Main Characters
First Arc (Ravenwood Staff & Faculty, Wizard City, Krokotopia, Marleybone, Mooshu, Dragonspyre)
Second Arc (Celestia, Zafaria, Avalon, Azteca, Khrysalis) | Third Arc (Polaris, Mirage, Empyrea)
Fourth Arc (Karamelle, Lemuria)
The Ravenwood School of Magical Arts is the Spiral's most prestigious magical academy. The professors of Ravenwood are legendary wizards that can turn even the most unlikely student into a powerful wizard. Supported by Headmaster Merle Ambrose and a team of support staff, the Ravenwood professors are central to the player's story, especially the professor for your chosen school.
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Merle Ambrose
Headmaster Merle Ambrose
See Wizard101MainCharacters. Dalia Falmea
Professor Dalia Falmea
"Fire can be dangerous. Me must not be rash, lest we destroy that which we mean to achieve."
Voiced by: Leah Ruben
Magic School: Fire
Professor of Fire Magic at the Ravenwood School.
- Didn't Think This Through: In a flashback dungeon, we see her as a newly-accepted Ravenwood student of the Ice school. She's a Fire Elf. It's later revealed that she was manipulated by the Maestro into choosing the Ice school, and the Wizard convinces her to switch to the Fire school.
- Stern Teacher: Though much friendlier than Cyrus, her training quests reveal that she holds her students to a very high standard.
Lydia Greyrose
Professor Lydia Greyrose
"Ice magic is not for the impatient or flighty. My goodness, no!"
Magic School: Ice
Professor of Ice Magic at the Ravenwood School.
- All-Loving Hero: Makes cookies and knits robes for her students, and even sympathizes with the Gobblers trying to consume Colossus Boulevard.
- Cool Old Lady: Professor at the Spiral's greatest school of magic and a member of the Council of Light, along with Merle Ambrose. She also casually mentions hailing from a world full of candy.
- Our Fairies Are Different: Appears as a tiny, winged elderly woman. It's currently unknown if she's from the same race of fairies as the others present in the game.
Halston Balestrom
Professor Halston Balestrom
"Who can master the storms and seas? Why, anyone who can harness their creativity!"
Magic School: Storm
Professor of Storm Magic at the Ravenwood School.
- Gadgeteer Genius: His defining characteristic. Several of the Storm school's training quests involve him sending you to collect parts for one of his new magical contraptions.
- The Pollyanna: Halston was born into poverty as a member of Marleybone's working-class Frog race. In a flashback dungeon, he's shown to have been kidnapped and nearly killed by the crimelord Meowiarty's thugs as part of the Maestro's plan to alter the timeline. Throughout the entire Celestia storyline, his best friend Thurston Plunkett is missing and presumed dead. Despite all this, he's by far the most positive and energetic of the Ravenwood professors.
- Signature Headgear: Always seen wearing his trademark purple top hat. The player can obtain the hat as a rare item drop from the Professor's Hoard pack.
Cyrus Drake
Professor Cyrus Drake
"Well, if you wish to... attempt to learn some Myth spells, come back later and we'll see how well you pay attention."
Magic School: Myth
Professor of Myth Magic at the Ravenwood School.
- Adaptational Nice Guy: During the Cyclops Lane questline, Cyrus has you personally hand Ambrose a letter asking for your expulsion. Originally, he did this entirely because you were prioritizing finding missing students over your schoolwork; when Wizard City's quests were rewritten, this was changed so that he misinterprets a message describing the situationnote as a bad joke at his school's expense.
- Arbitrary Skepticism: The teacher of the magic school about bringing imagination to life, ironically, does not believe that the legendary ghoul Grubb is real.
- Bald Mystic: After Ambrose, Morganthe and Malistaire, he's the most powerful wizard alive. He's completely bald. In one of the flashback dungeons, he's revealed to have once had a large "afro" hairstyle.
- Beef Gate: The player must duel Cyrus to prove their readiness to face his brother Malistaire in the fortress world of Dragonspyre. If the player doesn't know what they're doing or is severely underleveled, it can take a few tries.
- Big Good: Of the world of Dragonspyre— he assists the Wizard from the Basilica in their efforts to bypass the ruined city's defenses and apprehend Malistaire.
- Establishing Character Moment: The first time a Myth Wizard meets him, he states that he will “humor” their interest in his school and to not get used to being there, illustrating his low expectations for the new student.
- Expy: Especially in the early quest lines, his personality is very clearly based on that of Severus Snape. This is downplayed as the game progresses and more of his background is revealed, to the point of being something Virtuous Character Copy.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Although he's definitely a colossal Jerkass, he does care for his brother Malistaire. He also develops a reluctant bond with a Myth-aligned player (albeit very slowly.)
- Mentor in Sour Armor: He is shown early on to be extremely cynical and doubtful of the Wizard. The first Myth training quest is impossible to initially complete. Even non-Myth students are still treated with disdain at best. However, he eventually warms up to the Wizard and becomes nicer to them. He even helps them in Dragonspyre.
