"This is your dream kid"
Callum pays a price for dabbling in dark magic. Claudia searches desperately for a way to help Soren, and Ezran makes a heartbreaking discovery.Tropes in this episode include:
- Anger Born of Worry: Rayla spends most of the episode upset at Callum's use of Dark Magic, but as he slips further into his coma she's shown to be truly concerned about her friends well being.
- Buffy Speak: Ezran calls Rayla's wrist bindings "assassiny-ribbony things."
- The Corrupter: In his dream, Callum gets confronted by an Evil Twin who tries to persuade him to use Black Magic.
- Explain, Explain... Oh, Crap!: When Corvus finds the group and says that he has come to serve "King Ezran," Ezran explains that he is just a prince, and his dad Harrow is the king, before realizing that Corvus really meant that Harrow was dead.
- Getting the Boot: Claudia gets tossed from the hospital after she has a freakout.
- If You Can Read This: When Viren is trying to read up on Aaravos and all the books blur out as he reads them, it's possible to read a few facts from freeze frames - establishing, among other things, that Aaravos wanted to give magic to humans.
- Internal Retcon: When Viren tries to find information on an elf named Aaravos, he finds that there's almost nothing on him. When he does find something, the passage immediately disappears.
- Internal Reveal:
- Corvus is unwittingly the one to break the news of Harrow's death to Ezran when he shows up vowing to protect the king of Katolis.
- Ezran learns that Callum knew for a while.
- Soren tells Claudia that their father ordered him to kill the princes.
- Corvus is unwittingly the one to break the news of Harrow's death to Ezran when he shows up vowing to protect the king of Katolis.
- Loud Gulp: Corvus does this before becoming a Bearer of Bad News and telling the group that Ezran has been eaten by a banther.
- My God, You Are Serious!: When paraplegic Soren announces that he wants to become a poet, his sister starts laughing until she realizes that he is serious about it.
- Never Say "Die": Lampshaded with Rayla trying to talk with Ezran about Harrow's death. Ezran is in no mood for sugar-coating and immediately calls her out on this.Ezran: He didn't fall, Rayla! He didn't trip and land on the ground, he got killed!
- Real Dreams are Weirder: There are parts of Callum's dream that are just plain weird, like Callum becoming a sail or Harrow mysteriously disappearing, to emphasize that even though it's a mystical journey, it's still a dream.
- Screw Destiny: Callum's mirror says that since Callum has a natural talent for magic and the only magic humans can perform is dark, then he must become a dark mage whether he wants to or not, while Harrow urges him to be free. Callum struggles a bit but ultimately takes Harrow's side, deciding "I get to choose who I want to be!"
- Silence in the Library: When Viren's attempt to research Aaravos fails due to the every word about him being obscured the moment he tried to read them, his audible frustration earns him a stern "shush" from the librarian.
- Survival Mantra: Claudia calms herself down with the mantra "There is no synonym for cinnamon."
- Title Drop: A variation. Callum drops the tagline of the show when he tells his mirror that "Destiny is a book you write yourself."
- Will Not Tell a Lie: Or so Aaravos claims. Viren is suspicious of him but ends up going along with him (perhaps he thinks Villains Never Lie?)Aaravos: I'm not lying. I never lie.
- Vision Quest: While Callum is knocked out from using dark magic, he goes through a variety of subconscious trials. This includes playing with the temptation for dark magic, facing a mirror of himself, working with Villads to understand the wind, and speaking to Harrow again.
- You Can't Fight Fate: What Callum's mirror attempts to argue, that Callum's "destiny is already written" and so he must become a dark mage. Callum firmly rejects this path.
