After Airk was kidnapped, Dove/Elora snuck out of the castle to join the group set out to find him. Once she joined the group and met Willow, he revealed that she was in fact Elora Danon and that she was the only one who could save them from the dark forces that were coming their way.
At the end of Episode 1, when the band of heroes finally reaches Willow, he reveals that Dove is actually the grown-up Elora Danan. It's a pivotal moment for the character and in revealing the true protagonist of the series.
She has been raised under the pseudonym, Brunhilde, nicknamed Dove, and is a kitchen maid, in love with royal heir Airk. When Airk is kidnapped, she joins the quest to save him.
She grew up as Brünhilde, nicknamed Dove, and soon became a competent kitchen maid in the castle. A kitchen maid named Dove is actually Elora Danan, played by Ellie Bamber.
Behind the scenes. In the 1988 movie Willow, the mother of Elora Danan was played by Sallyanne Law.
Elora Danan, formally styled as Her Royal Highness the Sacred Princess Elora Danan, is the tritagonist of Willow. She was a female Daikini. A gifted child born with a certain mark, she was prophecized to become empress of Tir Asleen, Galladoorn, Nockmaar, and Cashmere.
In the 1988 film Willow, Elora Danan was a Daikini child who was prophesied to bring about the downfall of the powerful and evil Queen Bavmorda. She was to be distinguished by a specific mark on her arm, so Bavmorda seized all the pregnant women in the land and, when Elora was born, intended to kill her.
The only one left behind is Willow, still shaken by visions of his daughter, Mims (Annabelle Davis), dying. Willow decides his family is his highest priority and turns his back on his party, going alone on the road back home.
Main. Warwick Davis as Willow Ufgood, a Nelwyn sorcerer who leads a party to rescue the twin brother of Princess Kit Tanthalos. Ellie Bamber as Elora Danan, future Empress of Tir Asleen, disguised as a kitchen maid named "Dove", who is in love with Airk and joins the quest to save him from the Gales.
It seems like a lot of you missed the reasoning behind the color change... Elora Danan is natural born redhead, Sorsha changes it to blonde when Elora was an adolescent. In this series the closer she gets to her destiny the more her natural red hair comes out, that's the meaningful reason anyway.
While Brunhild is reluctant to marry Gunnar, Sigurd in his disguise reminds her of her vow to marry the man who can cross the flames. The two then wed and Sigurd places his sword between them for three nights while they share the marriage bed.
In the ensuing contests, Gunther goes through the motions of deeds actually performed by Siegfried in a cloak of invisibility. When Brunhild is defeated, she accepts Gunther as her husband. Siegfried and Kriemhild are then married as promised, but Brunhild remains suspicious and dissatisfied.
Early in the season, Willow had a vision of the future that foretold of Elora's death should she face the Crone. But Elora survives her fight with the Crone in the final episode. Elora chooses to go up against the Crone despite knowing Willow's prophecy, but she makes it out.
According to some experts, Dove Soap was named as a reference to Aphrodite, the goddess of beauty and love. Others simply say Dove is named after the bird commonly associated with grace and romance.
Dove: Squab, squeaker. Duck: Duckling.
Kiaya Ufgood was the wife of Willow Ufgood and the mother of their children Mims and Ranon.
Sorsha is the tritagonist of Willow. She was the daughter of Queen Bavmorda and Prince Mikal Tanthalos of Tir Asleen. She was portrayed by Joanne Whalley in both the 1988 film and 2022 Disney+ television series, Willow.
Posting to Twitter this morning, Kasdan revealed the main reason behind the cancellation of Willow was to allow the actors to pursue other projects.
Elora was later hidden away by her adoptive parents, Madmartigan and Sorsha. Remaining unaware of her identity, Elora was disguised as the maid Brunnhilde, nicknamed Dove and remained oblivious to her destiny, where she had fallen in love with Prince Airk Tanthalos.
The events of 1988's Willow saw the evil Queen Bavmorda's plot to banish the spirit of Elora Danan, who was prophesied to dethrone her, thwarted by Willow and his friends. The film ends with Elora safely in the hands of Sorsha and Willow back in his village.
Jean Marsh as Bavmorda, the villainous queen of Nockmaar, a powerful black sorceress and the mother of Sorsha.
Queen Bavmorda is the main antagonist of the 1988 fantasy adventure film Willow, its adaptations in novels, comic-books and video-games as well as the posthumous overarching antagonist of its Disney+ sequel television series of the same name.
During the journey, Willow teaches Elora the magical arts but she has trouble activating her powers. Elora is later kidnapped by soldiers sent to rescue her, but corrupted by evil forces, but not before using magic to create a sapling.
Jade Claymore is one of the three deuteragonists (alongside Elora Danan and Kit Tanthalos) of the Disney+ series Willow, a sequel to the 1988 film of the same name.
Elora was hidden away to protect her from the forces of evil still hunting her. Sorsha was against her being trained, and thus let the "One True Empress" toil in the kitchen making muffins.