WMG / The Dragon Prince

Magic in general

Ezran's affinity for animals comes from King Harrow

• He mentions that it's always been something he could do, suggesting that it's an innate gift and thus likely to be hereditary. Harrow is seen talking to Pip and Pip later seems to understand the situation surrounding Viren, and like his son is also socially awkward.

Light magic will be introduced.

• Whereas Dark magic stems from using the life force of others, Light magic would be powered by sacrificing one's own life instead. It's power would be great, but using it too much would be fatal to the

caster.

• It might even be the exact same kind of magic with the only difference being it comes from someone willingly giving there life force (whether the casters own or someone else), since the life force is working with the caster rather then against them it is far more powerful, it may even create a living spell that is guided by the sacrificed individual.
  • According to Callum's Spellbook, Light magic does exist, but as a rare "Light-Being Mode" exclusive to some Sunfire elves. So while the "healing" part of this WMG is confirmed, the life exchange or wether or not it will be introduced in the series proper is still up in the air.

The idea of elves naturally understanding arcana is wrong

Their innate understanding of magic actually comes from their upbringing and being brought up with a tribe that reveres that Primal Source, rather than being naturally born understanding it, but since they start so early they can't ever remember not knowing it. Systemic breeding and being surrounded by that magic also alters their physical appearance to match, making it even harder to realize it. It would explain why humans without that background can't do primal magic as easily, and serve as a metaphor for how systemic privilege can mask itself as innate talent.

Humans have an arcanum. For Dark magic.

Lujaane talks about the natural/primal sources of magic, and how the non-mortal races were born with innate understandings of their particular varieties of magic. Dark magic is powered by the life force of creatures, and this is treated as abhorrent, but in a way, death is a natural, primal thing. The only real difference between a storm and the death of a living creature is the meaning people ascribe to them. But, as elves are naturally long-lived, possibly immortal, they would have less understanding of mortality than humans do. Basically, humans naturally understand death in a way that elves don't. ie—humans have a connection to the secrets of death that elves do not.

• Dark magic is considered to be evil and horrific in the setting of the show, but in a way, is it really particularly worse than eating meat? Sure, if an animal is treated badly, or a human is killed for meat, that is wrong. But as a corollary, would killing a deer for use in dark magic be any worse than killing a deer to eat?
  • Slippery Slope Fallacy: Would she eventually consider using a Human Sacrifice to try to fix permanently?
    • No more than eating meat would inherently lead to becoming a cannibal. People kill animals for food every day, and we still know that cannibalism is wrong.
• If this were the case, then 1) why is, "It's a shortcut," and the pros and cons therein, the main argument both those for and those against Dark Magic turn to, and 2) why would that be literally the ONLY thing Dark Magic has in common with Primal Magic?

There is a seventh arcanum and Ezran possesses it

Rather than an arcanum for feature of nature, the seventh arcanum is for the power of living things, animals, plants etc. Ezran's ability to speak with animals (and even engage is some form of sense sharing as of the ends of the second season) is because through some random fluke he was just naturally born with a connection to that particular arcanum.

• Dark magic, with its destructive use of plant and animals parts (both preserved and live), is connected to this arcanum, treating them in the same way uses of the other arcanum would treat a primal stone of the appropriate element.

One Arcanum Per Person

Lujanne and Rayla seemed to think that the idea of gaining an Arcanum without being born with it was crazy, but the authors confirm that it was a fairly common practice before the exile. So maybe elves don't do it amongst themselves because they can't. Only humans can gain a new Arcanum because they're born without any Arcanum. Aaravos found a work around somehow.

A Human needs a Magical Creature to Learn an Arcanum

Word of God confirms that before Xadia was split in two, human mages often apprenticed under wizards for years to learn their Arcanum. However, the only known human mages are reliant on dark magic and primal stones. Why? Because a human can only learn an Arcanum in the proximity of a creature that was born with that Arcanum. Callum was only able to learn the Sky Arcanum because Zym was there. Once the elves and dragons drove the humans away from Xadia, it was impossible for them to propagate Arcanum amongst themselves, so it died out, and eventually the practice was forgotten altogether.

• This could also explain humans use of dark magic, humans are naturally able to draw on and mimic the Arcanum of magical creatures, so forcefully taking that power is a logical next stem, especially once you are exiled and no longer able to use the former method

The pushback against dark magic and the belief that you can only connect to the arcanum you're born to both stem from elves and dragons attempting to maintain a dominant position in ancient Xadia's society

There are several parts of the in-show philosophies pertaining to these things which are either inconsistent, incorrect or otherwise suspicious. The main criticism of dark magic is that it requires the killing of living things — yet these are typically things such as insects, and the elves are shown to have no problem with killing animals for food. The belief that you can only connect to an arcanum if you're born to it is evidently false, and according to Word of God forging connections with other arcana was common before Xadia was split — yet characters otherwise knowledgeable about magic are insistent in this belief. It's also worth noting how the elves and dragons' ancient response to the invention of dark magic — the exile of the entire human species from Xadia — is a grossly disproportionate response to the actions of one person, and modern elves still display a rather condescending attitude regarding human aptitude towards magic — see Lujanne's "you're only human" conversation with Callum.

The impression seems to be that elves and dragons consider their ability to access magic natural and right, and the humans' ability to do the same either impossible (in the case of primal magic) or morally wrong (in the case of dark magic). As such, the "natural" state of things is one where the elves and dragons just so happen to be able to manipulate the fundamental forces of nature and the humans... aren't, something that in a land where magic was everywhere and a very big deal was likely a notable and visible handicap. It's worth noting here that, when someone argues that one group having power and privilege and the other having nothing is just how things are supposed to be, they're not going to be part of the second group.

As such, while genuine moral repulsion at the thought of extracting the magic of living creatures likely played a part, the degree of the response may very well have stemmed from how dark magic's existence threatened the loss of the main division of Xadia's people by giving humans universal access to magic. A complicating factor is how dark mages are willing to use sapient creatures to fuel their spells; depending on when this began being done, it likely either contributed to the elves and dragons' repulsion or may have arisen later as a result of the rising antagonism between humanity and Xadia. The belief in the exclusivity of arcana also plays into this — if you're only ever able to connect to one arcanum by being born with it, then it's easier to argue that everyone should content themselves with what they're born with, be it some or none, and the only morally acceptable way of using magic is simply cut off from some people. If anyone can forge a bond with any arcana, then magic becomes a lot less exclusive.

There is a seventh arcanum that the humans possess and do not know: Life

Humans naturally possess the arcanum of life, possibly animal life. However, since they were never taught how to use it, nobody really knows this. Ezran has the natural magic power of the life arcanum which is what let's him speak to animals.Furthermore, Dark Magic may in fact be a corruption of the seventh arcanum, since it devours life in order to fuel its powers.

Callum is not the first human to figure out how to use Primal Magic. The earlier ones were assassinated.

There have always been humans attuned to some of the magic, to this day with the likes of the Captain and his ability to sense storms, and Ezran's ability to talk to animals. Every time a human got into full blown Primal Magic territory in ancient times, however, a conspiracy killed them. This conspiracy could take one of two forms.

• Elves and/or Dragons arranged their assassination. This is because they feared being overtaken by humankind if that human ever figured out how repeat this feat and start a full-on primal Magic School for humans. This is what motivated Aaravos to create Dark Magic—since it took more time and effort for humans to gain magic, he needed something that could be learned faster and be more destructive and potent in order to even the playing field.
• Dark mages arranged their assassination. This is because they feared what the human primal mages represented. Every dark mage seen in the first two seasons, Viren , Claudia, and Ziard defends their use of dark magic by saying that they have no other option; dark magic is the only kind of magic they can use. Now recall how corruptive dark magic is. Just one use of it triggered a fever dream in Callum where dark magic tried to convince him to use it more often. Claudia uses it to flavor pancakes. If human primal mages were walking around in large numbers, suddenly dark magic is looking a lot less like being Necessarily Evil and instead just evil.
• Semi-confirmed in season 4, when Ezran calls Callum "the first human primal mage in centuries," implying that Ezran knows about other human primal mages from hundreds of years before.

The Sun Staff holds the Sun's Primal Stone.