- Took a Level in Kindness: He becomes less unpleasant with time.
- Virtuous Character Copy: While his personality at first is a near dead-ringer for Severus Snape, Cyrus has several nuances that set him apart from the Sadist Teacher, even with Snape's own Hidden Depths. For one, Cyrus is quite content with being the Myth Professor, as it was his chosen school by choice and thus he lacks any complaints with his job that Snape did. And while Snape was a Double Agent, with his loyalties being unknown, Cyrus was always a staunch ally of Wizard City and legitimately leads the charge against his brother in Dragonspyre. His background also lacks the abusive nature of Snape's, and is in fact, so different that drawing comparisons isn't quite so easy.
Moolinda Wu
Professor Moolinda Wu
"This school celebrates the living, ever-green power of creation and vitality."
Magic School: Life
Professor of Life Magic at the Ravenwood School.
- Hippie Teacher: Prefers to share her knowledge of Life magic with her students through meditation and contemplation, in accordance with the traditions of her home world of Mooshu.
- Magical Asian: Although not truly Asian (or human at all), her Asian voice actress, tendency to assign students to meditation/tests of focus, and homeworld of Feudal Japan-inspired Mooshu qualify her for this trope.
- Unexpected Successor: Hired as the Life professor after her predecessor, Sylvia Drake, unexpectedly passes away from disease. She does a good job, though.
Dworgyn
Assistant Professor Dworgyn
"Nobody comes to the school anymore, not since Malistaire left. I do what I can."
Voiced by: Tom Purdue
Magic School: Death
Interim Professor of Death Magic at the Ravenwood School.
- Beleaguered Assistant: Spent his early life as a domestic slave to his "aunts" in Darkmoor, then began his teaching career as an assistant to the notoriously overbearing Malistaire Drake. It's no wonder he's uneasy as an independent instructor.
- The Igor: Formerly to Malistaire, and as revealed to Necromancers, even earlier to Dr. Von Katzenstein. As the interim Death Professor, he begins to grow out of this role over the course of the Death training quests, eventually becoming a powerful Necromancer in his own right.
- Noob: He was originally Malistaire Drake's teaching assistant, and is still adjusting to his role as his interim replacement. During Death Wizards' graduation quest, he mentions that they've taught him as much, if not more as they have learned from him.
Alhazred
Alhazred
"Come, and be a part of the balance of all things."
Magic School: Balance
Professor of Balance Magic at the Ravenwood School's Krokotopia location.
- Eccentric Mentor: The vast majority of his lessons don't make any sense until after they've been completed, if at all.
- Expy: In Name Only, literally. He shares his name with Abdul Alhazred, the Mad Oracle responsible for writing the Necronomicon in H. P. Lovecraft's legendarium.
- Grumpy Old Man: Starts out this way, though he quickly warms to a Balance-aligned player.
Duelmaster Diego
Duelmaster Diego Santiago Quariquez Ramirez III
"I know the path is hard, but have courage and faith in your heart. We will do whatever we can to assist you."
Magic School: Unknown
Duelmaster of the Ravenwood School.
- The Announcer: His primary responsibility is to teach students to use their magic in a combat environment, but he also enjoys emceeing PvP battles and tournaments. Passionately.
- Flynning: In the Dueling Diego minigame, the player controls Diego as he flashily sword-fights several pirate-themed enemies.
- Large Ham: Inigo Montoya in unicorn form. He's grandstanding, charismatic and loves to offer elaborate "advice" to practicing students.
- Overly Long Name: Lampshaded in the Abracadoodle comic on the website.
Harold Argleston
School Librarian Harold Argleston
"You picked up this book someone dropped? Thank you for doing that. It was very considerate of you."
Magic School: N/A
Librarian of the Ravenwood School.
- Gentleman and a Scholar: A proper Marleybonian through and through, his favorite things in life include crossword puzzles, rare antiquities and tea with biscuits. He also wrote his own favorite book.
- Muggles Do It Better: He's not a wizard himself, but he's efficiently categorized the enormous selection of books in the Wizard City Library, and has a team of student interns to handle the magical part of the job.
- The Stoic: Rarely displays much emotion, even when possessed Ravenwood students steal the Book of Lost Pages from his Library and proceed to wreak havoc on Wizard City.
Mr. Lincoln
Registrar Lincoln
"Why, hello there, young Wizard!"
Magic School: N/A
Registrar of the Ravenwood School.
- Face of a Thug: Looks perpetually irritated, but is in reality extremely helpful and dedicated to the students under his care.
- Mr. Exposition: Even though he isn't a wizard himself, he'll frequently give the player tips about how to use their magic (as well as general gameplay advice.)
- Skill Point Reset: For a significant fee, Mr. Lincoln can reset a wizard's training points, allowing them to completely respec all their off-school spells.
