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## Personality The most powerful dragon in Pyrrhian history, Darkstalker was hatched with animus magic, mind-reading, and prophetic powers, on the brightest night. He was in a relationship with Clearsight until she and Fathom were forced to trap him beneath Agate Mountain, by using an enchanted bracelet that put him into a deep sleep for many centuries. Darkstalker had ebony[2] black scales[3] and dark midnight-black wings,[4] appearing as almost a pure NightWing except for a line of icy, white,[5] silvery IceWing scales where his wings met his body,[6] which Clearsight described to be cold when touched.[7] He had one silver teardrop scale on the outward corner of each of his dark[8] eyes, which indicated that he was a mind reader,[9] and he had eyes that were as black as underground caverns.[10] He had a narrow, handsome face, long, twisted horns,[10] and was, after re-emerging from Agate Mountain, enormous,[11] at least three times as tall as the largest living dragons.[12] His huge[13] wingspan was as wide as Agate Mountain,[14] and he had a very long neck.[15] He wore a plain, white, half-hoop earring made of bone in his left ear.[16] He was handsome[17] and powerfully built,[18] with scales that felt as hard as armor due to his enchantment.[19] Before losing Foeslayer, Darkstalker was determined,[23] confident,[24] arrogant,[25] observant,[26] thoughtful,[19] cocky, proud,[27] defiant,[28] happy,[29] hopeful,[30] mischievous,[31] patient,[32] intelligent, intense, knowledgeable,[33] and sarcastic.[34] He was charming, courageous, and cared about those he loved very deeply.[31] He believed in not worrying excessively about the future and preferred to focus on the present.[30] In his youth, he was willing to make an enormous sacrifice by creating his talisman in order to make Clearsight feel safe.[4] Darkstalker later used his talisman to enchant things in secret. He hated sleeping, as he felt that he had so much to do and missing out on things made him feel restless.[35] He was skilled at problem-solving[36] and he had a nervous energy about him whenever he had to tell someone something.[37] He knew how to play tricks with his words.[38] After he began to seek vengeance upon the IceWing tribe after Arctic became even crueler, he became more dishonest,[49] devious,[50] vengeful,[51] furious,[52] manipulative,[53] angry, and callous.[54] He radiated menace.[55] He adopted an unsettling[56] new smile that implied Darkstalker thought he would always be okay, and nothing bad could happen to him, and that he could arrange the world the way he wanted. The loss of his mother broke him into a thousand pieces on the inside, making him more furious and devastated, but he could hide it very well.[57] He devolved into a sad, furious mourning,[58] but a strange angry kind where he kept insisting his mother would come home soon, despite Clearsight telling him she would not.[59] Darkstalker then suddenly appeared happier and more energetic, explaining that he had found a way to deal with all of his most annoying problems.[60] These included enchanting Indigo to become trapped inside of a small wooden dragon, and to leave a note for Fathom to manipulate him into believing she had returned to the Kingdom of the Sea and did not love him anymore;[61] enchanting a pair of moonstone earrings for Clearsight to, unwillingly, be forced to focus on the brightest futures and not be able to see the bad futures of her and Darkstalker together[25] and enchanting Arctic to obey his every command.[62] He acted falsely sympathetic towards Fathom[63] and was grimly determined upon finding and punishing the dragon who had sent Quickdeath to assassinate him.[64] He eventually was eerily blank when facing the concept of Foeslayer's death,[65] and wanted the NightWings to fear and respect him.[66] Clearsight saw multiple highly likely futures in which Darkstalker killed her after she stole his talisman[67] and feared that Darkstalker would soon enchant away her and Fathom's ability to feel and think for themselves freely.[68] After awakening from his sleeping spell, Darkstalker acted like a charming, sincere,[69] ambitious[70] leader, causing other dragons to follow him.[71] Immediately after being released, he cast a secret enchantment to make other dragons believe that he was charming, friendly,[72] humbled, and unambitious,[73] though he was already convincing enough without magic to win everyone over.[74] However, after being released from said enchantment, Darkstalker was seen as menacing,[75] brainwashing, genocidal,[76] complicated,[77] sinister,[78] evil, and deserving of what had come to him.[79] When Moonwatcher explained how fundamentally wrong killing the entire IceWing tribe was, he only growled that they had started it.