"It's the only way the harm we Skeksis have done to Thra can be fixed. The Mariner is a strange character. She isn't an enemy, but she's self-interested. She's bigger than me, stronger, and has her full plumage." The Heretic cackles. "We didn't always look like this, you know, Guardian! The Skeksis used to be beautiful, colorful, before we allowed ourselves to be corrupted. We aren't so different from your Fallen - killing ourselves and others for the sake of something we can't have in the name of a past that won't come back."

skekGra still has some feathers left that weren't plucked, and he's more fit than the castle Skeksis, but skekSa is the only one who had any resemblance to what Skeksis once were.