#hagsfiends

A while ago I was scrolling through the Warrior Cats Wiki and I found something called "Guardians of Ga'Hoole vs Warrior cats. Who do you think wins." (it was on German) and it was pretty funny to read. The first answers were definitely pro Warrior Cats, later more replies were more pro guardians of gahoole.

So who would win, Warrior Cats or Guardians of Ga'Hoole?

(Spoiler warning for Warrior Cats Arc 1 to 7 and Guardians of Ga'Hoole Book 1 to 15 and the rise of a legend.)

So let's start with Warrior Cats.

They are having 5 Clans whit trained Warriors and experienced Healers. They have many allies, like the tribe or the sisters. Also other animals. They have StarClan, the Dark Forest, BloodClan and the leaders whit nine lives. And they are predators, so they are experienced with huntings. Especially the Tribe, whos members are very experienced with hunting down bigger birds very easily.

So wouldn't it be realistic for Warrior Cats to win? I don't think so.

So first we have the Tree alone who are around 600 ouwls or smth. All the warriors alive are like 200 or a little bit more. Then we are having the ouwls of the other owl kingdoms, the owls from the Notherns Kingdoms, the Wolves, the pure ones, the blue ouwls, bears, puffins, Crows, Hagsfiends and Sankt Aeggi. The Ouwls are experienced with weapons (like Battleclaws and Iceswords), Fire, the weather, flecks and Danyar. And the hagsfiends have their fyngrott, which can make you stop moving and eventually kill you. There are also little creatures, called halfhags I guess, who can locate where you are. Not exactly locating but I don't know how to describe it. Yes, Starclan and the Darkforest could both join and yes the leaders have nine lives, butthey all vould get defeated too. So I think theanswer is pretty easy: the guardians would win.

But what if Warrior Cats takes place in the same world as guardians of gahoole? Then I would say that both have a chance to win, the guardians would still have more chances of winning because of flying.

In the world of warrior cats it would be fair too, I personally think that the Warrior Cats would have more chances of a win.

Weird girl and her himbo husband

Lutta's eyes are green-tinted because there's a passage in To Be a King where Hoole sees her next to the ember and notes that they seem to be made from the same stuff.

Sorry for leaving you for months anon! I’m sorry I haven’t given you a good response, but them being the result of genetic engineering makes tons of sense! I personally think they’re a divergent branch of owls that covergently evolved a bunch of crow-like traits, but your explanation makes more sense and fits more closely with what we already know about the lore. 

The really freaky things is that crows and owls are basically on opposite ends of the bird family tree. Makes the origins of Hagsfiends even spookier.  

The last reply of mine reminded me of something I’d love to talk about! In Ga’hoole, we’re exposed to different kinds of magic: Nachtmagen, the ember, Hagsfiends in general, spells, scrooms... which I find is super fun to explore in this series particularly, because it’s so unusual and unexplained!

Otulissa is a staunch believer in science over magic. This is stated many times, especially when it came to scrooms; everything has to have an explanation for her, such as moonblinking,  moonscalding, and more. This changes gradually throughout the books as part of a character arc, but even at the end, the most scholar-like owl just can’t understand how magic formed in their world. 

I also can’t help but notice that most magic originated in the Northern Kingdoms as an evil force, and the only true good force was met in the Beyond; while there’s no solid proof, I like to think there’s some type of connection here. 

Though like Otulissa, I can’t seem to figure out a defined reason as to why or how the magic arrived. Was it a curse from Hagsmire? A gift-gone-wrong from Glaux? Something else entirely? Who knows! 

As a huge bird nerd I’ve read a fair amount of bird literature in my day, and when I was reading GoG for the first time, one bird in particular always stuck out to me as suspiciously hagsfiend-like: 

It’s called the Smooth-Billed Ani, a cool little bird native to central and south america. 

Tell me this isn’t the most hagsfiend-looking bird ever