[80] He appeared externally to be polite,[81] friendly, at peace, and slightly bored.[82] His gaze was intense and made Qibli feel as though Darkstalker could look through him, to see all the versions of Qibli that had ever existed and all of the ones that might ever be.[83] He was desperately lonely[76] but did not trust other animus dragons; each one was a threat to his absolute power.[84] He believed he was the greatest animus dragon to have ever lived, believing he was completely unstoppable and regarded others around him to be "boring, ordinary creatures".[85] He was careful to feed his subjects' vanity and need for usefulness so that they would love him all the more.[86] He said he wanted to make the world a better place, and he wanted genuine friends,[87] but it was difficult for him to admit when he was wrong,[88] and he was astounded and upset by the soul reader's opinion of his lack of morality.[89] His choices were vengeful,[90] dark, and damaging,[91] even if he genuinely believed they would lead to the best future. He was a male animus NightWing who was hated by NightWings and IceWings alike for thousands of years because of his actions. The NightWing dragonets even thought of him as a fabled monster. Darkstalker's mother was Foeslayer, a NightWing soldier. His father was Prince Arctic, an IceWing animus. He inherited his animus powers from his father, but chose to not reveal them. Darkstalker was born under three full moons, which imbued him with the NightWing powers of mind-reading and the gift of prophecy to an unparalleled degree. Unlike any other dragon, except for his love interest Clearsight, Darkstalker was able to see multiple possible futures, instead of the single most probable one. Darkstalker had visions of his soulmate, a NightWing dragonet named Clearsight, from a young age. They met when he was four and Clearsight was three and quickly fell in love. A year after Darkstalker and Clearsight met, Darkstalker created a scroll and transferred his animus powers to it. This made Clearsight trust him more, and stopped the possibility of his soul decaying due to animus power use. Darkstalker used his scroll to make many enchantments and animus-touched objects. Among these objects was a moonstone bracelet he made for Clearsight that made it impossible for any mind reader to read her mind. Arctic later discovered Darkstalker's powers when he walked in on him enchanting his history scroll to read and informed the queen after discussing it with Foeslayer. The NightWing queen, Vigilance, made a deal with the SeaWing queen, Pearl, to send their animus dragon (a young SeaWing prince named Fathom) to teach Darkstalker the perils of using animus magic frivolously. Fathom's grandfather, Prince Albatross, had also been an animus dragon, but due to overuse of his powers, he had lost his soul and begun a murderous rampage throughout the royal family. Fathom had extreme PTSD from this memory, as his parents were among the ones killed. Darkstalker, Fathom and Clearsight quickly became close friends, but Fathom's bodyguard and secret love interest, Indigo, was suspicious of Darkstalker, almost killing him at one point. This made Darkstalker paranoid enough to enchant his scales to be invulnerable, and led to his discovery that animus magic can work on dragons. Darkstalker decided it would be best if Indigo was taken care of, and enchanted her to turn into a wooden carving of a SeaWing Fathom gifted him. He also magicked a convincing note from Indigo that told Fathom that she was leaving him and going back to the Kingdom of the Sea. Fathom believed Indigo had left and became even more sad, but began to recuperate and become closer friends with Darkstalker and Clearsight although he continued to mourn the loss of Indigo. One night, Darkstalker returned home to find his mother gone. Reading Arctic's mind, he discovered that they had had a argument, and in a rage, Foeslayer had removed her earring that protected her from harm. Arctic's mother, Queen Diamond, had cast several spells to summon Foeslayer to her after her elopement with Arctic, but they could not affect Foeslayer because of her earring. With the protection earring removed, she was enchanted to fly to the Ice Kingdom where Diamond cast several spells to trap her in a block of ice and resurrect whenever she was killed. However, neither Darkstalker nor Clearsight could see any possible future where Foeslayer returned, and Darkstalker believed her dead. This caused him to go into a darker frame of mind, more brooding and malicious. He planned out several horrific spells for the war against the IceWings, but Clearsight prevented the worst of them. At a festival several months later, Darkstalker was playing a board game with Clearsight, Fathom and his sister Whiteout, when an assassin, Quickdeath, attempted to kill him. Darkstalker's invulnerable