Theory: albatross wasn’t insane for any magic reasons. He was just driven insane by his terrible deed and his sister’s constant abuse of his mind and his biggest regret of all time.
That's exactly how I think it happened. And Fathom making Lagoon feel Albatross could now be expendable, and then having said that to his face really ended up starting to break him
Yeah. I never believed animus magic was the cause of evil. Darkstalker had a control freak girlfriend and an abusive father who tried to sell his sister to the IceWings, Anemone was literally a child and was implied to be enchanted by Darkstalker, and the original Jerboa was probably going crazy due to how long she was living for and how bored she was. Turtle and Fathom never went evil because their magic isn’t the cause, it’s just circumstantial.
@@pepperwaffles4228 ... Darkstalker's first thoughts counted world domination. His parents made it worse, but Clearsight (the best seer in Phyria's history, btw) isn't a control freak, she wanted the future where everyone was happy. Like, I hear you and you're right, but Darkstalker's case is a personality one too
I agree with your comment to be honest. It's not the magic that makes them evil it's the way they use it. Just think about it, Albatross, had a horrible past from his sister's constant bullying, Arctic, with abuse from his by his mother (and if I'm correct his other family members) which led him to abuse his power, Darkstalker, got abused by his father Arctic which made him abuse his power too, and I think with Anemone, she was somewhat used as a weapon and just found out that she was never born with magic she was given by Turtle. So my guess is if they just bond with their power and not abuse it or use it for maddening reasons I think you will be safe, right?🤔🤔
I can agree. I think the reason animus dragons commonly go insane boils down to environmental factors and personality. A perfectly selfless dragon could go insane from abusive parents, while a dragon with a perfect environment and a good life could still go insane if they have a bit to much ambition and ego.
Now that I think about it, maybe Albatross looked weird for his time because he was the only guy with pale scales. But what if overtime, more and more SeaWings started to have paler and pinker scales?? And that’s why Anemone isn’t made fun of for her scales but rather her attitude?
I'm really excited for Tui to reveal more about animus magic and how it first occurred cus I'm pretty sure there will be some cool history behind that :>
Since it happened to seawings icewings and nightwings (only out of inheritance). I have a theory it has something to do with water since both of these tribes were close to the ocean. I also have a theory it has something to do with a meteorite
i think it originated from icewings, spreading throughout the tribes over the years. in my headcanon/theories every tribe had it at some point but the tribes who no longer do had the gene die down (as seen in icewings and skywings)
When it was changed from “Albatross’s his animus powers and appearance were from a distant IceWing relative” to “it’s natural pigmentation” it actually sense at first. I mean, my first OC was a NightWing who has luecism. However, we know from Arctic, and to a not such an extreme extent, Opal, that not all IceWings followed their queen’s orders. So either this was an affair that happened behind the IceWing Queen’s back or it was something else more sinister. Honestly, I personally believe that Albatross is a case of isolated heritage (that’s not what it’s called, but I’m calling it that since I can’t find the exact definition). Meaning, Albatross inherited recessive but still unique characteristics from his ancestors that his sister didn’t inherit. This seems to happen over generations. I mean, Anemone was said to be similar to Albatross’s scale color. But this theory does fit well, and it makes a lot of sense! I actually prefer this theory to my own because it’s easy to understand and also a lot less complicated.
@@shawnfitzgerald1180 yeah, but Turtle is a real animus. So anemone could've inherited Albatross's color, and Turtle his powers. I think this is a really good theory!
There is actually a chance of an affair. Some times when animals mate togeather, the female will have unfertilised eggs which still have the males genes also in it, she will still carry these eggs around until they are actually properly fertilised by a male, but they can hold the genes of the male before. This isn’t a theory, it’s just that there is a chance of an affair. Idk if I got some of that correct but it’s what I remember.
well your theory and the icewing theory could go hand in hand- with being an animus being linked to a recessive trait connected to certain dragon tribes and dragons needing specific genes to be able to recieve that trait potentially. Considering that there's also a chance turtle is what made her an animus (tho i think that's very much up for debate) it could also not be linked at all and it could be a coloration mutation that is only possible because of this icewing heritage link. There was probably even some royalty between albatross and coral that had a similar coloration mutation!
@@shawnfitzgerald1180 With Turtle making anemone an animus, She could have been an animus naturally, Turtle just cast a spell and so when she did have powers he though he could have done it, You actually may not be able to create more animuses! It’s just we didn’t have the proof of her being one because turtle destroyed that proof by “ casting a spell “ on her
I have a theory! One of Albatross, Lagoon, and Sapphire’s parents or ancestors had an egg with an IceWing who carried an animus gene in secret. In reptiles’ a gene from a previous mate can still be in a mother and be passed to their offspring, this could have happened to Albatross.
