'Lynx' is a female IceWing dragonet who was introduced in Winter Turning (book)|Winter
Turning. A former Dragons|dragon of the IceWings#Circle rankings|First
Circle, she is a member of Queen Snowfall's council and currently
resides in the IceWing palace.

## Description

Lynx has soothing silver-and-white scales that gleam like diamonds and
are freckled with dark blue in an unusual pattern across her white snout
and wings. She has cold, strange rigid talons. She is often described as
pretty.

## Personality

Winter thought of Lynx as very hardworking and smart, despite the fact
that she was only the daughter of a Fifth Circle noble. She had smiled
and congratulated Winter when he reached the top of the Circle rankings.
Lynx's brain is often tired, but she is intelligent, helpful, bright,
cheery, excitable, hopeful, curious, sarcastic, sympathetic, cautious,
worried, practical, and thoughtful. She performs well academically, and
often speaks brusquely. She seems like a dragon with no worries in the
whole world, and she is adventurous. Lynx faces challenges headfirst to
figure out her wonderings, and she offered to tell Hazel about the War
of SandWing Succession immediately after the latter inquired. Lynx often
speaks her mind. Though Luna initially describes her as "too smiley",
she later describes her as fearless even in the face of danger. Lynx can
be quite fierce and defensive if she needs to, as shown when she uses
frostbreath on Cottonmouth when he tried to use Sundew. Lynx is
sometimes difficult with dragons like Snowfall, but only because she
cares about them.

## Biography

### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

left Winter Turning

While scanning the dragons in the First Circle, Winter saw that Lynx was
in second place behind Snowfall. He thought that this was much better
news than the fact that Snowfall had moved to the top spot, since Lynx
was both nice and the daughter of a minor noble. When Winter moved up,
Lynx, unlike Snowfall, was kind to Winter and warmly congratulated him
on his success.

Lynx had an unusual pattern of dark blue scales scattered along her
white snout and wings. Winter thought they were pretty at first, but
later they dreadfully reminded him of Moonwatcher's silver teardrop
scales.

In the morning after Winter was summoned for the Diamond Trial, Winter
found Lynx and trained with her outside of the IceWing palace. When they
finished fighting and were cleaning themselves, Queen Glacier arrived
with Icicle.

left
Darkness of Dragons
During the
Battle of Jade Mountain between the IceWings and the NightWings,
Fearless was seen attacking a young silver female IceWing with blue
scales freckling her snout. Winter saved the IceWing by spraying
frostbreath on Fearless's wing, making her crash-land and crawl into a
nearby cave. Although the female IceWing's name is not stated, she might
have been Lynx.

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### The Lost Continent Prophecy

left
The Dangerous Gift
Lynx was first
seen talking to Snowfall about her problems in the beginning of the
book. Snowfall's exaggeration and overreactions towards every incoming
problem appeared to irritate Lynx, but she did not stop helping the
young IceWing queen. Lynx followed Snowfall throughout the book,
insisting on coming along and facing the new challenges, and questioned
her multiple times when she tried to react towards seemingly dangerous
events. Lynx provided advice and suggested to follow the Pantalan
dragons to Sanctuary, in which she constantly stayed by Snowfall's side
from then on. Snowfall eventually considered Lynx helpful company by the
end of the book, agreeing to helping Lynx join the Council and become
one of the eleven representatives.

left
The Flames of Hope
Lynx was
mentioned in Luna's thoughts, as the Pyrrhia-Pantala representatives had
to wait for her to arrive, before they could head to Pantala. As the
stealth team were on their flight to Pyrrhia, they had an encounter with
a group of mind-controlled HiveWings. Lynx, along with Sundew, Moonwatcher, Cricket, Luna, Bullfrog, Wren and Sky all
stayed hidden with IceWing gifts|gift of stealth. After the HiveWings
took the rest of the stealth team, including Moon, back to the Hives,
one of the HiveWings, Earwig, found the stealth team's map leading back
to Pyrrhia. Before Earwig could call Queen Wasp back, Lynx knocked her
out with one of the RainWing blowdarts. The remaining members of the
team decided to split off into two groups; one group would go save the
other stealth team members while the other waited on Pantala. Both Lynx
and Sundew were in the former group, while the rest of the team was the
latter.

Later when Cottonmouth was speaking to Wasp through Malachite, Wasp
mentioned that someone had stolen the "invisible one" and Luna realized
that Lynx and Sundew must have been able to rescue Moon. Lynx later
appeared when she, Sundew and Moonwatcher reunited with Pineapple, Qibli
and Tsunami. Lynx later shared her memories to Freedom through Moon.

