Amaya (The Dragon Prince)

Amaya is the younger sister of the late Queen Sarai and maternal aunt of Callum and Ezran, as well as a major protagonist in the series The Dragon Prince. 
She is deaf and comunicates through sign language. Her close friend and tursted lieutenant Gren is her primary language interpreter. She is also the leader and general of the Standing Battalion, one of the most powerful armies in Katolis.
As of Season 6, she is the first human to become queen of the sunfire elves by marriage.
She is voiced by Shelia Ferguson.
== Biography ==
=== Backstory ===
Sarai was born as the sister of Sarai, who, and according to Opeli, she trained the army of Katolis alongside Sarai and turned it into the most powerful and disciplined army in the human kingdoms. Amaya was born deaf, so she communicated through sign laguage.
One day, she helped Sarai in defeating a magma titan and retreaving its heart to save the kingdoms of Katolis and Duren, by giving boost to Sarai for her to deliver the finishing blow on the titan and personaly retreaving the heart. Unfortunately, Sarai died during the mission because of Avizandum, and would later be made a statue in her honor, which Amaya would always go to honor her memory every time she could.
Amaya became the general of a group of soldiers that defended the border between Xadia and the Human Kingdoms, which is the main reason why she wasn't able to be with her brother-in-law Harrow when he was killed by Moon Shadow assassins.
=== The Dragon Prince ===
Amaya is first seen going to the winter lodge where Ezran and Callum where because she was ordered by Harrow to protect them while they were in there before he was killed. After seeing that one of the windows to the lodge was open, Amaya ordered her soldiers to search the place, while she gave breakfast to Callum and Ezran after learning learning they didn't had it yet in order to make sure Amaya didn't find Rayla.
After they had breakfast and Rayla got the Key of Aaravos, Amaya found her and they had a fight, with Amaya winning it and knocking her out and interogating her on when Callum and Ezran after they disappeared, but Rayla ends up escaping with the help of the princes.
Amaya, unaware of her helping Callum and Ezran, that they helped her escaped, and that Rayla was protecting them, ordered Callum and Ezran to get away from Rayla, but Callum lies that she was a bloodthirsty monster and that she would kill them if Amaya didn't allow her to leave with them tp convince Amaya to spare her life.
After this, Rayla fakes threatening the princes after Amaya told her soldiers to kill her to "save" the princes, so Amaya allows her to go and orders her soldier Corvus to save the princes. Amaya then stops Viren from crowning himself the king of Katolis and tols everyone that the princes were alive, since Viren lied that they were killed to usurp the throne.
The next day, she would talk about how he lied about the princes deaths because it created an opportunity for him, she would then go to Sarai's statue that was made in her honor to pay her respects, and Viren met her there and payed his respects as well and then told her that he was going to put his children after the princes while Amaya would leave to protec the border, but she told him that her liutenant and language interpreter Gren to lead the rescue. Later that day, she told her soldiers to not trust Viren because she believed he would betray them sooner or later, and told Gren to have good luck finding the princes before leaving. Viren would then kidnap and imprison Gren to make sure that Claudia and Soren would be the one to capture the princes.
While in the border between Xadia and the humans kingdoms, Amaya would fight against the elves who were attacking the border, and after a few weeks, she reunited with Gren after he was freed by Opeli's soldiers who also had Viren imprisoned for treason, which she wasn't suprised to have done. To make sure that the elves wouldn't pass the border, they decided to destroy it, but after Jania sabotaged it, Amaya decided to give her life to activate the explosives, although she managed to survived.
Amaya then saved Janai and was arrested by sunfire elves. He was then sent to Lux Aurea to be interrogated, but after Amaya provoked her, Jania sent her to her sister and queen Khessa, whom after Amaya spit on her, had her tortured by forcing her to look at sunlight to reveal her true nature. After revealing that Amaya had a pure heart, Khessa allow Janai to keep her alive, calling Amaya her sister's "pet".
When she was being interrogated, Viren went to Lux Aurea to convince Khessa to allow her to allow her army walk through Xadia and he would tell her what happened to her grandmother Aditi. When Amaya found out that Viren was in Lux Aurea, she begged Jania to stop him. Viren would later corrupt the core of Lux Aurea and Aaravos killed Khessa.
Amaya stopped Janai from killing Aaravos and Viren out of revenge, understanding her pain because of her losing her sister as well. Janai and Amaya would then bring an army of both elves and human to stop Viren's army during the battle of the Storm Spire, and is seen happy with Jania after Zubeia wakes up and happy that humans and elves are togheter and brought her son to her, allowing peace to happen.
In the side story named Crackledrake, Amaya and Janai go to one of the latter's favourite places so they could eat a tradicional sunfire elf meal while they have fun togheter, and Janai apologizes to her for accidentaly burning Amaya when she was in heat mode and angry over the death of her sister, Amaya accepts the apology and comforts her and accepts Janai as her friend.
A year and a half later, Amaya, Gren, and Janai go to see what was seemingly something dangerous close to Lux Aurea, with Janai and Gren deciding to go somewhere while Amaya stayed with the horses. During this, a group of elves appear with flaming whips, and believing they were going to attack her, Amaya fought against them and knocked them unconscious.
