Orca

"I did this all wrong. You're going to rule forever, aren't you, Mother? You should thank me. No one can stop you now."

— Orca to Coral about Orca's statue, recounted in The Lost Heir

Orca was an adult female SeaWing who was introduced in The Lost Heir. Along with being a princess, she was secretly an animus dragon. She was killed by Queen Coral during a royal challenge.

Description

Orca was regal, tough-looking, and beautiful, with dark green scales and sapphire-blue eyes. She was fully grown at her age of death.

Personality

Orca appeared to be power-hungry and extremely ambitious during her lifetime, challenging Coral at the age of seven and using her magic to secure her power over the SeaWing throne. Along with her ambitious personality, Orca was a talented sculptor. She was disliked by all of queen Coral's subjects.

Biography

Pre-Series

Before her challenge for the SeaWing throne, Orca enchanted a marble statue that she had sculpted of herself and dedicated to the Royal Hatchery. Coral did not know at that time that Orca had been an animus dragon or that the statue was enchanted to kill off the heirs to the SeaWing throne. Expecting to win, Orca then challenged Coral for the throne of the SeaWings, nearly winning, which shocked Coral. She was accidentally speared with the narwhal horn Coral wears on the end of her tail and died.

After her death, the enchanted statue began killing off all the female heirs in the hatchery for years, murdering the unhatched dragonets in secrecy. Tsunami proved that the statue was destroying the eggs when she defeated it and saved Auklet.

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The Dragonet Prophecy

The Lost Heir
Orca was mentioned throughout The Lost Heir, including as a part of the scroll The Tragedy of Orca. Queen Coral owned several of her carvings, even though some of her subjects disliked Orca, such as Moray. Tsunami discovered that the statue in the hatching nursery was enchanted by her to kill off possible heirs to the SeaWing throne.

The Brightest Night
Sunny thought about Orca when she went to meet Stonemover.

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

Moon Rising
Tsunami mentions that she had considered before how Orca's statue had left the male SeaWing heirs alive.

Talons of Power
Turtle mentioned Orca when he was thinking of his animus powers.

Family Tree

More

Shark

Coral

Gill

Moray

Fin

Cerulean

Turtle

Octopus

28 Dragons

3 Dragons

Orca

Tsunami

Anemone

Auklet

Known Enchantments

Phrasing	Target	Intention
"Phrasing unknown."	A statue	To kill all the heirs to the SeaWing throne

Quotes

"I did this all wrong. You're going to rule forever, aren't you, Mother? You should thank me. No one can stop you now."

― her last words, to Queen Coral

Trivia

• The statue she carved of herself was made of dark green marble with blue sapphire eyes. It was confirmed that she is dark green with blue eyes in an interview with Tui T. Sutherland.
• Orca refused to use her animus power to win the royal challenge because she wanted to prove that she could win in a fair fight.
• Orca was from Coral's first clutch of eggs. She was the only female included in this group.
• Orca was a talented sculptor.

Gallery

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  Reference by Skyla the Skywing
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  Orca from The Lost Heir (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

• Art by Mike Holmes, from the Wings of Fire Graphic Novels
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References

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