entrance,
which is located through Stonemover's cave. The tunnels are dimly lit
with the only source of light coming from glass globes of various colors
that hang from the ceiling which gives the effect as if it was outdoors
in the sunlit canopy of the rainforest instead of underground. Some
tunnels are lined with plants growing out of the cracks in the rock or
small pots of dirt, green vines covering the ceiling and winding around
the glass globes, and a rivulet of water trickling down the center of
the tunnel.

The caves of the school founders, as well as Peril's, are all located
away from those of the students. Peril's cave is located across the main
central cave from Clay's.

## Notable features

### Art cave

<File:JMA> GN 3.png|thumb|150px|The Art cave from Moon Rising (graphic
novel), by Mike Holmes The Art Cave is the room where students learn all
sorts of art forms, including painting, pottery, glass-working,
metalworking, weaving, and woodworking. The cave is usually flooded with
sunlight, combing through holes in the walls or ceiling. The room is
filled with art supplies tucked into every crevice and wooden dragon
sculptures with green, blue, or orange beads for eyes placed on little
stone shelves. The room has brushes, paint, blank scrolls, clay for
sculpting, wood, glass, metal, beads, and a loom. On the ceiling, a
giant metal sculpture made of gleaming copper wire wound around the
ceiling, looking like flames. Several clear glass globes are suspended
from it, glowing with firelight. It is described by Kinkajou to look
like if a couple of RainWings just emoted all over it.

### 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 sunlight pouring into
the cave, Illuminating the craggy walls and rippled ceiling, with
twisting stalactites that sometimes reach the floor, forming twisting
columns, and outgrowths of stalagmites that create shadowy corners. A
huge bronze gong hangs against the back wall,  with three flying dragons
carved into its surface. A map of the school can be seen in the middle
of the room. 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

The healing center contains bandages and a colored diagram of a MudWing,
showing where the muscles are located in the dragon body. It includes a
class called Herbs and Healing, requested by Peregrine and Tamarin
especially.

### 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 destroyed the cave with Plants#Dragonflame
cactus|dragonflame cactus in an attempt to kill Icicle during the events of Moon Rising, forcing the history class to be
relocated to a different cave. The new cave is located several corridors
away from the previous one. It includes a skylight, and it is slightly
dark, damp, and chilly, with one exit and scrolls piled in corners.

### Library

The entrance of the Library 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 light is the result of the sun shining through large
translucent, semi-transparent leaves placed over windows, with one of
those windows torn open by Icicle who broke out in Moon Rising. Scrolls
are arranged all over the cave, in cubby holes on the walls, on racks,
and in cylinders. 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 is 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.

The library stamps are described as small rectangles of wood, about as
long as two claws, and with the student's name carved backward in raised
letters on one side. Every student gets a library stamp when they visit
the library at Jade Mountain Academy. Starflight keeps them behind his
desk, and he hands them to students when they see him for the first time
since arrival.

Starflight is currently working on making scrolls that blind dragons can
read. He is also working on making non-flammable scrolls.

### Mourning cave

The mourning cave has a tall, arched roof, towering slender pillars of
pale gray rock, and windows and skylights that are open to the air.
Carnelian's body was wrapped in white silk during the mourning period,
and the cave entrance is marked by a boulder.

### Music cave

The music cave is a vast, round cave filled with various instruments,
including mbiras, harps, marimbas, maracas, drums, didgeridoos, and
possibly an upright bass, with a skylight above it. It is designed so
that sound bounces around the cave with smooth walls.

### Prey center

<File:JMA> GN 11.png|thumb|150px|The Prey center from Moon Rising
(graphic novel), by Mike Holmes The prey center, set up by Clay, is a
large cave open to the sky on one side, looking over a mossy slope, with
a low wall of rocks across the bottom of the opening to keep prey from
escaping. There is a fast-flowing river sweeping along the wall opposite
to the opening that flows through an arch into the next cave. There is a
tall boulder in the middle of the cave. 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 near
the river for RainWing students. It can be accessed through corridors
leading from the residents' sleeping caves.

### Sleeping caves

The sleeping caves are where the students of Jade Mountain Academy use
to sleep at night or rest during the day in-between classes if they
chose to do so. As the sleeping caves are connected to one, or both, of
the hallways to the left of the Great Hall. A few stalactites hang over
the door way like jagged teeth of Moonwatcher's cave. Fire-lit glass
globes of various colors are strung across the ceiling illuminating the
cave. Two globes are rested on either side of the door and another at
Moon's level across the cave. The door makes up one wall of the cave
while a sleeping spot had been arranged along each of the other three
walls. One is a bare rock ledge, another a pile of rainforest leaves and
mosses, and the third is a woven green hammock ingeniously suspended
from the cave ceiling as if each bed was deliberately designed with
different dragons in mind. Five mahogany scroll racks are arranged
around the cave about the height of Moonwatcher's foreleg, polished
until they are smooth as scales. There are two scroll racks on either
side of the door.

### 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
visit Stonemover if they please. The cave is shown to be big enough for
Darkstalker to fit inside, but just barely.

### Sunny's office

Sunny's office is part sleeping-cave, part office, with a bundle of
blankets tied neatly away in one back corner. Three low tables arranged
in a semicircle take up the majority of the room, scattered with paper,
ink, small slates for announcements, and maps. There are two openings in
the walls where the sunlight spills across the room, and the rest of the
walls are covered in blue, white, and gold SandWing tapestries, drawings
of Thorn, and to-do lists with half of their items crossed off. There is
a small, locked chest next to Sunny's blankets that contains jewelry.

