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
Age	7 years at death (hatched in 4,996 AS)
Gender	Female
Tribe	SeaWings
Special Powers	Animus magic
Status
Status	Deceased (died in 5,003 AS)
Cause of death	Impaled by Queen Coral's narwhal horn on her tail during a SeaWing royal challenge
Affiliations
Current	Princess of the SeaWings
Relatives
Mother	Coral
Father	Gill
Sisters	Tsunami, Anemone, Auklet, twelve unnamed SeaWings
Brothers	Fin, Cerulean, Octopus, Turtle, 28 unnamed SeaWings
Uncle	Shark
Cousins	Moray, unnamed SeaWings
Ancestors	Pearl, Fathom, more
Book Appearances
Mentioned in	The Lost Heir, The Hidden Kingdom, The Brightest Night
Mentioned in	Moon Rising, Talons of Power
Mentioned in	The Lost Heir, Moon Rising

Orca was an adult female SeaWing princess who was mentioned in The Lost Heir. She was secretly an animus dragon and was killed by Queen Coral during a royal challenge.

Description

Orca had dark green scales and blue eyes.

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 many 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 her mother 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 before it was defeated and destroyed.

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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 hatchery 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

Orca from The Lost Heir (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes

Reference by Skyla the Skywing

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