Claudia was able to use Primal Magic during the Final Battle because she had access to the Sun's Primal Stone through her staff.

Seven is not the limit

There's much more ways of magic than just 6 Primals and one Dark, and possibly more can be invented. 6 Primals were set as the main and only way because elves and dragons are born with arcanum, and they didn't want to share this power with humans, who have to work to do magic. Other ways gradually faded out of collective memory without use, and only exceptional (and long-lived) mages, like Aaravos, know and practice them. Also, he deliberately chose to teach Ziard the Dark magic for some reason while there were other options - for instance, he was doing his own research at that time and wanted to hide it, and used humans to distract everyone else.

Dark Magic is Void Magic…which is a subset of Star Magic.

Black holes, which form after a star has collapsed, are more or less massive voids. They are also famous for sucking anything that passes by inside them; Star dragons are said to consume stars in the same way.If dark magic is Void Magic, then humans have the Void Arcanum.

Moon opals can compensate for the lack of any of the "components" of Primal moon magic.

Primal magic requires three things: A connection to the appropriate Primal Source, the knowledge and ability to draw a rune, and the knowledge and ability to speak the correct Draconic phrase.

Moon Opals have been used twice to compensate for one of those three things: First, Runaan had a Moon Arcanum and could speak the Draconic phrase, but couldn't draw the rune for the spell he cast in season 1, episode 1 (Mystica Arbora); second, Callum knew the rune and phrase for the spell he cast in season 3, episode 8 (Historia Viventem), but didn't have a Moon Arcanum. Both used a Moon Opal to compensate for their respective deficiencies.

The Main Characters

Callum's Destiny is Already Written

During Callum's vision quest, DarkMage!Callum says that it's his destiny to become a mage, even though he wasn't born with an Arcanum. If you pay attention to DarkMage!Callum's lines, you'll notice that he never says it's Callum's destiny to be a dark mage, just to be a mage. And lo and behold, when Callum wakes up, he's got an Arcanum. He's a mage. It's a Prophecy Twist. Callum may think he's defied fate, but he hasn't. He just wasn't fated for the thing he though he was because he wasn't paying attention to the Exact Words.

• Is it really a Prophecy Twist if the character put in the effort to become a mage? This sounds less like of a "prophecy" and more of just Callum working hard toward his goal.
  • The apparition predicted Callum’s future, he rebuked it by affirming his free will, but everything it said happened, exactly as it was said, but not according to Callum’s assumptions. That’s practically the dictionary definition of a Prophecy Twist. Effort being required does not invalidate prophecy. Almost every Prophecy Twist or Self-Fulfilling Prophecy involves effort - as does a prophecy played straight. A prophecy is just a prediction of the future, made via supernatural means. Even when You Can't Fight Fate, fate doesn’t miracle away the cause and effect required for the outcome, it just reveals or sometimes guarantees the outcome ahead of time.
    • That's...really not how prophecies work, let alone prophecy twists (which involve characters' efforts being geared toward avoiding said prophecy but winding up fulfilling it by accident). If he were to predict that Callum would one day drink water, that's not really a prophecy. In any case, the novelization specifies that the "destiny" part that Callum was rejecting was that it was his destiny to do dark magic. Which he never does again.

Callum will learn more spells, and have to use the cube to figure out which ones he can cast

Without a primal stone, Callum can't cast his air spells whenever he wants. He will need a source of magic. Fortunately, his cube lights up when it is near enough a large source of magic, so he can use it to figure out which spells he can currently cast. They have a strong source of Moon (Rayla), Sun (Bait), and Sky (Azymondias), so they'll either need to find the other three, or he'll need to focus on those three elements.

• As a sub-clause, this means he will need to get uncomfortably close to Rayla to cast moon magic.
• Jossed for all intents and purposes. Callum connects to the Sky Primal, allowing him to cast Sky spells at will without a Primal Stone.

• It hasn't been Jossed yet...but this theory is on life support, Callum can use Primal Magic with no source...and the Cube is more than a Magic detector.

Callum is a Half- (or Quarter-)Elf. Specifically, Sky Elf

• The clue in this case is how easily he picked up using Magic without the Dark Magic shortcut. By Word of God, Elves are inherently magic, but Humans aren't which is why they came up with Dark Magic. They have also been rather coy about the possibility of Half-Elves as well(while at the same time giving a definite "no" to the possibility of Dark Elves) Also note that in Episode 3, Viren refers to him as a "Mongrel". So the idea is that Callum's Father(or Grandfather) was an Elf.
  • So why Sky Elf? Well, Sky Elves, as far as we can tell, are the only ones that have the skin tone closest or identical to his(although he might just take after his mother more in that regard), plus all the magic he has dealt with in the first season has been related to sky magic. Sky Primal Stone, sky magic spells, Sky dragon. Furthermore, we see that the cube reacts to Elves as a source of magic. So any reaction to Callum as a source of sky magic could have been hidden by the presence of the Primal Stone. So the idea is that Callum's use of sky magic has awoken his Elven heritage. So they'll start Season 2 with Callum wondering how he's going to use magic now that his Primal Stone is gone, only to find the cube reacting to him like it did to Rayla.
• The creators have confirmed that Callum is biracial, take that as you will.
  • Although this can also mean simply that he has a white father and an Asian mother.
• To add onto the above Troper’s WMG I would also like to say that it has been shown that illusion magic (or at the very least Moonshadow elf illusion magic) is very convincing. So perhaps an illusion was cast on Callum to hide his elf traits.
• Also, the fact that Callum's father has never been shown before gives me the impression that something's up with him.
• This seems unlikely, as it undercuts his arc from the second season while adding nothing to the story. Having to overcome his human limitations is kind of cut out from under him if he wasn't human in the first place. (plus wouldn't the cube react to him if that was the case?) Also, I feel like if there was anything unique about Callum's heritage it would have been at least alluded to in the letter.
• Jossed. The creators have confirmed that Callum and his parents are fully human.

Callum is Demiromantic

• So far, the only girls he's shown any romantic interest in are Claudia; a childhood friend, whom he fell out of love with when she betrayed their close bond, and Rayla; someone he'd grown to admire and respect as A True Hero who in time declared him to be her best friend. His romance with Rayla, especially, has the feeling of it being an extension of their friendship.

Ezran will discover that Pip is Harrow, whose soul was switched by Viren.

Pip's escape at the end of Season 2 was made pretty blatant...

Aanya and Ezran are going to be in a political marriage..

Rayla is a Hugger.

• Sure she might be tough as stone on the outside, but when she gets to know someone...HUGS FOR EVERYBODY!!
  • First thing she did when Zym freed her hand? She has already given Callum three hugs one-on-one^note Though there could be other reasons for this, and she has been in two group hugs with everyone.

Callum will have to disguise himself as an elf.

Since the Dragang is out of the Pentarchy and into Xadia, the "hide from the lynch mob" tables have turned. Goodbye Human Rayla, hello Elven Callum.

• This will involve him putting on a hood, tucking his hands in his pockets, and talking in a Scottish accent about how great it is to have a hundred year lifespan and how wonderful it is having a natural connection to the moon arcana.
  • Well, it could be more convenient to pretend to be a Sky Elf, even though disguising as a Moonshadow Elf may be the first attempt.
  • Callum will not only have to disguise himself as an elf at some point and affect an exaggerated Scottish accent, but he'll use the opportunity to take as many cheerful potshots at elven society as Rayla did at human society. For added hilarity, some Xadian will find it about as funny as Ezran found Rayla's human impression. Cue poor Rayla's inevitable exasperation.
• Confirmed for Season 3, except he uses an exaggerated Australian accent of all things while attempting to tree branches as antlers to pass as an Earthblood Elf. Only Callum himself thinks he's actually fooling anyone.

Callum will be able to use all the arcanum at one point.

• Giving it some Avatar-esque twist.
  • This is definitely plausible since, in the season 2 finale, Aaravos, a Startouch Elf, demonstrated the ability to learn multiple arcnaum when he channeled sky, sun, and earth magic through Viren.

Rayla will spar with Callum

Before (or after) he gets stuck in a melee fight, a Properly Paranoid Rayla will force an impromptu practice session; in the process, she'll manage what Soren couldn't and find a way to teach him how to use a sword.Of course, one of them will eventually wind up tripping over the other.

