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    In General 
  • Eldritch Abomination: Given the nature of the Titan itself, it's not surprising that many of the residents are various shades of grotesque, alien, or just plain bizarre.
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: There doesn't seem to be any discrimination by what counts as races and skin tones, there are several women holding high government positions and no one looks twice at Willow's dads or at Luz and Amity being a couple. The only thing that matters is compliance with the Coven System.
  • Everything Trying to Kill You: The Isles' fauna and flora are more often than not extremely hostile.
  • Extreme Omnivore: The residents are capable of eating foods and creatures many humans would be unable to digest, something Luz discovers the hard way the longer she stays in the Boiling Isles; also inverted in Season 3, where it is heavily implied that the opposite is also true in that there are common human foods that they can't eat (or at the very least strongly dislike).
  • Informed Attribute: In "The Intruder", Eda claims that the weather on the Boiling Isles is more like "plagues". But aside from the "boiling rain" seen in that episode, no particularly dangerous weather patterns have been seen.
  • Made of Magic: Magic makes up a majority of a witch's life force. As demonstrated by the Greater Basilisk, draining the witch's magic puts them in a state of near-death. This is exactly how the Draining Spell works—coven sigils bind the witch's magic providing a link so that the spell can target them, draining the magic out of them, this killing them. The more magic they have, the more fatal.
  • Mage Species: Eda, Willow, Gus, Amity, and the other pointy-eared humanoid denizens of the Boiling Isles are born with a natural capacity for magic. Luz is human, and lacks that inherent magical ability. Luz is still capable of magic, but, being human, she has to learn an alternate and more ancient version of it.
  • Mix-and-Match Critters: Those residents of the Boiling Isles that are neither humanoid nor eldritch abominations tend to be various shades of this.
  • Non-Heteronormative Society: Word of God has said that discrimination against LGBTQ+ individuals is effectively non-existent in the Isles. The openly non-binary Raine was even able to rise up to become the Bard Coven head (a very prestigious position) without anyone treating it as out of the ordinary, at least until the bard's treachery was discovered. It's especially ironic considering that people typically get arrested for "deviant" behavior. Still, it bears mentioning how vastly different queer society in the Boiling Isles vs Earth are: Non-heterosexual people from the Boiling Isles don't use labels, as Luz, a human, is the only character to explicitly identify as Bi as of Season 3. They don't declare their pronouns as others can seemingly tell what pronouns they use, while a side character from Earth has to by declaring "they/them" on a name plate. Also, the idea of coming out to your loved ones is virtually non-existent nor is it treated as a big deal; Luz had to come out to her mom, with Gus showing support for an otherwise alien custom.
  • Our Demons Are Different: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that the demons of the Isles arose from the decomposing body of the Titan, and can be divided into three major categories: Bug demons like Hooty and the skin-eating fairy who can communicate via dance, biped demons like Tibbles and Tiny Nose who can cast spells like Witches can (though apparently Bug demons still tend to have some magic), and beast demons like the Slitherbeast.
  • Our Witches Are Different: Witches in the show are able to do magic thanks to an actual magic organ attached to their hearts. The bile in this organ helps fuel the casting of magic spells, with a major example being the use of spell circles (with the particular spell being cast being based on thought).
  • Pointy Ears: The more humanoid inhabitants of the Boiling Isles tend to have pointed ears. In "I Was A Teenage Abomination", Willow is able to identify Luz as a human because her ears aren't pointed.
  • Public Execution: A Petrification Ceremony is a public event and involves permanently turning the subject to stone, and it's usually a punishment for capital crimes like treason against the Emperor, refusing to join a coven, or even aiding and abetting those who committed such crimes.
  • Wizards Live Longer: Word of God says that, while Witch lifespans normally roughly equal human ones, some Witches can use magic to extend their lives further, however the only character shown doing this is, or rather was, human.
  • World of Jerkass: Almost everyone on the Boiling Isles has shades of hypocritical, darwinistic, and Moral Sociopathy behavior. The entire world seems to operate on the principle of Might Makes Right; power is the one deciding factor in who rules, and altruism seems virtually non-existent. Boscha and her Girl Posse are surprised when Luz decides to take the fall for one of her friends, and much of Amity's crush on Luz seems to derive from the fact that she's consistently nice even when she doesn't need to be. However, this seems to be a byproduct of Philip's/Belos' actions and influence and the coven system as the inhabitants of Bonesborough come off as much more pleasant and hospitable during the 1600s. In the series finale, the Titan himself implies this was deliberate, as Belos remade its society to conform to the "perdition" he thought it was to justify his irrational hatred of them. And it's also implied that with Belos's death, the Isles themselves will revert to the way they were in the Deadwardian era.
  • World of Weirdness: It's a massive island made from the corpse of a titan in an alternate dimension. It's populated by demons and a Mage Species (the distinction between them blurred in the case of Bipedal Demons) of many shapes and sizes, its own Wizarding School, a variety of savage monsters both sentient and animalistic, Weird Weather, a comet that brings books to life and a whole host of other unusual phenomena that when new things come along (like a human girl or a walking house), people will only respond to it with mild surprise.

Coven System

    Covens 
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The ten major covens.note 

The covens of the Boiling Isles; it was issued once Emperor Belos became the ruler of the Boiling Isles due to his hatred of Wild Magic. There are nine main covens: Bard, Plants, Illusion, Oracle, Beast Keeping, Construction, Healing, Abominations, and Potions. Once a person is assigned to a coven, they receive a sigil that binds them to only using that coven's magic. The only exception is the Emperor's Coven, which is an elite military force working directly under the Emperor with special clearance to use all forms of magic.


In General

  • Animate Inanimate Object: Three of the nine covens have demonstrated this ability. Beast Keeping can do this by imbuing objects with bestial-features, Potion can animate objects with the right concoction, and Bard can use their music to put items under their sway.
  • Apocalypse Cult: In Season 2, it's revealed that the "Day of Unity" is a mass draining spell designed to suck the life out of everyone with a sigil, killing everyone on the Boiling Isles in the process.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Each Coven has its own banner and signature color:
    • Bard Coven - Red harp
    • Beast Keeping Coven - Orange pig hatching from an egg
    • Potion Coven - Yellow bottle
    • Plant Coven - Green plant with closed jaws
    • Illusion Coven - Blue mirror
    • Healing Coven - Indigo hand wrapped in bandages
    • Oracle Coven - Purple eye
    • Abomination Coven - Orchid abomination face
    • Construction Coven - Brown fist
    • Emperor's Coven - Gold winged sword and shield
  • Gang of Hats: Each of the main nine covens focus on a primary magical discipline. This dynamic is enforced through the Emperor's Coven and the coven system, sigils applied to initiates that make it impossible to do more than one form of magic.
  • Light Is Not Good: Most of the coven heads wear white cloaks, with most of them being in on Belos' plan with the exception of Raine, Darius, and Eberwolf.
  • No Honor Among Thieves: It's stated in "Any Sport in a Storm" that the Coven Heads, despite technically being allies, constantly stab one another in the back so often that it's considered perfectly normal.
  • Power Limiter: Those who join a coven are given a sigil that limits them to only perform that coven's magic. The only exception is the Emperor's Coven, but membership is somewhat exclusive. Basic, elemental magic like fire or ice Spells aren't subject to coven restrictions. Glyph magic is also an exception, but even a lot of witches who know of this lack Luz's artistic ability to properly execute this. Prior to the finale's Time Skip, the only known way to remove the sigil is amputation, but to many witches it's not worth the price of performing magic one-handed.
  • Power Parasite: "Hunting Palismen" reveals that the Coven System's Power Limiters are apparently actually siphoning off the unusable magic to power the Emperor's plans for the Day of Unity, with the heads of the main nine covens transferring the power to Belos through their medallions.
  • Telepathy: Both Oracle and Illusion coven witches are capable of some amount of mental magic, such as transmitting messages telepathically or reading another person's memories. Potions Coven witches can also create a concoction that lets them enter another person's mindscape.
  • Unequal Rites: The entire Coven system seems to exist so Emperor Belos can suppress wild magic and eventually erase it all together with the Day of Unity.
  • Unwitting Pawn: The entire coven system is actually Belos' way of exterminating all of the Boiling Isles inhabitants, via a spell given to him by the Collector that drains the life out of everyone who unwittingly took on a coven sigil.

The Emperor's Coven

Tropes pertaining to the Emperor's Coven are on the Character Page here.

Abomination Coven

  • Acid Attack: Abomination goo can be corrosive enough to melt stone as demonstrated by Darius.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: Despite the coven's name and specialization in creating (literally, since they're purple) dark creatures and even mutating yourself into one it is abundantly shown that this doesn't affect the witch's morality, with two prominent members switching sides.
  • Elemental Armor: Abomination magic users can make armor out of Abomination matter that can both protect them and have offensive applications.
  • Elemental Baggage: Abomination goo is specifically prepared ahead of time and has to summoned to the users location to be used, though some witches like Amity and her father get around this limitation by carrying a small amount of it on their person at all times.
  • Elemental Barrier: Abomination Witches can use Abomination goo to protect themselves from a variety of attacks whether they are matter based such as rocks or energy based especially against fire.
  • Elemental Weapon: Abomination Witches are able to create weapons, such as fists or whips, out of Abomination goo.
  • Elemental Shapeshifting: More powerful Abomination witches can transform into Abominations themselves, as seen with their Head Witch, Darius.
  • Elemental Speed: Abomination magic users can travel with abomination goo such as riding waves of it, rolling in a sphere of Abomination goo, and riding pieces of it in the air.
  • Elemental Zombie: Abominations are zombie like in nature and can have elemental traits when combined with other forms of magic such as glyphs and the plant track.
  • Flesh Golem: Abominations are made from organic parts which are known to include eyes, teeth, bones, and toenails.
  • Maker of Monsters: The Abomination Coven's whole deal is creating Abominations, purple humanoid Blob Monsters that mindlessly follow the commands of their summoner.
  • Necromancy: Abominations are made of animated organic matter that are not alive and are commanded by witches.
  • Portal Pool: Implied to be a rather high-tier spell, but Abomination matter can be used to immediately transport items or people. The coven's head witch Darius uses this very frequently, almost to the point of being a Signature Move, and Alador Blight has demonstrated it as well.
  • Swiss-Army Weapon: An Abomination's malleability means it can rapidly be altered into different forms to suit a witch's needs, from their common humanoid shapes, to sharp blades or snaring tentacles, to a Power Fist type gauntlet and back again with ease.

Bard Coven

  • Early-Installment Weirdness: In "The First Day", Skara is shown summoning cherub-like creatures using bard magic. In all subsequent appearances, bard magic is shown to mainly involve telekinesis. Possibly justified by Raine using Bard magic to produce thunderstorms, showing that this field is more nuanced than it seems.
  • Magic Music: Witches in this coven channel their magic through their music and performances to either put people or objects under their sway, disrupt the magic of others, or just straight up fire sonic blades at their enemies.
  • Mind over Matter: Bard magic has displayed the ability to telekinetically move objects, often by making them float into the air.
  • People Puppets: The main application of bard magic is forcing people to move against their will, typically in the form of a humiliating, Involuntary Dance.
  • Red Is Heroic: The Bard Coven's primary color is red and all of its major members (from Raine to the BATTs to Skara) are depicted as kind heroic characters.
  • Shock and Awe: Several Bard spells have shown the use of electricity, cutting energy, or even summoning thunderstorms.
  • Smoke Out: Both Derwin and Raine have been shown conjuring smokescreens to cover escape. Notably, both used wind instruments to do so, though this may be a coincidence.
  • Super-Scream: As far back as their teen years, Raine Whispers showed the skill to whistle with enough force to blow a fellow student bodily away.
  • Unequal Rites: In a flashback in "Them's the Breaks, Kid", some of the other students at H.E.C.K. show that Bard magic was looked down upon like Illusion magic was, at least back then.

Beast Keeping Coven

  • The Beastmaster: Members of this coven can control from the largest of animals, to even the tiniest of insects. They can also turn inanimate objects into half-beast creatures.
  • Summon Magic: Beast Keepers can summon animals to command, though it's unspecified if they're making them or teleporting them from somewhere else.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: Potentially combined with a bit of Super Mode, their Head Witch, Eberwolf, showed that it's possible for members of this coven to transform themselves and get a more beastly appearance, assumingly with added benefits for combat.

Construction Coven

  • Dishing Out Dirt: In practice, Construction magic involves manipulating surrounding rock and creating constructs out of it.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: In "Covention", the Construction Coven's specialty is stated to be using Power Runes to augment their physical strength for use in construction. In season 2, Construction magic is shown to instead involve creating constructs out of the earth.
  • Hufflepuff House: One of the covens that has very little plot relevance. The most major Construction-magic user in the show is Mattholomule, and he hasn't even been shown doing much construction magic, aside from conjuring tools. Their Coven Head, Mason, doesn't even have any lines in the show.
  • Imagination-Based Superpower: Construction magic is exactly what it sounds like—constructing anything out of the material around the user. The user's only limit is their imagination—they can think of something, be it a structure, sculpture, or even a tool and it materializes.

