Guardians of Ga’Hoole

**Guardians of Ga'Hoole** is a series written by Kathryn Lasky. The Main characters of the series are Soren, Gylfie, Digger and Twilight.

## Book descriptions

### Series

#### *The Capture*

*Soren is born in the forest of Tyto, a tranquil kingdom where the Barn Owls dwell. But evil lurks in the owl world, evil that threatens to shatter Tyto's peace and change the course of Soren's life forever.*
*Soren is captured and taken to a dark and forbidding canyon. It's called an orphanage, but Soren believes it's something far worse. He and his friend Gylfie know that the only way out is up. To escape, they will need to do something they have never done before—fly.*

*With the help of a newfound friend, they are taught how to fly and finally escape the winding tunnels of the canyons.*

*And so begins a magical journey. Along the way, Soren and Gylfie meet Twilight and Digger. The four owls band together to seek the truth and protect the owl world from unimaginable danger.*

#### *The Journey*

*It began as a dream. A quest for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a mythic place where each night an order of owls rises to perform noble deeds. There Soren, Gylfie, Twilight, and Digger hope to find inspiration to fight the evil that dwells in the owl kingdom.*
*The journey is long and harrowing. When Soren and his friends finally arrive at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, they will be tested in ways they never dreamed and face challenges they never imagined. If they can learn from their leaders and from one another, they will soon become true Ga'Hoolian owls- honest and brave, wise and true**.***

#### *The Rescue*

*Ever since Soren was kidnapped and taken to the St. Aegolius School for Orphaned Owls, he has longed to see his sister, Eglantine, again. Now Eglantine is back in Soren's life, but she's been through an ordeal too terrible for words. And Ezylryb, Soren's mentor, has disappeared. Deep within Soren's gizzard, something more powerful than knowledge tells him there's a connection between these mysterious events.*

*In order to rescue Ezylryb, Soren must embark upon a perilous quest. It will bring him face-to-face with a force more dangerous than anything the rulers of St. Aggie's could have devised - and a truth that threatens to destroy the owl kingdom.*

#### *The Siege*

*Tensions erupt in the owl kingdom when the forces of evil wage war against the protectors of good. Enraged by his clash with Soren and driven by an all-consuming desire for power, Kludd and his group, the Pure Ones, launch an attack upon the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The noble owls who live there must fight fiercely to protect their resources and defend their honor.*

*Meanwhile, Soren is called upon by the elders of the great tree to lead a mission back to the one place he thought he'd never see again - St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls. He and his crew will have to enter St. Aggie's as spies, then leave unnoticed once their work is done. Soren escaped the rocky confines of St. Aggie's once. If peace is to be restored, he must do it again.*

#### *The Shattering*

*Soren's sister, Eglantine, is falling under the spell of a strange nightly dream. Then, just as Soren notices her trancelike state, Eglantine disappears, and the dreams become a deadly waking nightmare that puts the Great Tree of Ga'Hoole in terrible danger. Soren must lead the Chaw of Chaws to rescue his sister. Thus begins the next battle between the owls of Ga'Hoole and the evil Pure Ones, deep in the treacherous territory known as The Beaks, where a raging forest fire will prove the greatest danger to the rescuers - and their best hope for victory.*

#### *The Burning*

*A great battle is on the horizon and drawing near. In preparation, Soren and his band must fly to the mysterious Northern Kingdoms to find allies and study the grim art of war.* *Meanwhile, St. Aggie's has fallen to the Pure Ones. If they are not stopped, they will launch another, more deadly attack against the great tree. And without allies from the north, Ga'Hoole will surely fall. Soren's mission must succeed. And the final battle must be won. The coming conflagration will demand wisdom, bravery, and sacrifice from all the owls of the great tree, and from Soren and the band, nothing less than heroism.*

#### *The Hatchling*

*Beneath a shadowed moon in a cloud-streaked sky, the sacred orb splits and a hatchling is born: It is Nyroc, son of Kludd, fallen leader of the Pure Ones, and his evil mate, Nyra. Born from evil, trained to evil, Nyroc is destined to fulfill his father's terrible plan, the oppression of all owldom under the vicious talons of the Pure Ones.* *But doubt grows in Nyroc's heart, fed by strange forbidden legends of a great tree far away where noble owls live in peace. And a light dawns in Nyroc's gizzard, nourished by friendship.* *A day is nearing when Nyroc must chose to fulfill his destiny - or to defy it.* *It will be a day of blood and terror.*

#### *The Outcast*

*Haunted by his past, hunted by the Pure Ones, Nyroc flies alone. He yearns to go to the great tree, where good and learned owls do noble deeds, but he cannot. He is the son of Kludd and Nyra, sworn enemies of all Ga'Hoole stands for, feared and despised everywhere. But Nyroc has glimpsed hope - and a new destiny - in the flame over his father's very bones. In search of that destiny, he trains his gaze and beats his wings toward a dark, lawless place where desperate characters roam a barren landscape and fire splits the sky - The Beyond the Beyond.*

#### *The First Collier*

*An ancient malevolence that will threaten the very existence of the great tree has been loosed from the past. With his dying breath, Ezylryb tells Soren and Coryn to read the legends of Ga'Hoole hidden in his private library. There, they will find a world of treachery and magic in which a young king and queen struggle to keep peace while Grank, their most loyal friend and supporter, studies embers and flames in a distant land. Then a desprate plea comes from the king, and Grank rushes to the aid of his noble friends.*

#### *The Coming of Hoole*

*A tale of chaos, betrayal, and nachtmagen unfolds in the second of three ancient legends. It is no idle history, for hidden in its pages are truths about great promise-and great danger-that lie ahead for the guardians. And so, Soren, Coryn, and the members of the the band read on:*

*A grizzled collier will tend a young prince in exile. An owl who would be a monk will don battle claws. A mother who is also a queen will raise an army. And under the shower of embers in the shadow of the Sacred Volcanoes, a king will be born-or die.*

#### *To Be a King*

*Nachtmagen rages through the N'yrthghar as hagfiends and the traitorous lords conspire to defeat the new king. With Grank and Theo at his side, Hoole must forge an army of free owls strong enough to defeat the forces of darkness massing on the horizon. The power of the one Ember fires the young king's very gizzard and he grows great. But for young Hoole there is a danger much closer than treacherous lords and the poison of half-hags. For magic - even good magic - brings great peril to those who wield it.* *So Soren, Coryn, and the Band read the final legend and glimpse what the future may demand of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole.*

#### *The Golden Tree*

*Soren and the band are back. Coryn has retrieved the Ember, and it seems a golden age is dawning at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. But all that is golden is not necessarily good. Soren, Twilight, Gylfie and Digger face their biggest challenge yet as the young king, haunted by the suspicion that haggish blood flows in his veins, hunts for the truth. His wanderings imperil himself and the good guardians who travel with him.*

*Meanwhile, back at the Great Tree, the influence of the Ember is strong-and strange. The Tree changes, as do the Guardians, left to govern in the young king's absence. Otulissa objects to the strange new ways, and her outspokenness puts her in grave danger. Someone must get word to Soren and the band. But who?*

#### *The River of Wind*

*Coryn, Soren and the Chaw of Chaws ride a river of wind to discover a realm of endless wonders where dwells a society of mysterious owls, the like of which has never before been seen.*

*Meanwhile, journeying in the known kingdoms, Primrose and Eglantine stumble upon a plot by Nyra to kill the young king and his companions in a distant snowy land. Too late to get help from the tree, the young Guardians must find the strange new realm on their own to warn Coryn and the others. Even if they make it in time, will a handful of Guardians and peace-loving monks be a match for Pure Ones bent on murder?*

#### *Exile*

*Sometimes the enemy comes from within...*

*Slowly, inexorably, the Striga, a mysterious blue owl from the Middle Kingdom, gains control over young Coryn's mind. And then the unthinkable happens. The Band is banished from the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The Striga institutes a harsh new regime that will not stop until learning itself- the very foundation of the tree- becomes suspect and books are consigned to flame. Somehow the Band must open Coryn's eyes to the Striga's malign influence. But how? They are in exile!*

#### *The War of The Ember*

*Not an ambush. Not a battle. But the final confrontation: War.*

*In this last chapter in the great saga of the Guardians of Ga'Hoole, the Striga and Nyra join to conjure a malignant power from Hagsmire itself. When news of their alliance reaches the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, the Guardians call to good creatures everywhere: gadfeathers, kraals, polar bears, green-owls, puffins, seagulls, and dire wolves. An army of free creatures marches, swims, and flies to the Hot Gates of the Beyond, where the fate of the six owl kingdoms will be decided once and for all.*

### Accompanying books

#### *The Rise of a Legend*

THE OWLS TAKE FLIGHT AGAIN

An owlet hatches out into Stormfast Island and into a world torn by war. For one hundred years, his people have fought off enemy owls from the Ice Talons, but the tide has turned. An invasion is coming, one the Kielian League won't have the strength to resist. Soon the tyrant owl Bylyric will rule over everything, and no honorable owl will be safe.

Only the small owl from Stormfast stands between Bylyric and total victory. Lyze is not very impressive to look at, but he has a wild idea for a snake and owl strike unit that just might give the soldiers of the Kielian League the edge they need.

This is his story, the story of an ordinary owl who rose to become Ezylryb of the Great Tree. This is the story of what it takes to make a Guardian of Ga'Hoole.

#### *Lost Tales of Ga'Hoole*

*Learn the secret histories of the Guardians.*

*Take one more flight through the world of Ga'Hoole! The once-forgotten beginnings and ambitions of the Guardians—as well as some heartbreaks—are finally uncovered through the inquiry and commentary of Otulissa, the tree's dutiful historian. With a foreword from the heroic owl Soren, these stories give one more glimpse into the magical and sometimes frightening world of owls, treachery, and heroism. Find out what made these warriors who they are—and what it truly takes to be a Guardian.*

#### *A Guide Book to the Great Tree*

*At last, from the esteemed scholar Otulissa, a guide to the history, life, and spirit of the Great Tree! Learn what dark episodes marked the Tree's glorious past; learn how the Guardians celebrate dwenking moon and winter sun. Find out more about the heroes—and scoundrels—who've made the Tree their home. Above all, reader, lift this tome to your eyes and discover what it is to be a Guardian!*

## Plot

### Series

#### *The Capture*

##### *This information is copied from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Wiki*

Soren is plummeting towards the ground. He tries to attempt to save himself by beating his underdeveloped wings, but fails. Suddenly he starts recalling every memory from his short life:

Soren, a Barn Owl, is born in the forest kingdom of Tyto two weeks prior to the start of the novel as the middle child of Noctus and Marella, and younger brother of Kludd and older brother of Eglantine. He and his siblings are cared for by a blind nestmaid snake named Mrs. Plithiver. Kludd is shown to be a difficult owlet who seems to have resented Soren from the moment he hatched. Soren's bond with Eglantine is very strong. Kludd refuses to help Soren and threatens Mrs. Plithiver. Soren is then snatched by an owl patrol from St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls (St. Aggie's for short). During the flight to the "academy", Soren meets another kidnapped owlet: a young Elf Owl named Gylfie. She lived in the desert of Kuneer. She had tried to fly, but had fallen out of her nest. They talk about flying and the differences between the owlets.

When they're brought in, Skench explains to all of the owlets (including Soren and Gylfie) that they are now orphans, and have been rescued. Every owlet is given a number. Soon, the adult owls at St. Aegolius Academy introduce themselves to the owlets.

After their initiation into St. Aggie's, the two owlets meet once again in the glaucidium, where all owlets are to participate in the sleep march. Gylfie and Soren deduce that the owls of St. Aggie's are moon-blinking owlets by having them march under the full moon and repeat their own names. Therefore, any moon-blinked owl will lose all sense of individuality and become the perfect slave for St. Aggie's. To counter this tactic, Gylfie and Soren pretend to march but stay in the shadows of the glaucidium.

As time passes, Soren realizes that he hadn't slipped from his nest, rather Kludd had pushed him out instead. Soren and Gylfie are then assigned to the pelletorium to pick out fleck or other items out of pellets. After asking what flecks are, Soren is subjected to laughter therapy and has his feathers plucked out. During Soren's laughter therapy, Gylfie discovers the library of St. Aggie's is in fact a storage room for all the flecks and other items. Most importantly, it's close to the sky: A perfect place to escape. She also suspects that Grimble isn't moon-blinked.

Soren and Gylfie plan on asking Grimble to teach them how to fly and, in the meantime, learn all they can about St Aggie's, so that when they escape they can warn the other owls. Despite the two owlets best efforts, they are caught hiding from the moon and are subjected to moon scalding: An even more powerful tactic than moon-blinking. However, Soren recited the legends of Ga'Hoole to protect them both while giving Skench, the Ablah General of St. Aggie's, and Spoorn, her first lieutenant the impression that they're perfectly moon blinked. This ensured them a place together in the glaucidiums and more special assignments such as jobs in the eggorium and hatchery, a place where owl eggs are kept. Gylfie soon discovers that Hortense, another owlet also known as 12-8, isn't moon-blinked either but is an infiltrator inside the hatchery. She rescues owl eggs and gives them to a pair of eagles. Despite her courageous actions, she is caught smuggling out eggs and is pushed down a cliff to her death by Finny, Soren's twisted pit guardian. Though the grief of Hortense's death hangs over the two owls, the pressure to escape is escalated when vampire bats arrive to suck the blood of St. Aggie's owls, draining them of nutrients and making their feathers wither, rendering them unable to fly. Grimble comes back and he recounts his story of being recruited by St. Aggie's as a skilled fighter when he killed Ork, a former contender for leadership in St. Aggie's, when he had tried to kidnap his daughter, Bess. Grimble had resisted moon blinking like Soren and Gylfie, but had lost his strength and his family eventually didn't recognize him before they vanished all together.

