Qibli

Qibli is a young, male SandWing dragonet. He was an Outclaw who thought of himself as Thorn's personal bodyguard and her most loyal friend since he was the age of three. He is a student at the Jade Mountain Academy in the Jade Winglet. Qibli is the protagonist of Darkness of Dragons. He is currently in a relationship with Moonwatcher.

Appearance
Qibli is wiry and narrow-shouldered[1] and has light, sand colored scales with several light brown freckles on his snout, very similar to Thorn's, and pale yellow wings. This led to Sunny asking if he was Thorn's son. The answer was no, though he replied that Thorn had saved him from his family, and considers himself adopted by her. In The Brightest Night, he was described as having an earring in one ear. This earring almost gets torn out in Moon Rising, while confronting Icicle, and was later enchanted in Talons of Power by Turtle so that none of Darkstalker's spells worked on him. He has been described to be handsome by many dragons.

The Brightest Night
He first appears as part of The Outclaws when Thorn pins Preyhunter to the ground for admitting the truth of Morrowseer's death. He shot forward along with Six-Claws when Preyhunter lashed out at Thorn.

Later, he follows Queen Thorn and Sunny before they talk about the "Wanted" posters around the Scorpion Den. He tells Thorn he's not leaving her alone with a stranger, showing his extreme loyalty towards her. When a messenger informs Thorn that there have been reports of a Dragonbite Viper near the orphanage, she leaves and Qibli is left alone with Sunny. She asks him what a Dragonbite Viper is, and he tells her that it's the only snake in Pyrrhia that can kill a dragon with its venom. Soon after, Sunny asks him if Thorn was his mother also. He denies it, saying that she saved him from his real mother and that his brother and sister hated him. As Sunny lies down on a pillow, she asks what the Outclaws do. He tells her that they are in charge of the Scorpion Den, and becomes a little insulted when she starts to fall asleep while he's talking, though he lets her sleep.

When the Outclaws attack Burn's stronghold, he fights alongside Thorn and Six-Claws. As a SandWing soldier was about to stab Thorn, Qibli barrels him away. Sunny and Thorn get locked into a room by Smolder, and when they escape, Thorn gathers her Outclaws and retreats. Qibli remarks that he never trusted Smolder and that Thorn should have never done so either and claimed that you should never trust a royal dragon, to which Thorn pointed out that he didn't even know any royals.