Long ago, the elves and dragons drove humanity out of their shared homelands in the east of the world after a human created dark magic, leading to a millennium of war and bitterness.
- The Dragon Prince (2018-Present): The original series, Prince Ezran and his older half-brother Prince Callum, and the moonshadow elven assassin Rayla, who had been sent to kill them, discover the survival of the Dragon Prince. Together they set out to return him to Xadia, forging an unlikely bond on their epic quest to bring peace and unity to their warring lands.
- Through the Moon (October 2020): A Graphic Novel set between season three and four. Rayla, Callum and Ezran go on a quest to find Rayla's parents and Runaan in the "World Between Life and Death".
- The Dragon Prince: Bloodmoon Huntress (July 2022): A Graphic Novel set before the series about an adventure during Rayla's childhood.
- The Dragon Prince: Puzzle House (August 2023): A Graphic Novel about the mysterious home of Kpp'Ar, Viren's former mentor.
- The Dragon Prince: Dreamer's Nightmare (2024): A Graphic Novel set before the events of the series that focuses on Callum and Ezran investigating a mysterious force plaguing the quiet town of Noct in the Human Kingdom of Katolis.
- The Dragon Prince: Callum's Spellbook (March 2020): A Defictionalization of Callum's sketchbook, which contains information about Xadia, the human kingdoms, elves, dragons, and magic. It also contains notes from other characters who have "borrowed" his book at various times.
- Novelization series:
- The Dragon Prince Book One: Moon (June 2020): An adaptation of season one written by Aaron Ehasz, containing new plot lines and information not seen in the show.
- The Dragon Prince Book Two: Sky (August 2021): An adaptation of the second season.
- The Dragon Prince Book Three: Sun (October 2024): An adaptation of the third season.
- "Lunabloom: A Story from the Silvergrove" (September 2020): A side story published on the official website
. - The Dragon Prince: Reflections (June 2022-July 2023): A series of short stories, also published on the official website.
- The Dragon Prince Battlecharged (October 2021): A card-based tactical miniatures game.
- The Dragon Prince: Tales of Xadia (March 2022): The Roleplaying Game, using the Cortex Prime system. The game is set between seasons three and four, focusing on the Ruins of Lux Aurea where the corrupted sunforge is "radiating monstrosities" that the players will try to beat back and hopefully restore the forge so Lux Aurea can be reclaimed. The game also includes rules needed for players to make original campaigns as well.
- The Dragon Prince: Xadia (2024): A canon combat-based multiplayer video game set to be released on Netflix for mobile that will explore the lands of Xadia that were unexplored in the show.
Other
- The Orphan Queen (TBA): A Prequel of unknown media type.
Tropes in this franchise include:
- All There in the Manual:
- A few days before the show debuted, the official social media accounts posted a chartnote listing ages, heights, and birthdays for the characters that had been revealed thus far. An updated version with additional characters was posted on the official website after the show debuted.
- The official website includes things like a map of the continent and information on the six sources of magic.
- A few days before the show debuted, the official social media accounts posted a chart
- Ambiguously Jewish: The kingdom of Katolis is designed as a stereotypical European fantasy setting (aka a mix of Jewish, English and German influences), but have some noticeable Jewish design influences. The names "Ezran" and "Sarai" are both of Jewish origin, and the "jelly tarts" shown throughout the show are clearly Jewish Hamantaschen, generally made by Ashkenazi Jews for the Purim holiday.
- Anachronism Stew: Ostensibly, the show takes place in a classic Heroic Fantasy setting, but occasionally some small modern touches slip in, like Rayla adopting a southern drawl for her human impression, using expressions like "bring it in", and suggesting a high-five (before realizing that her four-fingered hand would break the illusion).
- Black Magic: The humans have learned how to use Life Energy as a source of magic, which understandably disgusts the elves and dragons and unnerves Callum when he sees it. It also corrupts humans' appearances the more they use it, and even Callum has suffered lingering effects on multiple occasions despite only using it once. Part of why humans mages use it is because without a Primal Stone, it's believed to be the only kind of magic they can wield, as they lack a natural connection to the Primal Sources like the elves do.
- Blow You Away: The sky is one of the six sources of magic. Callum is seen using wind and lightning spells.
- Canis Latinicus: Ancient Draconic, the language used for magic incantations, is represented using Latin. The terminology is mostly based on actual Latin, but some loose-and-fast translation lead to some spells not meaning quite what the writers likely intended them to. For instance, a freezing breath spell, Aspiro Frigis, seems to mean something like "cold wind" — but frigis is actually the second-person singular form of frigere, "to fry" (the Latin term for "to be cold" is frigēre, and its second-person-singular form would be frigēs), leading the phrase to mean something like "I breathe, you fry" — rather ironically, given the spell's effects. "Aspiro Frigus" would be more accurate: "I, who am cold, breathe."
- Color-Coded Wizardry: Dark Magic is associated with purple and green while Callum's "Sky Arcanum" is blue.
- Dishing Out Dirt: The earth is one of the six sources of magic.
- Doesn't Trust Those Guys: Or humans, for that matter. When humanity created dark magic the elves and dragons almost immediately enacted a pogrom against them and drove every human that they didn't kill out of Xadia without giving them a chance at explaining themselves or reconciling their differences. This level of racial hatred has persisted into the current timeframe of the show, with the friendship between Callum, Ezran, and Rayla being possibly the only positive relationship that humans and elves have had in a millennium. It gets worse with the revelation that humans cannot naturally perform Primal Magic the way the elves and dragons can, meaning that dark magic is the only recourse that mankind has against the magically superior elves until Callum forges a connection to the Sky Arcanum.
- Evil Is Easy: While it's still ambiguous how evil it truly is, part of the allure of Dark Magic is that using the life energy of magical creatures allows a mage to do what would normally take natural talent (with only elven mages naturally having a connection to a Primal Source), a Primal Stone, and/or years of study to achieve.
- Fantastic Racism: The elves and humans are deeply mistrustful of and prejudiced against each other, something that comes up as a recurring theme in the series.
- The humans believe the elves to be dangerous, literally bloodthirsty monsters who will kill innocents with no provocation, and the mere sight of an elf is typically enough to send human characters in varying states of panic.
- A number of elves believe all humans to be lying, corrupt, dishonorable and untrustworthy, and in the past exiled the entire human species from their homelands in response to an individual human creating dark magic.
- Latin Is Magic: Ancient Draconic, the language used for magic incantations, is represented using Latin. Phrases used include "Regina Draconis" (to send a message to the Dragon Queen), "Aspiro" ("I breathe", to blow a gust of wind), and "Fulminis" (to generate lightning).
- Life Energy: The seventh source of magic. A human discovered he could cast dark magic by draining the life force from magical creatures.
- Place of Power: While the different types of Primal magic naturally vary in strength depending on the location and environment, there are six locations, one for each Primal Source, where each type of magic is at its peak, called a Nexus. As of season 4, we have seen most of them:
- The Power of the Sun: The sun is one of the six sources of magic. Sunfire elves are masters of this magical art, such as enchanted daggers with a heated blades.
