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Soren is a Barn owl from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series.

Soren lived peacefully in a fir tree in the Forest Kingdom of Tyto. He lived with his father, Noctus, his mother, Marella, his older brother, Kludd, his newly hatched sister, Eglantine, and Mrs. Plithiver, the blind family nest-maid snake.

One day, soren fell out of his nest while he was looking out , his parents werent there, he couldnt fly and Mrs.P couldnt help he stays for a while thinking of the none of the worst things that could happen but then a long eared owl swoops down on him. while they are fly ing to saint aggies he meets an owl named gylfie a verry intelegent elf owl. still being carried in the talons of a long eared he thinks of what will happen to him and new friend gylfie. At St. Aggie's, Soren meets a small Elf owl named Gylfie. She had been snatched also, from The Desert Kingdom of Kuneer. At the academy, they resisted moon blinking - a form of brainwashing practiced by St. Aggie's - and managed to trick the General into thinking they were moonblinked. The pair also resisted moon scalding, a more severe form of moon blinking, by telling the legends of Ga'Hoole. Grimble, a Boreal owl, secretly taught them how to fly in the entrance outside the academy library. The newly fledged owlets both escaped unharmed, but Grimble perished at the talons of Skench when she found him aiding them escape.

The pair decided they wanted to visit their families. On the way, they met a huge Great Grey owl named Twilight. He was orphaned shortly after birth, and he says he had to teach himself everything he knows in what he calls the "Orphan School of Tough Learning". He chose to join them on their journey. In Gylfie's home, the Desert of Kuneer, the owls meet Digger, a unique Burrowing Owl who is also an orphan. His brother and parents were killed by St. Aggie's patrolsl, and another brother of his was captured by St. Aggies patrols. Once he joins up with them, Jatt and Jutt, two members of St. Aggie's appear and a battle ensues. The new band manages to defeat them both, with the aid of two eagles, Streak and Zan.

Once Twilight and Digger joined the group, they decided to refer to themselves as "the Band". While flying with the Band, Soren and Gylfie flew home and discovered their families missing. They decided to pursue newfound dreams of flying to the legendary Great Ga'Hoole Tree. After the long journey to the Great Tree, Soren was accepted into the Colliering and Weather-interpretation chaws. He proved to be an excellent coal collecter, and impressed Ezylryb, the weather interpretation ryb, Elvanryb, the colliering ryb, and Bubo, the blacksmith, with his superb skills.

Soren also played a key part in both the rescue of Ezylryb from the Devil's triangle, and the siege of the Great Ga'hoole tree. He is also a member of the Bonk Brigade, or Flame Sqaudron, fighting with burning branches.

Soren is also a member and usually the leader of the famous "Chaw of Chaws", a group that included the members of the Band along with Ruby, Martin, Otulissa, and Eglantine. After rescuing his sister Eglantine from the Great Downing, Ezylryb deemed Soren his ward. He was also given Ezylryb's old battle claws, which would be essential to go to the Northern Kingdoms. There, he was also trained in the arts of the ice weapons by Moss, and other members of the Frost Beaks division.

Soren is also the uncle of Coryn, the king of the Great Ga'hoole tree, and he is the brother-in-law of Nyra, leader of the pure ones.

On his deathbed, Ezylryb instructed Soren to read the legends of Ga'Hoole with Coryn and the Band. These three books were hidden in his hollow.

Soren is now the ryb of the Colliering and weather-interpretation chaws. He also has a mate named Pellimore (Pelli), who together have three female chicks. Their names are Sebastiana (Basha), Blythe (named for a beautiful part of Silverveil named Blythewood), and Bell. They are also called the three B's. Pelli is also the ryb of the search and rescue chaw.

Twilight's species: a Great Grey Owl.

As his name suggests, Twilight was born on the edge of night and day, when the world is grey, just like Twilight's plumage. Just hours after his hatching, Twilight was abducted by St. Aggie's patrol, but managed to escape by a violent way, in which, St. Aggie's never messed with him again. Orphaned and alone, Twilight was forced to survive on his own. He learned to fly, fight, hunt, and all other necessary skills from what he calls the "Orphan School of Tough Learning" - basically, trial and error.

