Coral


 * "We're not going to hide this one like the Summer Palace. I'm hoping it'll be a center for diplomacy and trade and art that will help us build relations across Pyrrhia, but especially with Moorhen and Glory, who have such interesting ideas."
 * —Coral to Turtle through a letter about the new SeaWing palace, Darkness of Dragons

Coral is an adult female SeaWing who was introduced in The Lost Heir. She is the current queen of the SeaWings and is renowned in the Kingdom of the Sea for writing countless scrolls, which primarily revolve around herself and her kingdom. She was formerly married to Gill and currently resides in the Deep Palace.

Appearance Edit
Coral has blue scales, the exact color of Tsunami's. She is huge, with enormous blue wings, which also have the exact shade of Tsunami's and bear the royal wing pattern. She smells like sea air and starfish. She has sharp white teeth, and a dark blue forked tongue. Her eyes are of a warm green color and she wears vines of pearls woven around her horns, neck, and wings. She also has a twisted white narwhal hornspear attached to the end of her tail and black ink stains on her claws, as well as a rumbly voice.

Coral wears a thin, webbed harness with a long cord that first connected her together with her daughter Anemone, but then later only ties her and Auklet, one of her other daughters, together.

Personality Edit
Queen Coral first appeared to be a fair queen and mother. As noted by Tsunami, none of her subjects seemed underfed or grumpy, like the SkyWings under Scarlet's rule. However, when two SeaWing soldiers returned from a nasty battle, she seemed to be most concerned about one soldier's blood staining her pearl-embedded floor instead of his health.

She also resents and outcasts Riptide for having a "tainted bloodline," even though it wasn't his fault that his father, Webs, turned out to be a traitor to his tribe, stealing Tsunami's egg for the Talons of Peace. She remarked that Shark was too soft on the starving Tortoise by allowing her to eat an octopus - her first meal in days - instead of forcing her to continue guarding the Royal Hatchery. Tortoise's punishment, administered by Coral herself, was torture, followed quickly by death. She also executed Abalone and Snapper for failing to protect her eggs, despite the fact that Abalone was physically disabled due to a strange illness. Despite the fact that her scrolls usually do not pertain to history, they are required reading in SeaWing schools.

Coral also forced her daughter Anemone to grow up connected to herself with a rubber harness at all times, and it was only after Tsunami arrived in the Kingdom of the Sea that Anemone was allowed to roam free for the first time. She cares excessively about her daughters to the point that she rarely remembers any of her sons' names. Coral once remarked that because they could not inherit the throne, they were unimportant. Because a lot of her daughters were murdered before hatching, she harnesses her youngest daughter, Auklet, very protectively.

Despite this, she is fiercely protective of her daughters and truly cares about them, even though one of them will eventually challenge her for the throne. Coral still loves and misses her first daughter Orca, despite the fact that Orca nearly killed her in a royal challenge. During the SkyWing attack, she flung her scrolls into the water to avoid them catching fire to save the many SeaWings inside the Summer Palace, sacrificing her writing for her tribe. She has a fondness for writing and loves her scrolls, wanting every dragon in her Kingdom to read them. Tsunami describes her to be an overprotective mother.

Coral is overall a kind queen, but she seems to be a bit selfish, as she tends to care more about her personal interests and her loved ones than her tribe as a whole. Coral cares for her daughters very much. As such, she would punish anyone who threatened to kill them, as well as killing incompetent guards. She pays excessive attention to her daughters, which leads to neglecting her many sons and the wellbeing of her guards. Her many sons often do not receive attention from her since they are not heirs to the throne, and, for the most part, Coral does not remember their names. However, Queen Coral cares more about her sons then she lets on.

Queen Coral also appears to have trouble making her own choices, and can easily be persuaded. In The Lost Heir, she lets Blister convince her to imprison the dragonets even though one of them was her own daughter, Tsunami. In fact, most of her actions are influenced by the SandWing princess. She also may have been the one who allowed the other dragonets, excluding Tsunami, to be chained and starved, though this is not fully proven.

Tsunami Edit
Before Tsunami found Queen Coral, Coral had written a scroll titled "The Missing Princess" about their happy reunion. When Coral and Tsunami met for the first time at the Summer Palace, they embraced and Queen Coral vowed to always watch and protect her daughter. For example, she wanted to put a "harness" on Tsunami which Tsunami declines. Their first point of friction was when Coral ordered Tsunami's friends, the dragonets of destiny, to be chained and starved. When Queen Coral killed one of the dragons guarding the Royal Hatchery for neglecting her duties under Commander Shark's permission, Tsunami began to doubt her mother's leadership. For most of The Lost Heir, Tsunami and her sister found much of Coral's behavior over-protective to an unhealthy extent.

