Ga'Hoole is victorious, but far from the great tree, in the bitter ashes of defeat under a full moon, Nyroc is born. And he will be bred to monstrous evil.Kludd is dead. Nyra, his mate, is determined that her hatchling, Nyroc, will fulfill his father's destiny: the vicious oppression of all the owl kingdoms. But Nyroc is a poor student of evil. A light grows in his heart, fed by scraps of forbidden legend and strange news of a place where goodness and nobility reign. He must summon all his courage to defy his destiny -- and the embodiment of evil that is his mother.

Ga'Hoole取得了胜利，但在远离大树的地方，在满月下失败的痛苦灰烬中，Nyroc诞生了。而他将被培育成畸形的邪恶。克鲁德已经死了。他的配偶Nyra决定让她的幼崽Nyroc完成他父亲的命运：对所有猫头鹰王国进行恶性压迫。但尼罗克是个学习邪恶的差生。在他的心中，有一束光在成长，它被禁忌传说的碎片和关于一个善良和高贵的地方的奇怪消息所滋养。他必须鼓起所有的勇气来反抗他的命运--以及他的母亲是邪恶的化身。