Healing Coven

  • Barrier Warrior: Shielding spells are implied to be the domain of the Healing Coven, which makes sense to protect subjects from harm in the first place.
  • Dispel Magic: Healing magic is used for the removal of curses and other unwanted spells. Alador's sigil removal tech in the epilogue is specifically shown to require four healing witches channeling their magic together in order to power it.
  • Healing Hands: The specialization of the aptly-named Healing Coven.
  • Hufflepuff House: This coven has very minor plot relevance. Little of what their magic can entail has been shown, and (before Emira becomes multi-track) there are no major characters in the Healing Coven.
  • An Ice Person: Ice magic is implied to be part of their purview, which would make sense for such things as ice packs and cold compresses.
  • The Medic: Those in this coven are medics and doctors by trade, and between Tiny Nose mentioning medical school exists and Amity needing a cast at the end of Season 1 indicates medical knowledge is necessary since people can incur ailments that require more delicate care and cannot be fixed by magic alone.
  • White Magic: As the name implies it is focused on healing and protecting, with few offensive spells.

Illusion Coven

  • Glamour: Besides casting illusory disguises with direct spells, artifacts called concealment stones have been shown to provide a user with small-scale but consistent and long-term disguising effects, such as hiding acne or facial hair, or changing the appearance of clothes. A user can also appear as another person, but they have to scan the target with the stone.
  • Hard Light: The show is somewhat inconsistent on this, but illusion spells do appear to have some level of physical presence. That said, even the smallest amount of force is enough to dispel them, even by so much as a tap by the finger. More focused illusions will feel solid.
  • Master of Illusion: They can create images of what isn't there, and they can also make themselves look like others. They can also use their magic to affect non-illusory transformations, such as a student accidentally removing their face, or Gus adding muscular arms onto Willow's plant monster.
  • Nightmare Weaver: High-tier illusionists are able to invade a victim's mind to read their memories and force them to re-experience their worst memories as if they were really happening.
  • Personality Powers: More so than any other coven. Witches and demons that has been shown practicing illusions tend to be either flashy or sneaky in some way. Gus even says that they all like to use their magic with "a hint of showmanship".
  • Unequal Rites: Illusion magic is looked down upon somewhat for being the only coven that doesn't have any spells with tangible or indefinite effects, and being easily dispelled.

Oracle Coven

  • Amplifier Artifact: Most Oracle magic seems to require some sort of physical medium to be cast like tea leaves, amulets, crystal balls, or paper fortune tellers. Because of this, it's one of only two forms of traditional magic that Luz is shown to be able to use (the other being Potions).
  • Casting a Shadow: One instance shows a user of Oracle magic entering an arena in the form of a mobile shadow, though whether this is an example of larger shadow manipulation is unclear.
  • Crystal Ball: These seem to be a common tool for Oracle magic in particular, used to summon spirits or outpour magical black flames.
  • Hufflepuff House: This coven has little plot relevance, and little is shown of what their magic can fully do.
  • Necromancy: A tool used by the Oracle Track are crystal balls that summon apparitions, something implied to be a staple of the coven.
  • Seers: The Oracle Coven is full of these, though it appears to include both seers that predict the future (aka actual oracles) and those who merely practice scrying. It's also implied that the actual future sight aspect is limited to the to the immediate future, as the only times we see people do predictions it involves something happening within the next minute or so and nobody saw the Draining Spell coming despite roughly a ninth of the adult population being oracles.

Plant Coven

  • Fantastic Flora: Part and parcel for the macabre and dangerous Boiling Isles, the Plant Coven deals with terrifying and often violent plants on a regular basis.
  • Fast Tunneling: Witches in the Plant Coven demonstrate the ability to tunnel through the earth using root systems.
  • Green Means Natural: The Plant Coven is color-coded green and at least two named plant witches (Terra and Amelia) are shown to have green hair. Interestingly, most natural flora on the Boiling Isles come in shades of red, while plants made from magic are green.
  • Green Thumb: As the name implies, the Plant Coven's magic revolves around creating, tending to, and controlling plants.
  • Making a Splash: Water magic falls under their domain, which makes a great deal of sense given that their magic is geared towards the caring and manipulation of plants.
  • Vine Tentacles: The go-to combat spell for most Plant Coven members seems to be summoning up vines from the ground to ensnare their opponents.

Potion Coven

  • Alchemy Is Magic: The Potions Coven runs on this, creating magical concoctions with a wide variety of effects. Some are simple explosives, others help regulate curses, and one mixture is even capable of bringing objects to life. Notably the fact that making potions doesn't require much, if any, inherent magic means witches who lost their powers like Eda and Lilith can still do some magic. Hunter probably passed himself off as a student in the potions track when undercover in "Any Sport in a Storm" because he figured he wouldn't have to demonstrate magic. Of course, there's more to this practice than manually creating potions. Adept witches in this coven have the ability to magically generate whatever chemicals they need to produce the effects they want, as shown by Head Witch Vitimir.
  • Awesome, but Impractical: Potions Coven witches are shown to be able to create potions capable of virtually anything, including replicating the effects of spells from other covens. Unfortunately, they require significant preparation, are reliant on gathering reagents ahead of time, and tend to malfunction with horrible consequences if they are prepared even slightly wrong.
  • Eye of Newt: Potions ingredients can get fairly unusual, anything from fire-bee honey and porcuspine quills to dandruff of a skin badger and fairy spit.
  • Playing with Fire: Potions Coven witches generally tend to favor fire spells, likely because heating reagents is an important part of potion-making.
  • Recurring Extra: While abomination magic is the magic given most focus in the show, the potion coven is the most recurring coven with little plot importance. Of the notable characters, Luz, Eda, Lilith, Boscha, and Edric studied or studies in the potion track, Hunter used a potion track uniform when infiltrating Hexside, and Morton is a member of the coven.

Coven Heads

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Coven Heads

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Left to Right: Raine (Bard), Hettie (Healing), Eberwolf (Beast Keeping), Adrian (Illusions), Vitimir (Potions), Darius (Abomination), Osran (Oracle), Terra (Plant), Mason (Construction)

The Head Witches of the nine main Covens who serve the Emperor.


  • All for Nothing: Their (unknowing) efforts to aid Belos in enacting his Final Solution only ends with them almost becoming part of the genocide, with their only reward in the end being that they get to live... only to be turned into puppets by the Collector.
  • All There in the Script: Four of them go unnamed in the show, but producer Rebecca Rose gave out their names in a tweet. The Construction Head is Mason, the Healing Head is Hettie Cutburn, the Oracle Head is Osran, and the Potions Head is Vitimir.
  • Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: According to Hunter the Head Witches of the Covens betray each other all the time.
  • Fatal Flaw: All the coven heads (aside from Raine, Darius and Eberwolf) are extremely ruthless, self-serving and only concerned with their own ambitions. Aside from this leading them to betray everyone around them, it also makes them easy to manipulate (along with Odalia and Kikimora) because they actually believed Belos' claims that he will make them royalty in exchange for helping him with the Day of Unity, not knowing its true purpose is genocide, them included.
  • Forced Transformation: By the time of "For the Future", all of them have been turned into puppets by the Collector (Terra is initially kept free in exchange for playing the role of Eda in the Collector's game of "Owl House", but she gets turned as well when she makes the mistake of talking back to them).
  • The Ghost: Scooter Crane, the previous head of the Bard Coven, is only ever seen on stylized banners and has already retired from the role by the time the group is introduced.
  • Master of One Magic: They were chosen for their position for being the most powerful and skilled of their coven's magic.
  • Minor Major Character: While the majority of the Coven Heads are given some characterization, the heads of the Construction, Healing, Oracle and Potions Covens aren't given any characterization, have no lines, and their personalities remain unknown.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: The Coven Heads only have token loyalty to the Emperor, and their antagonism towards the heroes is little more than attempts to get brownie points. This is proven true especially of Darius and Eberwolf, and it's what causes their loyalty eventually falters when they find out what the Day of Unity is. Terra and Graye, on the other hand, are outwardly malicious. In "King's Tide" it's revealed they all believe they'll be made royalty by Belos.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: The peek of the future Belos offers them is of a merger of the Human and Demon Realms where they'll inherit a utopia free of wild magic. They carry out their work for the Day of Unity by whatever means possible, including murder and backstabbing, under the promise of becoming royalty once it happens.
  • Willing Channeler: On the Day of Unity in order for Belos' Draining Spell to work each of the Coven Heads needs to act as a channeler so that it'll spread to every other witch and demon that is part of their respective Covens.
  • You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: Belos used the Coven Heads first to enforce his Coven system then to be used as channelers for his Draining Spell. And in the end, he attempts to wipe them out with everyone else.

    Raine Whispers 

Raine Whispers

Voiced by: Avi Roque, Blu del Barrio [teen]

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"See? You'd be a mess without me."
Click here to see them in the epilogue 

"I don't know what you're running from. But a great witch once told me... Something about punching fears in the face? What I'm trying to say is, don't give up so easily."

The new head of the Bard Coven succeeding Scooter Crane, and secret leader of the BATTs (Bards Against the Throne). Raine is nonbinary and is referred to with they/them pronouns.