He also reveals that St. Aggie's only aim is absolute control of every owl kingdom in the world. With that thought, Soren and Gylfie persuade Grimble to teach them how to fly. Eventually, Soren and Gylfie stage their escape from the library, but are found by Skench in full battle regalia. However, she is slammed against the library wall by an unknown force which allow the two owls to escape. Unfortunately, Grimble is killed by Skench during their escape. As they stop in a tree for the night, they meet Twilight, a lone Great Gray Owl who was orphaned as an owlet but raised by the ideals of the "Orphan School of Tough Learning". They decide to look for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and the Guardians of Ga'Hoole together to inform them about the treachery of St. Aggie's. Before doing so, Soren and Gylfie decide to see if their parents are still alive and well. They fly to Tyto and Soren's fir tree home, but none of Soren's family are there.

On the upside, Mrs. Plithiver, Soren's family's nest-maid snake, there. She confirms Kludd's true nature and suspects that he pushed Eglantine out of the nest as well, after having driven her away. As they enter the Desert of Kuneer, they meet a Burrowing Owl named Digger, who tell them that Jatt and Jutt, two cousins who serve St. Aggie's, had snatched his older brother, Cunny, before eating his younger brother, Flick. Digger accompanies the three owls in search of his old home from which he ran after the attack. While they are travelling, a St. Aggie's patrol consisting of Jatt, Jutt, and a Western Screech Owl by the number of 47-2 arrive. The four owls procede to defeat the patrol, with the assistance of Hortense's eagles, Streak and Zan. Digger gives up his search after the eagles tell him of his parents' deaths. From that moment on, all four owls swear a silent oath to be a band forevermore and fly off into the night, to continue their quest to find the Guardians of Ga'Hoole.

#### *The Journey*

##### *This information is copied from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Wiki*

As the the Band (Soren, Gylfie, Twilight and Digger) and Mrs. Plithiver were on their way towards the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, they were then later mobbed by crows when they risked flying in daylight. They've manage to drive off the crows, but at the cost of Digger being injured. After landing in a spruce tree for shelter, a neighboring family of Masked Owls come to visit them after hearing of the Band's feat. Before leaving, the female Masked Owl becomes skeptical when she hears that the Band is on their way towards the Sea of Hoolemere to find the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Mrs. Plithiver retorts by saying that she:s a fool for believing that it doesn't exist. Later, after their departure from the spruce tree, they stay at a sycamore with a pair of Sooty Owls named Sweetums and Swatums, who support the Band in their quest to find Ga'Hoole.

In the Beaks, the band venture into a dark cave where they're attacked by a bobcat. Together, the band manage to kill the bobcat, and, upon further investigation, they find a dying Barred Owl. When they ask if was St. Aggie's who'd attacked him, his last words are: "You only wish!" After hearing this disturbing news, the Band burn the body of the Barred Owl and continue on their quest. However, their progress is dangerously hindered because of the Mirror Lakes. Their gleaming surfaces hypnotize the Band, while making them content to stay and put off their quest. Eventually, Mrs. Plithiver recognizes the danger and stirs the Band into remembrance of their quest.

When they leave, the Band are blown off course straight into the Ice Narrows near the Northern Kingdoms where they are taken in by a family of puffins- the oddest creatures the band has ever seen- named Dumpy and Tuppa. Despite all difficulties, the band are escorted towards the Island of Hoole by the Snowy Owl monarchs of the tree, Boron and Barran. Upon their arrival at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, a stuck-up Spotted Owl named Otulissa escorts the Band into their new hollow. They learn from her that they cannot just go into a battle, but that skills must be learned by becoming members of chaws: specialized groups of owls that dedicate themselves to a certain skill.

Upon finding Ga'Hoole, the Band request a meeting with the Parliament because they feel that their knowledge of St. Aggie's would be valuable to the Guardians. However, Boron informs the Band that they need to wait a bit longer and nobility wasn't garnered instantly, but through unwavering resolution and stalwartness. He also informed them that their journey hadn't ended when they arrived at the tree, but it had only just begun, and that they would begin their training the next day. During the day, Soren finds Twilight thinking about leaving the Guardians because the Band would be broken up as they would be separated into chaws. Soren reassured him by saying that no matter what happened, they would always be a Band. Upon hearing these words, Twilight agreed to stay.

One month later, the band has learned many skills and become more accustomed to life at the Great Tree. However, Soren is still haunted by the thought of his sister, Eglantine, and her well-being. Eventually, the Band members are placed into their respective chaws; Soren is placed into the colliering and weather interpretation chaws lead by a Whiskered Screech, Ezylryb. This is a disaster for Soren because of Ezylryb's intimidating appearance and missing talon, and because he's double-chawed with Otulissa, whose talkative attitude is hard to bear. However, the chief blacksmith of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, Bubo (a Great Horned Owl), is confident that Soren will be all that he can be because Ezylryb had recognized his potential. Later, the Band discovers that the roots under the Parliament Chamber are prone to transmitting any sound created within said chamber. This allows them to discover that the Guardians are addressing a topic concerning the dead Barred Owl. They find out that he was a slipgizzle: An owl spy who worked for the Guardians. Eventually Soren's fears and problems begin to subside. Ezylryb proves to be much more than every owl in his weather chaw ever thought him to be. Soren is even able to help Mrs. Plithiver get a spot in the Harp Guild with Madame Plonk, the tree's beloved Snowy Owl singer. He also manages to catch a burning coal in his beak and earns Ezylryb's rare approval.

Despite the turn of events, the tranquility of life at the tree is shaken when owlets of the Tyto species are found dropped all over a battlefield babbling nonsense about Tyto purity. Digger and Twilight, who are part of the Search-and-Rescue chaw, find Eglantine, who is one of the owlets dropped in the event that comes to be known as the Great Downing. Soren is shocked when he is shown Eglantine, but disappointed that she isn't her true self. Eventually, Trader Mags comes to trade goods at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, and Eglantine goes into a panic when shown a piece of issenglass. This panic, however, proves to be effective because Eglantine breaks out of her strange condition and becomes normal once again. For now, Soren feels content but only to an extent since Ezylryb, the ryb he's come to truly cherish, hasn't yet returned from his investigations of the Great Downing.

#### *The Rescue*

##### *This information is copied from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Wiki*

Ezylryb is still missing. Soren is searching the sky for him as he's been doing for two months. A comet flashes through the sky and Octavia comments that it might be an omen. Later, Soren has a nightmare about flecks. During a weather interpretation flight, the chaw settle down at the Spirit Woods for a quick rest, where Soren meets the scrooms of his parents who tell him to beware of Metal Beak. When Soren gets back to the Tree, he asks Bubo about Metal Beak. Shocked, Bubo explains that Metal Beak is the most brutal and evil owl on Earth. He also tells Soren about a Rogue Smith in Silverveil. Soren informs the other members of his Band, which now includes Eglantine, and they agree to go out to find the Rogue Smith of Silverveil during the Harvest Festival. Eglantine goes off to find Mrs. Plithiver who comforts her. After everyone gets into a party induced stupor, the Band leaves from the take off spot. Eglantine arrives late with Primrose. Primrose wants to come with the Band as thanks for Soren's kindness. Soren tells Primrose and Eglantine they can't come because they're not ready, before leaving with the rest of his Band.

The Band arrives in Silverveil and meet the Rogue Smith, who they learn is Madame Plonk's sister. She explains her backstory, before telling them that Metal Beak and his gang are worse than St. Aggie's. She also mentions that Ezylryb does have enemies and Octavia wasn't born blind. When they arrive back at the Great Tree. Gylfie discovers that their absence had been discovered by Dewlap, who Twilight had to do a flintmop for. They were called by the parliament, and although Boron and Barran were lenient to them, knowing that they sneaked out to search for Ezylryb, despite missing out on the milkberry festivities, Dewlap was not and tasked them to do flintmops for the next three days.

Later, Soren, Gylfie, and Digger sneak into Ezylryb's hollow where they find a secret room containing a pair of battle claws inside. Octavia appears and tells them that Ezylryb was once Lyze of Kiel, a legendary warrior from the Northern Kingdoms who all but ensured the Kielian League's victory during the War of the Ice Claws. Octavia also reveals that she's a Kielian Snake herself. She tells them the story of Ezylryb's mate, Lil, his brother, Ifghar, and how he's responsible for her and Ezylryb's mutilations: Ifghar had fallen in loved with Lil, but she chose Ezylryb instead of him. So, he became a turnfeather and betrayed not just Ezylryb but also the entire Kielian League by joining the League of the Ice Talons on the condition that Lil be given to him as a mate. In the Battle of the Ice Talons, Lil was killed and Lyze went yeep, but he was caught by a talon, injuring it to the point where he had to bite it off. It was during the same battle that Octavia went blind.

When the three return to their hollow, they find Eglantine restless. With the help of issenglass, Eglantine reveals the existence of the Tytonic Union of Pure Ones of which Metal Beak is the leader of. Otulissa flies in and offers to come with them. She explains how Ezylryb helped her become a better owl. Soren agrees and declares the Band's reorganization into the Chaw of Chaws. They arrive at the Pure Ones castle and learn that the power of flecks is the power of higher magnetics. Otulissa reveals the need for mu metal and that Ezylryb is trapped by a Devil's Triangle. With the help of a coal and mu metal, the Chaw of Chaws destroy the Devil's Triangle and frees Ezylryb. Suddenly, they are attacked by Metal Beak and nine of his followers. Howevr, Martin and Ruby show up and help drive them off. During the battle, it is revealed that Metal Beak is Kludd. After the battle, the Chaw of Chaws heads back to the Tree with Ezylryb, who is warmly welcomed back.

#### *The Siege*

##### *This information is copied from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Wiki*

In Ambala, a Brown Fish Owl named Simon, a Glauxian Brother, witnesses a curse-spewing ball of fire fall into a lake. As it is his duty to help, Simon does not hesitate to help the downed owl. Little does he know that he has rescued Kludd, the High Tyto and leader of the Pure Ones. Kludd had previously been in a disastrous encounter with the Guardians of Ga'Hoole when they attempted to rescue Ezylryb. Little had he known that his thought-to-be deceased brother Soren was with them and had almost killed him. As the days passed, Simon continues to tend to this unknown Barn Owl and Kludd grudgingly puts up with the presence of what he considers to be a most filthy owl. However, as soon as Kludd regains his strength, he intends to murder the owl and be on his way. During his recovery, Kludd begins to plot again. His capture of Ezylryb had failed miserably, but now he had imagined something far greater: a siege on the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. Eventually, Kludd murders the Brown Fish Owl and flies off into the night to carry out his plan, but not before being seen by Mist, the watcher of the woods.

Back at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree, Soren has just returned from a weather interpretation flight with Ezylryb, the first one since Ezylryb had been captured. Gylfie finds out that the parliament are talking about whether the knowlege of higher magnetics should been declared spronk (forbidden). While the Parliament is in session, dictating the need for the band to go to the roots to eavesdrop on the parliament. There, they overhear a debate taking place: Dewlap and Elvan agreeing with higher magnetics being declared spronk, Strix Struma undecided and Bubo and Ezylryb opposing the spronk. Dewlap believes that higher magnetics is dark magic and a strange subject that is barely understood. Ezylryb reasons, however, that higher magnetics is a science not fully understood and that it shouldn't be described as dark with a negative connotation because owls depended on darkness to live, hunt, fly, explore and defend.

During the eavesdropping, Otulissa drops in unexpectedly, which enrages Soren to the point that afterwards he demands an explanation. Otulissa states that she has the right because she was the one who had determined that a Devil's Triangle was making Ezylryb a prisoner, and also she knew how to resist it by using mu metal. After the band attempt to figure out what to do to oppose the spronk, Otulissa determines that she would request a book called *Fleckasia and Other Disorders of the Gizzard*, which is supposed to be removed from the shelves of the library. It would be a test case to see what would happen. When Otulissa requests for the book, Dewlap is in the library and tells her it was currently declared spronk. After a heated argument, Otulissa finally shouts out, "WELL, SPRINK ON YOUR SPRONK!" which causes Dewlap to faint of shock. Afterwards, the band is summoned to the Parliament hollow and to their surprise, Ruby and Martin are also in attendance. Boron explains that they are needed on a mission: a mission to penetrate St. Aegolius Acadamy for Owls, much to Soren and Gylfie's horror. The parliament believe that the Pure Ones have already infiltrated St. Aggie's to find out more about the immense stash of flecks that had been and were being mined there. Upon their acceptance of the mission, Ezylryb gives them their cover story that demanded daily instruction in the knowledge of the Northern Kingdoms to create a good cover story. Before the chaw of chaws left, Ezyrlyb gives Otulissa the book and agrees with her position of sprink on spronk.