Queen Coral displayed a sickening level of obedience towards her ally Blister. Because Princess Tsunami volunteered to protect Coral's egg - even if failure meant Coral killing her, their relationship was already beginning to crumble. Blister managed to convince Coral to imprison Tsunami "for her safety," and Coral finally agreed. Tsunami escaped shortly after. Queen Coral's feelings on this are unknown.

In Moon Rising, Tsunami and Queen Coral meet again when Coral is dropping Princess Anemone off at Jade Mountain Academy. Queen Coral and Princess Tsunami seemed to display a surprising lack of anger towards each other during the encounter. Tsunami seemed annoyed by Coral's paranoia and overprotective nature.

Overall, it is shown that Queen Coral loves Tsunami, and cares for her very much, to the point that she will be extremely overprotective.

Anemone Edit
Princess Anemone is the second oldest currently living daughter of Queen Coral. She is an artificial animus, enchanted by Turtle. Queen Coral does not know that Turtle enchanted Anemone. She is very attached to Anemone since she lost several daughters before Anemone hatched. Orca's enchanted statue was killing off her daughters, so she slept with Anemone in the Royal SeaWing Hatchery for a year. After she was born, Queen Coral attached a harness to Anemone to ensure that she doesn't get lost or hurt.

Queen Coral is especially paranoid about losing her loved ones, especially Anemone. Anemone spent the first year of her life with no independence, freedom, or connections to anyone except her mother. Coral seems unbothered by killing, which could have been damaging for Princess Anemone, however, they seem to love each other on some level. Queen Coral tries to protect her beloved daughter from what she considers "a dangerous world." Anemone doesn't show any forms of radical anger towards her mother until book nine. At one point, Anemone calls her mother "crazy."

In Moon Rising, Queen Coral unattached the harness on Anemone and let her stay at Jade Mountain Academy. In Talons Of Power, Anemone, who was internally damaged by her mother's over-protective behavior, seeks to kill Queen Coral. She never follows through. It is unknown whether or not Queen Coral was ever aware of this.

Auklet Edit
Princess Auklet is Coral's youngest daughter, whose egg was saved by Tsunami. Queen Coral seems to love her as much as Anemone. Instead of being afraid every moment of losing her, she can just enjoy being with her daughter. She is finally settling down, at peace knowing Orca's statue was destroyed and her daughters are all safe. Auklet wanted to go to Jade Mountain Academy, but Coral insisted that she was too young to attend.

Blister Edit
Queen Coral usually behaved in a weak and spineless attitude around her former ally and obeyed her every decision.

The SeaWing Queen listened to Blister constantly, as though Blister was running the Kingdom instead of herself. It is unknown why Coral chose to support Blister during the War of SandWing Succession. She seems to hold a rather unhealthy amount of respect for her ally.

Blister is often seen playing with Coral's emotions and manipulating her decisions. Blister leads Queen Coral to let her waste away Anemone's soul daily by allowing excessive animus magic use. At the end of the The Lost Heir, Blister coerces Queen Coral into imprisoning Tsunami. We do not know if Coral regrets these decisions, though it can be inferred that she does. She seemed relieved when Thorn was chosen to be queen, hinting that she may not have really liked Blister nor wanted her to be Queen. It is unknown why she formed an alliance with Blister in the first place, but it is possible that, like Burn and the MudWings, Blister might have threatened the SeaWings into an alliance and or tricked her into one.

Moray Edit
Princess Moray has been described to adore and dote on Queen Coral, treating her like she's the most perfect queen in existence. In return, Coral completely and thoroughly trusts her niece despite her ability to challenge for the throne, having the SeaWing on her council and consulting her for other matters. Moray often scrapes and bows at her talons, cleaning up Herring's brother's blood and oozing about how wonderful it must be for Tsunami's return. Their relationship appears to be close, and it is unknown why Moray is so submissive when power is so close within her reach.

Whirlpool Edit
Queen Coral said that Whirlpool is a wonderful teacher and that he'll be a perfect king, although Anemone and Tsunami have different opinions. Whirlpool muttered that she could re-marry (most likely he meant that she could re-marry himself) after Moray stated that "no Gill means no more eggs" after Tsunami revealed that Gill was dead.

Gill Edit
King Gill was Coral's husband, Coral described Gill as "the perfect king," and she wrote a scroll about why she chose him as her husband. She also said that King Gill had a way with words, as to persuade prisoners in the Sky Arena to lie down, and refuse to fight. They had an astonishing 32 sons and 4 daughters. Gill was mentioned to adore his wife's scrolls.

Webs Edit
Webs became infamous for stealing Princess Tsunami's egg. Queen Coral hated Webs deeply and always planned for revenge. Queen Coral found Webs in The Lost Heir. Blister said Webs killed Queen Coral's eggs, however, Webs didn't but Blister wanted Webs dead. Queen Coral agreed and threw Webs and Riptide in her prison.