  • 11th-Hour Ranger: They team up with Luz, Eda, and King during the final battle against Belos, thanks to having already been present when he attached himself to the Titan's heart.
  • Affectionate Nickname:
    • Eda calls them "Rainstorm". It potentially foreshadows Raine's ability to summon storms with their magic.
    • In "Watching and Dreaming", the Collector calls them "Ray-Ray" while they were being possessed by Belos.
  • Amazon Chaser: When they see Eda's harpy form in "For the Future", they get rather starry-eyed.
  • Amicable Exes: Despite breaking it off with Eda because of the curse, they clearly don't hold any hard feelings over it when they reunite in "Eda's Requiem" and even seem to still have some feelings towards her.
  • Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking: "Them's the Breaks Kid", Raine and Eda attack Terra instead of each other after she tries to make them fight. While Eda announces she's sick of Terra's cruel 'challenges' Raine adds they don't like her plant puns.
  • The Bard: As the head of the Bard Coven, Raine is a brilliant musician. They channel their magic through their viola.
  • Beware the Nice Ones: At first glance, Raine is sweet, awkward, and about as threatening as a kitten. While those things are true, they're still a skilled bard and fully capable of being cunning and sneaky when the situation calls for it.
  • Big Good: They're one of the leaders of the primary resistance against Emperor Belos.
  • Blind Without 'Em: "Watching and Dreaming" reveals that their vision is very blurry without their glasses on.
  • Break His Heart to Save Him: Raine pretends to have amnesia as they coldly tell Eda off by claiming they want nothing to do with the wild witch since they're the head of the Bard Coven now. It was their way of protecting Eda from getting involved in Raine's plan to stop the Day of Unity.
  • Can't Kill You, Still Need You: They're captured at the end of "Eda's Requiem", but since the Day of Unity requires the leaders of all the major Covens, it'd be too much of a hassle to find a suitable replacement in time, Kikimora simply uses their coven sigil to restrain them, since no coven leader has to be willing for it.
  • Chekhov's Skill: In the flashback in "Them's the Breaks, Kid", Raine uses whistling to change some horrible juice into something that actually tastes good. The end of the episode reveals that they've been using this to neutralize Terra's tea. A bit of Foreshadowing for this is seen in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" where when Terra first gives them the potion, Raine whistles over it.
  • Childhood Friend Romance: Raine and Eda met as teenagers and became friends. Raine eventually transferred over to Hexside and at some point, they began dating Eda. Even as adults, there's plenty of Ship Tease between the two.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: A photo from their time at Hexside shows that they wore the red outfit of a Bard student.
  • Counterspell: Demonstrates the ability to disrupt a guard's spell circle with their own bard magic.
  • Cunning Like a Fox: Their palisman, who isn't revealed until the very end, is a fox; it fits Raine's hidden crafty, tricky personality quite well.
  • Declaration of Protection: Raine pretending to have amnesia to play along with the Emperor's plans says this after destroying the information Darius's abomination spy sent them. They even explicitly say they're not putting Eda in danger again.
    Raine: I'll keep you safe, Eda. I promise.
  • Dub Name Change: In the Danish dub, they're called Rainer Hvisker.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: They are first shown in a photo with a young Eda and Lilith in "Wing It Like Witches", albeit with their face covered. The episode right before their debut has them gathered with the other coven heads at a meeting with Belos.
  • Familiar: They have a fox palisman who spends most of the series hidden as part of their violin to protect them from Belos. The fox is seen on a staff by the time of the epilogue in part because they were forced to smash the violin in a desperate attempt to keep Belos from reaching the Titan's heart.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: They only wear a single earring on their right ear.
  • Fighting from the Inside: When possessed by Belos, they eventually gain the strength to momentarily regain control, and then fully force him out. And it likely saved their life, as they had already started gaining the scars that come from Belos' Possession Burnout.
  • Heroic Sacrifice: They try to take out Darius and Eberwolf with Eda's help by exploiting the reaction her curse has with Bard magic, only stopping when they realize that she's got Luz and King to think about. Then, they let themselves get captured so that Eda can get away. They do this again during the Day of Unity, detaching Eda's arm and saving her from the Draining Spell in their last moments, as per their promise to Luz in the prior episode, which appears to accelerate the Draining Spell's effect on them.
  • High-School Sweethearts: "Them's the Breaks, Kid" reveals that they met Eda during their teenage years and transferred into Hexside in part to be closer to them, with Eda mentioning that they were pretty much inseparable after that. That said, it's unclear if they were still in school when they started dating.
  • I Gave My Word: In "Clouds on the Horizon", Luz makes them promise that they'll protect Eda during the Day of Unity, so when the plan to stop the Draining Spell falls apart in "King's Tide" and everyone starts to die, they use the last of their strength to remove Eda's arm and spare her from its effects.
  • Instrument of Murder: Downplayed. Raine's viola is seemingly a mundane instrument, but it is the focus of their magic.
  • Ironic Fear: They are a specialist in Bard magic (being so good they became Head Bard), yet they suffer from performance anxiety.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: By their reappearance in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade", they've had their memories of the events of "Eda's Requiem" erased, believing that they spent the month in bed instead, and Terra is using her tea to reinforce the effect, if not cause it. Subverted in "Them's the Breaks, Kid," as it's revealed that Raine has been using their whistle spell to nullify the effects of Terra's tea, retaining their memories and only faking amnesia to protect Eda.
  • Leitmotif: "Raine's Rhapsody" appears to be theirs, as it has shown up again repeatedly, including scenes where they and Eda talk to each other in "Them's The Breaks, Kid" and "O Titan, Where Art Thou".
  • Locked Out of the Loop: They spend most of season three as a puppet and/or possessed by Belos, so they have no context for either Luz's Titan form or King being a baby Titan. They're visibly bewildered by both.
  • Maybe Ever After: It's implied that they may have gotten back together with Eda by the time of the epilogue, given their general affection for one another and the fact that they appear to have swapped earrings.
    • Word of God plays on this, stating that while Eda and Raine aren't married Raine had moved into the Owl House during the time skip.
  • Meaningful Name: Raine is said like "Rain", as a sound is soft and soothing in our world but is associated with danger on the Boiling Isles, while Whispers can play on both their shyer side that comes from stage fright despite their talent and that they've taken to trying to secretly go against the system they are a high ranking member in. They're also shown using their Bard magic to generate a localized thunderstorm during their fight with Eda in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade".
  • Mole in Charge: Infiltrated the Coven system to take it down from the inside after rising to a high position, having officially become the Bard Coven Head in their first appearance. Unfortunately, Whispers gets caught for treason by the end of the same episode. However, they manage to regain their position as a Coven Head while faking amnesia and still secretly plot against Belos, with it being revealed later on that they're working with Darius and Eberwolf as a team to stop the Day of Unity/Draining Spell.
  • Morality Pet: They, along with Hunter and Eberwolf, seem to bring out the best in Darius.
  • Mundane Utility: In "Them's the Breaks, Kid", Raine had developed a trick where they can make drinks more palatable by whistling, magically changing the chemicals in their drink using vibrations. At the end of the episode, they are revealed to be faking their brainwashing by using this trick to tamper with Terra's mind-control tea.
  • Musical Assassin: Their magic can be used to take control of other objects and by extension, the person holding or wearing the object in question. Raine can also fire slicing notes from their instrument.
  • Nice Guy: Well, nice person. Raine's an absolute sweetheart through and through, which makes them extremely poorly suited to Belos's coven system.
  • Non-Human Non-Binary: Technically, as Raine is a non-binary witch.note  However, as witches are not an inherently genderless species and have a male-female gender binary themselves, it doesn't function like most versions of this trope.
  • No, You: This hilarious exchange between Raine and a coven scout:
    Coven scout: (during Raine's speech against the coven system) Blasphemy!
    Raine: Blapshem-you!
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: "Them's the Breaks, Kid" reveals that they realized that Terra is trying to manipulate them via her tea and have been neutralizing it.
  • Old Flame: Was romantically involved with Eda back in the day, but broke it off because the curse made Eda push them away. Their interactions in the present show that there's some attraction there still.
  • Old Friend: Romantic history aside, both they and Eda refer to themselves this way in "Eda's Requiem". Lilith's comment in "Agony of a Witch" about Eda not having any friends (despite a photo in the previous episode showing that she knew about Raine) would seem to imply that they haven't been in touch for a long time.
  • Opaque Lenses: While Raine's glasses are often used to highlight them as an endearing nerd, in several of their more serious scenes the glasses are completely reflective making their emotions harder to read.
  • Parental Substitute: They seem to act as this to the BATTs, with the BATTs seeming young and Raine presenting them as a particularly proud parent would. Amber treating Eda as one would a parent's new partner seems to confirm the BATTs at least somewhat think of Raine as this.
  • Performance Anxiety: When they're publicly admitted as the new Bard Coven Head, they fumble the speech, even mispronouncing the Day of Unity, before eventually just running off the stage. Eda even snarks about it. They do better when performing with the BATTs, but that might just be because of their mask. In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Darius claims this is the reason why he attacked Raine for real in "Eda's Requiem" instead of telling them he also was suspicious of Belos. He didn't believe they were good enough of an actor to pull it off.
  • Pretend to Be Brainwashed: It's revealed in "Them's the Breaks, Kid" that they've been neutralizing the potion that Terra's been using to try to control them. Their claimed amnesia during the Coven Day Parade was all faked in order to keep Eda in the dark about their plans and prevent her from being endangered by Belos.
  • Scars are Forever: After being possessed by Belos, they develop distinct facial discolorations where his slime bled out of them. These markings remain even years later in the epilogue.
  • Sheep in Sheep's Clothing: As a kind-hearted coven leader with romantic tension with Eda who's seeking to undermine Belos's empire from within, they seem a bit too good to be true, and their interest in the disturbing side-effects of Eda's music is decidedly suspicious. As it turns out, though, they're completely on the level (and they only thought Eda's music might be a useful weapon to help the cause when applied creatively).
  • Shock and Awe: They are shown summoning lightning bolts during their brief battle with Eda, as well as electrifying their viola bow to block her staff.
  • Smart People Wear Glasses: Raine wears large round spectacles and is shown to be quite intelligent. In "Them's The Break Kids", even as a child, they've already won two ribbons from past conventions and taught themselves a spell to produce effects via soundwaves by whistling.
  • Socially Awkward Hero: Opposes the coven system and causes mayhem for them, but becomes a socially nervous wreck when in front of an audience or being too close to Eda. They even agree with Kikimora that they just can't deal with people.
  • Sword Beam: Raine can fire waves of sound from their viola sharp enough to cut through Darius' abomination form or a wall of thick vines.
  • They're a Man in Japan: Many foreign dubs of the show change Raine into a male character, largely due to gender-neutral pronouns being uncommon in many of those languages.
    • Is made male in both Spanish dubs. This could possibly be because gender-neutral pronouns don't really exist in Spanish.
    • Originally, the Thai dub had Raine referred to as a male, but only because the dubbing team wasn't aware that the character was non-binary. After receiving backlash, the dubbing team plans to rectify its mistake in the future.
    • The Danish dub, where Raine is voiced by a male voice actor (Simon Nøiers, who also voices Amity's brother Edric in the same dub), changes Raine's name to "Rainer", which is a boy's name in the regionally adjacent German language, and the character is actually referred to with a masculine pronoun in one sentence uttered to them by Eda in "Eda's Requiem":
      • Original
        Eda: So, the Head Witch of the Bard Coven likes pretending to be a rebel. Too bad they're not very good at it.
      • Danish
        Ida: Så, hekselederen af skjaldecirklen vil gerne lege at han er oprører. Synd, at det er ikke gået særligt godt.Translation 
      • However, later season 2 episodes, fortunately, avert this trope in the Danish dub, as outside of that aforementioned instance, Raine is always referred to with the Danish pronoun "de", which may be grammatically awkward, but is gender-neutral and in this case a very literal translation of the singular "they" pronouns used for the character in the original English version.
    • The German dub also originally referred to Raine with the masculine "er" pronoun, but this was later changed to "xier", which is a neo-pronoun that makes up for the lack of singular gender-neutral pronouns in the German language.
  • Token Good Teammate: Given their anti-coven status, they are this to the remaining Coven Leaders. At least until Darius and Eberwolf join them in their mission to stop the Day of Unity.
  • Too Powerful to Live: Downplayed. Having someone as powerful and influential as a Coven Head on their side would be such a big deal for the protagonists that it's no surprise that Raine gets incapacitated and captured at the end of their introductory episode.
  • Unbalanced By Rival's Kid: Played with: Despite their Ship Tease, Raine's status as Eda's ex wasn't said when they panicked at seeing her photo with Luz and King, but their distress was less about who she might have had her "kids" with, and more about how despite her attachment to them (that she tried to downplay), she was still risking her life with their destructive duet. Seeing she had made connections like that when it is later revealed that their relationship ended because Raine felt Eda pushing them away, helped rebalance them if anything.
  • Villain Override: Because Belos needs every coven head for the Day of Unity, and it'd take too long to replace them, Kikimora activates their coven sigil to incapacitate them.
  • Weapon-Based Characterization: As every bard uses a magical instrument, Raine's is a viola.
  • Weather Manipulation: Raine can conjure a localized storm around them to rain down lightning and fire lightning bolts from their bow.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Subverted. They call off what might potentially be a suicide attack the very second that they see Eda has an adoptive family, and offer sincere encouragement and support to help her overcome her anxieties about King and Luz leaving.
  • Who Writes This Crap?!: Isn't a fan of the flowery speech the other BATT members wanted them to say.

    Darius Deamonne 

Darius Deamonne

Voiced by: Keston John

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"I told you we didn't need help! So, get that ugly thing out of my face. And tell Alador he's a hack, while you're at it."
"I was scheduled for some me time today so hand yourself over before things get nasty..."

The Head of the Abomination Coven.


