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The Dragon Prince Main Cast Index
Main Characters (Callum | Lord Viren) | The Human Kingdoms | Xadia

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Main Cast

Callum's Group

In General

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The main characters, a group composed of the two princes, Callum and Ezran, the prodigy elven assassin Rayla and the pet Bait. As of "Wonderstorm", the titular Dragon Prince, Azymondias, hatches from his egg and is added to the group. As of "Dragonguard", Soren finally joins the group after spending the majority of Book 3 building up the courage to turn against his father and leave his side for good.

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• Action Duo: Or Action Trio. Rayla and Callum are the two protectors of the group, but who sometimes argue and bicker, thus leaving it to Ezran to bridge the divide between them and protect the Dragon Prince. After Callum forges a connection to the sky arcanum and Ezran decides to go home, the group becomes an Action Duo until Ezran rejoins them at the Storm Spire - where Ezran discovers that in the interim they've also become a Battle Couple.
• Brains and Brawn: Zigzagged for Rayla, Ezran, and Callum. At the beginning, Rayla is the Brawn (as the only fighter) while Callum is usually the Brains (as he's the main strategist of the group), although on occasion he shares this with Ezran (who likewise helps the team navigate from time to time). As time goes on, Rayla displays instances of being a Guile Hero, while Ezran starts riding dragons. Callum, meanwhile, has to be both Brains and Brawn for his spells, which often require a combination of runes/incantations as well as physical exertion. When he learns to conjure mage wings, he becomes the most physically capable of the trio.
• Children Are Innocent: The reason why the main characters are so young. Not jaded enough by the war, they can still hold on to the belief that they can stop it, especially with the Dragon Prince in their hands.
• Chromatic Arrangement: Ezran is red, Callum is blue, Rayla is green. Fittingly Ezran is an All-Loving Hero, Callum is The Smart Guy, and Rayla is the only one with combat training. Subverted later on, as Callum's primary color becomes red as of the Season 3 finale. The Time Skip shakes things up with Ezran being the only one to retain his classic colours, whilst Callum and Rayla shift to lighter blue and deep purple respectfully.
• Coming of Age Story: All three go through substantial Character Development throughout the series, but this is especially the case for Callum and Ezran, who grow from being unassuming and awkward to courageous and heroic by the Season 3 finale.
• Fantasy Character Classes: Callum is a mage (specifically an elementalist), Rayla is an assassin. Ezran may have the beginnings of The Beastmaster or Dragon Rider, or going from a more low-key Word of God tease, the earliest onsets of a Ranger of sorts.
• Fighter, Mage, Thief: ...However, Ezran acts more thief-like in the earlier seasons.
• Fire-Forged Friends: The group realizes that, before the importance of their mission and what they'll likely face together, they need to learn to trust and work with each other. This leads the princes to build an unlikely friendship with the elven assassin that gradually solidifies as the episodes of Season 1 progress.
• Five-Man Band: In early season 2, the five main characters briefly form this during the journey to return Zym home (although Claudia and Soren plan on betraying the rest of the group). Callum is The Leader, who is charismatic enough to de-escalate a brawl between Soren, Rayla, and Claudia and who tends to be the one others turn to for critical decisions. Rayla is The Lancer; Whereas Callum is idealistic and trusting of Claudia and Soren, Rayla is suspicious and questions Callum's willingness to trust his friends, and is generally the pragmatic foil to Callum's optimism. Claudia is The Smart Guy, the well-read mage who has countless spells at her disposal, and a spellbook and bag of spell components let her come up with creative solutions. Soren is The Big Guy—the Boisterous Bruiser and muscle of the group who thinks a sword is a good solution to most problems. Ezran is the moral center of the group, and pushes for diplomatic and peaceful solutions to problems.
• Guys Smash, Girls Shoot: When battling together in season 5, Rayla relies on firing arrows while Callum throws lightning-enhanced punches to take down a large beast.
• Interspecies Friendship: An unlikely friendship between two humans, an elf, a glow toad, and later, a dragon.
  • Rayla and Callum take this one step further in season 3 and develop an Interspecies Romance.
• Kid Hero: The group is composed of these, with Rayla, the oldest, being only fifteen. Azymondias is the youngest, technically, having hatched at the end of the first season.
• Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards: At the very beginning of the series, Rayla is really the only fighter in the group, with Callum being an untrained mage who only knows a single spell and Ezran being a ten-year-old who carries a glowtoad. But by the end of Season 3 (just a few weeks in the show), the two boys had become the primary fighters, with Ezran a full-fledged dragon rider and Callum with the ability to fly. Canonical materials from the artbook also suggest that Callum has the beginnings of a Kung-Fu Wizard.
• Nice Mean And In Between: The main trio has this. Ezran is a kind All-Loving Hero, Rayla is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who can be incredibly sarcastic, and Callum is in the middle as while he's not as rude as Rayla, he's more pragmatic than Ezran.
• The Only One: At the end of "Moonrise", Callum realizes that he, Ezran, Rayla, and even Bait, are the only ones who have to return the egg to Xadia in order to bring peace.
• Party of Representatives: By the end of season 3 (or arguably season 1) the core team consists of a moonshadow elf, two humans, and a dragon.
• Red Oni, Blue Oni: Ezran and Callum are Red Oni, Blue Oni respectively at the beginning of the series. Fittingly, Ezran wears mostly red while Callum wears mostly blue. Initially, Ezran is pretty impulsive, willing to jump into danger either to save the egg or when he has a hunch that something is off. Callum is calmer, collected, and insists on forming a plan of action first. However, over the course of the series, the two princes' attitudes and alignment begin to change. Ezran leaves to go back to Katolis, where he learns to be more deliberative, introspective, and takes time to come to a decision. In Book 3, Callum becomes more action-oriented, passionate and headstrong, learning to just jump in rather than plan things out. This culminates in his leaping off the pinnacle and figuring out how to fly on the way down. Naturally, Callum wears mostly red after this moment.
• Sword and Sorcerer: Rayla and Callum fill these roles respectively. However, after the Cursed Caldera, this is downplayed, since they don't ever really fight side by side.
• Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: For much of the first season, Rayla and Callum don't see eye-to-eye with one another, even as they share the role of protector for the group, and come to rely on each other's respective skills and fighting abilities. Callum knows that Rayla is keeping a secret, and so doesn't trust her. Rayla, for her part, is irritated by Callum's distrust and how his recklessness almost gets her killed on several occasions. Their bickering gets to the point that it causes an avalanche, and later it's up to Ezran to jump in and save the egg as the two of them argue.
• With a Friend and a Stranger: Callum and Ezran are half-siblings and friends ever since the latter's birth; Rayla is a stranger who joins them.
• Young Love Versus Old Hate: Two examples.
  • Romantic love between the elf Rayla and the human Callum versus the hatred between... practically all of the rest of the elves and humans.
  • Platonic love between Ezran and Zym, whose parents killed each other. (Specifically, Zym's father killed Ezran's mother, Ezran's father killed Zym's father, and Zym's mother sent assassins to kill Ezran's father.)

Prince Callum

His bravery will be tested.

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Voiced by: Jack DeSena (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Ángel Rodríguez (Latin American Spanish), Mario García (European Spanish), Gustavo Pereira (Brazilian Portuguese, Books 1 through 3), Eduardo Drummond (Brazilian Portuguese, Book 4), Alexandre Carvalho (European Portuguese), Prokhor Chekhovskoy (Russian), Kazuta Furuta (Japanese), Tibet Töre (Turkish), Martin Faliu (French), Sascha Werginz (German), Manuel Meli (Italian), Mateusz Weber (Polish), Dorian Bindels (Dutch), Gergely Csiby (Hungarian), Roman Hajlich (Czech), Erik Skøld (Norwegian), Yehonatan Magon (Hebrew), Aniket Khadye (Hindi), Giorgios Soufis (Greek)

"It's up to us now. We have to return this egg. We have to keep it safe and carry it to Xadia."

The main protagonist and the older half-brother of King Ezran of Katolis. He is a prodigy when it comes to magic, very quickly picking up spells and abilities, such as flying, during the journey to bring the Dragon Prince home. As of Book 4, Callum is the High Mage of Katolis.

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King Ezran

He has uncovered a secret.

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Voiced by: Sasha Rojen (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Maximiliano Duran (Latin American Spanish, Book 1), Mateo Tonatihu (Latin American Spanish, Book 2), Mateo González (Latin American Spanish, Book 3), Sammir Hernández (Latin American Spanish, Book 4), Aida Díaz (European Spanish), Rafael Mezadri (Brazilian Portuguese), Ana Cloe (European Portuguese), Fyodor Paramonov (Russian), Mei (Japanese), Helin Kandemir (Turkish), Kyllian Trouillard (French, Books 1 through 3), Thomas Sagols (French, Book 4), Arthur Wolfgang Mai (German, Books 1 through 3), Derya Flechtner (German, Book 4), Leonardo Angrisano (Italian, Books 1 through 3), Valeriano Corini (Italian, Book 4), Borys Wiciński (Polish), Thibault van der Does (Dutch), Marcell Mayer (Hungarian, Books 1 through 3), Máté Kerekes (Hungarian, Book 4), Adam Ipser (Czech), Alma Günther (Norwegian), Uri Eisenmann (Hebrew, Books 1 and 2), Guy Goldberg (Hebrew, Book 3), Aayushi (Hindi), Sofia Kapsabeli (Greek)

"My father made choices to keep fighting battles that started hundreds of years before he was born. To punish enemies for crimes their parents committed. I don't want to be that kind of king."

The younger brother of Prince Callum, and the Crown Prince of Katolis. As of Book 3, he is the King of Katolis.

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• Affectionate Nickname: "Ez", from Callum. Claudia and Soren also use it, and in time Rayla starts using it, too.
• Age Lift: In the novelizations, Ezran is eight years-old at the beggining of the story, unlike in the show where he's ten.
• All-Loving Hero: Ezran is very thoughtful and open-minded towards everyone he meets, as well as other creatures.
• Animal Eye Spy: He can do this, and uses it to help Zym learn to fly.
• Animal Motifs: Two examples of In-Universe ones.
  • Glow toads given he is rarely without Bait, his pet/best friend. He also orchestrates a plan to rescue several babies from Finnegrin.
  • Banther's, which he has used as steeds. One of which was his Awesome Moment of Crowning.
• Annoying Younger Sibling: Downplayed. Ezran's naivete can be grating to Callum but he's still a nice kid, and the two brothers get along extremely well.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Being the youngest of his group, everyone is very protective of him. However, Callum has brought up on more than one occasion how his little brother's innocence sometimes doesn't work in their favor.
• Badass Adorable: He's a Sweet Tooth'ed, 10-year-old, Friend to All Living Things, but that same affinity with animals allows him to ride Banthers wherever he wishes, and form alliances with flights of dragons. Beyond that he can also sternly assert himself as sovereign against petulant War Hawk princes who attempt to make demands of him in his own kingdom on strength of character alone.
• Better with Non-Human Company: He has trouble making friends and sometimes overlooks people to speak to an animal near them.
• Beware the Nice Ones: Like his father, he has his limits and is furious when Rayla tries to soften the blow of Harrow's death:
  Ezran: 'Fell'? He didn't fall Rayla! He didn't trip and land on the ground, he got killed!
• A Boy and His X: A Boy and His Glow Toad. Ezran's closest companion is Bait and they have a deep bond that goes all the way to their younger years. Bait is extremely loyal to Ezran and vice-versa. They both even have the same favorite food — jelly tarts.
• But Now I Must Go: He decides to leave the group in order to return to Katolis and becomes its rightful ruler. While the others especially Zym are crestfallen by this, he says that he needs to take responsibility as the king.
• Character Development: In the Book 2 finale, Ezran notes how he used to run away and hide when things got too scary or too difficult to handle, like when the assassins came or when hearing the news of his father's death. However, he realizes that he can't keep doing that now that he's king and decides to return to Katolis to fulfill his duties.
• Cheerful Child: Though he has a sense of profoundness to him belying his age, overall Ezran seems to be quite cheerful, offering jelly tarts and frequently seen playing with his toad.
• Children Are Innocent: He seems unaware of the wider war between elves and humans, and when Rayla arrives to kill him, he thinks it's just a misunderstanding that can be cleared up. Thing is, he's right.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: At the end of Book 2, he leaves the group to return to Katolis and take up his duties as king. Deconstructed early in Book 3, as his young age coupled with his lack of formal training as king mean he is not prepared to make the hard decisions or handle delicate diplomacy when three other human kingdoms start to push for war.
• Comes Great Responsibility: When he learns his father has been killed, he realizes that he is now the rightful king, and that Katolis is effectively leaderless without him. He decides to return, and do what he can from the throne to avoid a war, while leaving Callum and Rayla to finish the mission.
• Cool Crown: Since he inherits the Katolis throne, Ezran also wears the same cool crown Harrow wore. He receives a new one during the Time Skip between seasons 3 and 4 made from his father's sword since the original was lost during the season 3 finale.
• Curiosity Is a Crapshoot: Inverted. The whole plot kicks off because he got curious and found the Dragon Prince's egg.
• Deuteragonist: Starting in Season 3, Ezran's growth as the new King in Katolis is given as much focus as Callum's Character Development in Xadia.
• Does Not Like Spam: According to Callum's Spellbook, Ezran dislikes excessively mushy peas.
• Dragon Rider: In season 3, Ezran begins to ride on dragons into battle.
• Filching Food for Fun: Steals jelly tarts from the baker for fun.
• Foolish Sibling, Responsible Sibling: The Foolish to Callum's Responsible. While Callum does his princely duties, Ezran is often stealing jelly tarts from the baker.
• Friendless Background: Has trouble making friends because of his ability to speak to animals, and it's implied he did not have friends his age until he met Ellis.
• Friend to All Living Things: Ezran has a special connection with animals, which may have something to do with his ability to communicate with them.
• The Good King: Growing into this role as of season 3, particularly after he gives himself up so his people will have the choice to not go to war.
• Half-Sibling Angst: Averted, he and Callum have a healthy and loving, brotherly relationship. They have no issue being half-brothers, and don't even refer to each other as such.
• The Heart: Of the main characters, Ezran is the most compassionate and cool-headed, often acting as the conscience of the group and softening Callum, Rayla, and Bait's hard edges.
• Honor Before Reason: Very briefly inherits this trait from his father at the end of Season 2, when he decides not to come with Callum and Rayla to return Zym to Xadia, in favor of facing his duties as king. However, human princes returning Zym was half the diplomatic purpose of the mission (as a symbolic gesture), Zym was very attached to him and proves harder to manage without Ezran there to guide him, and Ezran's return is short-lived since he's still a child and has no formal training or experience as king. Thankfully, he soon grows out of it.
• I Got Bigger: Ezran is only 4'10" in Season 1 to 3 but is significantly taller after the two-year timeskip in Season 4, justified due to him having gone from being ~10 to ~12.
• Innocent Blue Eyes: As the most pure hearted and kind of the main cast he fittingly has blue eyes.
• Irony: Ezran develops a close friendship with Zym, who is the son of the dragon who killed his and Callum's mother.
• Kid Hero All Grown-Up: Downplayed. Ezran goes through a growth spurt in the two year Time Skip between arcs.
• Know When to Fold Them: Despite his good intentions and best efforts, in Book 3 Ezran quickly realizes he's way out of his depth trying to rule without prior training or experience, and he doesn't have the necessary diplomacy skills to talk the other human kingdoms out of pursuing war with Xadia (not without them fighting Katolis instead), so he steps down on the provision that those who do not wish to fight be allowed to return home.
• Leeroy Jenkins: Zigzagged. Though subverting the letter of this trope, he's played the spirit of it straight on at least two occasions. First when he jumps into an icy lake to rescue the Dragon Prince's egg, and again when he confronts a scary spider to prove his instinct that it wasn't so scary after all. Both occasions give his companions a real start.
• Meaningful Name: Ezran is derived from Ezra which means "helpful".
• Mundane Utility: At one point in the Netflix series trailer he can be seen using his crown as a zip line hook.
• Mythical Motifs:
  • Dragons, having the closest connection to Zym on top of speaking with several other dragons as the series progresses. He even gets to be a Dragon Rider from time to time.
  • His backpack has an image of a unicorn which are compassionate and gentle creatures and one of the few magical races In-Universe willing to help humans. Said description also fits Ezran himself rather well.
• Nice Guy: Ezran is kind and pure hearted, doing his best to leave the hatred that led to centuries of conflict between the Human Realm and Xadia in the past.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • At the end of "The Crown", he orders as King for Soren and Claudia to be freed. And Claudia repays his kindness by siding with her father and used an illusion of Viren to kill Ezran in the season finale (assuming she would have actually gone through with it).
  • In "The Midnight Dessert", he gets arrested and placed in the dungeon after abdicating from the throne so the soldiers will be given a choice to not join the battle.
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business:
  • For the most part, Ezran is quite a cheerful, friendly, and understanding kid who hardly gets angry at anyone. However, upon hearing of his father's death, how long Rayla knew, and her use of "fell" instead of "killed", Ezran gets truly, even coldly, angry.
  • This is shown again in the "Deep Bellow" short story. When he sees an arrow with the message of his father's death and Pyrrah telling him about how Domina Profundis became bitter and sank the ships of the people who killed the Empress of the Deep, as well as separated herself from Zubeia, her best friend, Ezran decided to go to the arrow and stomped as hard as he could on it until it broke. The narration even notes that the anger Ezran felt at that moment was unfamiliar to him.
• Red Is Heroic: Ezran is a central character and dresses in red.
• The Paragon: As King, Ezran helped set an example of wisdom and compassion for the people around him. According to Corvus, he had shown more courage, strength, and grace than most leaders show in a lifetime. His actions inspire many Katolians to desert Viren and rally as reinforcements to help Zym's defenders. By the end of Book 3, everyone, elves and humans alike, salute him as the true king of Katolis.
• Royals Who Actually Do Something: Like his older brother, Ezran wants to stop the war peacefully. By the season 2 finale, he understands the responsibility he has towards Katolis as the new King and returns to be a proper one. By season 3, despite some difficulties, Ezran shows himself to be The Good King.
• Significant Wardrobe Shift: Adopts more regal attire after the Time Skip, with a new silver crown forged from his father's sword, symbolizing him coming into his own as a ruler and honouring his dad's memory.
• Speaks Fluent Animal: Ezran reveals in season 1 finale that he can understand animals. Callum does not believe him, something Ezran is a bit apprehensive of, until Ezran is able to communicate with a spider to make sure the group can get through a path.
• Support Party Member: Justified, since he's still a young child, but Ezran doesn't directly contribute in battle, mainly being there to carry Bait and later Azymondias. Lampshaded in "Cursed Caldera" by both him and Callum, he doesn't do any of his own fighting, and his main contribution is handling Bait. In season 3, he's able to communicate with a dragon that he'd previously helped rescue, who shows him the key to the party surviving the trip up the mountain to the Dragon Queen's lair.
• Sweet Tooth: Ezran has a hankering for Jelly Tarts and spends half the season eating the ones he stole in the first episode. It's later revealed this is a trait he shared with his mother.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly Tarts, as he's always seen eating them most. It was also his mother's favorite food.
• Vomit Discretion Shot: When he realized the tasty food Lujanne was serving them was just grubs she magicked them to see and taste as normal and very tasty food, he had to throw up, but we only hear him vomiting because he bends forward to vomit on the ground so that the table and the stuff on it obstruct the view on his barfing.
• Wise Beyond Their Years: Played in a more realistic fashion, in that he isn't some savant sage, nor is he world-savvy and beyond ignorance or naïveté. He's still very much the kid that he is. Nevertheless, Ezran shows a sense of perception and profoundness that does belie his age and upbringing as an overall sheltered prince. His instincts derived from his perceptions have proven to be spot-on on more than one occasion.
• Wrong Context Magic: In a series where Magic A Is Magic A and humans discovering a seventh source of magic was enough of a shock to split a continent in half, Ezran's strange affinity with animals seems to be completely outside the magic system. Even Rayla, who comes from a magical continent, is in disbelief when she sees it. The fact that humans aren't supposed to have inherent magic at all makes it even weirder.
• Young and in Charge: Reigns the kingdom after his father was assassinated.
• Youthful Freckles: It's hard to see, but he does have freckles running across his face.