• Not Jossed, but on life support. As of S3, Callum's magical abilities have grown to the point where he can fly, and he seems to be set on continuing to learn magic. It seems highly unlikely that he would even need to learn how to use a sword at this point.
  • Yes and no - he almost got choked out by Mutated Kasef before he could even get a spell off. His new girlfriend is unlikely to take "no" for an answer.
    • But probably no, since Rayla had left to find Viren, and Sky magic also includes abilities such as enhanced speed, agility, and acrobatics. Once Callum truly masters Sky magic, he'd likely have no use for a sword at all.
• Slight alteration (based on the above): Post-timeskip, Rayla will spar with Callum, the outcome of which will reveal how far Callum has come that he has now surpassed her.
  • Surpass? In strict Close Quarters Combat? Even if he went full Magic Knight he is not making up the skill gap, but he could at least stay alive long enough to get some distance and start casting.
    • Jossed. By Book 5 Callum is powerful enough to punch out a panther.

Ezran will turn out to be a Reincarnation of a powerful dragon à la Zak and Kur

As already established, Ezran's ability to talk to animals doesn't seem to have a place amidst The Dragon Prince's magic. This is because the ability originates from Ezran's past incarnation as a powerful Dragon king.

Ezran (and Harrow) are descendants of an elf

Possibly a sunfire elf. This could explain Ezran's unusual ability to speak to animals, as well as the fate of Queen Aditi. She could have had a child with a human and was killed for it, while the child grew up away from elves, unaware of their own heritage.

Soren will develop a crush on Rayla

He's already called her "cute" and thought she had a thing for him (which wasn't true). Now, that they're on the same team, he might develop romantic feelings for her.

• We might a love triangle between him, Callum and Rayla in season 4, if he develops feelings then.

Claudia will have a personal hatred for Rayla

• With everything that happened in the season 3 finale (Rayla pushed her father to his death and "stole" Callum from her), this is very likely.
  • Heading into season six, if she didn't before, she does now that Rayla has cut off one of her legs in the climactic battle.

Claudia will have a Then Let Me Be Evil moment.

Aanya will be a mentor to Ezran.

Aanya is only a few years older than Ezran, but has much more experience as a monarch; she'll have a lot to teach him if and when he reclaims the throne of Katolis, and she won't want her friend to fall victim to another coup (or worse, an assassination).

Callum will inherit his mother's spear.

Sarai's spear is currently stuck in Avizandum's petrified body, but is otherwise intact. It's blade also has a nice circular hole in it's design, conveniently allowing for one to insert a primal stone. At some point, Callum will retrieve the spear and adopt it as his own.

• In addition of using it for magic, Callum will also adopt his mother's fighting style and use the spear with great effect.

Claudia will be redeemed, and become the new High Mage for Ezran by the end of the series.

It'll be a longer and far more complicated path to redemption than Soren's. She had not hit rock bottom in the end of season 3, she has further to go. At the deepest moment in her own abyss she would have found: Soren—patient, forgiving, and unconditionally loving.Eventually, Soren will get Claudia to turn against Aaravos and Viren. In the end, she'll become a High Mage for Ezran, much like her father was for his father, but will be a more positive, principled voice for Ezran than Viren was for Harrow.

• The second point is Jossed; Callum is Ezran's High Mage.

Post-redemption Claudia will join the group, thus forming a Five-Man Band.

In that group, Callum will be the Leader, Claudia will be the Smart Guy, Soren will be the Big Guy, Rayla will be the Lancer and Ezran will be the "Chick" (though he and Rayla will likely switch roles before long).

Callum will be fostered by Janai in Lux Aurea during the timeskip.

Callum will want to go after Rayla after the events of Through the Moon, but also he'd want to explore Xadia for its own sake. Yet, as a prince he has certain responsibilities he has to adhere to, so spending long periods of time away from Katolis would be very controversial for him to do.

So, how does Ezran solve this issue? He'll ask Queen Janai to foster Callum in Lux Aurea (much like how Elrond fostered Aragorn in Lord of the Rings). This way, Callum will be able to spend an extended period of time in Xadia while technically following his duties as a prince. Not only will he be able to spend time looking for Rayla, but he'll also be able to continue his princely training, though with more of a magical bent to it, learning how to combine magic with martial pursuits.

Callum's birth father is a direct descendant to the last king of Elarion

Before Elarion's destruction, the crown prince at the time escaped to the west along with the rest of humanity. Callum's father (and Callum himself) is related to this heir in an unbroken succession from parent to child, thus meaning that he was born royalty.

Callum permanently tattooed the Manus Pluma Volantis runes onto his arms during the timeskip.

• He knows that he might need to conjure mage wings in a hurry and not have time to paint the runes onto his arms. Solution: Permanently tattoo them.
  • Seems to be confirmed by the end credits artwork in season 5, episode 1, which shows the runes on Callum's arms while he is taking a bath.

Callum and Rayla will kiss at Janai and Amaya's wedding

• What better place to rekindle their relationship then during the marriage between an Elf and Human?

Callum repainted the portrait of Harrow and Viren.

• In certain scenes in the background of Callum's (formerly Viren's) room in season 4, you can see that the portrait of Harrow and Viren is still where it was in season 1, but Harrow's and Viren's outfits look different. Callum, being a good artist, probably repainted the portrait himself to reflect his attitude toward Harrow and Viren.

Callum's birth father was Kpp'Ar.

• Also, Sarai knew what Viren did to Kpp'Ar, and that's why she hated dark magic so much.

Other characters

Runaan is engaged.

One of the images in the end credits shows another male elf making two necklaces that look like the one that Runaan has, with another image showing that male elf crying. In Avatar: The Last Airbender, the Water Tribe also had tragic love stories involving engagement necklaces.

• Confirmed in Season 3, except they're already married.

King Harrow...

• Isn't dead. Viren had a plan when he went back to the King's room just before the elves attacked. He knew the King wasn't going to switch souls voluntarily, and he wasn't willing to take the King's place himself, so he caught Harrow by surprise and swapped his soul with that of his bird and then the elves killed Harrow's human body without knowing what had happened.
  • Viren probably did perform the soul-switching spell, trapping the king in the pet bird's body.
  • How does this explain the bind on the elves' right wrist breaking? My interpretation was that it broke because they fulfilled one half of their mission by killing the king. If they only killed a decoy, wouldn't the bind remain intact?
  • They killed his real body. That bind might not account for souls.
    • at least this part is confirmed, as the flowers that track the assassins own lives and presumedly use the same or similar magic only accounted for there bodys, despite one of them still existing as a soul inside a coin
• Alternatively, Viren took Harrow's soul into his own.
• Another alternative: Harrow was never killed. At his funeral, Viren rushes Opeli to burn the body. Why would Viren be so anxious to see the body burned immediately? Because it was a decoy body. As for where Harrow currently is, Viren is keeping him for a future dark magic experiment. And the explanation for the breaking of the moon elves' bindings: the binding only cares if the elves believe that they succeeded in killing Harrow, not if they actually killed him. Maybe Viren performed some illusion magic on an expendable soldier to make them look like Harrow, and that's who the elves killed.

King Harrow could speak to animals too.

• It would explain the close relationship he had with both Bait and Pip, and why the bird seemed to understand him. It may be where Ezran got it from. King Harrow probably hid this ability from everyone because he knew it could cause him trouble or get people thinking he was mad.
• That could also explain why he seemed so reluctant or grossed out by Viren's methods, he could probably hear some of the creatures Viren had to "harvest".
  • As for why he was so in favor of killing the stone titan and some other magic creatures? They're not animals, so he can't hear them and therefore may think they're non-sapient.

One of Viren's children will die.

• If it is by the hands of Viren or the other sibling, it will result in a Heel–Face Turn. If it is by the heroes, either intentional or by accident, it will result in a Heel–Face Door-Slam.
  • If this happens, it would be Soren to die by his own sister for his betrayal at the end of season 3. Whether or not she would experience a My God, What Have I Done? moment if she isn't already far-gone by the dark magic is anyone's guess.

Lord Viren was planning to use the Dragon Prince's egg to power some serious magic.

