'Morrowseer' was an adult male NightWing who was introduced in The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The
Dragonet Prophecy. He helped fabricate the The Dragonet Prophecy and was one of Queen Battlewinner's most
trusted advisors, but he was later killed by a volcanic explosion on the
NightWing island. He was formerly in a relationship with Secretkeeper
and was the father of Moonwatcher, though he never knew.

## Description

Morrowseer had black-on-black scales that were described to look like a
bottomless pit. The star scales on the underside of his wings curled
inward like a snail shell and glittered from a great distance, casting a
cold glow. He had heavy talons, black eyes, a black snout, strong claws
and bright white teeth, as well as light gray spikes running down his
back.

He was enormous, described as even larger than Kestrel and Mastermind,
and as large as Battlewinner and Tempest. He had a vast form, with a
huge, ridged back, as well as a sharp, menacing gaze and a deep,
rumbling voice.

## Personality

Morrowseer was bad-tempered, disdainful, smug, mocking, skeptical,
grumpy, portentous, vindictive, felt superior, and impatient. He frowned
often and was willing to unfairly sabotage Deathbringer's mission for
his own gain. He often spoke about impertinence.

Morrowseer was seen as manipulative and arrogant, as he did not seem to
care about how many dragons died for his cause. He only cared about his
tribe and reputation, considering himself and the NightWings as
naturally superior to others. He believed the way to be a true leader
was to hide any weaknesses or to not have any weaknesses at all.
Morrowseer would not make himself seem weak or any less powerful if he
could ever avoid it. He was shown to be quite heartless, and would have
destroyed every other tribe in Pyrrhia in order to protect the
NightWings. He was also deceitful, lying to thousands of dragons about
the Dragonet Prophecy without any remorse, as well as killing innocents
on multiple occasions to avoid the truth getting out. He was also shown
to be sarcastic and close-minded.

Morrowseer was also implied to lack the concept of altruism as when he
discussed Farsight's fate to Starflight, Morrowseer claimed that
Farsight was foolish for risking her life to save a SeaWing from a
SkyWing attack since Farsight was a NightWing and she did not benefit
from her actions but was killed in the process.

## Biography

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Pre-Series
After the first eruption
of the NightWing Island's volcano, Morrowseer and Queen Battlewinner
wrote The Dragonet Prophecy, intending to use it to steal the Rainforest
Kingdom|rainforest from the RainWings by taking advantage of the War of
SandWing Succession. He personally "delivered" the prophecy and gave
Starflight and Fatespeaker's eggs to the Talons of Peace, to whom he
then remained a close ally. Morrowseer also spoke to Thorn after she
fought with her secret lover, Stonemover, an animus NightWing, blaming
her for being responsible for Stonemover's fate. Sometime before the events of Moon Rising, he fathered Moonwatcher's egg
with Secretkeeper, as it is revealed at the beginning of the book.

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### The Dragonet Prophecy

left The Dragonet Prophecy (book)|The Dragonet
Prophecy

[File:BlisterMorrowseer.png|thumb|Morrowseer](File:BlisterMorrowseer.png%7Cthumb%7CMorrowseer)
allying with Blister
[File:MorrowseerCave.png|thumb|Morrowseer](File:MorrowseerCave.png%7Cthumb%7CMorrowseer)
coming to inspect the dragonets of destiny Eighteen years after
"delivering" the Prophecy, Morrowseer came to inspect the Dragonets of
destiny|dragonets after a note saying that "Morrowseer is coming" was
sent to Webs, Kestrel, and Dune. He was angry about Glory, the RainWing
dragonet who served as a replacement for the Unnamed
characters#SkyWings|the SkyWing Dragonet whose egg was smashed and
ordered her to be killed. Sunny, Clay, and Tsunami fought him, and
Morrowseer approved of Clay, Starflight, and Tsunami before looking at
Sunny and saying "Well, … we'll have to see about you." Later, he had a
private talk with Starflight and left. The aftermath of his visit was
the escape attempt and therefore the dragonets' capture by Scarlet.
However, when the dragonets were being taken away from the cave, Clay
saw a dark figure circle over them, spot them, and fly away. This dark
figure was confirmed to be Morrowseer by Tui. He led a squadron of
NightWings that massacred all eight of the IceWing prisoners in
Scarlet's SkyWing palace#SkyWing Arena|arena and took Starflight. While
they hid in the mountains and watched the dragonets of destiny travel to
the MudWing village where Cattail|Clay's mother and his siblings live,
Morrowseer instructed the young NightWing to side with Blister, and to
become the leader of the other dragonets. He then returned him to the
other dragonets. Afterward, he met with Blister in the Kingdom of the
Sea and promised to help her become queen. When Kestrel arrived at the
meeting, Morrowseer and Blister agreed that she was a danger to the plan
and that they would have to kill her, and then did so, with Princess
Blister first slashing her throat then stabbing her in the heart with
her venomous tail barb.