  • The Ace: While this is implied to be the case for all Coven Heads, Darius really demonstrates it. He shows off just how versatile Abomination magic is and is an extremely tough combatant.
  • Adopting the Abused: He was the first positive parental figure that Hunter ever had, and it's implied that he becomes his adoptive father following the events of the series.
  • Agent Peacock: He's a Sissy Villain with an outlandish sense of fashion and a snobbish attitude towards getting dirty, but one does not become a coven leader by being a push-over, being able to use abomination magic with deadly precision.
  • Alliterative Name: Darius Deamonne.
  • Ambiguously Gay: Besides his Agent Peacock dress sense, in "Watching and Dreaming" he excitedly shakes Alador by the shoulders after their sigil removal glove works, before immediately recoiling with an awkward blush once he realizes he's embracing his supposed rival.
  • Ambiguously Evil: While he fought against Eda and Raine in "Eda's Requiem" and appeared to be loyal to the emperor, by the time of "Them's the Breaks, Kid" he's seemingly working with the latter against Belos's plans for the Day of Unity, though without much context why it's hard to say where he falls on the morality scale, at the very least he appears to genuinely care for Hunter and wants to keep him safe from Belos who killed the previous Golden Guard. And he states he needs Eda's help, but that'll be difficult because Raine vetoes the suggestion. Completely subverted with the reveal that he's been running his own rebellion with Eberwolf, since they both found the Day of Unity suspicious, merging with Raine's to become the CATs, much to Darius' annoyance. The two groups only fought because Darius didn't think Raine could act well and pretended to be capturing them so as to make it seem like they were still on Belos' side as well.
  • Ambiguous Situation: Since Darius has always been against Belos and lost his mentor to him, just how much is he aware of? Does he know The Golden Guards are grimwalkers? Does he know about Belos being a human? Did he witness the murder of his mentor? Did it only appear to be suspicious to him, and he didn't know what happened? How much did his mentor know, and consequently how much did he tell Darius?
    • As of the series finale, its looking like what exactly was going on with the previous Golden Guard and subsequently how that impacted Darius will forever remain a mystery.
  • Anti-Hero: What he turns out to be. He's a Reverse Mole secretly working against the Coven, but he's really good at slipping into the role of a ruthless villain. That ruthlessness isn't all an act, either; Darius is happy to manipulate Hunter if it means improving his character, and (while it's Played for Laughs) he doesn't seem too gummed up by the idea of casualties when he starts suggesting plans to stop the Day of Unity.
  • Armor-Piercing Response: After Hunter drafts his new friends from Hexside into the Emperor's Coven so he can prove himself "worthy" of the Golden Guard sigil, Darius gives him a pretty succinct one.
    Hunter: I can wear this proudly now... right?
    Darius: Can you?
    (Hunter looks remorseful)
  • Berate and Switch: He angrily starts listing off all of Hunter's transgressions and turns his arm into a sickle, only to then revert his arm at the last second and praise Hunter for making his own decisions.
  • Berserk Button: When Eda's boots kick mud all over him, he gets pissed.
    Darius: Alright... NO MORE PLAYING AROUND!
  • Big Good: He was suspicious of the Day of Unity before anyone, started the rebellion, and fought Raine to protect them. It's heavily implied he is the main leader of the rebellion, while Raine and Eberwolf are the co-leaders.
    • He, along with Eberwolf, seems to have taken on the task of keeping the more unpleasant former Coven Heads in line after Belos' and The Collector's reign ends.
  • Black Eyes of Crazy: When seriously pissed off, he transforms into an Abomination — changing the color of his sclerae to black.
  • Blob Monster: He can dissolve into a stream of abomination goo for fast travel.
  • Butt-Monkey: At times, Darius would find himself getting the short end of the stick. This is shown when Eberwolf teases him about his Neat Freak attitude and when he gets embarrassed when Raine names their rebel group, the CATs (Covens Against the Throne).
  • Conspicuous Gloves: Darius has a pair of white gloves that serve to keep his hands both clean and fashionable. When he and the good Coven Leaders are in disguise; Raine's identifiable by their glasses, Eberwolf's identifiable by their hairstyle and eyes, while Darius is identifiable by his gloves.
  • Dark Is Not Evil: He specializes in abomination magic and is associated with purple, yet he is one of the rebel coven heads.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Darius takes Hunter's cloak, feeling the boy is unworthy of being Golden Guard, and tells him he can have it back if he finds some recruits, though it's actually just to keep Hunter out of his hair on his day off. Unfortunately, Darius neglects to take into account that Hunter is a Determinator, resulting in the coven head having to work on his day off when the Golden Guard takes the mission seriously and finds recruits.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: His first appearance is in a flashback in "Young Blood, Old Souls" as one of the students watching the Emperor's Coven tryouts, though he would only be recognized on a rewatch.
  • Elemental Hair Composition: His hair is an abomination, flowing as if in no gravity, complete with a little eye on the bun topping his head.
  • Elemental Shapeshifter: His skill with abomination magic is so advanced that he can meld with his creations, effectively becoming one himself.
  • Enforced Method Acting: In-Universe. He catches on to the fact that Raine is a traitor to Belos, so he legitimately attacks Raine to capture them before explaining he's a traitor as well, with his reasoning being that Raine isn't a good enough actor to not get caught.
  • Evil Luddite: Of a sort. He is the head of the Abomination coven and can create and control them with ease, but he holds Alador's Abomatons, who are magitek robots based on abomination magic, and Alador himself, in very low regard.
    Darius: Get that ugly thing out of my face... and tell Alador he's a hack while you're at it.
  • Failed a Spot Check: Darius is extremely astute and observant. He was never fooled by Belos' manipulations, and could always see right through them, and immediately figured out that Raine was investigating the Day of Unity and came up with a plan to recruit them. In a stream, his voice actor even suggested that his palisman would be a hawk because of how perceptive he is. Yet for years, he completely failed to notice that Hunter was carrying a veritable parade of red flags, and being horrifically abused right under Darius' nose. It's heavily implied that the trauma of losing his mentor and never getting any closure for the tragedy caused Darius to resent the replacement and assume the worst of him. For all intents and purposes, he had a Golden Guard-shaped hole in his perception. It took Hunter volunteering to take a beating with a scythe for Darius to snap out of it.
  • Fashionable Asymmetry: His cape only covers the left side of his body.
  • Foreshadowing: Regarding Darius being Good All Along.
    • In "Eda's Requiem" some of his Skewed Priorities rant towards Raine makes a lot of sense. To Darius, betraying Belos and The Day Of Unity wouldn't be anything wrong in the first place or something worthy of getting angry over. In comparison, because he's a Neat Freak even if he's Good All Along, his dirty cloak takes considerably more precedence than Raine standing against Belos, which just speaks how little he thinks of Belos in the long run. Darius also tells Kikimora to go away when she shows up to collect Raine, saying that he and Eberwolf are going to handle them alone. "O Titan, Where Art Thou" reveals this is because they wanted to find out what Raine knew before any of Belos' stooges could get their hands on Raine.
    • In "Any Sport in a Storm" after Belos leaves Hunter in charge of the Coven Head meeting to drive up recruitment efforts, Darius and Eber cancel the meeting. His suggestion for Hunter to win back his Golden Guard cloak by recruiting new witches for the Emperor's Coven is meant to just get Hunter to leave him alone, as Darius admits under his breath later in the episode, and even after Hunter does forcibly try to recruit some Hexside students into the Emperor's Coven, after Hunter has second thoughts and stands up to Darius to save them, Darius admits he was just going to drop the kids off at Hexside as he thinks the Coven "has enough recruits." With the reveal Darius is good all along, it's clear he was stopping recruiting efforts and rejecting Hunter's candidates, not because he wanted a day off, but because he knew of Belos' planned Final Solution and wanted to reduce the number of potential victims. It also adds a new dimension to his disappointment in Hunter for drafting his friends into the Emperor's Coven and his pride in Hunter when the boy's conscience makes him stand up to Darius so his friends can go free.
  • Good All Along: He's revealed to be working alongside Raine and Eberwolf to undermine Belos, helping to secretly trade-sensitive intel and participating in an attempt to invade the emperor's mind. He also tries to subvert Hunter's attempt at recruiting the Emerald Entrails into the Emperor's Coven and is pleased when the young witch decides against it on his own. He reveals in "O Titan, Where Art Thou" that he already suspected Belos was up to something and his "capture" of Raine was really saving them so they could work together to stop the Emperor.
  • Good Is Not Nice: While he ultimately turns out to be on the side of good, and seems to have everyone's best interests (except for Belos') at heart, he's also somewhat arrogant, self-absorbed and cranky, and doesn't seem to oppose the coven system for any other reason than Belos planning on using it against witchkind (granted stopping the genocide of his people should rank pretty highly on reasons to oppose Belos). His initial plan to stop the Day of Unity also involved some people getting eaten by flesh-eating beetles. But only the small ones. Although Word of God is that he wasn't really serious about that.
    • He appears much more outwardly affectionate in the epilogue. His lack of gloves may be a symbol of this.
  • Hidden Depths: He demonstrates a hatred of mindless, blind obedience and shows some major concern for Hunter's social life, to the point of being genuinely impressed when Hunter makes friends and defies him to protect them, letting him off the hook and even giving him a scroll so he can stay in touch with them.
    • Is all but outright confirmed to offer Hunter a place in his home and a family in the finale with no strings attached.
  • Honor Before Reason:
    • Darius knows that Eda's curse is absolutely necessary to stop the Day Of Unity and tries to convince Raine to recruit her. However, when Raine keeps insisting on leaving her out of their plan to keep her safe, Darius ends up acquiescing, despite knowing full well that without her they are at a massive disadvantage, and so desperate for any idea to stop Belos that they even attempt entering his mind. Later on, while investigating what happened to Luz and Hunter, Darius even stops Raine from going to Eda, even though after the plan to enter Belos' mind failed they really have no other recourse but her curse. After learning that the kids are trapped, Darius and Raine end up sending her the potion to pull them out as an anonymous gift, so they can help her while still leaving her out of the loop.
    • When the Coven Heads take Eberwolf hostage, Darius immediately surrenders, allowing them to continue with the Draining Spell. The thing is, the Draining Spell will kill anybody with a coven sigil, and Eberwolf has a coven sigil. So, as far as Darius knows, standing down isn't going to save Eberwolf's life at all, at best, it will buy him ten more minutes while everybody else on the Isles also dies.
  • Hypocritical Heartwarming: He stops Raine from going to Eda when they are investigating what happened after Luz and Hunter thwarted their attempt to enter Belos' mind, but practically bulldozes Raine out of the way the second he hears that Hunter is in immediate danger.
    • This was Foreshadowing him eventually becoming Hunter's guardian and heavily implied to be adoptive father.
  • Irony: He's the most powerful witch specializing in Abomination Magic — a type of magic that involves summoning Muck Monsters — yet he's a Neat Freak; similarly, despite abomination magic being majorly based on summoning obedient minions to fight, Darius hates blind mindless obedience and will only respect those who stand up for themselves.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: According to Word of God, he is much nicer than he seems.
    Dana Terrace: Even if he's still like, a little chaotic like he has his whole plans, like... "even if people get hurt, it's only the small ones" he says — he'll say stuff like that, but at the end of the day, he has his priorities, and his priorities are to help people and to care for those that he loves.
    Sarah-Nicole Robles: And he's willing to jeopardize himself like he's willing to put it all on the line for that.
    Dana: Yeah, like, he even stops attacking the other Coven Heads as soon as Eberwolf is threatened, because it's just like, at the end of the day, Eberwolf is important to him, these other people are important to him, it's just like — ugh! And that's, I think, he's just a layered character that, if there was a season 3, we would've got to explore a little more.
  • Mark of the Supernatural: His hair has been transformed into abomination goo, and the bun on top flows like a lava lamp. We see in his youth, he had a normal hair color and style, meaning at some point, he changed it, possibly a side effect of his transformations, or he just thought it looked cool.
  • Mentor Occupational Hazard: Darius' mentor, the previous Golden Guard, was killed by Belos for betraying him. This may have to do with Darius himself turning on Belos. Unfortunately, the show never elaborated on it, so what exactly happened will probably always be a Riddle for the Ages.
  • Misplaced Retribution: He lost his beloved mentor in tragic circumstances, and likely never even got the closure of learning what happened to him (at the absolute least, we know, for a fact, that the guy never got a grave). As a result, when Belos brought in the new Golden Guard, who was so proud of his promotion and so eager to please the Emperor, Darius resented the replacement, refused for years to see all the red flags that he'd normally notice right away, and took out his grief on the kid. Special mention goes to telling Hunter that he doesn't deserve to be the Golden Guard (when fear of losing his position caused Hunter to dig his own grave just a couple of weeks before), praising his mentor as a "powerful witch" in a way that very much sounded like a diss at Hunter's lack of magic (when, with no glyphs and no palismen, being a half-a-witch was a death sentence in the Boiling Isles), and scornfully saying "you're very good at doing exactly what you're told" to a groomed child who gets stabbed in the face if he so much as speaks out of turn.
  • Mundane Utility: At the end of "Any Sport In A Storm," he uses abomination magic to repair the shoddy repair work Hunter did on his cloak.
  • Neat Freak: Ironically, for his chosen field of magic, he doesn't like getting dirty. This could be justified as him trying to keep muck and contaminants from mixing into his form and causing problems.
  • The Nicknamer: Has a habit of giving nicknames to people when he's being hostile to them. He calls Raine "Songbird" while trying to capture them, Eberwolf "Mutt" when they track mud onto his clothes, and Hunter "Little Prince" throughout most of "Any Sport in a Storm".
  • Odd Friendship: Darius, a snooty Neat Freak interested in fashion, is often seen with Eberwolf, the Head of the Beast Keeping Coven, a demon who often shows off their bestial instincts and has no problem dirtying themselves to the point where they keep flesh-eating beetles in their hair. Despite their bickering, they're the only two Coven Heads who are shown to be actual friends.
  • Older Than They Look: He's a man in his forties, but looks very youthful. He likes to keep himself clean, groomed, and immaculate, and is seen with a face pack during his day off.
  • One-Winged Angel: He has a super form where he can change into a giant abomination with a big sword.
  • Out-Gambitted: Darius's plan to thwart the Day of Unity hinges on branding Eda with a Bard Coven sigil and disguising her as Raine so that her curse can disrupt the Draining Spell, with Eberwolf and Darius himself standing on either side of her in case anything goes wrong. Unfortunately, Belos is aware of the rebellion among the Coven heads, and complicates the plan by adjusting the arrangement at the last minute so that "Raine" is instead flanked by Terra and Graye, who he knows are loyal. Additionally, he's able to capture Lilith, Hooty, and the real Raine with an Abomaton, preventing them from supporting the others. This forces Darius and Eberwolf to fight the other Coven heads alone when Eda is inevitably found out, and once they're defeated, the real Raine's brought up to allow the Draining Spell to continue.
  • Papa Wolf: He is genuinely protective of Hunter.
    • In "Hollow Mind", Luz and Hunter get trapped in Belos's mind; Darius and Raine are investigating what happened to the kids, and Darius at first stops Raine from getting too close to the Owl House, but the moment he hears that Hunter is trapped he gets extremely upset and shoves Raine out of the way.
    • Another instance is implied to have occurred with them right before the beginning of the Day of Unity. Luz goes to rescue Amity from her grounding, and Darius orders Hunter to go with her. It's implied he ordered Hunter to do this with the intent to keep him away from the Titan's head and make sure he stays relatively safe. To Darius, rescuing Luz's girlfriend would not be dangerous at all.
    • A more lowkey one takes place in the finale, when Hunter thinks no one in the Isles missed him, Darius (and Eberwolf) pretty much immediately step up to comfort him and prove that is not true.
  • Parental Substitute: Compared to Belos, who makes it clear Hunter is only a tool, Darius goes out of his way to push Hunter into developing social skills and thinking about his own wants. When Hunter stood up to Belos, he reacted with anger and violence, but when Hunter stood up to Darius, he was actually proud to see Hunter growing as a person. The finale all but outright states he became Hunter's adoptive father. Considering he reunited with Hunter in the same scene as when the other kids reunited with their dads, it's not hard to imagine what eventually happened.
  • Pet the Dog: While he remains a bit of a jerk throughout, and definitely left some emotional scars on Willow and her team, at the end of "Any Sport in a Storm" he reveals he wasn't going to let the kids be forcibly inducted into the Emperor's Coven, and he's actually thrilled Hunter defied him and made connections outside the castle. He also fixes the patch on Hunter's cloak and gifts him a scroll so he can keep in touch with his new friends.
  • Portal Pool: He teleports the captured members of BATT to the Conformatorium through pools of abomination goo.
  • Poor Communication Kills:
    • Near literally. He decided to keep Raine in the dark about his own disloyalty to Belos while chasing them down, which nearly got him, Eberwolf, Raine, and Eda killed when the latter two decided to use a corrupted bard spell to take out two Coven heads and stop the Day of Unity. Luckily for all involved, Raine decided to call it off when they realized Eda had kids.
    • He never bothered telling Willow, Gus, Viney, and Skara that he had no intention of forcing them to join the Emperor's Coven and that he was just taking them back to Hexside. Because the kids thought that they were in danger, they tried to escape and made his ship crash.
  • Power Stereotype Flip: Darius, head of the Abomination Coven whose magic is based around turning himself into sludge, is a Neat Freak Dandy. Abomination magic also usually focuses on creating loyal minions, yet Darius hates the idea of blind obedience, dislikes people who simply do what they're told, and prefers to use the shapeshifting aspects of Abomination magic in order to do the fighting himself. Abomination magic also has many characteristics that some would view as evil, yet Darius himself was Good All Along and one of the Coven heads to turn against Belos.
  • Power Makeover: Darius had normal, non-Abomination hair as a teen. His eyes also seem to have been a less luminous, more 'realistic' green, but that may just be lighting differences.
  • Pretender Diss:
    • He does not care for the Abomatons and even considers their inventor, Alador, to be a hack.
    • "Any Sport in a Storm" reveals that his disdain for Hunter is fueled by the fact that he was mentored by the previous holder of the Golden Guard title and doesn't think Hunter is worthy of the name.
  • Promotion to Parent One he initiated, took on with enthusiasm, and, if the epilogue is any indication, he took on this role for life. Considering Hunter is wearing an abomination patch as an adult, he seems to have done a good job.
  • Reformed, but Not Tamed: While he opposes the Emperor, he still has a ruthless approach to strategy. His initial plan to disrupt the Day of Unity involves releasing flesh-eating beetles into a crowd of civilians.
  • Riddle for the Ages: What exactly is the deal with his former mentor?
  • Sadistic Choice: The other Coven Heads put a knife to Eber's neck during the DOU, forcing Darius to either surrender or let Eber die. What makes this even worse is that Word of God has stated Eber is like a little brother to Darius.
  • Shaping Your Attacks: Can telekinetically mold his abomination goo into any shape he desires, including swords and spikes.
  • Secret-Keeper:
    • He agrees to keep Hunter's possession of a palisman a secret.
    • Apparently working with Raine and Eberwolf to take down Belos.
  • Sinister Scythe: In "Any Sport in a Storm", he shapes his Abomination goo around his arm to form a scythe-like weapon.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He seems to have a running rivalry with Alador going back to when they were teens. He calls Alador a "hack" for his Abomatons, is seen booing him in a picture of Alador winning the Bonesborough Brawl, and evidently sends Alador a signed copy of his book on creating abominations just to mock him. Flashbacks show that they used to be close, but fell out at some point.
  • Skewed Priorities: As with any self-possessed dandy, he's more concerned with personal offenses to his appearance than transgressions to which his position demands responsibility. Justified and downplayed, as it turns out he approves of Raine's rebellion to begin with.
    Darius: Raine Whispers... you'll regret what you did to my CLOAK!
    [Eberwolf snarls at him as a reminder]
    Darius: ...And your treachery, whatever.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: He can shape abominations into weapons if he so chooses.
  • The Strategist: Started his own rebellion, planned a fake arrest to protect Raine, and is helping to plan a way to stop the Day of Unity.
  • The Revolution Will Not Be Vilified: Darius sought to overthrow Belos because he knew how dodgy the Day of Unity sounded. After he found out the truth, he knew his rebellion was justified—it was not about revenge or the emperor, but saving their people, even their worst enemies who were just as deceived as he and Raine were.
  • Token Good Teammate: He, Eberwolf, and Raine are the only good Coven Heads who were trying to stop Belos' Day of Unity/Draining Spell from killing off all witchkind on the Isles.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Despite Eberwolf often messing with him, he stops fighting in "King's Tide" when the latter is being held at knifepoint.
  • Voluntary Shapeshifting: He can shift between his humanoid witch form and an abomination hybrid form at will.
  • Walking Spoiler: Conversation about Darius is very likely to reveal various plot points that come later.
  • We Used to Be Friends:
    • It's revealed in "Them's The Breaks, Kid" that he was once friends with Alador and Odalia. It's currently unknown what caused them to fall out, though whatever it was happened at some point during the seven months between Eda's first meeting with Raine and Emperor's Coven tryouts.
    • Heavily implied to be the dynamic between him and Raine before they realized the other wasn't actually loyal to Belos. Luckily, Darius did everything he could to protect Raine once he knew the truth, and Raine joined Darius's rebellion once they knew the truth. The episode in which they rescue the Owl Family shows they are friends again, for sure.
    • "King's Tide" briefly implies he was formerly friends with Eda, though it doesn't elaborate further.
  • Weaponized Teleportation: While summoning is a basic skill of abomination witches to avoid having to lug around giant basins of abomination goop everywhere, he demonstrates the ability to forcibly bring people along when they're restrained. There doesn't seem to be an upper limit to the distance either, as he was able to warp the captured BATTs all the way to the Conformitorium in an instant.
  • Would Hurt a Child: In "Any Sport in a Storm", he's prepared to ship Willow and the team out on a boat to the Emperor's Coven, and uses his magic to intimidate them and subdue their escape attempts, even being prepared to cut them up with an abomination-scythe. This all gets subverted in the end when it turns out he's just testing Hunter; he was gonna let his teammates go back to Hexside.
  • You Are Not Alone: Has a nonverbal one of these with Hunter in the finale.

