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| “ | I won't let you kill that child! | „ |
| ~ Sorsha turning on her mother, Bavmorda. |
Queen Sorsha, previously known as Princess Sorsha, simply known as Sorsha, is the tritagonist in the 1988 fantasy film, Willow and a supporting character in the 2022 Disney+ sequel series of the same name. She is the daughter of Queen Bavmorda and Prince Mikal Tanthalos of Tir Asleen. Initially Sorsha is sent down to hunt baby Elora Danan, the girl destined to bring her mother's downfall. However, she later becomes an ally to Willow Ufgood and Madmartigan after falling in love with the latter.
She was played by Joanne Whalley.
Biography[]
Background[]
Sorsha was born in Tir Asleen to the evil Sorceress, Bavmorda and Prince Mikal Tanthalos. The young princess had been bent to her mother's Wilson's infancy. However, Sorsha had fond memories of her father growing up. When she was five, Sorsha's mother cursed Tir Asleen and she was raised at Nockmaar castle. However, no one would befriend her, so Sorsha ended up growing up alone.
Willow (1988)[]
Sorsha was present at the birth of Elora Danan, the child destined to bring her mother's downfall. After sending for her mother, Sorsha and Bavmorda had come up see that the mother hid Elora away with her nursemaid. Infuriated, Bavmorda sent Sorsha to search for the baby.
However, Sorsha fails and only finds the remains of Ethna, the nursemaid who snuggled Elora out, instead of the child. As she is berated by her mother, General Kael, Bavmorda's army commander and villain, returns after he annihilated a kingdom, Bavmorda congratulates him and then orders him to go with Sorsha to hunt the baby down and Sorsha says she doesn't need him, but Bavmorda orders her to do so. After they leave, Bavmorda is told by her evil sorcerers that reading the signs her daughter will betray her sooner or later but she says, "i trust her loyality more than i trust yours".
Later at a tavern, Sorsha and the villains look for Elora, and then discovers Madmartigan, hero and warrior, who escapes with the other heroes. Then when she and the villains seize the heroes, she asks him if he lost his skirt and he replies he still has what counts and then Sorsha says, "not for long!", and viciously attacks him. She later talks to Madmartigan, who says he would like to break her legs and she replies, "you might find that difficult slave when i' m up here and you' re down there". When he rescues the baby a little later, he talks and hangs out with Sorsha, who keeps her distance from him and is interrupted by General Kael.
Sorsha us later captured by Madmartigan and the other heroes, and she talks to him about their previous encounter and when he says, "it went away". She furiously fights him and escapes. Later, when her and villains attack the heroes, in Tir Asleen, she is fixing to fight him and yet decides to hug and kiss Madmartigan instead and turns over to the good side. She goes with the other heroes to Nockmaar, Bavmorda's kingdom and home, and confronts the dark queen, and the other villains and Bavmorda transforms her and the other heroes into pigs using her black arts.
Then later Sorsha, and the other heroes attack the villains and she goes with Willow, sorcerer and and Fin Raziel to Bavmorda's ritual chamber, where the queen insults Sorsha, and says she hates her and attacks her with her dark magic but is saved by Fin Raziel's, heroine and good sorceress, white magic. Near the end, Sorsha and Madmartigan return to Tir Asleen, and stay to raise Elora together.
Between the series[]
In the years following the downfall of her mother, Sorsha and Madmartigan married and had two children: Airk and Kit. However the war was not over. After Willow had returned home, he received a vision that one day the enemy would return. The dark forces of evil would come to destroy Elora Danan and if they succeeded, plunge the world in a new era of darkness. To save her, Sorsha has Elora Danan hidden away as a simple serving girl in the castle and no one, not even Elora herself would be aware of third information. Sorsha banned magic from Tir Asleen and a barrier by Raziel and Cherlindrea was created to protect the future empress.
Sorsha later sent Madmartigan on a quest to find an armor that allegedly made anyone worthy of it indestructible. However, he mysteriously disappeared.
Five years since Bavmorda's defeat, Sorsha was reunited with Willow. However, they had a falling out on how to raise Elora as he wanted to start her magical training as a child; however, Sorsha refused.
Willow (2022)[]
200 moons since Bavmorda's downfall, Sorsha arranged for her daughter Kit to marry Prince Graydon of the neighboring kingdom, Galladoorn. Throughout the day, Sorsha can hear Willow telepathically calling her, telling her the Gales we're coming. During the pre-wedding supper, Sorsha snuck into the dungeons to confide in Boorman about her unhappiness with forcing her daughter into an arranged marriage. When Sorsha returns to the party, she sees Kit about to launch a knife at the apple on her brother's head. Infuriated, Sorsha stops Kit and takes her children in a private area. Scolding Kit and Airk, she yells at them and tells them that tomorrow, they will apologize to the Prince and King and that Kit will marry Graydon. Later that night, as Sorsha sleeps, she suffers nightmares from her past experiences with Bavmorda. Willow warns Sorsha that the Gales, servants of the Crone, are coming. Awakened, Sorsha hears a battle going on outside and grabs her sword. Seeing Gales coming after Kit, Sorsha quickly comes to her daughter's assistance. However, while distracted, her son, Airk is taken. The next morning, when Kit proposed a quest to rescue her brother, Sorsha agrees. Five others join, including a soldier, Prince Graydon, and Jade Claymore. Boorman becomes a reluctant member after Sorsha promises him amnesty for his crimes and tells them to seek out Willow, the last sorcerer in all of the realm.
Before the quest, Sorsha warns her daughter that Bavmorda's spirit survived through her daughter she grandchildren and how Willow beloved that magic would be a solution, because the enemy would one day return. As the group is about to head out, Sorsha quietly speaks with Jade, who promises Sorsha she will look after Kit when she is being rash or reckless.
After Dove (now aware of her identity as Elora Danan) was reported missing by the head serving woman, Sorsha tells her Commander, Ballantine to retrieve the girl. Unknown to her, he has already been possessed by the Lich, leader of the Gales from a wound inflicted on him the night the Prince was taken.
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Trivia[]
- In The Shadow Wars Trilogy," which served as a sequel to the Willow movie, a year after her mother's defeat, Sorsha and Madmartigan perished in a terrible event known as the "Catalysm." However, since the Disney+ series, of established Sorsha is alive and well, the novels are non-canon.