The 'NightWing island' was the secret home of the NightWings after the
tribe abandoned the lost city of night in fear of Darkstalker's return.
It is connected to the Rainforest Kingdom by an animus-enchanted
NightWing tunnels|tunnel, but can also be reached by crossing the sea.
It is located north of Pyrrhia, although the exact location is unknown.

After the island's volcano erupted in The Dark Secret (book)|The Dark
Secret, the NightWings fled to the Rainforest Kingdom and accepted Glory
as their new queen. This event is known as the NightWing Exodus.

## Description

The molten landscape is smaller than Winter had imagined when he thought
of the NightWings' secret home. It made him feel instantly
claustrophobic, and there is a vast ocean lurking in all directions. The
old NightWings' volcano home had dense ripples of black lava flows cover
everything, still glowing orange and yellow where liquid fire is
spilling through the cracks. The volcano cuts jaggedly into the sky, but
it looks as though the top has been smashed in, leaving a smoking hole.
Thick gray clouds, heavy with ash and smoke and sizzling with lightning,
stretch across the sky, blocking the stars and moons.

Everything smells like sulfur and fire and death. There are sulfurous
smoke vents dotting the ground, and the weather is typically grim and
smells like sulfur. Fierceteeth described the experience to feel like
sucking in particles of ash with every breath, causing the lungs to feel
as though they are on fire and the throat to feel scraped.

The island was covered in trees when the NightWings arrived on it, but
the volcano erupted several times over the next two millennia, so the
forests were almost all destroyed. Wet black sand covered the ground
near the tunnels, and there were often small fires posted in the tunnel
entrances. The clouds would sometimes pour a dripping mix of rain and
sleet.

A black-sand beach rings the island at the base of the volcano. Twisted,
leafless trees grew on the volcano's slopes, like bones sticking out of
the dirt. Beyond the beach, the ocean roared and churned, gray and
unfriendly and speckled with foam. All the water there is either cold
gray sludge or full of salt.

## Notable features

### Adult quarters

The adult quarters were mentioned as a series of caves where NightWings
move to once they reach the age of ten. They are communal, and several
dragons were once seen playing a game with bones and tiny skulls in one
of their entryways. Niches made of rock serve as sleeping spaces.

### Council chamber

A place where the NightWings talked with their queen; it also had a lake
of lava inside and a small rock spire that someone sits on to be
questioned. It can be accessed through several back tunnels that emerge
directly below the Queen's Eye. The space contains caves and jagged rock
walls, streams of lava, and dark recesses. There is a perch located
beside the Queen's Eye that was typically used by Greatness in order to
hear Battlewinner's voice.

### Dining cave

Battlewinner had a vent looking into the dining cave. It had a low table
with leftover prey bones around the floor. Starflight guessed that it
was where the council members ate.

### Dungeon

Splendor, Deathbringer, Flame, and Ochre were all previously imprisoned
here.

### Dragonet dormitory

A place where NightWings under ten years old slept. It is also assumable
that there was a school nearby, due to Starflight thinking about what
his NightWing acquaintances were learning as he and the Talons of
Peace#the false dragonets|false dragonets of destiny trained.

### Fortress

The NightWing fortress is a destroyed, wrecked structure. When it was
still standing, it was built on the side to the main volcano, the
NightWing fortress was a series of volcanic tunnels and a half-buried
structure built to house the queen and most of the tribe. Part of the
fortress was destroyed by an eruption of the volcano. All of the
NightWings' treasure was lost until a tunnel was blasted to reach the
treasure. A dreamvisitor was the only thing left behind other than the
corpses of two NightWing guards. Starflight found the dreamvisitor in
The Dark Secret, hidden in one of the dead dragon's talons. The hallways
of the fortress are cracked and contain coals within the walls.

### Hatchery

The hatchery was noted to be nearly empty.

### Library

A place once full of scrolls for school projects and more. Some are
labeled 'For NightWing eyes only,' but most appear to be scrolls that
the NightWings have published across Pyrrhia.

### Mastermind's laboratory

A series of rooms where Mastermind performed experiments, usually on the
venom of the captured RainWings. It also contained a desalination system
that provided clean water to the tribe as well as a floor for
volcanology. Some NightWings were also tested for toxins in their teeth
there, though these experiments proved futile. The lab was one of the
most well-protected rooms of the fortress. It was a gigantic inner room
within the fortress, and was well-protected from the outside air.

### Queen's Eye

The screen Battlewinner hid behind and issued orders from. It was
described to look like a stone screen with holes jabbed into it, none of
them bigger than a dragon's eye.

### RainWing prison

The place where the RainWing prisoners were chained and venom-tested.

### Throne room

The queen's private chambers. The only way to enter was by a secret
entrance behind a detailed map of Pyrrhia with scratched-off scavenger
dens. It held a large cauldron of lava, in which Battlewinner lived.

## History

### The Dragonet Prophecy

#### The Hidden Kingdom

Glory was kidnapped and brought to the island by Vengeance.

The epilogue featured the island, where the false dragonets of destiny
were kept.

#### The Dark Secret

The NightWing island was the main setting of the book, where Starflight
was taken to. He awoke in the dragonet dormitory, where he met other
NightWing dragonets. The volcano erupted at the end of the book and
Starflight was blinded from the incident. The NightWings swore loyalty
to Glory as they left the island for good.

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### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

#### Moon Rising

The island was mentioned throughout the book.

#### Winter Turning

Winter and his friends traveled through the NightWing tunnel to come to
the island, searching for Icicle. When they found her, she was in
horrible condition due to avoiding sleep. After Glory tranquilized her,
they left the island.

#### Escaping Peril

Sunny briefly mentioned the tunnels as connected to the NightWing
island.

#### Talons of Power

The NightWing island was mentioned by the NightWing students several
times in the beginning of the book. Later, Sunny recalls the NightWing
island when she points to the stolen dreamvisitor from Flame's pouch.

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### Winglets

#### Prisoners

Fierceteeth recounted multiple memories of her pasts while passing
letters with Saguaro. The NightWing island was the main setting for most
of these letters.

#### Assassin

Deathbringer grew up in the NightWing island and left when he was
assigned a mission to assassinate Tempest|Commander Tempest.

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### Field Guides

#### A Guide to the Dragon World

In the RainWing chapter of the guide, the island was briefly mentioned
by Kinkajou in her short story about Silver.

The NightWing island was featured several times throughout the NightWing
chapter of the guide. The island was mentioned by Moonwatcher in
literature#Named scrolls|The Truth About NightWing Powers and
Mastermind in Studying the Studiers: Interview with a NightWing.
Fierceteeth also briefly mentioned the island in Rising from the Ruins.

## Trivia

  - The NightWing island is inspired by the big island of Hawaii.