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Her upbringing with the miners is chronicled in Acorna: The Unicorn Girl.Īcorna's mother ( avi) and father ( lalli) are Feriila and Vaanye of the Renyilaaghe. They end up raising the unusual child as a daughter. Acorna's pod is found by space miners: Gill, Rafik, and Calum. Acorna is strictly vegetarian.Īcorna's parents eject her in an escape pod just before blowing up their own spaceship, deliberately killing themselves in order to destroy the pursuing Khleevi. She is unusually intelligent and can learn extremely quickly. Her eyes are silvery and her pupils narrow into a silver sliver when she is disappointed or sad.Īcorna is also born more mature than human infants and grows to adulthood within four years.In cover art her hands are pictured as identical to those of humans.

Her fingers only have two joints, one at the knuckle and the other in the middle of her fingers.In cover art her feet are pictured looking as horse hooves.

Her feet end in equine hooves similar to those of traditional unicorn media.

The same silvery curls are also on her calves.

A flowing silvery mane from her head down to her back, similar to that of a horse.

The following are her distinguishing features: However, a closer look would reveal that she is not human. The first book introduces her as a "youngling" and features her journey of understanding her individualism.īesides the single horn, situated halfway between her brow and her forehead, Acorna can, with the right attires, pass as a tall and graceful young lady. Acorna has special powers including the abilities to heal, make things grow, detect venom, detect chemical imbalances, detect mineral and metal deposits, purify water and air, and communicate telepathically. The series focuses primarily on the character, the orphaned Unicorn-girl introduced in the first book. Other contributors to the Acorna series include Jody Lynn Nye, Lyman Frakoss, Roman R. Other sub-sets include the Crystal Singer series, the Brain and Brawn Ship series and the Dragonriders of Pern series, all predominantly authored by Anne McCaffrey.

The Acorna series is a sub-set of the Federated Sentient Planets Universe. The Acorna Universe series includes ten science fantasy novels, the first two by McCaffrey and Ball, while the following ones were co-written by McCaffrey and Elizabeth Ann Scarborough (1999 to 2007). Character in the novel Acorna: The Unicorn GirlĪcorna is a "Unicorn Girl", a fantasy fiction character created by Anne McCaffrey and Margaret Ball in their novel Acorna: The Unicorn Girl (1997).