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Ok, to be honest this is my first post and I have no idea how tumblr works!!
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This piece is to commemorate my 17th birthday a couple days ago and display my totally awesome WOF sona!! Which is a BeetleWing! (I know they are extinct as of now) but who said I can’t have fun? If you have any advice for a newbie let me know- and expect more dragon/cat/cool art stuff in the future! Please check my other socials as well, I have more art there! Thanks ^^
#wof#wof art#wof sona#wings of fire#wings of fire fanart#BeetleWings#silkwing#hivewing#dragon sona#self insert#beetlewingwof#new user#new to tumblr
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Defense from an art fight on WoFA! This character is super cute 💖💕 I've always wanted to draw a BeetleWing! Not sure why I waited until now, but yeah 🤷
#wings of fire#wof#my art#digital art#dragons#dragon#beetlewing#beetlewings#illustration#digital illustration#beetlewing wof#art#art fight#drawing#feral
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Why do BeetleWings exist again? Like,,from a practical perspective, what do they add? It feels like an unnecessary part to have in Pantala's history, especially when the whole 'HiveWings came from Clearsight' thing could still happen if it was just SilkWings and LeafWings originally.
It honestly feels like Tui randomly decided to toss them in because she had some sort of plan for them at first. Like some sort of reveal in the final book that the BeetleWings aren't all extinct or that there's some technology they made to combat the Othermind. Then, she just...forgot about them entirely.
#Luna in TFOH: “Oh my Clearsight! I can't believe that the only remnant of BeetleWing civilization are the Flames of Hope!”#wof#wings of fire#beetlewings#sp-rambles
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Tiny BeetleWing sit
#wings of fire#wof#original characters#ocs#avens#beetlewing#beetlewings#pantala#dragons#dragon#kassart
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Headcanon Sunstreak design. Base by @beryluma. His design is based off the Pan and pastel Pan flags. This design is free to use.
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My part for Werewolf900′s Requiem Clearsight, Fathom, and Whiteout MAP. As far as I know, this project is going to be unfinished, but who knows? I’d love to see it come back finished one day. But, I’m still proud of the work I did. Designs are by CougarCoast.
#wings of fire#clearsight#sunstreak#darkstalker#darksight#sunsight#wings of fire map#beetlewing#beetlewings#nightwing#nightwings#icewing#icewings#wof hybrid#dragons
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heavily remastered and rushed version of that one post I made because it sucks ass but with more "context" as to why it was Latin and not Spanish <3 anyways it was mentioned that Luna's name had meant "Moon" in her old language, and that the word animus means soul in Latin(Although that was never stated in the books haha but y'know.. Research)which leads me to think: What if the old tribes, when BeetleWings hadn't moved to Pantala yet, spoke in Latin? Not to mention the fact English kiind of decended from Latin so it would make perfect sense. thank you for coming to Rambles With Kiwi (Stop Overthinking)
alt title: why bugs are latin and not spanish
#me when cringy kiwi moments#anyways YAYA i was so happy to redo this#wof#wings of fire#beetlewings#this was so rushed forgive me
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I fantasized a little about what one of the first children of the Clearsight and Sunstrike could be like.
The dragonets are not related to the canonical ones mentioned in the book, here I was just thinking about the design.
Pantala dragons are quite different from Pyrrhyans, and because of this, it seems to me that the first cubs could turn out to be either deformed or with some mutations, defects. I also took into account that the genes in the wof are mainly from the mother, and my own design of beetlewings.
First Dragonet
He is devoid of any abilities, he does not have star scales and antennae have not grown, in the future there will be a very thick horn on his forehead, some scales have not grown evenly and fall off from the general group.
The second Dragonet:
He has grown a second pair of small wings that prevent him from flying, but he is trying to learn. Small wings don't move well. It also turned out to be a dirty color.
And the third one:
He was born under two full moons, but cannot perceive other dragon's thoughts in words, sees only pictures that often confuse him. Mutated horns with growths and too small wings, with large wing elytras, most likely he will not be able to fly. There is a poisonous thorn on the tail.
#wings of fire#dragon#wings of fire art#hybrid#traditional art#digital art#dragon art#dragon design#wof hivewing#nightwing#beetlewing#clearsight#wof#wof art
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Sunstreak of the Beetlewings
Time taken: approx 4-5 hours
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Sunstreak. He is my baby. He is so so underrated!
Whenever you want, I'd love to see your style with him, and potentially with Clearsight.
They're a otp fr even if Tui never shed light on them often other than a few or less pages.