    Eberwolf 

Eberwolf the Huntsman

Voiced by: Kari Wahlgren

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The Head of the Beast Keeping Coven.


  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: His teeth in this case. Although only briefly seen in "O Titan, Where Art Thou", Eberwolf is capable of casually biting through metal, as seen when he frees Luz from her handcuffs by biting through them.
  • Affectionate Nickname: Raine refers to him as "Eber" when they confront Eberwolf and Darius to let Eda escape. Darius also refers to him as this when he wants his help, when they're at odds, he angrily refers to him as "Mutt".
  • Ambiguous Gender: Their gender identity and what pronouns they go by are not established in "Eda's Requiem" nor any following episodes. Their physical appearance doesn't give much of a clue, not to mention that despite having a female voice actress, Eberwolf rarely talks, but rather makes animalistic sounds. Word of God eventually revealed their full title as "Eberwolf the Huntsman," and clarified that internally they were referred to with He/Him pronouns, though that They/Them were also valid.
  • Ambiguously Evil: Although he fights against Eda and Raine in "Eda's Requiem", by the time of "Hollow Mind" they're aligned with Raine and Darius against Belos' plans. It's all subverted once Darius reveals that they both were against Belos from the start; they only fought Raine because Darius believed Raine incapable of acting well enough to mask their intentions, as well as to avoid being discovered as rebels and to have Raine join them.
  • Badass Adorable: He is a really cute Animesque-like creature who can kick your ass very hard.
  • Beast Man: He is a humanoid lion-like witch.
  • Big Good: One of the three heads of the rebellion and is a prodigy in Beast Magic
  • Fast Tunneling: Makes his full debut burrowing through the ground, courtesy of his animalistic powers.
  • Fluorescent Footprints: One of Eberwolf's spells turns his eyes into spotlights that reveal footprints.
  • Game Face: When getting serious he lengthens his teeth into tusks and saber fangs.
  • Good All Along: According to Darius in "O Titan, Where Art Thou", he suspected that Belos was up to something and him and Eberwolf "capturing" Raine was really "helping them" by making sure they could remain a Coven Head and an ally against the Emperor.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: In his first couple of appearances, he comes across as a Jerk with a Heart of Jerk, but later events in the show reveal there is a heart of gold underneath that Jerkass exterior. His friendship with Darius is genuine and he put his own life on the line to protect Raine. He also instantly goes to Eda's aid when her cover is blown during the DOU.
  • Killer Rabbit: He is quite adorable with his appearance and cute noises, but not to be underestimated as he commands dangerous beasts and can easily tear through metal with his fangs.
  • King of Beasts: The head of the Beast-Keeper Coven with a strong resemblance to a lion.
  • I Have Your Wife: In this case, best friend. The other Coven Heads used him against Darius to make Darius go along with the ceremony during the DOU by putting a knife to his throat.
  • Magic Pants: His elongating claws noticeably tear open the fronts of his boots, yet they're perfectly fine again after Eberwolf returns to normal.
  • Mister Big: For being the Head of the Beast-Keeper Coven, he more or less is around the same size as Kikimora.
  • Morality Pet: He, along with Raine and Hunter, seem to bring out the best in Darius given how he is willing to stand down from a fight trying to stop the Draining Spell when Eberwolf's life is threatened by Hettie Cutburn.
  • Mysterious Past: Outside of his Penstagram account implying that he was Raised by Wolves, we learn nothing about his past, how he became friends with Darius, or why he's rebelling against Belos.
  • The Nose Knows: He briefly sniffs the captured BATT crew to find the traitor he and Darius are looking for, but he has other means of tracking prey if that fails.
  • Odd Friendship: Eberwolf, a demon who often shows off his bestial instincts and is implied to be unhygienic to the point of keeping a swarm of flesh-eating beetles in his hair, is almost never seen too far from Darius, Head of the Abomination Coven, and a snooty Neat Freak interested in fashion. Despite their bickering, they're the only two Coven Heads who are shown to be actual friends until Raine joins them, that is.
  • Pest Controller: Controlling pests would be under his power as a master beast-keeper witch and he's partial to controlling giant worms, a monstrous worm with the head of a rat specifically. And is seen to keep swarms of flesh-eating beetles in his mane.
  • Power Stereotype Flip: Eberwolf, the Head of the Beast Keeping Coven, is a tiny Runt of the litter witch.
  • Raised by Wolves: His Penstragram account has the username "RAISEDBYDIREWOLVES" but it's ambiguous how literal this is. It would certainly explain a lot about his animalistic appearance and behaviors.
  • The Speechless: Doesn't say a word throughout any of his appearances. The closest he gets is grunting to the negative when sniffing the captured BATT members for the turncoat.
  • Summon Magic: Can summon beasts at will.
  • Super Mode: When ready for combat, Eberwolf can lengthen his teeth into fangs and tusks, and extend long claws from his fingers and toes.
  • Token Good Teammate: He, Darius and Raine are the only good Coven Heads, and they work together in a plan to stop Belos from performing the Day of Unity, as they learned of his true intentions with the Draining Spell.
  • Too Important to Walk: In "Hunting Palismen", he rides a giant worm creature throughout the entirety of the Coven Leader meeting. He's also seen riding a very similar-looking creature when Raine is being appointed head of the Bard Coven.
  • Troll: Does not indulge Darius' haughty behavior and taunts him at any opportunity, such as walking all over him when his hands and feet are covered in dirt or turning up the volume on his Penstragram feed after Darius asked him to turn it down. He also gleefully embraces the CATS as the new name of their group after Darius expresses his dislike of it.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He is often acting like a Troll towards Darius and enjoys riling him up as much as possible, but when he's held at knifepoint in "King's Tide", Darius surrenders so he won't be hurt.

    Terra Snapdragon 

Terra Snapdragon

Voiced by: Debra Wilson

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"Remember, this won't be a bed of roses. Only the best of the best will be rewarded... the failures will be ground into mulch for my garden!"

The Head of the Plant Coven.


