Shade
Shade, which is the main character in the novel is the son of Ariel and Cassiel Silverwing, and is the runt of his colony is often picked on by the other newborns for being small and helpless. He is determined to prove to everyone he can do something and be strong so he challenges the biggest and strongest newborn, Chinook who picks on him the most to see the sun.
The law is that bats are not allowed to be out when the sun rises and if they are seen doing so, they will be eaten.
The law is this way because billions of years before there was a great battle between the birds and beasts and the bats would not take sides, so they were banished to the darkness.
While flying to Hibernaculum to hibernate, shade is struggling to keep up and gets lost in a storm and separated from his colony. He meets up with a Brightwing bat named Marina and it becomes a struggle for survival for the two bats.
Some of Shade’s characteristics are:
1. He is sarcastic
2. He is determined
3. He is a Silverwing bat
4. He never gives up
5. He is intelligent
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