scales saved his life, and Fathom's bodyguard Lionfish quickly killed the assassin. Darkstalker used his magic to determine that it was the queen who had sent the assassin. He decided it was time to take control of the future, kill the queen, and become the NightWing king. Clearsight foresaw his intentions and tried to stop him, with the help of Fathom. During the argument, Darkstalker and Clearsight both had a vision of Arctic enchanting a necklace to force Whiteout to follow him to the Ice Kingdom. All three of them took off to stop him. As they pursued Arctic, Darkstalker enchanted a knife to injure Arctic enough to impair his movement. They caught up, and discovered that Arctic had enchanted Whiteout's necklace to cause her to be an obedient daughter that hated Darkstalker. Darkstalker, furious, enchanted Arctic himself to obey his every command, essentially rendering him helpless. Darkstalker commanded that he fly back to the Night Kingdom with them. Clearsight and Fathom tried to convince Darkstalker to stop, but he would not be swayed. In the Night Kingdom, Darkstalker commandeered a stage in the main courtyard. He summoned the whole tribe to witness the execution of Arctic. After forcing Arctic to admit to his crimes, (giving Whiteout an enchanted necklace and willingness to exchange a detailed map of the NightWing kingdom for Foeslayer's whereabouts) Darkstalker made Arctic slice off his own tongue, and disembowel himself. This terrified the NightWing tribe so much they fled the kingdom en masse, fleeing the supposedly deranged Darkstalker, who discovered that during the execution, Clearsight had stolen his scroll. Clearsight took it to Fathom in a secret room, where Fathom enchanted her protective bracelet to, when placed on Darkstalker, would put him into an eternal coma. Clearsight took the bracelet and left the scroll with Fathom, where he discovered that Darkstalker had disposed of Indigo. Clearsight took the bracelet to Agate Mountain, and Darkstalker followed. They had a confrontation where Darkstalker was almost at the point of killing Clearsight before she slipped the bracelet on him. He had a moment of her mind being open to him, and saw clearly her fear and love for him, before he fell into an eternal sleep. Clearsight moved him into a cavern and waited several moments for a major earthquake to cause Agate Mountain to crumble, burying Darkstalker under thousand of tons of stone. Two thousand years later, a comet passed close enough to cause major earthquakes throughout Pyrrhia. One of these earthquakes caused the ancient bracelet to snap, and Darkstalker awoke. He was disoriented and helpless without his scroll. He sat in the rock for several months while a school founded by the dragonets of destiny, Jade Mountain Academy, was being constructed on nearby Jade Mountain. Eventually, the school was opened, and among the dragonets attending was a NightWing, Moonwatcher, who was the first NightWing to have powers since Darkstalker's time. Moonwatcher was born under two full moons, which meant she had mind reading and foresight. Darkstalker communicated with, and befriended, Moonwatcher, teaching her several techniques to control her mind reading. Eventually, he told her about his scroll, which he needed to be free. He described it and asked Moon to find it for her, explaining that it contained great power, but in the wrong hands, should be destroyed, which would trap him underground forever but would be worth it to stop evil. Moonwatcher had some doubts, but in the end, she agreed to look for it while on a separate adventure with her classmates (or winglet). They were searching for the captured brother of one of her classmates, Winter. They left Darkstalker's range of mind reading, and he waited for several weeks, spending his time observing billions of possible futures. Later, Moon returned with the scroll, having betrayed her friends. She brought it to the mountain Darkstalker was trapped under, but despite his protests, she began to read the spells. She discovered his enchantment to control Arctic, and became horrified and indecisive about whether he deserved to be free. Eventually, the rest of the winglet caught up with Moon. They started to argue about who deserved the scroll - Winter said that the IceWings deserved it, while a SandWing called Qibli argued that it could do more good in the claws of the SandWing queen. This fighting caused a SkyWing, Peril, to destroy the scroll, to Moon's relief. However, Darkstalker had lied about the properties of the scroll. Upon its destruction, it would not destroy the animus powers as well, but rather return them to Darkstalker. He used his magic to break through the stone and become free. Darkstalker didn't hold a grudge against Moon. He, however, almost immediately began his plan. He enchanted Winter to believe