Queen Siv, in danger from Lord Arrin, a traitorous owl seeking to steal their egg and raise their hatchling, he does not go to help. Fengo breaks the trance and sends Grank to help them. Siv and Myrrthe, her faithful servant, seek shelter at a retreat, but the owls there are under a mind-controlling spell, forcing them to flee. Grank arrives and breaks the spell by throwing an ice splinter through the gizzard of their superior. Just as Grank and Siv reunite and plot to give Grank the egg, Lord Arrin's hagsfiend (monstrous owl/crow-like birds who have mastered evil magic) comrades arrive and Siv draws them away with a fake egg. Siv and Myrrthe seek shelter with a polar bear named Svenka, but the hagsfiends catch up and kill Myrrthe. While Lord Arrin is focused on Siv, the real egg, which is Hoole, the first king of Ga'Hoole, hatches while being kept by Grank and his apprentice Theo. In the present, Coryn realizes Nyra is a hagsfiend. The Coming of Hoole The story follows the hatching and the early life of Hoole. Hoole grows up with Grank, Theo, and his best friend, a young pygmy owl named Phineas. When Hoole and Siv meet for the first time, a hagsfiend attack forces them to separate, but Hoole realizes Siv is his mother from his firesight. The four travel to Beyond the Beyond, where the disgruntled wolf chieftain Dunleavy MacHeath leaves to betray Hoole to Lord Arrin. Meanwhile, the arch-hagsfiend Kreeth asks Lord Arrin's lieutenants, a hagsfiend named Ygryk and her owl mate Pleek, to find Hoole so she can use him to make hagsfiends immune to saltwater (they have no oil in their feathers to protect them). MacHeath is later killed by his eldest mate, who grew tired of his abuse and left his clan to form her own, and Hoole retrieves the Ember of Hoole during a battle which claims the life of Siv. In the present, Coryn and the Band realize that a "rip" in the fabric of the owl universe initially allowed magic to infect the hagsfiends, and it has allowed them to return from presumed extinction. To Be a King This book tells of Hoole's early days as king. The Golden Tree Back in the present, once the Ember of Hoole has been placed in the Tree, the Tree falls under a perpetual spell of golden-ness (which