Deathbringer

Deathbringer has black scales, eyes, and wings with a glittering spray of scattered, sparkling, silver scales underneath that catch the morning light like trapped stars. He is strong and astonishingly fast. He has a rakish, cheeky grin, and is wiry and graceful in his movements, even when he is startled. He has clearly been trained to fight based on the way he stands and assesses others.

As a young dragonet, Deathbringer followed orders without asking questions, even when he was tasked to kill a MudWing prisoner; he killed him as cleanly and quickly as possible. He is thoughtful, impatient, intelligent, and trustworthy, and he was determined to follow orders. He can keep his emotions under control, he does not typically worry, and he is confident and talented. He vowed that protecting the dragons he loves will come before completing any mission.

Glory is his love interest, and it seems that the two return feelings for one another. Deathbringer volunteered to be her bodyguard, most likely so that he could protect her and be close to her at all times. Deathbringer is stated constantly throughout the series to care for her and finds little things to protect her from. In almost every book that he appears in, he and Glory flirt with one another between times of the books.

Despite finding Deathbringer's need to protect her sometimes exhausting, Glory seems to care for him as well, even to the point of talking to him affectionately. Deathbringer often deliberately provokes Glory because he likes how she shoots him down. She does not speak very highly of him in front of other dragons—even though it is obvious that the insults they give each other are hollow, she often tries to make others assume that his status is just bodyguard to the queen. This often fails due to Deathbringer's flirting; Glory also trusts Deathbringer more than the majority of the other NightWings — this can be emphasized by how she once saved Deathbringer from a dungeon in a volcano, while Deathbringer saved Glory from the NightWing prison. Deathbringer mentioned that he was half a dragon before he met Glory, and that he would be even less if he lost her after meeting her. He stated that he could not live without her.