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 mentioned 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.

Appearance

Orca had green scales and blue eyes.^{[citation needed]}

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. 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 wore 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.

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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. It was mentioned that Anemone reanimated Orca's statue and forced it to tell her who enchanted it, and it said Orca.

The Hidden Kingdom
After the dragonets of destiny discovered one of the NightWing tunnels, Clay indirectly mentioned Orca while they were discussing animus magic.

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

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The Jade Mountain Prophecy

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

Talons of Power
In the prologue, Gill saw the statue of Orca and thought about her, wishing that she could still be alive and protect her sisters herself. Later, 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

• 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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