Rayla

At the moment of truth... what will she do?

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Voiced by: Paula Burrows (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Alessia Becerril (Latin American Spanish), Vera Bosch (European Spanish), Jessica Vieira (Brazilian Portuguese), Bárbara Lourenço (European Portuguese), Tatiana Shitova (Russian), Serika Hiromatsu (Japanese), Esra Şaşmaz (Turkish), Fanny Bloc (French), Amelie Plaas-Link (German), Emanuela Ionica (Italian), Magdalena Herman-Urbańska (Polish), Daisy Duin (Dutch), Adrienn Pekár (Hungarian), Anna Suchánková (Czech), Silje Hagrim Dahl (Norwegian), Talia Barkai (Hebrew), Dolly Lopes (Hindi), Pinelope Skalkotou (Greek)

"An assassin doesn't decide right and wrong. Only life and death."

A Moonshadow Elf, sent to assassinate King Harrow and Crown Prince Ezran. She is very fast, strong, agile, and skilled in combat, but has never taken a life.

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• Aborted Declaration of Love: Implied. While she tries to get Callum to stay with her during his dark magic-induced fever, she comes close to telling him something. However, when he finally opens his eyes they both scream and she aborts with whatever she was about to confess.
  Rayla: I can't lose you like this, you mean too much to me! Callum, I... I... oh! Look, you're awake now!
• Action Girl: Rayla is an assassin with excellent speed, agility, and hand-to-hand combat skill.
• Airplane Arms: In Book 1 Rayla would occationally "ninja run" with her arms at her sides, as a homage to the most famous example of this by the animators.
• Anger Born of Worry: After Callum slips into a Dark magic-induced coma, she's initially callous and uncaring; saying that he should never have messed with such dangerous magic to begin with. But as time goes on, and Callum shows no sign of recovering, her tone shifts and it becomes clear that she cares about him. Once they're finally alone, she breaks down completely and flat out tells the comatose Callum that she needs him to come back to her.
• The Apprentice: Rayla was taken under Runaan's wing at a young age for assassin training.
• An Arm and a Leg: Narrowly averted. Her binding spell continually constricts and damages her left hand, and she says it will continue to do so until her hand falls off. However, the newly hatched Zym thankfully rips the binding cuff off with ease.
• Arrow Catch: A variant. She is good at using her blades to cut and deflect arrows in mid-air.
• A True Hero: Callum considers her one, citing that her bravery, inner strength and selfless desire to do good even at her own expense when it could mean that her own people might turn against her is what makes her a hero in his eyes. It's also the key reason why he falls in love with her.
• The Atoner: Part of the reason she wants to return the egg is to atone for her parents abandoning the Dragon King.
• The Baby of the Bunch: Of the Moonshadow Elf assassins, Rayla is the youngest and noticeably shortest, as she's a teen while the rest are adults.
• Badass Adorable: She is a fit, albeit petite, good-looking girl who is among the most gifted warriors in the series.
• Bad "Bad Acting": Her human disguise consists of saying that everything she does is "human", such as hanging out with her human pals and doing human things, all with a hillbilly accent.
• Bad Liar: After coating her blades in berry juice, pretending it's Marcos' blood, she walks off with a forced smile on her face, but her comrades don't pay her much mind.
• Battle Couple: A downplayed example with Callum. They become a couple in season 3 but don't fight together in battles most of the time.
• Because You Were Nice to Me: Rayla's fast friendship with Callum and eventual romance is owed to his unwavering kindness and consideration towards her.
• Belated Love Epiphany: Rayla didn't realize she had fallen in love with Callum until she thought she might lose him, after his use of dark magic briefly put him in a coma at the end of season 2.
• Berserk Button: Like most elves, she has a very poor opinion of Dark Magic and when Callum uses it to help save a dragon she is quite cold to him afterward for resorting to it.
• Birds of a Feather: With Callum. Both are brave, kind-hearted (if jerky) teens who want to end the war but also have their own self-doubts of their own worthiness and longing for their own life's purpose.
• Black Spot: Her left hand is bruising because of the magic ribbon on her wrist. This is because the mission was only half complete. While the other elves succeeded in killing King Harrow, Prince Ezran was their other target.
• Bow and Sword in Accord: Starts off Dual Wielding two large daggers/short swords and come Book 5, begins to use Runaan's bowblade with impressive skill.
• Braids of Action: Downplayed before being subverted. In the first part of season 1, Rayla only had a single braid in her hair before it was cut by an arrow from of Amaya's soldiers. She's still an assassin badass.
• Broken Ace: While a talented assassin-in-training, she cannot take a life and is afraid of confronting her mistakes, which forces her fellow assassins to undertake a suicidal mission. Rayla is ostracized by her comrades for sparing the human sentry, and is expected not to show fear or vulnerability. She undertakes the mission with Runaan because she felt ashamed of her parents' cowardice in abandoning the Dragon Prince, and would rather pretend they are dead than confront her conflicting feelings about them. Later, she opens up to Ezran about how much of a failure she feels that she is, with a level of self-doubt that rivals Callum's own insecurities. Even when she overcomes her feelings of self-loathing, her personal flaws still get the better of her (see Tragic Hero).
• Brooding Boy, Gentle Girl: A zigzagged example with Callum as both are fairly insecure but often comfort one another when the other is emotionally troubled. Played straight in season 4, where Callum has indeed become very guarded and angst-driven, and Rayla is emotionally open and tries to get him to communicate with her.
• Brave Scot: Some Moonshadow Elves like Rayla have the Xadian equivalent of a Scottish accent, and she consistently braves tremendous odds in spite of her fears and even at the expense of her wants, like defying her mentor to ensure that the Dragon Prince is returned home by human hands. This receives some deconstruction in the second arc of the show, as this same sense of selflessness compels Rayla to leave to hunt down Viren and Claudia and face danger alone, hurting the romantic bond she developed with Callum, and isolating herself from her friends for two years.
• Butt-Monkey: Especially in Season 1 and Season 2. If something unpleasant isn't happening to Soren, chances are it's happening to Rayla.
• Can't Argue with Elves: Discussed. Whenever she's disguising herself as a human, she points out things that annoy her about humans, frequently using this "disguise" to call out a double standard or human hypocrisy.
• Character Development:
  • When Rayla first meets Callum and Ezran, she is just as determined to kill the latter in revenge for the supposed death of the Dragon Prince even though the former calls out the mindset. Over time, Rayla does come to realize that the Cycle of Revenge nature and Sins of the Father mentality won't make the world better and people need to help one another instead of fighting and hurting.
  • Like most Elves, Rayla holds some outdated views on humans, which she states from time to time when with her human companions but she does let go of the views because of her friendships with them.
  • Rayla prefers completing tasks on her own, and is afraid of showing fear or vulnerability around others. Over time, she opens up to Callum and Ezran, and begins to rely more on them and their unique skills.
• Child Prodigy: Implied. She began training as an assassin at a young age because Runaan saw she had great skill and potential.
• Children Are Innocent: Rayla is much younger and more innocent than her assassin peers. She does not feel good about killing and hesitates to kill a human that would endanger her mission.
• Child Soldiers: Rayla's fifteen and the youngest of her group, but she's expected to carry out assassinations, on other children, to boot. It's implied that this is an outstanding case, however, and Rayla was selected due to being a prodigy in speed and strength.
• Chronic Hero Syndrome: What she evolves into. Rayla becomes increasingly willing to drop everything to help someone in trouble, even if it means she won't survive to reach Xadia, such as saving Bait from a sea monster in Book 1, or saving a felled dragon from some humans in Book 2, or risking her own life to save Nyx from soulfang serpents in Book 3. Ezran notes in Book 1 that Rayla only "hesitates" when she does something against her conscience (like killing an innocent), and Callum notes in Book 3 that Rayla never hesitates to do what's right or save someone in trouble, even at the cost of her own life.
• Classical Anti-Hero: Much like Callum, but in a subtler way. She lets a human sentry live, but is too scared to tell Runaan and the other assassins of her failure, thus letting them realize too late that she lied to them and leading to their downfall. She tends to be awkward, is filled with self-doubt, and tries to hide her fears and insecurities from other people. However, the more time she spends with Callum and Ezran, the more open she is to be vulnerable around them.
• Close-Call Haircut: After one of Amaya's troops shoots at her, she's forced to cut her braid off as the arrow pierces it into a nearby tree. However, Rayla's braid ends up helping Claudia and Soren track the group down.
• Condescending Compassion: Downplayed. While Rayla does have empathy for humans, she doesn't appear to hold them in as high regard as elves, frequently cracking jokes and put-downs at their expense.
• Conveniently an Orphan: Both Subverted and self-Invoked. Her parents were supposed to be guarding the Dragon King and his egg, but when he was slain and the egg was lost, they fled. She'd rather believe that they were dead, since she feels that they showed weakness in running away.
• Cool Sword: Two of them, modeled after the real-world balisong (butterfly knife). They can also turn into climbing axes.
• Cosmic Motifs: The moon like all Moonshadow Elves. It has symbolizes many things such as illusions, reflections, duality and death, most of which relate to her (initial) role as an assassin and eventually a protector.
• Dark Is Not Evil: Is a Moonshadow Elf that draws power from the moon to turn invisible, and is a trained assassin. Yet she is among the main heroes of the series working to try and bring peace.
• Deadpan Snarker: When she's in a bad mood or trying to distract someone, she tends to get very sarcastic. Also, she isn't afraid to let loose with biting snark when she thinks someone's about to do something stupid.
• Desperately Looking for a Purpose in Life: Rayla comes to the realization in season 2 that being an assassin isn't for her but she's not sure what her purpose is, since she's always been trained to be one.
• Deuteragonist: Her story gets almost as much focus as Callum's, and more so than any other named character.
• Devious Daggers: Rayla is a trained assassin and has two large knives loosely based on real butterfly knives that she uses in almost every fight. These knives can be switched between blade and hook shapes, allowing her to switch between using them as fighting and climbing tools at a moment's notice.
• Dual Wielding: She wields a pair of swords. Said swords can also turn into scythes. Towards the end of Book 1 though, she slowly loses the ability to use her left hand, and is forced to use her right one, and therefore a single weapon, only.
• Emerald Power: Spends the first three Books wearing teal outfits, her Moonshadow form has a green aura, and she is a very skilled assassin.
• Establishing Character Moment: Easily takes down a human patrol sentry and has him dead to rights, but is unable to go through with it and lets him leave. A skilled prodigy, but too merciful and innocent to take a life.
• The Exile: Because she abandoned her fellow assassins to escort the dragon prince back to Xadia, Silvergrove made her a Ghost, magically charmed so she can never interact with her people again.
• Expressive Ears: It's subtle most of the time but if you look closely you can see her ears moving particularly when her emotions run high, such as the first time Callum kisses her.
• Facial Markings: One blue claw on each cheek. This seems to be a trait she shares with other Moonshadow Elves.
• Fatal Flaw: Much like Callum, Rayla is plagued by self-doubt and a fear of failure, and her lack of confidence often leads to indecisiveness. She admits as much to Ezran, telling him she feels she always messes up.
  Rayla: Trust me, if the plan hadn't gotten messed up when Bait flashed, I'm sure it would have flopped when it was my turn...I hesitate, think too much, get confused about the right thing to do. And the next thing I know, I failed.
• Forgotten Fallen Friend: For the first two seasons, Rayla doesn't give much thought to her fellow Moonshadow assassins (and semi-foster father Runann) whose position she gave away by failing to kill Marcos, resulting in a bloody skirmish with the humans. Defied with a vengeance in Season 3, when she's forced to confront that they all died partly because of her, and she's been banished from her home as a result.
• Four-Fingered Hands: Like all elves, she only has four fingers on each hand. This becomes plot-relevant every time she has to pretend to be human, as she can hide her horns, ears, and facial markings with a hood, but it's a lot harder to hide a missing digit.
• Fragile Speedster: Rayla is incredibly fast and makes quick work of her foes, but if she's faced with someone larger and more skilled than her, she usually has to run in order to not get pinned down or outsmart them in some way. Soren has shown to be able to take her down with just a kick.
• Freudian Excuse: Rayla's phobia of water likely began after a Bloodmoon Huntress threw her off a waterfall where she almost drowned. Before that Rayla was shown comfortably sitting and talking to an Adoraburr on a log laying over a river.
• Friendless Background: Came from one prior to meeting Callum and Ezran. When she moved to the Silvergrove as a kid as shown in "Bloodmoon Huntress'', Rayla is never seen interacting with any of her fellow Moonshadow peers, considering an Adoraburr as her best friend.
• Gaining the Will to Kill: After spending three seasons being unable to bring herself to take a life, she finds the resolve to throw herself and Viren to their potential deaths to protect Zym.
• Greater Need Than Mine: One of Rayla's nobler qualities. She literally risks life and limb many times over the series to do what she knows is right. When she learns the egg of the dragon prince was not destroyed, she instantly abandons her assassination mission to return the egg to its mother to end the war and bring peace. She willingly turns against her fellow assassins (and even fights her semi-foster father Runaan), and outright tells Ezran that knowing him and keeping him alive is worth costing her hand.
• Green Around the Gills: Every time Rayla gets on a boat you can expect her to turn a bit green. During their second boat trip, she tries to pass it off as her "rare glowtoad impersonation" before nearly vomiting again. Not that Ezran buys it.
• Guile Hero: Downplayed, but she's quite clever and isn't above using trickery when the situation demands it. She knows that the team can't fend off both Claudia and Soren if they spring a trap, and that she needs to convince Callum they can't be trusted. Yet, she's able to take advantage of Lujanne's illusions to definitively prove that Claudia and Soren were up to no good while also letting the trio escape.
• Handicapped Badass: Due to the binding spell being linked to Ezran's life, Rayla's left arm would continue to hurt her until it fell off or Ezran dies. However, after making a Heel–Face Turn, Rayla is prepared for her arm to fall off and, despite some realistic problems, she manages to perform admirably against her opponents until Zym tears off the binding.
• Happily Adopted: Zigzagged. Rayla was left in the care of Runaan and Ethari because her parents were part of the Dragonguard. While the relationship was a happy one, Runaan could veer into the more abusive territory and Ethari was willing to ghost Rayla even though he was reluctant.
• Hates Their Parent: Like everyone in her village, she despises her parents as they are deemed Dirty Cowards when they were nowhere to be seen after the death of Avizandum. "Dragonguard" reveals that they never abandoned their posts and were able to convince Viren to spare Zym's egg.
• Heel–Face Turn: Rayla was sent to kill the King and Crown Prince, but ends up joining the princes when she realizes that the Dragon Prince is still alive and there's a chance to bring peace to all the nations.
• Her Boyfriend's Jacket: Boyfriend's scarf in this instance. While they aren't together yet at that point in the series, and she's only wearing it as a ploy to misdirect a blind dragon, the Longing Look they share while Callum takes a moment to adjust it, and the look on Rayla's face in the episodes credits◊, demonstrate just how much trust and care have grown between these two youths who originally meet as enemies.