Much love. 🥰
Here!
I tried to make clearsight look like the literal night sky
Hope u like it! :)
#wof#wings of fire#art#wof art#digital art#oc#dragons#wof oc#req#nightwing#beetlewing#sunstreak#clearsight
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Sunstreak design.
Technically, he is still metallic blue, pink and yellow, but I didn't feel like making Kinkajou 3.0, so I changed proportions of those colors
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hypothetical wof evolution chart!! ignoring that darkstalker's book didn't take place only 2000 years after the scorching cause that makes no sesne
(previously known tribes found on the wiki, new ones made by me)
descriptions of new tribes/how the evolved under cut
The Early Era:
The first breeds of dragons. Existed before and during the scorching.
Soarwing:
Status: Extinct
The first ever dragon tribe, is the common ancestor to every modern tribe
Began to die out sometime after the scorching after the tribes began to split up and form
Can range in a wide variety of colors depending on where they live
Body shape most similar to a skywing
Live mostly everywhere
Powers:
Fire breathing
Radiates heat
Earthwing:
Status: Extinct
The second ever dragon tribe
Evolved from Soarwings after they moved into forests and jungles
Went extinct as the tribe began to split away into Insectwings, Leafwings, and Rainwings
Went extinct a little while after the Soarwings did
Can come in any colors that are found in nature
What Lizard/Freedom from The Flames of Hope would be classified as
Powers:
Weak fire breathing
Leafspeak (rare)
Weak poison administered through bite, not deadly
Aquawing:
Status: Extinct
The third formed dragon tribe
Evolved from Soarwings as they began to leave to live near water, mostly the sea
Went extinct as their tribe split into Seawings and Icewings
Went extinct a little before Earthwings, but after Soarwings
Range in colors found in the water, from the blues of the waves to the pinks of coral
Powers:
Ability to hold breath for a long time
Webbed talons
Powerful swimmers
Strong tails
Night vision
The Dividing Era:
The period that followed the Scorching, when the tribes began to split up and organize into proper tribes and cultures.
Insectwing:
Status: Extinct
Evolved from Earthwings who lived in exclusively jungles; happened a little while after the scorching
Went extinct a while later after their tribe mostly became Beetlewings while the rest became Sandwings
Colors can range between yellows, greens, and browns
Began to develop another set of wings, though they are currently useless
Powers:
Deadly poison that can be injected via bite or tail
Leafspeak (extremely rare)
Skywing:
Status: Healthy
Began to split from Soarwings a little after the scorching to live exclusively in mountains
Oldest modern tribe
Colors can range from shades of reds or orange
Powers:
Large and powerful wings
Strong fire
Radiates heat
Leafwing:
Status: Endangered
What remained of the Earthwings who continued to live in the forest while the Insectwings moved to the jungles
Colors range in shades of greens and with hints of colors found in nature
Powers:
Leafspeak (uncommon)
Can absorb energy from sunlight
Icewing:
Status: Healthy
Split from Aquawings to live exclusively in the icy tundra
Range in shades of white with blue-tinted accents
Where the first animus was found
Powers
Freezing ice breath
Serrated claws
Withstanding cold temperatures
Night vision
Sandwing:
Status: Healthy
Result of continuous breeding between Insectwings and Skywings
Moved to the desert because of space; no one else wanted to live there
Lost the second set of wings completely from Insectwings
Colors range in shades of tan and brown
Powers:
Fire
Deadly venom (only in tail)
Can survive in hot environments for long amounts of time
Can survive with little water and food for long amounts of time
Radiates heat
Beetlewing:
Status: Extinct
Evolved from Insectwings who didn’t breed with Earthwings
Formed 2 sets of wings that are fully functional
Can come in any color, usually bright colors
Powers:
Deadly venom that can be administered through tail
Antennae that can sense things around
The Growing Era:
An era where there is a lot more mixing of tribes and the start of a more civilized way of life
Seawings:
Status: Healthy
Formed out of what was left of the Aquawings who didn’t move to the arctic, began to become more and more aquatic
Colors can range in shades of blues, greens, and accents of different colors found in the sea
Powers:
Ability to breathe underwater
Webbed talons
Powerful swimmers
Strong tails
Strong night vision
Bioluminescent scales
Rainwings:
Status: Healthy
Formed from the breeding between Insectwings and Naturewings
Lost the second set of wings from Insectwings
Lived in the rainforest exclusively
Colors can range from anything
Powers:
Color-changing scales
Prehensile tails
Deadly venom in teeth
Nightwings:
Status: Endangered
Formed from Skywings who left to become nocturnal and pursue knowledge and sciences
