Guardians of Ga'Hoole 10 - The Coming of Hoole

Ga’Hoole

OWLS
and others
from the
GUARDIANS of GA’HOOLE SERIES
    The Band
    SOREN: Barn Owl, Tyto alba, from the Forest Kingdom of Tyto; escaped from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls; a Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    GYLFIE: Elf Owl, Micrathene whitneyi, from the Desert Kingdom of Kuneer; escaped from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls; Soren’s best friend; a Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    TWILIGHT: Great Gray Owl, Strix nebulosa, free flier; orphaned within hours of hatching; a Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    DIGGER: Burrowing Owl, Athene cunicularia, from the Desert Kingdom of Kuneer; lost in the desert after an attack in which his brother was killed by owls from St. Aegolius; a Guardian at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    The Leaders of the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    CORYN: Barn Owl, Tyto alba, the new young king of the great tree; son of Nyra, leader of the Pure Ones
    EZYLRYB: Whiskered Screech Owl, Otus trichopsis, the wise old weather-interpretation and colliering ryb (teacher) at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree; Soren’s mentor (also known as LYZE OF KIEL)
    Others at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    OTULISSA: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, a student of prestigious lineage at the Great Ga’Hoole Tree
    OCTAVIA: Kielian snake, nest-maid for Madame Plonk and Ezylryb (also known as BRIGID)
    Characters from the Time of the Legends
    GRANK: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, the first collier; friend to King H’rath and Queen Siv during their youth; first owl to find the ember
    H’RATH: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, King of the N’yrthghar, a frigid region known in later times as the Northern Kingdoms; father of Hoole
    SIV: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, mate of H’rath and Queen of the N’yrthghar, a frigid region known in later times as the Northern Kingdoms; mother of Hoole
    MYRRTHE: Snowy Owl, Nyctea scandiaca, faithful servant of Queen Siv, formerly her nursemaid and governess; flees with Queen Siv after the death of H’rath
    RORKNA: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, Glauxess of the Glauxian Sisters’ Retreat on the Island of Elsemere; cousin of Queen Siv
    LORD ARRIN: Spotted Owl, Strix occidentalis, traitorous chieftain of a kingdom bordering King H’rath’s realm; killed H’rath
    PLEEK: Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus, enemy of King H’rath; known to consort with hagsfiends and to have taken one, Ygryk, for a mate
    THEO: Great Horned Owl, Bubo virginianus, a gizzard-resister and apprentice to Grank; possesses great blacksmithing skills
    SVENKA: Polar bear in the Bitter Sea; comes to the aid of Queen Siv
    SVARR: Polar bear, father of Svenka’s cubs
    PENRYCK: Male hagsfiend, ally of Lord Arrin
    YGRYK: Female hagsfiend, Pleek’s mate
    KREETH: Female hagsfiend with strong powers of nachtmagen; friend of Ygryk
    ULLRYCK: Female hagsfiend, deadly assassin in Lord Arrin’s service
    BERWYCK: Boreal Owl, Aegolius funereus, a member of the Glauxian Brothers and friend to Hoole and Grank
    PHINEAS: Northern Pygmy Owl, Glaucidium californicum, friend of Hoole and owl of great pluck
    THE SNOW ROSE: Snowy Owl, Nyctea scandiaca, gadfeather and renowned singer
    FENGO: dire wolf, chief of all the clans; friend of Grank
    DUNLEAVY MACHEATH: dire wolf, leader of the MacHeath clan, and enemy of Fengo
    HORDWEARD: dire wolf, former member of MacHeath clan and former mate of Dunleavy MacHeath; also known as Namara MacNamara

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THE G UARDIANS of G A ’H OOLE
Book Eleven: To Be a King

    D eep in a cave of the Ice Narrows, that channel of water connecting the Southern and the Northern Waters, the hagsfiend Ygryk watched as an egg trembled. She was not alone. Another, a Great Horned Owl named Pleek, stood behind his mate. Some might call their union—hagsfiend and owl—unholy, but in their own peculiar way, they did love each other. And yet they could not have chicks, for unions such as theirs were barren. But Ygryk, despite her haggish ways, had an obsession to mother. She was desperate for a chick and so driven that she dared fly over open water, which could prove fatal to hagsfiends because their feathers lacked the natural oils of many birds. If their crowlike black feathers came in contact with salt water, they became sodden and their weight dragged them down into the sea. But despite this hazard, she and Pleek had come to live in the Ice Narrows with Kreeth, an immensely powerful hagsfiend who dared to live above the open water of the Ice Narrows. Her reason for this, she stated