• Heroic Sacrifice: Subverted. During the final battle, Rayla tackles Viren off of a mountain just as he's about to consume Zym. Thankfully Callum intervenes just in time to save her.
• Hitman with a Heart: Despite being an assassin prodigy, she can't actually bring herself to kill anyone, and geeks out (reluctantly) with the other kids.
• Honor Before Reason: In Book 3, Rayla is prepared to protect the Dragon Queen alone against Viren's approaching army of monsters. Callum calls her out on it, stating it would only get her killed, and she's doing this out of a misplaced sense of Pride and to prove she's not a coward like (she believes) her parents were.
• Horned Humanoid: Has two horns curling visibly from the top of her head. This is a Moonshadow Elf trait she shares with her peers.
• Hugh Mann: Her human disguise is nothing more than wearing a hood and gloves while she talks about how much she likes "the human things". It works until one of her gloves catches fire.
• Hypocrite:
  • She tells Lujanne that "strong relationships need honesty," yet in Through the Moon is willing to lie to Callum, promising to let them work together to find Viren, then leaving in the middle of the night while he sleeps.
  • In addition to the above scene, she repeatedly chooses to place her life in danger for others, but is unwilling to let Callum choose to do the same in finding Viren.
• I Have No Son!: Inverted. Rayla's parents were guardians of the Dragon King and his egg, but fled from their duties. As such, Rayla harbors contempt for them, even wanting to believe that they are dead. Ultimately subverted in Season 3. She's positively elated when she finds out that they were the only members of the Dragonguard who stayed with the egg and defended it to the bitter end.
• In the Hood: She wears a hood when on assassin duty, such as when sneaking around the castle. She also wears it as part of her human disguise when the trio has to travel into a human village.
• Interspecies Romance: Enters one with Callum, a human, in Season 3.
• Invisibility: As a Moonshadow Elf, she can do this under a full moon.
• Irony: Rayla was sent to kill Ezran and his father. Not only does she not kill Ezran, but they become close friends and she later enters a romance with his older brother, Callum.
• I Should Have Been Better: As a Moonshadow assassin, Rayla holds herself to punishing standards and gets very self-critical and self-loathing when she fails to live up to them. This is not helped by Moonshadow culture holding its own citizens to high standards in whatever they do, and her bearing the shame of her parents being royal Dragonguard who seemingly abandoned their post the day the egg was lost.
• It's All My Fault: Rayla takes failure very personally. Every time something goes badly over the series and she feels she could have done more to stop it, she beats herself up afterwards. In Season 3, when she finds out that all of the other assassins sent to kill King Harrow didn't make it except for her, partly because of her failure to kill Marcos and giving their position away, she's depressed for the next few days.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: While Rayla is jaded and often tends to be self-righteous, she's also a brave and loyal friend with a strong sense of right and wrong.
• Jerkass Ball: When Callum is in a coma because of his use of dark magic, Rayla spends two episodes being angry at him for doing so even though he did it to save her life. To be fair, however, she still gives him doting care and throws in a gentle word of encouragement every now and again. Subverted when she begins to understand how serious Callum's fever dream, or dark magic coma, is after Callum begins having trouble breathing.
• Jerkass Has a Point:
  • In her initial confrontation with Callum (who pretended to be Ezran to keep his brother safe), may be having an unfair Sins of the Father mentality, but she's not wrong about King Harrow and his killing of Thunder was wrong.
  • Rayla gives a very well-deserved What the Hell, Hero? to Callum in "Bloodthirsty" when his plan to get them, Ezran, Bait, and the egg away from his aunt and her troops barely worked. Rayla points that not only did Callum hurt her feelings by calling her a "bloodthirsty elf" and a "monster", but she was nearly shot with an arrow because of his plan.
  • A case of both jerks have a point occurs between him and Rayla in "Through the Ice" — on her side, Rayla accurately points out that because of her skill and experience, she could just take the egg from the princes, but doesn't because that's the point — she's earning their trust.
  • After Zym's hatching and Rayla's hand back to normal, she bluntly tells the brothers they have to leave as to keep away from anyone looking for them. She proves to be right when Claudia and Soren show up not long after and attempt to kill her.
  • Another case of her and Callum debating Claudia and Soren's intentions and whether to trust them — on her side, Rayla is right that the sibling team is up to no good (i.e., catching Soren messing with a slide Ezran was on) even though she doesn't have any actual proof.
• The Lancer: Is this to Callum. Whenever he's cautious or levelheaded, she tends to be stubborn and headstrong. Whenever Callum is being rash or reckless, she tends to be the calming influence.
• Like a Daughter to Me: Despite the strained and complicated relationship, both Runaan and Ethari love Rayla like a daughter.
• Lunacy: Moonshadow Elves draw their power from the moon.
• Major Injury Underreaction: In the season 4 finale, her only response to getting buried in a rockslide? Indignantly calling out for some help.
• Male Might, Female Finesse: The finesse to Soren's might, wielding twin short swords with various forms alongside her speed and agility, in contrast to Soren's more straightforward two-handed sword and fighting style.
• Masculine Girl, Feminine Boy: With Callum, as she's more pragmatic and emotionally closed off than the former. However, this difference diminishes somewhat, as Rayla becomes more willing to be vulnerable around Callum and open up to him, while Callum becomes more assertive, action-oriented and protective. The dynamic is inverted after the timeskip, where Callum is more closed off and confrontational, while Rayla is more emotionally sensitive, vulnerable, and trying to get Callum to open up.
• Master of Unlocking: In season 5 she manages to uncuff herself twice. Once at Katolis castle and once on Finnegrin's ship.
• Meaningful Name:
  • Rayla sounds similar to Ray, which means "counsel." It also sounds similar to Reina which means "Queen" in Spanish.
  • Also, her name brings to mind the phrase, a ray of light, referring to her being the next hope to ending the conflict between the humans and elves, as well as her being a Moonshadow Elf. Also doubles as an Ironic Name, given "ray of light" and Moonshadow...
• The Mentor: Rayla, of all people, takes this role for Callum, not only teaching him the fundamentals of magic and showing him the ropes when traveling in Xadia, but also teaching him to have confidence in himself. Over time, Callum's moral compass begins to closely resemble Rayla's.
• Merciful Minion: Can't bring herself to kill Marcos, stating that she can't kill someone who hasn't done anything to her, even if they might endanger her mission. She is reprimanded and punished for this by Runaan.
• Minion with an F in Evil: She mentions to Ezran that she is an assassin that never managed to kill anybody. Ezran however says that this is actually a good thing, as she has spared his life in the process. In season 2, she confesses that she has been wondering whether she even wants to be an assassin at all.
• Muscles Are Meaningless: Is said to be the fastest and strongest of the elf assassins, but looks like a typical skinny girl. Partially justified since she has a Moon Primal connection, which allows her to be faster and stronger than her physique would suggest.
• Mystical White Hair: Like the rest of the Moonshadow Elves, symbolizing her moon powers.
• Ninja: She's a Moonshadow assassin, which is basically just a ninja with a high fantasy elven aesthetic rather than a medieval Japanese one.
• Noble Bigot: Even after teaming up with Callum and Ezran, she does state how they are doing "silly, human" things while she, "the noble elf", fulfills their quest.
• No Good Deed Goes Unpunished:
  • Rayla spares the life of a guard, allowing him to report their presence to the king and be punished by her squad.
  • In "The Dagger and the Wolf", she decides to not hurt or steal from a man that is afraid of her. The man later gets the word out about the elf and leads an angry mob against her, Callum and Ezran.
• No Sympathy: Rayla is angry at Callum for using dark magic despite his saving her life, and spends her time in the last two episodes chastising him for doing so. Subverted when she realizes how serious Callum's fever dream, or dark magic coma, actually was; she ends up clutching Callum in a bone-crushing hug, begging Callum not to die.
• Not So Above It All: While she tends towards the serious and insists on focusing on the mission (for example, patrolling while complaining about how Callum and Ezran are wasting time learning magic and playing with Zym respectively), she has her moments of silliness as well, such as her human interpretation being lighthearted and silly and how much fun she has just enjoying having two working hands again.
• Official Couple: With Callum in Season 3. While she kisses Callum in "The Midnight Desert", they don't officially acknowledge their feelings until "Heroes and Masterminds".
• O.O.C. Is Serious Business: For most of season 4, her relationship with Callum was so strained that she never called him by any of the Affectionate Nicknames with which she had addressed him in the previous seasons. It was only after he asked her to kill him that she started calling him "dummy" again.
• The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: It's a major plot point that, despite being an assassin, she has never killed anyone and spared the life of the human soldier that should have been her first victim. Runaan says she doesn't have what it takes to be an assassin despite her skill because he doesn't think she can take a life. At the end of season 3, she tackles Viren off a mountain to save Zym, making him her first kill.
• Previously Overlooked Paramour: Callum had a childhood crush on the Perky Goth Claudia — right up until she chooses to ignore their friendship in favor of helping her father try to kidnap not just him, but his kid brother along with the titular Dragon Prince. Later, Rayla kisses him when Callum comforts her during a low moment; he's caught off guard, but the kiss makes his feelings for her crystalize, and they become an Official Couple.
• Prim and Proper Bun: She tied her hair back into one during the Time Skip between season 3 and 4.
• Professional Killer: Has been trained as an assassin, but fails to kill anyone on her first and only mission, both due to hesitancy to actually do the deed and new information making her decide it doesn't need to be done. It takes until the end of season 3 before she actually gets her first kill, and even then it doesn't stick (this is due to magical intervention, not any action on Rayla's part).
• Properly Paranoid: She doesn't trust a lot of Callum's ideas, mostly for good reasons since she's an elf in a territory where everyone would want her dead. She also always suggests that they keep moving instead of wasting time playing around. She was also right in not trusting Claudia or Soren when they want to "help" the princes. Claudia ends up using her magic to ensnare the princes and try to capture Zym, and she catches Soren in the act of attempting to hurt Ezran and figured out they were setting up a trap. She also doesn't trust Nyx with baby Zym in Book 3, which is good because Nyx is just a con artist out to return baby Zym to his mother just so she can claim some kind of reward for herself.
• Purple Is Powerful: Has purple eyes, purple markings on her face and begins wearing black and purple clothing from Book 4 onwards. She's also a very skilled fighter.
• Relationship Upgrade: She and Callum start off as uneasy allies in season 1 before becoming close friends and than enter a romantic relationship in the middle of season 3.
• Reverse Grip: She is sometimes seen holding her twin blades this way.
• Second Love: She is the second girl Callum has shown romantic interest in. As of Season 3, they're an Official Couple.
• Senseless Sacrifice: Discussed by Callum in Book 3. When she claims that she alone must stay with the Dragon Queen against Viren's approaching army and tells Callum and Zym to flee, Callum calls her out on being willing to "sacrifice herself" for nothing, accusing her of putting Honor Before Reason and trying to buck Sins of the Father.
• She-Fu: Rayla's style of fighting is very acrobatic and graceful.
• Ship Tease: She nearly tells Callum something when he starts thrashing around in his sleep, gently putting her hand on his cheek and begging for him to stay with her.
• "Shut Up" Kiss: Does this to Callum twice. The first time she assumes Callum is working his way up to declaring his love for her and is taken aback to find that's not really what he had in mind. This does have the effect of crystallizing Callum's feelings, though, so the next time he's going on about how great she is, it has the usual effect.
• Single Woman Seeks Good Man: Rayla falls for Callum due to his many admirable qualities: Intelligence, kindness, humility, bravery, sensitivity, and being there for her at her lowest. To Sol Regem, she describes how Callum sacrificed everything for Zym, and says how he's "smart and kind and brave," showing just how stricken Rayla is by him. This is helped by how frequently Callum is willing to assist and save her from danger, and Rayla finally declares her love to him when Callum leaps off a cliff to rescue Rayla from certain death.
• Sins of the Father: Her parents were royal Dragonguard who seemingly abandoned their post the day the egg was lost, and she's so ashamed of that heritage that she occasionally displays Honor Before Reason to prove she's not like them. It's implied she also bore the stigma with her people, since everyone assumed she fled and abandoned her fellow assassins to die when her enchanted lily was the only one that didn't sink in the pond (showing that she was the only one who survived), leading them to magically banish her.
• Strong Girl, Smart Guy: A zigzagged example with Callum. She's a trained assassin while he's a sheltered prince who's proven to be a capable planner. But Rayla is more action-focused because Callum is still new at being a mage, as a better-trained Sky mage would typically be capable of at least the same feats of speed and agility as Rayla. Throughout the first three seasons, Rayla has proven to be a Guile Hero when push comes to shove while Callum has learned how to use his magic as a weapon. By the end of Season 3, Callum gains the ability to fly, greatly expanding his physical capabilities to go along with his spells.
• Sugar-and-Ice Personality: Rayla's behavior regularly fluctuates between being a Genki Girl and a jaded Jerk with a Heart of Gold depending on the situation, whatever mood she's in, and the company she keeps.
• Taking You with Me: Subverted in the Season 3 finale. She tackles Viren off a mountain... but she has a boyfriend who can fly, and he doesn't.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Her favorite meal and dessert is Moonberry Surprise.
• Tragic Hero: Rayla struggles to work with others, and her fixation on justice and shouldering too much responsibility tends to get the better of her. When she learns that Viren is still alive, her tragic flaw compels her to seek him out alone, facing a potential no-win fight.
• Tsundere: Can be very rude and snarky towards Callum, but it's made clear she loves him deeply. The show's twitter account even admits that she is this saying in a Christmas post that she would be "actually having a good time (but won't say it)".
• Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: She hates riding boats and gets seasick easily. She ends up admitting that she's afraid of the water. Yet, the heroes' quest repeatedly confronts her with the medium she hates.
• The Worf Effect: Rayla is presented as an excellent fighter early on, but this is frequently used to show how capable her human opponents are. She's pitted against Amaya, Soren, Corvus, and Viren, all of whom put up a good fight or outright beat her.
• Worf Had the Flu: Thanks to the binding slowly crippling her left hand, she's not as effective in fights during the latter half of Season 1 as she should be. Also doubles as a Drama-Preserving Handicap. After it's cured at the end of the season, she repeatedly revels in having two good hands again.
• You Can't Go Home Again: When she sees her village, she finds out she's been banished, as she technically left her group to die (however, for justifiable reasons). Although Ethari and her finally talk and say goodbye, he says he's not sure whether she'll ever be allowed back.