But the only IceWings with animus magic are royals, which would mean Albatross is a royal of both tribes, that Sapphire and Lagoon are his half sisters, and that Arctic wasn’t the first royal IceWing to have dragonets with a dragon of a different tribe. But there is no way to know that Lagoon wasn’t a hybrid because she and her daughter died
@@Sympathy4TheMachine that depends when icewings knew of animus magic and it's side effects. Theres also a possibility that that icewing was only a commoner or something
@@eagletgriff it is possible that there was another bloodline of animus dragons in the icewing tribe, or that the first animus icewing could have been a commoner and this said icewing are both decended from this icewing in separate bloodlines
I'm guessing that she just has a different pigmentation, a defect that changed some part of her to pink. That definetly can't come from her IceWing ancestors as there are just too many generations and years of seawings breeding with seawings between them. And icewings aren't pink anyways
I know, nobody asked, but I have sort of dragon tribes evolution. Some of the first tribes hadn’t names, but I call them Forestwings, Earthwings, Icewings and Beetlewings. Icewings were the only tribe with animus magic. But then, some hybrids started to form their own tribes, such as: Sandwings(Ice/Beetle, Icewing blood is the reason they had animus dragon as Jerboa), Rainwings (Beetle/Forest, both of those tribes used to leave in rainforest, so there were big opportunity to have a hybrid-tribe) and Nightwings (Rain/Sand, in book 4 was information about maybe-venom in Nightwings’ teeth, so it probably because of the Rainwings). When Rainwing tribe had been formed, they started a war (which I call “first Tree Wars”). They outed Beetlewings from the forest, and Forestwings lose. That’s the reason, why some Forestwings went to the isles and then under water. So then there were Leafwings (who still in rainforest), Islandwings (who lived on isles) and Seawings (who are from then to now living under water. So, after tree wars Beetlewings and Leafwings were outed Pyrrhia. Earthwings split up to Skywings and Mudwings (it’s the reason, why some Mudwings have fireproof scales). Then we all know about Clearsight arriving to Pantala and having lots of kids and, Oh my goodness, there’s a whole new tribe of Hivewings. And, actually, Forestwings and Nightwings used to have animus dragons too, but, because this tribes were peaceful, Forestwings started to have leafspeaking dragonets and Nightwings got a mind reading and a future seeing ability. It’s just my version of dragon tribes evolution. If you read everything I wrote, you’re my hero. And, um, I’m Russian, and I’m writing (almost) without translator… So I’m sorry for mistakes.
It makes little sense that Albatross would come out looking completely different from normal SeaWings and his sisters looking exactly the same if they all shared the same level of IceWing dna. Especially if it was very far removed. What’s more likely is that superfecundation has occurred (When mothers birth/lay offspring in the same batch with different fathers). Tui has given us proof in DSL that this can happen to the WoF dragons since Arctic questions Foeslayer on Darkstalker’s paternity but not Whiteout’s. All I’m gonna say is Albatross’ mom was frisky lol.
@@laikeree_4213 I do know that it is possible in snakes. And now that @Syti mentions it, it would make sense, and I was thinking what if they were half-sibs like me and my sibling [though we are a good year apart at the least.]
All I'm saying is that Artic's father never made a appearance in the book could be he got a bit Frisky with a certain Seawing royal was caught and killed by his wife seems like a Diamond thing to do. Wait would that mean that Darkstalker was best friends with his first cousin once removed?
- Albatross is an animus - He must be descended from an animus dragon - He is probably descended from an IceWing - Only royal IceWings have animus blood - According to this theory (which I think is right), Albatross is ultimately related to a royal IceWing. For that to happen, a royal IceWing had to run away from the Ice Kingdom, go all the way to the Kingdom of the Sea, fall in love with a SeaWing, and have eggs with him/her. That’s a pretty bold IceWing and I demand a winglet about him/her. In addition, I have a theory that ALL animus dragons in all of Pyrrhia are somehow related to the IceWings. The NightWings got animus power from IceWings, presumably the SeaWings got it from IceWings, and the only other tribe that still has animus dragons is the SandWings, which live right next door to the Ice Kingdom. If you want to go as far back as where did the IceWings get it, then you get into topics like dragon life before the Scorching, which are super sketchy topics that we don’t know anything about. They’re interesting and fun to theorize about, though, for sure!
