History Fanfic / TheWhiteMage

* HypnotizeThePrincess: Claudia thinks that Callum’s affection for Rayla stems from this, believing that illusions somehow translate into mind control.

* RealityEnsues: Sol Regem is a violent, hate-filled dragon who was willing to kill a village of mostly innocent humans for the crimes of a few even before he was blinded. Maybe going to him with the news of dark mages and interspecies relationships wasn’t the brightest of ideas.
** Ezran's near-instant decision to disband the monarchy the moment the opportunity presents itself. Rightful king or not, Ezren is a child, and while he applauds Queen Anya for being able to handle it, he himself can’t take the pressure anymore and appoints Opeli leader in his place the first chance he gets.
** Callum takes an arrow to the arm and can’t just brush it off. It hurts him very badly and renders his wing spell unusable for days. In retaliation, Rayla kills the shooter, and is wracked with guilt over it for days; killing is still killing, regardless of who it is or what they did.
** Mira might have been rescued in part by Callum, but she was still raised by parents who despised humans, had her village destroyed by humans, witnessed her mother’s murder by another human and had said human nearly find her; or course she would be terrified of him.
*** On the same vine, she is only four or five years old at the oldest, too young to have serious convictions. Ergo, it’s relatively easy to win her over.

* IsThatCuteKidYours: Upon meeting her, Soren mistakes an orphaned elf child named Mira for Callum and Rayla's child, despite the facts that not only have the couple only been away for a short couple of months, but she would have been born before they even met, being approximately four years old. Slightly justified with her green eyes, brown hair, and elven features, making it so she can easily pass as their biological daughter.

* TraumaInducedAmnesia: Mira, who Callum and Rayla found as a nameless sole survivor of a massacre, actually makes an effort to forget her life before said massacre, down to her birth name, not only to lessen the pain, but she decides that such information is useless when Callum and Rayla make it clear that they mean to take her home to place her with a new family.
* TookALevelInCynic:
** The onset of adolescence seems to have hit Ezran hard. [[spoiler: His kingdom is destroyed with thousands upon thousands dead relatively early in the story, causing him to AbdicateTheThrone among the survivors. His reason for this was that he could no longer handle the stress of being a child ruler.]] A year or so later, months away from turning thirteen, he’s shown to have become argumentative and rash, though it is clear that his heart is still, and always has been, in the right place. WOG says its mostly just teenage angst.
** After everything she went through in the last episodes of season three, Claudia is much less bubbly and silly, taking on a much more serious and sinister personality.
* TwoHalvesMakeAPlot: The Key of Aaravos, which is revealed to open Aaravos’ mirror, the elf himself being the thing of great power in Xadia. Since Aaravos is already free of the mirror, though, the threat ends up being mute. Later, Callum uses the key to enter the mirror too gather information.

%% * GettingCrapPastThe Radar: Due to overwhelming and persistent misuse, GCPTR is on-page examples only until 01 June 2021. If you are reading this in the future, please check the trope page to make sure your example fits the current definition.* HateSink: Amer started off as a haughty blowhard whose foolish actions led to the deaths of thousands. He then was stripped of his rank and exiled, is stated over and over to despise humans, is too cowardly to face his consequences, and has shown no guilt over his actions. More recent chapters imply his sanity might be slipping.

* ThePowerOfLove: It is speculated that this is how [[spoiler: Rayla’s family broke out of the coins]] on their own. They witnessed Viren hurting and threatening her and summoned vast amounts of strength to overcome the imprisonment.

* TheUnreveal:
** It's never revealed whether [[spoiler: Aarush is Callum's ancestor]] or not, as [[spoiler: Aarush himself]] had created a SoulJar which barred him from being able to keep an eye over his descendants, so even he's not sure if there is any relation to speak of.

* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: Ezran (now twelve), bitter at being left home while Callum and Rayla go off on an adventure, accuse them of wanting to go alone to “do things that would get them skinned alive if Amaya caught them.” It should also be pointed out that, in a previous chapter, Ezran did receive what was clearly TheTalk as he teased Callum about the ‘sandwich’ euphemism. Concerning that same quest, when Soren meets up with them and sees the little orphaned elf with them, his immediate thought is that they had a child while away.
* HateSink: Amer started off as a haughty blowhard whose foolish actions led to the deaths of thousands. He then was stripped of his rank and exiled, is stated over and over to despise humans, is too cowardly to face his consequences, and has shown no guilt over his actions. More recent chapters imply his sanity might be slipping.

The White Mage is a fanfiction of The Dragon Prince that speculates what happens after season three. The author admits that leaked (at the time) images from Through the Moon has already rendered it an AU from the start.

One year after the return of Prince Azymondias to his mother, Ezran has returned to his throne in Katolis, Rayla has taken up her parents’ legacies as a Dragonguard, and Callum has completed his training as a sky mage under Ibis. On his way home to share the good news with Ezran, he pays a visit to Lujanne, who informs him about archmages; powerful mages who can wield all primal sources. Callum is excited, but the moon mage gives him a dark warning should he chose to pursue that path. During all of this, Rayla remembers Viren’s threat and strange ‘collection’. Meanwhile, Aaravos has immerged from his dormant state, finally back on the living plain. He, Viren and Claudia travel around siphoning power from other elves, with Aaravos being quite interested in the human mage he saw on the Storm Spire, who reminds him of someone.