Twilight joined up with Soren and Gylfie after they escaped St. Aggie's. Journeying with the pair, he took them to their homes, only for them to find their families gone. Along the way they met Digger , another orphan, and the four became a band. Traveling to the island of Hoole, Twilight expected that he'd get to wear battle claws and fight. Twilight loves to fight and battle. Fighting, weapons, the whole war aspects is often what is on Twilight's mind. Unfortunately, his dreams were prohibited, and he found himself feeling woefully unlearned about the world.

Despite this, Twilight persevered, becoming a member of the Chaw of Chaws, a group that also included the members of the Band. Twilight distinguished himself greatly, serving in the Search-and-rescue chaw at the tree. He was also one of those on the front lines in the battle with the Pure Ones. Twilight's determination even led him to slay Kludd, the Pure Ones leader.

Twilight has a unique trait: during battle, he'll sing out with his sharp and insulting tongue. This causes many enemies to become confused, giving Twilight the advantage. But they do not only become confused, they sometimes even go yeep! Yeep, in this book, is where an owls wings fold close to their sides out of something relating to fear. As a result, they fall to the ground.

Trivia

In the book Guardians of Ga'Hoole: A Guide Book to the Great Tree Twilight sees his mother (who turns out to be a famous poet) as a scroom and reveals that his name is Cassiuss, though he still sticks to the name Twilight.

Digger was first met by Soren, Gylfie, and Twilight in the Desert of Kuneer. He had been orphaned when St. Aggie's patrols came to his burrow and killed his parents. One of them also ate his brother. Digger was frightened and unsure what to do in his situation. Soren and his new friends asked him to join their group, so he accepted.

Upon joining up with Soren, Gylfie, and Twilight, the four owls vowed to stay together as a band. From then on, they became known as "the Band". While flying with the Band, Soren and Gylfie flew home and discovered their families missing. They decided to pursue newfound dreams of flying to the legendary Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Traveling to the island of Hoole, Digger had a hard time flying. Being a Burrowing Owl, Digger was previously used to mostly walking on the ground. He managed to make it to the tree, despite his weakness. At the Great Tree, Digger's flying abilities greatly improved. Now he is a superb flier.

Digger soon became a member of the Chaw of Chaws, a group that also included the members of the Band along with Ruby, Martin, Otulissa, and Eglantine. Digger's knowledge of the land certainly paid off, as he is an excellent member of the Tracking chaw. Digger has been on many missions with the Band and the Chaw of Chaws.

Digger's long, featherless legs allow him to run quickly across the ground, making him a perfect tracker. He also has the eye for the smallest signs of life, from talon prints to the imprint in the soil from an egg.

Grank is a fictional Spotted Owl (Strix occidentalis) from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series of children's novels.

When Grank was young, he was very close friends with H'rath and Siv, even developing a crush on Siv. Also at a young age, Grank discovered firesight. This made Grank the first flame reader. On his trips to Beyond the Beyond, Grank met Fengo, a dire wolf. With the help of Fengo, Grank discovered many uses for fire, including colliering, which allowed him to find the Ember of Hoole. When H'rath died, Grank adopted Hoole and raised him with the help of a Great horned owl named Theo.

Hoole is a character in the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Series. He is a Spotted Owl, the son of King H'rath and Queen Siv. He was born on the night of a lunar eclipse, and raised by Grank.

Hoole first spots the future Ga'Hoole Tree, now still growing, and says to his uncle that "this tree has Ga'". When they later return to the tree, it is fully grown. They call it "The Great Ga'Hoole Tree": The Great Spirit of Hoole Tree.

Lord Arrin is a character in the Guardians of Ga'hoole book series.

