Jade Mountain Academy

Template:SpoilerTLCThe winglets are not to be confused with the Winglets, which are short e-books in the series.

Jade Mountain

The Jade Mountain Academy was founded by the Dragonets of Destiny after the War of the SandWing Succession. It is an inter-tribal school located in the tallest mountain in Pyrrhia, Jade Mountain, in the southern half of the Claws of the Clouds Mountains in the Sky Kingdom. The Academy is currently divided into five winglets; the Jade Winglet, the Gold Winglet, the Silver Winglet, the Copper Winglet, and the Quartz Winglet, each containing a dragonet from each of the seven dragon tribes. Groups of two or three dragonets from a winglet share a cave, making them clawmates. Stonemover, Sunny's father, who is slowly turning to stone, lives in a cave deep in the mountain.

The Winglets

The Jade Winglet was the winglet that the second s\arc was most focused upon.

Students:

IceWing: Winter
MudWing: Umber
NightWing: Moonwatcher
RainWing: Kinkajou
SandWing: Qibli
SeaWing: Turtle
SkyWing: Carnelian

Known clawmates:

Moonwatcher, Kinkajou, and Carnelian
Turtle, Umber, and Winter

No longer students:

Umber (ran away with Sora)
Carnelian (deceased)
Winter (in Talons of Peace)

Royalty or trusted by royalty: Turtle (son of Queen Coral); Kinkajou (because of Queen Glory); Prince Winter (nephew of Queen Glacier); Qibli (by Queen Thorn, to look after the other SandWings) To Replace No Longer Students: Currently, there will be an unknown female MudWing, a new IceWing, a new SandWing. Turtle, Peril, and Kinkajou remain at the school, while Moon is with former SandWing student Qibli, Jerboa II, and Luna. In Darkness of Dragons Moon goes to Thorn’s stronghold to persuade Qibli to return to Jade Mountain, but it is unknown if Qibli will return.

Gold Winglet

Students:

IceWing: New IceWing
MudWing: Possibly a new MudWing
NightWing: Possibly a new NightWing
RainWing: Tamarin
SandWing: Possibly a new SandWing
SeaWing: Pike
SkyWing: unknown male SkyWing

Known clawmates:

Pike and an unknown male SkyWing

No longer students;

Icicle (on trial in the Ice Kingdom)
Bigtail (deceased)
Onyx (left to take the SandWing throne but failed; now recovering from injury in the Kingdom of Sand)
Flame (left for attempted murder; now working with the SkyWing healers)
Sora (ran away with Umber)

Royalty or trusted by royalty: Pike (because of Queen Coral, sent to take care of Anemone), Tamarin (because of Queen Glory)

Silver Winglet

Students:

IceWing: Changbai
MudWing: Sepia
NightWing: Fearless
RainWing: Boto
SandWing: Ostrich
SeaWing: Anemone
SkyWing: Thrush

Known clawmates:

Changbai's clawmates are either Sepia and Fearless, or Boto and Thrush.

Royalty or trusted by royalty: Anemone (daughter of Queen Coral), Ostrich (because of Queen Thorn)

No longer at Jade Mountain: All of the dragonets in this winglet are still at Jade Mountain.

Copper Winglet

Students:

IceWing: Alba
MudWing: Marsh
NightWing: Mindreader
RainWing: Coconut
SandWing: Pronghorn
SeaWing: Snail
SkyWing: Peregrine

Known clawmates:

No longer at Jade Mountain: All of the dragonets in this winglet are still at Jade Mountain.

Quartz Winglet

Students:

IceWing: Ermine
MudWing: Newt
NightWing: possibly a new NightWing
RainWing: Siamang
SandWing: Arid
SeaWing: Barracuda
SkyWing: Garnet

Known clawmates: Unknown

No longer at Jade Mountain: Mightyclaws (making houses for the NightWings in the Rainforest)

The Founders and Staff

Clay is a hall monitor, healer, self-defense teacher and prey organizer.