My thoughts exactly on this topic. I'm not really sure why Albatross' heritage is such a controversial thing. It is possible for two babies to be born from two different fathers. Even in humans it could happen although extremely rare and almost unheard of. In lizards is is VERY common for a mother to carry on the goods from previous mate into another clutch even a year later! Personally my theory is that Albatross is the product of an affair between his mother and the father of Queen Diamond. Making him half siblings to Queens Diamond and Lagoon. That also means that he could be Sapphire's half brother too. She could be from a different hatching but from the recognized couple's union. We don't unfortunately have names for Lagoon's and Sapphire's parents only that they were king and queen. I would have hoped that this would have been somewhat obvious to everyone. There however are some of us who have kinda figured it out at least. I'm glad that I'm not the only one!
I think Albatross' colours can be explained the same way as MudWing siblings. Take Clay for example. He was the only one out of his siblings to have fireproof scales, as well as all the siblings looking different from each other. It could be the same with all the tribes, since Albatross and Lagoon only came from the same hatching, not the same egg. Albatross just got a recessive gene with more IceWing traits. It could be genetic deviation, but I feel like this is a little more likely. (Might edit this later since I'm kinda tired and probably didn't explain it very well)
This is so cool! Albatross is like my all time favorite character, so I love hearing him get talked about lmao- it’s relatable- but yeah, I pretty much agree with what you said in the video! Personally, one my possible headcanons (even though I could totally be wrong, mind you, so please don’t comment disagreements!) is that MAYBE one of Albatross’s GRANDPARENTS had an egg/eggs with an animus IceWing, but he was the only one who had animus magic since it was confirmed that oftentimes it skips a few generations. Plus, I also don’t think it’s totally impossible that maybe Lagoon and Sapphire are only his half sisters because of someone in his family possibly having an IceWing mate. Again, honestly I feel like there’s multiple ways to answer this theory, but either way it’s super cool to think about! Not to mention, reminds me of a video I was going to make (and may still ahah) about a separate theory about him and his insanity- basically just that my assumption/head canon was he had actually been “soulless” for a long time, and was merely biding his time and such. But anyways this was super cool to watch!! Nicely done!
Honestly, I completely forgot about 7:43 (Lagoon and Albatross being from the same egg) in the book. So now since I remember it, I have a small theory for the IceWing heritage. Peril and Sky (presumably Sky) were from the same egg, right? One (Peril) had to much fire in her, making her a firescales. While the other (Sky), had too little fire. What if other eggs like SkyWings had the same hatching problems like these? And that’s one of the reasons Albatross came out so different. Lagoon was born assumingely “normal” looking, while Albatross was born with the IceWing heritage, due to the face there was a “malfunction” in their egg?
I agree with this theory! Recessive genes over time is real. My friend had long, really blonde hair and her mom had brown/black hair (not sure what her father had), but she had a recessive gene which is pretty cool.
This is a really cool and good theory! Animus genes being up to variation chance makes a lot of sense. For example Fathom's dragonets not being animus despite having an animus father and on the flipside you have Arctic and Darkstalker. Even in real-life this happens, for example, my brother shows the signs of having Marfan syndrome despite me, our sister, and parents not having it. But on my mother's side we have a distant relative who has confirmed Marfan syndrome.
Can we please have more content like this? This was so entertaining and fun to watch! I loved hearing your theory and I completely agree. Keep up the great work Ebony. And I hope all of y’all have a wonderful rest of your day! 😁
FF: albatross is part of both the seawing, and icewing royal blood line he is a confirmed royal sea wing, and animus blood is bred completely into the royal icewing bloodline.
My theory is that like DarkStalker, an ice wing royalty with animous blood decades before Arctic, ran away to be with a Seawing. They fell in love and had them. It’s been confirmed that dragonets gets their appearance more from their mother. So it could be possible Sapphire and the other sister got majority of their traits from her. Albatross did also but got his father’s colors and stuff. Kind of like DarkStalker and white-out. Dark got more of a appearance of his mom while White got both. That’s my theory though
This video is so awesome! I have a kind of theory: I don't think it's using animus magic that makes animus dragons go insane, it's NOT using the power, because they're driven mad by the fantasy's of doing evil spells, and if they DO actually cast any of those spells then they go evil. (So basically they'll almost definitely go evil)
Technically turtle said that, or it might have been quibli, but basically the power of animus makes you insane because of a thirst for strength because you can do almost anything
I think I saw in google images that one of Albatross' parents is an Ice wing and if I read it correctly also had animus magic.🤔 And I might have two theories to why Albatross went mad. One, Albatross might have abused his power with or without knowing it or two, Albatross was suffering a lot of trauma from his two bullying sisters until he couldn't take it anymore.🤔
yooooo this is such a well mad evideo. the animations and art caught me off guard and it was so smooth and great. i love this content and im hoping to see you do more of these if you do because i would totally watch them. and your painterly style is soooo skilled keep up the good work
Yo you outdid yourself with this vid! It looks epic, the voiceover is really nice, and the tweening is great! The background music is also rlly well chosen! I really enjoyed this!
holy smokes, the video direction is stunning! You really make it feel like we're watch a crime scene analysis breakdown, narration, music, framing, editing. Genuinely the full experience
I am all so caught up in all these theories and oh heck I might die from it but I might post a video in a few months about the history of wings of fire and I’ll link the video below when I’m done.
