(Not to be confused with her
daughter Jerboa III, or her first attempt at creating a dragonet, Jerboa
II.)

Jerboa

JerboaTopShot.png|Poster JerboaTemplateLumin.png|Reference

Over 2,000 years old (hatched before 3,012 AS)
Female

SandWings
Animus magic

Deceased
Frozen alive by Jerboa III

Member of the SandWing court

Daughters
Jerboa II, Jerboa III

Talons of Power,
Darkness of Dragons

The Dangerous Gift
(vision)

Darkstalker
A
Guide to the Dragon World
'Jerboa' was an adult female SandWing who
was introduced in The Dangerous Gift. She was an animus Dragons|dragon who lived during the era of Darkstalker, working
for Queen Scorpion before fleeing and becoming a fugitive. She is
currently frozen in a block of ice under Jerboa III's hut.

## Description

Jerboa looks similar to Jerboa III,[1] but she enchanted herself to
stay an average size and slightly larger than her daughter.

## Personality

In the early years of Jerboa's life, she was a good, normal dragon.
Thorn stated that she believed Jerboa had wisdom and goodness within her
heart. She worried about losing her soul and ensured that the decisions
she made were not evil. Later in life, her consciousness was still
present but very far away, and Jerboa found it easier to push aside
morality, eventually disregarding it altogether as her soul gradually
faded away. She was easy, lazy and cruel, enchanting other dragons to do
what she wanted, serve her, or to do things for her entertainment.

Jerboa yearned for freedom and a dragonet of her own. She was
manipulative, controlling, and abusive towards her daughter, Boa,
regularly tweaking her personality. She desired perfection, casting many
spells on Boa to keep her entertaining, helpful, and obedient. She was
hypocritical, often critiquing Boa for being lazy while enchanting her
to enjoy things that Jerboa did not want to do herself.

## Biography

left
Pre-Series
<File:Eye> of
Onyx.jpeg|thumb|Eye of Onyx Jerboa was commissioned by Scorpion to
create the Eye of Onyx — an enchanted necklace with an onyx set in the
pendant — to keep the queen in power. Instead, Jerboa enchanted the Eye
to choose rightful queens regardless of the royal bloodline and kill
those who are not worthy to take the throne. She used her power for
Queen Scorpion until Scorpion asked for things that would cause large
harm to other tribes, including the SkyWings.

Jerboa fled and enchanted an animal's egg to be a dragon egg. She named
the dragonet Jerboa after herself, but the dragonet asked to be called
Boa to be different from her mother. She started to enchant Boa to do
the hard tasks and chores and be agreeable and perfect and reset her to
a dragonet many times. Jerboa also abducted dragons from different
tribes, enchanting them to be their servants. Jerboa enchanted Boa to
"fear animus magic" or "not be interested" but Boa still asked Jerboa
for an animus enchanted item; she gave her a shell necklace that would
bring Boa to Jerboa any time she wished. They had lived eleven centuries
when Boa asked for another enchantment, which was on porcupine quills
tied together with a vine that would freeze her prey so she could catch
it easier. The next day, Boa pointed the quills at Jerboa, freezing her
in place. Boa interrogated Jerboa, asking her how many animus spells
were on her. Boa said she found a scroll where Jerboa wrote down all her
spells that she wanted on Boa, and revealed that she wrote down for her
to be an animus. By that time, the porcupine quills had frozen Jerboa in
a block of magical ice, sealing her in forever. Jerboa left one lasting
magic effect on Boa: an irreversible spell that would cause Boa to lose
a part of her whenever Boa used her magic.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Talons of Power
When Turtle tried to convince Anemone she did not have to be evil just
because she was an animus dragon, he mentioned Jerboa as an example of
someone who stayed good.

left
Darkness of Dragons
Thorn told Qibli
that she felt that the Eye of Onyx was created by a dragon with "wisdom
and goodness in her heart." Later, Smolder explained to Onyx that the
Eye of Onyx was made by Jerboa. Thorn later stated her theory on how
Jerboa played a trick on the queen, and Jerboa made this clever spell to
pick good queens.

In the epilogue, Jerboa III introduced herself as not the original
Jerboa, but her daughter.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

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The Dangerous Gift
Jerboa was in
Queen Snowfall's vision, where she saw how Jerboa had started out
originally and how she later treated Jerboa III. Jerboa tweaked her
daughter's personality to her liking, occasionally even resetting her to
a young dragonet. Eventually, Jerboa III found out about all of her
mother's enchantments on her and froze her with enchanted porcupine
quills. The block of ice in which she was frozen in remained under
Jerboa III's hut.