  • Ax-Crazy: Really, really loves violence and bloodshed. To the point where, during the I.F.W.O.T seminar, she threatens to turn any losers into plant food.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: She cares about flora, but not fauna. Poses a rhetorical question to a hapless fly while simultaneously holding up a hungry plant that almost immediately devours the poor insect while Terra cruelly smiles.
  • Blood Knight: She's definitely one of these if "Them's the Breaks, Kid" is anything to go by. She often advocates for the most violent solution, and seems absolutely gleeful when she forces the students into a maze fight because she was getting sick of the activities not being "challenging" enough.
  • Break the Haughty: In "King's Tide". Her smug, superior attitude shatters when the Draining Spell takes full effect. She desperately pleads with Raine to confirm the Emperor's lie that they will be receiving "paradise". After Raine simply shakes their head, Terra falls to her knees, utterly defeated.
  • Bullying a Dragon: In "For the Future" Terra mouths off to the Collector, an immortal god-like child who's already transformed everyone else in the Boiling Isles into puppets and insults his "best friend" King, under the mistaken impression that her playing the role of Eda in their game means she's immune from reprisal. The Collector immediately proves her wrong.
  • Cool Chair: Appears before Luz and Kikimora comfortably seated in a giant Venus flytrap whose tongue-like organ acting as her seat complete with backrest and armrest.
  • Cool Crown: She has a waterlily-looking crown atop her head with two parallel stems branching outward. It combines perfectly with her hair, which looks exactly like roots.
  • The Dreaded: For Kikimora and for good reason.
  • Evil Old Folks: She's been the head of the Plant Coven for decades and is quite the nasty piece of work (although "Them's the Breaks, Kid" shows that age has nothing to do with it and she's always been rotten to the core).
  • Fast Tunnelling: Her plants can rapidly envelop her, burrow underground, and blossom at a new location, even underwater, effortlessly. It makes it ridiculously easy for Terra to catch someone off-guard as she can surface without a sound, unless she's riding in one of her more massive plants.
  • Faux Affably Evil: Presents herself like a sweet ole grandmother, but her actions with Raine and her telling Kikimora that her "promotion" is that she gets to live, and seeming genuinely disappointed that she doesn't get to kill the demoness shows that she's far from it.
  • Give Me a Reason: Once she reveals to Kikimora that the whole attempted rescue of Raine as a Secret Test of Character she was also running on her, she also makes it very clear that she's disappointed she passed and thus, she doesn't have a reason to kill Kikimora, something she was clearly enjoying the thought of.
  • Green Thumb: Naturally. As the head of the Plant Coven, her command over flora is formidable, being able to summon massive Venus flytraps and swarms of entangling vines or roots, that can spontaneously grown thorns should she will them! Although Willow may rival her in sheer magical output, Terra still far outstrips her in terms of actual experience as a Plant witch. Heck, she has dominion over all the Boiling Isles' flora.
  • The Handler: Since Belos still needs Raine for the Day of Unity, Terra seems to be assigned as their "caretaker" until then, using herbal potions meant to erase their memories and brainwash them to keep Raine from turning on Belos again.
  • Harmful Healing: Her knowledge on the properties of plants means she has some expertise with treating others using herbology, unfortunately her first on-screen use of this skill is keeping Raine happy and obedient using some kind of flower with mind-controlling properties that she adds to their tea.
  • Hate Sink: Of all the Coven Heads seen so far, she easily has the least redeeming qualities to her. She loves to toy with her own allies and generally doesn't care about the lives of others (even children), actually showing disappointment to announce she wouldn't get to kill Kikimora. And that's not even getting into her attempts to brainwash and modify Raine's memories to keep them under control, only failing to do so because they wised up to her scheme and pretended to be under her thrall.
  • Hidden Depths: Despite her Would Hurt a Child tendencies, there are hints in "Them's the Breaks, Kid" that she wanted to be a mother.
  • Ignored Epiphany: In spite of realizing, to her dismay, that Belos lied and betrayed her on the Day of Unity, Terra doesn't learn anything from this incident. She selfishly makes a deal with the Collector to avoid being turned into a puppet, and later attempts to fill the power vacuum left by Belos, making it clear that she still believes in the ideals of Belos despite losing faith in the man himself.
  • I Should Have Done This Years Ago: In "King's Tide" during the Day of Unity, after Terra stops Eda and Raine's efforts to stop the Draining Spell, Eda tells her she's making a big mistake. Terra says her only mistake was not killing Eda and Raine when they were kids, with the implication she's going to do just that once the spell is complete. She regrets saying those words once she sees them about to die before her just as she's about to be drained herself.
  • I Was Quite the Looker: Though she's aged rather well and maintained a graceful air, the flashback episode "Them's the Breaks, Kid" reveals that Terra was quite a striking woman thirty years before the series proper.
  • Irony: After telling Kikimora that her "promotion" was that she got to live, Terra's reward for helping enact Belos' Final Solution is the exact same thing (only because the Collector ends the draining spell early).
  • Just Toying with Them: Terra clearly knew where the invisible Luz and Kiki were hiding when she cornered them in the alleyway, but chose to act otherwise seemingly for her own amusement.
  • Karma Houdini: Not only does she willingly aid Belos in his attempt to kill everyone in the Boiling Isles in exchange for a fabled "paradise" for her and a chosen few, but after Belos is killed, Terra shows no remorse for her actions and tries to seize Belos' empty throne. The only reason she doesn't is because Darius and Eberwolf intimidate her, Adrian and Vitimir into backing off when they try it and no other punishment is shown.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em: After Belos' death, she tries to take the empty throne for herself, but quickly backs off when Darius and Eberwolf intimidation her.
  • Lady of Black Magic: Serene and graceful as can be, but notice that in her debut episode, she never draws a spell circle larger than the size of her palm, yet the plants she summons are both massive and vicious!
  • Laser-Guided Karma: Helps out Belos in his goals under the supposed reward of being made royalty once the Draining Spell is complete, but soon starts to be drained herself as well when the Day of Unity actually happens only being saved at the last minute when the Collector stops the spell.
  • Lotus-Eater Machine: Obvious Pun aside, the tea she's giving Raine is implied to be erasing not just their memories of the past month, but their rebellious spirit as well (although it isn't entirely clear, whether the tea created the brainwashing or just maintains it, as the brainwashing doesn't seem to be permanent; Raine is plagued by headaches whenever someone reminds them of details that contradict the brainwashing). In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" it's confirmed by Raine that whatever the potion's purpose was, Raine has never been under its spell due to their own "sound waves altering chemistry" trick and Darius and Eberwolf being Good All Along. Raine only pretended to be brainwashed to carry on their resistance in secret.
  • Magic Potion: She can't truly make them as potions are the domains of another coven, however she can add active ingredients to already existing potions/teas to enhance their effects, like Raine's mind-controlling tea.
  • Manipulative Bitch: Baits out an invisible Kikimora by preying on her needs for recognition and status, despite the clear sign that Terra knew where she was the whole time.
  • Meaningful Name: Of the elemental variety, as Terra is Latin for "land" and "Snapdragon" is type of flower. As far as her personality goes, Terra can sound like "Terror" and the snap-dragon could allude to her Hair-Trigger Temper and streak of cruelty. Finally, mythologically, Terra was the Roman equivalent of the Greek Gaia, the primordial goddess of the Earth, representing her exceptional personal and political power.
  • Mundane Utility: Again, Terra uses her mastery over flora as her main means of transportation around the Isles.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: Terra finds out the hard way Emperor Belos isn't giving them paradise and is going to kill them all, which means she just doomed herself and everyone by preventing Eda from sabotaging the Draining Spell.
  • Never Mess with Granny: One of the oldest Coven Heads by a considerable margin (she was already The Plant Coven Head when Lilith, Raine, and Darius were mere students, as seen in "Them's the Breaks, Kid") and easily one of the most powerful and dangerous witches in the whole series.
  • The Nicknamer: She has shown a tendency to give cutesy - and fittingly plant-themed - nicknames to people, such as calling Raine "Sprout" (going as far back as their early teen years) and calling then-vice principal Bump "Sweetpea."
  • Personality Powers: Being the Head of the Plant Coven, Terra is the best witch when it comes to Plant Magic. While Willow represents the "Mother Nature" stereotypes associated with plant powers and is motherly and sturdy, Terra is a crone that oozes Sugary Malice, reflecting the poison-tipped, thorn-covered Vine Tentacles and carnivorous plants she's seen using. She puts up airs of being a caring figure, all of her nice actions are covered in caveats and aspects of sadism to them.
  • Pet the Dog: At the end of "Them's the Breaks, Kid", though Terra doesn't award Eda with a ribbon, she's impressed enough that Terra prevents Principal Faust from expelling Eda and firing Bump.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: When Kikimora tries to attack Luz and Amity, she stops her because she doesn't want her to hurt two children. That said, it seems to be less out of genuine concern for them and more because it wouldn't look good to the public to assault children. In the past she was all for endangering children with activities like pitting them against each other in combat, and is disappointed when informed this was illegal.
  • Pungeon Master: Once the seed of some plant-based wordplay has been rooted in her head, you can bet it'll blossom into a terrible pun.
    Terra: Never a rose without a few thorns I see.
    Eda: Yeah, well, we got tired of your stupid little challenge.
    Raine: And your plant puns!
  • Purple Is Powerful: Terra has purple eyes and wears a matching colored dress, and is introduced as a terrifyingly skilled and powerful witch, her position as a coven head speaking to her strength and Kikimora seeming utterly terrified of her.
  • Slasher Smile: Shown a very gleeful and sadistic smile, when she pitted students against each other in an anything-goes magic gladiatorial match.
  • Soft-Spoken Sadist: She consistently maintain her seemingly affectionate, maternal-tone when speaking, but it's clear to the listener how malicious she really is underneath the surface of that façade.
  • Solitary Sorceress: Implied by Kikimora when Terra arrives to participate in the Coven Day parade, outright asking "What brings you out of your greenhouse?"
  • Terms of Endangerment: She calls Raine, "Sprout", and encourage them to do well in the Coven Day Parade, but the same scene was also when she give them the brew maintaining their mind-control, seemingly unbeknownst to Raine. "Them's the Breaks, Kid" reveals she actually gave this nickname to Raine when she met them as a child, and still seems to hold a slight soft-spot for them in the present. This still does little to diminish her villainous nature, nor justify her attempts at mind-controlling them, however.
  • Too Dumb to Live: She buys Belos' lies that he and The Collector will spare the Coven Heads and other followers of Belos and will give them paradise and power in the New World. If not quick thinking from King and The Collector's help, Terra and others would be dead.
  • Too Important to Walk: The most she's seen taken are a few steps, otherwise her plants can easily transport her around the Isles with but a thought and can even provide comfortable seating. Justified; Terra is an older witch, so walking would be a hassle for her.
  • Utopia Justifies the Means: Terra's apparently a true believer in Belos's promise of a "paradise" for her and the chosen few following the Day of Unity. When the Draining Spell's true purpose begins, she's in shock.
  • Vine Tentacles: Her plants primary weapons, which can either restrain or impale opponents depending on her mood. Yes, she can also make them grow thorns for extra lethality.
  • Viler New Villain: With several of the villains taking on more sympathetic roles (Lilith, the Golden Guard, and a few of the Coven Heads), or becoming more comedic (Kikimora, Wrath), Terra serves to add more of a threat to the Emperor's faction in the second half of season 2.
  • Villainous Breakdown: In "King's Tide" she gets a brief one as the Draining Spell begins to slowly kill her along with everyone else on the Boiling Isles. She can only look to Raine and helplessly ask for reassurance that her beliefs weren't wrong.
    Terra: (Terra's sigil begins burning) What—is—happening?! Raine, Belos is giving us paradise, right? (Raine shakes their head and Terra faints)
  • Villainous Valor: Despite her insidious nature, she does have respect for those that are prepared to stand up for what they believe in, believing tenacity is a key part of what makes a prospective Coven head. This was why she advocated for Vice-Principal Bump and then Student Eda to not be punished by Principal Faust when they challenged her decisions.
  • Villain Respect: Terra is sincerely impressed by Eda, Raine, and Vice-Principal Bump's defiance of her at the I.F.W.O.T. ceremony in "Them's The Breaks, Kid", and even steps in to stop Eda from being expelled and Bump from being fired from Hexside as a result. Of course, she still tries to poison everyone first as punishment for their disobedience, and then settles for denying everyone at the ceremony ribbons when she learns she's not allowed to poison them.
  • Wicked Witch: Ironic considering the setting and the load of characters introduced so far, but she's the first genuine example that manages to tick off all of the major boxes. She's an elderly female magic user who brews dubious concoctions, wields formidable and vicious magic, wears a thinly-veiled facade over her cruel disposition, and "King's Tide" gave her a creepy cackle to round it out.
  • Would Hurt a Child:
    • Would have impaled Luz on a thorn-covered root had Amity not stopped her in the nick of time.
    • Forced the students to fight each other at the I.F.W.O.T. ceremony for her amusement and then wanted to poison the last ones standing, because she was disappointed by their performance (which she couldn't do, because it's illegal, just like she couldn't kill the losers of the contest and use their corpses as fertilizer for her greenhouse because it was illegal).
    • She was also insanely delighted by pitting children against each other in an anything-goes magical gladiatorial match.

    Adrian Graye 

Adrian Graye Vernworth

Voiced by: Noshir Dalal

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"I love a good twist."
"Are you listening? This is my monologue."

The Head of the Illusion Coven.