Eventually, the day of the mission comes and after hard studying, the chaw of chaws is ready to depart, except Otulissa. Despite her protests, Dewlap has confiscated the higher magnetics book and accompanied her on a special flint mop. Eventually, Otulissa knows she has to leave, throws a dead ground squirrel in Dewlap's face and takes off. In the scuffle, the higher magnetics book falls into the Sea of Hoolemere. Otulissa eventually catches up with the rest of the chaw of chaws, and they finally arrive at St. Aggie's. They are immediately interrogated by Unk, Skench and Spoorn about how they came to St. Aggie's. The chaw of chaws give their cover story, and it is accepted by the owls of St. Aggie's. Using their knowledge of the legends of Ga'Hoole and from Soren and Gylfie's experiences, they resist the initial moon blinking process and begin to search for any signs of infiltration by the Pure Ones. Soren and Martin are assigned to the eggorium where they meet Finny, Soren's former pit guardian. They are eventually promoted to moss tenders and Ruby, who is a broody, reveals to them that flecks are being put into the nests of Barn Owls. This raises their suspicion that the Pure Ones are indeed present inside St. Aggie's. Much to Soren's disgust, Ruby reveals that Finny was an egg eater. Meanwhile, Otulissa is summoned by Skench, who informed her that they have turned some of the Pure One spies to work as double agents for St. Aggie's. One such owl was 92-01, who has been renamed Uklah had previously fallen under Otulissa's suspicion. They also begin asking questions about flecks, to which Otulissa responded with false information.

Meanwhile, far away in Silverveil, Kludd waits for the rogue smith of Silverveil to arrive with his new mu metal mask. He has his lieutenant Wortmore rough her up and force her to do it. During the fitting, the rogue smith suspects something terrible stirring inside the mind of the High Tyto despite his silence. She mentions she was working on a new battle claw design that was very efficient and has the High Tyto send Wortmore with her back to her forge for a fitting. Wortmore mentions they would need at least eighty or more for the Pure Guard, one division of many that had begun the Great Massing on Cape Glaux. From those facts, the rogue smith deduces that the Pure Ones are about to lay siege on the Great Ga'Hoole Tree and its noble Guardians. As Wortmore fliess off with his battle claws, the rogue smith gathers her few belongings and flees to Ambala to seek out Mist.

For the next few days, Otulissa continues to feed Skench and Spoorn false information concerning higher magnetics. Now the chaw of chaws have all secured jobs in the hatchery from where they plan to escape. Their plan is to turn the agents of the Pure Ones against the double agents of St. Aggie's. During the fight, the chaw of chaws would slip away and escape. When the fight is started, Finny recognizes Soren from when he was an owlet, begins to fly after him, and wounds him. Eventually Twilight is able to force Finny into a daze with one of his war cries, and Soren is able to kill her (but not before being injured). Despite her death, Skench and Spoorn come into the fray after the chaw of chaws, but are rendered unable by Gylfie, who recites the legends of Ga'Hoole out loud. After their escape, the chaw of chaws is forced to land in a sycamore in Ambala because of Soren's injury. However, a Spotted Owl named Hortense tries to dissuade them from doing so because it is haunted by the scroom of a Brown Fish Owl Kludd had murdered. Upon hearing the owl's name, the owls are shocked because they thought Hortense was a female name. The male Hortense explains that it didn't matter, because to be named Hortense is a great honor in Ambala because of the original Hortense's heroic acts. Despite the worms they applie to Soren's wound, the Barn Owl is not getting better. Thinking that there is nothing else he can do and that Soren would be dead by morning, Hortense flies off.

During his flight home, Hortense immediately gets the impression that he should fly to see Mist. When he arrives at the place where Mist resides, he is greeted by two eagles, Zan and Streak. He informs them that there is a dying Barn Owl in the sycamore where the Brown Fish Owl was murdered. He eventually comes to see Mist and she sends him, the eagles and a flying snake named Slynella back to the sycamore. The flying snakes of Ambala are said to have healing properties on one point of their forked tongue while on the other point it was said that they had lethal venom. Upon arriving at the sycamore tree, Slynella is able to administer her life-saving medicine to Soren. During his feverish state, Soren converses with Mist and finds out along with Gylfie that she was the real Hortense, previously thought to be dead. Streak had caught her when Finny had pushed her off the highest cliff of the hatchery (her wings were crippled so she could not fly to save herself). It turns out that Streak had grabbed her at the last minute. Because of her starsight, Mist informs the chaw of chaws that the Pure Ones are massing to lay siege on the Great Ga'Hoole Tree.

Upon hearing this news, the chaw of chaws fly back as quick as they could to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. The parliament form a war council and preperations for war began. Air traps are layed, caches are dug and the storage hollows were enlarged all in the name of war. After doing his work, Soren has a dream about Kludd and a beautiful female Barn Owl and that he has fallen into his own trap. The band then listen through the roots to the plans of the parliament concerning the first tactical movements that would involve the Strix Struma Strikers. Unknown to the band, Otulissa has been selected to fight in this elite force: an event that both made her very nervous while proud at the same time. The first movements of the Pure Ones are met with failure; many are scattered by the Strix Struma Strikers and the rest were caught in the air traps. However, this was only intended as a distraction for Kludd had a small division of owls strike off of the far side of Hoolmere where the defenses weren't as weak. The defenses of the Guardians are broken and and invading force lands on the island. Inside the tree, the band start to grow wary of Dewlap's odd behavior and wondered why at times she would be praised for her effort. With the onset of winter, the food stock starts to grow thin and the owls of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree begin to starve. Despite the grim outlook, Soren comea up with a plan for the pincer movement that would catch the Pure Ones in between the forces of the Guardians. The band recognize this possibility and go to Octavia who goes to fetch Ezylryb. Ezylryb agrees with the idea, but cautiones that the project must be kept top secret because there are rumoured to be leaks of information that he suspected to be because of Dewlap.

After about two weeks, the Guardians have dug their way out behind the enemy without Dewlap's interference (Ezylryb had informed her of a similar project being done in the *opposite* direction), led by Sylvana. During their mounted attack, Soren and Martin are attacked by Nyra, the owl of his dream, with blood on her face. She is joined by Kludd and Wortmore, who begin their advance on Soren with the intention of killing him. Before they can, Slynella joins the fray which forces the murderous owls and ultimately, the Pure Ones to retreat. Though they have won the battle, they weren't without losses: Strix Struma has been killed. After the Final Ceremony, Soren has another dream about the female Barn Owl that was with Kludd. Soren flies down to Otulissa's hollow, and confirms his suspicion that the Barn Owl had killed Strix Struma. Otulissa mentions she is known as Nyra and that she is Kludd's mate. Soren knew this as well and tells Otulissa that he had dreamt it. Otulissa replies that Soren has starsight which enables him to see things that might possibly happen. For Soren, the stars are little holes in the cloth of a dream. Otulissa then reveals she is making an invasion plan to go after the Pure Ones and she encourages Soren to dream for the Guardians of Ga'Hoole.

#### *The Shattering*

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Eglantine had started to have strange dreams of her parents being alive, and in her dreams she recalled Soren and Twilight saying that they were dead. She denied that fact and was awakened by Primrose, Eglantine's hollowmate. Ginger, another hollowmate who actually used to be a Pure One, suggested that they let her sleep. Primrose was shocked by this fact, but Eglantine reassured her that she was having a good dream. This statement started to make Primrose worried for the well-being of her friend and she suspected that something was deeply amiss. Primrose heads to the library, where Otulissa is ranting about Dewlap being a traitor. Otulissa tells Primrose and Digger about Shattering and how it's worse than moon blinking. Later, during a flight, Soren, Gylfie, Digger, and Twilight find a page from *Fleckasia and other Disorders of the Gizzard*. They return the page to Otulissa. Soren later has a dream involving the Mirror Lakes. When Trader Mags arrives, Otulissa gets a dowsing rod for flecks and a diagram of the owl brain. Suddenly, Soren spots Ginger play with a live but injured mouse with Eglantine watching. Soren swoops in and angrily threatens to report Ginger until Eglantine intervenes and tells him that Ginger only knew the ways of the Pure Ones, who are known to play with their food. Soren takes her back to his hollow and has her sleep there. Later on, he puts her in the infirmary out of the belief that her drowsiness is caused by summer flux. Eglantine later decides that her dreams are real and flies off to the Beaks where she meets an owl who claims to be her mother. Though the owl looks a lot liker her mother, there are some physical differences. Plus, the owl calls her darling, something that her mother never called her. After Eglantine falls asleep in her "mum's" nest, a light from the moon shines of a metal mask worn by an owl (probably Kludd/Metal Beak), revealing that the imposter owl posing as her mother is in fact a Pure One.

When Eglantine wakes up, she finds herself back at the Tree. She heads to the library and finds the books on higher magnetics. She rips out the pages and delivers them to her dream mum. On one such trip, Primrose follows her and gets captured by the Pure Ones.  They try and shatter her as well by she uses her amber that she received from Trader Maggs to secretly move the flex from her bedding to a hole where it couldn't hurt her.  She then faked being shattered.  Eventually, Eglantine begins to realize that something is wrong with her and flies back to the Beaks and realizes that her "mum" is really her evil sister in law, Nyra.   Nyra and her owls then capture her.

Back at the Tree, Digger, who had noticed Eglantine's strange behavior, reveals he checked out Eglantine's nest with the dowsing rod and found it full of flecks. They realize that Eglantine has been shattered by Ginger and discover that they are both gone. They set out to rescue her.

Back in the Beaks, Nyra reveals that she has laid an egg. Eglantine snatches it and flies away with Primrose. A chase ensues and the Chaw of Chaw find the missing pair. To escape, Eglantine is forced to drop the egg, which is destroyed. Afterwards, the Great Tree learns that St Aggie's has fallen to the Pure Ones. To prepare for a final battle with the enemy, the Chaw of Chaws is dispatched to the Northern Kingdoms.

#### *The Burning*

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The prologue begins with the Band finally becoming Guardians. They recite the Guardian Oath.

The Chaw of Chaws are sent to the Northern Kingdoms on a mission, courtesy of Ezylryb, who had given Soren his battle claws so every owl of the north would know that Soren was his ward. Ruby and Martin are sent to meet the Kielian Snake, Hoke of Hock, to recruit other kielian snakes to help them defend against the Pure Ones. Otulissa and Gylfie are sent to escort Dewlap to the Glauxian Sister's Retreat to be taken care of, while also traveling to the Glauxian Brothers Retreat's Library to learn about war strategy and retrieve a copy of the book Dewlap destroyed. Digger, Twilight, Eglantine, and Soren are sent to the Firth of Fangs to meet up with an old warrior, Moss, to gather troops for an invasion of St. Aegolius Canyons. Afterwards, they would all reunite at Dark Fowl Island.

When the owls reach the Ice Narrows, they nearly crash into a bunch of pufflings learning to fly. Their father, Dumpy, whom the Band had met on their initial journey to the Great Tree, invites the group to come back to his nest. There, they meet his mate, Tuppa, who obsesses over Dewlap and expresses wishes to "adopt" her, despite her being an elderly Burrowing Owl. This causes their son, Little Dumpy, to furiously leave the nest for good. Soren refuses their offer to take her, insisting that they still need to deliver her to Glauxian Sisters.

After their short visit, Soren's band make their way to the Ice Dagger in the Everwinter Sea, where the owls would split up to carry out their individual tasks over the course of fourteen nights. Gylfie and Otulissa rush off to deliver Dewlap to the Glauxian Sisters, then are quickly on their way to the Brothers' Retreat.

At the retreat, Gragg overhears their plan and convinces Ifghar that they should betray the Guardians to the Pure Ones in exchange for a reward and for revenge on Ezylryb. They have a gang of pirates kidnap Gylfie and threaten to feed her to wolves, unless she tells them informtion about Gahoole and what she is up to. Ifghar claims that he needs the information to help recruit the Ice Talon League to help the Guardians. Gylfie, however, sees through the lies and realizes that he and Gragg really mean to hand the information over to the Pure Ones as a form of revenge on Ezylryb. However, before the pirates can feed Gylfie to the wolves, Twilia, who had been suspicius of Gragg and Ifghar, turns up and paints herself golden and impersonates Gluax. She helps untie Gylfie, though they are nearly caught, but they use mirrors to blind the pirate owls and knock them out of the air.

Meanwhile, Soren, not knowing that Gylfie has escaped, reports that Gyflie has been kidnapped and that he doesn't know if the Northern Kingdoms will send them aid or not. He soon learns that he and his friends are assigned to teach Skench and the St. Aggie's owls how to fight with fire, something he refuses to do as a gizzard resister, and he takes an alternate assignment of working on making cold coals.

Meanwhile, Kludd and Nyra plan to hatch their egg during the lunar eclipse so that their child will become a powerful owl. They also expect the Guradians to attack during the lunar eclipse and have the place fortified. They have obtained the aide of rogue smiths from Beyond the Beyond to make fire claws.

#### *The Hatchling*

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The canyons of St. Aegolius Academy for Orphaned Owls have become the home of the Pure Ones. Nyroc, son of Nyra and the deceased former Pure Ones leader, Kludd, is a superb flier and hunter. He was born on the night of an eclipse, and like his mother, his face is unusually large and white, even for a Barn Owl. Nyra is training him to take Kludd's place as the High Tyto. Nyroc is friends with Dustytuft, a low-ranking Greater Sooty Owl. It's unusual that Dustytuft was chosen to be Nyroc's friend, and was present at the time of his hatching.