He’s certainly got Claudia convinced it was a dangerous weapon, and we already know he Would Hurt a Child. Possible goals:

• Resurrect the original dark mage
• Create a powerful magical weapon that will turn the tide of the war
• Give himself some kind of One-Winged Angel power-up
• Make himself into a dragon
  • Partially confirmed by Season 3: he evidently was saving the egg for some high level magic, but it's not clear if he had something specific in mind or if he was just keeping it as a valuable last resort. As of season 3, he intends to use Zym as a power-up similar to option 3, but it was all probably Aaravos' idea.

Viren meant it when he said he would support Amaya as Queen Regent

His goals align with Amaya's - Amaya is already a general, and would be a good regent to run the kingdom during wartime. He simply doesn't want Callum or Ezran to be on the throne because they would seek peace, an act which (as the adults believe) is impossible.

Viren will die via Death Equals Redemption.

Viren will probably not experience a Heel–Face Turn arc and live, because he seems pretty set on Ambition Is Evil/Well-Intentioned Extremist and there's no way he'll escape from the huge crime of kidnapping the egg of the Dragon Prince, among other things. A recurring theme in the story is that the next generation has to avoid the mistakes of the previous generation and Soren and Claudia seem to be pointed towards becoming more disillusioned with their father. His interest in magic will result in him getting killed, but the last thing he does will be something relating to his children (such as using his last words to say goodbye and that he's proud of them).

• Post-season 3: Noticed how surprised he was when Claudia revived him in the finale? He can no longer perform dark magic, and thus no longer under its influence. He'll become very concern about her becoming corrupted by the dark magic like he was, and realize all the things he's done (stealing the egg, betraying King Harrow, trying to kill/imprison Harrow's children, deceiving the kingdoms, and his treatment towards his own children). So he will try to make it up by helping the good guys. But of course, they won't believe him (not even Soren), and probably have him imprisoned again. Claudia might feel betrayed by her father, like how she felt betrayed by Callum and her own brother, and probably be manipulated by Aaravos to punish him.

Soren and Claudia will fight Viren in a final battle.

• Semi-jossed in the season 3 finale. Soren sided against Viren, and killed an illusion of his dad to protect Ezran. Claudia remains with Viren. But in the later seasons, who knows?

Viren killed Queen Sarai to save himself.

Viren's story to the other kings and queens about how Sarai died is a case of both Unreliable Narrator and Exact Words. He was there when Queen Sarai took her last breath, but it was because he killed her either to save himself or as an opportunity place himself as Harrow's most trusted confidant again and push Katolis towards war with Xadia.

• It would be why Viren was furious at Harrow's refusal to use dark magic to save himself, since that's what started the war. Viren believed Sarai has made Harrow soft and weak, questioning the necessity of killing the Titan, as well as being ungrateful for everything Viren has done for him. While in Harrow's room, Viren noticed the picture frame on Harrow's bed and saw that it was of Harrow and Sarai together with their kids. He's probably also jealous that Harrow and Sarai still love each other while his own wife left him.

Claudia's magic on Soren won't last forever.

Initially, it would seem that Soren's as good as he's ever been, but his condition gradually worsens and will revert back to his paralyzed state. As a result, Claudia will be more motivated to use dark magic to try to save him, further putting her life at risk. Ultimately, this will end with them accepting that Soren will have to live out the rest of his life paralyzed (someone could invent the wheelchair or other types of physical tools to help him move around) and Claudia putting away dark magic.

• The magic that healed Soren hasn't faded after two years (whereas the resurrection spell on Viren is only supposed to last 30 days), so this seems to be effectively Jossed.

Soren will die.

• I thought he'd already die in Season 2, but at this point I feel like Soren and Claudia are still too cosy with the princes. Something will push one of them into villainy. It will most likely be Claudia. One of the things that could do the trick would be someone related to the main squad's quest, actively hurting or even killing Soren.

That or...

Claudia will lose herself in dark magic.

• And / or she'll become evil.
• It's already shown how badly dark magic affected Calum after one try. We also saw Claudia after she healed Soren and it didn't look... pretty. From this point on, things will only get worse, probably, until she is estranged from herself.
• It's beginning to happen as of the season 3 finale. She revived her father, who's seemed shocked by what she's done.

Amaya will be the LGBTQ+ representation.

• I know we already got the queens, but that would be pretty cheap representation if you ask me, especially because they died pretty quickly. Honestly I have nothing to back up this theory, other than my gaydar pinging when I see Amaya.
• We also got Runaan, although so far that's only been implied in the end-credits art and not overtly stated. Not that that doesn't mean Amaya couldn't also be gay, of course.
• As of Season 3, it's confirmed for Runaan and implied for Amaya (and the Sunfire Elf Janai).
  • As of Season 4, it's confirmed for Amaya and Janai.

The pastry cook at the beginning only pretends to be grumpy.

Given what we know about King Harrow, there's no question that they have a standing "I will reimburse you for everything Ezran steals" deal. So Ezran and Bait eating his wares is steady profit, and he pretends to be angry about it so he doesn't ruin the prince's fun.

Claudia and Soren's mother will appear in season three or a future season.

It could be a great opportunity to do so. After all, she's still alive, given that she divorced Viren and returned back to her hometown.

• Not season 3, but maybe 4.

Viren will switch bodies with Soren.

What if the Soulfang Serpents are referenced again by Soren's body being taken over by Viren (is a theory that I heard some people talk about and will be a good way to get close to Ezran and be able to possibly persuade Ezran etc) and Soren imprisoned in Viren's body (and dies in it ).

• Viren might considered it since his son betrayed him (and intended to stab him).
  • Jossed.

Rayla's parents didn't actually abandon their duty.

• They're sealed in the other coins that Viren showed Runaan before sealing him.
  • The first part is confirmed, while the second part is a decent possibility.
  • There are number of hints that this is the case, in season 1 Runaan reacts with horror when seeing the coins when Viren shows him the coins as a threat which would make sense as he would recognise Rayla's parents, furthermore in season 3 in the flashback Viren says to Rayla's parents about "repaying" them and that he has a fate in mind and in the season 3 finale states to Rayla before chasing after Gym he will be back to add another moon shadow to his collection. Also, as far as anyone else knows, Rayla's parents had simply disappeared, suggesting that Viren had disposed of the bodies... which his coin trick also does.
  • The novelization of Book 1 doesn't confirm it outright, but very heavily implies it: Runaan recognizes the faces on the coins as old friends whose disappearance had confused him until that moment.

Queen Aanya and King Ezran are going to work together to make peace.

The boy will be the subordinate member.

• Very likely, but Ezran is no subordinate.
• They are the monarchs of Duren and Katolis respectively, and Duren probably won't try to subjugate Katolis. More likely they will be equal parties to an alliance.

The magical crane-like birds that flew into Ziard's magical twister did so intentionally.

• The crane-like birds seemed to fly directly into it intentionally, possibly attempting to give their lives to save Elarion from Sol Regem.

Opeli is a villain too.

• She's as much a manipulative bitch as Viren, and will show her true colors in the next arc. Probably trying to install herself as a shadow ruler.
  • Josssed. She's genuinely loyal to Ezran and Katolis.

The Crow Lord is actually Medivh

• The reason he's always absent is because he's having to return to his home dimension since while Xadia's crises are dire, they are dwarfed by Azeroth's.

The juice that Viren offered to Runaan was poisoned.

• The novelization of book 1 says that Moonberries are practically indistinguishable from poisonous "Death berries" except that they glow in moonlight. It is quite possible that the juice that Viren offered to Runaan was made out of Death berries, and maybe Viren didn't even know the difference.

The Crow Lord is manipulating things behind the scenes

• He is always suspiciously absent. We also saw a weird shadow behind the Crow Master in the credits and we saw a crow flying over the battlefield in the season 3 finale.

If Karim escapes imprisonment, he will seek to rally like-minded Sunfire Elves around Sol Regem

• The Sunfire elves do have a strong affiliation with him, and while he may now live as a shamed symbol of vengeance, Karim might be desperate enough to "save his people" that he'll try to ally with the former dragon king.

One of the late queens of Duren was intersex.

Word of God is that both of the late queens of Duren were Aanya's biological parents. One of them was intersex, and she got the other pregnant with Aanya.

The Jailer.