Janai then appeared, with her telling Amaya that they were just trying to make a dance for her. Understanding that it was a engagement dance, Amaya accepted it and kissed Janai, and then helped the dancers get up and apologized for hurting them.
Because of the proposal and their plans to marry each other, Janai's brother Karim told Janai to not make their marriage official, as it would turn it into a symbol because was afraid that it would prove that humans' time with elves was permanent.
That night, a woman named Lucia put down the flame of a ceremony that a Sunfire Elf was using to honor her mother who died that day, as they had a ceremony where they would light a candle at night so the souls of the loved ones who died would pass to the sun, which caused the elf to go berserk and burn Lucia's hands.
They would then have a trial to decide what would be the punishment for Lucia as the normal punishment of putting down the flame of that ceremony would be death. Amaya would defend Lucia, but notes that she isn't innocent, as she refused to listen to the Sunfire Elf's pleads not to put down the fire. However, Amaya tells them that it doesn't mean that her punishment should be death, as she should be given the chance to apologize and understand that her actions were wrong.
While the other members of generals named the Six Horns decided that Lucia should be killed, Janai decides to spare her as she calls killing someone over what they were unaware was a crime unfair. Janai would then ask to Amaya if she should give the crown to Karim and live her life with Amaya or create a new Lux Aurea where humans and elves could coexist, but Amaya told her to do what she thought was right.
Karim would then start a conspiracy to usurp her sister by killing her in a duel, as he believed that by allowing humans and elves to coexist would cause the destruction of their culture, but Janai wins the fight and has Karim arrested for his crimes, and thanks to Amaya, Janai decided that is a chance to grow and create a permanent union between humans and elves.
A few weeks later, to chear up Janai due to her constant nightmares about Aaravos, Amaya decided to pick flowers for her wedding. During this, Callum and Rayla would appear, and after congratulating Amaya and Janai for their engagement, they told them that the world was in danger, and explained that Claudia and Viren were trying to free Aaravos, and told Janai that they should go to Lux Aurea to find a way to stop them.
However, due to the corruption of the Sunforge and the hundreds that were killed by it, Janai ordered them to stay, although Callum and Rayla decided to desobey her and go to Lux Aurea anyway. Amaya and Gren found out, and decided to help them, with Amaya convincing Janai to allow them to go. Before they left, Janai gave Amaya the former's sword so they would still be together during their mission, as Janai couldn't go due to her people at the camp needing her.
At the Bookery of Lux Aurea while searching for something that would help them find weaknesses on Aaravos, Amaya talked with Rayla and apologize for her preavious treatment of her, before threatening to kill Rayla if she ever hurt Callum like she did when she left Callum during his birthday to after Viren. However, after Rayla told Amaya that she didn't want to hurt Callum and only left him because she didn't want to put him in danger, she told Rayla that she sounded like herself and that she became stoic and emotionless to protect her feelings after her sister Sarai was killed, but after meeting Janai and falling in love with her, she became stronger.
Amaya then told Rayla that just like Amaya is stronger with Janai, she is stronger with Callum, and the love and trust between two people make people stronger, which lead to Rayla hugging Amaya due to being touched by her words. Afew hours later when the sun was setting, Amaya told everyone to leave, with Gren going back to the camp with Kazi while Amaya went to grab Callum so they could leave.
However, when they were about to exit the Bookery, they find a group of corrupted banthers eating on the corpse of Amaya's horse, so they try to sneak the other way but are found by the banthers. The group then decided to fight the banthers, but when it seemed they were outnumbered and about to die, Zubeia appeared with Ezran, Soren, Corvus and Azymondias, and was able to eliminate most of the banthers and gave enough time so Rayla and Callum could get onto her.
They then noticed that they left Bait, however, so Amaya went to rescue him and got surrounded. Not wanting to put her friends and allies in danger, Amaya told them to leave, but during this, Zubeia got bit by a corrupted banther, causing Corvus to decide to push it off of Zubeia, leading to him falling into the Bookery. Amaya then went to Corvus and brought him to the bookdrop before closing it so they could be safe from the banthers.
Two days later, Amaya and Corvus came back to the camp and find out that Janai was captured by Kim'dael, and would then find the former sunfire priest Pharos, who told Amaya and the others that if they wanted Janai back, they would need to give the sun seed to Myiana, who would then give it to Karim. However, they refused, and Amaya made a plan to dress herself like Miyiana to trick Karim, which nearly works, but Kim'dael decides to use Janai as a hostage to stop Amaya from killing him.
Karim then told Kim'dael to kill Janai, but due to her being afraid it would kill her due to her having a debt that would make her unable to kill someone of the royal family of the Sunfire elves, so Karim tried to kill his sister after seeing he was unable to free Kim from her debt, but Amaya stopped him. This resulted in Janai telling Kim'dael that if she killed her, Amaya would kill Karim and the royal bloodline would end, thus killing Kim as well.
