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This article is about the Altean witch as she appears in Legendary Defender. For a list of other meanings, see Haggar (disambiguation).
Major spoiler warning: This article contains plot details about the ending of the series.
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Honerva, formally the Galran Empress and the witch Haggar, was an Altean user of dark magic and the former high priestess of the Druids serving the Galra Empire. She acted as an advisor to Zarkon and later recalled her memories as his former wife. She helped save him and keep him alive with her magic, yet Zarkon was still killed by his son Lotor, who hated Haggar almost as much as Zarkon. Following the loss of her son at the hands of Voltron, Haggar, now reverted back to Honerva, withdrew from the Galra Empire, taking the Alteans from the colony formed by Lotor and training them to hate both Voltron and the Galra. She had them Pilot her Komar Mechs and sent one to Earth.

Following this, she prepared to unleash her endgame: to live in an alternate reality with her husband and son alive and well, with no Voltron or Galra, but at the cost of all other realities.

After using Oriande to bring back Lotor's Sincline mech, she found her son dead, but used his Mech and fused it with her one, allowing her to piece reality irised now and reach her perfect world, only to be rejected by a young Lotor, who knew that she was not the Honerva of his reality. Broken and shunned, Honerva devised to wipe out all reality in existence and went to the Source of all Reality and began cutting off different realities. She was stopped by Voltron, and Allura convinced her it was not the way, and that she was once good and could be so again, and that they could fix the lost realities. Honerva and Allura both sacrificed themselves to restore all realities, and Honerva joined her husband and son, finally together again.

Biography[]

Honerva was originally an Altean born on the planet Altea more than ten thousand years ago. Very little is known of her early life but flashes of her memories in season 8 reveal that she was once friends with Allura's father, King Alfor - the two studied alchemy together, for which Honerva graduated top of their class, and later traveled the universe together. Thus when planet Daibazaal was stuck by a mysterious comet one night, Alfor invited Honerva to led the investigation into the crater created by the comet.

Upon arriving, Honerva was introduced to the ruler of the planet, the Galra Emperor Zarkon, after he was startled by her pet cat, Kova. The pair worked together on the study of the crater, which led to the discovery of a new power source that could advance the planet beyond any other and that the crater was actually a rift to another reality. Honerva and Zarkon soon fell in love and married. The couple worked with Alfor on the study and soon Honerva became more and more obsessed with it. During this time, she and Zarkon concived a son, naming him Lotor.

One day a massive beast escaped from the rift and she watched in amazement as Voltron was summoned for the first time to stop it. After many years her experiments with the Quintessence became unnerving, one of them was testing it on her sick cat which made it live longer than it naturally should. She then became obsessed with the potential of immortality that Quintessence could give them. Her husband joined her obsession and they tried to convince Alfor of their cause too, but to no avail.During her experiments Honerva grew sick, and told her husband that the only way to save her was to expose her to the Quintessence. And so Zarkon tricked his fellow Paladins into going into the rift in order to save her. But they were both exposed to a combination of an overdose of the substance and the creatures from the other realm.

Presumed dead, Alfor evacuated the planet and gave orders to destroy it in order to close the rift forever. However the two woke up, corrupted by the Quintessence, and Zarkon rallied his armies to take revenge for their planet by destroying Altea, killing his former friend and enslaving the Galaxy. Honerva, however, suffered a worse fate - she lost all her memories, and sat shivering on the ground draping her cloak over herself. Zarkon called for a medic, and the Galra medic named Haggar came to help, only for Honerva to grab the medic's wrist and suck the Quintessence from her body, killing her. Her fellow medic ran in, calling her name "Haggar" over and over.

Later, a doctor asked Honerva if she knew her one name, and she replied with "Haggar". She later gave birth to Lotor, but without her memories of wanting a child, did not want to see her son and he was taken away.

Personality[]

While originally a kind and gentle scientist and Altean alchemist, Honerva's daring and headstrong personality took a turn for the maniacal when she began delving deeper into her experiments involving quintessence, and slowly her mind and body began to warp into the being known today as Haggar. She began pushing the limits of the lifespans of several species, including herself, Kova, and even her husband, Zarkon. These alterations twisted the once harmless and charming scientist into a destructive mad sorceress obsessed with her work concerning immortality.