Bait

Grumpy, but loyal.

"Say hello to my little friend!"

—Ezran

Ezran's pet glow toad.

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• Action Pet: Downplayed. Bait's flash is useful in combat, but he usually requires someone else to prompt him. The exception is when Viren comes for Zym, and Bait jumps forward and defends him all on his own.
• All Animals Are Dogs: As seen in the opening Logo Joke, Bait pants like a dog when he's particularly happy. He generally averts this trope, however.
• The Caligula: Played for Laughs. When Ezran was considering naming a regent to rule until he was older, Bait said he'd be a tyrant if he was regent. Ezran agreed.
• Driven by Envy: Downplayed. Not to the extreme as this trope is, but Bait has displayed his moments. He's usually rude to Zym, pushing him off of things, or trying to take his spot where Zym would be placed. Most of this has to do with Ezran becoming closer to the Dragon Prince, leaving Bait in the shadows, or he doesn't like that Zym is taking his place as the Team Pet. When he gets more time with Ezran in season 3, he discards this and even gets a bit close to Zym.
• Freudian Excuse: According to the Art of The Dragon Prince, the reason why Bait is so grumpy is because of creatures constantly wanting to eat him.
• Jealous Pet: Becomes very jealous of Ezran's close relationship with Zym after the latter hatched. He also doesn't like sharing Ezran's attention with the three young glow toads that join the heroes in season 5.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Bait is a grumpy toad but has a good heart.
• Light 'em Up: He can emit blinding light when necessary.
• Light Is Good: He is a glow toad with Light 'em Up abilities and is one of the main heroes.
• Living Mood Ring: Is usually yellow, but will glow in different colors to show emotion. Among others, bright green signifies fear, while red shows anger or annoyance.
• The Load: Rides the line dangerously close to being this. No matter how often his ability to glow bright enough to blind or distract enemies comes in handy, he is still a vulnerable, slow-moving creature who despite his best efforts often ends up directly in harm's way. In Book 5, it nearly gets Amaya killed when she has to go back to save him.
• Mix-and-Match Critters: He looks like a fusion between a bulldog and a frog or toad. So... a bullfrog?
• Perpetual Frowner: Rarely drops his grumpy-looking face. You most often see Bait averting this during a moment in opening Vanity Plate that begins each episode.
• A Pig Named "Porkchop": A fantasy variant. Glow toads are used as bait to catch fish, which is why Ezran doesn't want him in the water. Callum mentions that it was King Harrow who came up with the name, and, in that same episode, a large sea monster attempts to attack and eat Bait.
• The Power of the Sun: The sun symbol on Callum's magic-tracking cube glows when near Bait.
• Puppy-Dog Eyes: He has his "innocent eyes," used on the baker Barius while swiping jelly tarts.
• Shipper on Deck: When Rayla returns in Book 4, Bait encourages Callum to not turn her away when she asks if she could sit with him.
• Supernaturally Delicious and Nutritious: Glow toads are considered the most delicious thing to aquatic creatures. Even a giant sea serpent will go out of its way to eat a tiny glow toad because they taste that good.
• Team Pet: He acts as this to Callum, Ezran, and Rayla.
• Took a Level in Kindness: Towards Zym. Just in the previous season, Bait was jealous of Zym taking his place as Ezran's best friend. But in season 3 when Zym is obviously unsure about finally meeting his mother, Bait openly comforts Zym, even trying to protect him from Viren who managed to sneak past the others with magic.
• Trademark Favorite Food: Jelly tarts along with Ezran. The baker is not pleased about this when Bait is able to steal at least four at a time and stuff them in his mouth. In season 3, Ezran asks that when something bad happens, he look after Bait and since he knows better than anyone what he wants.
  Baker: An infinite amount of jelly tarts, love, and understanding?
  Ezran: (laughing) Mainly the first one.
• Undying Loyalty: To Ezran. He always follows Ezran wherever the latter goes without question and gets defensive of the boy when someone insults or hurts him.
• Ungrateful Bastard: To Rayla in season 1. Being rescued by her in episode 5 didn't stop him from stealing her moonberry juice in episode 6.

Azymondias, the Dragon Prince

^{Click here to see him before hatching.}

^{Click here to see Zym's appearance as of Book 4}

The son of Avizandum and Zubeia. Although both the humans and the elves believed him to be dead since the day his father was killed, the Princes of Katolis and the elven assassin Rayla discovered his egg being secretly held in Lord Viren's secret laboratory and set out on a journey to return him to his mother. He is hatched at the end of Season 1, and is named, presumably by his parents communicating to him prior to his hatching, Azymondias; the other characters typically refer to him as "Zym".

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• Affectionate Nickname: Ezran nicknames him "Zym" once he hatches. He's so used to it that Zubeia even calls him "Zym" more often than "Azymondias".
• All Animals Are Dogs: He yips like a dog, and displays many dog-like traits like nuzzling people he likes, or raising himself on his hind legs while resting his front paws on someone's leg. When Sol Regem gets trapped, Zym smugly kicks some dirt at him from behind before following Rayla and Callum.
  • To further nail the point home, at one point in season 4 he's disguised as a dog with illusion magic and doesn't have to act that differently in order to sell the act.
• Anti-Magic: He seems to have some of these properties naturally, as he removes Rayla's binding, which was previously shown to be impervious to a Sunforged dagger.
• The Artifact: Zym was of critical importance to the plot during the first three seasons, but his role is reduced in the Mystery of Aaravos arc. Still his friendship with Ezran serves as an important reminder of the central themes of the show, — leaving behind old hatreds to forge new friendships — and his abilities as a Storm Dragon have come in handy for the group more than once.
• The Baby of the Bunch: He's the youngest of the main characters because he was an egg before being hatched.
• Beware the Cute Ones: Yes Zym is still a baby, but when he feels like his life is being threatened, he will fight back with lightning. Nyx learned this the hard way when trying to dragon-nap him.
• Big Eater: According to the official site, Zym has a big appetite.
• Blue Is Heroic: A blue-scaled dragon with a kind heart.
• Bond Creature: With Ezran, the latter able to see through his eyes.
• Boomerang Bigot: Downplayed. After witnessing Pyrrah's attack on the human soldiers and nearly being killed by Sol Regem he develops a fear of other dragons, to the point that he was afraid to approach his own mother. He does get better by the end though.
• Born During a Storm: Justified — owing to the nature of their species, Sky Dragons can only be born during thunderstorms. Zym's egg is hatched when Callum breaks his Primal Stone to cause a storm.
• Brainy Baby: Even before being hatched, Zym was able to communicate with Ezran and even know his own name.
• Breath Weapon: As a Storm Dragon, Zym can fire bolts of lightning from his mouth, first done at the end of Season 3 in self-defence against Viren.
• Curtains Match the Windows: Zym has light blue scales and eyes.
• Cuteness Proximity: Claudia can't help but gush and squee when she first sees Zym, and everyone else openly admits that Zym is adorable. When describing Zym to Sol Regem, Rayla calls him precious.
• Delightful Dragon: Zym is a sweet, playful, curious little Dragonling, who, despite his young age, is devoted and empathetic to his human and elf friends.
• Egg MacGuffin: The Dragon Prince is an egg that must be delivered back to his mother in order to possibly end the war between humans and elves; as such, it's the key to the plot. Averted at the end of Book One, where the egg hatches to reveal the dragon Azymondias.
• Family Theme Naming: He along with his parents have "z's" in their names.
• Fear of Thunder: Inverted. As a Storm Dragon, he likes thunderstorms and gets excited when he sees one.
• Gigantic Adults, Tiny Babies: Both of his parents are as big as hills, while he's smaller than a human child (for the time being).
• Innocent Blue Eyes: Zym has blue eyes and a playful, friendly demeanor.
• Irony: He's close to Ezran, the son of the man who killed his father.
• Last Episode, New Character: He is born at the end of the Book 1 finale when it's told that if he does not hatch, he is likely to die.
• MacGuffin Super-Person: Turns into one once hatched from the Egg MacGuffin.
• Meaningful Name: The Greek name "Ozymandias" was derived from the first half of Pharaoh Ramses II's regnal name^note Usermaatre Setepenre "Usermaatre", which means "the Maat (Justice) of Ra is powerful". Ra and Avizandum are/were rulers of their respective people and closely affiliated with the sky (the sun for Ra and storms for Avizandum). The whole plot kicks off because the elves and dragons sought justice for Avizandum's murder and the destruction of Zym's egg.
• Named After Somebody Famous: Ozymandias is a name by which the Pharaoh Ramses II was known for. It's also the name of a popular poem about that same Pharaoh.
• Nice Guy: A sweet and friendly young dragon.
• Not Quite Dead:
  • His egg was thought to have been shattered when his father was killed but was actually stolen by Viren.
  • He gets struck by a bolt of lightning, and seems to be okay afterwards, though he for a bit afterward sparks come out of his mouth when he yips.
• Please, Don't Leave Me: While he can't speak, he is heartbroken to see Ezran leaving the party to become the king of Katolis, and Callum has to hold Zym in his arms to keep the Dragon Prince from following his little brother.
• Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When the group come across Sol Regem, Zym probably sensing how powerful he is, wants absolutely nothing to do with the former dragon king and desperately tries to squirm out of Callum's arms throughout the episode.
• Secondary Character Title: Zym is the title character of the series, but he doesn't hatch until the season 1 finale. And even then, more focus is placed on Callum, Rayla, and Ezran.
• Shock and Awe: As a Storm Dragon, he can generate lightning. Being an infant, this is limited to an electrically-charged tongue. However, his potential appears to be far greater; at one point, Zym is struck by a bolt of lightning, and he isn't hurt. He's also able to use an electrified bite to knock Nyx out of the sky.
• Silent Snarker: As he is too young to speak, Zym communicates with whines, growls, barks, and yelps; though this doesn't mean he isn't capable of communicating or being sassy as he gets older. When Ibis tries to get him to eat his vegetables, Zym growls, gags, and rolls his eyes; and when Ibis tries to play a game to get him to eat a zucchini, Zym instead fries it with a lightning bolt.
• Strong Family Resemblance: He looks like a tinier version of his father, Avizandum. However, Avizandum had yellow eyes, while Zym has blue eyes which he got from his mother, Zubeia. By Season 4 he looks a little more like his mother, growing into her lankier build and taking on a hint of her facial structure and mane style.
• Traumatic C-Section: A variation. Due to the egg falling into ice water, his heartbeat weakens the longer he stays in the shell and they have to hatch him early. Luckily there seem to be no side effects.

Soren

Youngest Crownguard in history.

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Voiced by: Jesse Inocalla (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Oscar López (Latin American Spanish), Salvador Garrido (European Spanish), Leonardo Santhos (Brazilian Portuguese), Mário Bomba (European Portuguese), Daniil Eldarov (Russian), Subaru Kimura (Japanese), Fatih Er (Turkish), François Santucci (French, Books 1 through 3), Aurélien Raynal (French, Book 4), Dennis Sandmann (German), Emanuele Ruzza (Italian), Piotr Bajtlik (Polish), Roel Dirven (Dutch), Dávid Szatory (Hungarian), Petr Neskusil (Czech), Fredrik Paasche (Norwegian), Dor Srugo (Hebrew), Yudhvir Dahiya (Hindi), Vangelis Zapas (Greek)

"Parry, parry, parry, you're dead. Parry, parry, dead."

The youngest knight in the Crownguard ever, who trains Prince Callum in sword combat. He is the son of Lord Viren and the brother of Claudia. He temporarily joins the group for the second and third episodes of Book 2 before joining the group permanently towards the end of Book 3.