Lord Arrin, a Snowy Owl, was once one of King H'rath's top advisors, until he became a turnfeather by allying with the hagsfiends, starting the war, and murdering King H'rath. His goal was to capture Queen Siv and make her his mate, as well as using the hagsfiends' nachtmagen to turn the egg into a creature that could help him in his quest to rule the Northern Kingdoms. However, Lord Arrin couldn't complete his conquest because Queen Siv, H'rath's mate, escaped with the luminous egg containing the true heir to the throne, Hoole.

Lord Arrin tried twice to capture the young prince- first by sending the hagsfiend Ygryk to steal Siv's egg, resulting in Myrrthe's murder; and the second by sending the hagsfiend Ullryck to capture hatchling Hoole not long after he had hatched. Both bids failed, and Lord Arrin tried for one last time to capture the prince at the Battle of the Beyond. However, he was badly defeated, and many of his allies were killed or deserted- Penryck and Ullryck among them.

But Lord Arrin slowly gathered new forces, biding his time, and schemed to take the Ice Palace of the N'yrthghar from Theo's crazy brother, Shadyk. The turnfeather lord also set his eyes on Emerilla, daughter of Strix Strumajen, for his mate. At the battle, however, Lord Arrin was instead met by the forces of a fully grown Hoole, who had become King of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, and a fierce battle was fought.

In the end, Lord Arrin was killed, and Hoole took the Ice Palace, finally achieving his destiny as he was crowned High King of the Northern Kingdoms, and took the love of his life Emerilla as his mate.

Siv is a fictional spotted owl character in the Guardians of Ga'hoole book series.

Siv, also known as Queen Siv, the Spotted Owl is H'rath's and Grank's childhood friend. Both H'rath and Grank fell in love with her, but since Grank was too afraid to tell Siv his feelings, and because Siv fell in love with H'rath, she became H'rath's mate and the Queen of the N'yrthghar. Before she and King H'rath were betrayed by Lord Arrin, she laid the luminous egg that contained their son, Hoole. She escaped Lord Arrin's tyranny with her most trusted servant Myrrthe, reluctantly giving her old friend Grank the egg to hatch and raise in safety. Siv fought Lord Arrin as a distraction for Grank and was severely wounded.

While in hiding, Siv befriended the polar bear Svenka and her two cubs, Rolf and Anka. With Svenka's help, she was alble to recover from her wound, but her servant Mryythe was murdered by Ygryk, a hagsfiend, in the process. Eventually, Siv donned the guise of a gadfeather and took the alias "Elka", meeting The Snow Rose and eventually, her young son Hoole. However, in finally meeting her lost son, he was almost captured by Pleek and Ygryk, who desired Hoole for their own chick and for their own ends. In the fray that followed, Siv escaped, and her son was saved.

Bent on revenge and saving Hoole, Siv swept through the Southern Kingdoms, gathering a huge army to battle alongside Hoole against Lord Arrin, defeating most of the turnfeather lord's forces, but at the end of the battle one of Lord Arrin's hagsfiends ended up killing Siv. She died "in Hoole's wings", giving her son her final words and passed away to glaumora.

Hagsfiends are fictional characters from The Guardians Of Ga'hoole series by Kathryn Lasky. Hagsfiends were first seen in the series in book #9, The First Collier.

Description

A hagsfiend is a creature that is part owl and part crow. They came into the Guardians of Ga'hoole world in The Time Of The Beasts. They are a "leftover" of when birds split into different species, and what is known is that the most early accounts of a Hagsfiend is in the N’yrthghar, or the Northern Kingdoms, as it is referred to by the inhabitants of th S'yrthgar (Southern Owl Kingdoms). There are some reports of a Hagsfiend in the region known as Beyond The Beyond, the home of many volcanos, the Ember of Hoole, and the (previously to book eleven) thought to be extinct, Dire Wolves. But beside remote sightings in St. Aegolius Canyons and around the Broken Talon Point, Shadow Forest, and the Border between the Southern Kingdoms and the Beyond, there have been no “real” sightings of a Hagsfiend, and only one account of one actually living, and she is now thought to be dead, however, among the Owl world, it is impossible to be sure.