Lynx was later in the fight against Pineapple, Belladonna, and a couple
of HiveWings and LeafWings.

## Relationships

### Snowfall

Lynx had been Snowfall's biggest competition all throughout school and
training, and Snowfall had "wanted to strangle her more than a thousand
times." After becoming queen, Lynx treated Snowfall the way she always
had, challenging Snowfall to races around the palace or arguing over
points of IceWing law during class. In the beginning of their
friendship, Snowfall was often annoyed by how Lynx lacked the proper
IceWing etiquette when addressing a queen. Lynx is often sympathetic
towards and worried for Snowfall, and helps her calm down. She defends
Snowfall against insults from others. When Snowfall woke from her first
dream from the IceWings#Animus magic|gift of vision, her first thought
was to turn to Lynx for company. Snowfall was at first hesitant to
consider Lynx a true friend, but Lynx is able to read her well and wants
to listen to Snowfall's worries. Snowfall and Lynx became argumentative
and angry at one another's differing viewpoints on IceWing traditions,
and Snowfall accusingly thought of Lynx as being judgemental. She was
irritated by Lynx's suggestions and interjections, but Lynx sounded
genuinely full of joy when realizing Snowfall was safe after she
fainted, and covered for Snowfall against Cricket's questions. Snowfall
brought Lynx as her representative during a diplomatic meeting with the
other Pyrrhian queens, and Snowfall was conflicted when it is time to
choose the IceWing representative for the journey back to Pantala. She
wanted Lynx to come back to the Ice Kingdom, to keep Snowfall sane and
join her new council, and she trusts Lynx more than any other IceWing.
She began crying during the farewell ceremony, but assured herself that
Lynx would have to come back. After Lynx admitted that she was only
coming back to the Ice Kingdom before the journey to hang out with
Snowfall for a couple more days, Snowfall nearly beamed or burst into
tears. Lynx protected her from Tundra while Snowfall destroyed the gift
of order, and the former supported Snowfall's decision fully, clapping
immediately after Snowfall smashed the wall.

### Winter

Lynx and Winter are friends. When she encountered him in Sanctuary, she
cried out in delight, and before Winter faced the Diamond Trial, he
trained with Lynx in familiar combat patterns. Winter protected a dragon
that was most likely Lynx from Fearless during the Battle of Jade
Mountain. Snowfall states that they always were too friendly with each
other.

## Quotes

Congratulations. [...] You must have had such an adventure.

to Winter when he returns to the Ice Kingdom and gets top of
the First Circle Winter Turning

259

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No, no. I'm not agreeable at all. You'd be like, 'fetch me a
narwhal!' and I'd be all, 'urrrgggh, whyyyyy, narwhals are heaaaaavy
and I'm reeeeeeading,' and you'd say, 'but I want one! right now!' and
I'd say 'then go GET one, bossytail,' and you'd bellow, 'I AM YOUR
QUEEN!' and I'd be like, 'yes, but this book is at a really exciting
part though,' and theeeeen you'd probably have to have me executed. I'd
be so irritating! You already know this about me.
to
Snowfall
The Dangerous Gift
30

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The kind who actually thinks for herself sometimes. The kind
who wants you to be a better queen than the ones we've had before,
because I know you and I know you can be. But feel free to keep living
your life by the rules of that oppressive wall, if that's all you want,
and feel free to move me down to the bottom of the list when we get
home.
to Snowfall
The Dangerous Gift
110

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I think it might mean all of us. I mean, it starts off talking
to us — 'turn your eyes to the land across the sea,' right? And then
'face a great evil with talons united' — that sounds like it's talking
about all the tribes, here and there.
to Snowfall about the
meaning of the The Lost Continent Prophecy|Lost Continent Prophecy
The Dangerous Gift
136

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Sounds like maybe you were being extremely paranoid and anxious
about nothing, then? And possibly that might apply to other things you
are extremely paranoid about?
to Snowfall about her
suspicions regarding Crystal
The Dangerous Gift
168

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Sky, I know how you feel. [...] My heart says rescue them,
too. But my head says we'll only get ourselves caught or worse, and the
most logical way to save them is to get to the abyss. If we can defeat
the othermind, Wasp won't have an army to control anymore. Right? That's
our theory?
to Sky, about rescuing their captured friends

The Flames of Hope
59

## Trivia

  - Lynx's father owns an estate that overlooks the IceWing city of
    Among-the-Evergreens.