Riptide Edit
Queen Coral does not trust Riptide because his father, Webs, was a traitor. She later threw Riptide and Webs in prison, although Riptide escaped. After that, he fought for the SeaWings in the battle of the Summer Palace. Queen Coral then said he could escape with his life, but not travel into the Kingdom of the Sea ever again.

Turtle Edit
Queen Coral did not show much love for her son at first. As he was one of her thirty-two sons, she didn't pay attention to him or even know his name. However, in the epilogue of Darkness of Dragons, Coral wrote a letter to her son complimenting him and saying that she loved him. Prince Turtle was very happy when he got the letter, showing that he feels little or no anger towards Coral's lack of attention towards him. She loves and cares about Turtle as much as she cared for her daughters.

Orca Edit
Princess Orca challenged Coral for the throne when she was only seven years old. She was about to win until Coral stabbed her with the narwhal horn that was on the tip of her tail. She misses and worships her daughter, and also did not know she was secretly an animus. Coral was unaware that Orca enchanted her statue to kill off Coral's heirs.

Known Written Scrolls Edit

 * A Tail of Blood
 * On the Differences Between Oysters and Clams
 * The Claws of Murder
 * The Missing Princess (in The Lost Heir, it is told that Queen Coral wrote this scroll mainly about Tsunami)
 * The Tragedy of Orca
 * A scroll describing how she chose Gill as her husband (unknown title)
 * More unnamed scrolls (never mentioned in the book)

Quotes Edit

 * "My baby! I knew you'd come back to me. I knew you were out there, trying to find your way back. I never stopped searching for you."
 * ― to Tsunami (The Lost Heir)


 * "It's all right. Naturally, I forgive my long-lost daughter any accidental impudence. As we all know, she was raised by barbarians, so she couldn't know any better. I give you all permission to eat."
 * ― to the SeaWing Council (The Lost Heir, page 110-111)


 * "It's not a death trap! […] SeaWing princesses and princes have been hatching there for thousands of years. Ihatched there, and it was safe and beautiful. It's part of our heritage. It's a SeaWing tradition. There's nothing wrong with the hatchery-- the problem is our useless guards."
 * ― to Gill (Talons of Power, prologue)


 * "I'll stay with her this time. No one else can do it except me. I was right about our incompetent guards […] I'm going to keep our next daughter alive. I'll stay in the hatchery with the egg to keep it safe. I'll keep her by my side all the time. Her whole life, if I have to. I'll never leave her alone. She's going to be perfect, Gill, you'll see. And we're going to call her Anemone."
 * ― to Gill (Talons of Power, prologue)


 * "Dear Turtle, Auklet and I send our love. You must come home for a visit soon so that you can see the new palace we're building. We chose the perfect island for it and we're starting with an auditorium that will have wonderful acoustics for my scroll readings, with enough room to host dragons from all the tribes. We're not going to hide this one like the Summer Palace. I'm hoping it'll be a center for diplomacy and trade and art that will help us build relations across Pyrrhia, but especially with Queen Moorhen and Queen Glory, who have such interesting ideas."
 * ― to Turtle, in a letter (Darkness of Dragons, epilogue)


 * "Your brothers seem to think you played an enormously clever practical joke on them the last time you were at the palace. I didn't get all the details, but they're very impressed with you. You'd better carefully check your bed for lobsters the next time you're here."
 * ― to Turtle, in a letter (Darkness of Dragons, epilogue)

Trivia Edit

 * Coral's second spoken words to Tsunami were identical to ones in The Missing Princess.
 * Queen Coral dislikes the Talons of Peace, as shown when she outlawed Webs from ever coming back to the Kingdom of the Sea again. This hatred stems from Webs (who worked for the Talons of Peace at the time) stealing Tsunami's egg from the Royal Hatchery.
 * Most of her works are published on water-proof scrolls and thin stone tablets, and many are required reading in SeaWing schools.
 * Queen Coral was described as having a dark blue forked tongue in The Lost Heir. This was a mistake, since only IceWings, NightWings, and SandWings have forked tongues.

Gallery Edit
Reference by Platypus the SeaWing

Coral from  The Lost Heir (graphic novel), by Mike Holmes Add a photo to this gallery

References Edit

 * 1) ↑ Talons of Power, prologue
 * 2) ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 The Lost Heir, page 74
 * 3) ↑ 3.0 3.1 The Lost Heir, page 77
 * 4) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 275
 * 5) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 80
 * 6) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 220
 * 7) ↑ 7.0 7.1 The Lost Heir, page 78
 * 8) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 83
 * 9) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 79
 * 10) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 183
 * 11) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 204
 * 12) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 90
 * 13) ↑ Moon Rising, page 5
 * 14) ↑ The Lost Heir, page 86
 * 15) ↑ Moon Rising, page 4-5
 * 16) ↑ Darkness of Dragons, page 213