Nyra, Nyroc, Dustytuft, some selected Pure Ones, and a rogue smith named Gwyndor go to Kludd's final ceremony, where his bones will be burned. Nyra tells Nyroc that his uncle Soren killed Kludd. As the bones burn, Gwyndor watches Nyroc, who is staring at the flames instead of the bones. Nyroc sees creatures in it - strange, tall four-legged creatures being chased by smaller ones, with an image of an ember as well as a Great Gray Owl killing his father. Gwyndor sees the reflections in Nyroc's eyes, and realizes that he has firesight.

Nyra then tried to convince Gwyndor to stay and make fire claws for the Pure Ones, and while he initially refused at first, he decided to stay for Nyroc's sake. Lying to her about gathering materials for the claws, he traveled to Silverveil to look for a slipgizzle to know more about the Special ceremony. Discovering that the Rogue Smith of Silverveil is on her forge, Gwyndor asked her and was told that the ceremony involves murdering someone very close. Gwyndor races back to the Pure Ones to warn Nyroc but was mobbed by crows along the way. Harry and his family saved him and tended to his wounds, and he left immediately once he woke up.

Once he returned to the Canyonlands, Gwyndor suggests to Nyra that Nyroc should become his "apprentice". Nyra objects at first, but agrees when she is told the benefits of Nyroc being a skilled smith and being the High Tyto. When Nyroc is alone with the masked owl, Gwyndor tells him that he has firesight. Nyra, meanwhile, has been telling Nyroc that his "Special Ceremony" or "Tupsi" is coming up and that he must be prepared.

Nyroc remembers the Great Gray Owl in the fire of Kludd's Final Ceremony, and realizes that Nyra lied to him - Soren didn't kill his father, but the Great Gray did. He tells Dustytuft, and they escape from the Pure Ones. Dustytuft tells Nyroc about his past, and that his real name was either Edgar or Phillip. Nyroc asks which name he prefers, and Dustytuft replies that he prefers Phillip. Nyroc decides to call him Phillip instead of Dustytuft.

The pair have been refuging in old burrows of foxes and burrowing owls. Nyroc starts to molt and he panics, thinking that he is losing his feathers alltogether. Phillip tells him that he's just molting, and that the feathers will grow back. They soon realize that they are being tracked by the best tracker in the owl kingdoms, Doc Finebeak, and the Pure Ones, who have realized that they are missing. The two decide on burying both their molted feathers and pellets, before sweeping away their tracks with lichen. However, they are soon being chased, and are forced into the twisters, which is a storm of winds powerful enough to tear an owl's wings off. They are both caught when they are swept out of it.

Nyroc is shocked when Phillip is tied to a tree, realizing that his special ceremony means killing someone dear to him, in this case Phillip. He is angry at Nyra, thinking that it would have been an animal, or even Smutty, a Lesser Sooty Owl prisoner. Nyra says that would be too easy, and Phillip shrieks at him to fly away. When Nyroc refuses to kill him, Nyra tears her talon across Nyroc's face, scarring him. She then breaks Phillip's neck and rips out his heart. Nyroc screams that he hates her, and flees.

Nyroc, distraught at Phillip's death, is being haunted by his father's scroom. He is also being mistaken to be Nyra because of his new scar, thus many owls flee at the sight of him. Nyroc begins hunting in the day and sleeping at night to avoid other owls. Soon, he encounters a rabbit who can read messages in spider webs. He asks the rabbit many questions, which he doesn't have all the answers to. But the rabbit tells him that he must go to the Beyond the Beyond, a vast, barren place of Dire Wolves and the legendary Ember of Hoole. They both say goodbye and part ways.

#### *The Outcast*

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The prologue picks up right where the last book left off, with Nyroc shouting at the scroom of his father, Kludd, claiming his free will and officially denouncing his allegiance to the Pure Ones.

Nyroc flies off to find a hollow, and just as he's about to land at one in Ambala, a few Great Gray Owls, Silvertip, Hortense (named after the famous Hortense), and Tup, swoop in and tell him he's not welcome as the son of Nyra. After a bit of pleading, the owls allow Nyroc to stay a few nights. Before leaving, they tell him that the hollow he's staying at is haunted by a Brown Fish Owl named Simon, who was killed by Kludd, and they tell him that Gwyndor, Nyroc's rogue smith friend, has gone to the Beyond the Beyond. When he leaves three days later, he looks into a lake at his own reflection. Seeing how closely he resembles his mother, he decides to never call himself Nyroc again.

Later, he finds himself a sycamore tree to rest in, where he runs into Slynella and Stingyll, the Flying Snakes of Ambala. At first, he mistaken them for emissaries of the Pure Ones, but they inform him they were sent by Mist, the original Hortense. He then also learns they once helped save Soren, his uncle. The snakes guide him to the nest of Zan and Streak, where Mist lives.

Upon meeting Mist, she tells Nyroc she had been observing him for a while now. She asks his name, which he responds that he has none. She then tells him he bears a great resemblance to Soren, which pleases Nyroc greatly as he had only ever been compared to Nyra. Mist advises him to travel into the Beyond in order to prove himself in a sense, but tells him to take his time and stay with them for a while to prepare him for his journey.

Mist tells Nyroc the story of Soren and his Band, and the Legends of Ga'Hoole. Slynella and Stingyll teach him letters and numbers, then eventually words. Mist tells him he should choose a name, so he does, starting with telling the snakes to spell out "Nyroc" by flying through the air, taking the shape of the letters as they flew. He tells the snakes to reverse the letters, giving him his new name, "Coryn".

After a month of staying at the eagles' nest, Coryn makes the decision to leave and complete his journey to the Beyond the Beyond. Mist speaks with him before leaving, giving him news that the Pure Ones were stealing eggs again between the border of Silverveil and the Shadow Forest, possibly hatching them in the Eggorium at St. Aggie's, their current headquarters. She also informs him that one of Nyra's top lieutenants is on the run from the Pure Ones. Coryn predicts that it must be Uglamore, since he appeared to be less loyal than the others. Mist, Zan, Streak, and the snakes all bid Coryn farewell, with the snakes writing "Glauxspeed Coryn" across the sky as he flew off.

Coryn finds himself flying over the Barrens, when he overheard the same Burrowing Owl family he had met in *The Hatchling* who mistaken him for Nyra. The daughter, Kalo, was telling her mother and father, Myrtle and Harry, that she had seen Coryn outside. She claims that Coryn said he was going to "kill her", which her parents believe. He also overheard them mention their missing egg, which he decides on retrieving by disguising himself as a hagsfiend.

Approaching the hollow where the eggs are kept, he finds that they were being guarded by three new recruits, including an owl named Flint, who were already on edge over everything being so quiet. Coryn descends from the sky, telling them he's the hagsfiend of Nyra who had come to curse them for disobedience. It works immediately, and the owls leave their post, giving him the opportunity to rescue the Burrowing Owl egg.

Coryn returns the egg to Kalo's family, who initially are afraid of him, but soon allow the young owl into their burrow because he saved their egg. The egg hatches, and the family names the new hatchling after Coryn, nicknamed Cory. He stays with the family for a while, learning about their ways, until he has to leave for the Beyond.

Rumors are spreading around the kingdom that Nyra had died because of the hagsfiend incident, much to Coryn's amusement. He listens in onto a family of short-eared owlwho are telling the story of Grank and Hoole. Soon, he makes the conclusion that his life is like the story, but he is like Grank while the little Burrowing Owl, Cory, is like Hoole, and would be a king someday. Coryn begins to believe his reasoning for going to the Beyond is for education, so he can teach Cory about colliering.

Coryn soon reaches the Beyond, where he observes the rogue colliers and dire wolves hunting. He realizes they are the creatures he saw in the fire at his father's Final Ceremony. When they bring down a deer, he goes to eat some of the meat, where he meets some rude ravens who tell him he can't eat yet and make fun of Coryn for not knowing the names of creatures in the Beyond. They tell him about Hamish, the gnaw wolf, and the order of eating among the wolves, and that birds always ate last.

Coryn later watches the wolves take down a moose, but the carcass is stolen by a grizzly bear. Coryn approaches and begins to eat with the bear, being careful to stay away from his portion. The rest of the wolves slowly come in, and Coryn makes sure Hamish is allowed to eat with them as well.

Meanwhile, at the Great Tree, Otulissa decides on traveling to the Beyond the Beyond, in search of answers after an encounter with the scroom of Strix Struma, somewhere no Guardian of Ga'Hoole had ever gone before. There she meets Gwyndor, who introduces her to the MacDuncan clan.

Back in Silverveil, Nyra kills the Rogue Smith of Silverveil and assume her identity. She goes off to find Trader Mags at her chapel residence, but only finds her assistant, Bubbles. This, however, works to her advantage as Bubbles is gullible and allows her to trade one of the Rogue Smith's silver art pieces, along with a pair of tongs, for a bunch of paintings of green Others' eyes. When Mags comes back, she is angry at Bubbles for such a trade, being alarmed that something must have happened to the original smith.

In the Beyond, Coryn learns about the Sacred Watch, and that Hamish wanted to be a part of it. Later, he learns of the Ember of Hoole from Hamish. Later, they find tracks that showed signs of a sick wolf with the "foaming-mouth disease", or rabies. Coryn flies high as a lookout until they reach MacHeath territory, who Coryn learns are a dangerous group of wolves bitter about not being high-born like the MacDuncans, thus their gnaw wolves are normally not permitted to join the Watch. They had a purposefully maimed pup named Cody, with the intent that he could join the Sacred Watch. Coryn is invited to the gathering of the two wolf clans as a peacemaker, because the tale of him bringing together the wolves and bear had spread across the Beyond.

At their meeting, which they called a **Gadderheal**, it's revealed that the MacHeaths had received a gift of green eye paintings. Coryn looks into the fire in the center of a cave, and sees Nyra, dressed up as a rogue smith, and is made aware that she had been there recently, bringing those gifts. He reveals his firesight to Hamish, and tells him about his mother. Later, he finally meets Otulissa and reunites with Gwyndor.

Gwyndor tells Otulissa about Coryn's firesight, and she realizes the cantos of the Fire Cycle may have been foreshadowing Coryn's retrieval of the Ember of Hoole. Otulissa, being a collier, decides on teaching Coryn how to fetch coals.

Soon, the current Fengo, leader of the Watch, allows Hamish to join his rank. He's assigned a taiga, Banquo, who leads Hamish away to teach him their ways. Afterwards, Otulissa begins her colliering lessons with Coryn, who excels at it. Looking into the coals he caught, he sees a vision of Nyra, meeting yet again with the McHeaths, as well as a vision of the Ember of Hoole.

Meanwhile, Nyra tries to convince the McHeaths to create an alliance with the Pure Ones. She tricks them into believing that they were intended by King Hoole to be the Wolves of the Watch rather than the McDuncans. All believe her except Gyllbane, the mother of Cody, who is suspicious. Dunleavy B. MacHeath, the chieftain, forms a Blood Oath with Nyra, forming their alliance. Nyra tells them she will bring the Ember of Hoole back to the MacHeaths, and that she would kill Coryn.

Once he's alone, Coryn is approached by Strix Struma's scroom yet again. She tells him that he needs to fetch the Ember of Hoole, before Nyra does. His conversation is interrupted and Strix Struma disappears, only for Gyllbane to show up, having betrayed her clan, and warn Coryn about Nyra's plan to kill him soon. He finally decides he needs to claim the Ember.

Coryn circles the Sacred Ring of Volcanoes, and spots the Ember of Hoole within a volcano known as Mt. Hrath'ghar. He swoops in and retrieves it with his beak. Soon, all the creatures around him begin to cheer, exclaiming: "Long live Coryn, the King!" Nearby, Nyra watches and, at the right opportunity, darts out to strike. Fortunately, Uglamore and Doc Finebeak appear, coming out to help Coryn, who had spotted the infected wolf just in time. Seeing Nyra, Coryn tries to steer her into the wolf's jaws. Gyllbane appears as well, chasing Nyra towards the sick wolf, but she manages to escape by pushing Uglamore into the jaws of the wolf. With his dying breath, Uglamore explains how he began to doubt the Pure Ones, and found all life valuable, and that he was glad to sacrifice himself for the new king. Once he dies, Coryn orders the rogue smiths to burn his body with their coals out of respect.

The wolves of the Sacred Watch are healed after the Ember was retrieved, and Coryn, after saying goodbye to Hamish and Gyllbane, leaves for the Great Ga'Hoole Tree with Otulissa.

Back at the Great Tree, the Chaw of Chaws are summoned to the Parliament room, where the now elderly Boron and Barran are ill and dying. They reveal that once the Ember of Hoole is retrieved, the monarchs of the Great Tree would die. After they passed away, Soren returns to his hollow to his mate, Pellimore, who is sitting on a clutch of eggs. As Ezylryb comes in to check up the family, Soren feels strongly that he has to go outside, where he finally meets his nephew, the new king, and leads him back to the Great Tree.