everything Darkstalker said and trust him completely. He had plans for Turtle (the SeaWing in Moon's winglet, who was secretly an animus), but the dragonet used his own magic to erase himself from Darkstalker's awareness. Darkstalker also imbued himself with several other spells, including; A spell that made him irresistibly charming to everyone he met (except Moon). A spell that made him immune to any other dragon's animus magic. A spell that alerted him whenever another dragon cast a spell. A spell that made every IceWing (except for Winter and hybrids) deathly ill. Darkstalker stayed at Jade Mountain for a few days, earning the NightWings' trust. He learnt that during his coma, the NightWing tribe had demonified him, turning him into an legendary monster. He gave each of the NightWing students any power they desired, and asked them to return with him to the rainforest, where the NightWing tribe was currently being ruled by the Queen Glory of the RainWings. He also befriended Anemone, Turtle's brother, who was also an animus, and enchanted new objects to protect both of their souls from animus magic's negative effects. He lead the procession to the rainforest, consisting of the NightWing students, Moonwatcher, Anemone, and Turtle (not to Darkstalker's knowledge). Once in the rainforest, Darkstalker began winning the affection of his tribe by imbuing them all with magic abilities, from super strength to mind-reading to the ability to summon objects by drawing them. He eventually came to a deal with Queen Glory, and took all the NightWings away to the old Night Kingdom, which had been abandoned and forgotten about. Moonwatcher refused to come and stayed behind, along with about thirty NightWings who preferred the rainforest. During this time, Turtle enchanted Kinkajou to be immune to Darkstalker's spells. Once in the kingdom, Darkstalker was overjoyed to discover that Moon and Kinkajou had decided to come after all. Turtle had also come. Darkstalker became dismissive of Anemone, preferring Moon's company. This made the SeaWing princess extremely jealous, eventually to the point where she attacked Moon and Kinkajou, and tried to enchant Darkstalker to like her best. Darkstalker, however, had already enchanted himself to be immune to other dragon's animus magic, and he flew into a rage. He sent Anemone to kill her mother and take over the SeaWing throne. Later, Darkstalker sensed a huge amount of spells being cast. Using his magic, he summoned every animus dragon in the world to his throne room, which was enchanted so that only he could use magic in it. This included Anemone, Turtle, a former animus Stonemover, and a SandWing named Jerboa that disappeared a second later. Darkstalker correctly guessed that there was a hidden animus, and summoned a dragon that the secret dragon loved dearly. Kinkajou was summoned, and Darkstalker threatened her with death if the animus didn't reveal themselves. Turtle tossed his enchanted stick to Anemone, erasing her from Darkstalker's awareness, and showed himself. Darkstalker wiped Kinkajou's mind and sent her away, however she was immune to his spells. Once they were alone, Darkstalker enchanted Turtle to lose his animus powers, then locked him away in the dungeon. Meanwhile in Jade Mountain Academy, with the help of Turtle, Qibli created thousands of earrings that protected the wearer from Darkstalker's spells. They found Anemone and gave her one of the earrings, as well as Winter, the SandWing and IceWing tribe, protecting them from the animus plague Darkstalker had sent in secret. They discover with Turtle's magic that among the IceWings who died were the queen. Darkstalker had in the meantime begun to work on resurrecting his lost love, Clearsight. Using a NightWing servant called Fierceteeth, he tried several variations that turned her into Clearsight. He showed Moon and Qibli (who had arrived in the kingdom with Winter and Anemone) Clearsight, much to their confusion. Later on, Qibli and Winter told Moon about the spells Darkstalker had enchanted to wipe out the IceWings and win the affection of everyone he meets. Shocked, Moon and Qibli confront Darkstalker about it. Darkstalker justifies his actions by saying that in time, the IceWings would have sent their army to wipe out the NightWings after they heard of Darkstalker's plague spell. Darkstalker imbues all of his soldiers with super strength and superspeed, creating an army of magic warriors. Moon and Qibli discover that the IceWing army had arrived at Jade Mountain, demanding to know where Darkstalker went. Darkstalker sends advance scouts to assassinate the new IceWing queen. Winter, Qibli, Moon, Turtle, Anemone and Kinkajou fly to Jade Mountain before the NightWing army in time to witness the scouts' attack. They fail to kill the queen, but end up killing Narwhal, Winter's