Religious Beliefs

The Glauxian Brothers and Sisters(Religious group of owls in the N'yrthgar) believe that Hagsfiends came into the world of owls through a tiny rip in reality caused by lack of belief in Glaux(The owl god). At that time, many creatures started to believe that they came to be through evolution, or through good magic brought about by a mage known as Hoole, instead of believing that Glaux had created everything. And so, Great Glaux punished the beasts of the N’yrthghar and the S’yrthghar by creating a tiny tear in the fabric or reality and life, and through this tear, and little faith, hagsfiends came to be.

Nachtmagen

Nachtmagen is the dark and horrendous magic used by all hagsfiends. They are/were many spells that the hagsfiends created or used, most beginning in “nacht”. The most used and dangerous nachtmagen spell used by the Hagsfiends is something called The Fyngrot. The Fyngrot is a yellowish, luminous, glowing liquid-like light that comes out of the hagsfiends eyes during the casting of this spell. Once a creature begins to look at the fyngrot, it are entranced and cannot look away. The Fyngrot makes a beast or human to become a willless being controlled by the hagsfiend who had cast the Fyngrot. The only way to stop the Fyngrot is with great concentration, and great "Ga'"(Spirit). Other spells include the "Nacht Blunken", and the "Nacht Ga’", and many, many more. The "Nacht Blunken" is a spell that transforms a hagsfiend into a Great Horned owl for one day and one night only. The Nacht Ga’ is a spell that takes control of any creature and lets the Hagsfiend possess the body for an uncountable time. The only way to stop the Nacht Ga’ is to take an ice splinter(A weapon taken from the Ice Dagger, a large iceberg sticking up out of the center of the N'yrthgar's sea), and stab the being in the gizzard with it. This does not kill them, but it releases the hagsfiend that is possessing them. The only problen is, however, to keep them from bleeding to death while pulling the splinter out. The ancient Hagsfiend witch known as Kreeth created uncountable spells for hagsfiends, but, the only spell she had not perfected and got to work, was the one to keep saltwater (a hagsfiend’s only weakness) from harming them. She only perfected it on her death bed, and had not had the chance to tell or show anyone, making the spell lost forever. Also, even being around hagsfiends will make another owl begin to acquire a "haggish" appearance such as their crow-like smell and black feathers.

Weaknesses

Hagsfiends lack the oils on their skin and feathers that shed saltwater from the seas. So when a hagsfiend is touched by salt from the sea, they immediately plummet into the sea to drown.

Famous Hagsfiends

Lord Arrin - Spotted Owl, traitorous Chieften, killed H'rath(King of the N'yrthgar), also had a large army of hagsfiends, part hagsfiend himself.
Penryck - Male Hagsfiend, right hand of Lord Arrin, also known as Skarldrog, which in Krakish means Sky Dragon.
Pleek - Great Horned Owl, Enemy of King H'rath, known to consort with hagsfiends, Ygryk's mate, part hagsfiend himself.
Ullryck - Female hagsfiend, deadly assassin to Lord Arrin.
Ygryk - Female Hagsfiend, Pleek's mate, powerful, evil, and merciless hagsfiend.
Lutta(deceased)- Half-owl Half-hagsfiend, created by Kreeth, killed by Strix Strumajen.

St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls, or St. Aggie's for short, is a location from the Guardians of Ga'hoole series.

Home to a foul organization of owls, St. Aggie's is one of the greatest evils of the owl world. The owls of St. Aggie's are fiendish, and have many horrible customs. St. Aggie's patrols abduct owlets from their nests, taking them to the canyons that are home to the Academy. There, owls are assigned numbers instead of names, and made to repeat their name over and over as they march. They are also forced to sleep under the moon, facing it, so that they may be moon-blinked. This nefarious process causes an owl to lose all feeling and free will, thus leaving them a hopeless slave of St. Aggie's.

