- "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer."
- ―Kreeth
Kreeth was a very powerful hagsfiend who lived in the Ice Narrows where she conducted horrific experiments in an ice cave during the time of the legends of Ga'Hoole. What she lacked in size compared to other hagsfiends, she made up for with her abilities and experiments. She was known to possess powerful nachtmagen, even by hagsfiend standards, and was often referred to as the arch hagsfiend. Among her creations was Lutta the changeling, initially intended to be a mix between a hagsfiend and a Great Horned owl until Kreeth decided otherwise, and the Puffowl, a bizarre combination of a Snowy owl and a puffin.
History[]
The Coming of Hoole[]
When Ygryk and Pleek failed to capture Hoole as their own, Kreeth saved both of them from Ullryck and her Great Grays when she just happened to be flying over the Bitter Sea with several puffowls. She brought them back to her laboratory in the Ice Narrows. She sought to discover a charm that would make all hagsfiends immune to the disastrous effects of saltwater on the feathers of hagsfiends. Kreeth, Ygryk and Pleek spied on Grank, Theo, Phineas and Hoole as they made their way to Beyond the Beyond. Kreeth figured that Hoole's power could be used to finish her charm; however this would never come to be as Hoole persevered in the Beyond and eventually became king.
To Be a King[]
Kreeth uses her magic to enchant an egg for the mismatched couple, Ygryk and Pleek, which hatches into Lutta, a bizzare shapshifting creature. Ygryk and Pleek give the chick back to Kreeth, and she teaches Lutta to use her powers properly and sends her to assassinate King Hoole. However, this fails as the changling transformed into an owl and somehow unintentionally gained a gizzard, causing her to have feelings, and stole the fake ember instead of the real one.
During the battle for the Ice Palace, Kreeth was one of the only hagsfiends left flying, and as she started to go yeep with horror, Duncan MacDuncan lept high into the air and ripped off her face.
Trivia[]
- Kreeth's favorite quote, "Keep your friends close and your enemies closer", is most famous for its use in The Godfather Part II. This quote Kreeth learnt from her mother and was what prompted her to live so close to seawater.
- Kreeth, as a character, is evocative of the title character from H.G. Wells' novel The Island of Doctor Moreau, who also dedicates his life to creating complex monstrous hybrids.