A Guide To The Dragon World

A Few Of The MANY Noble Qualities Of Mud Wings

Sepia,

Fatespeaker alerted me to the notes you wrote in the margins of our library scroll, The Sluglike Qualities Of Mud Wings. I must admit I was rather horrified, - a library scroll! Sepia! A LIBRARY SCROLL! But them I had Fatespeaker read me your notes, and I realised that you are actually saying something crucially important.

For one thing, you are right:  This is a distressingly biased, inaccurate Night Wing report. The dragon who wrote it clearly had a "Night Wings are superior" attitude and it is abundantly evident that they never spoke to any Mud Wings before writing this scroll. 

I sent Fatespeaker on a quest to count all the scrolls written by Mud Wings in our library and she found... two. Out of all these scrolls, and only two by Mud Wings! Well. This is a problem a librarian can solve! Clearly we need to acquire more scrolls written by dragons about their own tribes and their own experiences. Firsthand accounts are an essential way for dragons to learn more about one another.

With this in mind, I have an assignment for you. I would like you to write a scroll about Mud Wing siblings for us to add to the library. I think other tribes could learn a lot from your personal perspective, and I would be proud to include your voice in our library's collection. 

(But no more writing on library scrolls! If you find any more scrolls you have concerns about please talk to me or Fatespeaker instead!)

-Starflight

Why The Mud Wings are the Very Best Tribe Of All Ever So There----

Let's go with a more Library appropriate title, if that's alright, Sepia?

-Starflight

A Few Of The MANY Noble Qualities Of Mud Wings

By Sepia the Mud Wing

During the War of Sand Wing Succession, lots of dragons noticed how strong, brave, and true Mud Wing troops are. Most dragons don't seem to know  that this is because each troop is made up of  brothers and sisters - all siblings from the same hatching. Mud Wing siblings are always together, starting from the day their eggs are snuggled into their warm and cozy mud nests.

In each sibling troop, the first-born dragon is the bigwings. They are the biggest and strongest and the natural leader of their troop. During hatching, the bigwings climbs out of their egg first and immediately goes to help their brothers and sisters break out of their own shells. A good bigwings takes care of their siblings and makes sure they learn a lot and grow up to be a brave, kind dragon.

For the rest of their lives, the troop of siblings will live together, hunt together, and train together. When they have to fight, they follow their bigwings into battle. Usually each troop will also have:

A healer (Who studies the medicinal uses of mud and various leaves)

A treasurer (Who keeps track of the troop's shared treasure and provisions)

A gatherer (Who finds additional food to add to the prey they all hunt together)

A communicator (Who takes on the task of negotiating with other troops or asking for help if necessary)

Who gets which assignment depends on our natural skills and preferences.(I'm the communicator in my troop, obviously. My brother Newt is our healer, which is why he also chose to come to the academy, to learn about the medical discoveries of other tribes.) And sometimes the bigwings will be in charge of one of those areas, too, if they're really good at something like math, like my bigwings sister is.

Sometimes Mud Wings loose sibs, which is the worst thing that could ever happen  to anyone. This happened a lot during the War, and it was really sad, and many troops are still recovering from those losses. An incomplete sib group might look for unsibs - dragons who have lost one or more of their own - to join their group.

Being a part of a troop is one of the best things about being a Mud Wing. No other tribe bonds with their brothers and sisters like we do, which makes Mud Wings very special and pretty definitely the most loyal, caring tribe in all of Pyrrhia