Really nice theory, i was thinking something like this too. also love how you used sky cotl sanctuary island as the back ground for some shot! plus ur art is so good! keep up the great work!
You should take a look at Gregorio Mendel's law of heritage, that would explain everything on its own, My theory on this law is that they wouldn't even need to be different tribe parents, they could even be grandparents, as the law says, we are more alike to our grandparents then to our parents, then a hybrid would probably marry on to the Royal Family (albatross father) and have albatross, the animus gene also would make far more sense if we put it that way, plus lagoon and sapphire would make far more senses, having stronger sea wing genes and albatross having the ice wing gene.
I think the second person (On the theories) was correct, that they have almost no Icewing genetics that are presently showing. A good example was Darkstalker. It's some-what like carrying a recessive gene, but not showing it. Having the gene doesn't mean you show it, it means you have it in your DNA.
I still don’t get how Albatross could be part IceWing. If that’s the case, then shouldn’t Darkstalker’s IceWing force field around the Night Kingdom have struck down Fathom for being part IceWing? From what I remember, Darkstalker made the spell to not affect him, his sister, and his father but no one else.
@@svk0531 as I just said, I remember him specifying just him and his family when talking about the spell. He says this after Clearsight says it’ll affect hybrids.
the ice wall in the ice wing kingdom is pretty similar to darkstalker's wall and in quibli's book an icewing-seawing (my memory is a bit rusty I dont remember it's name) was able to safely fly over it without dying because it was half icewing and we can assume that because Fathom is mostly a seawing that's why he was fine crossing darkstalker's wall
I assumed he was half viewing, since i think they were the first tribe with animus magic, AND he’s a way lighter color, also he seemingly resembles a mix of viewing and seawing
When you were stating "how can Albatross be part Ice-wing but Lagoon has no characteristics or proof of being part ice-wing?", Albatross's mother (the queen) might've mated secretly way before her even knowing about her eggs (like before she found out she had eggs) and not only did her original mate (the king) but the secret ice-wing she had an affair with mixed in within the genes of the batch that Albatross and Lagoon were born in and spread out between the eggs, and the ice-wings genes just happen to go majority into Albatross (like some people look more like their dad, rather than their other sibling who most likely looks like their mom, depending on which child gets majority of a certain parents gene inside them). Another theory: Maybe Albatross really WAS the first sea-wing animus in Pyrrhia, and didn't have his genes passed down from any relative or ancestor, and this was the start of the sea-wing animus inheritance. And Albatross's scrawny and un-sea-wing like features might've been a sign or the affects of the the first ever sea-wing animus existing (if you don't understand, it's kinda like getting a disease or illness and an affect could be loosing your hair, your body parts getting paralyzed, etc).
I love this video so much! It's so well thought out and the art is just beautiful. By any chance, do you plan on doing any more discussion videos in the future? I'd love to see one on either Whiteout or Stonemover.
this is just a random idea i came up with but what if albatross looks different because he was an animus. Since the animus powers came from a icewing it might make sense that albatross has more icewing traits than his sisters because he is an animus.
The reason that he might me different then his sisters might be because that if one of his had eggs with a ice wing before. Then one of his parents still caring the gen led to him. I say this because this some times happens in reptiles.
I think the reason that Albatross looks funny AND is animus, ties to the exact same reason why Turtle looks exactly like fathom and is an animus. Keep in mind- Anemone was NOT born an animus- so with that being said, none of his siblings look as green and as much like fathom as he does. With fathom's genes came the power. It was just a matter of a recessive gene showing back up in the mix. I genuinely don't believe in the affair stuff; Tui said he was NOT a hybrid, but had just PART icewing.
I think that albatrosss's mother had icewing blood in her and paced it on to albatross, but his sisters didn't beacuse they had more of the fathers geen. that can somtimes happen like me and my sibilings.
Okay, this video is really fricking cool, and I loved every second of it, but I also want to ask _if that was Sky: Children of The Light game footage you put in-_
This is the best theory I have ever heard of for Wings of Fire, I love the art, the details, everything about it. If I wasn't subscribed already this definitely wouldve changed my mind❣
I think this is an original therory, if albatross is part icewing, which means he would more than likely be icewing royalty too, meaning he would be related to icewing royalty, he would be related to prince artic, his children and all other animus in both icewing and nightwing, meaning that tsunami, sunny, winter are all very very distant cousins, also meaning drakstalker, fathom, and whiteout were all related
