possible future lore and world building ideas for series

silkwings

Silkwings:

· Silkwings have bright coloured scales and patterns on their four butterfly-like wings.

· Silkwings can spin silk from their wrists/talons.

· When they hatch they do not have wings at first.

· It takes six years until they can spin themselves into a cocoon and grow their wings.

· Five days in a cocoon they stay in for until they have wings and silk glands.

But in some rare cases silkwings can go past six without going into metamorphism which makes others believe that silkwing had a unhealthy life or hatched defective.

It usually takes several more years until the silkwing can enter metamorphism.

But when they do their wings are either a bit too small for them to properly fly or miscoloured or tattered.

Their queen is called Alexandra who is a flamesilk, she is coloured exactly like the Alexandra birdwing butterfly (biggest butterfly in the world)

Flamesilk is a rare trait that cannot only just be genetics possibly though they can play a role.

Flamesilk is when their silk glands can act like fire which means that maybe the rumours of hivewings spinning fire from their talons came from silk/hive hybrids instead possibly.

The silkwings kingdom is a big forest that is nothing like the old poison jungle, they have made web bridges among the tall branches and platforms for safety areas for their young, when silkwings will enter into their cocoon stage they will be left in a cool dark hut to keep them comfortable.

Silkwings diet consist of nectar and fruit as well as blood.

Silkwings have a long tongue just like butterflies.

They are more of an artistic and building tribe thanks to their silk and make great caretakers for the young.

Peace between them and the hivewings is a little rocky despite huntsman and Alexandra having spoken with eachother to keep the peace and reassure their own tribes, although huntsman is reminding the hivewings to shut up and deal with the fact they are not superior anymore.

Alexandra is doing this to reassure her tribe that the hivewings are getting better and Huntsman is trying to give hivewings a good name after what wasp did in her reign.

Alexandra is intelligent and can be quite fierce, she knows some war tactics while being a servant in wasps palace since she had watched everything silently and has gathered ways to improve ruling a kingdom if a 'accident' was to happen...