Tintaglia is a silver and blue female dragon, the first of her kind to hatch since the cataclysm. Tintaglia is bright blue, though she has an iridescent sheen to her scales that often results in her color being mistaken for silver. Like many dragons, Tintaglia is impatient, haughty, and vain. She seems quite arrogant to humans and is dismissive of their concerns as secondary to her own. She cares highly for her own species, however, and works to find solutions to return dragons to the world once more.
The Liveship Traders Trilogy[]
Tintaglia occupies the last untouched cocoon in the buried Elderling city of Frengong, near Trehaug. She torments the dreams of Reyn Khuprus, ordering him to expose her cocoon to sunlight and thus enable her to hatch. She dismisses Reyn's claims that it will be impossible to dig out the chamber where her log is entombed. When Reyn begins courting Malta Vestrit and shares a dream with her, Tintaglia turns some of her attention to Malta, imparting upon her similar orders to free her.
After the attempted kidnapping of the Satrap by the New Traders, Malta and her brother Selden are brought to safety in the Rain Wilds. Selden shows an interest in the ruins of Frengong, and Malta persuades him to show her a way into the city. She discovers Tintaglia's cocoon in the Crowned Rooster Chamber and places her hands on it. Tintaglia fills her with Elderling memories, which awakens her to the lives stored in the ruins and shows her how to open the dome that tops the chamber. Malta is unable to execute the ancient mechanism on her own, and an earthquake forestalls any further effort.
Meanwhile, Reyn, tormented more than ever by Tintaglia's commands, gets drunk to prevent himself from going to her against the orders of his family. When he hears that Malta is missing after the earthquake, however, he returns to Frengong, where he finds Selden alone. He and Selden make their way to the Crowned Rooster Chamber and discover the exposed mechanism. Together they are able to manipulate it to open the partially-unearthed chamber ceiling, and when the light strikes Tintaglia's log, she is able to hatch.
After hatching, Tintaglia strikes a bargain with the people of Bingtown and the Rain Wilds to help them in their war against Chalced if they help her keep the next generation of dragons alive.
Tintaglia flies over the Rain Wild River, searching for familiar markers, to lead the serpents' migration. She discovers that the river's course has changed from that in her ancestral memories, and that cocooning grounds have been destroyed. She also discovers a dying serpent struggling in too-shallow water and mercy-kills it, ingesting its memories. Tintaglia also flies to the ruins of an Elderling city and, unable to find what she seeks, angrily destroys the wooden cover of a large well.
The Tawny Man Trilogy[]
Tintaglia despairs over the small, stunted dragon hatchlings, none of whom are a viable mate for her; she fears that without the opportunity to for her mate and lay eggs, the dragons will die out again.
Tintaglia comes into communication with several Six Duchies inhabitants when they Skill. She is particularly interested in FitzChivalry Farseer. She also encounters and is vexed by Nettle, who is able to control her own dreams to exclude Tintaglia.
Through these communications, Tintaglia learns of Dutiful's mission to locate and kill the dragon Icefyre. As Icefyre is the only fully-grown male dragon in existence, Tintaglia is outraged by the decision to kill him. She flies to Aslevjal, arriving just as Dutiful's contingent has blasted the ice open to free Icefyre. When the Pale Woman releases her stone dragon to kill the weakened Icefyre, Tintaglia battles it. After the stone dragon is killed by Swift, Tintaglia and Icefyre mate.
City of Dragons[]
Icefyre continues to to travel and hunt with Tintaglia following him. When they came upon a favorite hidden oasis on an island where there was a warm lake and sandy beaches even in winter, they were ambushed by a human contingent of soldiers and dragon hunters from Chalced. The dragons fought and won, but not before Tintaglia took a serious wound from a spear, the head having broken off inside her under her wing. When the wound festers, Tintaglia announces she will return to the Rain Wilds to seek help from her Elderlings. Icefyre, however, simply left in his own direction, offering no help or support.
Blood of Dragons[]
Tintaglia, having learned her Elderlings were no longer in Trehaug, desperately flies toward Kelsingra. While resting after a meal in order to fly the last stretch, she is beset along the Rain Wild River by Lord Dargan and the two impervious ships he has commandeered. The men on the ships proceed to further injure and pursue her, and she no longer has the strength to take flight. Just when all seemed lost, the dragons of Kelsingra come to her aid. Fearing they were too late to save her, Kalo is given the right to consume her for her memories when she dies. However, instead of just waiting for her to die, he assists her by hunting and bringing her food, giving her just enough strength to make the last flight to Kelsingra. There she languishes on the edge of death until the Silver well is reopened, and the dragons spray a fine mist of Silver all over her body to heal her.
After she recovers, Icefyre arrives in Kelsingra, having been poisoned by dragon hunters. He drinks Silver to heal himself, and proclaims war on the Duke of Chalced for daring to hunt dragons. Tintaglia and the other dragons agree, and all leave as one group to attack the capital and lay to waste the palace. During the attack, she suddenly hears Selden singing to her from the Duke's palace tower, and she rescues him.
Tintaglia prefers Kalo as a mate, and he defeats Icefyre in a mating battle for the right to mate with her.
Fitz and the Fool Trilogy[]
Tintaglia has not retured to Kelsingra for years, and as Phron grows without her guiding his changes his health again becomes life-threatening. That doesn't stop her from feeling outrage when Fitz heals Phron in her absence. Later, she announces that she is pregnant, and must return to Other's Island to lay her eggs.