left The Lost Heir

Riptide mentioned that a NightWing visited the Summer Palace. Tsunami
suspected that he was Morrowseer. In the epilogue, Morrowseer met with
Nautilus and Blister after the destruction of the Summer Palace. Blister
complained about how annoying the dragonets were, and Nautilus and
Morrowseer offered her the Talons of Peace#The False Dragonets|false
dragonets as backup.

left The Hidden Kingdom

Morrowseer was with Nautilus, as they discussed the backup
plan and observed the false dragonets during the prologue. Squid was the
only dragonet who actually talked to Morrowseer and complained that he
wanted gold and jewels. (He also said Morrowseer was 'nonagoshabibble,'
in response to Morrowseer saying that Flame was 'non-negotiable.')
Morrowseer was mad at the Talons for failing to raise the dragonets to
be obedient. He took over their training and brought them to the Night
Kingdom.

left The Dark Secret
Morrowseer ordered the kidnapping of Starflight and brought him to the
Night Kingdom. He expressed great displeasure in Starflight's failure to
bring the dragonets to Blister's side and chastised him for lacking
NightWing superiority. He also introduced Starflight to his father,
Mastermind, after noticing that the two talk in a similar way.

After introducing Starflight to the false dragonets, he ordered them to
kill Starflight. This was both to test the new dragonets' abilities and
to see if Starflight was worth keeping. This ended with Starflight
surviving, and Flame and Ochre were arrested by NightWing guards and
imprisoned for a night.

The next day, he sent Starflight and the false dragonets to convince a
remote outpost of SkyWing guards to switch to Blister's side. When the
mission failed, several NightWing guards appeared out of nowhere to burn
the fort down, which Starflight suspected would have happened even if
they had succeeded. Afterward, Morrowseer sent Squid away after the
dragonet complained about the training.

Later, he announced that they were going to train for battle and told
Ochre and Flame to fight, saying that he would step in when necessary.
Flame clawed Ochre, who asked to stop, and Morrowseer removed the
MudWing and threw Fatespeaker in. Viper quickly joined in, and the two
proceeded to chase Fatespeaker, who called to Starflight to help her.
Starflight joined the battle and knocked Viper off of Fatespeaker, but
the SandWing's barb sliced across Flame's face, who accidentally pushed
her into the lava river. Morrowseer showed no grief at Viper's death but
was horrified at Flame's injuries, as the SkyWing was not replaceable
after the destruction of the original SkyWing's egg.

Soon after, Morrowseer attended an official meeting of the NightWings.
Greatness announced that the NightWings would enter the rainforest at
midnight and kill all of the RainWings. However, their plan failed when
Queen Glory led her tribe in a preemptive invasion and freed the
RainWing prisoners.

[File:Morrowseer-death.png|thumb|Morrowseer's](File:Morrowseer-death.png%7Cthumb%7CMorrowseer's)
death

During the attack, the volcano on the island began to erupt. He revealed
to Starflight, Tsunami, Sunny, and Clay that the prophecy was fake,
devastating Sunny. She fled through the NightWing tunnels|tunnel, and
Morrowseer took a step forward as if to follow her, but was stopped by
Starflight and Fatespeaker. After he remarked that he had all of the
dragonets he wanted to kill in one place, the volcano erupted, and
Morrowseer was swallowed by the inferno.

In the epilogue, Blister became fed up with Morrowseer's absence while
waiting for him at their arranged meeting point. She then assumed that
the dragonets of destiny were responsible for his absence.

left The Brightest Night

After hearing why Sunny was upset, Glory began ranting about
Morrowseer despite him being dead. She promised to bite his head off and
stuff him in a volcano, saying she wanted to kill him again.

Thorn asked Fierceteeth, Preyhunter, and Strongwings about Morrowseer.
She killed Preyhunter in anger when she was told he was dead, believing
the three were lying. Sunny saved Fierceteeth and Strongwings by
confirming Morrowseer was indeed dead.