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• Affectionate Nickname: Claudia calls him "Sor-bear".
• Age Lift: Like Ezran and several other characters, the novelizations make him younger, being seventeen when the story starts, in contrast to the show version where he's eighteen.
• Anti-Villain: He and Claudia are only trying to stop the trio because they're led to believe that the princes don't know what they're doing, and they believe their father, Lord Viren, has good intentions. Soren is very troubled when his father basically orders him to kill Callum and Ezran. Averted in Season 3, as he joins the heroes after seeing just how evil his father really is.
• Badass Normal: Takes an arrow from an elite elven archer to the shoulder, pulls it out, and keeps fighting like it was nothing. Just surviving the Moonshadow Elves' assault while the moon is out would be enough to qualify, but once they're down to just Ruunan, he hardly looks worse for the wear.
• Beard of Sorrow: While not really a beard, he starts growing a bit of stubble after he leaves Viren's side to join Ezran and the others in Xadia. Despite him knowing it was the best choice to leave his horrible father, it's never an easy choice.
• Big Brother Bully: A mild case, but he sits back and watches as a distracted Claudia almost walks into a tree. He grumbles at Callum for being no fun when the latter warns her. He also picks on Callum too, but that's about as far as it goes.
• Big Brother Instinct: While he and his sister do butt heads often, when she comes back to their room in tears having told Callum the truth about King Harrow Soren is immediately up with his sword, demanding to know what Callum did to hurt his sister. He may tease her a lot, but he doesn't want to see her hurt.
  "'Cause... you're my sister, as you know, I'm... always here for you, to... punch someone, or... whatever you need."
  • In season 3 when he tries to convince her they should both leave Viren, she begs him not to make her choose again, still hurt by their mother's abandonment. Soren doesn't pressure her and instead gently tells her goodbye before he turns the opposite way, leaving Claudia alone.
  • He also has a brotherly, protective streak towards both Callum and Ezran. He was hesitant in arresting Callum and then attempting to murder the princes under Viren's order and protected Callum when the Moonshadow Elf assassins came. In season 3, after he goes under a Heel–Face Turn, Soren makes a vow to truly protect and serve Ezran.
• The Big Guy: Becomes the groups strongest fighter after his Heel–Face Turn.
• Blind Obedience: Only questions Lord Viren when ordered to kill the princes. He's otherwise perfectly fine with his father stealing Callum's voice or ordering him to imprison a fellow soldier. In season 3, however, after seeing how corrupt his father has become, he joins Ezran and the heroes.
• Brains and Brawn: Subverted. His dynamic with Claudia seems to be this... but it's eventually made clear Soren is much more compassionate and insightful than the usual Dumb Muscle character in this dynamic. In addition, Viren gradually uses Claudia as both the brawn and brains due to her magical ability, gradually phasing him out and thinking nothing of turning him into a Volcanic Veins monster. At which point, he really would have been Dumb Muscle, going by what happened to Kasef.
• Brother–Sister Team: With his sister, Claudia. Broken by season 3 when he defects from Viren to join Ezran and the Heroes, while Claudia can't bring herself to be disloyal to their father.
• Bully Turned Buddy: Soren openly apologizes to Callum near the end of season 3 for his earlier bullying and admits he was actually a bit jealous that he and Harrow seemed to have an incredibly loving relationship, unlike what he had with his own father. So he picked on Callum since he didn't know better. He assures Callum that Harrow definitely would be proud of what they're doing and gives a reluctant Callum a Bear Hug as a way of apology.
• Cain and Abel: Starting to have this with Claudia by mid-season 3, as Soren becomes more disillusioned with his father's increasingly dubious methods while Claudia has the opposite reaction.
• Character Development: Basically Soren's whole arc for season 3 in spades. He's all prepared to be locked up forever, and is surprised when Ezran shows mercy. When Claudia confronts Viren about his secret mission for Soren, Soren goes You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! as Viren claims his oldest son misunderstood. He starts showing himself to be more a Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass than given credit for, reflects on his past actions where he is openly remorseful for the pain he's caused, decides to leave his father's side once he sees how corrupt he's become, and doesn't pressure Claudia to leave their father. He even apologizes to Callum for bullying him earlier in season one, although he still makes some jabs. By the end, he's prepared to stab his own father to protect Ezran, when he'd spent the last two seasons running himself ragged trying to impress his father, and was prepared to kill Callum and Ezran to make him proud.
• Comfort Food: Possibly, after being ordered by Lord Viren to kill the princes, he is seen gorging out on several piles of pastries and acting nervous when Claudia questions him about his orders.
• Cool Big Bro: Treats Callum like a little brother, complete with picking on him and going easy on him. Likewise he is this to Ezran, joining with the young king, and swearing his loyalty and protection to him.
• Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass: He isn't the sharpest tool in the shed, but he is the leader of the Crownguard for a reason. Season 3 shows that he's smarter than even he seems to realize, seeing through Viren's attempt at Gaslighting him and working behind his back to break Ezran out of jail and reunite him with Callum and Rayla, aiding the escape to Duren for Opeli, Corvus and the baker, and even managing to contact Lujanne to help out. He did it in his own characteristically bumbling way, but Viren and Claudia never caught on that he did it even after he finally broke his loyalty to his father for good.
• Darkest Hour: He (barely) keeps a jokey facade throughout, but getting paralyzed in Season 2 is clearly devastating for him. It drives Claudia to take her use of dark magic to a much graver level to heal him.
• Deconstructed Character Archetype: Of the Dumb Muscle. Being treated as the dumb one by his father and sister for so long has severely impacted his self-esteem, to the point where he'll go along with anything his father asks because he thinks that if he has objections, it's just because he's too dumb to understand his father's motivations. Even when he realizes that killing the princes was wrong, Viren gaslights him into believing that he only misunderstood the original order, something Claudia goes along with. However, one thing adds up to another and he eventually realizes that his dad is as bad as everyone says, and abandons him.
• Decon-Recon Switch: Of The Big Guy. He starts off having his father somewhat easily manipulating him into acting as The Brute to try and kill Ezran and Callum, using his family loyalty against him... but Soren eventually proves he's far too self-aware and honorable at heart to fit that role, and rebuilds himself into a hero.
• Delicate and Sickly: His backstory reveals that he was this as a child. And it's what turned Viren to dark magic.
• Don't Explain the Joke: He tends to give the punchlines of his obvious jokes. Then everyone usually responds that they already got the joke.
• Do You Think I Can't Feel: He's not pleased when Claudia believes Viren over him in season 3, after confronting him in the dungeons. As he puts it, he may not have done good but he sure knows what good and bad is. Viren can't manipulate him anymore by feigning innocence.
• Dramatic Spine Injury: Soren suffers a terrible spinal injury in Season 2 when he's smacked against a rock by the tailwhip of a very angry dragon he shot down. While his resulting paralysis begins his road to redemption, his sister's successful effort to cure him begins her road to damnation.
• Duality Motif: His uniform has black on the right side and white on the left side.
• Dumb Blonde: Subverted. Soren has dirty blonde hair and comes across as an airheaded ditz but he turns out to be insightful and perceptive.
• Dumb Jock: He tends to act this way when interacting with Callum and Viren. As the show goes on, it turns out that he's pretty smart, but both his father and his sister have treated him as this trope because his skill is more in the physical department than the magical.
• Dumbass Has a Point: In "Dragonguard", while the group decide whether to stand and fight or run and hide, Soren tells him that his dad is a Villain with Good Publicity. And if they run, Viren will just get more powerful and convince a lot of good people into joining his side. So they all must stay and fight to stop Viren for good.
• Establishing Character Moment: His training with Callum, which showcases both his physical prowess and his tendency to poke fun at others by how he curbstomps Callum and wants to see his sister Claudia hit her head in a tree. But noticing that Callum wants to look good in front of Claudia, he also shows a more sympathetic side by playing along with him to impress her, as well as a goofy side in how he hams up his fake defeat by Callum.
• Et Tu, Brute?: Downplayed in that Soren never intended to betray Claudia, but she did not take his desertion and betrayal of Viren well.
• Everyone Has Standards: Prior to his Heel–Face Turn, Soren was an Anti-Villain with some morals.
  • He was hesitant to arrest Callum on Viren's orders even though he earlier mocked the former and the latter is his father.
  • Soren is notably shocked and horrified when his father orders him to kill the princes.
  • When he and Claudia have a seemingly asleep Rayla at their mercy, Claudia wants him to kill her while Soren believes it's dirty to kill an opponent in their sleep.
  • As he puts it, he may not be a good person, but he damn well knows what right and wrong is. When Viren claims that Soren misunderstood about his orders to kill the princes, Soren goes You Have GOT to Be Kidding Me! to both his father and sister.
  • He's a bit of Jerk Jock, but even he is increasingly horrified by the lengths his father will go to gain power and conquer Xadia. When he sees Viren turn Kasef into a fiery monster, he leaves on the spot.
• Expository Hairstyle Change: Is sporting stubble in Season 3, following a long off-screen journey and it just happens to coincide with him finally wising up to his father's villainy, and joining the "good guys".
• Family of Choice:Soren effectively becomes a big brother to Callum and Ezran after seeing how far Viren and Claudia have lost themselves.
• Good Feels Good: After the climactic battle at the end of Season 3, he notes that unchaining creatures feels better than chaining them.
• Green-Eyed Monster: Soren admits during his apology to Callum that he often picked on the latter because he had a better relationship with King Harrow, his stepfather, than Soren did with his birth father.
• Heel–Face Turn: While Soren was never truly evil, it's clear he has an easier time seeing through his dad's manipulations than Claudia. By Season 3, he has no illusions about his dad's morals and has an easier time refusing to do things he feels are wrong. Midway through season 3, he rescues an unfairly imprisoned Ezran and leads him safely to Opeli and Corvus, two people who can keep him safe. Later on he openly states his allegiance to Ezran, joining the heroes' side, and even striking down what he believed to be his father, though it was only an illusion, to protect the young king.
• Heel Realization: Soren knows that assassinating the princes is wrong but rationalizes that he has to obey his father. The realization kicks in when Ezran insists on pardoning him and Claudia, saying they aren't to blame for Viren's mistakes. Then it goes deeper when Viren gaslights Claudia into believing that Soren was dumb and misunderstood him; Soren becomes the Only Sane Man of his family and protects Ezran with his life, smuggling him out of the kingdom.
• Hidden Depths: He's actually very accepting of the consequences of his mistakes. He knew attacking the dragon was wrong and was ready to face being paraplegic as payment for that error. He also doesn't like dark magic due to how disgusting sacrificing living creatures is and only goes along with it due to how much it helps his sister or when he doesn't know what it requires, like when Claudia never tells him she sacrificed the life force of a baby animal or that the spell corrupted her when she healed his spine since the whole reason he was happy being paralyzed is that he'd never be responsible for something horrible again.
• Honor Before Reason: Despite knowing how dangerous elves can be, Soren can't bring himself to hurt Rayla while she's asleep, telling Claudia that it wasn't "sporting" and asks her to wake Rayla up for a fair fight. Likewise, when Rayla frees the dragon, Soren prepares to fight it despite knowing it will curbstomp him.
• I Can't Feel My Legs!: After taking a hit from the dragon, he slams into a nearby rock and begs his sister for help. When she tries to get him to move, he tells her in a terrified voice that he can't move.
• Incurable Cough of Death: Played with - During Viren's Vision Quest, a younger Soren suddenly starts coughing before crumbling to dust in Viren's hands. While not literally what happened, he was Delicate and Sickly when he was younger.
• Ironic Name: His name means "strict" but he's a Mellow Fellow.
• Jerkass Has a Point: While he's being a mocking Jerk Jock, Soren is an expert swordsman and was correct on his criticisms of Callum's sword techniques. Later on, when Soren and other Katolis guards are tracking Moonshadow Elf assassins, Callum attempts to join them while sporting a heavy armor; cue, Soren mockingly, but truthfully, stating that Callum's armor is not meant for battle and would only get the prince killed.
• Jerk Jock: He's a bit full of himself about his physical appearance and prowess and lazy, but he's a Jerk with a Heart of Gold.
• Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Despite being rude to Callum and often bringing up how he was the king's step-son and not his real son, he was willing to go easy on him so he could impress Claudia. He also treats his sister very well, when not trying to mess with her, and the two get along just fine. Also, when the elves make their ambush toward the king's chambers, he protectively shoves Callum away from the danger.
• Kick the Dog: Lying about King Harrow being alive to manipulate Callum and Ezran to come home. He also tried to kill Ezran in a zip line "accident" He comes to regret both.
• Locked Out of the Loop: He is not aware that his father has told Claudia to retrieve the egg at any cost, even at the cost of Soren's own life. Claudia probably told him near the end of book 2, based on his comment that "we both failed our secret missions."
• Male Might, Female Finesse: The might to Rayla's finesse, wielding a two-handed sword that he makes use of for grounded, yet effective, offense and defense, in contrast to the Moonshadow Elf's more agility focused fighting style with her twin short swords.
• Mistreatment-Induced Betrayal: Downplayed. While it's mostly Soren's own conscience that drives him to secretly and then overtly defy his father, Viren treating Soren with increasingly open contempt in Book 3 just hurts Soren more and more, helping him realize that his dad will never love or be proud of him like he wanted, and thus removes the only thing that was keeping Soren beside him for as long as he was.
• My God, What Have I Done?: As Viren prepares to strike Ezran down even though the battle was already over, Soren does not hesitate to protect the young king and stab his father through the chest. When Claudia demands to know why Soren killed him, Soren limply falls to his knees in shock as he mutters he had no other choice. Too bad it was just an illusion.
• My Greatest Second Chance: He felt extremely guilty and remorseful about trying to kill the princes on his father's orders, and more so when Ezran insisted on pardoning him. Soren realizes that he can't stand idly by when Viren manipulates his way to the throne and Ezran to the dungeons, especially when Viren wants to turn Soren into a living weapon. He busts out Ezran, smuggles him and his retinue to Lujanne, and swears to protect the young king.
• My Sister Is Off-Limits: Averted. When he sees that Callum is smitten with Claudia, he goes out of his way to help Callum impress her.
• Noble Top Enforcer: He's Viren's son and top man, but shows none of his father's malice or greed.
• Obfuscating Stupidity: He tends to act much more foolish than he really is, particularly in front of Viren. For example, he pretended not to understand that the "unwanted guests" in the first episode were assassins.
• Odd Friendship: After Season 3, he's shown to have forged a touching friendship with Zubeia, so much so that he openly advises the Dragon Queen to take it easy after she is bitten by a corrupted Banther.
• Only Sane Man: In season three when talking to his family. Viren is power-hungry and ambitious, Claudia is in denial, and Soren realizes that his father is evil and manipulative. He decides to turn against them to save Ezran, apologizing to the young king.
• Perma-Stubble: Grows a noticeable five o'clock shadow during the long ride to warn the protagonists about the approaching human army. Also emphasizes his recent character development.
• Pet the Dog: He may be a mocking instructor but it's evident he sees it as tough love and he lets Callum pretend to stab him to impress Claudia.
• Sarcasm-Blind: Has a hard time noticing sarcasm, to the point where he has had to have it pointed out to him that another character is being sarcastic. Rayla loved pointing this out when she, Callum, and Ezran used an illusion to escape Soren and Claudia.
• Ship Tease: A minor one with Rayla. He thinks she's into him at first, but Claudia immediately tells him that Rayla's on to him.
• Sickly Child Grew Up Strong: When he was a child Soren almost died to an illness, as a grown man he's a physically fit member of Katlois' Crownguard who takes any opportunity he can to work out.
• Smarter Than You Look: He's much smarter than anyone (especially himself) gives him credit for. In season 4, episode 5, he almost instantly figures out that Aaravos has been influencing his father and that Claudia is working to resurrect him.
• The Sixth Ranger: After realizing just how evil his father truly is, Soren spends the majority of Book 3 secretly working against him and aiding Ezran. Eventually, he decides that he can no longer hide his true allegiance and absconds from his father's side to join the heroes.
• Strong Family Resemblance: If you look closely, Soren resembles Viren a great deal. They have similar skin tones, hair color, and facial structures. Ironically, that's where the similarities end.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The Sword to Claudia's Sorcerer.
• Taking the Bullet: He takes an arrow to the shoulder after pushing Callum's head out of the way.
• These Hands Have Killed: After stabbing his father to save Ezran, Soren drops his sword and falls to his knees, staring at his hands in horror. He quickly recovers when learns the Viren he stabbed was an illusion.
• Token Good Teammate: Becomes this by season 3, as his father and sister are becoming more and more ruthless and morally questionable with each decision while Soren is horrified by their actions. It prompts his Heel–Face Turn.
• Trademark Favorite Food: The official site states Soren likes butter and the creators even state he eats a daunting amount of it. This is shown most clearly when Claudia is trying to "butter up" the princes with pancakes.
• Undying Loyalty: To his father, and was willing to do anything he ordered if it would make him proud of him. However once all of his horrible acts start to add up in season 3, Soren decides to abandon him and join Ezran and the others. He even is willing to kill his father (albeit an illusion of him) to protect Ezran.
  • Ultimately, he was ever loyal to King Harrow, as shown at the beginning of episode 3.
  Soren: (to Ezran) Your dad was a good king. As crown guard, it was my job to make sure that nothing happened to him. No matter what. So, when the Moonshadow elves came, I did everything I could to protect him. But it wasn't enough. I just don't want to fail you, too.
• The Unfavorite:
  • In Viren's hierarchy, Soren's always at the bottom, being forced to live up to impossible standards, gaslit, and treated as Dumb Muscle. This reaches its nadir when Viren is about to turn him into a monster. Notably, neither Viren or Claudia seem bothered at this prospect.
  • The official website says that Viren once forgot Soren's birthday completely, being so wrapped up in preparations for Harrow's birthday, which is the next day. Ever since then, Soren has let everyone he sees know his birthday is coming up and that he is expecting presents, starting a whole week beforehand.
• "Well Done, Son" Guy: He tearfully tells Claudia that he knows that he isn't as smart as Viren would like, so he really wants his dad to be proud of him one way or the other, which is why he was actually considering going through with killing Ezran and Callum. He grows out of it by the end of season 3, to the point that he actually stabs Viren to protect Ezran (although Viren turned out to just be an illusion).
• Would Hit a Girl: Has no problem with trying to kill Rayla, or attacking Ellis and Ava after they reveal that they had tricked him.
• Would Not Hurt A Child:
  • When his father tells him to "do the right thing" if he finds the princes alive, he expresses discomfort and reluctance.
  • Played with in the first couple of episodes in season 2. While he's still uncomfortable with hurting Ez, he justifies things as "accidents" to make himself feel better. Even so, his solution is to create a zipline and loosen the peg a little.
  • Carried even further when despite being devastated by his paralysis, he expresses relief that he won't be able to go through with his mission to kill the princes.

