- "The problem is not with Lutta. The problem is with us... She is not the freak. We are... We don't know how to love."
- ―Ygryk to Pleek, To Be a King, page 192
Ygryk was a female hagsfiend that took a Great Horned Owl named Pleek as her mate during the time of the legends of Ga'Hoole.
History[]
Before the Books[]
At an unspecified point in time, Ygryk met the owl lord, Pleek, and became his mate. While Pleek's family were disgusted by such a union, Ygryk's kin were immensely proud of Ygryk and Pleek's wingfast.
The First Collier[]
Ygryk is mentioned when Siv tells Grank in the Ice Cliff Palace that Ygryk wants her and H'rath's egg, and that she wants to be its mother.
The Coming of Hoole[]
When Siv is battling the hagsfiends during Hoole's hatching, she hears several hagsfiends shrieking as the ice floe tips and secretly hopes that one of them is Yygryk; however, that wasn't her.
Ygryk visits her friend Kreeth and asks for her help in turning an owl chick into a hagsfiend so that she and Pleek can have a hatchling. Kreeth reveals that to cast such a spell she must remove one of the hatchling's eyes so that the magic can seep in. When Hoole is by himself Ygryk attacks him and attempts to do just that, but she's stopped and Hoole escapes. Later on, Ygryk and Pleek are attacked by Ullryck, a fierce female assassin but they manage to escape.
To Be a King[]
Ygryk and Pleek are staying with Kreeth and they are shown having a egg that they have stolen. When the egg hatches, they attempt to raise the chick, named Lutta, as their own. However, when they return to Kreeth's cave one night, Ygryk is horrified when she finds her chick turned into a Barn owl. Soon both the hagsfiend and the Great Horned abandon Lutta, and Lutta vows to make them pay.
Later, Pleek and Ygryk witnessed Kreeth using fyngrot on Lutta. Ygryk admitted that they're "monsters" as they don't know how to love; they failed to love Lutta the way she was. It is unknown what happened to them.
Trivia[]
- Pleek and Ygryk are the only cross-species couple in the book series. Likewise, Nyra and Metal Beak (a Barn Owl and a Greater Sooty Owl, respectively, though both are Tytos) form the only cross-species pair in the movie.
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