Wings Of Fire World Building

Inspired By Wings of Fire

I’ve read many books in my time, and some of them had a perfect plot and characters. I’ve read many books in my time, and some of them had a perfect plot and characters, but the worlds the stories take place in are just as perfect. One of my favourite stories with the best world-building (in my opinion) is the Wings of Fire series. The books are about dragons who usually defeat a great evil that has been prophesied. The first series is about a group of five young dragons who stopped a 20-year war. In the second series, another group of young dragons stopped a giant animus dragon who had God-level amounts of power and turned him into a child. And the third story was about an entire tribe of dragons being released from mind control and slavery. The story is intended for young teens but contains many mature topics that are also enjoyable.

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There are eight species of dragons, all inspired by real-life animals. For example, the Mudwings are inspired by alligators, the sand wings by scorpions, and the Silkwings by moths or butterflies. The dragons have beautiful designs not only in their appearance but also in their society and behaviour. The dragons have experienced both monarchy and democracy in their history. They have made clothing, weapons, food and many beautiful structures. All inspired by actual things in real life.

Real World into Real Life

The world itself is full of many biomes, including Deserts, Jungles, Forests, Oceans and Ice worlds. Every place is unique with comparisons from our very own world.  On the main continent, Pyrrhia, where its climate is warm except for the north of the environment, there are seven living dragon species, and most of the series focuses on them. However, there is another continent called Pantala where three other species live. Originally, all dragons lived in Pyrrhia; however, some flew across the sea and landed in Pantala, where two tribes were established. A few hundred years later, they would split into three tribes, but that is a story for another day. Each tribe would evolve the perfectly live in their habitat, often having traits such as colours that helped blend into their environment or an ability that was unique to them, such as venom, or bioluminescent scales even the ability to be immune to fire.

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All Hail to the Queen

The Tribes all fall under the same monarchy.  This is similar to monarchies in our own world, with royal families that rule over a country or group of people. While we mainly had kings, we also had quite a few memorable queens in our own history. Only females are allowed to rule and become Queens in the book series. Their sisters and daughters may challenge their position in a fight to the death or surrender. Males cannot rule and rarely have a position of king or even consort, usually only in circumstances where the queen is unable to rule (by sickness or grave injury) does the king step into rule. However, in some tribes, they have a different system of ruling. For the Seawings, the queen has a council that helps advise and help her take care of the kingdom. The Rainwings have a different system of choosing that requires a challenge of a task to be issued and completed to become queen.

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Past, Present and Future

The story itself is well-written and made. The pacing develops quite well, and we are told stories both in the past and the present that manage to show good consistency and explanation of how some things are. For example, in the first series, we find out that the Nightwings are living on a volcanic island that is slowly killing them all, with meagre resources and fewer eggs being born, their race is dying out. However, in one of the special editions called Darkstalker, we learn that the Nightwings lived on the main continent but left due to the fear of the animus dragons. Darkstalker would come and kill them all in revenge for imprisoning him in a mountain. We were given reasons for why this happened, and the story still managed to keep good consistency and reasoning for how things worked out in their story. This series meant a lot to me growing up and inspired a lot of my drawings and writing. Without these books, I would never have had the inspiration to make some of my own stories, and I’m glad I had these stories full of wonder that intrigued me.

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AUTHOR BIO

Carlos Kalambo is a 19-year-old college student in the second year of a professional writing program. He enjoys to read science fiction and any books with xenofiction. He enjoys many book series such as Warrior Cats (From Erin Hunter)  and enjoys anything genre of books, in reality or in fantasy. He has a mind of creativity and enjoys creating any creature and making worlds to see how they fit in and live in their story.