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A dark mage seen at the beginning of the series. He was supposedly the first human to wield dark magic, and died confronting the dragon Sol Regem.

• Big "NO!": When Sol Regem threatens him with burning down the city of Elarion if he refused to give up dark magic, Ziard believes he wouldn't dare, and this causes the dragon to take the skies flying towards the city. Ziard lets out a scream of terror as he watches the dragon fly off.
• Dark Is Not Evil: A showcase of how using dark magic is not always indicative of personality.
• Establishing Character Moment: His first scene has him standing in a storm, using his magic to drain the lives of a few magical birds. Subverted in that this is deliberately misleading: the full scene shows that he was using it to save a city from a dragon rather than just killing them for power.
• Everyone Has Standards: Ziard is willing to harvest magical creatures to help raise humanity from a constant struggle to survive, but he's absolutely horrified when he learns Sol Regem intends to burn Elarion—and every human inside—to the ground as a way to force humans to give up Dark Magic.
• Glowing Eyes of Doom: When he starts using dark magic.
• Good All Along: Being the apparent originator of dark magic and thus the cause of the war with Xadia doesn't inspire confidence, does it? But it turns out that, use of Life Drain aside, he's absolutely more moral than Sol Regem.
• Heroic Sacrifice: He ends up losing his life trying to save his city from Sol Regem, and whether something worse happens as a result due to his body disappearing is left vague.
• I Did What I Had to Do: He justifies draining the lives of mass numbers of magical creatures as a necessity for humanity to finally thrive in a hostile world.
• Magic Staff: His Relic Staff is indicated by the official website to be the same one Viren currently wields, though it used to have two horns tied to it that looked similar to Aaravos' horns. It's the only thing left of him after his body is burnt by Sol Regem's flames. He claims it was a "gift" from someone else.
• No Body Left Behind: After Sol Regem unleashes his fiery breath upon him, it engulfs Ziard's entire body, and only his staff is left behind.
• Obviously Evil: The first human practitioner of Dark Magic, with long, unkempt black and white hair, who wears dark robes decorated with skulls and black feathers. Subverted, in that he was actually somewhat well-intentioned.
• Scissors Cuts Rock: His last act was to use his dark magic to summon a blast of fire to strike Sol Regem. Despite being the master of fire magic and near-immune to heat, Ziard's attack was so powerful that Sol was left permanently scarred and blinded.
• Tragic Dream: His dream is for humans to suffer less from being the most populous non-magical sentient species on the continent, for which he was willing to use dark magic. Sol Regem responds by trying to destroy an entire city, Ziard uses his dark magic to blind him even as he is killed himself, and humans are banished from Xadia in the aftermath.
• Well-Intentioned Extremist: The main reason why Ziard uses dark magic and wants to continue using it is because of how it's helped him and his people evolve from "lesser beings" as Sol Regem calls them, and allows them to keep their people fed and healthy after ages of suffering due to lacking a connection to magic. However, it still required draining so many magical creatures to death that the then-current dragon king was motivated to personally intervene to demand it stop.

• Blue Is Heroic: Is the protagonist of "The Orphan Queen" story and wears lots of blue.
• Braids of Action: Wears her hair in a braided plait.
• A Child Shall Lead Them: As "orphan" is usually used to describe youths and she's depicted in her adolescent years, it would appear that her reign began before she was an adult.
• The Hero: She is the main character of planned The Orphan Queen story. Earth reveals why she was so revered: She was the one who discovered Aaravos' treachery.
• Protagonist Title: She is the titular character of The Orphan Queen.
• True Blue Femininity: Her main colors are blue.

A major historical human figure known for exploring the continent under the tutelage of his elf professor.

• Bait-and-Switch: At his introduction at San Diego Comic-Con 2019, the audience members were introduced to an old historical portrait of him, suggesting a composed, mature, and down-to-earth yet ambitious air about him. The next slide shows a picture of him in person. Ambitious, yes, but he's actually an unlucky total dork. Judging by his facial hair and height in his portrait, though, it's possible he grew into what his portrait depicts him as.
• Born Unlucky: If his reality photo compared to his historical portrait is anything to go off of.

• The Dreaded: Even if she was known for her kindness and just ruling, it was said that even dragons didn't dare to incur in her wrath.
• Early-Bird Cameo: Appeared in the opening prologue of the series, amongst a group of elves overseeing the breach, long before her name was given.
• Good Is Not Soft: Aditi was known by such cognomens as: The Kind, and The Merciful, but in the short The Queen's Mercy, she entrapped the, falsely, repentant Bloodmoon Huntress with a magical collar when she came to Lux Aurea seeking sanctuary from the Dragons. One which was seared around Kim'dael's neck and bound her to forever serve Aditi's royal line, until the day one of Aditi's rightful heirs sees fit to free her.
• Never Found the Body: Aditi suddenly disappeared when she was mediating a conflict between the Archdragons, which risked a war between said dragons and the elves (thankfully, the Orphan Queen somehow discovered that Aaravos was behind her disappearance) and later Aaravos himself would all but state that he killed her when he kills her grandaughter Khessa in a way that leaves no body behind. Seeing the flashback again in Season 5 in clarity, Aaravos implies that he swallowed her whole.
  Aaravos: Would you like to learn the truth of her fate before you face yours? I swallowed her.
• Ultimate Blacksmith: Aditi was equally skilled with a forge as she was with magic, using both talents to create magical items.
• Universally Beloved Leader: So beloved and respected was Aditi, not just by the Sunfire elves she reigned over, but all elves in general, that even the Archdragons deffered to her, and entrusted Aditi to decide the next Dragon Monarch when their Succession Crisis reached its zenith. In fact, when it was believed that the Archdragons had killed her, all elves were ready to wage war against them.
• Uncertain Doom: She disappeared at a crucial moment in Xadian history, and only Aaravos knows her true fate, which he whispers to her grandaughter, Khessa, before killing her. Though whatever he told her, was enough to elicit shock from Khessa in her last moments.

• In the Hood: She has yet to be seen without her hood up.
• The Needs of the Many: The Jailer was willing to kill Akiyu when she accidentally saw where the prison they had built would be hidden, in order to keep the location of Aaravos secret from the world. She only agreed to spare her if Akiyu vowed to die before telling anyone else the secret location.
• Smart People Wear Glasses: Was a bespectacled mage who managed to develop a prison able to contain a powerful Startouch Elf.