And that’s just the beginning.

* [[HypnotizeThePrincess Hypnotize The Prince]]: Claudia thinks that Callum’s affection for Rayla stems from this, believing that illusions somehow translate into mind control.

* IgnoredEpiphany: When Viren reveals the coins to Rayla in Claudia’s presence. Claudia, who views her father as a loving, gentle man, is shaken to discover that he has ripped families apart and is completely without remorse over it. When Rayla retaliates with violence against Viren, Claudia quickly decides it doesn’t matter and sticks by her father, though it does continue to bother her afterwards.

* InnocentBigot: [[spoiler: Rayla’s parents]], though special mention goes to her father. Neither is malicious in any way, and they are truly thankful to the humans for everything they’ve done for their daughter, but they do still hold the typical Moonshadow elf values of tribalism; they do not fraternize with other sorts and especially not humans. This is especially clear with [[spoiler: Callum, their daughter’s human boyfriend]] who they struggle to accept. In later chapters, they seem to have at least grown used to being around humans but remain warry of [[spoiler: Callum]].

* IsThatCuteKidYours: Upon meeting her, Soren mistakes an orphaned elf child named Mira for Callum and Rayla’s child, despite the facts that not only have the couple only been away for a short couple of months, but she would have been born before they even met, being approximately four years old. Slightly justified with her green eyes, brown hair, and elven features, making it so she can easily pass as their biological daughter.

* ItRunsInTheFamily: If you were to ask Amer, Callum’s family is apparently predisposed to ‘corrupt’ elves with romantic relationships, being that Callum and his aunt are both romantically involved with elves. He frequently taunts Ezran, wondering what sort of elf he’ll chose to ‘corrupt’.

* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: Ethari and [[spoiler: Rayla’s parents (eventually)]], who put aside their prejudices against humans when they see how happy Callum makes Rayla.

* [[LastOfHisKind Last Of Her Kind]]: Kimaare, a newly hatched star dragon. Callum and Rayla found her egg hidden in an underground labyrinth where it wouldn’t be able to hatch (star dragon eggs are only able to hatch on calm, clear nights of the new moon, when starlight reins the sky). Before Kimaare, star dragons were thought to be extinct.

** Ezran’s near-instant decision to disband the monarchy the moment the opportunity presents itself. Rightful king or not, Ezren is a child, and while he applauds Queen Anya for being able to handle it, he himself can’t take the pressure anymore and appoints Opeli leader in his place the first chance he gets.

* TookALevelInCynic: The onset of adolescence seems to have hit Ezran hard. [[spoiler: His kingdom is destroyed with thousands upon thousands dead relatively early in the story, causing him to AbdicateTheThrone among the survivors. His reason for this was that he could no longer handle the stress of being a child ruler.]] A year or so later, months away from turning thirteen, he’s shown to have become argumentative and rash, though it is clear that his heart is still, and always has been, in the right place. WOG says its mostly just teenage angst.
** Could also be said of Claudia. After everything she went through in the last episodes of season three, she seems to be much less bubbly and silly, taking on a much more serious and sinister personality.

* ShipTease: Callum x Rayla and Amaya x Janai are both established couples from the start. Over the course of the fic, Ezran and Ellis (now twelve and thirteen respectively) are teased with Ezran having a clear crush on her, and Soren developing a relationship with Ibis’s daughter Zephyr.

** Faolan and Gwyneth’s (Soren’s younger half-siblings through his remarried mother) names are a refence to the book series Literature/WolvesOfTheBeyond, which shares its universe with the more popular Owls of Ga’Hool series. The original protagonist of the Owls of Ga’Hool is also named Soren.
** When Kimaare, a newborn dragon, sees a sea for the first time [[ItMakeSenseInContext in a vision]], her inner voice calls the sea [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime ‘big water’]].

* TheUnreveal: It is never revealed whether [[spoiler: Aarush is Callum’s ancestor]] or not, as [[spoiler: Aarush himself]] had created a SoulJar which barred him from being able to keep an eye over his descendants, so even he’s not sure if there is any relation to speak of.
** According to Amaya, Callum’s birth father named him before he was born. The significance of this name to the man - whether this is a DeadGuyJunior situation, a MeaningfulName or if he simply liked the name - isn’t revealed.

* YouAreACreditToYourRace: Ethari is revealed to be as distrusting as his husband is of humans, and feels this way about Callum, who he admits is kind-hearted, charming and deeply loves Rayla. His blessing of their relationship is fully genuine because [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy the only thing that matters to him is Rayla’s happiness]].

