Foeslayer


 * "I didn't steal him. I fell in love with him. And he loved me, too. That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before. We didn't mean to ruin everything. Or start a terrible war, or make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together."
 * —Foeslayer to Winter about Arctic, Winter Turning

Hope, formerly known as Foeslayer, is an adult female NightWing who was introduced in Winter Turning. Many IceWings believed that she was one of the main causes of the NightWing-IceWing War, as Foeslayer and Arctic's forbidden relationship infuriated Diamond and caused her to declare war on the NightWings.

She is currently over 2,000 years old due to an enchantment that imprisoned her in the Diamond Caves. She was freed by Winter after he completed the Diamond Trial, and is currently raising Peacemaker in the NightWing Village.

Appearance Edit
Hope is huge, with black scales as dark as a moonless night. She has dark green underscales, dark green eyes, and black wings. When imprisoned in the Diamond Caves, she had a pair of icy shackles around her ankles that did not seem to be connected to anything.

Personality Edit
When Hope was young, (and had the name Foeslayer), she was shown to be talkative, witty, and constantly getting into trouble with her mother. After she had Darkstalker and Whiteout, she loved her dragonets more than anything in the world, and fiercely tried to protect them. She became more mature but more worried, too -- about fitting in, and proving to the queen she was a loyal NightWing. When Winter appeared horrified by the enchantment that imprisoned Hope to the Diamond Caves, she only shrugged eloquently in response.

Arctic Edit
Hope and Arctic first met at a palace in the Ice Kingdom. They loved each other very much, enough to elope. When they moved to the NightWing Palace, they tended to fight a lot, her wanting him to get out of the house to stop "moping, complaining and getting on my nerves." However, she still loved him as shown in Winter Turning.

Darkstalker Edit
Hope loved Darkstalker very much. Darkstalker said that when Foeslayer looked at Whiteout's egg, she didn't think anything would come out at all because she was ready to give all her love to him. However, the three of them became a loving family, despite Arctic.

Diamond Edit
Hope and Diamond were described to have a "complicated" relationship by Hope. Diamond mainly blamed Hope for causing the NightWing-IceWing War, and after imprisoning her to the Diamond Caves, Diamond killed Hope forty times herself just to vent her anger.

Quotes Edit

 * "Brothers, oh my, how devastating. Welcome to my prison. I am Foeslayer."
 * ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 276)


 * "I didn't steal him. […] I fell in love with him. […] And he loved me, too. […] That's the truth, although no IceWing has ever listened long enough to hear it before. […] We didn't mean to ruin everything, […] Or start a terrible war, or make two tribes hate each other for all eternity. We just wanted to be together."
 * ― to Winter about Arctic (Winter Turning, page 287-288)


 * "Seriously the worst! That poor dragon! I am completely telling her not to marry you. I pity whoever gets tricked into that. You'll be like, 'Happy fortieth anniversary … what's your name again?' and she'll be all, 'It's our FIFTIETH, you slime weasel, and my name is you're sleeping on an iceberg tonight."
 * ― to Arctic, about Snowflake (Darkstalker, prologue)


 * "Nothing is wrong with my dragonets."
 * ― to Arctic (Darkstalker, page 11)


 * "The darkness is his prey. He chases back the dark, like a hero."
 * ― to Arctic, about Darkstalker's name (Darkstalker, page 15)


 * "Darkstalker, […] My beloved disaster."
 * ― to Darkstalker when she is reunited with him (Darkness of Dragons, page 344)


 * "I just — I have this strange feeling that the world is about to change forever."
 * ― to Arctic (Darkstalker, prologue)


 * "No, keep smiling. I know you're doing all this for me. It'll all be worth it. Together forever, Arctic! We're going to be the happiest dragons in the world."
 * ― to Arctic (Runaway)


 * "Yes, […] Your ancient and terrible enemy. Everyone is always surprised. I want to know what the point is of abducting and freezing your archnemesis and then never telling anyone about it? Don't you want to shout it from the clouds? So everyone will know how dangerous and powerful you are?"
 * ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 277)


 * "This is very moving, but would one of you please kill me already? […] I'm tired, I haven't eaten in hundreds of years, and these days it's more painful to be awake than to go through the process of dying again."
 * ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 280)


 * "Yes, […] You stab me, I die painfully, and then I go back to being frozen until someone wakes me up again. It's a cunning enchantment. The first forty times, Queen Diamond killed me herself. […] I suspect the original point of the spell was that she wasn't satisfied with killing me just once. But then the forty-first time, there were two dragonets here … so she must have decided I could be used for this other purpose, whatever you two are here for."
 * ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 281)


 * "That's my punishment. […] Here's some advice for you — never make an animus angry."
 * ― to Hailstorm and Winter (Winter Turning, page 281)


 * "It's part of your queen's gift, IceWing. I have been frozen in time, so I only age in the moments when I'm unfrozen like this. The plan, evidently, is to keep me here a very, very long time."
 * ― to Winter (Winter Turning, page 277)


 * "I never want to see an IceWing ever again in my whole life, […] Set me free, and I'll go straight home to the Night Kingdom, and you'll never see me again."
 * ― to Winter (Winter Turning, page 290)

Trivia Edit

 * Because Foeslayer didn't necessarily age in the Diamond Trial Caves, she's physically younger than Darkstalker, making Darkstalker physically older than his mother.
 * Foeslayer is the oldest known dragon.
 * Whenever Arctic and Foeslayer attended parties, they would intentionally compliment one another's jewelry because it gave the illusion of matching and fitting perfectly together.
 * Near the end of Darkness of Dragons, Foeslayer mentions that she could completely shield her thoughts from Darkstalker. However, there is no indication of this in Darkstalker, possibly either revealing an inconsistency in the series or implying that she practiced this later on.

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References Edit

 * 1) ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Winter Turning, page 275
 * 2) ↑ 2.0 2.1 Darkstalker, prologue
 * 3) ↑ Winter Turning, page 281
 * 4) ↑ Winter Turning, page 278
 * 5) ↑ Darkstalker, page 175