Moorhen


 * "Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't — she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make."
 * —Queen Moorhen to Sunny about Burn, The Brightest Night

Moorhen is an adult female and the current MudWingqueen. By size and age, she is possibly the current oldest queen in Pyrrhia, and is described to be as large as Morrowseer. She is the bigwings of four unnamed siblings.

Appearance Edit
Queen Moorhen is huge, as big as Morrowseer and taller than her siblings. She has russet-brown scales and wears gemstones on her ankles and head.

Personality Edit
Moorhen is the bigwings of her clutch and is very protective of her three brothers and sister. Her protective instincts extend to the rest of her tribe as well, as seen when she joined Burn's side of the war when Burn threatened to attack the MudWing tribe if Moorhen refused to fight with her. According to Sora, Moorhen is a good queen and is loved by her fellow MudWings. She is very wise and would do anything to protect her tribe from danger, even collaborating with Burn, and it is shown in her long reign over them.

She also knows about Queen Coral's scrolls. Moorhen refers to them in The Brightest Night as "The SeaWing queen's silly, romantic scrolls," implying that she does not think highly of them.

Quotes Edit

 * "Here? Now? [...] Can't you see I'm in the middle of a campaign? And everyone's dying and it's all my fault and I can't save them? [...] No. No, I command you not to die."
 * ― to Sunny, in a dream (The Brightest Night)


 * "But then the war will be over, and perhaps that'll be worth it. Burn has promised us immunity from attack for the next hundred years if we help her win. If we don't-- she'll destroy us. She is a powerful enemy, little SandWing. A lot more powerful than you, and she's an enemy I don't intend to make."
 * ― to Sunny about the war (The Brightest Night)


 * "I'll think about it. Are you choosing Burn, then?"
 * ― to Sunny about coming to the meeting to end the war. (The Brightest Night)


 * "Good luck, [...] You're very small to be in charge of saving the world."
 * ― to Sunny (The Brightest Night)

Trivia Edit

 * She has been described as an older queen. This is probably due to the fact that a MudWing's siblings would never betray each other, as they have a very close bond instinctively.
 * Moorhen is most likely not descended from the original line of MudWing queens, as Chameleon has mentioned that there was a time the MudWings were left with no heirs, which ended in chaos.
 * In Darkness of Dragons, Queen Thorn accidentally refers to her as Mudhen. This was corrected in the E-book and later printings.
 * She has the most book mentions and least appearances of any queen that actually appears, having appeared in only The Brightest Night and mentioned in all other first and second arc books as well as Assassin.

Gallery Edit
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References Edit

 * 1) ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 The Brightest Night, page 244
 * 2) ↑ The Brightest Night, page 245
 * 3) ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 154