### Underground lakes

There are multiple underground lakes in Jade Mountain. The largest
underground lake Turtle took Moonwatcher to is deep inside the mountain, and as of Escaping Peril, the SeaWing students
have made the space their exclusive clubhouse and are there quite
frequently. It sits in the middle of a huge cavern studded with
stalactites, with craggy boulders covered with spongy, bluish moss, and
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

The weapons cave contains a single locked wooden box in the middle of a
stone floor. The box contains three knives, one dagger, and a large,
heavy stick.

## History

### The Dragonet Prophecy

#### The Brightest Night

The epilogue featured the founding of the school and the founders
discussing who would attend the school.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

#### Moon Rising

Jade Mountain Academy was the main setting of the book. During
Moonwatcher's time at the school, she meets Darkstalker, who had been
trapped under Agate Mountain for centuries. She also came across a
murder mystery there and sought to find the dragon who caused an
explosion in the history cave. By the end of the book, Moonwatcher and
the rest of the Jade Winglet left the school to find Winter's
Hailstorm|brother.

#### Winter Turning

At the beginning of the book, Winter convinced Turtle to stay back at
the academy. He also attempted to convince the rest of the Winglet to go
back, but to no avail. After that, the group departed from the academy
and started their search.

#### Escaping Peril

Queen Ruby visited the academy to perform the SkyWing death ritual for
Carnelian. There, Scarlet entered with the seemingly decapitated head of
Glory, which turned out to be an enchanted MudWing head. Tsunami,
furious, chased after the former queen. Peril, having been present and
wanting to stop Scarlet, left the academy with Turtle.

#### Talons of Power

After Darkstalker had been set free by Peril, Turtle went to warn Jade
Mountain Academy and Anemone about him. Soon after, Darkstalker arrived
and decided spend some time in the main entrance. During his time at the
academy, he gave some NightWings|NightWing students superpowers, like
mind reading. Darkstalker eventually left the academy to find the
NightWings, to which Turtle followed him.

#### Darkness of Dragons

After watching Turtle and Moon follow Darkstalker, Anemone, and the
NightWing students leave Jade Mountain Academy, Qibli and Winter head to history class. During class, Qibli realizes that Ostrich
is missing when her Winglet was paired with the Jade and Gold Winglets;
with Onyx missing as well. After he provided the teachers with
duplicates of his enchanted earring and Sunny located Ostrich in the
Scorpion Den, Qibli and Winter left the academy to rescue her from the Talons of Power. The Jade Winglet and
Anemone eventually return to Jade Mountain Academy where Snowfall had
brought the IceWing army to confront Darkstalker and the NightWings to
punish them for trying to wipe them out with a IceWing plague|plague.
The NightWings and IceWings then fought each other in the Battle of Jade
Mountain, during which Anemone tries to trick the NightWings into
fleeing, but failed when Darkstalker told them to stay. The battle
finally ends when Anemone uses her magic to connect the minds of the
NightWings and IceWings and have them understand each other's feelings,
after which they are transported to their respective palaces. In the
epilogue, Peril is officially the SkyWing of the Jade Winglet; while
Turtle and Kinkajou discuss about his writing and her feelings for him.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

#### The Flames of Hope

Tsunami told Luna that she was headmistress at Jade Mountain Academy and
did not need any queen's permission to share Pyrrhian secrets when she
gave Luna the Animus enchantments|dreamvisitor.

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### Field Guides

#### A Guide to the Dragon World

In the opening letter of the guide, the dragonets wrote that Jade
Mountain Academy was opened in order to fight narrow-minded thinking.

In the MudWing chapter, Starflight reflected on the scrolls he put in
the academy library. Sepia mentioned the academy several times in her
notes on Wisemind's literature#Named scrolls|The Slugslike Qualities of
MudWings. After seeing Sepia's notes, Starflight sent Fatespeaker to
count how many MudWing-written scrolls were in the library and she only
found two. This prompted Starflight to give Sepia the task of writing
her own scroll for the academy library. In her scroll, Sepia mentioned
choosing to attend the academy with her brother, Newt.

The academy was later featured in the opening letter of the SeaWing
chapter where Coral mentioned the academy several times. The academy was
then mentioned in Turtle's letter to Starflight along with Fin's letter
to Turtle, along with Anemone's letter to Tamarin.

In the RainWing chapter, Kinkajou mentioned Jade Mountain Academy in her
short story for her creative writing project. The academy was also
briefly mentioned by Starflight when he explained that Python's letter
to Jacaranda was found by a pair of students.

In the NightWing chapter, Moon mentioned Jade Mountain Academy in her
scroll The Truth About NightWing Powers, suggesting that there could be
a class for mindreaders and seers at the academy in the future.

In the IceWing chapter, Snowfall dedicated a piece of the ranking wall
to the academy museum for the students to study. Mink's application
letter to the academy was also featured and mentioned the academy many times. The academy was mentioned again in Caribou's In
the Village-of-the-Plentiful-Seals where they said that their daughter, Caribou, would be attending the academy a year
after their scroll was written.

In the introduction of the Pantalan section, Cricket mentioned the
academy to Starflight when she explained that she thought it would be a
great idea to include Pantalan students in the future.

## Trivia

  - In the Darkness of Dragons epilogue, Peril stated that Starflight
    was working on "inflammable scrolls"; however, inflammable means
    something that burns easily. This is likely an error as Tui T.
    Sutherland|Tui meant "non-flammable".
  - The academy has a museum. The only known object within it is a piece
    of the IceWing IceWing gifts|ranking wall gifted by Queen Snowfall.

## References

Яшмовой Горы pl:Akademia na Jadeitowej Górze Category:MudWing
history Category:SandWing history Category:SkyWing history
history Category:NightWing history Category:Pyrrhian history Category:WT
locations Category:EP locations Category:MR locations Category:ToP
locations Category:DoD locations Category:TBN locations
settlements