  • All There in the Script: His actual last name, Vernworth, only appears in the credits.
  • Always Someone Better: Despite being head witch of the illusion coven, Graye's illusions are easily seen through by Gus, who also greatly overshadows him in terms of sheer power.
  • Amplifier Artifact: His mirror earring is designed to help amplify his spells.
  • Attention Whore: To the point that Graye attempts to snap Gus out of his Heroic BSoD just so Gus can listen to his monologue.
  • Bad Boss: In "Labyrinth Runners" Graye constantly berates his underlings for giving what he considers under-par performances, and when they point out the fact that his instructions are vague and make no sense, he tells them they should have seen 'the note within the note'.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Appears at first to be a defector, disheveled and unshaven, promising to provide illusory sigils to all students. Given his magical affinity, it's all an illusion, and he is quickly revealed to be loyal to Belos through and through.
  • Buffy Speak: Deconstructed. Graye uses words like 'mmph' and 'pow' to describe things, even though it greatly interferes with his ability to direct his subordinates.
  • Butt-Monkey: He's arguably the weakest of the coven heads, as he is the only one outright defeated by teenagers, and he outright fails to accomplish anything in his own episode.
  • Character Catchphrase: He has a habit of saying "Cut!" when he wants his underlings to shut off thier illusions, as befitting someone who styles himself as a movie director.
  • Death by Irony: It's really telling that the head of the Illusion Coven, which is all about deception was deceived by Emperor Belos into believing he'd be treated as royalty and nearly dies from the draining spell.
  • Evil Is Petty: Tries to force Gus into the Abomination coven, thus preventing him from ever being able to use his Illusion magic ever again, simply because Gus saw through and exposed his plan to trick everyone at Hexside into getting sigils that were supposedly fake.
  • Exhausted Eye Bags: He's sporting these when he shows up in "King's Tide" along with a five-o'-clock shadow and a few hairs standing on end. It's clear he's still recovering from Gus forcing him to experience his worst memories.
    Adrian: Don't say a word about my appearance. I will not be taking notes at this time.
  • Fake Defector: Pretends to be rebelling like Darius, Eberwolf, and Raine, and trying to help the students avoid being forced into a Coven before the Day of Unity. In actuality, the "Graye" talking to everyone is merely an illusion-covered Scout, and the supposedly fake sigils he's going to give everyone are very real.
  • Figure It Out Yourself: Even though he's a perfectionist with an exact idea of what he wants, Graye is such a snide and haughty type of director that sometimes he can't even be bothered to use adjectives or nouns when criticizing his scouts, leaving them almost completely unable to help. The only thing that's clear about his artistic vision is that everyone around him is failing it in some way.
  • The Friend Nobody Likes: Subtly implied with his fellow Illusion witches, he's bossing a bunch of Emperor's Coven Scouts around instead of any specialized in Illusions (with one of them even admitting how much they hate working for him), and despite being their technical boss he's been unable to get any information from them about the Looking Glass Graveyard's location.
  • Hate Sink: Arguably moreso than Terra, who at least had some legitimate Pet the Dog moments in preventing Eda's expulsion and Bump's firing from Hexside. By contrast, Graye is an Attention Whore with little respect for anyone but himself: he treats his subordinates like dirt when they can't follow his extremely vague directions, he tries to permanently lock Gus into the Abomination Coven out of spite for Gus thwarting his plan to brand the students at Hexside, and he's perfectly willing to desecrate the graves of fellow Illusionists so that he can bring Belos a Galdorstone and be rewarded for it. Furthermore, while he is a legitimate threat, he is much more of a Smug Snake compared to Terra, relying on an Amplifier Artifact to boost his magical abilities and otherwise being largely outclassed by Gus, a child.
  • Hidden Depths: His desperation not to relive his worst memories indicates that he has a Dark and Troubled Past.
  • Hoist by His Own Petard: Graye tries to use his mirror earring to interrogate Gus by examining his memories, wanting the location of the Looking Glass Graveyard. He ends up triggering Gus' Power Incontinence again, this time forcing all those nearby to experience their own worst memories. Graye is still virtually catatonic as the Scouts are leaving some time after Hunter gets Gus to dispel it, having to be literally dragged onto the airship.
  • Hypocritical Humor: Although the situation he puts Gus through in "Labyrinth Runners" isn't Played for Laughs, the man's suffocating ego very much is. Right as Graye's trying to do "my monologue", while interrogating Gus for purely selfish reasons (locating the Galdorstones as gifts to curry favor with Belos), Gus mutters that it's all his fault; Graye sniffs, "OH, right, ALL about YOU", then immediately tries to steer the conversation back to himself and what he wants. He even has the gall to tell Gus not to be so dramatic.
  • Ignorant of Their Own Ignorance: He definitely believes himself to be the best illusionist around, with no one even close to him. Therefore, when Gus manages to beat him at his own game he goes through a Villainous Breakdown, still believing it's just a coincidence. Only when Graye triggers Gus' Power Incontinence, the former realises that he's totally busted.
  • It's All About Me: A few of the Coven Heads are like this to a degree, but Graye seems to be the worst of it, as almost every single time he speaks, it's to scold his lackeys for their performances or complain about how his time and talent are being completely wasted.
  • Kick the Dog:
    • Trying to trick the students into joining covens by making them think that the sigils are fake could be excused as technically just doing his job. Specifically trying to force an Illusions prodigy like Gus into the Abomination coven through the sigil glove as payback for ruining his plans? Not so much.
    • He also intentionally creates an illusion of Belos to terrify Hunter so he can capture him.
  • Little Bit Beastly: Appears to be a witch and not a biped demon, but he has a tail and visible canines.
  • Locked Out of the Loop:
    • Despite being the Head Witch of the Illusion coven (a member of which guards the place), he admits that he has no idea where the Looking Glass Graveyard is, planning on interrogating Gus to find out. Considering that he's planning on gifting the stones hidden there to Belos, they were right to keep it from him.
    • Played with in regards to Hunter. He seems to have firm orders that Belos wants his Golden Guard back alive, and deliberately casts an illusion of the Emperor to scare him, suggesting that he knows Hunter is now afraid of Belos and this will be a weakness to exploit; just how much was shared with him, though, is left unclear.
  • Master of Illusion: Though Gus ends up overshadowing him, he's still impressively powerful. He manages to render an entire crew of coven scouts completely invisible and enters Hexside with no one being the wiser. Even Gus, who did see through the illusion of him layered on a coven scout, failed to notice the much larger illusion.
  • Meaningful Name: His first and middle name seem to reference The Picture of Dorian Gray, which fittingly centers a petty narcissist who is more dangerous than he appears.
  • A Mind Is a Terrible Thing to Read: How he's beaten. His attempt to see into Gus' memories actually ends up leaving him catatonic from the backlash.
  • Narcissist: He loves himself to an absurd level and his first priority is his own image.
  • Never My Fault: Graye refuses to take responsibility for the fact that his subordinates are unable to execute his illusions correctly because his instructions and feedback are impossible to comprehend.
  • Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His attempt to force Gus to join the Abomination coven as payback for ruining his plot not only firmly turns the Hexside students against him and his men, but by forcing Hunter to blow his cover to save Gus, it ultimately leads to Hunter telling the students and teachers the truth about the Day of Unity once Graye is forced away.
  • Non-Action Guy: Unlike most of the other Coven Heads, he does very little fighting himself and prefers to watch invisibly while his coven scouts do the dirty work. This is pretty much justified since he can only use illusion magic.
  • Personality Powers: As the most prominent Illusion magic user on the Boiling Isles, this is threefold, emphasizing the trait's worst stereotypes:
    • Theatricality over efficiency. He acts as though he's a Prima Donna Director, and his subordinates are "actors" performing roles for him... but he won't give them proper orders so much as suggestions or hints that he leaves up to their interpretation, and doesn't even say what they did wrong when they fail him.
    • Dishonesty and subterfuge. He arrives at the school under the guise of using illusions to give students fake sigils, only for it to be revealed that he's trying to trap them in the Coven System and even had a scout posing as himself rather than doing his own dirty work.
    • Weakness. While he's a powerful illusionist and Coven Head, he doesn't seem significantly adept or talented compared to his Scouts, and relies on his artifact (an earring shaped like a mirror) to amplify his power. This is in sharp contrast to Gus, an unassuming but gifted pre-teen boy who shows himself to be leagues more powerful than Graye; by the end of "Labyrinth Runners", Graye is left catatonic by the encounter, while Gus has taken his earring, leaving him even weaker than he used to be.
  • Pointy-Haired Boss: His bizarre instructions and incoherent feedback prevent the Scouts under his command from achieving anything and end up driving one of the Scouts out of the Emperor's Coven.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: Graye's initial plan was, knowing that some of the students would fight being forced to get sigils, to trick them using illusions so they'd think that they were fake, with only Gus' keen eye foiling it.
  • Prima Donna Director: Takes this role. He always says 'cut' as if it were a movie set and scolds the grunts under his command as though they were actors flubbing their lines.
  • Robbing the Dead: Graye expresses the intention to do this, seeking out the Looking Glass Graveyard so he can give the Galdorstones to Emperor Belos as gifts. He tries to derive the location of the graveyard from Gus's memories, but is thwarted when this sets off Gus's Power Incontinence.
  • Seriously Scruffy: He appears somewhat disheveled in "King's Tide" with his hair a lot messier than usual and a 5 o'clock shadow. The exact reason isn't stated, though it was almost certainly caused by Gus Mind Raping him back in "Labyrinth Runners".
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He believes himself to be the best of the best because he's the Coven Head. The problem is that he can't fight at all without magic. Notably, he is also the only Coven Head shown to need an external artifact to amplify his magic, and despite this a preteen is still able to overwhelm him easily.
  • Squishy Wizard: Without his magic, he's one step from being harmless and can be easily knocked out.
  • Stealth Expert: Though it's probably the simplest Illusion based skill out there, Graye is very adept at cloaking himself so he can watch his plans unfold.
  • Skewed Priorities: Graye initially sends the scouts to find Gus, preferring to examine the extremely detailed illusion Gus conjured up instead.
  • Smug Snake: Downplayed: Graye is a legitimate threat and fairly capable Illusionist, but he's far less competent than his ego would lead you to believe. His plan to trick the staff and students of Hexside into getting branded with "fake" sigils initially goes off without a hitch: once Gus exposes the ruse, however, Graye's confusing directions and Skewed Priorities cause the entire plan to fall apart. By the end of "Labyrinth Runners", he's been traumatized by Gus's Power Incontinence, lost his Amplifier Artifact, and completely failed in all of his objectives at Hexside.
  • Too Dumb to Live: He buys Belos' lies that he and The Collector will spare the Coven Heads and other followers of Belos and will give them paradise and power in the New World. If not for quick thinking from King and The Collector's help, Adrian and others would be dead.
  • Underestimating Badassery: He underestimated the ability of the Hexside students and staff, especially Gus seeing through his initial illusion.
  • Villain Respect: While he has little respect for the boy, Graye is quite fascinated by the size and detail of the illusion cast over Hexside, and immediately understands that Gus has inadvertently duplicated the Looking Glass Graveyard from past memories.
  • Would Hurt a Child: Graye and his subordinates also show no compunction with attacking the rebelling students for the sake of forcing them into covens before the Day of Unity. Graye even tries to force Gus, clearly an Illusions student, into the Abomination coven solely as payback for ruining his plot.

    Mason 

Mason

Voiced by: JB Blanc

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Click here to see him in "Covention" 

The Head of the Construction Coven.


  • Costume Evolution: When we first see him in "Covention", he dresses like a construction worker, with a hard hat and toolbelt, gloves and boots, and wears primarily black and grey. From "Hunting Palisman" onwards, he wears a cape and belt and trades his builder looks for something more regal, and adds more brown to clothes.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: He shows up in "Covention" giving Tiny Nose a power glyph. He even beats out Lilith as the first Coven Head seen onscreen.
  • Evil Old Folks: An elderly witch who was perfectly willing to help Belos with his plans and who knew the true intentions of the Day of Unity all so he could be made royalty.
  • Fights Like a Normal: Being the leader of the Construction Coven, he presumably has powerful earth magic. Despite this, his only fight in the series shows him swinging his hammer without casting a single spell.
  • Meaningful Name: Mason is another word for a stoneworker, making it the perfect name for the leader of the earth manipulating Construction Coven.
  • Recurring Extra: While most of the Coven Heads tend to be limited to shots of the entire group, he can often be found in the background among crowds.
  • The Stoic: He doesn't react besides opening his eyes (which he had closed) when a Power Glyphed Tinella Nosa picks him up, throws him, and starts destroying everything in sight.

    Hettie Cutburn 

Hettie Cutburn

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The Head of the Healing Coven.


  • Ambiguously Human: Well, ambiguously witch at any rate. Her outfit appears to cover everything but the bottom of her face, so it's unclear if those two protrusions coming out of her head are horns of some sort or just a really weird hat. She also seems to have pointed ears under her cowl, which offers no help to the question.
  • Chest Insignia: She wears a gold amulet with the symbol of the Healing Coven on her chest, and is the only coven head to include her coven's insignia in her regular outfit.
  • Deadly Doctor: She's the leader of the Healing Coven and a ruthlessly pragmatic fighter who throws a scalpel at Eberwolf and forces Darius to surrender by leaving it telekinetically aimed at Eber's throat.
  • Devious Daggers: She appears to be the most pragmatic of the bunch. When a fight breaks out in "King's Tide", she brings it to a swift conclusion by telekinetically holding a scalpel to a restrained Eberworlf's throat to get Darius to stand down.
  • Eyeless Face: Her head doesn't seem to have any eyes, though it's unclear if she actually lacks them or if the blue part of her face is some sort of mask.
  • Ironic Name: Cut and burn are both types of injuries, an ironic name for the Head Witch of the Healing Coven.

    Osran 

Osran

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The Head of the Oracle Coven.


  • Alien Hair: Similar to Kikimora, he has "claws" for hair.
  • Evil Old Folks: An elderly witch who was perfectly willing to help Belos with his plans.
  • Irony: Despite being from the coven specialized in divining truth, he failed to predict Belos' betrayal.
  • Multi-Armed and Dangerous: He has four arms, two of which are perpetually shown holding a Crystal Ball.
  • Summon Magic: Like most Oracles, he can summon a ghostly entity from his crystal ball for combat.

    Vitimir 

Vitimir

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The Head of the Potion Coven.


  • Breath Weapon: He can exhale some kind of acidic gas as seen during their fight with Darius.
  • Crazy-Prepared: Vitimir carries a large wooden case of drawers presumably filled with potion ingredients, as if ready to work up a potion at a moment's notice.
  • Poke the Poodle: A literal example, but with a throne in place of a poodle.
  • Portmanteau: His name seems to be a portmanteau of "vitamin" and the name "Vladimir".
  • Token Evil Teammate: It's implied he wasn't Just Following Orders by him going along with Terra and Adrian to scavenge from the Emperor's castle after Belos is slain and the Collector pacified, and in a sense he is thus this to the other Out of Focus Coven Heads.
  • Vague Age: He had white hair like the other elderly coven heads, but no other prominent signs of aging.

Defectors

    Lilith Clawthorne 
See here for tropes regarding her.

    Steve 

Steve

Voiced by: Alex Hirsch (Season 1), Matt Chapman (Season 2)

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"Yeah! All hail Lulu!"
Click here to see him unmasked 
"Steve is beginning to regret his choices."

A Coven Scout and Lilith Clawthorne's assistant.