Understanding she couldn't do anything that would help her situation, Kim'dael released Janai, telling her that she hoped their next meeting would be more "favorable" before leaving. Amaya then went to hug Janai, and while this was happening, Pharos grabbed Karim and escaped with him. At the camp, they find out that the sun seed was stolen by Miyana. Later that night, Janai would have a nightmare about Aaravos which lead her to break down crying, leading to Amaya hugging her.
== Appearance ==
Amaya has short, dark brown hair. She has dark brown eyes and a fair complexion. She also has a scar below her right eye that was inflicted by a Magma Titan. She is usually seen wearing full armor, with a large shield on her back.
==Personality==
Amaya is a no nonsense person who takes most things in battle seriously, she cares for her family and others deeply, taking care of them and is willing to risk her life for them. Amaya also posesses a sense of honor and mercy towards her enemies, as seen when she spared Janai when she could have easily have killed her.
While Amaya is described by Callum as xenophibic towards elves, she seemed to have also respect towards them in battle, and ended up caring for elves after understanding their nature is not as bad as people made it seem to be, and helps in fighting for peace between them. Amaya is also one of the people to understand that Viren is dangerous, to the point that she belived that Gren would be better on the mission to rescue Callum and Ezran than Viren's children, who were working for him.
Amaya is also sarcastic, while still being able to admit when she's wrong. She also doesn't try to pressure others over their personal issues, but still tries to convince them to do the right thing. Amaya is also a thrill-seeker who enjoys a good fight with someone else. 
She is not above swearing and vulgarity when signing; having laughed at Harrow accidentally doing so, using the offensive term for "lying" and implied something rude when being interrogated. 
== Gallery ==
AmayaSavesJanai.jpg|Amaya saving Janai.
Amaya with Kazi.jpg|Kazi communicating with Amaya.
File:Amaya1.png
LosingHerSister.png|Amaya holding Janai to stop her from taking revenge on Aaravos and save her life.
Mistery of Aaravos.jpg|Amaya in the Mystery of Aaravos Poster.
Amaya Season 4 Promotional Art.jpg|Amaya in the Season 4 Promotional Art.
File:The-Dragon-Prince Season-5 First-Look-Screenshot-8.png
Jaanaya Kiss.jpg|Amaya and her wife 
20230628 001151.jpg
Janai lost her sister (S3E7).jpg
TDPXadiaGame.jpg
==Trivia==
* Amaya is a name that is derived from the basquian word Amaia, which means the end. It also means right rain in Japanese.
* Amaya CAN speak, having shouted "GO!" to Team Zym; to make them flee to safety.
*As sign language translates to broken sentences, whatever Amaya is signing has the missing words filled in when Gren speaks for her.
**Janai learned sign language to talk with her without the awkward need of an interpreter.
*Amaya's haircuts notably progress from feminine to more masculine as she gets older.
**Around the time Ezran was born, she had simple long hair; in the first part of the series, it's simply cut short. In the second hair, she has a haircut akin to a punk rocker; one side shaved, while the other has longer hair.
*In the second part of the series, Amaya incorporated sunelf motifs
into her arm as a sign of her affection for Janai.
*On her birthday, Amaya spars with every member of her troops; promising a promotion if they can land a blow. No one has been able to win against her yet.
==External Links==
*.
== Navigation ==
Category:Female
Category:TV Show Heroes
Category:Cartoon Heroes
Category:Fighters
Category:Selfless
Category:Guardians
Category:Successful
Category:Merciful
Category:Knights
Category:The Hero
Category:Siblings
Category:One-Man Army
Category:Honorable
Category:Lethal
Category:Protectors
Category:False Antagonist
Category:Leaders
Category:Lawful Good
Category:Fantasy Heroes
Category:Determinators
Category:Book Heroes
Category:Misguided
Category:Military
Category:Loyal
Category:Sympathetic
Category:Tragic
Category:Disciplinarians
Category:Brutes
Category:Strategists
Category:Amazons
Category:War Heroes
Category:Virtually Resourceful
Category:Control Freaks
Category:Paragon
Category:Medieval Heroes
Category:The Dragon Prince Heroes
Category:Monster Slayers
Category:Localized Protection
Category:Rescuers
Category:Good Vs. Good
Category:Protectors of Innocence
Category:Tricksters
Category:In Love
Category:Freedom Fighters
Category:Mentors
Category:Jerks
Category:Officials
Category:Martyr
Category:Animal Kindness
Category:Sophisticated
Category:Bond Protectors
Category:Suicidal
Category:Insecure
Category:Voice of Reason
Category:Nurturers
Category:Failure-Intolerant
Category:Patriots
Category:Martial Artists
Category:Dreaded
Category:Bond Creators
Category:Genius
Category:Strong-Willed
Category:Honest
Category:Wise
Category:Thrill-Seekers
Category:Supporters
Category:Benefactors
Category:Harbingers
Category:Heroes from the Past
Category:Mascots
Category:Philanthropists
Category:Friend of a Villain
Category:Hope Bringers
Category:Anti-Nihilists
Category:Spouses
Category:Related to Villain