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Siv is a character in the Guardians of Ga'hoole book series.

Siv, also known as Queen Siv, the Spotted Owl is H'rath's and Grank's childhood friend. Both H'rath and Grank fell in love with her, but since Grank was too afraid to tell Siv his feelings, and because Siv fell in love with H'rath, she became H'rath's mate and the Queen of the N'yrthghar. Before she and King H'rath were betrayed by Lord Arrin, she laid the luminous egg that contained their son, Hoole. She escaped Lord Arrin's tyranny, reluctantly giving her old friend Grank the egg to hatch and raise in safety.

While in hiding, Siv befriened the polar bear Svenka and her two cubs, Rolf and Anka. With Sveka's help, she was alble to recover from her wound, but her servant Mryythe was murdered by Ygryk in the process. Eventually, Siv donned the guise of a gadfeather and took the alias "Elka", meeting The Snow Rose and eventually, her young son Hoole. However, in finally meeting her lost son, he was almost captured by Pleek and Ygryk, who desired Hoole for their own chick and for their own ends. In the fray that followed, Siv escaped, and her son was saved.

Bent on revenge and saving Hoole, Siv swept through the Southern Kingdoms, gathering a huge army to battle alongside Hoole against Lord Arrin, defeating most of the turnfeather lord's forces, but at the end of the battle Lord Arrin ended up killing Siv. She died "in Hoole's wings", giving her son her final words and passed away.