#### *The First Collier*

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*The First Collier* is part of the 3 books called "The Legends". Soren and the new king Coryn, at the request of Ezylryb, read the first of the three books of the Legends. These books, *The First Collier, The Coming of Hoole* and *To Be a King*, are all based on the owl legends.
*The First Collier* is about, as the name suggests, the first collier, Grank. Grank discovers that he has firesight, and goes to Beyond the Beyond to learn more about firesight. There, he meets Fengo , and discovers the Ember of Hoole. Once he retrieves it, he spends countless days staring at it as if entranced. He sees that the King H'rath and Queen Siv are in danger, yet he does nothing to help his dear friends.
Joss, a messenger for the royalty, delivers a message to Grank from H'rath. Fengo retrieves Grank from his trancelike state and Grank, once dropped the ember in the volcano, goes to help his friends.
Siv and her servant, Myrrthe, seek shelter in the Glauxian Sisters' Retreat, only to discover that the owls there have been spellbound. The evil hagsfiends cast the Natch Ga' spell on the Glauxess, Siv's cousin, capturing the other Glauxian sisters. Myrrthe finds this out, and the duo leave immediately.
Grank, after seeing pictures in the flames, finds out about the Glauxian Sisters and attempts to rescue them. He goes to the Retreat and "seeks shelter." The Glauxess invites him for a vole, and Grank agrees. He finds out that all of the owls have been spellbound. In his talons, he has an ice splinter, ready to stab the Glauxess in the gizzard so that the owls will be freed from the spell. As he sees the Glauxess, a harsh, hypnotic yellow light fills the area (radiated from the hagsfiends' eyes), trying to blind Grank and put him in their control. He finds himself slipping, but as the Glauxess comes closer, he stabs the ice splinter in her gizzard and loses conscience. When he awoke, he discovered that the Glauxian Sisters have been broken from the spell. He heads to the Ice Palace in search of Siv.
As suspected, Grank rendezvouses (without knowing) Siv and Myrrthe at the Palace. They talk, and Grank states that "a queen in danger is more dangerous than the egg in danger." They plot that Grank will take the egg and raise it, while Siv will escape with Myrrthe. Suddenly, a harsh stench fills the air. The hagsfiends found the Palace.
They agreed that Siv will carry a fake egg made of snow and ice. They say their farewells, and Grank flies off. He finds a wonderful place to make a forge and a nest for Siv's egg. He makes sure it's comfortable, and then sets up a fire in his new forge. He spots Siv and tries to clearly see her movements.
Siv was still in the Palace. Two Lord Arrin's hagsfiends were cornering her for snatch the egg. Once cornered, a harsh yellow light (the same light that had almost hypnotized Grank in the Glauxian Sisters' Retreat) filled the air. The moon and stars faded into the glaring, hypnotic light. Siv looked as if she were going yeep , but she was actually falling under the spell, Natch Ga'. When the yellow light filled maximum intensity, Siv cried out resistance and ran forward with her weapon. There was a bloody wing on the ground, and the snow turned red. The visions disappeared, and Grank found himself deeply disturbed.
Grank later meets Theo , his first apprentice and the first owl blacksmith. Grank teaches him the ways of fire, and Theo teaches Grank the lesson of obnoxiousness. Theo rarely stopped talking in their lessons!
Meanwhile, Myrrthe guides Siv to an iceberg which was "safe from enemies". Myrrthe cares for her, and meets a polar bear named Svenka . Svenka teaches her how to fish, and helps in caring for Siv.
One day, Myrrthe goes and doesn't come back. Siv gets worried. Then, Svenka says that Myrrthe had been killed by hagsfiends.
Svenka told Siv that the hagsfiends had surrounded her. Svenka tried to save her, but again the dangerously luminous yellow light filled the night. Svenka, surprised, slowly got paralyzed and watched as the hagsfiends killed Myrrthe. Once the light retracted, Svenka made her move. She grieved for Myrrthe, yet Siv grieved more.
Svenka dedicated herself to care for Siv. She even taught her to fly again. One day, Svenka said she was birthing. Siv was left alone for a period of time, but she was ecstatic for her polar bear friend.
Then Lord Arrin, who had long wanted Siv's egg, went on her iceberg for get news about the egg and asked if he could be the new father of it. Siv didn't give any information about the egg, so at the end of the speech, outraged, went back in the ice hollow.
After a short tour in the iceberg, she remains in the hollow thinking about her egg and other things, like the natchmagen of the Hagsfiends and the types of birth.
At the end of her reflections she find a way to avoid being charmed by the Hagsfiends, that is: don't be distracted or amazed by them, and focus on something.
Later Svenka gives birth three cubs and returns to Siv for a brief time. Siv is excited and asks Svenka about her cubs. She says that they were three beautiful little cubs, but that one died. Then Siv says to her that Lord Arrin would be back soon, considering that the weather of the firth was freezing. So the polar bear help Siv breaking the ice near the iceberg, in order to discourage the Hagsfiends' attack.
At the end, Lord Arrin and his troup of Hagsfiends come to attack Siv, and in that same moment there was the egg's hatching assisted by Grank and Theo. Meanwhile Siv tries to strike Penryk with the H'rath's scimitar, but he avoid the stroke. So she decide to fly over the firth, hoping found a spot of ice-free wather, that woul endanger the Hagsfiends. Then, sorrounded by them, she land on a floe, where Lord Arrin insist asking her to become his queen and if the egg was hatched, trying to distract her. But she remains focused and ready to the battle with the scimitar raised.
In the meantime Hoole was born, and Siv felt immediately a strong bond with him.

In the epilogue Coryn confessed to Soren that, due to this tale, he understand that his mother is a Hagsfiend.

#### *The Coming of Hoole*

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The story begins with Siv confronting Lord Arrin and some hagsfiends. They are about to kill her when Svenka shows up and rescues Siv. The chapter ends with Siv praying.

Meanwhile, Hoole hatches out. After Hoole eats his first worm, his first bug and then his first mammal, Theo seems to be pretty exhausted and Grank is looking to see if he is budging yet.

Theo, after looking at the Glauxian Brothers' retreat, returns with an apparently bloody (and plump) vole. After Hoole finishes the vole and begins pestering them with questions about numbers, Grank sends him to nest, and Theo and Grank have a conversation about the Glauxian Brothers, who have taken up residence on the island.

Time passes, presumably 6 weeks as that is the time it takes for a Spotted Owl to fledge, and Hoole now has his flight feathers. Berwyck, one of the Glauxian Brothers investigating the mysterious family, comes and tells Hoole to start branching. After some conversation, Hoole flies and catches his first rabbit, and even learns how to fish.

While Hoole is learning to fly, Siv disguises herself as a gadfeather and goes to a gadfeather gathering where she meets the Snow Rose. Meanwhile, Brother Berwyck leaves to go on a pilgrimage. Hoole soon meets Phineas, a disorganized male Pygmy Owl, who becomes Hoole's best friend. Siv eventually finds Hoole fishing in his favorite fishing spot. They talk for a while, until they are ambushed by Pleek. a Great Horned Owl, and his hagsfiend mate Ygryk, sent by Lord Arrin, who intends to take Siv as his mate. The two mates want to take Hoole to raise as their own chick.

After this ambush, Hoole is saved by Grank and Pleek and Ygryk, wounded, fled. Siv too runs away, and Hoole confessed to Grank that he has firesight, and because of this he knew she was his mother. Then he, Grank, Theo and Phineas leave for Beyond the Beyond, because they realized that the islands in the Bitter Sea were no longer safe.

Meanwhile Fengo misses Grank, and shows this with the "glaffing," a particular type of howling, but he is interrupted by Dunleavy MacHeath. He claims that the Ember belongs to the wolves, but Fengo disagrees. They have a scuffle, and during the fight MacHeath loses an eye to Fengo. He retires with all his mates, but his oldest mate, Hordweard, who is tired of his bullying, refuses to return with him. Fengo finds it strange, knowing MacHeath's reputation as a tyrant and corrupter, so he was sure she would become a spy.

At the same time Pleek and Yrgryk go to Kreeth, a friend of Yrgryk's dwelling in the Ice Narrows, to recover their strength lost in the ambush. Kreeth tells the mates that she was working on a charm to make hagsfiends invulnerable to seawater, but to complete it she needed the young prince. At that moment the three see Hoole with his friends flying south, and discover the prince was likely to live in Beyond the Beyond.

In their journey to the Beyond, Hoole and his friends rest on an island in the middle of the S'yrthghar Sea (the future Island of Hoole), where he finds a seedling that begins to grow quickly the first time he looks at it. They soon leave, and stop to rest in the Shadow Forest. But while the rest are asleep, Grank finds himself unable to rest due to his troubled thoughts about Hoole, so he goes out searching for something to eat. He follows prey up to the Spirit Woods, but at some point when he's on a mound he hears a breath noise, and meets the scroom of H'rath. They speak briefly, in which H'rath says to Grank that he must look for the channels of the flames, but Grank does not understand exactly what that means.

In the Beyond, Mac Heath wishes for Hordweard to return to him, so he sends one of his mates to gift her with his best gnaw bone.

In the meantime, Hoole and the others arrive in the Beyond. Here, Hoole learns how to catch coals and learns of the strategies of dire wolves. Grank also hopes that the boy would feel the presence of the Ember, but regretfully discovers that Hoole still did not seem particularly interested in what the wolves, under Grank's suggestion, are keeping watch of in the Sacred Ring. Later, Grank looks into his fire, and sees a vision of two wolves making ​​their way to the Northern Kingdoms, but did not see that one was MacHeath and the other, following at a distance, was Hordweard.

MacHeath reaches Lord Arrin and alerts him about the presence of Hoole and "company” in the Beyond, and furthermore he makes a deal with him. But, on the way back, he is killed by Hordweard, who was lurking behind a boulder for days waiting for her revenge.

Finally Hoole, is reached by Siv, and she alerts him of the arrival of the enemies. Shortly after, the troops of Lord Arrin arrive and the battle begins. Towards the end of this fight, Hoole feels the beckon of the Ember and manages to catch it. When he lands with it, the enemy troops retire, he approaches Grank, who is hovering over Siv. Sadly, she was fatally wounded by Lord Arrin, and dies. Grank and Hoole grieve for her.

Next, Hoole becomes a knight of the H'rathian Guard of the Ice Regiment as well as the new King, and he chooses to locate his court in the mysterious tree on the island in the middle of the Sea of S’yrthghar (which will become the Great Ga’Hoole Tree). In the epilogue The Band, Coryn and Otulissa think about why Ezylryb wanted them to read those legends. Finally, Coryn deduces that maybe there could have been a rip in the fragile “membrane” that had enveloped their world for a long time, and protected it from nachtmagen, and that through that rip, the nachtmagen could seep back.

#### To Be a King

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In this final book of the Legends trilogy Hoole reclaims the throne of his father and goes on to wage a war against the forces of chaos, greed and oppression led by the powerful warlord-tyrants. Grank, the first collier, uses his skills with fire and metals to forge weapons for battle. With great trepidation Hoole uses the power of the Ember in the final, decisive battle and wins. At the dawn of a new era of peace, Hoole searches for the ideal place to establish not a kingdom but an order of free owls and finds the Great Tree.

*more coming soon!*

#### *The Golden Tree*

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The Band, in order to divert Coryn from his obsession about Nyra, go on a journey with him across the Southern Kingdoms. Before they leave, under pressure from some members of the Parliament, Coryn directs a group of Guardians from every chaw and nest-maid snakes from all the guilds to guard the Ember of Hoole, which, according to some, wasn’t adequatly sheltered. Soren's band travel up into Silverveil. Soon, they find a hollow to spend the day, and the Band tell Coryn about finding Bess and the Palace of the Mists when they were younger. They leave, but stopped due to a strong headwind. While the others were asleep, Coryn thought about what they told him before about Bess. Determined to find out if his mother was a hagsfiend, or something worse, he flew away in broad daylight without being discovered by the others.

Meanwhile at the Great Tree, many owls (except Otulissa) were becoming more and more obsessed with the Ember and its security. So much so they establish foolish ceremonies and an “elite” group of Guardians with the task to “better protect” the Ember.

Coryn, meanwhile, was searching for the mystical Rabbit who he had met during his first escape from the Pure Ones, but never succeeds. Coming back, he finds his path to a grog tree. There, he discovered that Mags had obtained *The Book of Kreeth*. Without his botkin, he was unable to retrieve the book, and he flew to inform the Band of his discovery.

Back at the hollow, Coryn reveals to the Band how he had thought for a long time about the identity of his mother, and what he had discovered about the book. Soren, in order to reassure Coryn and the others, told them that there was no evidence that Nyra was a hagsfiend and not to worry. They go off to find Mags. However, Twilight discovers that Stryker has bought the Book of Kreeth. They decided to head toward the canyonlands. On their way, they find the mystic Rabbit who revealed to them that the book was in a cave with Nyra.

The situation at the Great Tree deterioratesto such an extent a prison-hollow was created, where owls who committed “crimes against the Ember” where detained. The first to be imprisoned was Otulissa. She was accused of crimes against the Ember for having hidden Madame Plonk’s coronation teacup, which the GGE wanted to claim for use in its Ember ceremonies (she had done so at Madame Plonk's request). Madame Plonk was placed under "tree arrest," not actually jailed on account of her singing being required for the Ember ceremonies. She regretted involving Otulissa, and getting her imprisoned. She took advantage of the fact that she wasn’t so controlled, due to her voice which snapped while she was singing (she claimed she needed space to heal). She flew away from the Tree to look for the King and the Band to inform them of the trouble at the tree.

