Danyk

The **Danyk** is a female Blue Owl and one of the five senior teachers of the way or Danyar. She is a strict teacher who refuses to take excuses from her students and is fairly fluent in Hoolian, though she, like many of the owls native to the Middle Kingdoms, speaks with an accent that resembles Kraakish. Her species is never confirmed, as is her true name.

## History

### *The River of Wind*

After the Chaw of Chaws made their arrival to the Mountain of Time, Twilight was assigned to learning to erect his zi field under the gaze of the Danyk, who's gender at first surprised Twilight, until he realised that females had the lung capacity needed to perform the Danyar. During one such training session, held within the Hollow of Extreme Concentration, the Danyk chastised Twilight, lecturing him over the need to master his zong qui before any form of combat could be taken into consideration, then shrieked an angry retort to Twilight's comment in which the Great Gray called the 'way of noble gentleness' the hardest battle trick he ever tried to wield, leaping into the air to cuff her rambunkous student, sending him flying across the hollow. Ranting that the way of Danyar was not, as Twilight called it, a trick, but rather a form of combat wherein the owl used her/his mind, rather than their talons, taking the name of the Hollow they were training in and the purposeful shaping of the Hollow of Danyar, which took the form of a gizzard, as an example. Concluding that before a zi field could be properly risen, Twilight must learn to breathe in the way necessary, the Danyk and Twilight subsequently beheld masterful performance of a third-degree Zi Kyan Mu from Pinyon on his sparring partner, explaining the meaning of 'third-degree' to Twilight, which left the move to achieve non-fatal result. As the Danyk redirected the conversion back to zong qui, she soon recognised Twilight to have fallen back into distraction and answered this by sending him sprawling onto his plumage. Screeching that her apprentice was again failing to concentrate, the Danyk compared Twilight's lack of progress to the masterful way that Ruby was progressing.

Later on, the arrival of Eglantine and Primrose brought news of an approaching *slink melf* of Pure Ones and as the two forces readied to fight, the Danyk watched in delight as Twilight executed a perfectly erected zong qui, thinking to herself how the Great Gray was finally doing it. As battle ensued, the Danyk approached Twilight, lecturing him not to waste his zong qui on battle cries, severing the wing of an assassin with a tail move. Minutes later, the Danyk struck down a Grass Owl that had pursued her pupil, striking the Pure One down before again barking at Twilight, warning the 'stupid one' not to waste breath before flying off to reenaged the enemy owls.

In the wake of the battle's concluding, the Danyk swooped down when she heard the Striga declare he had tried to bring an end to Nyra, who had escaped. Furious at this comment, asking incredulous if he called the savage way he had struck down the bloodied, now lifeless forms of Wortmore, Gebbles and Spyke, the Danyk declared the killings to be an abomination that was an affront to the very Way of Danyar, calling the escaped Dragon Owl ignoble, which he furiously denied. The Danyk subsequently perched in silence with the rest of the pikyus as the H'ryth furiously continued her rage at the Striga for how he had ended lives with unclean murder, then lighted off to return to the Mountain of Time.