father. A melee begins outside Jade Mountain, which ends when Peril kills one of the NightWings that attacks Clay, who she is in love with. However, it's at this time that the NightWing army arrives, and a war begins with the IceWings over Jade Mountain. The Jade Winglet tries to devise a spell with Turtle or Anemone's help that can stop the fighting. Their first attempt, a spell that makes all the NightWings think that Darkstalker is ordering a retreat, fails when Darkstalker catches wind of it. Darkstalker hurls a massive boulder and crushes both Turtle and Anemone. Luckily, Turtle had enchanted himself to be invincible earlier, and both of them survive. Qibli suggests a spell that gives both sides the ability to read the enemy's mind for sixty seconds, and then send them back to their respective kingdoms. Anemone casts the spell, and it works. Darkstalker is exempt from the spell due to his magic immunity, and he kidnaps Qibli and takes him away, much to the dismay of Moon. Darkstalker takes Qibli to his cavern where he was imprisoned during his coma, and justifies himself to Qibli. He offers Qibli the chance to be an animus dragon, which had been Qibli's secret dream for his entire life. Qibli refuses, however, believing Darkstalker to be untrustworthy. Darkstalker then threatens Qibli with death, but is stopped by a noise coming from Qibli's satchel. It turns out to be a soulreader Darkstalker had made for Fathom thousands of years ago - an hourglass that shows the balance of good versus evil in a dragon's soul with black and white sand, respectively. Darkstalker's soul is revealed to be almost entirely evil, which terrifies him beyond belief. He begins to panic, wondering why his soul protection spells didn't work. Qibli suggests that his soul is evil because of his actions, not his magic, and Darkstalker turns to kill him. However, a vision of his long-dead mother stops him. He asks Moon and Kinkajou, who had been spying on them, whether she had seen it as well. Darkstalker, however, can't see how the future ends, while Moon can. Moon asks him if he would follow the future that ends in darkness, if he could see his mother one more time. Darkstalker immediately replies yes, so all four of them follow Moon to a nearby hill, where Foeslayer waits. Darkstalker is convinced Turtle created her the same way he created Clearsight, but Moon tells him that Winter found her in the Ice Kingdom, in a sort of suspended animation spell. Darkstalker reconciles with his mother and begins to cry, telling her that the soulreader says his soul is evil. Foeslayer offers him the opportunity to eat an enchanted strawberry that would transform him into a powerless dragonet with no memory of his past. Darkstalker is incredulous and refuses, stating that he doesn't need anyone and his destiny is to rule the tribes. Moon tries to convince him, but he denies her and states that he is above them all. Believing that no one's magic would work on him, he eats the strawberry out of scorn. However, Kinkajou reveals that the strawberry was enchanted with the scraps of his own scroll. Darkstalker is transformed into a one-year-old NightWing-RainWing hybrid. Foeslayer says she will take care of him, and join the rest of the tribe as they return to the RainWings under Queen Glory's rule. Foeslayer renames the dragonet Peacemaker, and gives herself the alibi of Hope. Moon foresees Peacemaker's future as a happy dragon living his life in the rainforest, writing songs for full moon festivals and having two dragonets that make him laugh every day, and who will be with him when he dies quietly in his sleep. Darkstalker is described as handsome, with a slender snout and twisted horns. Despite being a hybrid, he looks every inch a NightWing, with pitch-black and dark purple scales. His IceWing features include a more elegant snout, longer neck spines, and a thin row of white, icy scales under the membrane of his wing. He has long claws, and often wears jewelry that is enchanted. Dragons continue to grow each year, so because Darkstalker was trapped underground for two thousand years, he was massive in size after he awoke - easily three times as big as a fully-grown adult SkyWing. NightWing abilities: Darkstalker has all the general NightWing abilities, like flight and fire breathing. Animus magic: A rare, genetic power, animus magic allows one to enchant anything to do anything. Mind reading: Darkstalker can read the mind of anyone he encounters. Foresight : Darkstalker can foresee and predict various possible futures. Invulnerability: Darkstalker enchanted his scales to be immune to any sort of damage. Immortality: Darkstalker also enchanted himself to never die, no matter what. Foeslayer (mother) Prince Arctic (father) Whiteout (sister) Queen Diamond (grandmother) Prudence (grandmother) Clearsight (former partner)