Animus powers are a very rare ability only some dragons get. These animus dragons can cast spells and enchantments.

They can do basically everything—except bring a dragon back from the dead. Since casting a spell each time cost a piece of a dragon’s soul, which makes them crazy and evil, some smart dragons enchant something to keep their soul safe. Even though their soul can still be lost by doing bad choices, like a famous animus dragon called Darkstalker.

Darkstalkers’s father was animus Prince Arctic, of the Icewings. His mother was Foeslayer of the Nightwings. Darkstalker’s sister was Whiteout, and his best friends were animus Prince Fathom and a strong seer, Clearsight. Darkstalker never thought animus magic was a big deal and cast spells all day to help other dragons. Fathom, meanwhile, survived the Great Seawing Massacre and swore an oath to never use his magic again because of the number of dragons that were dead. And Clearsight worked for her queen, having to tell the queen exactly everything she had a vision about. But unfortunately, Darkstalker went too far. You see, Darkstalker’s father was horrible to Darkstalker, and with that, Darkstalker couldn’t take it after his mom got captured. He cast a spell on Arctic to obey his every command and made him disembowel (rip out his stomach) himself and that basically killed him. Clearsight and Fathom decided that Darkstalker was a psychopath and Fathom reluctantly agreed to use his magic to stop Darkstalker. And they did, never seeing him again until 2 thousand years later…

I have also written about Rainwings, Mudwings and Sandwings.