Tintaglia

Tintaglia by John Howe.

Tintaglia is a silvery-blue dragon hatched from the last remaining wizardwood log. The hatching was helped by Reyn Khuprus and Selden Vestrit. She had already haunted the dreams of Reyn and Malta Vestrit, being desperate for help. Selden, the youngest son of Keffria Vestrit and Kyle Haven, is becoming an Elderling and acts as an ambassador for Tintaglia.

Cocoon and Hatching

While still cocooned, Tintaglia reaches out to influence Reyn Khuprus. She initially wins Reyn to her side but he is unable to convince his mother Jani and brother Bendir. The dragon grew contemptuous of Reyn's inability to help her and haunted his dreams, trying to make him set her free. During one of these encounters, Malta used a dream-box to connect with Reyn and ask for help with her family's plight. Reyn thinks of the similarities of his two dream visitors and Tintaglia shows up. She focuses her attention on Malta and offers a deal; if Malta frees the dragon, Tintaglia will save Malta's father, Kyle.

Tintaglia continues to target both Reyn and Malta, and eventually, Malta ends up on Paragon's deck. Malta's connection to Tintaglia makes Paragon recall his dragon past and both of the dragons fight over Malta. Tintaglia is determined not to let her go, claiming she will kill Malta before she lets another have the girl. Malta is saved by Amber.

When Malta is brought to Trehaug, Tintaglia entices her to venture into the Elderling city, Frengong. Her brother Selden leads her in and she continues to the Crowned Rooster Chamber alone. She tries to free Tintaglia and is flooded with the memories of the city. Before she can finish, she has to flee from an earthquake. Reyn, learning that Malta went into the city, searches the ruins, finds Selden, and then they are trapped in the Rooster Chamber. Reyn and Selden turn the cranks that open the roof and let sunlight hit the cocoon.

The cocoon melts into Tintaglia's skin, and she escapes the sinking city.

After Hatching

After eating and sleeping, Tintaglia returns to save Reyn and Selden, and she brings them to Trehaug. Reyn asks her to search for Malta, they spot her on the river, and then the dragon flies away to find her missing race. She finds a dying serpent in the shallow Rain Wild River and determines that she needs the help of humans to save dragonkind.

Flying to Bingtown, she encounters Chalcedean ships attacking. They shoot arrows at her, and she destroys a few ships. Tintaglia is distracted by Selden Vestrit's singing and lands near some survivors of Bingtown. Despite Reyn not wanting to ally with her, she makes a deal with the survivors of Bingtown. The deal was for the humans to dredge the Rain Wild River to help the serpents swim upriver and protect the cocoons before they hatch. In return, she would protect the harbor and the river mouth and free Kendry and other Liveships potentially captured by the Chalcedeans.

Reyn, after learning that Malta is still alive, makes a separate deal with Tintaglia. He will dedicate his life to searching for other surviving cocoons in Elderling cities if Tintaglia will help save Malta. They fly off together and eventually reach Malta where Tintaglia meets up with the remainder of the Sea serpents.

The Sea serpents needed help being guided and in swimming into the Serpent River. They need to form cocoons from the special sand that is only found in certain places along the river, mixing it with their own and a dragon's secretions. Tintaglia then protected them on her own as there was no other dragons to help her.

After the Creation of the Pirate Isle Kingdom

Tintaglia, when she found out that the new dragons coming out of their cocoons were helpless and weak creatures, and hearing that there might be another full-grown dragon lying in the ice of Aslevjal, started searching in dreams to look out for every piece of information that she could find about this dragon. Those haunted by her in their Skill-dreams were Nettle and Fitz.

She finally succeeds to find the dragon, Icefyre, alive on the island of Aslevjal and to mate with him. From then on, the future of the dragons was assured again.