Pan

Pan
official artwork by Kilian McMann
Appearances
First Appearance	The Unwanteds: Island of Graves
Information
Full Name	Pan
Age	Unknown
Occupation	Ruler of the Sea
Home	Island of Dragons Seven Islands
Relatives	Arabis, Ivis, Yarbeck (daughters) Hux, Drock (sons)

SPOILER WARNING! This article contains heavy discussion of plot details from the newest Unwanteds Quests books. You are at risk of major spoilers if you haven't read up to the newest installment in the series. Be careful!

Pan was a coiled water dragon and the ruler of the Seven Islands, more specifically the sea around it. She primarily lived in and around the Island of Dragons.

Personality

Pan is distrusting of any newcomers she meets, but gradually gains trust with others the more she interacts with them. She is very secretive and very rarely shares information surrounding herself, her family, or her background. She is also very protective of her children, a trait that is both tied into her secrecy and at odds with it.

Appearance

Pan is a large, incredibly long, snakelike, black coiled water dragon with an extremely long, thin, spiked, whip/rope-like tail. She can float curled-up on top of the water. Her head is oversized and she does have ears. She has scales shooting up around her head that look like a plume of feathers or a mane. She has yellow eyes (yes, with whites) and many rows of sharp teeth. Her legs are stocky and stout, with wide, webbed feet and three large claws on each. Her scales shimmer many colors in the sunlight, but are impossible to see at night. At the base of her neck, the scales are worn away.

After Dragon Ghosts, she has large wings.

She's double the size of her children, who are about an average size for adult dragons (at least, by the time of Quests); she's about the same size as the ghost dragons. She makes even Simber look small.

"A coiled water dragon who rules the sea."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Legends, "A Setback" (397)

"Curled up like a snake with four short legs and floating completely on top of the water, the black, shiny creature had a giant, gaping mouth filled with multiple rows of teeth, a regal plume of scales, like feathers, shooting up from the back of its head, and a thin tail that was so long it appeared to have no end...Its tail lifted into the air like a rope lasso..."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Graves, "Island Number Seven" (267-268)

"The dragon’s ears twitched."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Graves, "The Mysterious Coiled Water Dragon" (270)

"The dragon coiled up its extremely long tail. Its short, stocky legs, which ended in wide, webbed feet with three large, hooked claws, paddled the dragon through the water away from them."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Graves, "The Mysterious Coiled Water Dragon" (270)

"Finally the dragon lifted its regal head, shaking out a scaly, shimmering mane..."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Graves, "The Mysterious Coiled Water Dragon" (271)

"Slowly she uncoiled, and uncoiled, and uncoiled. Alex, Sky, and Spike all watched in fascination as she spread out to her full, tremendous length, from her oversized head to her streamlined body, stout legs, sticking out from the thickest part, all the way down to her spiked, ropelike tail...her fire-breaking, scale-shimmering head."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Graves, "The Mysterious Coiled Water Dragon" (272)

"...walking onto the shore with her oversized dragon head, snakelike body, and four stocky legs growing from the thickest part of her trunk, was Pan herself. Her long, whiplike tail snapped and curled like a lasso behind her, her clawed feet dug divots into the lawn...and the plume of scales that burst from her head sparkled in a myriad of colors in the sunlight."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "Planning a Journey" (43)

"She seemed immensely larger on land than she’d seemed in the open sea. Her sprawling body made Simber look small."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "Planning a Journey" (43)

"Pan stopped in the water and swung her head back toward them, her plume of scales shimmering."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "Planning a Journey" (45)

"Pan’s yellow eyes narrowed."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "Trouble at Sea" (66)

"Hold on very tightly to the folds of skin at the base of my neck, where the scales are worn away."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "A Night Journey" (112)

"It didn’t take long before Pan’s oversized head appeared above them..."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "A Brother's Love" (189)

"She looked down her broad snout at him, the whites of her eyes reflecting the moonlight."

― The Unwanteds Quests: Dragon Captives, "The Adventure Begins" (99)

"She was at least double the size of one of her children."

― The Unwanteds Quests: Dragon Ghosts, "Preparing to Go" (296)

"Pan, whom they could hardly see in the darkness because of her pitch-black scales..."

― The Unwanteds Quests: Dragon Fury, "After Dark" (200)

"The ruler of the sea was twice the size of her young dragons."

― The Unwanteds Quests: Dragon Fury, "A Kiss in the Dark" (280)

Note: Please look at Arabis, Hux, Drock, Ivis, and Yarbeck's pages as well, as Pan looks a lot like them.

History

Relationships

Quotes

"The sea is not too strong for the one who rules it."

― The Unwanteds: Island of Dragons, "Return to the Island of Legends" (96)

Abilities/Weaknesses

Pan is huge in size, meaning she can easily dominate smaller targets. She often uses her ropelike tail as a way to pick things up and fish. She can breathe fire, which can greatly benefit her in battle. She can travel well underwater, being a water dragon, and above ground via flying.

Like other dragons, Pan's scales are invulnerable and protect her from any kind of harm, magical and nonmagical.

Due to her large size, she can be an easy target. Her wings can pose a problem as well, as they can be a target and can break.

Pan says that "dragons can do things one wouldn't expect them to do" after healing Henry Haluki.

She can swim both above and below water.

Trivia

• It is implied that Pan knows almost everything that happens in the Seven Islands. In fact, it seems like she can see much of the Seven Islands just by climbing up the Island of Dragons.
• It is implied that Pan was friends with other dragons in Grimere before the split. The books even explicitly say that she'd had "dragon friends who’d come for a few weeks or months" (Dragon Ghosts). She seems to know Gorgrun and Quince.
• Pan taught her children to speak in "the language of the dragons," a language that is clearly not English. However, in Dragon Captives, Shanti says that Thisbe and Fifer are speaking "the language of the dragons," which is clearly meant to be English.

Gallery

Official Artwork

Disclaimer: While these artworks are official, there are many differences in how the characters are portrayed compared to their book descriptions. Many of the official artworks are whitewashed or otherwise incorrect. While they can be used as reference for fan artworks, they are not an accurate representation of how the characters may actually look.

Pan from the Seven Islands map by Kilian McMann

Aaron (left) and Alex (right) hanging from Pan's tail on the Island of Dragons cover

References