The king and the Band continued to travel towards the canyons. Soren realized he thought that they were rushing too much and needed more information. He asked Coryn to watch in the flames of a fire they kindled. He, saw in the flames the she-wolf Gyllbane. Soren was right, and they changed course toward the Beyond. They arrived and heard tale of the Tunnel of Despair. Gyllbane and Fengo, Coryn’s wolf friends, said that it was the tunnel where they saw Mac Heath and his mate went out to and turned into vyrwolves under the moonlight. Their description of vyrwolves was very similar to hagsfiends. It was decided to send Gylfie in to explore, since she was the smallest and would have an easier time manuvering the twisted passageways.

Madame Plonk made it across the Sea of Hoolemere, only to collapse into an exhausted heap. She was stirred awake by Doc Finebeak, who joined her in the search of Coryn and the others.

Gylfie, after exploring the tunnel and returning to the meeting point, reported to the Band that the end of the tunnel was the entrance of the cave where Twilight killed Kludd, and that she had seen Nyra and the vyrwolves holed up in there with *The Book of Kreeth*.

The Band and Coryn decided they had to attack them and retrieve the dangerous book. They were aided by wolves who arrived from the Beyond and were led to the canyons by Namara. During the battle they wanted to ensure the vyrwolves wouldn't reach the moonlight and transform, but also they couldn't let them go too deep in the cave and lose them. Unfortunately the strategy failed and Nyra, after seriously wounding Twilight, escaped deep into the cave. Then Digger, after having spotted Madame Plonk, who arrived there with Doc, told her to go to treat the Great Gray, and then he too went to chase Nyra, along with Coryn. At last Coryn faced Nyra and made her go yeep, due to an irradiation of green light flowing from his eye, which, as he’ll found out later, was the power of the Ember which “flowed” through him. Shortly after Nyra and her troops retired, and was discovered that Cody, Namara’s son, who had completed the task of steal the book to Nyra, was killed. Instead Twilight was cared by Stingyll and Slynella, brought there by Soren and Doc Fineabeack and after few days he returned along with the Band, Coryn, Madame Plonk and Doc to the Great Tree.

Once arrived they eliminated all the nonsense made up for the Ember, including the prison-hollow. Coryn also scolded harshly the members of the Parliament who consented to do such things. Finally, in order to avoid similar events the Band along with the King, and the counsel of Otulissa, put the Ember with the others in the Bubo’s hollow, who was immune to its influence.

#### *The River of Wind*

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The book begins with a Otulissa reading a message from Bess that relays the discovery of the Middle Kingdoms. Bess requests that the Chaw of Chaws come to the Palace of Mists for further details, as she refused to elaborate in her letter. The group, along with Coryn and Ms. Plithiver (whom had asked to come along due to her refined sensibilities as a blind snake telling her it was important) head out to meet with Bess, bringing their battle claws along just in case.

Meanwhile, Eglantine, Primrose and Pellimore are teaching a chawlet class in Silverveil, where there had been a forest fire. Soren's three children are split up into different classes due to them distracting each other, with Bell following Fritha in the navigation chawlet. Bell, bored with the class, goes off to try and find better winds to fly and dance in, and disappears.

The Chaw of Chaws arrive safely at the Palace of Mists, where Bess begins to tell them about her discovery. Previously, it was thought that there was a place called the Elswhere where only Others were thought to have lived, but this was discovered to be false by Bess. Owls with a different language, Jouzhen, reside in this land, the Middle Kingdoms.They want to fly there but are worried about the distance being too long without any islands along the way to rest at, but Otulissa, with her knowledge of different kinds of winds, figures out the proper places to fly due to the wind current that would allow them to fly effortlessly without hardly flapping their wings. In order to find it, they must travel through a maze of winds, to which Bess has a fragment of paper with a key that explains how to navigate it.They decide to go after a few days of study, bringing a gift of rabbit's ear moss and leaving behind their battle claws in a display of peace.

Back in Silverveil, Fritha returns with the navigation class, frantic about Bell having gone missing. Eglantine and Primrose go out to try and track her down, with Pelli staying behind to stay with the other two chicks, Blythe and Bash. It is revealed that Bell had been swept away in a sudden harsh wind and had hit her head, going unconscious.

The Chaw of Chaws is heading west in Beyond the Beyond towards an inlet in the Unnamed Sea. The owls stop for a bit, saying goodbye to their land. Gylfie maps out their course and leads the group out to sea.

After Bell crashed, she was rescued by a mysterious owl. When she awakens, she becomes frightened by the stranger, a blue owl who appears to be a Snowy Owl with some features of a Spotted Owl. He introduces himself as Striga, and Bell asks if he's a Glauxian Brother from the Northern Kingdoms on a pilgrimage due to his strange accent and name, which she mistakes for Krakish. He admits he is on a pilgrimage, but does not elaborate further about his past. Meanwhile, Pelli has taken the chawlets back to the Great Ga'Hoole Tree where she will inform Doc Finebeak, a renowned tracker, about the disappearance of Bell. Eglantine and Primrose continue their search.

After flying for a while, the Chaw of Chaws suddenly reach the tomorrow line, the place where the sky drastically changes from day to night. They now make use of the key, using it to navigate through the rough winds, nearly being wounded or dying. They emerge from the rough flight missing some feathers and Ms. Plithiver having lost part of her tail, but they are overall alright and ascend to the River of Wind, where they fly smoothly and freely. They are still cautious of the surrounding harsh winds though, the mummified corpses of birds who had been torn apart in them being a terrifying reminder.

Bell is questioning the Striga, who has been taking care of her for a few days. He had begun to grow fond of her, enjoying the name she had given him, as his original name was Orlando, a name he wasn't particularly fond of as it was a fancy court name. Striga was merely the name of his kind, and Bell had mistaken it for a personal name. Bell misses her family a lot, often crying out for them and talking on about how much she misses them and the Great Tree. The tree is something the Striga had heard of before in the Theo Papers, but neglects to tell Bell about this. While Bell eats a mouse the Striga had fetched for her, he hears a noise and goes to investigate. It is revealed that they are being watched by none other than Nyra, Stryker, and Tarn.

The Chaw of Chaws spot a kite, and proceed to follow the strings. They find a blue owl flying the kites, and Otulissa introduces herself in Jouzhen, as she had learned what she could from the paper scraps Bess had. He reveals that he has been learning to speak Hoolian in anticipation for their meeting, and introduces himself as Tengshu. He explains that he learned of the tree in the Theo Papers. They also ask about how he knew of their coming, to which he says that an astrologist of the old court predicted it. Otulissa scoffs at this, as astrology is not seen as a legitimate science in the Hoolian Kingdoms. Lastly, Tengshu reveals his incredible age, three hundred and twenty-five years old, and mentions that the Dragon Owls of the mock court at the Panqua Palace don't live as long. The group takes interest in these Dragon Owls, so Tengshu guides them to the Panqua Palace.

After five nights, no progress had been made in locating Bell. Primrose and Eglantine spot a blue feather, one that had fallen off the Striga. Meanwhile, while the Striga is out hunting, Bell attempts to branch. Nyra watches on, recognizing that the chick belongs to Soren due to her strong resemblance, and flies in to capture her.

When the Striga returns from his hunt, he is also taken by Lieutenant Stryker and Corporal Wort. Eglantine and Primrose are on their trail now, making their way to the easternmost parts of the Desert of Kuneer, where Eglantine picks up on the voice of Nyra underground in the burrows.They listen in on her interrogation of the Striga, finding out that Nyra knows of the Chaw of Chaws' trip to the Middle Kingdoms. She plans to use this to her advantage in an attempt to assassinate Soren and Coryn. Eglantine and Primrose find Doc Finebeak, whom gives them his crow feather so they can quickly fly to the Palace of Mists, so they can find out how to warn the Chaw of Chaws.

The Chaw of Chaws arrive at the Panqua Palace, where they meet Empress Dowager, from whom they are informed of Orlando, the Striga, defecting, and how it might mess up the "phonqua", a sort of idea of destiny among the owls of the Middle Kingdoms. The Chaw is instructed to go to the owlery the next night and speak to the H'ryth, but before they go, Soren experiences a dream with his starsight, hearing a distressed owl, but he does not yet understand the dream.

Back in the Desert of Kuneer, Cuffyn, a healer, is listening in on Nyra's interrogation. Nyra manages to get the same instructions from the Striga about the location of the Zong Phong (the River of Wind), and Nyra leaves with eighteen armed owls, including herself, Stryker, Wort, and Tarn. After they leave, Cuffyn brings sleeping draft-laced bingle juice to the Pure Ones guarding the Striga and Bell.

Meanwhile, the Chaw of Chaws make their way to meet the pikyus at the Mountain of Time. They are introduced to Gup Theosang, the H'ryth.

Tengshu returns to his home, only to be startled by the unexpected arrival of Eglantine and Primrose, who had successfully gotten instructions from Bess. They inform him of the Pure Ones, and he tells them to go directly to Soren to warn him while flying with the red tail of his qui, a signal for danger. The Pure Ones are now in close pursuit, flying in the deadly winds of the Zong Phong. They lose a few owls, but Nyra, Stryker, Wort, Tarn, and a few other owls make it out fine. They just barely make it to the shore before Tengshu rushes out to battle, killing Stryker and three other Pure Ones directly with his Danyar training. A few other owls simply go yeep, plummeting to their deaths. Nyra and her owls scatter, fleeing from Tengshu.

Bell and the Striga, after the guards drank the bingle juice and fell asleep, are able to escape. With the help of Cuffyn, they fly off to the Great Tree, but once it is in view they notice the Strix Struma Strikers, Flame Squadron, and Bonk Brigade, on their way to war in the Middle Kingdoms. The Striga decides to go help lead them through the River of Winds, and Cuffyn brings Bell back to the tree.

At the owlery, the Chaw of Chaws is learning the art of Danyar. They also discuss with the H'ryth the nature of the Panqua Palace, until they are interrupted by the announcement of the red qui tail, signalling an attack.

Eglantine and Primrose tell the Chaw of Chaws about the incoming attack just before Nyra shows up, wearing the mask of Kludd. The pikyus and the Chaw all head out to battle, some carrying yak butter torches. Nyra manages to corner Coryn and Soren into a trap, but they are saved by the Striga, who rushes in and kills the Pure Ones pursuing them. Although, because he used his talons rather than Danyar, he is scorned by the H'ryth, but Soren defends him for saving them, and they decide to let him come back to the Great Tree with them.

#### *Exile*

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The Milkberry Harvest Festival is subdued this year out of respect to the Striga, because he had saved Bell and also foiled an assassination attempt on Coryn and Soren, and he finds it to be a vanity. Also, the Striga has been giving out blue feathers to owlets as part of some Blue Feather Club. However, Soren becomes uneasy when he sees king Coryn, an adult, with a blue feather.

Things go from bad to worse as the Striga lures Bell into his Blue Feather Club and then has Soren's band sent away, supposedly on a science expedition, but his real intention is to get them out of the way so that he can continue deceiving Coryn. Eventually, after a spy of his spots the Band with Mist, whom he mistakes for a scroom, he accuses the Band of hagscraft and has them banished, though Coryn doesn't know this, as he only leaves out his notices on the mainland. Both the Band and later Pellimore spot one of these. Pelli and Bubo also realize that the Ember is in danger, either from the Striga or a corrupted Corryn, and replace it with a fake and send the real one to the Palace of Mists.

Meanwhile, Cory, the burrowing owl named after Coryn, and his sister, Kalo, are harassed by the Blue Brigade when Kalo refuses to give up their books. Eventually, Kalo is marked to be burned at the stake and so she flees with her family. Cory goes to the Great Tree and his visit wakes enough of Coryn out of the depression and misery that the Striga had put him in, before he notices he hasn't fire gazed in a while. This further revelation helps wake him up more and more. He eventually realizes that the Blue Brigade has stealthily taken over the tree and flees, claiming to go off to the Spirit Woods to visit scrooms. When the Striga hears this, he plans to have the king removed on the charge of hagscraft and install himself as king after Balefire Night, where he plans to burn all owls accused of "vanities" alive at the Great Tree to put fear into the Guardians.

Coryn encounters two of the Striga's goons, plotting to kill Cory's sister, and attacks them. They nearly overpower him, but then Kalo comes to the rescue. Further, his old friend, the rabbit, also comes to their aid. They defeat the two owls, but the rabbit is mortally wounded and dies.

The Band, along with Coryn, Otulissa, and Pelli, sneak back in with greenowls of Ambala, who pretend to be there for the events, and then attack the Blue Brigade. Bell, now fed up with the Striga and angry that he has tricked her, kills one of the Striga's goons to save her mother. The Striga then captures Bell and threatens to behead her unless the Guardians lay down their weapons. However, Tengshu uses the Qui to attack him and he is forced to flee, freeing Bell. Most of the Striga's goons are killed and the rest have fled with him. Otulissa is injured in the battle and loses an eye, but recovers from her wounds. Soren and others send for her old friend Cleve, who comes from the Northern Kingdoms to see her.

Meanwhile, Coryn sees visions of the Striga and Nyra now working together, but at least realizes that he isn't like his mother as he's himself is free.

