Honerva is one of two secondary antagonists (alongside Prince Sincline) of the anime series Beast King GoLion. Combining mysticism and mad science in the Galra Empire, it is her who provides Emperor Daibazaal and Prince Sincline a long string of Deathblack Beastmen sent out from Planet Galra to destroy the peaceful planet Altea and its stalwart defender, Golion. In keeping with her status as a sorceress, Honerva keeps a cat familiar, a deadly blue beast named Jaga whose power and intelligence belies its small body and animal form.
She was voiced by Masako Nozawa.
Biography[]
From the start of the series, she is a close adviser to Daibazaal, and is said to have inspired much of his evil, from the decades-ago invasion of Altea, to the lives thrown away in Galra's deadly gladiator arena. Under her guidance, Daibazaal's ships scour the Earth, which has recently suffered the Third World War, for survivors. Five space explorers return to find their world gone and themselves taken to Galra as slaves. Escaping, they make for Altea, where Honerva warns they could possibly awaken the ancient and mighty Golion, broken apart by a goddess as punishment for Golion's arrogance. When her prediction comes to pass and repeated enemy attacks fail to stop Golion, Honerva herself travels to Altea with Jaga. There, she stalks, isolates, corners and assassinates team member Takashi Shirogane, believing that this would spell the end of the Golion team's ability to combine into the super robot. When the planet's surviving royal, Princess Fala takes Shirogane's place, this continues the deadly stalemate. Numerous Beastmen, spells, poisons, plagues and schemes come and go.
While Daibazaal becomes increasingly frustrated, he would turn his wrath on his former best general, Sadak, and even his own son, Sincline - but never Honerva. Honerva keeps a large monster-making factory on a section of land near Castle Galra, a laboratory even more hellish than the rest of the planet. At times she would aid Prince Sincline in schemes to impress his father, but seems to hold him in some kind of disdain as well. Honerva survives for reasons unknown and for one that is very well known - she alone controls the process by which beasts and sometimes men (like the fallen failed Commander Sadak and Prince Avok of Heracles) are turned into rampaging giant monsters.
Two of Honerva's most notable schemes involve faking death and faking rebirth. When Princess Fala seems to take ill and die, her teammates mourn and prepare to bury her. But when Sincline and Honerva try to steal her body, they realize the death has been faked to make kidnapping the princess easier. A later scheme near the series' end has the long-lost son of strategist Raible return amid rejoicing that falls away when it is discovered that the young man in question is a clone under the control of Galra, who assassinates Lady Hys before being killed himself. Fala finds that the gravesite of Raible's wife and son have been violated by Honerva for this scheme.
A few lucky breaks and hard-fought battles allow the Golion team and its allies to begin to force Galra back, until Golion is able to enter Galra itself and fight on the enemy's home front. Enraged, Daibazaal tries to have his son Sincline arrested for failure, but Sincline turns the tables on his father, overthrowing him and then setting him up to die in a battle with Golion. Honerva becomes enraged at this, at last revealing that she herself has been Daibazaal's mother, and that she despises her grandson Sincline for being part-Altean, the result of Daibazaal's capture of an Altean woman he soon grew bored with. Sincline turns back her attacks, killed Jaga the cat, and finally his decidedly unloving grandmother, who predicts before she dies that Sincline would not be on the throne for long. In fact, soon after, mother, son and grandson join each other in death. Their empire falls apart, leaving the universe in peace.
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Trivia[]
- In Voltron: Legendary Defender, Haggar's real name is Honerva is a reference to her.
- Old Lady Witch Moron Lol.
See also[]
- Haggar (Voltron: Defender of the Universe), her Voltron: Defender of the Universe counterpart.
- Haggar (Voltron: Legendary Defender), her Voltron: Legendary Defender counterpart.
External Links[]
- Honerva on the Voltron Wiki.