Tsunami is head of school. (Refers to her being the "leader" of the dragonets)

Starflight is the librarian. (not history because Webs would know more about that subject).

Sunny is the main founder (as the school was her idea).

Webs is the history teacher. (read Starflight's job for more)

Fatespeaker is Starflight's assistant and a helper at the Academy.

The Rooms and Caves

The Library

The entrance, as described by Moonwatcher, starts off as a side corridor lined with hanging scrolls. Many of them have quotes on the such as "Knowledge is a flame in the darkness" and "The claws of war are no match for the wings of wisdom." At the end, a room full of iridescent green sunlight is present (produced by the sun shining through tree leaves placed over windows, one of those windows were torn by Icicle escaping out of them in Moon Rising). Scrolls were everywhere, in cubbyholes on the walls, racks, and cylinders around the cave. Every corner had a spot to curl up and read in, sometimes a rock ledge, sometimes a pile of moss and sometimes carpets. Sunlight came down from skylights in the roof and filtered through leaves covering the windows. There's a circular wooden desk labeled 'LIBRARIAN' in the center where Starflight manages the scrolls.

The Prey Center

The Prey Center, which Clay set up, was often described as chaotic. This is because students were everywhere either catching prey or eating. This was one of the main places where Moonwatcher's head hurt the most but luckily Darkstalker taught her how to stop this. Moon met Winter and Qibli for the first time there after Qibli (or as Winter called him, “the idiot clawmate”) released Winter's pet scavenger, Bandit, that many dragons tried to catch and eat.

History Cave

This was where Webs taught history to the students of the Jade Mountain Academy. It was described to be covered in maps (each marked with a different year) and with stacks of scrolls that overflowed the wooden racks provided. This cave was also destroyed by Sora's dragonflame cactus during the events of Moon Rising forcing history class to be relocated to a different cave.

Art Cave

The Art Cave was the room where students learned all sorts of art forms, including painting, pottery glassworking, metalworking, weaving, and woodworking. The room was filled with art supplies tucked into every crevice, and wooden dragon sculptures placed on little stone shelves.

Music Cave

The Music Cave was a vast cave filled with various instruments including harps, marimbas, maracas, and drums.

The "Weapons Cave"

First mentioned in Darkness of Dragons, The Weapons Cave is where weapons were kept if needed to defend the school. The room contains a locked wooden box which holds three daggers, (two after the events of Darkness of Dragons) one sword, and one club (or as Qibli describes it, a "big stick")

Healing Center

Also first introduced in Darkness of Dragons, the Healing Center is where Clay teaches basic medicine. It contains a colored diagram of a dragon which shows where muscles are located.

Known Classes

History

Taught by Webs, this class is meant to teach in depth the history of Pyrrhia to attending students. The class is structured in units, with the first unit being The Scorching and going chronologically throughout history afterwards. The next known unit is 500 years after The Scorching, which is described as a rather chaotic time period.

Herbs and Healing

Suggested by Peregrine and Tamarin sometime between ToP and DoD, this class, taught by Clay, is meant to teach the basics of healing to students. The class is shown to outline dragon anatomy to students as a basis for learning proper technique and presumably teaches some botany as "herbs" is in the title.

Music

While not an official class, there is a music cave which dragonets visit as a part of their schedule to learn to play different instruments from across Pyrrhia through their own intuition.

Group Discussion Class

Though the official name of this class isn't well known, nor is it known if this class even still exists, it is lead by Tsunami and is meant as a sort of bonding area for the dragonets within a Winglet to become closer.

Trivia

Jade Mountain Academy is the first known school where dragons of all tribes are taught together.
The school currently houses most of the dragonets of destiny.
Books six through ten focus on Jade Mountain Academy, specifically the Jade Winglet.
Anemone, Turtle, Icicle, and Winter are the only known royal figures in the winglets. (Qibli could count since Queen Thorn adopted him.)