• Her name is Skall and she was important to Aaravos.
  • The creators have said there's a place on the map that references someone who was special to Aaravos, and much of his motivations are because of that person. The only place with a person's name is Skall's Hook, and The Jailer lived at the time of Aaravos's imprisonment. Plus, she was shown in the credits, so she must be someone important.
• She built The Key Of Aaravos.
  • She was a mage with keys hanging from her neck, and was a master of puzzles. Maybe The Key Of Aaravos is a puzzle?
• The Jailer is related to the Startouch Elves in some way. Maybe...
  • She was a Dark Mage and was being tutored in magic by a Startouch Elf who was an enemy of Aaravos. She has white hair despite looking like a young woman.
  • She was a creation of Aaravos, but betrayed him.
  • She was half human half Startouch Elf, and the daughter of Aaravos.
• The Jailer is an Callum's ancestor.

Queen Aditi was actually a Villain with Good Publicity

• Her true intentions in sparing her Kim'dael's life, were to have her as her personal hitman.
• She abolished Blood Duels to ensure that no one could overthrow her.

Nyx is meant to be a lighthearted Take That! to Orginal Character's

• She has all the stereotypical hallmarks of one, like an over-elaborate name and multicoloured hair and eyes. On top of that instead of being an asset to the heroes she's portrayed as a Lovable Rogue whose regarded as either an obstacle or an annoyance by them.

Dragons

The Dragon Queen is the Big Bad

A long shot, but she was the one that ordered the hit on Ezran for political purposes so she definitely Would Hurt a Child. She was also mysteriously absent when her mate was killed and her child kidnapped. Alternately, she is innocent of the whole affair, but her need for revenge will overrule her desire for peace.

• Jossed in every aspect by the end of Season 3, where it turns out the Dragon Queen has been sick and in a coma for weeks, she was tired and resting from the birth when Thunder was killed, and when she does wake up, she's elated to see that humans and elves are there and have a chance at peace.
• Though Sol Regem might be the Big Bad. He'll be vocal against the Queen's decision to make peace. He had no problems trying to kill Zym, because he sided with a human and a "traitorous" elf. And likely still has a grudge for getting him stuck at the arch.

The Dragon Prince will utter it's first word in human language at the end of Season 2.

In majority of Season 2, he will be mostly like an animal companion, but in further seasons, he will be a full-blown character.

• Season 2 Jossed, however Season 3...nope, still waiting. However season 4...

Thunder didn't kill Sarai, Neha, and Annika.

He instead forbade them from ever leaving Xadia and demanded some sort of penance for the part they played in the Magma titan's death.

• Jossed, at least in the case of Sarai being alive. The writers confirmed in an interview that they are definitely dead, however they have said parts of Viren's retelling are inaccurate.

Sol Regem plans to kill Azymondias.

• Sol Regem was the King of the Dragons until Azymondias' father, Thunder, challenged and defeated him, scarring the Sun dragon's face in the process. But now that Thunder is gone and his son is still a vulnerable hatchling...
  • Mostly jossed by season 3. It was Ziard who scarred him, not Thunder, and he doesn't seem to have animosity for anyone except humans (and dark mages specially).
    • However, he was willing to kill Rayla and Azymondias for siding with a human (Callum).

The dragon the main squad saved, will return.

• And most likely help them. She'll either be a deus ex machina that saves them in a brim moment, returning the favor, or will join the squad as a means of transportation. Kind of like ATLA's Appa.
  • Gloriously confirmed in season 3.

Zubeia heard Ezran in her sleep.

• Why would Zubeia be so happy to see that both humans and elves had worked together to bring Zym back to her, particularly given that one of those humans was the prince she had sent assassins to kill? Because that prince was the first one to tell her that Zym not only was alive but had come back to her. Although she was comatose at the time, she still heard Ezran.

Zubeia never ordered Ezran's murder.

• Runaan said that when the mission was complete, he would send a Shadowhawk arrow with a blood ribbon message to Zubeia. One blood ribbon message. He only ever intended to tell Zubeia about Harrow's death, not Ezran's, because Zubeia only ordered Harrow's death, not Ezran's.

Rex Igneous was in love with Zubeia, and fought Avizandum over her.

• This became the subject of a story that the humans would later call "Love Amongst the Dragons."

Elves

There are elves for each magic attribute.

"Moonshadow" elves implies that they're a specific group of elves. And since this group specifically uses lunar magic, maybe there's elves that use solar magic or oceanic magic or stellar magic or etc.

• Supported by the existence of Sunfire elves, which specialize in solar magic.
• Startouch elves: which draw from the magical of the stars
• In the Distant Prologue of the first episode, we see an elf wearing a robe decorated with stars, implying specialization in star magic, and another one dressed in white with wings on its back, presumably specialized in sky magic.
• Confirmed.

Because of the four fingers, elves start double digits at eight instead of ten.

And it only gets more complicated from there...

• This number system does actually exist and was used by some civilizations, so this isn't really a far reach. Octal number system exists in the same thread as binary counting using base 8 instead of the base 10 system we all know and love.

The different kinds of elves have varying accents

We know the Moonshadow elves have Scottish accents, so it wouldn't be that odd of a way to make the other elf groups distinct.

• Callum at least thinks Earthblood Elves have Australian accents. Whether or not this is true remains to be seen...
  • Confirmed by Terry in season 4.
• Seemingly confirmed. The Sunfire elves have Kenyan accents and the Skywing elves we've seen have (regionaly distinct) english accents, so we can assume the rest follow suit (Aaravos being the outlier).

The Sun Elf dagger used to be a sword.

Its end doesn't look like the way you'd shape a dagger, and the hilt is too long. One credits shot actually shows a whole sword with the same design. So this is probably a sword that has been cut short, which of course raises the question: what sort of terrible material can cut through Sun Elf metal?

• Maybe dragon teeth, considering what they did to Rayla's binds?
• Or more (hotter) Sun Elf metal.

Elves are descendants of dragons.

No really - what elves in other high fantasy stories have horns? Why four fingers? The reason they can do magic and the humans can't is because they're part draconic, and therefore connected to the primal sources like the dragons are.

• To take it further, Elves ARE dragons. Elves are the humanoid forms of minor dragons. If an elf were to become incredibly powerful in their respective form of primal magic, they could ascend and become a dragon. Knowledge of this ascension has been lost to time, but an elf (most likely Aaravos) will become a dragon in a later TDP season.

Startouch Elves are colossal in size.

In Season 5, the flashback of Khessa reveals that Aaravos swallowed Queen Aditi in the past. Either he shrank her in size, slowly consumed her body bit by bit, or is much bigger in size than we anticipated. The opening of Mystery of Aaravos could've been foreshadowing the entire time!

• Or he swallowed her essence the same way he tried to drain Zym of his in Book 3? When played forward this is the incantation spoken by Aaravos.

"He swallows your heart. He swallows your mind. He swallows your power."

Aaravos

What's inside the mirror

• An elf. It'll be the show's next Big Bad once Viren figures out how to free whatever was in it. The elf will be a Star Elf and will be the same one that opens the map during the narration at the beginning.
  • Confirmed, point for point. Though he's not free yet, he's certainly a Star Elf that seems to be malevolent.
    • Debatable whether he's the Big Bad, though. He's helping Viren right now, which is hardly a good thing to do, but what little we know about his backstory implies that he wanted to help humans when the other elves looked down on them, and Word of God is that he's "disliked" rather than "bad."
• The original Dark Mage.
  • Sort-of jossed, sort-of-confirmed? The original 'human' dark mage (which was almost certainly who this WMG was thinking of) wasn't in there, but it's very likely (based on the brief glimpse we get of the books about Aaravos before they blur out, which say that he worked to give magic to humans) that he was, in fact, at least one of the first Dark Mages, and possibly its true creator.
• Callum's magic cube is the key to Aaravos' prison, however it can only release him once a mage has followed in his footsteps and learned all Six of the Primal Arcana
  • Following this theory, Aaravos will find a way to communicate with Callum (possibly his familiar leaving Viren) and pretend to befriend him.

Aaravos is the true inventor of dark magic.