Stella

An orphaned, Star magic aligned, Cuddlemonkey whom Rayla adopted during her hunt for Viren.

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• Cosmic Motifs: Is a cuddlemonkey that has a connection to the Star Arcanum.
• Cuddle Bug: "Cuddlemonkey" to be precise. Stella is often seen being affectionately held by her "cuddle mama", Rayla.
• Empathy Pet: She often matches Rayla's expression and mood when her emotions are high.
• Parrot Pet Position: Prefers to ride on Rayla's shoulder.
• Pet Baby Wild Animal: Rayla adopted the young Cuddlemonkey during her travels when she saw Stella was an orphan.
• Purple Is Powerful: While she is mostly a Support Party Member, her connection to the Star Arcanum gives her the unique ability to manifest portals which comes in handy. Said portals manifest with a purple aura that matches her eye colour.
• Ridiculously Cute Critter: She's a four-armed cuddly monkey with big eyes, fluffy ears, and a little snout, who snugly fits in a pouch on Rayla's leg.
• Stellar Name: Stella's name is... well... Stella, derived from "Stellar".
• Thieving Pet: She's introduced trying to nab Callum's runecube, and is later shown swiping a cave crystal, storing it away in one of her portals. In season 5, its shown that she and Rayla have weaponized this when Stella nicks the key to the High Mage's office from Callum's pocket, and later the pirate Finnegrin's keys, to the command phrase, "bumpsie-daisy".
• Thinking Up Portals: She can conjure up small portals to either store things in a Pocket Dimension or send things from one point to another.

Aaravos and his Pawns

Lord Viren

Every problem can be solved with a "creative solution".

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Voiced by: Jason Simpson (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Óscar Gómez (Latin American Spanish), Pablo Irles (European Spanish), Guilherme Briggs (Brazilian Portuguese), Paulo Oom (European Portuguese), Andrey Barkhudarov (Russian), Atsushi Imaruoka (Japanese), Murat Aydın (Turkish), Emmanuel Curtil (French), Peter Flechtner (German), Andrea Mete (Italian), Wojciech Chorąży (Polish), Bas Heerkens (Dutch), Zalán Makranczi (Hungarian), Pavel Vondra (Czech), Halvard Djupvik (Norwegian), Dan Shatzberg (Hebrew), Nikos Papadopoulos (Greek)

"I'm a pragmatist."

A lord and high mage that served under King Harrow. He is the father of Soren and Claudia.

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Claudia

Dark magic is easy for her.

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Voiced by: Racquel Belmonte (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Monserrat Aguilar (Latin American Spanish), Laura Pastor (European Spanish), Mariana Torres (Brazilian Portuguese), Cristina Basílio (European Portuguese), Ramilya Iskander (Russian), Hiroko Kiso (Japanese), Özge Çeçen (Turkish), Youna Noiret (French), Maximiliane Häcke (German, Books 1 through 3), Jenny Maria Meyer (German, Book 4), Erika Necci (Italian), Anna Szymańczyk (Polish), Yael van Rosmalen (Dutch), Eliza Sodró (Hungarian), Kateřina Petrová (Czech), Malin Pettersen (Norwegian), Noa Kashpitsky (Hebrew), Iro Bezou (Greek)

"Unstoppable is just another kind of stoppable."

A dark magic prodigy. She is the daughter of Lord Viren and Soren's sister.

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• Action Girl: A powerful mage who can always be trusted to carry out a mission.
• Affectionate Nickname: Soren sometimes calls her "Clauds".
• Age Lift: Similar to other characters, Claudia is slightly younger in the novelizations, as it's said that Claudia is less than a year older than Callum, who is 14, when in the show she is 13 months older than him and is confirmed to have had her 16th brithday between the first three seasons while Callum's 15th it only happened in the "Dear Callum" short story weeks after season 3.
• All for Nothing: She spent two years, then all of seasons 4 and 5 trying to revive her father. Viren ultimately chooses to let the spell expire naturally and dies again, permanently this time. And it was her practicing dark magic and doing increasingly evil things that convinced him to do it.
• Animal Motifs: Snakes, with several of her spells involving turning objects into them, on top of turning herself part snake for her fight with Ibis. Fitting given snakes are symbols of death and rebirth and her obsession with returning her father to life.
• Anti-Villain: She and Soren are only trying to stop the trio because they're led to believe that the princes don't know what they're doing, and they believe that their father, Lord Viren, has good intentions. Even after her full Face–Heel Turn she lacks any of her father's racism, even having developed a relationship with an Earthblood elf.
• An Arm and a Leg: While using a spell that transforms her lower body into octopus tentacles, Rayla slices through one of her tentacles just before Callum steals the potion maintaining the spell. Unfortunately for Claudia, this translates to losing her left leg at the knee when the spell wears off.
• Bad Powers, Good People: While she is an antagonist, Claudia is for the most part a good person. She is also very proficient at Dark Magic, a type of magic that takes the lives of living creatures and turns it into spells. It is considered unspeakably vile by Elves and Dragons, even among humans it's not exactly well-liked. Subverted by the start of Book 4.
• Big Bad: Becomes this from Book 4 onwards thanks to Viren having a Heel Realization after getting resurrected and spending the time either depressed or catatonic, Aaravos' imprisonment keeping him from acting as anything more than the Greater-Scope Villain, Terry being both a Non-Action Guy and the Token Good Teammate, and all of Karim's screentime and involvement in the plot so far being limited to the self-contained Sunfire Elf subplot.
• Big Sister Instinct: She protects Callum and Ezran when she finds them with Rayla and the Dragon Prince and thinks that Rayla is trying to trick them. When she and Ezran talk alone, despite what happened early in season 2 that would give either of them a good reason to not want to be friendly towards the other, Claudia is accepting and kind to Ezran throughout it all. She even reassures him that if he's having a hard time talking about his father that he doesn't need to say anything if it hurts him too much.
• Black Eyes of Evil: Subverted. She has black eyes after performing dark magic, but she is far from evil, being the closest thing the villains have to a Token Good Teammate and being unaware of the malice in her father's plans. Double subverted, as by season 4 she's no longer a Token Good Teammate and is in fact the driving force on the antagonist's team.
• Black Magician Girl: She leans toward this trope while also having some Lady of Black Magic traits. She's actually a little older than Callum, and he has a crush on her, but she's still a teenager and a total dork, despite also being elegantly dressed and a scarily-competent Dark Magic prodigy.
• Blind Obedience:
  • To her father in Season 3. She continues to blindly trust and believe his every word even as his increasingly flimsy excuses fail to justify his increasingly heinous actions to the point that she turns against her own brother Soren and the princes.
  Soren: You've seen what's going on. What Dad turned Kasef into. What Dad turned into.
  Claudia: Maybe he's just doing what needs to be done.
  • To Aaravos in season 4 onwards, blithely ignoring all the warning signs that point to Aaravos being Obviously Evil and brushing off her brother and friends opposing her in favor of freeing Aaravos.
• Brainy Brunette: Claudia is a bit weird for sure, but she's a natural genius when it comes to dark magic.
• Brother–Sister Team: With her brother, Soren. Broken by season 3 when he defects from Viren to join Ezran and the Heroes, while Claudia can't bring herself to be disloyal to their father.
• Cain and Abel: Is beginning to develop this with Soren by mid-season 3. Claudia is steadfastly loyal to her father even with his more heinous actions while her brother, Soren, has the opposite reaction.
• Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": She's concocted a coffee-like potion that she calls "hot brown morning potion".
• Cloudcuckoolander: Claudia's a bit... odd. Her father has to remind her that he "doesn't speak Claudia" when she starts getting excited over something.
• Crazy-Prepared: Has a lot of items for her spells stowed in her bag, to the point where her brother asks in disgust why she carries certain things. However, the one time she doesn't have anything useful is when Soren's body becomes paralyzed.
• Daddy's Girl: It's clear that Viren plays favorites with his kids, and Claudia is treated as the golden child, which results in her having an unhealthy unquestioning loyalty to him, even when he starts showing his true colors. This takes a dark turn because it makes her blind to what she's doing, even when Soren calls this out.
• Dark Action Girl: Defied. She's working for her father (who's the Big Bad) and can use dark magic, but she comes off as well-meaning.
• Dark Is Not Evil: She wears dark clothes and studies dark magic, but doesn't seem that bad, offering her brother some of her "hot brown morning potion" when she notices how sleep-deprived he was. She also is a friendly acquaintance of the two princes, and protective of Ezran. This gets increasingly subverted throughout season 3, as her continued allegiance to Viren makes her do more and more morally dubious actions.
• Dating What Daddy Hates: One of the clips of Season 4 shows that during the two-year Time Skip she started dating an Earthblood Elf named Terrestrius — Terry for short. Viren is initially shocked but manages to compose himself into a scowl of stoic disapproval.
• Don't Explain the Joke: As part of her mental issues, she has a real problem with this one. Best example would be this Toilet Humor comment she gives to her father:
  Viren: Soren should be here. Why is he late?
  Claudia: Oh, Soren told me he needed some bathroom time. He said he ate some bad cheese, and now he's paying the price!
  Beat, Viren sighs
  Claudia: You... You do know what he means by "paying the price?"
  Viren facepalms
  Claudia: He means that he's...
  Viren: Yes! Yes, I get it. No need to paint a picture...
  Claudia: I would only need one color for that picture...
  An exasperated Viren leaves
  Beat
  Claudia: Brown!
• Does Not Like Spam: If her reaction to Ezran's jelly handprints are anything to go by, Claudia doesn't like persimmons.
• Dragon Ascendant: By season 4, she's the primary force on the antagonists' side, due to Viren still being frail mentally and physically upon being killed and subsequently ressurected and her boyfriend Terry being a Non-Action Guy.
• Establishing Character Moment: Her first appearance nearly has her walk face-first into a tree that has been in the same spot for centuries. Her pragmatic, magical side is later quickly established when her father briefs her on the assassination plot on King Harrow.
• Everyone Has Standards: Claudia attempted to flirt with Callum in order to convince him to come back to Katolis but couldn't because she knew about King Harrow's passing and told him immediately. And when Soren continued to play the charade, Claudia quickly chastised him to stop.
• Face–Heel Turn: Downplayed, as she was always loyal to her father but she was quite likable in the first season but her morals have gone bit by bit to the point she's willing to have a fake Viren look like he's going to kill Ezran in order to help her father.
• Fatal Flaw: Her fear of abandonment, and her loyalty to her family. Her mother abandoning them has scarred her so deeply she's terrified of any of her family leaving her in any way. No matter the cost, she does everything in her power to keep them alive such as mending Soren's broken spine and literally resurrecting her father.
  • When Soren tries to convince her they should leave their father for good seeing as how horrible he's become, she has a small breakdown and begs him not to make her choose again.
• Faux Affably Evil: By the time of season 5 her stress and desperation to hold onto Viren has led her to this. While she retains her chipper attitude most of the time, the second things don't go her way, she immediately resorts to violence and cruelty to get what she wants and it takes great effort for even Terrestrius to steer her away from it. In "Infantis Sanguine," she initially approaches Callum and Ezran friendly-like, insisting she's still their same friend from before, but after only brief intransigence from them to reveal Aaravos' location, she flies into a rage and resolves to kill them both.
• Freudian Excuse: When she was little, her mother forced her to choose between her and her father to stay with. Claudia went with her father, and since then she's been desperate to keep her family together, no matter what lines she has to cross. She refuses to go with Soren when he defects because she's angry at him for making her choose between family once again, she fully turns when she sees Soren kill (an illusion of) their father to save Ezran's life, and she later uses an immense amount of dark magic to bring her father back from the dead.
• Gasshole: Her brother comments that her horse farted while he was downwind, and she gleefully replies it wasn't the horse.
• Genius Ditz: Despite being a prodigy on the magic arts, Claudia is eccentric and ditzy to a degree that her father has trouble accompanying her line of thought when she gets too excited. She is also prone to silly mistakes and is often distracted easily.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When she uses her magic, this happens.
• Godzilla Threshold: When Soren is paralyzed during the fight with the dragon, Claudia takes her dark magic to a much more serious level — sacrificing a living creature — to heal him. Until then, all dark magic had been powered by preserved body parts. Directly taking the life of a magical creature was a grave step.
• Gold-Colored Superiority: Her outfit has gold accents and she is a very powerful and intelligent mage.
• Has a Type: Between her Ship Tease with Callum and her eventual boyfriend Terry, Claudia seems to prefer guys who are just as Adorkable as she is.
• Hellish Pupils: Occurs both times she engages in Voluntary Shapeshifting.
  • In her part snake form, her eyes turn green and her pupils become slits.
  • Her pentapuss form gives her purple eyes with horizontal pupils.
• Innocently Insensitive: When Callum tells her he wants to learn more primal magic but knows that you have to be born with that magic inside of you, Claudia cheerfully replies that that's one of the great things about dark magic. "You just take creatures that are born with magic inside and squeeze it out them!"
• Jumping Off the Slippery Slope: In the teaser trailer for Season 6, Claudia — sporting Dull Eyes of Unhappiness and with her face scarred by dark magic — laments to Terry that everyone she loves has abandoned her. When Terry assures her that he's still there for her and won't leave her, she says she'll never give him the chance and attacks him with lethal intent.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Claudia is extremely capable at both spell-casting and melee combat, able to tussle against Ibis in both areas with great effect.
• Like Parent, Like Child: Draining the fawn to heal Soren shows that she is capable of making the same kinds of bloody life-or-death, callous decisions that Viren is. This is further enforced at the end of season 3, when she uses dark magic to resurrect Viren.
• Locked into Strangeness: In "Breathe", a lock of her hair turns white when she uses Dark Magic to suck the life force from a young deer and use it to heal her brother's paralyzed body. At the end of season 3, the strain of bringing her father back from the dead causes the entire left half of her head to go white.
• Locked Out of the Loop: Viren specifically told Soren not to tell Claudia about his "secret mission" to return with the news that the princes were dead (and to arrange an accident to make it so if necessary), and Soren complied, locking Claudia out of the loop well into season 2.
• Love Makes You Evil: Familial love, mind you, but it's mainly the reason why she ultimately sides with Viren, up to the point where she conjured an illusion of him to trick her brother so the real Viren can drain Zym's essence and bring Viren Back from the Dead after he fell from the mountain top during The Final Battle.
• Mark of the Supernatural: A stripe of her hair turns white after she uses dark magic to fix Soren's paralysis. It lasts until the episode's conclusion, suggesting it may be permanent. At the end of season 3, bringing her father back from the dead causes the entire left half of her head to go white.
• Master of the Mixed Message: Her exact feelings for Callum. While it's clear she does care about him greatly, it's more reminiscent of a Cool Big Sis but she did say he was "cute". Claudia is also implied to have been aware of his feelings for her given she was willing to use his said feelings to convince him to go back to Katolis.
• Missing Mom: After their parents' divorce, Claudia was heartbroken after her mother left to return to her homeland.
• Necromancy: At the end of season 3, she has resurrected her father after he died, and the cost for it is still unknown, but it's possible that she sacrificed another person for it.
• Mythical Motifs: Had a unicorn one during the events of Puzzle House, holding a unicorn statue and riding a carousel based on one while solving the puzzle. Fitting given they represented purity, a quality that allowed her to find the unicorn horn hidden.
• Not a Morning Person: Probably the reason behind her creating her "hot brown morning potion", and she even grumbles to her brother to not talk to her until she's had her potion in the morning.
• Only the Pure of Heart: This trope happened to her as a child during the Puzzle House graphic novel, where a stone giant named Kruha told her that the only people who could see through the map he protected were those with a pure heart. While Kruha, Kpp'Ar, and Viren were unable to see what was in it, Claudia was able to.
• Perky Goth: She's a dark mage who dresses in dark clothing, but has a silly, cheerful personality.
• Purple Is Powerful: Her eyes glow purple whenever she uses Dark Magic, and she is a powerful prodigy in the art.
• Romantic False Lead: For Callum who has a crush on her but who then develops feelings for Rayla.
• Ship Tease: With Callum, and she teases him mildly in the second episode. She and Callum even have a date where they almost kiss, but she pulls away, not being able to lie to Callum anymore and tells him about his father's death.
  Callum: Did you say "adorable"?
  Claudia: (teasingly) Did I?
  • By mid-season 2, Callum's crush for her has disappeared for good.
• Sword and Sorcerer: The Sorcerer to Soren's Sword.
• Thicker Than Water:
  • When forced to choose between catching Ezran and Zym to helping her brother who is in obvious distress, she hesitates for a moment between the two choices before running to her brother's side and trying to help him. She even goes as far as to sacrifice a young deer to heal her brother's broken spine, not caring that the spell nearly drove her to unconsciousness or that she now has a permanent stripe of white hair from the stress. She admits that all she cares about was that her brother was going to be fine.
  • Deconstructed from Season 3 onwards, when her Blind Obedience to her father just because he's family (to the point that she turns against her brother and childhood friends in her father's war against Xadia) proves detrimental for everyone, and once Viren is killed it makes her easy for Aaravos to manipulate on the promise of being able to resurrect Viren.
• Token Good Teammate: Unlike her father or brother, she sincerely wants to rescue the princes and is the only one Locked Out of the Loop about Viren's true intentions to kill them. Still played straight in Season 3, despite the fact she decides to side with her father against the princes, she's still unambiguously good and well-intentioned (for now). This comes to an end in the season three, when she fully sides with Viren against Zym and his defenders, whereas Soren betrays Viren and sides with the princes.
• Took a Level in Jerkass: As the series goes on, Claudia's desire to keep her remaining family together slowly corrupts her to the point she becomes cold, arrogant, and xenophobic. She goes as far as to take joy in cruel acts and needlessly taunt her enemies about her being superior to them, with all signs pointing to it being the result of her delving deeper into Dark Magic.
• Undying Loyalty: To her family, to where she would go to extreme lengths of dark magic to keep them safe. Such as healing Soren's spine in season 2 and resurrecting her father from the dead at the end of season 3.
• Unwitting Pawn: Claudia remains unaware of her father's true nature.
• Villain Has a Point: Morally dubious as she may be, Claudia turned out right when she attempted to convince Callum not to use dark magic. Because of his inexperience, he ended up in a magic coma and nearly died.
• Vile Villain, Laughable Lackey: Viren is a coldly serious mastermind, but Claudia is a massively dorky Genius Ditz. Unlike most examples, she's plenty competent in her own right.
• "Well Done, Daughter!" Girl: To a much lesser extent than her brother Soren, but it's clear that Claudia longs for her father's affection and approval, and he only ever throws scraps of it when she proves useful with Black Magic. Otherwise, he often shows little patience or interest in her and her "quirky" personality.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: She's willing to use dark magic to protect the ones that she loves, which leads her to commit progressively more reprehensible actions.