Mind reading and future sight was a gift from an animus
Toxic bite did not develop until after living on the volcanic island
Colors can range in shades of dark gray and black
Powers:
Fire
Mind Reading and/or future sight (rare)
Night vision
The Modern Era:
The newest dragon tribes that just recently came to be
Mudwings:
Status: Healthy
Formed from continuous breeding between Seawings and Skywings
Often treated as less by the Phyrrian dragons because of how recently the tribe was formed
Colors can range in shades of browns and greens
Powers:
Can hold breath for long periods of time
Can be healed by mud
Can breathe fire if warm enough
Hivewings:
Status: Healthy
Evolved mostly from Beetlewings, only with Clearsight’s small genetics mixed in
Was created because of the impact Clearsight left, every dragon wanted to be like her, so any dragon with black scales was deemed a descendant of Clearsight; every dragon with black scales began breeding more than usual, eventually creating Hivewings
Colors range in shades of yellows and blacks
Kept the four sets of wings from Beetlewings
Powers:
Venom and/or stingers in teeth or tails (uncommon)
Silkwings:
Status: Healthy
Formed of what was left of the Beetlewings that didn’t have black on their scales
Have been seen as inferior to Hivewings for a while since they didn’t have any black scales
Flamesilks were originally a rare mutation that grew as the Hivewings began selectively breeding them
Colors range from any color under the sun except black
Powers:
Antennae
Can produce silk from their wrists
#wof#wings of fire#wings of fire headcanons#wof headcanons#wof evolution chart#skywing#seawing#mudwing#icewing#silkwing#hivewing#beetlewing#leafwing#rainwing#nightwing
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#wof#wings of fire#icewing#nightwing#seawing#beetlewing#wof clearsight#wof indigo#wof fathom#wof thoughtful#wof sunstreak#darkstalker#wof darkstalker#wof whiteout
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Hi hi ok request time.
I have a BeetleWing animus named Tick. He's a deep, dark brown with red accents,and he has a piercing gaze. He is always followed by eyes from all 9 tribes, when there were only 9 tribes and one continent.
All I want is a headshot featuring all of his eyes.
ta da! Tick!!! i hope this is what you wanted :)
also imma be honest, i drew this like a week ago then just forgot to post it, sorry for the wait :p
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I’ve been wanting to design Clearsight’s kids for a while, but seeing @Jaxi-the-dragonborn ‘s and @daily-wof-designs ‘s designs for these kids was the kick in the pants I needed to finally make them.
The beautiful lineart is by @fizzy-the-alien, edits by me.
These designs are free to use.
Jewel-She/her, based on a Jewel Wasp/Emerald Cockroach Wasp, mindreader and seer.
Tortoiseshell-She/her, based on a Small Tortoiseshell Butterfly, mindreader. She almost had a solid brown body, but then I saw daily-wof-designs draw Tortoiseshell with tortie markings, and then it was over for me.
Orange-???, based on an Orange Sulphur Butterfly, seer.
Commodore-He/Him, weak powers, flamesilk, based on Gaudy Commodore.
#wings of fire#wof#beetlewing#beetlewings#jewel wof#commodore wof#tortoiseshell wof#orange wof#dragons#nightwings#nightwing#my designs#my headcanons#fanart#art#mine#character design#my art tag (abandon all hope ye who enter here)
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About Hivewings
My husband was posting WOF headcanons so I will try posting one too. Why are Hivewings so weird? Here is what I think.
“Yes, of course,” Lady Scarab snapped. “Maybe they weren’t called SilkWings back then. ShimmerWings or Flibbertigibbets or something in the old language, I don’t know. But Clearsight married one, and then another one when the first one died, and had an alarming number of dragonets with each one, and then their dragonets and their dragonets’ dragonets kept going, marrying Ye Olde SilkWings or what have you, until there was enough of them to be considered their own tribe. HiveWings. Stupid menacing name, if you ask me. It was only about five hundred years ago that we officially split into two separate tribes, you know. My charming great-great-grandmother was the queen who ordered no more mingling of the bloodlines. She was a nightmare.”
This is where Hivewings allegedly come from, but it doesn't really make any sense to assume this actually happened the way she describes it. Clearsight came to Pantala around the year 3000, and the Hivewings as a separate tribe apparently came into existence around the year 4500. That means there must have been ~1500 years in which the Beetlewings (the actual name of the "ye olde Silkwings") existed as a single breeding population with her genes in it. It hardly seems possible that by the year 4500 there could be one subset of the Beetlewing population that was descended from Clearsight and another that wasn't.