#### *The War of The Ember*

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Dumpy the Fifteenth, an unusually smart puffin, is hiding in an ice cave, eavesdropping on two owls; one the "color of the sky" (The Striga), and one with ragged feathers and a horribly scarred and disfigured face (Nyra). They talk about creating hagsfiends, much to his horror. After they leave, Dumpy exits the cave himself and sees his brother fishing for his family. His brother, Chubster, promptly abandons his task of fishing to ask where Dumpy is heading after he mentions it. Being too stupid to understand, he leaves Dumpy to his devices.

Meanwhile, the Great Ga'Hoole Tree is celebrating the Milkberry Harvest Festival where Blythe is singing with the Harp Guild. It's a year after the events of *Exile*. It is mentioned that Coryn has formed the Danyar Chaw, due to the success of the Greenowls in forcing the Striga and his troops out of the Great Tree one year prior.

Dumpy later heads north rather than south. While he flies, he sees two polar bears, Svarr and Sveep, chatting. Svarr soon takes off, leaving Sveep free to converse with Dumpy. The puffin tells her about the scene he'd seen earlier, and this greatly troubles the polar bear, who tells Dumpy that he must alert the Guardians.

Meanwhile, Bess encounters a dying Boreal Owl who has flown into the Palace of Mists, which is unusual because it's completely hidden and difficult to get to. She sings him a song to ease his pain, then leaves him alone as is custom for Boreal Owls, but later, it's revealed he was merely pretending, and he was actually after the Ember of Hoole, which was stored at the Palace of Mists at the end of *Exile*. She attacks the owl, and after a difficult battle, as Bess is not a warrior and hardly knows any battle tactics, Bess is victorious in defending the Ember.

After meeting Dumpy, Sveep decides to seek out her old friend Gyllbane, who is now named Namara. She runs into a wolf pup, Crannog, who pesters her until his mother, Blair, arrives. She points Sveep in the direction of the cave where Namara resides. After informing her of what Sveep learned, Namara sends out a howl calling for a meeting at the volcanoes. Gwyndor overhears the howls and recognizes them as warning howls, and decides to go to the Great Tree to warn the Guardians. At the same time, Bess also decides to head to the tree.

Back at the Great Tree, Dumpy arrives, nearly crashing into Otulissa, Cleve, and Tengshu. With a bit of trouble, he manages to tell them about the scene he witnessed. When he's taken to the king, they find that Bess and Gwyndor are already there. They all piece together their stories, concluding that they must take the Ember of Hoole to a new, safer location.

The Parliament creates a plan, which they call a "shell game", to transport the Ember in a stealth mission using the HALO (High Altitude Low Opening) method they learned from Hortense. Three owls, Fritha, Wensel, and Ruby, are to be sent to the Palace of Mists each with a botkin of bonk coals, then they all go different directions. They also decided not to tell which owl had the Ember, as a safety measure. Due to Ruby's recognizable plumage though, they decide to dye it a darker color with a mixture of bingle juice and ground pellets. The three botkin carriers would also be followed by a Barn Owl from high above, listening for anyone following behind them with the clouds obscuring them from vision. The owls chosen for this are Soren, Eglantine, and Fiona. Tengshu is to be sent to the Middle Kingdoms to speak with the H'ryth, in hopes that they would accept the Ember of Hoole to be stored at the Mountain of Time. Otulissa and Cleve are to go to the Northern Kingdoms and investigate the rumors of Nyra, the Striga, and most importantly, hagsfiend eggs. And lastly, they form the Joss Corps, a messenger group lead by Martin, its members being Nut Beam, Silver, Primrose, and Clover. They are to fly back and fourth during the whole operation, delivering updates.

Otulissa and Cleve return Dumpy to his home in the Ice Narrows and investigate the cave where he had seen Nyra and the Striga. They find a blue feather, which Otulissa notes is not the turquoise color of the Striga's, but rather from a different blue owl. This implies that there are more blue owls involved with the Pure Ones. The two spotted owls then notice a black eggshell fragment, and inside they find a mass of flesh. Inspecting it, they find that it's a mis-hatched unborn hagsfiend chick. Otulissa suggests that the mother must have fled the cave, breaking the egg by accident in the process. The two speculate that because the Striga had access to the library at the Great Tree, he may have researched the old Ice Cliff Palace from the legends and chose it as the spot to raise the rest of the young hagsfiends in order to repeat history. They depart to the Ice Dagger to alert a Jossian unit messenger of their discoveries.

Far off in the Middle Kingdoms, Taya, a blue owl page of the Dragon Court, begins to notice strange things around the palace. She goes to see the High Steward after having a difficult time getting past his secretary, Pingong. The High Steward dismisses her suspicions and, frustrated, she leaves to investigate further on her own. She finds giant piles of torn-out long feathers, and that some blue owl workers are smuggling away eggs and hiding them. Rather than returning to the High Steward, she decides to go where she feels she would actually be listened to: the Mountain of Time.

Flying over the Shadow Forest, Soren and his crew trail behind the three botkin carriers, listening for any threats. They plan to retrieve the Ember from the Palace of Mists, then depart and meet at the Wolf's Fang, a rock formation outpost in the Sea of Vastness and halfway point between the mainland and the Middle Kingdoms. There, they will await word from Tengshu whether it's alright for them to bring the Ember to the Mountain of Time.

*(more coming soon)*

Eventually, the two sides clash in the Beyond. The wolves destroy the hagsfiend eggs before they can hatch. On Nyra's side are the Pure Ones and dragon owls, and on the Guardians' side are polar bears, the Guardians of Ga'hoole themselves, kraals, gadfeathers, Greenowls, dire wolves, crows, puffins, and various snakes. Soon, Coryn puts the Ember back into the volcanoes.

Soren kills Nyra by throwing an ice sliver into her heart. Suddenly, just as they're about to leave the volcano, the Striga rips off Coryn's wing. Enraged, Soren decapitates the Striga. Coryn dies of blood loss as the Band stands around him, and once he passes away, Soren becomes the next king.

### Accompanying books

#### *The Rise of a Legend*

##### *This information is copied from the Guardians of Ga'Hoole Wiki*

The book starts as the Band arrive at the Great Tree. Ezylryb decides to put the book he was working on aside to start a new one: *The Book of Ezylryb.*

#### ***The Owlet Moons***

The book begins with Ezylryb, known as Lyze at the time, hatching on Stormfast Island. His Tantya (aunt) Hanja arrives, which causes worries since whenever she goes somewhere, bad things follow. His caretaker, Gundesfyrr, soon learns from a messenger that Edvard, Lyze's brother, has died. Lyze then proceeds to have his First Insect, Meat, Fur on Meat, and Meat on Bones Ceremonies. Right before his Meat on Bones Ceremony, his parents, Rask and Ulfa, come home from a battle. Lyze is shocked to see his parents, not because they finally showed up but because his mum was missing an eye and his da had half his whiskers burned off.
Later, Lyze meets Moss, and the two become best friends. Moss decides to wait for Lyze to be fledged before making the traditional trip to Dark Fowl Island, despite being fully fledged himself. With his wings slowly getting stronger, Lyze and his da go to Hock, which is on the edge of Stormfast Island. There, they meet Hoke of Hock and his sister, Hellie, then return to Stormfast to find that Ulfa had laid an egg.

A short while later, Lyze and Moss are about to finally make their flight to Dark Fowl Island when Lyze senses something wrong, and decides it is not the proper night to go. This is due to his natural sense for weather, and he had subconsciously sensed the Snurls, a violent type of wind that blew from the Shagdah Snurl.

The next night came around, and with the calmer winds, Lyze and Moss take off with Rask and Moss's father, Arne. Along the way, the group stops by the Ice Dagger, where they find some ice harvesters under attack by hireclaws from the Ice Talons League, and one of the harvesters, Piet, is slain. The two fathers grab ice shards for weapons and rush into battle, leaving the two owlets with ice hooks in case they are attacked. After a while of waiting for the battle to end, Moss and Lyze are attacked by a Barn Owl with fire claws. The owlets manage to fight him off, stalling him long enough for Arne and the ice harvesters to come in and deliver the finishing blow.

The group, now with the ice harvesters, Aiyunne and Bela, make their way to a rocky beach on the lower part of the island to recover. After mourning over the loss of Piet, Rask and Arne decide they need to immediately fly to Dark Fowl Island to warn General Andricus about the Ice Talons coming so far into their territory. They hand the owlets off to an Elf Owl named Rolf to take them to Orf's forge while they meet with the general, but not before running into Hanja outside a grog tree, who sings a song about peace, much to Rask and Arne's disgust. They pass over a honing pit, where Kielian snakes, one such being Gragg, are sharpening blades and tools.

At Orf's forge, the owlets are outfitted with liffen claws (training claws), and the group returns home to Stormfast where their parents all rush back into battle soon after, with confirmation of the Ice Talons front moving closer. Lyze and Moss train often with their claws, and one day come across Thora in a nearby tree, who had run away from her home in the Firth of Canis to become a blacksmith on Dark Fowl and train under Orf. She leads the two owlets to a secret forge, which belonged to a recently deceased Burrowing Owl that was secretly an arms trader on both sides of the war, and agrees to make their liffen claws into real battle claws.

When they returned to Lyze's hollow, Gilda, his family nest-maid snake, is angry with them for staying out so late, but comes around and agrees to let them have their secret about Thora's forge. A few days later, the egg that Ulfa had laid hatches, and Lysa is born. Shortly after she yarps her first pellet, Hanja makes a visit to the hollow, striking fear into Lyze and Gilda that something bad may happen.

While out hunting, Lyze and Moss are approached by a panicked Thora who warns of an incoming Ice Talon attack. The owls swoop in with fire claws, and Lyze and his friends manage to fight them off until a fire starts in his hollow, in which Lysa and Gundesfyrr are killed.

#### ***The Cadet Moons***

Lyze's parents return shortly after the fire, and mourn their lost chick and Gundesfyrr. Lyze is immediately sent to Dark Fowl with Thora and Moss to become cadets, marking the abrupt end to their owlethood.

The owls meet Loki and Blix, who they become quick friends with, and they make plans to visit the Shagdah Snurl together from which the two new owls came from. The young owls wish they could change the set in stone ways of the Kielian League through beginning scientific research on coals and types of ice for harvesting from locations other than the Ice Dagger, but for now they must go through their training as planned.

During training one day with Captain Ludvigsen Asio Flammeus of the Ice Squires, Lyze meets Lillium, who takes the blame for him speaking during class. Lyze is impressed with her calmness in this situation, and her confidence in back-talking to the captain, and finds himself infatuated. He goes on to train with ice weapons and flight formation classes, as well as making more friends with other cadets and even sneaking out to visit grog trees and listen to the stories of soldiers from the front. His barracks sergeant, Skellig, allows the owls to sneak out past curfew. Lyze later meets up with Lil at mealtime, where she is sitting at a snake table. He comments on how Kielian Snakes are far more useful than to serve simply as tables, to which Skellig appears and interjects, showing his disdain for the snakes. He tells them that he was bitten by a Kielian Snake, badly scarring and traumatizing him.

Thora doesn't believe Skellig's story though, believing his scars to have all of the signs of being caused by a particularly hard to craft blade known as a "siege blade." Becoming suspicious, she decides to investigate him, following him on his way to a grog tree. Skellig suddenly proves to be a skilled flyer as soon as he is far from sight, and he meets up with a Pygmy Owl to retrieve a mysterious item before heading on his way towards the grog tree. He plants the item, a drugging potion, in Orf's cup, so that when he drinks his bingle juice he would be too disoriented to fight back when Skellig and his team of Eagle Owls owl-knap him. Thora follows stealthily to see where they take him.

Later, she informs Lyze and Moss of Orf's disappearance, and they, along with Lil, head out to rescue him. They follow the owlknappers to Elsemere Island, home of the Glauxian Sisters, and listen in on their conversation within a cave by flying into a smee hole, where the sound is easily transmitted through the steam. They discover that Skellig intends to get the formula for cold coals from Orf, then dispose of him.

Lil and Thora decide to carry out a plan by dressing up as Glauxian Sisters and sneaking in to help Orf under the guise of being healers. Once inside, Lil draws her retractable hot lance and pierces Skellig's starboard wing. Orf, Moss, and Lyze join the fight, and soon the owls are facing off against the three Eagle Owls. Skellig's head is crushed in by an accidental flail swing from one of the Eagle Owls, and the rest are killed off when Loki and Blix (who were made aware of the four owls leaving due to a gadfeather witness) arrive with ice splinters, performing a spectacular midair reload that allows for quicker attacks.

Upon their return back to Dark Fowl, they are not hailed as heroes, but rather reprimanded for the many rules they broke. When Orf returns from his debriefing however, he rushes to defend them, and announces that Thora is to be his new apprentice. The group is ordered to meet with General Andricus Tyto Alba, who informs the group that they've been given holiday leave for their good work. He also gives Lyze the news that his parents have laid another egg, and they've requested his presence at their new hollow in a blue spruce tree on Stormfast. Andricus specifically congratulates Lyze on the fighting technique that Blix and Loki performed which he had thought up, the midair reload, and asks if he has any other inventive ideas. Lyze tells him of his idea to utilize Kielian snakes in combat, and Andricus tells him to come up with a plan, and he may consider it.