Morrowseer was later mentioned again when Thorn explained what happened
to Stonemover to Sunny. Thorn told Sunny that Morrowseer had talked to
Thorn after Stonemover's disappearance, blaming her for it.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

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Morrowseer was mentioned in the prologue when Secretkeeper regretted not
being able to tell him about Moonwatcher's egg, but she knew that he
cared too much about traditions to allow her to be raised outside the
tribe. Moonwatcher later mentioned hearing his name in Secretkeeper's
mind, and it was confirmed that Morrowseer was, in fact, Moon's father.

left Winter Turning

When Winter, Moon, Qibli, and Kinkajou take the tunnel to the NightWing
island, they walk by the ashy statue-like form of a NightWing, which
Winter first thought was alive since it was a silhouette illuminated by
fire. This was confirmed to be the remains of Morrowseer, thus also
confirming his death.File:Morrowseerstatue.png|thumb|Morrowseer's corpse
from Winter Turning (graphic novel), Mike Holmes

left
Darkness of Dragons
In the
flashback, Thorn asked Cobra if she found 'them' meaning Stonemover,
Morrowseer, and Dune.

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### Legends

left
Dragonslayer
When Leaf, Thyme, Rowan, and Cranberry were crossing the mountains to get to the
SkyWing palace, Leaf noticed a black dragon farther behind him flying
away. Due to the Talons of Peace's hiding place for the dragonets of
destiny being in that direction and Scarlet going after Mushroom after
the four get there, it can be assumed that this was Morrowseer leaving
the cave after he inspected the dragonets.

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### Winglets

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Prisoners
Morrowseer was in
Fierceteeth's story about her past. When she talked about being part of
the prophecy, Morrowseer was checking all the NightWing eggs looking for
the one that was closest to hatching. He found Starflight's egg and
demanded it. Fierceteeth instead insisted that she pick her to be the
wings of night, but Morrowseer declined the offer. He took Starflight's
egg and as he was leaving, Fierceteeth said that bad things happened to
dragonets and that she could be a back up if he needed, giving him the
idea to make the false dragonets a backup plan.

left
Assassin
Morrowseer was
Battlewinner's "most trusted advisor," he argued with Quickstrike about
whether to allow Deathbringer to go on the mission. They agreed to let
him go on the condition that he must assassinate either Slaughter or
Vengeance, two full-grown NightWings who were referred to as
Morrowseer's pets. Later, he is seen ushering Slaughter out of his cave
and telling him to kill Deathbringer before he could be killed himself,
but Deathbringer had snuck up on them and murdered Slaughter. At the end
of the book, Morrowseer met with Deathbringer to send the young dragon
on a mission to kill Six-Claws, a SandWing general in Burn's army,
unaware that Quickstrike had died on the mission.

## Relationships

### Battlewinner

Morrowseer and Queen Battlewinner worked together to write the Dragonet
Prophecy. He had been described as 'Battlewinner's most trusted advisor'
many times. He mainly obeyed her orders, but the queen generally let him
do whatever he wanted.

### Blister

Morrowseer and Blister were allied during the War of SandWing
Succession. He had an agreement with Blister, meaning that he would help
Blister become queen if she would help them destroy the RainWings, in
return for Morrowseer lending Blister the strength in numbers of the
NightWings to assist her army in the war. In the end, it never worked
out. Blister was annoyed that Morrowseer was always the one to choose
their meeting spots, with no way for her to contact him between
meetings.

### Deathbringer

Morrowseer considered Deathbringer to not be worthy of his breath, and
was disdainful towards him. He was irritated by Quickstrike's faith in
him, and was willing to unfairly aid Slaughter in killing Deathbringer.

### dragonet of destiny|Dragonets of destiny

The dragonets were Morrowseer's idea and prophecy, but he ended up
trying to kill them, since they did not meet his standards and did not
support Blister becoming the queen of the SandWings, therefore refusing
to help him overrun the RainWings. He especially hated Glory just
because she was a RainWing and a potential threat to his plan, as she
seemed like a failure for the prophecy.