The consequence of being brought back to life in the Quintessence Field by dark entities, along with her long life and obsession with her work, has Honerva's memories become shrouded in her new persona, Haggar, and she eventually loses all knowledge and memory of her previous life, however; there appears to be remaining traces of the person she once was, when Haggar recognizes Zarkon as her husband for the first time in untold years, her voice shifted to resemble her original voice, and carried a loving caress in it for her king and love. Even before remembering her love for him, Haggar's affections for Zarkon did carry over into her current personality enough to worry for the Emperor's mental health due to his obsession with capturing the Black Lion of Voltron, and his utter disregard for tactics by attempting to pilot his unsafe and life-threatening mech suit.

Other than her love for Zarkon, Haggar is a twisted and ruthless sorceress, sadistic in her research, which among other things includes creating prosthetic limbs, developing new methods for quintessence extraction, and torturing prisoners. Haggar's raw intellect and over 10,000 years of experience have left her all but peerless in her skills, causing her to be immensely confident when dealing with anyone near her level. This was most prominently shown when she inadvertently unlocked Allura's latent mystical potential, and the younger Altean was able to overpower her, shocking and terrifying the dark sorceress to the point of retreating.

She has been shown to be somewhat mistrusting of her son's judgment as Emperor Pro Tem, due to Lotor's similar single-mindedness to his father, causing Haggar to question his priorities. However, following Zarkon's comatose state following his defeat at the hands of Voltron, Haggar had Lotor summoned. Her reasons for doing so were primarily based in keeping the Galra Empire united, as the Voltron Alliance managed to shake the decentralized Galra forces enough to free dozens of planets. Her concern for galactic domination shows that her loyalties to Zarkon extend to preserving his life's work, and that her reliance on her son to act as the face of the Empire is an extension of keeping her husband's ambitions from crumbling to ruin.

Haggar appears to suffer from dissociative amnesia, as over time she forgot everything regarding the relationships she had as Honerva, including her marriage to Zarkon and even the birth of her own son, Lotor. Since reawakening much of her long-buried personality, Haggar has been using quintessence periodically to unlock more memories, including those of her own child and her relationship to him. In these lucid moments when the dormant personality of Honerva is in control she is shown to deeply care about her son. It is also likely that she suffers from dissociative identity disorder, as she often speaks of Honerva as if she is a distinctly different person.

Despite regaining her original identity as Honerva following passing the trials at Oriande, she still remains the mad witch she is now, because she still keeps the darkness that gives her power inside of her. Honerva wishes to preserve the family she has, even as she was rejected by her son as his general fired on her unsuccessfully. After Lotor's demise, Honerva spent months tracking him in vain as Haggar, eventually deciding to abandon her Druids and end the Galra's "traditions of evil" she believed ruined Lotor, by calling forth another Kral Zera, so she could destroy every Galra present with her dark magic.

Honerva's deepest desire is now to live in peace with her family, which is only possible by traveling to other realities. For that purpose, she finds Lotor's hidden Altean colony and deceives its people into becoming her willing servants, with the promise of reuniting them with Lotor and Altea, and taking revenge on the Galra and Voltron, the one who killed their savior, showing that she has given up on capturing Voltron. Honerva plans to use Lotor's Sincline mech to pierce realities to find the perfect one to live in peace with, but at the price of destroying countless others in the process.

When she finally arrived in her perfect reality, Honerva was once again rejected by the young, alternate Lotor. This drives her madness to its zenith. No longer caring about anyone else's fate, she goes to the source of all existence to destroy all realities everywhere and nearly succeeding. Before she could finish it, Voltron pushes her into the collective consciousness of all reality. Inside, the Paladins convince her to stop her destruction of all existence and succeed in making her see the error of her ways, with Allura using her magic to cure Honerva of the evil forces that controlled her for millennia. She manages to accept the flaws of reality and that preserving life is the best way to honor her son. Though disheartened that there is nothing left to save, Allura changes the quintessence inside Honerva's vessel into a life-giving force to allow both of them to use their magical abilities to restore all of existence, sacrificing their lives in the process. With this, Honerva is finally reunited with her family in the afterlife.