Aaravos

The Fallen Star

Voiced by: Erik Dellums (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Pedro Lozano (Latin American Spanish), José Luis Angulo (European Spanish), Gutemberg Barros (Brazilian Portuguese), Ricardo Raposo (European Portuguese), Sergey Ponomarev (Russian), Devrim Parscan (Turkish, Book 1), Mehmet Ali İşgüder (Turkish, Books 2 and 3), İsmail Bozkurt (Turkish, Book 4), Daniel Lobé (French), Erich Räuker (German), Simone D'Andrea (Italian), Wojciech Żołądkowicz (Polish), Simon Zwiers (Dutch), Ákos Kőszegi (Hungarian), Zbyšek Horák (Czech), Nils Ole Oftebro (Norwegian), Alon Shar (Hebrew), Christos Thanos (Greek)

"Tell me what you need. And I'll help you."

A mysterious Startouch Elf who narrates the show's introduction. He is later revealed to be a powerful wizard, locked away in an unknown location and able to communicate through the magic mirror Viren stole from the Dragon King and Queen.

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• The Ace: According to a translated version of a page Viren finds on Aaravos, he is "stronger, older, and wiser than any other magical creature in Xadia." Considering that Xadia is populated by intelligent, millennia-old dragons, that is quite a feat.
• Affably Evil: Well, Ambiguously Evil but he is polite and helpful to Viren when dealing with him. Turns into Faux Affably Evil when Zubeia and her allies are the one to contact him; his politeness is in this instance contrasted with his brutal deconstruction of the heroes and his boasting that Callum will be his pawn.
• The Ageless: Aaravos is considered to be a member of the "First Elves," making him a whopping five thousand years old, far and above the oldest individual in the show. In spite of this, in the present he looks rather youthful.
• Agent Peacock: His appearance is that of a Long-Haired Pretty Boy and he tends to be rather dramatic and play with his hand gestures and speech. Make no mistake, he has repeatedly proven himself as possibly the greatest magic user in the series, to the point where other Archdragons resorted to tricking and imprisoning him rather than face him directly.
• All There in the Script: Only the subtitles and the end credits of the first episode identify the narrator of the prologue as Aaravos.
• Always Someone Better:
  • Viren was previously shown to be the most knowledgeable character about magic in the show, only to be largely upstaged by Aaravos's knowledge.
  • He also upstages Callum in magic. Ordinarily, one has to be born with a connection to a Primal Source to use its magic. Callum, with great effort, forges a connection to the sky arcanum. Aaravos can use all six forms of Primal magic, meaning he forged connections to the other five.
• Ambiguously Evil: Aaravos's allegiance and goals aren't quite clear. He is (presumably) helping Viren because he is the only one he can interact with. It's also implied that he is locked away somewhere, as when asked where he is, he admits he doesn't know and Viren suspects that the mirror was used by the Dragon King and Queen to keep an eye on him. Therefore, Aaravos may be someone powerful but unpredictable or a genuinely arrested and dangerous criminal. The fact that Viren can't find any information on him, that Runaan called him "something worse than death", and that Aaravos encourages him to intimidate the other kingdoms into uniting raises even more suspicions. The ambiguity comes to an end in the last half of Season Three, when Aaravos rather sadistically kills Queen Khessa after getting what he needed from Lux Aurea, and is further cemented when he uses Viren to drain Zym's life force.
  Aaron Ehasz: He's disliked. That's not the same as bad.invoked
• Animal Motifs: Butterflies. He keeps in contact with Viren via a caterpillar familiar that grows steadily larger over the course of the series, and the last shot of Book 3 shows him in a chrysalis-like structure apparently undergoing some kind of metamorphosis. In Book 4, when the thing in the chrysalis is released, its wings resemble butterflies. Additionally, in his humanoid form he wears translucent outer robes that strongly resemble butterfly wings, and his horns point straight up like antennae.
• The Archmage: For Xadia, and described as such by Harrow. He is apparently powerful enough to have mastered magic in all six primal sources, despite logic dictating he should be only capable of using star magic. Aaravos can also cast spells just by drawing a rune without a verbal incantation. He even seems to have some ability with Dark Magic.
• Astral Projection: He's able to project his spirit with the help of his familiar, and can even possess others.
• The Bad Guy Wins: Downplayed. Zym's defenders are successful in repelling the invaders, Viren falls to his death (he gets better), and a party of elves and humans walking hand in hand reunite Zym with his mother... but Aaravos may have gotten what he wanted anyway, as his familiar enters a metamorphosis.
• Badass Bookworm: In his prison he seemed to have a well-stocked library, and he can wield all elemental magics.
• Battle Aura: When he prepares to channel his magic through Viren, his eyes light up and the star on his chest glows.
• Black Eyes of Crazy: Aaravos has dark blue sclerae, though whether this is a natural trait of Startouch Elves or the result of his use of Dark Magic is unknown. Either way, he is a dangerous and cunning mage who seeks to manipulate those around him for his own dark purposes.
• Blood Magic: Being a magical being himself, he can use his blood as a Dark Magic component, namely in the ritual he performs with Viren to send a Familiar he can speak through from his location.
• Boomerang Bigot: He's a Startouch Elf who carries disdain for his fellow elves, thinking of their race as purely arrogant. He doesn't think too kindly of dragons either if his comments about Avizandum are anything (though that might be because Avizandum was the one who had him imprisoned in the first place). On the other hand, he seems to be genuinely fond of humans and it's implied that part of his hatred for the elves is because of how much they looked down on humans as an inferior race.
• Celestial Body: Signifying his connection with the heavens, Aaravos has a glimmering star field pattern across his body.
• The Chessmaster: Given his age, he's had a long time to perfect his scheming skills and whatever plans he has for the future are certainly grandiose.
• Cleavage Window: A rare male example. Most of his chest is exposed in his design.
• The Coats Are Off: When the Katolis guards come to arrest Viren, Aaravos is not seen wearing his cloak as he advises Viren to prepare for battle and helps him through the mirror. Effectively killing a few of the humans.
• The Corrupter: Viren's initial goal is for humanity to prosper and live in safety. It takes Aaravos' persuasion for him to go full-on evil and desire to conquer Xadia at all costs.
• Cosmic Motifs: Stars, befitting a Startouch Elf. Like them he is incredibly ancient and mysterious, on top of being incredibly powerful, yet too distant to influence events directly.
• Curb-Stomp Battle: Wipes out most of Lux Aurea on his own. He is also able to throw Rayla back with just a wave of his hand. So far, there's nothing and no one that has managed to put up a fight against Aaravos.
• Dark Is Evil: The mirror used to communicate with him can only see his side of the mirror when all other light sources around are extinguished and the mirror is placed in total darkness, giving this impression. The inscription on the mirror translates to 'In Darkness, Gase upon a Fallen Star' when explaining how to use it. Furthermore, his skin is a particularly dark shade of blue, though this is offset up the star-like sparkles in his skin, giving the impression his body is formed from the night sky itself, and also mixing it with Light Is Not Good.
• Dark Messiah: It's all but stated that Aaravos is the one who gave humans Dark Magic in the first place. Some of the writings Viren finds indicate that several humans revered him for "saving" humanity with his gifts, but it is these very gifts that caused the conflict with Xadia in the first place. Aaravos is able to gain a following from Viren as well as (indirectly) Claudia, Katolis, and three over human kingdoms. Aaravos uses this following to invade an attempt a conquest of Xadia.
• Deadpan Snarker: Doesn't miss the opportunity to needle Viren. Even before they can talk properly.
• Demonic Possession: He does this to Callum at one point. Apparently he can do it to anyone who has used dark magic.
• Didn't See That Coming: The last thing Aaravos expected was for Viren, who had no problem killing magical creatures and even people to fuel his power, to refuse to sacrifice the Homunculus. Neither did he expect Viren to renounce dark magic and let himself die.
• The Dreaded: When Viren is trying to figure out what Aaravos's mirror does he shows it to Runaan, who comments that Viren has succeeded in finding something worse than death.
• Dragon-in-Chief: He's far more powerful than Viren, but as he's trapped in his prison, he's only able to act through him. As such, he calls himself Viren's servant, bowing to him and supporting him where he can. Viren's plans throughout Season 3 would fall apart without Aaravos.
• Early-Bird Cameo: He starts the introduction of the show where you see his hands unrolling a scroll showing the map of Xadia, and he's also amongst the group of other high elves in more regal wear. The next time the group is shown, he is suspiciously missing.
• Elfeminate: He's a man, but you'd be forgiven for mistaking him for a woman when you first see him. It's not until he starts talking that his gender becomes obvious. Also, he's a Startouch Elf.
• Even Evil Has Standards: Played with:
  • Even if his own interest is at least partially self-serving, it's heavily implied, especially in the short story Patience, that Aaravos genuinely despises his fellow Startouch Elves — and elves in general — for their arrogant disregard of human life, potential and well-being.
  • In the season 5 finale, Aaravos makes it clear that he does not expect for one moment that Viren will sacrifice his daughter Cludia or his son Soren to save his own life, showing that he at least understands and respects Viren's love for his children. However, he has no problem with sacrificing their child, the magically-made, non-human Homunculus, regarding its artificial nature as less than a natural life.
• Evil Counterpart:
  • To Callum. Both are extremely good at bringing people over to their way of thinking through persuasion and example. The difference is that Callum does this through simple listening, by allowing himself to be relied on, and unpretentiously helping people move past their pain and insecurity and instead finding strength from hope and love. By contrast, Aaravos exploits people's emotional vulnerability and weaknesses and then psychologically manipulates his victims into becoming someone willing (or even eager) to commit evil. Hence their status as Messianic Archetype and Dark Messiah.
  • In Book 4, he even terms Callum as his 'favorite' because of his past use of Dark Magic, despite mocking the rest of the heroes as being too inadequate to stop him, and confidently states that he's destined to help him with his plans, despite Callum's opposition of him. Zubiea even states that mages like Callum were always the ones he could most easily prey upon and manipulate with their curiosity for the secrets of the world and his vast knowledge.
• Evil Sounds Deep: Possibly the most powerful and dangerous magical creature in Xadia and has a very deep voice.
• Evil Virtues: He has one in particular: Patience.
• Expy: An ancient Elven mage who is a Physical God who is known for having power beyond anything else in Xadia, has a particular talent for magic and manipulation, and grants magical gifts to certain people (to the point that he's even referred to as "Bearer of Gifts"). Aaravos is essentially the Dragon Prince's equivalent of Sauron.
• Familiar: He sends an insect through a Blood Magic ritual he performs with Viren, transporting it from a pot in his location to the castle, and uses it to communicate with him. As Viren grows more powerful, the familiar grows with him, eventually cocooning itself to undergo a metamorphosis.
• Foil: To Viren. Both are The Archmage for their respective regions, but Viren specializes in dark magic while Aaravos has mastered all six primal sources. While Viren looks middle-aged and has a short temper, Aaravos has fairly youthful looks and is always looking cold and calm and besides that he only ever shows surprise and smugness.
• Freudian Excuse: Implied. Aaravos was thrown off the heavens by his species for unknown reasons, and he is seen crying in the short story "Ripples" after he fell into Xadia.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When he casts spells from his mirror and helps Viren literally disintegrate one guard.
• Go Mad from the Isolation: Largely averted but he does say he's waited a long time to hear another's voice when first speaking to Viren. Season 3 even has him sound unusually annoyed when he tells Viren that Luxury Prison Suite or not, he was nevertheless imprisoned for centuries.
• Graceful Loser: Aaravos accepts Viren's renouncement of dark magic and him with little resistance, simply staring at him as he walks away, almost like he was vaguely surprised that someone like Viren would be willing to stay dead.
• Greater-Scope Villain:
  • For the Mystery of Aaravos seasons of the series, as Viren, Claudia, and Terry are working to release him so that Aaravos can properly resurrect Viren, using his familiar to locate Aaravos' prison. However, the familiar's chrysalis cuts off Viren and Claudia's ability to speak with him in astral form, removing Aaravos from the direct plot and reducing him to a background figure.
  • "Beneath the Surface" also has Claudia confirm that Aaravos was the one who gave Dark Magic to the humans of Elarion, thereby setting off the Human-Xadian conflicts of the last thousand years.
• Hidden Agenda Villain: Since virtually nothing is known about him and he's certainly not talking, it's not clear why he wants to help Viren declare war on Xadia. He seems to be bitter over his imprisonment, but it was clear he was doing something bad even before that. As of the end of season 3, absorbing Zym's life force seems to have been a bid to get enough power to have his familiar enter metamorphosis, but we still don't know what he wants beyond that. Season 4 elaborates that he seemed to be playing some kind of broad game, where he deliberately sowed war and discord amongst all sides, though to what end remains unclear.
• Immortal Immaturity:
  • While normally as composed and mysterious as you might imagine an ancient elven wizard to be, he's not above indulging in childish whims for his own amusement. This is most evident when he's playing around while talking to Viren as a projected image, and when Aaravos is taunting someone.
    Aaravos: (To Viren) Just a few hours left before your life expires. POOF! [giggles mischivously]
  • He also gets a lot of mileage out of teasing Viren about the "child" they made together.
• Interspecies Friendship: While there has been no official friendships between Aaravos and a human being shown as of yet, a passage in a book Viren tries to read about Aaravos says that unlike other elves, Aaravos saw the potential in humans and was willing to help them be "equal" and even granting them "gifts" to be more powerful than the elves.
• The Kingslayer: Aaravos kills Khessa, the Queen of the Sunfire Elves, after implying he had done the same to her grandmother, Queen Aditi. Zubeia later reveals that he may have killed Luna Tenebris, the Dragon Queen who preceded Avizandum.
• Know When to Fold 'Em: He makes Viren back down from an escape attempt when Viren is hit by an arrow, evidently calculating that Viren would be bought down by sheer numbers even when channeling his powerful magic.
• Kung-Fu Wizard: Downplayed, but he seems to practice primal magic as a form of martial arts, as his hand movements when drawing runes bear a striking resemblance to several real-world katas.
