Updates on Wings of Fire!

10/14/2020

I found a ton of new information today thanks to Biohazardia, who was at two events with Tui- a few times during the summer, and once pretty recently.

Here is the info she found out from Tui, and can be treated as canon information:

From the Brooklyn Book Festival:

- Tui said, "You will all get to see the cover of Book 14 really soon." (Proven yesterday already lol)

- An aspect of the series that Tui felt was underrated or overlooked sometimes was how much she was thinking about parenting and how kids can turn out OK, despite what their parents and childhood were like. That theme is very important in not only Arc 1, but in all of the books as well. Basically, she enjoys it when people notice all the thought she put into the underlying themes of the books, she really appreciates it when readers notice them.

- Snowfall, Crystal, and Minke are the names of Queen Glacier's three daughters. They were the possible choices for the throne, but Glacier actually picked the next heir on her deathbed so there would be no war of Succession. (Very smart lol) Snowfall actually thought at first that Glacier would choose Crystal, because she's older and "doesn't yell at people" (dragons...?) but she picks Snowfall, and unsurprisingly, Snowfall wonders for the rest of the book why Glacier picked her. She has anxiety over the fact that Glacier picked her, and whether she can live up to it. (This is revealed early in The Dangerous Gift)

- Tui wants to get back into the Legend of the Hive (YES!) and expand on it in the Guide to World of Wings of Fire that's being planned (Oooo, a guidebook to Wings of Fire?), as well as more about the BeetleWings. (YES!)

- It was not possible to use the Dreamvisitors to visit Darkstalker while he was in his enchanted sleep, because it was a deep and dreamless sleep. Tui notes this is probably a good thing, because Clearsight would have tried to visit him if it had been possible. Tui also notes that you can only dreamvisit dragons you have seen before, so the dragon in question would've had to have seen Darkstalker before in order to visit him.

- The Scorching will definitely be addressed in the Guide to Wings of Fire (Okay, I'm assuming the said book will be titled The Guide to Wings of Fire)- Tui knows what happened in the Scorching, but she doesn't have  characters that she's excited about or knows about. She needs to have characters that she's interested in in order to write a story, so if she figures some characters out that she latches onto while writing the guide, it's possible that it could turn into a book (Probably a Legends book!). But for now, the Scorching is slated for the Guide. (Darn it.)

- Tui would also like to write more about each tribe's history in the Guide. For example, the Guide would cover particularly famous queens of the MudWings and what happened in the MudWing history (why Chameleon states in Book 8 that the MudWings know how bad it is not to have an heir). (Wow!)

- We will see Riptide (and the Talons of Peace) in Book 14

- Tui has confirmed that the LeafWings are related to the RainWings, and some RainWings were one of the tribes that fled to Pantala a long time ago from Pyrrhia. She confirmed that LeafWings and RainWings both share the sun absorption ability. For the LeafWings, the sun gives them energy and allows them to eat infrequently.

- Tui doesn't care about the people (parents) complaining about Sundew and Willow online, because she is writing for all the wonderful kids who come up to her and the talented readers and writers who she inspires and who she talks to at events. She really cares about the kids who tell her how happy they are that there is LGBTQ representation in Wings of Fire, and that's what she is writing for, not the angry people on Amazon. (Yeah, you go, Tui!)