Abilities[]

Honerva is an Altean alchemist who was corrupted by ancient evil entities like Zarkon, turning her into the dark witch Haggar, losing all memory of herself. Her magic is more powerful but has been twisted into a destructive force in contrast to life-giving Altean magic. She does not age or need any sustenance aside from quintessence to survive. Upon gaining the secrets of Oriande, she restored her original self as Honerva and has become even more powerful and dangerous. Her abilities are listed below:

Dark Magic[]

Haggar is highly accomplished at magic, made stronger by her transformation and with more than 10,000 years of experience. She can wield dark magic to project energy, form shields and dark spheres, levitate objects, manipulate minds and life energy, and conjure magic circles for witchcraft at a wider range. She can also teleport, cloud minds with dark illusions, and sense events across the universe. Haggar can also control living beings by infusing dark entities within them, allowing her to see and hear what they do, control their actions, induce and wake them from comas at will, etc. With the secrets of Oriande, she is capable of vaporizing a large group of Galra and controlling the Sincline mech.

The witch also uses dark Balmeran crystals and amplifier machines to perform rituals on larger scales that can affect Voltron or entire planets, notably the Komar device to extract quintessence from worlds. Haggar also disrupted a wormhole using a crystal and a special machine to remotely control Naxzela's planetary mechanisms. With Oriande's knowledge and power, she can use wormhole generators and perform greater rituals powered by massive amounts of stolen quintessence to summon Lotor's Sincline from the void and fuse it with her own mech into one.

Altean Alchemy[]

She is also an expert scientist and Altean alchemist. As Haggar, she and her Druids experiment with magic and alchemy to create powerful machines and weapons used by the Galra Empire, mostly Robeasts to fight Voltron. She also made Shiro and Sendak's robotic arms, the Komar, and amplifier devices. With Oriande's knowledge, she is capable of building wormhole generators, Komar Robeasts, and her own personal Robeast, which harnesses her dark magic and uses wing blades to attack and defend, steal quintessence, view other realities, and open destructive portals between them.

Notes[]

  • Haggar's true nature as an Altean was revealed when Allura managed to take down her hood during their battle. It is not known how her Altean mimicking abilities relate to her current appearance, which appears to be the result of "dying" from over-exposure to quintessence and the dark creatures of a trans-reality rift. She is shown to being able to revert the skin color of her face and eye color to that of her original appearance, while her hands remain blue, though in "Omega Shield", she can fully revert her skin (including her hands) and eye color to her original appearance after her visit to Oriande. She uses this ability to keep up her appearance as Haggar around the Galra, until she renounced them at the last Kral Zera.
  • In the series, Haggar is one of the few characters capable of using magic.
  • She is fiercely devoted to Emperor Zarkon, risking her life to unleash a massive, quintessence-draining spell against Voltron during their battle with him. It has been revealed that she is his past wife and the mother of his son, Lotor.
  • Her original identity, Honerva, is a reference to her name in Go-Lion.
  • After the death of her husband in "Blood Duel", Haggar is the only villain to appear in every season so far, even if her season 7 appearance in "The Feud!" wasn't really her.
  • She, along with Zarkon, Lotor and Morvok, appear in the Season 7 Episode, The Feud!, as illusions. All four disappear when the paladins win.
  • During flashbacks as seen in The Legend Begins, Haggar is voiced by Lily Rabe instead of Cree Summer. Executive staff explains that a different voice actor was chosen to represent how Haggar is not the original person she once was. [1]
    • As Haggar regained her identity as Honerva, she is once again voiced by Lily Rabe.
    • Mother of Prince Lotor loosely based Sarah, Honerva, Haggar, Prince Sincline, Emperor Daibazaal, and Prince Sincline's Mother.

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