The Sorceress (Spyro)

"Now watch how a real sorceress dispatches her enemies!"

- The Sorceress "Woooohoo!! Time to kick some Sorceress butt!"

- Agent 9, before assisting Spyro against the Sorceress.

"I don't know how she did it, Spyro, but the Sorceress must have survived that last battle! She's been waiting here all this time, saving up her magic to destroy you! Your best chance to defeat her is to borrow my flying saucer. I've cast some spells on it to give it extra firepower and unlimited flying time... but the rest is going to be up to you... You've come this far, Spyro, I know you can beat her!"

- Bianca, before assisting Spyro against the Sorceress for the second and final time

The Sorceress, also known as the "Queen of the Forgotten Worlds", is an evil dinosaur-like witch who rules the long-lost Forgotten Worlds as its queen, and she is the main antagonist of the third Spyro the Dragon videogame Spyro: Year of the Dragon. The Sorceress proves to be one of Spyro's powerful and most wicked foes ever faced. The Sorceress is the ruler of the Forgotten Realms (the Forgotten Worlds) and queen of the Rhynocs, she looks a bit like a dinosaur mixed with a hippopotamus wearing a ruff neck collar around her neck as well as a tall golden jeweled crown on her head and a gold, horned necklace with a magenta opal gem around her neck, and she is also over 1,000 years old ue to her own magic.

She was voiced by Flo Di Re, who also voiced the Vie de Marli's Protectorate clan priestess and Lucia's adopted mother Matier in Devil May Cry 2, in the original game, and later by Misty Lee in Spyro Reignited Trilogy.

Personality
The Sorceress is bad tempered, vile, ungrateful, and loves to bully her servant/apprentice Bianca. A typical dictator who sends her minions to do her dirty work before she can do it herself in the end, the Sorceress is a malicious queen and a power-hungry individual. She also had no qualms about murdering children, as shown when she revealed the real reason she stole all the dragon eggs, making her extremely dark as far as Spyro villains go.

Spyro: Year of the Dragon
Long ago, the Sorceress and the Elder Dragons had a bad argument, and she foolishly used her sorcery to banish all of them to the other side of the world far outside their former homeland. She had no idea at the time that the dragons themselves were the very source of the magic in the former Dragon Kingdom, including her own magic as well, and so everything and everyone in the newly named Forgotten Worlds ended up paying the price by having their magical powers slowly draining away within each passing year. This was especially hazardous for the Sorceress, who needed magic in order to stay alive.

In order to restore the depleting magic, the Sorceress ordered her apprentice, Bianca and several Rhynocs to invade the Dragon Worlds and steal all of their eggs. She then had her minions hide the eggs all across the Forgotten Worlds and deal with anyone who tries to take them back. For malicious reasons, the Sorceress also allowed the Rhynocs to rampage across the land, terrorizing its inhabitants and capturing anyone that should dare to resist. She even kidnapped certain individuals who have proven troublesome, such as Sheila the Kangaroo, Sgt. Byrd, Bentley the Yeti, and Agent 9. Then she employed the greedy bear, Moneybags in keeping guard over them.

When she learned that Spyro and his friends, Hunter and Sparx had arrived to take the eggs back, she ordered Bianca to get rid of them. After she had failed to scare them off, the sorceress gave her a spellbook that would allow her to create a monster to eliminate Spyro. Unfortunately, Bianca's creature, Buzz failed to defeat the dragon, causing the Sorceress to lose faith in her apprentice and take matters into her own hands by creating Spike. After that one was defeated too and Spyro continued to collect eggs, she finally becomes fed up and declared she would create the most powerful monster of all and have it kill all the dragons, including the newborns. When Bianca questions this, the Sorceress reveals she had no intention of letting the dragons live; she only wanted their wings so she could create a spell that would enable her to live forever (likely this meant that her magic would continue to exist while all other magics in the land faded away). Finally seeing her teacher for the monster she is, Bianca leaves in disgust and the Sorceress vows to deal with her after Spyro. And so she creates the insidious Scorch, but he is defeated as well.

After collecting enough eggs, Spyro was finally able face the tyrannical Sorceress herself, who was immune to his regular attacks. But thanks to some powerful munitions provided by Agent 9, the young dragon was able to hurt the sorceress, seemingly killed her when she fell into the lava moat of her own arena, revealing the 147th egg (which was wedged in her scepter) and left.