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### Legends

left Darkstalker

While reading Arctic's mind, Darkstalker heard him think briefly of
Jerboa when he listed all of the known animus dragons of Pyrrhia.

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### Field Guides

left
A Guide to the Dragon World
Jerboa
was depicted with her daughter, Jerboa II, in the SandWing chapter of
the guide.

## Relationships

### Jerboa II

Jerboa II was Jerboa's first attempt at creating her own dragonet with
animus magic. Jerboa later got rid of her because she "went wrong,"
though the details of this situation are unknown. Jerboa had planned to
never speak about her again.

### Jerboa III

Jerboa III, nicknamed Boa, was Jerboa's second attempt at creating a
daughter. Jerboa regularly manipulated her daughter's personality with
her magic, making her more agreeable, obedient, helpful, and less
annoying. She would enchant Boa to enjoy tasks she disliked, to be a
talented cook, to like cooking, to dislike music, to love her mother
more, and a variety of other things. Jerboa would also "reset" Boa to a
dragonet when she became bored, wiping her memories and reverting her
growth. Jerboa was psychologically abusive towards Boa, with Boa even
running away several times through the centuries due to it. During
Jerboa's final moments, she cast a spell that caused Boa to lose a part
of her physical form whenever she used her magic, ensuring that she
would never forget her mother.

### Scorpion

Jerboa served Queen Scorpion under duress, and fled after refusing to
enchant something that threatened the SkyWing tribe. While under her
control she was kept away from other dragons, tortured by the queen, and
made to enchant her with healing and longevity. She believed that
Scorpion would use a dragonet against her if the queen found out she had
one.

## Known Enchantments

Phrasing unknown.
A scroll
To change
Boa according to what was written.
TDG
277

Phrasing unknown.
A seashell
To bring
Boa to her when either of them wished.
TDG
271

Phrasing unknown.
A stone
To build a
new home each time they move.
TDG
267

Phrasing unknown.
An animal's egg
To
hatch the egg into a SandWing dragonet. Cast multiple times.

TDG
263

Phrasing unknown.
Eye of Onyx
To
determine whether a SandWing is fit to be queen, and to turn them to
dust on contact if unfit to be queen.
DoD
168

Phrasing unknown.
Herself
To extend her
own lifespan.
TDG
264

Phrasing unknown.
Jerboa III
To revert
Boa's age. Cast multiple times.
TDG
270

Phrasing unknown.
Jerboa III
To torment
Boa by making her lose a part of her body every time she casts a spell.
This spell is irreversible.
TDG
284

Phrasing unknown.
Porcupine quills
To
freeze Boa's prey in place.
TDG
275

Phrasing unknown.
Scorpion
To extend
her lifespan and heal her.
TDG
262

Phrasing unknown.
Scorpion
To
inflict a heart attack on her.
TDG
264

Phrasing unknown.
Several unnamed dragons,
including a SeaWing and a RainWing
To be servants.

TDG
281

Phrasing unknown.
Jerboa III
To make Boa a
good cook.
TDG
266

Phrasing unknown
Jerboa III
To make Boa
like cooking
TDG
267

Phrasing unknown.
Jerboa III
To make Boa
like collecting firewood
TDG
273

Phrasing unknown.
Unidentified
To check on
animus dragons currently in existence. Cast repeatedly.
TDG

268

## Quotes

Do I feel like murdering anyone today? Not particularly. How
about some senseless violence, is that on the agenda? Don't think so.
How do we feel about tiny dragonets? Still think they're cute? No
impulse to kill any of those, right?
Jerboa to herself,
testing to see if she was losing her soul
The Dangerous Gift

262-263

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Absolutely. One animus dragon at a time — if there are too
many, can you imagine how dangerous that would be? They could get in a
fight, start throwing spells around, and destroy the whole world by
accident!
to Boa
The Dangerous Gift
269

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What if I made you a brother? Wouldn't that be fun? We can even
make him do all the boring stuff we hate, like gathering firewood or
cracking the lobster shells. Whatever we don't want to do. We can also
make him age very slowly so he stays a cute little dragonet for as long
as we want. Oh, and we'll make him a really good sleeper, so he'll nap
easily and fall asleep whenever he starts fussing.
to Boa

The Dangerous Gift
272

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Of course. We can even make him love to do all the boring stuff
we hate, like gathering firewood or cracking the lobster shells.

to Boa
The Dangerous Gift
273

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I couldn't possibly remember all of them. I've been trying to
fix you for literally centuries.
to Boa
The Dangerous
Gift
276

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No, that's all real. If you love me so much, let me go.

to Boa
The Dangerous Gift
277