Winterborne — Dragons

Ice dragons

Dragons

Also known as dragons, twelve ice dragons, dragon

• Bk 1Elven faith: dragon and ice came with the three stars that fell from the Galmundam.
• Bk 1Onsthelot dreamt of them but never saw their faces.
• Bk 1Bonds severed when the Tryorians stole the Heart of Snow; the dragons went rogue in the Dark Rebellion.
• Bk 1Every dragon died to Silverlamb's dragon-ridder.
• Bk 1They breathe flames of ice: torrents of blue-white frost that swirl like embers in reverse.
• Bk 1In Henric's vision a slender, serpent-like red dragon with red eyes and a shrill roar fights his dragon.
• Bk 1There were twelve; their hatchlings never survived long in this world.
• Bk 1Hatchling bones are straight, porous and white, and are used to craft trinkets.

Escurion

Dragons

• Bk 1Henric's dragon.
• Bk 1Henric dreamt of him for four years before he returned at the welcome celebration.
• Bk 1After Aveenar's death Henric drew only Escurion.
• Bk 1A white ice dragon with fifty horns, called the Winged Rebel.
• Bk 1His scales look like ice or snowflakes and glare in the sun, yet warmth flows from him.
• Bk 1Henric grips two horns rising from his back when riding him.
• Bk 1His skeleton looms behind the Throne of Bones: wings braced forward like claws, horns along skull and neck, a blade-thin tail.
• Bk 1The eldest stories say he bowed to no rider and no creature could master him.
• Bk 1Has a long neck and a wide crown of horns; his scales flare like crystal thorns when he roars.
• Bk 1Calibor recognized him from Henric's drawings by his fifty horns and calls him Escurion the Rebel.
• Bk 1Has horns at the tips of his wings, a single claw rising from each wing, and horns and stubs along his hide.
• Bk 1Two smaller horns where his neck meets his back serve as a rider's handholds.
• Bk 1Piercing, icy-blue eyes; breathes blue frostfire that reduces bodies to ash. Unlike Peter's red dragon, he does not have four legs.
• Bk 1Henric mounts him by climbing his wing and gripping his horns.

Kellemar

Dragons

• Bk 1A black ice dragon.
• Bk 1Female; her scales are shaped like snowflakes, streaked with black.
• Bk 1Eyes white as winter.
• Bk 1A pair of jagged, crooked silver horns curls along the sides of her head, with broken stubs jutting out like a crown.
• Bk 1Her tail is longer than her body and thin like a whip.

Specter

Dragons

• Bk 1Bonded by Cebrahim Ventera about 500 years ago.
• Bk 1Lost by Cebrahim after Hellsbeth killed Romendan.
• Bk 1His skeleton is broader than Hondebur's, with thicker horns.

Hondebur

Dragons

• Bk 1One of the first two dragons bonded by the elves, about 500 years ago.
• Bk 1Silverlamb set the Heart of Snow inside his skull.
• Bk 1His skeleton is leaner than Specter's, his twenty horns thin as thorns.

Big Red

Dragons

Also known as Peter's dragon, red ice dragon, the red one

• Bk 1A red ice dragon, slimmer than Escurion, its hide covered in thorn-like spikes and jagged horns on its face.
• Bk 1Four-legged, with a whiplike tail longer than its body ending in a jagged tip, and wings torn at the edges.
• Bk 1Its belly glows like molten rock before it breathes blue frostflame.
• Bk 1Peter's red ice dragon, with wings like blood; ridden saddled with rope reins.