• Long-Haired Pretty Boy: He's quite good-looking and has long white hair.
• Luxury Prison Suite: When he reveals that he is imprisoned, Viren is shocked due to how nice and comfortable the prison looked.
  Viren: You're imprisoned? Your home looks like no prison I've ever seen.
  Aaravos: Yes, it's well-appointed. But make no mistake, this has been my prison these past few centuries.
• Leitmotif: Aaravos gets a soft piano theme when viewed through the mirror, highlighting not only his mysterious nature but contrasting with the sweeping orchestral score for the rest of the show, hinting at his subtlety and out-of-context powers.
• Magic Mirror: His prison can be viewed through one only when the mirror is in complete darkness. It doesn't show anything but his main room and Aavaros cannot directly talk out of it unless he makes some medium or can see a person he can make into a puppet. To prevent his contacting others who might aid his escape, the mirror is kept under the guard of the Dragon King and Queen until Viren stole it.
• The Man Behind the Man: Becomes the one behind Viren towards the end of season 2. According to Queen Zubeia, Aaravos has been subtly influencing rulers like this for centuries, and it's what led to him being regarded as a Fallen Star.
• Manipulative Bastard: It's his favorite tool. First, he tricks Queen Khessa into moving Viren to the source of the Sunfire Elves' power, usurping it and wiping out much of Lux Aurea. He also manipulates Viren into trying to absorb Zym's life force, and even with just partial success, it's enough to let his caterpillar familiar enter into a metamorphosis, thus moving along whatever plan he has. He then manipulated Claudia into resurrecting Viren and setting them both out into finding his place of imprisonment. It's even why he was imprisoned in the first place as he played the elves and dragons against each other to the point of war.
• Master of All: He knows all forms of Primal magic and demonstrates more knowledge and skill with dark magic than Viren, a specialist and virtuoso in the field.
• Meaningful Name: Aaravos is phonetically similar to Erebus - the Greek god of darkness.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: Aaravos has a rather poor opinion of the stars to which he shares an innate connection... unless he is referring to his fellow Startouch Elves here:
  The stars, after all, had no interest in the lives of mortals. The stars are arrogant, blinded by their own incandescent light. As though nothing else in all the universe could burn so brightly, so beautifully! As though nothing else could be so cruel!
• Mysterious Past: Almost everything about him can only be speculated about. Harrow is the first one to say anything about him, referring to him as a powerful master of all six sources of primal magic. He also shows great resentment towards the Sky Archdragons, is implied to have done something to the former Sunfire Elf queen Aditi and may have helped humans in the past. The official website and Sol Regem's comments indicate that one of the gifts that Aaravos bestowed to the humans — alongside the knowledge of dark magic — was the Relic Staff that Ziard and Viren use, which is confirmed by Ibis in Season 4 when he calls Aaravos the Relic Staff's true owner. Zubeia later explains to Ezran that Aaravos was imprisoned for sowing discord among the elves and dragons and manipulating human kingdoms—to the point that he may have murdered both the Dragon Queen Luna Tenebris and the Sunfire Elf Queen Aditi—but his goals in doing this are unknown, even to the Archdragons.
• Narrator:
  • Aaravos is the narrator of the introduction, telling the story of how Xadia came to be separated from the human kingdoms, as well as how the Dragon Prince's egg was purportedly destroyed. It's also his hands that unroll the map of the world in the animation.
  • While every short story is written in third person, short stories about Aaravos are narrated by him in first person.
• Not So Above It All: Despite the way he speaks and acts, he does know how to be playful as he asks Viren if he was his "little bug pal" and conjures up a horse to ride on although he previously showed he can just float by Viren's side.
• Offing the Offspring: Aaravos considers the homonculus to be his (and Viren's) child, and he has no compunctions about killing the homonculus to further his own goals. Fortunately for the homonculus, Viren does.
• Older Than They Look: He looks to be around his twenties or thirties, but according to the book we catch a glimpse of, he's the oldest magical creature in Xadia (and the next-oldest we know about, Sol Regem, is at least twelve hundred years old.) According to the novelization of season one, he was one of the first elves to ever exist, making him over five thousand years old.
• Our Mages Are Different: While dark mages like Viren and Claudia are more like scholars, and primal mages like Callum and Lujanne are more like monks and naturalists, Aaravos is described more like a deity. His power is seemingly unmatched by even other mages, and with small gestures (or even no gestures at all), he's able to throw people back or change the environment. And this is while he only has access to a fraction of his power. He's referred to as one of the "Great Ones", and his power was critical in the formation of the world.
• The Paragon Always Rebels: By all accounts, he is the single most powerful magic user in the world. He's also locked in a magical prison for his manipulations and murder of several prominent Archdragons and Elves against Xadian law.
• Pay Evil unto Evil: While he enjoys it a bit too much, Aaravos's treatment and murder of Queen Khessa qualifies as this, since she is an arrogant, hateful racist who looks down on everyone else and subjects humans to torturous (and sometimes deadly) rituals just because she can.
• People Puppets: In "Through the Looking Glass", he's able to take control of Callum just by being able to see him through the mirror, using Callum as a mouthpiece to taunt the heroes.
• Physical God: When we see Aaravos' powers on display, there's nothing that can match him. He's able to corrupt the Sun Forge, causing an eclipse that covers Lux Aurea; he wipes out most of the Sunfire soldiers in one fell swoop and incinerates the Queen just by touching her. He's been around for at least a thousand years (and is even considered to be older than any creature in Xadia!) and can be aware of his ghost's surroundings despite not actually being physically present. Additionally, based on the text Viren finds on him, he was even held up as a god-like reverential figure to some past humans.
• Playing Both Sides: His manipulating of both the elves and dragons to go to war with each other is the reason why he was imprisoned.
• Purple Is Powerful: Aaravos is primarily purple in color, and he is unquestionably one of the most powerful characters in The Dragon Prince.
• Sadist: Once the ambiguity about his villainy comes to an end, Aaravos proves to be quite sadistic to his victims. He is outright gleeful when he tells Queen Khessa the truth about her grandmother's death and then kills her. He also mocks Zym, an infant, when he and Viren corner him at the top of the Storm Spire.
• Satanic Archetype: A once beloved and respected being formerly residing in the heavens above before being thrown off them, is imprisoned in a place without exit which he still has some dominion over, is incredibly powerful and cunning, has whispered in the ears of others to drive them to dark deeds and had a deal with Viren to further both their goals. It's clear to see Aavaros is an elvish version of Lucifer. Heck, he's a Startouch Elf, and Lucifer is known as the Morning Star, while Aaravos is referred to as the Midnight Star.
• Sealed Evil in a Can: For unspecified crimes, Aaravos was imprisoned by Avizandum — with the magic mirror connecting to his prison being stored in Avizandum's den — and cursed so that all recorded information regarding him becomes unreadable. While his prison is well-furbished and he seems to be able to enter and exit via a door at will, Aaravos deeply resents being imprisoned and seeks to use Viren as a proxy to conquer Xadia.
• Slasher Smile: Sports a rather chilling one when he tells Queen Khessa what he did to her grandmother and incinerates her.
• Smug Super: He's the most powerful individual in Xadia (according to a text Viren finds on Aaravos)... and judging by his demeanor when interacting with Viren, he knows it.
• Star Power: He is a Startouch Elf and is therefore born with an affinity for star magic, and is later revealed to be a master of all primal sources.
• Superpower Lottery: In the world of the Dragon Prince, creatures can be connected to one Primal Source (such as elves and dragons) or they are not connected to any Primal Source (such as humans). And then there's Aaravos, who was able to master and use all six Primal Sources.
• Tailor-Made Prison: He's lives in what looks like a spacious, well-appointed study — a fact Viren lampshades — but Aaravos makes it clear he doesn't even know where he is and has been stuck there for nearly three centuries. It is also hidden even from his jailors with none of the Archdragons having the complete location or security measures to make sure his prison is all but impenetrable and inescapable.
  Viren: You're imprisoned? (scoff) Your home looks like no prison I've ever seen.
  Aaravos: Yeeees, it's well-appointed. (suddenly coldly angry) But make no mistake, this has been my prison these past few centuries.
• Unperson: Whatever got Aaravos imprisoned was something the elves and dragons never wanted anyone trying to repeat, to the point that some sort of spell has been placed to cover up his history. There are books about Aaravos, but when Viren tries to research him, the pages and words become blurry and unreadable. In the supplementary book Callum's Spellbook, Callum mentions the same thing happened to him when he tried looking up the mage. The novelization of Book Two also shows that the two instances of Aaravos' name in Harrow's letter to Callum were also smudged out when Callum looked at it a second time. The Spellbook also says that Callum asked elves about Aaravos, but those he asked either didn't know anything about him, or did not want to talk about it.
• Unreliable Narrator: He is the narrator of the prologue scene in episode 1, and incorrectly says the Dragon Prince's egg was destroyed by the humans. One may wonder how reliable the other information in the prologue is.
• Villain Takes an Interest: During the brief period of time in which he takes control of Callum’s body, Aaravos comments on how the human mage is his "favorite" among the people fighting to defeat him, and that he's ultimately destined to fall "right into my hands." In the opening sting of "Through The Looking Glass," where Callum takes the place of Viren (Aaravos’s main pawn throughout the series) there's a scene of Aaravos looking covetously at Callum as a chess piece.
• Vocal Dissonance: He's very young looking and attractive, but he has a deep menacing voice more befitting a large monster.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: If the passages Viren found on Aaravos are anything to go off of. Aaravos supposedly sees great potential in humans when others called them inferior, and has granted "gifts" so as to make humanity equal to elves. Too bad that those gifts included Dark Magic, which elves and dragons considered to be an abomination, and led to the expulsion of humans from Xadia. And which we've seen runs the risk of harming its own caster, both physically and mentally.
• White Hair, Black Heart: He's Ambiguously Evil, and has long white hair.
• Will Not Tell a Lie: Possibly subverted. According to himself and Aaron Ehasz, he never lies, but the prologue that he narrates includes at least one false (or perhaps mistaken) statement.^note He only learned that the humans knew the Dragon King as Thunder after he had learned that the Dragon King's egg had not only survived but hatched. Yet in the prologue, he explains that the humans knew the Dragon King as Thunder, and that the humans had destroyed his egg.invoked
• World's Strongest Man: Going by the quote that he's "stronger, older, and wiser than any other magical creature in Xadia", qualifies him for this position, considering his magic is extremely potent even whilst imprisoned and only at a quarter of his previous might, and it takes a lot of knowledge and skill to even wield basic magic. He wasn't even defeated in battle; the most ancient and powerful of the Dragons had to use trickery in order to imprison him, and they are terrified of his possible return.
• Would Hit a Girl: He killed the Sunfire Queen, Khessa.
• Would Hurt a Child: Aaravos was planning and willing to drain the magical life force of a baby Zym.
• Youthful Freckles: Played with. He doesn't have freckles, but the stars on his face create the very same effect, which makes him look even younger.

Terry

Terrestrius "Terry"

Voiced by: Benjamin Callins (English) ^{Click to see other languages} Mauro Alessandri (Latin American Spanish), Carlos Alberto Bautista (European Spanish), Wagner Follare (Brazilian Portuguese), Ahmet Taşar (Turkish), Jonathan Gimbord (French), Dirk Petrick (German), Andrea Di Maggio (Italian), Jakub Strach (Polish), Robin de Cocq van Delwijnen (Dutch), Dávid Miller (Hungarian), Roy Niv (Hebrew), Konstantinos Repanis (Greek)

A young Earthblood Elf and Claudia's boyfriend.

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• Admiring the Abomination: Insofar as the average elf considers dark magic an "abomination," anyway; Terry is impressed by the way Claudia used it to resurrect Viren.
• Dark Mistress: Male version of Claudia, being fully supportive of her and cheering her on when he realizes she used dark magic to revive Viren.
• Everyone Has Standards: He likes Claudia either despite or because of her use of dark magic, and how many magical creatures she has killed for it, but he balked at how cruelly Claudia tricked Rayla.
• Green Thumb: He has the power to accelerate a plant's growth cycle by nearly two weeks. He also has some sort of ability to communicate with plants; he doesn't directly control them so much as they do what he asks, allowing him to, for example, use vines to restrain people.
• Interspecies Romance: Terry and Claudia began dating at some point during the two-year Time Skip.
• Minion with an F in Evil: Doesn't seem to have a malicious bone in his body despite the company he keeps, even calling out Claudia when he feels she's gone too far.
• Morality Pet: His horrified reaction to witnessing Claudia deceive Rayla with a fake pouch of coins, after telling her they contained her family, is what convinces her to go back and give Rayla the real pouch.
• My Species Doth Protest Too Much: He has a rather blasé attitude towards dark magic, in contrast to almost every other elf, who openly abhor it.
• Nice Guy: Despite being with Viren and Claudia, Terry doesn't have a hint of malice within him, and is polite towards the people around him.
• Plant Person: Shows himself to be this when he releases the vines on Claudia and binds Soren with them.
• Scary Shiny Glasses: In the credits for Season 4 Episode 1, Terry is shown wearing glasses while sporting a menacing grin accentuated by the light reflecting off his glasses.
• Odd Name, Normal Nickname: His nickname, Terry, is quite mundane compared to his full name of "Terrestrius".
• These Hands Have Killed: Killing Ibis, to save Claudia, shakes him up pretty badly.
• Trans Tribulations: Implied by his comments about the other elves in his village seeing him as a "doe", but he always knew he was a "buck" and having chosen his name. In addition to this, the flowers on which he first demonstrates his powers have petals that are light blue on their outer edge, pink in their middle and white at the flower's center, which is the trans flag's color scheme. Considering he's traveling with Claudia, and he acts nothing like other Earthblood elves we meet, it suggests he was driven from his village, either directly or by leaving due to not feeling accepted in it.

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