Icewings have an arena. Fights there are more like scripted plays and never end in death for the actors (small scrapes and bruises happen to actors sometimes, though).
Fights have symbolism using armor and/or weapons (i.e armor with blue detailing symbolizes being heroic, painted antlers on shields represented courage being a facade, etc). Often times the fights are apart of plays, typically as a denouement, though they can be independent events.
Typically theatre (and fights) is/are performed after events like banquets and coronations, though smaller performances are common at the end of the month.
Planned fights have been looked down on by foreigners due to Queen Scarlet's arena, though most icewings scoff at and take offense to the idea of their theatrical fights being the same as barbaric skywing arena battles.
I'm terrible at drawing realistic talons 😭 This is one of my favorite ideas, though, and I wanted to show it!!
I like to imagine SkyWings have really tiny talons to help them grip onto flat rock faces; however, small talons aren't really that great to have in battle (especially when you're a tribe known for combat proficiency), so SkyWing soldiers wear talon extensions!
There's tons of variations of these. Some SkyWings even wear them as accessories to be fancy (or because they're insecure about their baby claws).
just counted and we are getting at least 9 new named mudwing characters as well as more development on sepia and newt in "the guide to the dragon world"
what a day to be a mudwing lover <33 (they will finally have more than just 20 characters im screeching)
Gonna make another post about it just in case (spoilers for A Guide to the Dragon World):
So in new leaks for A Guide to the Dragon World it has been revealed that Newt and Sepia are siblings. With that new information I just want to say that I will no longer ship these two and I'll edit my posts and headcanons to be strictly familial and platonic.
I don't think I need to say much more than that. We didn't know anything about these characters relationship before but now that we do I hope nothing bad will come out of past wrong assumptions.
I do not welcome proshipping on my blog whatsoever.