As you trace a subject's family tree back, the number of ancestors doubles in each generation: two parents, four grandparents, eight great grandparents, etc. Eventually you reach a point in time where the subject should apparently have more ancestors than the total number of living people. This discrepancy is explained by individual ancestors occupying more than one position in the subject's pedigree, which is known as pedigree collapse. This has some counterintuitive implications, like the fact that in the real world, every living human of European ancestry is descended from Charlemagne, and also from every other European who lived before the 10th century and has any modern descendants at all.
If we compare the situation with Clearsight to the situation with Charlemagne, most of the variables seem to point to this effect being even more pronounced in her case. Dragons have shorter generation times than humans (Fathom was a father at 11), she lived ~1500 years before the present as opposed to ~1300, and the population of Pantala seems to be much smaller than the population of Europe. So I find it highly unlikely that there are any Pantalans at all who aren't descended from Clearsight.
What seems more reasonable to me is that Clearsight made some small genetic contribution to every Beetlewing living in 4500, and the conception of the Hivewings specifically as her true heirs is just propaganda. What I imagine is that the Beetlewings of 4500 had developed the folk belief that dragons with more black in their scales had a closer connection to Clearsight, who was essentially deified at that point. This belief was completely wrong. Beetlewings had always come in many different colors and patterns, with and without black, and by 4500 essentially nobody was more or less related to Clearsight than anyone else. But if you have the ambition to found a tribe, none of that really matters; what matters is how well you can tell a story. It turned out that the first queen of the Hivewings told the "dragons with black scales are the true heirs of Clearsight" story well enough to split away from the Beetlewings and create a new tribe. It might also be that there was already an established tendency in 4500 for black Beetlewings to breed among themselves to try and conserve their imagined connection to Clearsight, which would only have made it easier to formally split the tribe.
Of course when the Hivewings and the Silkwings first became established as separate tribes, there wouldn't really have been any difference between them, genetically. But over the course of 500 years, Silkwings with black in their scales and Hivewings without would tend to leave the tribes they hatched in and settle down in the other. Over time, this had the effect that the two groups really did become differentiated by the presence or absence of black scales, and by the present it has become very rare for a Silkwing with black scales or a Hivewing without to hatch at all.
The other differences between the two tribes could perhaps be explained by genetic linkage, although i guess it might be a stretch to assume that real world genetics apply to WOF dragons to that degree. Most of what i've said so far, i feel like it follows naturally from things that are actually attested about the setting, but maybe it's silly to say "yeah dragons definitely have chromosomes and their genes are laid out linearly so black scales can be tied to apparently unrelated features like not having antennae". I'm just saying it's possible.
Another weird thing about Hivewings is that they seem to have way too many random powers. In most of the tribes there are only like one or two powers that only some individuals have, and they are rare. Mudwings have a few fireproof dragons, Skywings have a few firescales, Nightwings have a few psychics. But Hivewings have stingers in their tails, poison fangs, boiling acid attacks, and probably other things I don't even know about. And it seems like these features are relatively common in the population, but not universal. Why is the distribution so weird?
What I think is, hatching with random features like this is something that happens in every tribe, it's just usually very rare, and the tribes all react differently. If a Rainwing hatches with a sting in their tail, everyone says "oh, funny, you must have a Sandwing ancestor somewhere", and that's the end of it. If a Skywing hatches with a sting in their tail, their parents probably rip it off so they won't be ordered to kill their dragonet. And if a Hivewing hatches with a sting in their tail, they get black-bagged and sent off to a government breeding facility to try to increase the prevalence of tail stingers in the population.
Like the Hivewings practicing eugenics is more or less canon, right? They force Silkwings to breed at the whims of the queen to acquire more flamesilks, so it's not that hard for me to imagine they do it to their own tribe as well. Honestly when I was first reading arc 3 I felt like this one must be canon, because the strangeness of the Hivewings having so many more powers than every other tribe felt really significant to me. Nothing about it ever came up, and I'm left to assume that the canon explanation is really meant to be "no, they're just like that for some reason". But I think this makes sense and is in line with the nasty authoritarian nature of Hivewing society.
#wings of fire#wof#wof hivewing#wof silkwing#wof clearsight#wof headcanon#wof beetlewing#headcanon#hivewing#clearsight#beetlewing#silkwing
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