As Lyze's first season at the Military Academy came to a close, he returned home to his parents, where his new brother, Ifghar, had hatched. He finds that Ulfa had let Gilda go, and was taking care of the new hollow on her own. Tantya Hanja arrives for Ifghar's First-Meat-on-Bones ceremony, right before Rask leaves to return to the battle front. As Lyze anxiously awaits a letter from Lil, a Great Horned messenger instead arrives with a death notice that Rask had fallen in battle. Ulfa is wracked with grief, only managing to distract herself by cleaning the hollow. Lyze, in an attempt to focus her attention on something else, shares his ideas about new battle techniques.

Ifghar's flight to the Hock comes around, so Ulfa and Lyze fly with him to see the snakes. This time around, they arrive when all the snakes are diving for fish, and Lyze sees their ability to control the speed of their fall using a parachute-like ruffle of scales around their necks. This sparks many curious questions, which he asks a particular snake they met named Dylan.

Lyze returns to Dark Fowl after his break, immediately meeting with General Andricus to further share his ideas. The parliament is very dismissive and skeptical of his ideas, but Andricus finds it fascinating and decides to act on his ideas, creating the Glauxspeed Division (named by Lyze), much to the parliament's confusion and surprise. Andricus also mentions Strix Struma, a young Spotted Owl who had fended off against Ice Talons attacking Little Hoole, and decides that she should be a member of the Glauxspeed Division. Struma later meets Lyze, and they discuss plans for the division, including an idea to bring in snow leopard recruits for ground troops.

Training and recruitment begins, with Lyze searching for unsatisfied and lazy snakes specifically to challenge them and engage them in something they may become passionate about. In his search, he meets and recruits Octavia. Moss leaves to find snow leopard recruits, and Thora begins work on new and improved quivers for ice splinters. After a few weeks of training, Lyze is given permission to go on a scientific research mission to the Shagdah Snurl, while Lil takes Lyze's place leading the training. Before leaving, Andricus informs Lyze that his brother would be joining the cadets soon.

Lyze, Blix, and Loki later arrive at the Shagdah Snurl, where they meet up with Loki's mother, Wynnifryd. She gives them naked rockmunks, cooked over coals harvested from around the volcano's "lava lake". This is the first time Lyze ever eats cooked meat.

### The Snowy Sisters

Thora Plonk began her flight back to her birth hollow in the Firth of Canis after having being away for a year. After her mother, Thea, had died in the Battle of the Ice Talons, her father, Berrick, took up a new mate named Rodmilla . She treated Thora in a most cruel manner while treating Thora's sister Brunwella Plonk in a gentle manner. Being unable to live as an outcast in her own home, Thora fled and flew throughout the Northern Kingdoms.

During her roaming flight, she met Octavia , a Kielian snake, who introduced her to a rogue smith on Dark Fowl Island. She became his apprentice and learned the art of blacksmithing. However, she had heard at a grog tree a terrible rumour concerning her own family so she felt compelled to return for the sake of her father and sister. When Thora returned, she tried her best to make peace with Rodmilla but remained alert for any sign of the dark rumour she had heard.

Meanwhile, Brunwella's thoughts turned to her father who had been away from the hollow for several days but she would not be allowed to dwell on those thoughts. Rodmilla told Brunwella that Malvonia Plonk, the current singer at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree had died. Rodmilla was determined to find Thora and tell her the news which seemed odd to Brunwella because she was the better singer of the two sisters. Also, the family would be receiving a special visitor by the name of Marquis Henryk VI. The suspicion held by the two sisters further increased when Rodmilla told Thora to practice for the auditions that would determine who the next singer would be. For Brunwella, she planned to marry her off to Henryk. This proved to be shocking since tradition dictated that the singer of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree could not have a mate. Unfortunately, Henryk VI, Henryk V and his mate Gertrude arrived and at the end of the visit, the young Henryk proposed to Brunwella. Both sisters were infuriated by their current standings but Thora suggested that they switch places at the auditions and after those they would go to Dark Fowl Island. There they would met their father, who Thora revealed to Brunwella to be a part of the Resistance, a group that fought against the League of Ice Talons.

On the night of the tryouts, Thora listened as Brunwella sung with great beauty which would later ensure her place as singer at the Great Ga'Hoole Tree. On the way to Dark Fowl they met a member of the Resistance named Torsten. The two sisters found out that a raid on the Ice Talons' headquarters had gone wrong and that Sigfried, Thora's good friend, had been grievously wounded. Now, Thora would check on Sig and Brunwella would accompany Torsten to find Berrick. From Sig, Thora found out that the rumour she heard was true: Rodmilla, her stepmother, was a slipgizzle for the League of Ice Talons. Back at the Firth of Canis, Brunwella found her home ransacked from top to bottom. However, they did find Berrick who told them to return to their hideout south of the Ice Fangs and to tell them that their location had been compromised.

Later, Rodmilla came to the hideout with three Ice Talons guards who all posed as recruits for the Resistance. However, their plan fell apart and a battle ensued. Sigfried sacrificed himself to save Thora and Berrick was killed by an Ice Talon guard and Rodmilla. Despite the losses, Thora managed to kill her own stepmother and the Ice Talons guards were defeated by Resistance reinforcements.

The next night, the bodies of Berrick and Sigfried were burned and the two sisters left the Northern Kingdoms to pursue their own destinies: Thora as the Rogue Smith of Silverveil and Brunwella as Madame Plonk, singer of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree.

### Fritha's Painted Past

In the beginning of the book, Fritha, a pygmy owl, lathered herself in green paint and went to the Northern Kingdoms.

After flying, Fritha spotted her father, who was dressed in blue with a tinge of Fritha's favorite color and shade of pink.

After talking for a bit, Fritha asked her father why he sent her to the great tree. Flinn, Fritha's father, told her the story. Unlike most kraals, Flinn was more intrested in inventing, such as creating a system so young owls will not get carried away by the strong winds by having big owls create a gap between them so there will be an air pocket for smaller owls to fly.

When Flinn introduced his idea, the Vaccum Air Transporter, or the VAM, the kraals only saw it as a way to transport prisoners. Many kraals mocked him for disliking to fight and steal. One day, some kraals found a tiny Elf Owl, and began to have an intrest in her. The owl was called Gylfie, and she said she was from the Great Ga'Hoole tree, which intrested Flinn even even more, because he thought this was a place were his inventions would be appreciated.

After Gylfie escaped with an Twilla, whom the kraals thought of as "Glaux," Flinn began to think about the great tree. After a few weeks, Flinn's mate Freya laid an egg, but she told him to destroy it due to the fact that the egg had a slim chance of hatching. However, Flinn could not bear hurting such a tiny thing, and eventually, the egg did hatch, and Flinn immediately loved the chick, who he named Fritha. Fritha was a very inquisitive owlet, who wanted to learn more all the time, enjoying the simplest things. She also learned the ways of a kraal, but when a friend of Fritha began to tell her about her first skirmish, Flinn decided that Fritha could not be a kraal and decided to give her a place of purpose at the Great Ga'Hoole tree.

A few days later, Flinn showed Fritha how to remove the dye from her feathers and asked a gadfeather friend of his to take Fritha to the tree. Flinn told Fritha he truly loved her, and was trying to do the right thing by sending her to the great tree. He also considered coming as well, but he decided that the owls would see him as a kraal immediately and treat him badly.

After he told the story, Flinn apologized to his daughter, but Fritha told him that there is nothing to apologize for. Proud of her heritage, Fritha revealed that she was a kraal by birth in her newspaper, *The Evening Hoot*. Flinn was now welcome to come to the great tree and gave lessons from the Northern Kingdoms.

### Uglamore Redeemed

While in the Beyond, Uglamore spent lots of time thinking about his life and the course it had taken. Uglamore originally came from the Shadow Forest and he had used to be known as Bartholomew. He was often called "Bartimoo" by his mother, a pet name he despised. He and his mother joined the Pure Ones after Bartholomew's father died because they wanted to be with more "like-minded" owls. From then on, Bartholomew wanted to be known as Shadow but he soon found out that the old High Tyto would give them a Tytonic Union name. On the night of the naming, he and three owls received their names: Stryker, Wortmore and Uglamore. For Uglamore, his new name was even worse than Barthlomew but over the years, he eventually got used to it.

When Nyroc hatched, Uglamore's eventual falling away from the Pure Ones commenced. He knew that there was great good in Nyroc and that Nyra was hardly a good mother and instead of treating her son with love and care, she treated him like he was a weapon that had to be tempered and shaped by force and cruelty. When Nyroc left after his failed Tupsi, Uglamore left without being ordered to leave and set out to find Nyroc. Uglamore eventually returned to the Shadow Forest and found Nyroc sleeping in an fallen tree. Much to his horror, Stryker and another owl name Vaygar had followed Uglamore and he was worried that the two of them would find Nyroc. Uglamore convinced Stryker to pick up the trail elsewhere but Vaygar remained behind to catch some prey. However, Nyroc began to stir and Vaygar discovered him.

Choosing to protect Nyroc, Uglamore killed Vaygar signalling his departure from the Pure Ones forever. From then on, Uglamore went to the Beyond to spend his days as an outcast. He eventually found Nyroc again and observed him from afar interacting with the dire wolves and being taught by Otulissa the art of colliering. Uglamore also witnessed Coryn retrieve the Ember of Hoole and sacrificed himself to save the new king from Nyra's treachery by throwing himself into the jaws of the sick wolf.

### The Natural and Supernatural History of the Great Ga'Hoole Tree

Otulissa explains of the origins of the tree, including its name and features of the tree.

This section also includes two times of when the Great Tree was in danger of its health. The first story a tale about a time during the Age of Enlightenment when a new species of Rainbow Caterpillars made their way to the island. The Rainbow Caterpillars were first noticed by the Ga'Hoolologist, Sianna, and soon owls found their silk-weaved "luminaspheres" so beautiful that they would spend hours just observing them. Heilo the Blind took notice of the strange trance the tree is under, and brought light to the fact that the caterpillars are actually an infestation, eating the tree's leaves and shoots, stunting its growth. Though Sianna protested, it was decided that all the caterpillars would be killed in order to protect the tree's health. It took several years to recover from this event.

The second tale took place a few centuries before the events of the series. The Ga'Hoolology ryb at the time, Isolde and her chaw were investigating the source of whatever was causing a great sickness of the tree at the time. Isolde found the Blackfire Mushrooms, and sent her chaw members to different locations in the Southern Kingdoms to seek out help. The students Pollianne and Hildeth were sent to the Shadow Forest to seek out Aude, the tree healer. He informed them that it is an affliction known as "black fire," and that it will kill the tree if it is not cured. A cure can be made from an herb called Lyssop, but the plant was hard to come across. Isolde and one of her students, Marduk, went to find the eagles of Ambala for info about the happenings in the kingdoms. They were told about tree's dying of an infliction all around the Southern Kingdoms, and with the information from Aude, they concluded that black fire has returned to the Owl Kingdoms after being thought to be extinct for hundreds of years. Another team, Elva and Sanders, were sent to seek out the help of the Dark Sisters. They possessed some Lyssop, and created a potion from it, giving it to the owls. They spread the potion on the roots, and after several weeks the mushrooms were killed, leaving hollow tunnels through the roots where the sickness once was. This became the listening chambers that the Band used hundreds of years later to listen in on the Parliament.

### The Making of a Guardian

This part explains what it takes to be a Guardian of Ga'Hoole. The type of chaws, their contents, and rybs are included as well. For more about the chaws identified in this section, see the *Chaw Practice article*. The section ends with Otulissa reciting the Guardians' oath.

### The Faces of the Great Tree

Otulissa tell of tales that she discovered from research and through other owls. Among these stories include Twilight's encounter with his mother's scroom, young Strix Struma, Ifghar, Honeyvox and the Plonk singers, and one of Theo.

### A Year of Celebrations at the Great Tree

This section goes through the known festivals and celebrations known to owls.

### Nights and Days at the Great Tree

Here, Otulissa goes through what sections of nights and days are called and what owls do during those times.

### Final Words

As the book closes, Otulissa gives gratitude to those who helped in making this book. Also, she reveals that she felt she'd been led by a spirit of an Other named Kathryn Lasky (the real author of the book).

### Extras

The last two parts of the book go through some characters that appeared in books 1-8. There is also a glossary of owl terms at the end.

## Books

### Series

Guardians of Ga'Hoole #1: The CaptureGuardians of Ga'Hoole #2: The JourneyGuardians of Ga'Hoole #3: The RescueGuardians of Ga'Hoole #4: The SiegeGuardians of Ga'Hoole #5: The ShatteringGuardians of Ga'Hoole #6: The BurningGuardians of Ga'Hoole #7: The HatchlingGuardians of Ga'Hoole #8: The OutcastGuardians of Ga'Hoole #9: The First CollierGuardians of Ga'Hoole #10: The Coming of HooleGuardians of Ga'Hoole #11: To Be a KingGuardians of Ga'Hoole #12: The Golden TreeGuardians of Ga'Hoole #13: The River of WindGuardians of Ga'Hoole #14: ExileGuardians of Ga'Hoole #15: The War of The Ember
### Accompanying books

The Rise of a LegendLost Tales of Ga'HooleA Guide Book to the Great Tree
## Characters

https://guardiansofgahoole.fandom.com/wiki/Category:Characters