He had a human student who, like Callum, wanted to learn magic. But since humans don’t have an innate connection with magic, Aaravos invented Dark Magic for him and his kind. When the elves saw a human practice Dark Magic, they assumed the humans were the ones to invent it and banished them, never learning (or even considering) that it was invented by a fellow elf. Resentful at Aaravos for allowing the humans to become a scapegoat for his own wrongdoing, his student sealed him away in the mirror in revenge.

Alternatively, Aaravos was a student of the first Dark Mage.

The elves not only witnessed a human practice Dark Magic, but also one of their own do the same. The reason they banished the entire human race wasn’t just because of the invention of Dark Magic alone. It was because they were afraid of more of their own kind getting corrupted by a human, be it into practicing Dark Magic or otherwise. And they sealed away Aaravos so he wouldn’t influence others of his kind to follow the same path he did. Afterwords, they effectively erased all record of Aaravos’ existence from history, more-or-less disowning him for practicing such atrocious magic.

Aaravos will take an interest in Callum

When Aaravos finds out about Callum, he'll probably take an interest in the human who currently possesses one of his artifacts. This interest will probably be increased immensely when he finds out Callum can perform magic without a Primal Stone.

• Aaravos probably already knows about Callum; he and Viren had to sneak past Callum to get to the lair of the Dragon Queen, so he probably saw how Callum used Fulminis and Aspiro to hold off the soldiers.
• Aaravos is using Claudia to lead Callum to him; without a antagonist to chase, Callum would be off in Katolis and far from Aaravos’s reach.
• Confirmed in Season 4: When Aaravos discovers that Team Zym is looking in on him, he makes it a point to take possession of Callum, whom he describes as his "favorite" of the group.

The Cube is the key to Aaravos's prison

And it will require somebody who can cast all six types of magic to activate it.

• My bet is on Callum.
• What if the Cube is not actually a key but the actual "room" in which Aaravos is imprisoned. If all 6 elements are exposed to the cube, Aaravos is released from his prison. I mean, if someone as powerful as Avizandum were to imprison someone in a place kept secret even from the prisoner, I would imagine that the actual location would be the last place anyone would expect really.
  • Callum's spellbook says that when the cube is rolled, it always tries to point at some fixed place.
  • Right idea, wrong object. Aaravos' prison is inside a pearl that was hidden in the Sea of the Castout.

Aaravos will die.

Aaravos is not an elf

hes a human who stole an elf body, we already see he can possess people, and one of the very first things we hear that dark magic can do? Switch someones bodys, its possible this was a willing exchange, maybe it was to protect them like Virens original proposal with the king, or perhaps it was forceful and Aaravos did it to effectively steal the arcanum of the elf

Aaravos and Avizandum were friends

As powerful a mage as he might have been, it's hard to believe someone touted as "the most powerful being alive" was incapable of killing Aaravos, which makes his status as a Sealed Evil in a Can somewhat curious. It took very specific Dark Magic to bring Avizandum down, and Aaravos actually seems surprised that someone pulled it off. Either Aaravos has some form of immortality... or Avizandum didn't want to kill him. Aaravos even admitted that, for a prison, it was at least a comfortable prison. According to Viren, the dragon monarchs kept that mirror very close to their nest. If it was the only way for Aaravos to commune with the world, and potentially escape, wouldn't an enemy of his have simply smashed it? There's no way that could've let him out, or Aaravos would've simply had Viren do that instead of this complicated ritual and cocoon business.

Aaravos killed Queen Aditi by putting her through the Light Test

The Light Test is a form of Cold-Blooded Torture so extreme that even Amaya, who is tough as nails and has passed the test, was left sobbing afterwards. If 'purity' is in any way associated with goodness in this universe, anyone who puts anyone else in the light test would never be able to pass it themselves because putting anyone through the light test is an extremely sadistic thing to do. If Queen Khessa is any indication, then Sunfire royalty has been putting people through this test for some time. I imagine Aaravos is the kind to relish in the irony.

• Jossed. He killed her by swallowing her, somehow.

Aaravos was Un Personed for some kind of transgression.

Viren was unable to find any real information on him, but he clearly had real impact on history.

Aaravos will have a personal grudge on Rayla.

He learn from his mistake of underestimating her in "The Last Battle".

• Jossed. As of season 4, even knowing what Rayla did to Viren, Aaravos still dismisses her as "an assassin who has never killed anyone."

Aaravos will betray Viren

Aaravos only needed Viren to bring him back to Xadia. Once he gets into the real world from his mirror prison, he will no longer need him. He may find that Viren is only getting in his way and decide that he has outlived his usefulness.

• Jossed. Aaravos stays true to his word - it's Viren who breaks away from their partnership.

...and/or: Aaravos will grow genuine feelings for Viren.

Maybe even in that order!

Aaravos gave the staff to Ziard.

Aaravos is known to have given gifts to humans to "even the playing field," so to speak, between humans and elves, and one of those gifts was the knowledge of dark magic. Ziard's (later Viren's) staff was probably another of those gifts.

Aaravos will win, and thus be in a good position to narrate the story of the Dragon Prince.

Why else is he the one narrating the intros of Book 1 and Book 3?

The mirror's enchantments are in the frame, not the glass.

When Viren used his True-Sight Serum to look past the mirror's illusions, the glass didn't look any different, but the frame glowed purple. Thus, whatever magic is in the mirror is held by the frame, not the glass. And the purple glow suggests that the enchantments are either Star or Dark magic.

The Key of Aaravos was deliberately designed by Aaravos to help an ally locate him

The Key of Aaravos seems to point always in one direction when thrown. The reason is that this key always points into the direction of where Aaravos is and can see through any and all kinds of concealment magic (Primal or Dark) Aaravos' prison is hidden with from the world. Aaravos either had enough foresight to create such an artifact before Avizandum jailed him or had an ally construct it (using a similar familiar as the "worm" he uses to communicate with Viren to relay the instructions). Aaravos will have Viren manipulate Callum (through Claudia (after a fake Heel–Face Turn on her part or maybe even a real one, using her defection to feed Callum false information) or someone else) into following the Key (i.e. making him think he'll find a weapon to ice Viren once and for all, revive Zym's dad, or something else) and secretly follow him to Aaravos' jail to spring him. The reason why Aaravos didn't have Viren himself construct another Key was that it would either take too long, be too complicated or that Aaravos thought until now that the Key failed.

Why any kind of text about Aaravos from a history book seems to disappear when Viren tried to read it

Aaravos' "worm" familiar either made Viren hallucinate that the text was disappearing or had the text disappear from the books, scrolls, and so on for real so that any information about Aaravos Viren would be getting would be controlled by Aaravos.

• Jossed by the novelization: Callum can't read Aaravos' name more than once either, as it's blotted out the second time he reads Harrow's letter. And at this point Aaravos doesn't even know about Callum.

Aaravos is a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds

I can see the Freudian Excuse coming. Not that I'm complaining; Tropes Are Tools, after all.

Aaravos' caterpillar swapped bodies with Viren after the fall.

In Through The Moon, we saw Viren inside the large cocoon the caterpillar created. That's definitely the real Viren. Why? His face distortions! After years of using dark magic, he has to keep a daily routine of sacrificing a butterfly to hide his true facial features. Yet, after the resurrection, it's confirmed he had been dead for at least two days, even though his skin looks normal. If it's true that Aaravos has some limited future vision, he must've predicted that Claudia would resurrect Viren, and saw his opportunity to either escape his prison or to more effectively use Claudia for his own ends.

• Jossed as of season 4: The body that Rayla found in the cocoon in Through the Moon actually was Viren's dead body; it would be another two years before Claudia and Aaravos would revive it.

Aaravos will don a human disguise once he breaks out of prison

He has mastered the moon arcanum, which means he can create illusions. He'll have to use it before going out in public - otherwise, he'll no doubt get some attention from his appearance, not to mention there might be elves old enough to remember him.

Aaravos narrated the prologue to Claudia.

At some point in the timeskip, at most five months after Through the Moon, Aaravos told Claudia about how Xadia had been one land, rich in magic and wonder. He specifically said that the Dragon King had died "on the eve of the last Winter's Turn," so his narration must have happened prior to the eve of the following Winter's Turn; and the only person he could have been talking to at that time was Claudia.

Aaravos is the Star Devourer Archdragon.

