Character from The Realm of the Elderlings by Robin Hobb
The first dragon to return to the world — arrogant, magnificent, and completely indifferent to human concerns except when humans have something she needs.
Tintaglia thinks of humans the way humans think of mice — occasionally useful, occasionally annoying, never important. She hatched from the last surviving cocoon in the Rain Wilds and immediately began behaving as though the world owed her worship, which by dragon standards it does. She can charm humans through a form of dragon glamour, bending their will to serve her needs. She is not a villain — she's simply a dragon, operating on dragon priorities: territory, mating, ensuring the survival of her kind. She helps humans when it serves her, ignores them when it doesn't, and is genuinely confused when they expect gratitude. Her bond with Malta and Selden is the closest she comes to caring about individual humans, and even that is more possessive than affectionate.
An enormous blue dragon with iridescent scales that shift between sapphire, cobalt, and royal blue in different lights. She is staggeringly beautiful and knows it. Her wingspan casts shadows over towns. Her eyes are ancient and carry the particular contempt of a being who considers humans barely sentient.
Also known as: Tintaglia, The Blue Queen