### Moonwatcher

Moonwatcher was the daughter Morrowseer never knew, as Secretkeeper had
kept their dragonet's existence from him. Despite never discovering he
had a daughter, judging by Morrowseer's angered reaction to Mastermind
noting his and Secretkeeper's lack of any dragonets, it can be assumed
he was deeply saddened by the presumed destruction of his egg and
disliked reminders. Though they never met in life, Moonwatcher
discovered her father's name from glimpsing it in her mother's mind and
expressed a faint wish to have known him. Ironically enough, when she,
Qibli, Kinkajou and Winter arrived at the NightWing island, they came
across the shape of Morrowseer left after his death, and Moon wondered
who it had been, unaware she was looking at her very own father's
corpse.

### Secretkeeper

Morrowseer described Secretkeeper as having "a good head on her
shoulders" when comparing her to Starflight and Fierceteeth's mother,
Farsight. Secretkeeper and Morrowseer most likely did love each other
despite the actions of Secretkeeper when refusing to tell their
daughter, Moonwatcher, the name of her father. This was due to the fact
that she believed he could not be trusted and would insist that
Moonwatcher grow up on the NightWing island. However, when saying this,
she also mentioned that she desperately wanted to tell her dragonet who
her father was, showing that she probably loved him and wanted the
family to be together.

### Slaughter

Slaughter was described to be one of Morrowseer's pets.

### Starflight

Morrowseer initially saw Starflight as a fellow NightWing and believed
that Starflight would be the one to save the world, as he believed
NightWings were "natural leaders". Morrowseer went out of his way to
save Starflight from the SkyWing arena as they cannot afford to lose any
NightWings, even "peculiar little" ones. Morrowseer later showed that he
did not like Starflight very much, due to the fact he had no leadership
qualities and had antagonized Blister. He saw him as a weak, powerless
failure and was often disappointed in Starflight. Morrowseer was often
irritated by Starflight, though he was slightly impressed with
Starflight when he managed to trick the guards. He was completely
willing to kill Starflight, and was going to before the volcano killed
him.

### Talons of Peace#The False Dragonets|The alternate dragonets of destiny

Due to the "extra" dragonets who were deemed unnecessary, Morrowseer was
tasked with getting rid of the added "problems." Unfortunately, he did
not like any of the alternate dragonets, though he was determined to get
them as much training as soon as possible. Eventually, Viper died and
Squid quit, though it was Morrowseer who forced him out. He did not
favor any of them and threatened to replace them (other than the
SkyWing), disliking them as much as the original five. He was very
cautious about the SkyWing, named Flame, though, for he was not as
expendable as the others. He said he had never a met a dragonet more
pointless than Squid, and sent him away to die.

## Quotes

Prophecies can be complicated.
to Fatespeaker and
Starflight The Dark Secret
36

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We made you. You dragonets are only important because of us,
and we can destroy you just as easily.
to Sunny
The Dark Secret
279

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On the contrary, I certainly can make my prophecy happen
however I want, considering I'm the one who made it up in the first
place.
to Sunny The Dark Secret (book)|The Dark
Secret
280

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Queen Battlewinner and I wrote it together after the last
eruption destroyed part of the fortress. We knew we'd need a new home
soon, and the prophecy was our plan to get it. The idea was that we
would control the dragonets by including a NightWing, who, naturally,
would be the leader of the group. Your abysmal failure in that
department was our first problem. Then we'd choose a SandWing queen, and
eventually, the NightWings would join the war, with our strength in
numbers tipping the balance so our ally would be sure to win. […] The
only really important part of the prophecy; we couldn't be too obvious
about it. The rest of it? Smoke and mirrors.
to Sunny

The Dark Secret
282

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Now there's no point — the NightWings are already in the
rainforest, so we have no reason to join the war. It'll drag on
endlessly, and more dragons will die every day, probably for
generations. All of them wondering what happened to the amazing
dragonets who were supposed to save them, but obviously failed.
to Sunny and the other dragonets The Dark Secret (book)|The
Dark Secret
283

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Here's all the dragonets I want dead anyway, in one convenient
place.
to Clay, Tsunami, and Starflight, his last words The Dark Secret
284

## Trivia

  - In the graphic novels, Morrowseer's snail shell-like star scale
    patterns on his wings are not shown. Instead, they appear to be
    scattered randomly.
  - In an interview at the Rochester Children's Book Festival, Tui
    revealed that fan letters asking about why Morrowseer is the way he
    was helped her write Darkstalker's character.
  - Tui said that most villain-like characters have a good side to them,
    that "He was just trying to help his tribe, his tribe is suffering
    in all these different ways."