But the wicked queen escapes from the lava within her castle arena and takes refuge in the Super Bonus Round, a secret castle in the high peaks of a snowy island where she hid a large stash of all of treasure in the Forgotten Worlds. But Spyro finds her again in a hover platform fight and sends her flying into pink acid, killing her for good.

Spyro: Enter the Dragonfly
One year after her defeat, a balloon in the shape of the Sorceress appeared in the party where the baby dragons get their dragonflies. The Sorceress balloon scared Hunter, but Spyro explained that it is just a float, and called Hunter a "scaredy cat".

Powers and Abilities
The Sorceress can conjure magic spells, one of them notable to turn any normal creature into a ferocious monster. Using her royal golden wand, presumably provided by the magic of a dragon egg attached to her sceptre, she can conjure fireballs and launch a large array of electrical energy spheres, as well as release an electrical discharge from her wand to attack at close-range. can also create a temporary green magic aura as a shield if her opponents gets too close to her.

Quotes
"Excellent! Maybe you'll amount to something after all. Now, go guard the tunnels. Stop anyone from coming through!"

- The Sorceress telling Bianca to guard the tunnels.

"Listen carefully, you stupid girl! I'm going to ask you one more time - why haven't you disposed of that infernal dragon?!"

- The Sorceress demanding to know why hasn't gotten rid of Spyro.

"Not afraid? Not afraid?! Why have I been training you all these years? USE… SOME… MAGIC!"

- The Sorceress telling Bianca to get rid of Spyro using magic.

"Here's the Spell book. Whip up the monster… and eliminate him."

- The Sorceress handing Bianca her spellbook.

"I don't care what you do, you useless brat, as long as you get rid of him!"

- The Sorceress showing her ruthlessness.

"You bumbling, idiotic, worthless fool! I ask you to carry out one simple task and you fail me! I should have known better than to rely on a child!"

- The Sorceress berating Bianca.

"Don't worry about it. I will deal with them now."

- The Sorceress planning to deal with Spyro and Hunter.

"Without dragons, the magic of this world will wither away. Without magic, I'll die & so will your ever-slim chance of becoming a sorceress!"

- The Sorceress explaining to Bianca about the mass theft of Dragon Eggs needed for both "Her Highness'" sorcerous lifespan and the good of the Forgotten Worlds.

"How would you like some dragon for lunch?"

- The Sorceress before turning one of her minions into Spike.

"That's it, I've had enough! I'm going to create a monster to end all monsters! And I'm going to send it out to destroy all the dragons, even the little hatchlings! Yes, yes! it will smash them, and crush them, and grind them, and tear them! Oh yes, smear them, and smoosh them, and crack them, and crease them!"

- The Sorceress plotting to create Scorch.

"It doesn't matter; as long as I can still collect their wings!"

- The Sorceress explaining to Bianca that she has to kill every dragon in order to collect their wings.

"Of course, you ignorant girl, I need them for a spell, so I can live forever!"

- The Sorceress revealing her plans for the dragon hatchlings.

"What did you think I was going to do with all those dragons? Open a zoo?"

- Sorceress mocking Bianca.

"I don't have to kill them… it just stops them from wriggling so much."

- The Sorceress explaining why she is going to kill the hatchlings.

"Stupid insolent brat; I'll take care of her as soon as I finish off that dragon. Now where was I… ah yes!"

- The Sorceress expressing her disappointment in Bianca before creating Scorch.

Trivia

 * She is considered the second most darkest and cruelest of all the Spyro villains, only behind Malefor.
 * She is also sometimes called the "Sorceress Queen" and "The Evil Sorceress" by some Spyro fans.
 * Unlike the other game bosses in Spyro: Year of the Dragon, the Sorceress alone never have a cutscene that leads up to her first confrontation with Spyro; instead the player is sent straight to the evil witch's arena. In fact, the Sorceress never verbally interacts with Spyro at all in the entire game.
 * Due to graphical limitations, most characters in the original trilogy have textures for eyes that squish to simulate blinking. The Sorceress, on the other hand, has very large, fully modeled eyes, with fully functioning eyelids. She shares the modeled eyes with Sgt. Byrd, however the eyelids are a trait unique to her.
 * She is the only evildoer in the original Spyro trilogy to die, as Gnasty Gnorc and Ripto are both revealed to have survived.
 * She is might been referred to as "Hideous Witch", due to Jasper, one of the local troll citizens of the Forgotten Worlds' Enchanted Towers realm, calls his artistic secret operation "Hideous Exploding Witch, Number 9'." which was meant to blow up the Sorceress' golden statue due to the evil tyrantess' vainglorious nature and her outrageous demands.