'Vigilance'
was an adult female NightWing who was introduced in Darkstalker. She ruled as queen of the NightWings during
Darkstalker's era. After Clearsight's warning, she fled from the lost
city of night to the NightWing island alongside her tribe.

## Description

Vigilance had sharp, glinting, pitch-black eyes. She wore an
ostentatious crown, and her wings were loaded with diamonds. Arctic
described her as regal and radiant. She had a thin and sinister smile.

## Personality

Vigilance was sharp, glowering, suspicious, intimidating, and shrewd. A
large amount of her apparent menace came from the fact that she spoke
very little, allowing the dragons around her to fill in all the gaps
with their own nervous chatter. She was also deeply paranoid, killing
off perceived threats long before they were genuinely dangerous. She was
anxious and shortsighted, and she was not very susceptible to flattery,
as she found compliments highly suspicious. She enjoyed trifling with
nervous dragons by remaining silent. She loved conducting business
whenever it might seem peculiar to other dragons, and adopted an aura of
furiousness and chilly stillness when she was displeased. She was not
particularly concerned about the effects of what animus magic would have
on a dragon, as she was only interested what it could give her. She
often spoke in hisses, and was completely willing to eliminate entire
tribes if given the chance. She was not prone to expressing effusive
gratitude. She was described as foolish and idiotic. Clearsight guessed
that Vigilance thought she was better at shielding her thoughts from
mind-readers than she really was.

## Biography

### The Jade Mountain Prophecy

#### Moon Rising

She was indirectly mentioned in the scroll Scrolls#Named scrolls|The
Animus Histories as the NightWing queen Darkstalker planned to
overthrow.

#### Talons of Power

When Darkstalker showed Moonwatcher and Kinkajou around the lost city of
night, they looked at Queen Vigilance's caves. Darkstalker mentioned
that he was surprised the queen was able to take a lot of the treasure
with her when she fled.

#### Darkness of Dragons

A self-created illusion of Clearsight mentioned to Darkstalker that he
could not be king since Vigilance was the ruler of the NightWings.

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### Legends

#### Darkstalker

Vigilance was the queen of the NightWings. When Arctic told her that his
son, Darkstalker, was an animus, she brought Fathom to the Night Kingdom
to help Darkstalker learn to be more careful with his powers. She then
hired Clearsight as a seer to help her foresee every possible future the
NightWings will be facing, which greatly took up Clearsight's time. She
made Clearsight add animus magic to her war predictions, and ordered
Darkstalker to cast the spells. When Allknowing told Queen Vigilance
about Darkstalker's plan to kill her and take the throne, she attempted
to have him assassinated by Quickdeath. This failed and led to
Clearsight yelling at the queen, which in return almost put her into
arrest. Vigilance was part of the crowd when Darkstalker murdered
Arctic, and presumably fled to the NightWing Island along with her tribe
after Clearsight's warning.

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### Winglets

#### Runaway

Vigilance was briefly mentioned when Foeslayer thought about the magic
bracelets the IceWings possessed, and how she sent four NightWings to
their Ice Kingdom|kingdom so that they would reveal that they had Animus
enchantments|four magic bracelets, not three, as they claimed.

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### Field Guides

#### A Guide to the Dragon World

Vigilance was the main focus of the scroll On Queen Vigilance's Glass
Jubilee, a scroll about Vigilance's achievements as queen, especially
her Glass Jubilee.

## Quotes

Ah. […] Seers. Always so illuminating. You may speak.

to Clearsight Darkstalker
218

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Yes. […] Very poetic. But I don't recall anything about an
underwater attack focused on North Beach in the next month.

to Allknowing, comparing her prophecy to Clearsight's vision

Darkstalker
219

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You work for me now. Move into the palace tonight.

to Clearsight Darkstalker
220

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Call a war council meeting. […] I want everything you know
about this attack written out by morning.
to a NightWing
general and Clearsight Darkstalker

220

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Hmm. […] And of all my death scenes, which comes the soonest?

to Clearsight Darkstalker
305

## Trivia

  - Vigilance was awake at all hours.
  - Vigilance often held parties.

## References

MR Category:Mentioned in ToP Category:Featured in AGttDW