He shares several visual similarities with the official drawing of Star dragons, namely the shape of his horns and the image of the Star Primal symbol on his chest. Star Dragons eat Stars, and the sun is a star. This is his plan to wreak havoc. He'll eat Xadia's sun. If he succeeded, we'd be looking at a class 5 or 6 apocalypse. It's also why he started growing exponentially bigger after consuming the Sunforge, and why he wanted to attack it in the first place-according to the wiki, Sunfire elves can perform a chant to repel Star dragons. A weakened Sunfire civilization would harm their ability to perform said chant. He looks like an elf either because he was trapped in the body of one for containment, or because he needs to look like one for Viren and Claudia to do his bidding.

Aaravos will possess to another Dark Magic user.

Possible candidates and why:

• Viren. Since he failed to convince Viren to sacrifice the Being at the end of Book 5, Aaravos will control him to complete the resurrection spell, as he needs Viren alive for his plan.
  • Jossed.
• Claudia. Given that Viren renounced Dark Magic and preferred to die in peace, Aaravos will possess Claudia to perform the necessary spell to free him, and Claudia will allow it out of her desire to avenge her father and considering that she no longer has anything to lose.

Future plot/arcs

There will be a Sixth Ranger type character in the later seasons

There are plenty of candidates:

• Ellis and Ava: Circumstances could easily place them on the run with the princes and Rayla.
• Soren and/or Claudia: They'll probably think their dad may have past the Moral Event Horizon and defect. Or one of them dies and the other joins the princes.
  • Confirmed, as Soren defects in Season 3.
• A new character entirely: Possibly an elf, someone who teaches Callum magic maybe?
  • They could get an elf who specializes in earth magic to teach Callum since he already knows wind and lightning magic. Maybe another female elf to even out the genders of the party. She could be a short, smartass tomboy with a penchant for wearing green.
• Commander Gren: He either escapes or is let free (by someone else, possibly Opeli since Viren won't let him out) and then manages to catch up with the princes. He ends up having to defy Amaya when he sees the truth.
• Jossed - looks like it's Corvus.
  • Actually not jossed since I don't think Corvus will be the only Sixth Ranger of the team.
    • Definitely not jossed, Corvus isn't even the Sixth Ranger, it's Soren
• Confirmed, it's Soren

Book 3 will be "Sun"

Given that book 2 ends with Sol Regem showing up, this seems like the most likely element to be next.

• Confirmed.

Book 6 will be "Stars"

With Aaravos looking to be the Big Bad, it seems likely that his element will be the focus of the last one. Star magic is also described on the website as being the least understood, so it would make sense to save it until the end.

• Confirmed.

If there is a seventh season it will be called "Dark"

Bringing the Dragon Prince back to Xadia won't end the war.

The main characters are naive, as Runaan's dismissal of the egg established. There are people on the Xadia side who want to keep the war going, just like on the human side.

• The season 3 finale make it seem there will be peace. But a few people from both sides will probably not let go of their hatred, and probably even defect. With the Xadians siding with Aavaros, and the humans siding with Viren.

There will be episodes that will further detail the backstory of the setting.

• Based on the Alternate Character Interpretation in the show's YMMV page, the exposition on the first episode might have elements of Unreliable Narrator by someone who hates Elves and Dark Magic. Were the humans and elves live in harmony, or tension existed (indifferent self-segregation at the best guess)? Is the inventor of Dark Mage evil, or paranoid about the lack of magic among humans being exploited by primal attuned elves? Did the elves convene a discussion, if at all, before they deport the humans to the west?
  • Since the narrator is confirmed to be Aaravos, and he has his own agenda, it's pretty much a given that he has a lot more to say about the backstory of Xadia.

Rayla will eventually take her first life.

It will be during a pretty important scene and will either be in defense of herself or someone else (maybe Callum?). The victim will likely be a villain we haven't met yet. This will be Played for Drama and Rayla will end up having some form of post-traumatic stress disorder afterwards.

• Confirmed, at the end of season 3 she kills Viren, though he doesn't stay dead. It remains to be seen how she'll be affected by this.
  • Spoilers from "Through the Moon": Since Viren's body was never found, Rayla doubts that he is actually dead, and in "Through the Moon" she finds out that he is halfway between life and death. In the end, she sets out alone to hunt down Viren, and she may well be the one to finish him off for good.
  • As of Season 4, Aaravos, who knows what Rayla did to Viren, still dismisses her as an assassin who has never actually killed anyone.

The plot will start becoming pro-pragmatism

Admittedly, this is a bit of a stretch, as the show displays pragmatism in a negative light (and for good reasons). However, the main protagonists are kids who are still learning how difficult life can be. There may come a point where the best course of action ends up being the most pragmatic. For example, even though the kids return Zym to the Dragon Queen, it doesn't change her agenda in starting a war between humans and Xadia. Thus, the kids will be forced to come up with a way to stop the war through more pragmatic means.

The soldiers who sided with Viren and didn't get arrested got away at the end of the battle.

They defected from their kingdom(s) as protest against the peace with Xadia. They may or may not return to normal or at least regain their memories and intelligence.

Sol Regem will be the show's Big Bad, or he will be the second-in-command to Aaravos

Sol Regem is one of the first characters the audience was introduced to, being featured on the show's first teaser poster. He is also the dragon featured in the show's intro. He is definitely going to become a much more important character in a later season.

Sol Regem has clearly been presented as a villain. He nearly destroyed an entire city with hundreds of thousands of people. Not to mention how he wanted to kill Callum for the simple crime of trespassing. His hatred of humanity already cements him as a villain.

We also know that Sol Regem used to be the King of the Dragons before being overthrown by Avizandum. Perhaps Sol Regem is angry about losing his place as king. He may take his anger out on Zym and try to kill him along with the rest of the main protagonists. Additionally, Aaravos may become involved. He may see the Sun Dragon as a perfect pawn and use him to help him achieve his plans.

• Unlikely, since their motives seem to be at odds. Sol Regem explicitly despises humans for their use of Dark Magic. Aaravos admits he likes humans, and is an extremely powerful Dark Mage in his own right. They couldn't be more opposite.
  • They'll be more unlikely to work together if it turns out that Aaravos was the one who taught Dark Magic to Ziard.

Sol Regem will be killed by Viren to use for spell ingredients, under Aarovos's direction

If Sol Regem is still trapped under the arch Callum and Rayla lured him under, he's vulnerable. Considering Pyrah's horn (of a clearly young Fire dragon) was able to split a river of lava, imagine what the various parts of an ancient Archdragon could do. Aaravos might even have a way for Viren to absorb Regem's power like he attempted to do with Zym.

• Derived from the above, he may only get a portion of Regem's true power. Zym is an infant with tons of untapped potential that Viren could have adjusted to, while Sol Regem's power would be too vast or developed to properly internalize.

The Kingdom of Neolandia will be antagonistic in season 4.

Due to most of the kingdoms making peace with Xadia. They either don't believe or care if Viren was the one who sent the shadow elves to attack them, since it didn't change the bad history between the human kingdoms and Xadia.

• Jossed

The series will end with either Amaya or Opeli as the Queen of Katolis

Ezran will get Demoted to Extra in Season 4 and Soren will take his place in the group

Having reclaimed the throne, Ezran will likely have to remain in Katolis to fulfill his responsibilities as king. This could lead to Soren taking Ezran's place in the group and forming a Fighter, Mage, Thief Power Trio with Callum and Rayla.

• Through the Moon shows that while Ezran does have "all sorts of kingly duties," he isn't above delegating them to Opeli to go on adventures to the Cursed Caldera.
• Semi-Jossed, while Soren is now officially part of the group and may eventually form the above mentioned Fighter, Mage, Thief Power Trio with Callum and Rayla, Ezran is still very much part of the group.

Some elves will react violently to the revelation that humans can learn primal magic

Rather than seeing Callum's ability to connect to an arcana despite his humanity as a sign that humans are not as inherently evil as elves had thought, some will take the opposite perspective. Given the possible fear that humans might gain equivalent or superior power to the elves given their newfound connection to primal magic and relative predilection for dark magic, or the idea that humans might corrupt the "sanctity" of primal magic somehow (especially given how even Callum himself is not completely free of the touch of dark magic), some especially paranoid or bigoted elves may see the Callum's discovery as an urgent threat and reason to wipe out or subjugate the humans once and for all.