The Academy is home to various locations, including a library where books and other materials are stored. There's also a hatchery, where eggs are placed in nests to hatch, and an eggorium, where the eggs are sorted. One of the most evil locations is the moon-scalding chamber, a room that intensifies the effects of moon-blinking. The owls of St. Aggie's are not particularly intelligent, and are desperate to learn about the metallic elements known as flecks.

St. Aggie's days became numbered when Soren and Gylfie escaped. Following this incident, St. Aggie's became embroiled in conflict with the Pure Ones, another organization of evil owls. After several battles, St. Aggie's was conquered by the Pure Ones. Their leaders later led a group of Guardians from the Great Ga'Hoole tree into the canyons. It was the sight of a major battle that later was called the Burning, as the entire canyon was set ablaze. Skench, the Ablah General of St. Aggie's, was killed by Soren. It was also during the battle that Kludd, ruler of the Pure Ones, was killed. What remained of the Academy after the Guardian assault became the base of the remaining Pure Ones.

The Great Ga'Hoole is a fictional tree from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole book series written by Kathryn Lasky. In the books, it is where many species of owls live and train to protect the Five Kingdoms at all costs. It is said that, in the Legends of Ga'Hoole (Books 9-11), the Great Tree sprouted from a tear that fell from the eye of Hoole. It grew at a miraculous pace, and is now enormous in the current time of the books.

Chaws

The Great Ga'Hoole Tree is organized into several classes known as chaws in which many owls live and learn valuable skills required to be a Guardian of the Five Kingdoms. There are 8 chaws, as listed below.

The Chaw of Chaws - The Chaw of Chaws is a group of talented owls in the tree, led by Soren. Other members include Twilight, Gylfie, Digger, Ruby, Otulissa, and Martin.

Colliering Chaw - The skill of retrieving coals from forest fires and bringing them back to Bubo, the blacksmith of the Great Tree. All owls accepted into this chaw must also be in the Weather-Interpretation chaw. Soren is now ryb of the Colliering Chaw. On tapping night, if you find a coal in your bedding, you are tapped for colliering. Soren is the colliering ryb.

Weather-Interpretation Chaw - Led by Ezylryb until his passing, at which time also became headed by Soren, this chaw is taken out into the worst of all weather conditions, such as tornadoes and even hurricanes. This is one of the most difficult chaws reserved for skillful fliers. This chaw is symbolized by a dried caterpiller (Ezylryb's favorite snack) on tapping night.

Tracking Chaw - Led by Boron until his passing, members learn how to track owls and other animals in the kingdoms. They learn how to spot the tiniest signs that a creature can leave. The tracking chaw is currently led by Sylvana, a Burrowing Owl. This chaw is symbolized by a pellet on tapping night.

Ga'Hoolology - Formerly led by Dewlap, this chaw is sometimes known as the most boring and dreaded chaw in the Great Tree. Members learn how to care for the Great Tree as well as learning the legends from ancient times. The Ga'Hoolology ryb is now Otulissa, who though strict, is more engaging than the traitorous Dewlap. This chaw is symbolized by a milkberry on tapping night.

Search and Rescue Chaw - This chaw goes out where trees have fallen and fires rage to save any owls that have been trapped or have gone 'yeep'. Twilight enjoys this chaw because they are permitted to don Battle Claws on certain missions. This chaw is symbolized by a molted feather (an ideal clue to find an owl, as with the tracking chaw pellet) on tapping night.

Navigation Chaw - This chaw was led by the revered Strix Struma until her death. Gylfie later was appointed ryb of this chaw. In Navigation, owls learn how to find their way through the kingdoms mainly by the constellations. this chaw is symbolized by ten nooties arranged in the shape of the Great Glaux constellation on tapping night.

Metals Chaw - This chaw, led by Bubo, is in charge of gathering metals from various places in the Southern Kingdoms. Bubo uses these metals in his forge to make items such as battle claws for the Guardians of the Tree. This chaw is symbolized by an iron tree on tapping night.