* TookALevleInCynic: The onset of adolescence seems to have hit Ezran hard. [[spoiler: His kingdom is destroyed with thousands upon thousands dead relatively early in the story, causing him to AbdicateTheThrone among the survivors. His reason for this was that he could no longer handle the stress of being a child ruler.]] A year or so later, months away from turning thirteen, he’s shown to have become argumentative and rash, though it is clear that his heart is still, and always has been, in the right place. WOG says its mostly just teenage angst.

* TookALevleOfCynic: The onset of adolescence seems to have hit Ezran hard. [[spoiler: His kingdom is destroyed with thousands upon thousands dead relatively early in the story, causing him to AbdicateTheThrone among the survivors. His reason for this was that he could no longer handle the stress of being a child ruler.]] A year or so later, months away from turning thirteen, he’s shown to have become argumentative and rash, though it is clear that his heart is still, and always has been, in the right place. WOG says its mostly just teenage angst.

* TookALevelOfCynic: The onset of adolescence seems to have hit Ezran hard. [[spoiler: His kingdom is destroyed with thousands upon thousands dead relatively early in the story, causing him to AbdicateTheThrone among the survivors. His reason for this was that he could no longer handle the stress of being a child ruler.]] A year or so later, months away from turning thirteen, he’s shown to have become argumentative and rash, though it is clear that his heart is still, and always has been, in the right place. WOG says its mostly just teenage angst.

* Shoulder-SizedDragon: Early in the story, Zym frequently takes rides on Callum’s shoulders, until chapter nineteen, in which Callum tells him he’s getting too big for those rides. Later revisited by Kimaare, both a newborn and a smaller star dragon, who is easily small enough to take up the position of shoulder dragon.

* TheUnreveal: It is never revealed whether [[spoiler: Aarush is Callum’s ancestor]] or not, as [[spoiler: Aarush himself]] had created a SoulJar which barred him from being able to keep an eye over his descendants, so even he’s not sure if there is any relation to speak of. WordOfGod says it was meant to be left up to the imagination.
* According to Amaya, Callum’s birth father named him before he was born. The significance of this name to the man - whether this is a DeadGuyJunior situation, a MeaningfulName or if he simply liked the name - isn’t revealed.

** Aaravos knows a spell, which Callum later works to pick up on, that allows one to travel through shadows. WordOfGod states that this is an homage to Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians, a favored book series of hers.

* ShoulderSizedDragon: Early in the story, Zym frequently takes rides on Callum’s shoulders, until chapter nineteen, in which Callum tells him he’s getting too big for those rides. Later revisited by Kimaare, both a newborn and a smaller star dragon, who is easily small enough to take up the position of shoulder dragon.

* UnrequitedLoveSwitcharoo: Claudia has pretty blatantly developed deeper feelings for, or at least is physically attracted to, Callum and most of her motivation seems to be to ‘free’ Callum off Rayla’s supposed tricks by killing her. Callum has moved on long ago and is blissfully happy with Rayla.

* AbsolutePowerCurruptsAbsolutly: Ziggzagged with archmages. It’s stated over and over that, while some archmages managed to keep their heads and went on to become revered figures in history, most are unable to handle the massive amount of power and go mad with it; played straight with Aaravos himself, who was one of the ones who fell to the corruption. Seemingly defied with Callum, who has become a bit short tempered with his raise in power, but doesn’t appear to be near going insane with it.

* TookInALevelOfCynic: The onset of adolescence seems to have hit Ezran hard. [[spoiler: His kingdom is destroyed with thousands upon thousands dead relatively early in the story, causing him to AbdicateTheThrone among the survivors. His reason for this was that he could no longer handle the stress of being a child ruler.]] A year or so later, months away from turning thirteen, he’s shown to have become argumentative and rash, though it is clear that his heart is still, and always has been, in the right place. WOG says its mostly just teenage angst.

* ShipTease: CallumxRayla and AmayaJanai are both established couples from the start. Over the course of the fic, Ezran and Elis (now twelve and thirteen respectively) are teased with Ezran having a clear crush on her, and Soren developing a relationship with Ibis’s daughter Zephyr.

* AbsolutePowerCurruptsAbsolutely: Ziggzagged with archmages. It’s stated over and over that, while some archmages managed to keep their heads and went on to become revered figures in history, most are unable to handle the massive amount of power and go mad with it; played straight with Aaravos himself, who was one of the ones who fell to the corruption. Seemingly defied with Callum, who has become a bit short tempered with his raise in power, but doesn’t appear to be near going insane with it.

* AmbiguousSituation: There are multiple cases of this littered throughout the story. In the distant past, Aaravos is known to have fallen in love with a human and produced a half-elf son, who opposed his father but still joined the humans in their banishment to the west. [[spoiler This son]] may or may not be an ancestor of Callum’s, which is where he may or may not get his magic. On the other hand, another theory is put forth that his constant exposure to magical items in the show proper for a long time (being the key, the primal stone and Zym’s egg for a week straight) somehow rubbed off on him. Yet another comes in the form of old stories of human mages from before the era of dark magic, who were said to be the now-mostly-human descendants of half-elves, though in truth no one, not even the dragons, can be sure they even existed at all, let alone of their supposed ancestry.