Book 5 will be "Ocean"

With Book 4 now confirmed to be "Earth" and to go along with the two WMGs above that predict that Books 6 and 7 will be "Star" and "Dark", respectively, that leaves "Ocean" as the only possible title for Book 5.

• Confirmed at Wondercon 2023

King Ezran is in very quiet contact with Reyla.

• He is very concerned about Viren being alive, which means he wants the most reliable and trustworthy mage he knows on site rather than wandering Xadia looking for him. An assasin-trained Moonshadow Elf, meanwhile, is the best option to track the guy on that side of the Rift so long as it remains understood that she'll call in reenforcements once she finds him.
  • No, Callum would not be pleased with either of them when he gets clued in.
• After the whole mess in Book 3 he is even more worried about Viren retaining contacts/sympathizers within range of the Katolian court or any magical listening/scrying tricks he or Claudia can pull; so telling Callum or indeed anyone but the sporadic and discreet animal messengers of Reyla's location/progress is ill advised.

Book 7 will be called "Void."

The climax of season five will be an epic battle between Team Zym and Team Claudia right where the prison is located; one side aiming to free its prisoner, the other side bent on preventing that."

Callum's group will meet another Startouch Elf.

• This Startouch Elf has been watching the group since the beginning and has decided to intervene to help them stop Aaravos.
  • They will instruct Callum to understand the Star arcanum.

Other/Meta

The video game will be a Fire Emblem expy.

The video game will be a The Legend of Zelda expy.

Xadia is on the other side of the Avatar World that we didn’t see.

What keeps them apart is treacherous waters and killer magical monsters.

In the distant future, "hot brown morning potion" will become known as "hotbrew".

Eventually, either Claudia will share the recipe for "hot brown morning potion" with someone, or maybe she left it written down somewhere and it's found, and it becomes a very popular drink among the citizens of Katolis. Since it's a bit much to say "hot brown morning potion" every times someone wants some, it will get shorted to "hot brown", which over time will become "hotbrew" from language drift.

Jossed

Callum is illegitimate.

He has lighter skin than the King and Ezran, his younger brother Ezran is the Crown Prince, and he seems uninterested in duties like his swordsmanship.

• Jossed. He's King Harrow's step-son and thus Ezran's half-brother.

Rayla's parents are trapped in the mirror

• Jossed. The elf in the mirror is Aaravos.
  • It's possible that Aaravos is Rayla's father.
    • Jossed. Her dad is shown at the end of season 3.

The dragon on the poster and in the opening is the Dragon Queen

Azymondias seems to take after his father, leaving his mother's appearance open, and they're the only other dragon we've seen. There's no indication that female dragons would look significantly different or that dragons from different types (they appear to be a Sun dragon) can't breed. Plus, Law of Conservation of Detail holds that the dragon has to be important or they wouldn't be putting focus on them.

• Jossed. The dragon is actually Sol Regem, an Archdragon of the Sun.
  • Jossed, Josse. The dragon on the poster has two eyes, Sol Regem has one eye. Now, this doesn't mean the dragon isn't Sol Regem, there could have been an art change, but as evidence isn't concrete, the theory is still possible.
    • Jossed Josse of the Josse, Word of God confirms Intro Dragons identity as Sol Regem

Claudia won't reciprocate Callum's feelings because she's lesbian.

• Or she's...just not into him.
  • I think we can call both of these jossed after their almost-kiss near the Moon Nexus. Feelings are complex, but there's every indication that she at least felt some attraction to him at that point in the story.
  • As of the season 3 finale, she might no longer have feelings for Callum since he chose Rayla. She probably witness him saving Rayla, allowing her father to fall to his death. That and the dark magic is beginning to corrupt her.
    • Jossed in regards to her being a lesbian, as Season 4 introduces her new boyfriend, Terry.

The dragon horn will free Viren from his prison.

• Jossed, it was used for a different purpose.

Runaan will return in season three.

In order to make up for his absence in season two along with expanding his role.

• Jossed.
• He might show up in season 4.
  • Semi-confirmed. Runaan himself does not reappear, but the coins he and Rayla's parents are trapped in do.

Callum will learn each Arcana during the book with the same name.

Obviously, Moon is an exception here, as it's too late for that one.

• Jossed as of Season 3 he doesn't even get close to learning the Sun Arcanum, although he does finally use Moon magic (with a Primal Source) and seems to begin to understand its Arcanum (from Rayla's comment that he "sounds like Lujanne")

Elarion was Aaravos's lover.

Likely resulted in betrayal. Or they're Star-Crossed Lovers.

• Would be ironically fitting, considering Aaravos is a Startouch elf.
• Jossed, Elarion was a human city.

Elarion was literally a young child.

Maybe Aaravos took her in and acted as a surrogate father, similarly to Runaan and Rayla.

• Jossed, Elarion was a human city.

Elarion was a Sky Elf and Callum is her reincarnation.

Would explain how Callum got access to Sky Magic. Note that he only pulled it off after a Near-Death Experience.

• The vague Wrong Context Magic parallel between Callum and Aaravos was then just a Red Herring to fool the audience into thinking that they're going to rehash the Master of All sub-plot of Avatar.
• Jossed, Elarion was a human city.

Alternatively, Elarion was a humanoid, semi-sentient Man-Eating Plant, hence her 'vines'.

Aaravos used her for his own ends by steering her towards specific locations.

• Jossed, Elarion was a human city.

Elarion is a tree of Forbidden Fruit.

Probably related to how dark magic came to be.

• Jossed, Elarion was a human city.

Elation is a allegorical representation of dark magic.

• Jossed, Elarion was a human city.

If Aaravos doesn't become the final Big Bad, then I believe the Dark Mage will be such

It would make sense since it was him who caused the events that resulted in the human-elf conflict.

• Jossed, season 3 shows he died long before the series started.

Soren and Claudia will break Viren out of prison.

They are returning to the castle, so they will soon find out about Viren imprisonment. They will probably try to convince Opeli and the council or Ezran first, but they won't set him free after he killed those guards. So they will decide to take matters into their own hands. Soren may initially be against it, since Viren did kill those guards, but Claudia will convince him that it's probably all a misunderstanding and that their father will have a perfectly reasonable explanation.

• Jossed, Viren gets out of prison without Soren and Claudia's help.

Viren is the same human who first discovered Dark magic.

His weird butterfly ritual seems to be the thing keeping him young. Also, when he traps Runaan's soul, his staff shifts and looks exactly like the one shown in the first episode narration (and in one credits shot).

• Or not since it's possible that the Dark Mage could be Viren's ancestor than Viren himself.
• Not strictly jossed, but it seems extremely unlikely given his interactions with Aaravos. It's possible he somehow has the first Dark Magician's staff, though.
  • Jossed. The opening to Season 3 shows us that first Dark Mage again, and the scene ends with him being incinerated.

S4 will open with Callum and Soren once again sparring.

Only this time Callum actually puts up a good one-on-one fight or even putting Soren on the ropes, showing just how far he's come.

• This is actually more likely than some might think—canonically, Sky mages can enhance their speed and agility, to the point of being considered excellent acrobats. So, if Callum splices his magical talents with martial training, he could easily match Soren in fighting prowess.
• Jossed.

Callum's Earthblood Elf impersonation was completely wrong.

Earthblood Elves don't have antlers, speak in Australian accents, or have trees for friends; and what's more, Ethari knew it, which is why he recognized Callum as a human.

• Callum's impersonation was a Paper-Thin Disguise that wouldn't fool anyone. Seriously, you'd expect two random tree branches, still with leaves for Earth's sake, and a headband look like authentic antlers?
• Jossed in Season 4: Terry and the other Earthblood elves have antlers, the same accent, and Terry even says "trees to meet you," exactly like Callum's impersonation.

Avizandum will be revived.

In a later arc, the protagonists discover that removing the spear that petrified Avizandum will bring him back. Seeing as they don’t have a reason NOT to do it, they remove the spear and Avizandum comes back.

• Jossed. Word of God has stated that the petrification spell also affected his insides, and because of that, removing the spear won't do anything.

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