  • Affably Evil: Even though he serves Belos, he seems like a mostly good guy otherwise, the worst thing he's seen doing is knocking over a stack of books on a merchant's shelf out of enthusiasm. Otherwise, he's affable enough to attend a party at the Owl House itself to celebrate Lilith's new job, even though the residents of the Owl House have been branded as criminals and Lilith has been branded as a traitor. He's also very understanding about Skara punching him hard enough to dent his helmet because "emotions are running high" and sympathizes with the Emerald Entrails for what being drafted into the Emperor's Coven entails. In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" he's questioning his job as part of the Emperor's Coven and takes King on a road trip across the Boiling Isles, culminating in him making a Mook–Face Turn.
  • Ambiguously Related: In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", it's shown that he looks very similar to Matt Tholomule, leading to the possibility that the two are family (possibly even siblings, given that Matt mentioned in a previous episode that he has an older brother). This remained fan speculation until Dana Terrace herself confirmed it on Twitter, specifically revealing that the two are half-brothers and that their sibling relationship would've been shown on-screen had the third season been full length.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Downplayed. Steve explains that his childhood dream was to be a coven scout, notably adding "to be considered one of the best." He did achieve this ambition and is implied to have done pretty terrible things in the line of duty, but is a very affable and friendly guy, comes to bitterly regret joining the coven when it's not what he hoped for, and eventually defects from the coven altogether.
  • Badass Biker: He adopts the look of one in "O Titan, Where Art Thou" where he's revealed to have a motorcycle and is sporting a leather jacket and a shirt with his name covered in blood, in addition to his standard scout mask. He even takes King on a road trip across the Boiling Isles.
  • Be Careful What You Wish For: He says when he was younger, all he ever wanted was to join the Emperor's Coven. The harsh training he needed to go through to get his position and sacrificing his Palisman, which he remembers as the saddest day of his life, meant when he finally gets the job, he's no longer happy about it. In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" he reflects that what he's wanted out of life has changed and he decides to join the heroes to fight against Belos.
    Steve: Growing up, all I ever wanted was to be an Emperor's Coven scout. To be considered one of the best. I got what I wanted but... it's not what I thought it was.
  • Being Evil Sucks: It turns out that he's grown to hate joining the Emperor's Coven, namely the harsh training regimen and likely having to surrender his palisman, as he relays to Hunter when the latter tries to force the Emerald Entrails into the Emperor's Coven. This led to him defecting altogether and joining the CATs as of "O Titan, Where Art Thou"
  • Breakout Character: Started out as a bit character who was only in one scene but became popular with fans, then made an offscreen cameo in a later episode, returned to the screen to re-do the joke from his first appearance, and finally had A Day in the Limelight where he bonds with King over their shared struggles and defects to join the heroes.
  • Breakout Mook Character: Steve was initially a mere named lackey of Emperor Belos, who was something of a fanboy of the then head of the Emperor's Coven, Lilith Clawthorne back in Season 1. However, he proved to be so popular, that he got some reccuring appearances in later episodes of Season 2, which ultimately led into him turning on the Emperor's Coven in "O Titan, Where Art Thou", after having a lengthy heart to heart with King, complete with a face reveal, and later establishing that Steve was the older brother of the Hexside student, Matt.
  • Butt-Monkey: Poor Steve has to endure a lot of abuse. Kikimora forced him to jump over a chasm, and Skara punches him in his right parietal area that he gets an ice pack.
  • Chekhov's Gunman: In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", he defects from the Emperor's Coven and joins the CATs. The very next episode, he plays a small but important role as the only member who can cast illusion magic (the other members are bards, branded with coven sigils, cursed, or couldn't perform magic in the first place), which makes him vital to Darius' plan to disguise Eda as Raine.
  • Commonality Connection: He bonds with King over how both of them technically got what they always wanted but ended up realizing their wants have changed over time and they no longer want what they finally have.
  • A Day In The Lime Light: "O Titan Where Art Thou" gives Steve a little character focus. He sympathizes with King's existential troubles and the pair drive around the island helping people and exploring. It's also the first time the audience sees his face.
  • Defector from Decadence: He's become thoroughly disillusioned by Belos and the time he's spent in the Emperor's Coven. After spending an episode bonding with King and his loyalty already wavering, he decides to take the final step and quit.
  • Evil Is Hammy: More like Mook is hammy but he can be quite loud and enthusiastic about the Emperor.
  • Faceless Goons: Exaggerated. Even when he appears in civvies in “Elsewhere and Elsewhen”, or doing mundane things while off-duty, he still keeps his hood and mask on. Subverted as of "O Titan Where Art Thou," in which he shows his face to King and the audience for the first time, symbolizing him ditching the Emperor's Coven for good.
  • Friendly Enemy: Despite being on Belos' side, he seems to get along well with the Owl House crew, or at the very least is willing to get along with them when Lilith's around, even being allowed within the Owl House itself.
  • Hidden Depths: He looks like your average evil mook who only goes around praising his bosses for approval, but he goes on to get a surprising amount of depth.
    • "Any Sport in a Storm" reveals that he has secretly grown to regret joining the Emperor's Coven for how harsh it was and how he had to surrender his palisman, even having him talk with Hunter about it.
    • In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" he's surprisingly introspective and philosophical when pondering the supposed will of the Titan and how people's wants can change over time as seen when he quits the Emperor's Coven and becomes a member of the CATs. The same episode also shows he's a biker, he knows origami and the sight of an elderly couple showing affection causes him to break down crying, indicating that he may have a painful romantic history.
  • Honorary True Companion: Played with. As seen during the narration at the end of "Watching and Dreaming," Steve has remained notably close with the BATs, helping them to rebuild the Boiling Isles.
  • Horned Humanoid: In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", when he removes his mask, he turns out to be a witch with a single horn over his right eye.
  • Innocent Blue Eyes: Steve's eyes are a fine shade of sapphire that helps highlight his genuine kindness.
  • Joke and Receive: His offhand comment about the Titan being an ordinary guy holds a lot more truth than he would have imagined, as when Luz meets them in the finale they take on a rather humble appearance and are shown to be just as fallible as the people who live upon their corpse.
  • Long-Haired Pretty Boy: By the time of the epilogue, his hair has grown to his shoulders. This is indicative of his greater personal freedom and general happiness beyond the Emperor's Coven.
  • Master of Illusion: He demonstrates some skill with Illusion magic by enchanting a cloaking stone to disguise Eda as Raine. Notably, he is the only member of the rebels who can use illusion magic.
  • Mook–Face Turn: Leaves the Emperor's Coven in "O Titan, Where Art Thou".
  • No Full Name Given: He's only ever referred to as "Steve". "For the Future" suggests that his last name could be "Tholomule", though the fact that he and Matt are specifically half siblings rather than full siblings means that it isn't a guarantee.
  • Odd Friendship: In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" he ends up becoming friends with King, the last of the Titans.
  • Professional Butt-Kisser: Ziggzagged, he's ready to sing the Emperor's praises at the slightest opportunity, but he also challenged Lilith's (the head of the Coven he belongs to) decision to ignore Eda. It's also shown later on that he's not quite as happy as he appears on the surface about his job, implying his shilling attitude toward his bosses is just an act to keep himself afloat where he is.
  • Punch-Clock Villain: A coven guard and follower of Belos, who's still happy to attend a party for his old boss at a known criminal's house without making a fuss. He also shows disdain for his job and what he had to do when he joined the Coven.
  • Recurring Extra: Steve shows up occasionally to deliver his excited remarks, but has yet to play any major role. He gets a bit more focus in "Any Sport in a Storm" where we get to learn more of his character, including a growing disillusionment for the Emperor's Coven with the episode even having him interact with Hunter, but even that is still brief next to other extras who got more focus in Season 2 so far. He gets a lot more screen time and development in "O Titan, Where Art Thou" to the point he takes off his mask and joins the heroes.
  • Stepford Smiler: His overly enthusiastic attitude towards his job is implied to either be an act or a coping mechanism now that he's a part of the Emperor's Coven. In "O Titan, Where Art Thou" he becomes much more introspective about what he wants out of life and quits the Emperor's Coven.
  • Third-Person Person: Occasionally speaks like this, often when giving out excited remarks.
    "Shoulder pats for Steve."
  • Villainous Friendship: Appears to have a genuine one with Lilith, at least from his point of view, with him being willing to hang out with her and her own allies even after she'd defected from the Emperor's Coven. Also seems to have one with Hunter given that he confides in him about how much he didn't like their brutal training or giving up his Palisman.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?:
    • He's with Lilith when she gets the map to the Bloom of Eternal Youth, but by the time Eda finds her, he's nowhere to be seen. Since he shows up later as part of Kikimora's dig operation, it's a given he didn't get eaten. Averted later when he shows up during Lilith's celebration party for becoming an assistant for the Supernatural Museum of History in "Elsewhere & Elsewhen."
    • In "King's Tide", he, along with Amber, are nowhere to be seen with the other members of the CATTs during their plan to stop the Day of Unity.

Bonesborough

    Morton 

Morton

Voiced by: Shannon McKain

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Eda's usual pharmacist.


  • Acquired Poison Immunity: He once mentioned spending all night poison tasting and feels fatigue. Goes without saying this is a regular part of his occupation, and considering he's in perfectly good health by his next appearances, he's likely immune to most poisons by now.
  • Curtains Match the Window: Has brown hair and eyes.
  • Glasses of Aging: His epilogue design includes a pair of small glasses, although the dark coloration suggests that they might just be sunglasses and his eyesight hasn't deteriorated at all.
  • Healing Potion: He sells these, which might indicate he's associated with the Potion coven.
  • Nice Guy: So much more kindly than Tibbles who tried to hog Eda's money. In "Young Blood, Old Souls", he's one of the people who stands up for Eda.
  • Smarter Than They Look: Since both the Beastkeepers and Healers said Eda's curse was unknown and incurable, the fact that Morton managed to make a workable remedy implies that this dorky potion seller is a remarkably talented witch (Notably, Eda can not make the elixir herself despite having been on the potions track herself as a student and knowing what the elixir is made of).
  • Vague Age: It is unknown what his age is. He looks to be a teenager, but is never seen attending school. And he apparently is old enough to run an legitimate business, possibly making him somewhere in his late teens.

    Tinella Nosa, aka Tiny Nose 

Tinella Nosa, aka Tiny Nose

Voiced by: Dana Terrace

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"The worwd is a simuwation! We awe but pwaythings for highew beings!"

A short weirdo who escaped imprisonment in the Conformatorium.


  • Advertised Extra: She's a recurring extra, but has a spot in the show's Title Sequence. She also has the most screentime of the three prisoners from the first episode.
  • Ambiguous Syntax: The name "Tiny Nose" is accurate, in the sense that she is a tiny creature and pretty much all nose.
  • Author Avatar: She is based on Dana Terrace's self-caricature design and is even voiced by her.
  • Back for the Finale: She briefly appears in two scenes during "Watching And Dreaming".
  • Battle Aura: When augmented by the Construction Coven's patches, she becomes able to wreath herself in a jagged yellow aura.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Completely by accident, she arrives to have King read her story just as the editor is about to kill him and Luz.
  • Cephalothorax: She's a round face with large eyes and a large nose with only arms and legs but no body.
  • Connected All Along: She's a good friend of Hooty, of all people. Close enough that she's willing to set aside a day to help him out in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", at least. She's also associated with Tibbles and Mattholomule, helping them sell The Good Witch Azura books in the Demon Realm, which ended up in the Demon Realm from the human realm and were modified to make the author seem like a witch.
  • Conspiracy Theorist: The entire reason she was locked up in the Confortmatorium at the start of the series is because of her paranoid theories.
  • The Cuckoolander Was Right: Her conspiratorial ramblings about everyone being playthings for a higher being end up foreshadowing the existence of The Collector, as well as the Collector's kin by extension.
  • Drunk with Power: In "Covention", she starts using the Construction Coven's patches, giving her super strength and causing her to go on a rampage.
  • Elmuh Fudd Syndwome: She has rhotacism, making her unable to say any 'R's. Even the story she writes in "Sense and Insensitivity" is called My Stowy.
  • Fiery Redhead: She never backed down in the face of the feared Warden Wrath during her time in Conformatorium and her personality remains as fiery after being set free.
  • Gag Nose: She has a prominent nose.
  • Given Name Reveal: She's never referred to by any name in the show or credits for most of the series, though we see her Online Alias is "TIN3NOZ", which is Leet Speak for "Tiny Nose". "Any Sport In a Storm" reveals that her real name is Tinella Nosa, meaning that Tiny Nose is a shorted nickname for her real name.
    Amity: Tinella Nosa?
    Luz: She's had a name this whole time?!
  • Healing Hands: Implied. While she's never shown to have a sigil and doesn't use any magic outside of a fireball, the fact that she attended medical school would seem to suggest that she's a member of the Healing Coven.
  • Hidden Depths:
    • In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", she is able to conjure up magic and blast King away. She also apparently graduated from medical school, as Hooty has her take King's blood sample.
    • The third Chibi Tiny Tales reveals that she knows how to play the harp.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Her conspiracy that the Boiling Isles residents are playthings for higher beings are prooobably referencing us — the viewers.
  • Loony Fan: Of the author John De Plume, planning to have him read her story and then marry her.
  • Loon with a Heart of Gold: Despite the rambling, she's very kind to Luz and even takes the heat for her when the Warden hears Luz talking.
  • Odd Friendship: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that she and Hooty are friends.
  • Playing with Fire: Uses a fire spell in her duel with King in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door". She casts it again while in disguise in "Any Sport in a Storm" as a bit of Five-Second Foreshadowing.
  • Self-Deprecation: As Dana Terrace's Author Avatar, her first scene involves her being imprisoned in the Conformatorium for being weird (specifically making strange conspiracy theories and being obnoxious), then being tortured by the Warden.
  • The Social Darwinist: Kicks a rat out of her hole to escape a boiling rainstorm.
  • Taking the Heat: When the Warden tries to investigate the noise he heard, which was Luz talking to the prisoners, she makes a ruckus by shouting that she's not afraid of him, knowing very well what he would do to a rabble-rouser.
  • Unexplained Recovery: A minor one, but she apparently survived Piniet's scam.

    Adegast 

Adegast

Voiced by: Robin Atkin Downes

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An octopus-like puppeteer demon with a grudge against Eda.


  • The Cameo: A picture of him is briefly seen in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", identifying him as a bug demon.
  • Death by Irony: He was defeated by Luz, the girl he took as bait, and then Eaten Alive by Eda, his self-proclaimed rival.
  • Demonic Dummy: Complementing his Marionette Master theme, his head looks like a giant, crudely made ventriloquist's dummy.
  • Dirty Coward: Despite considering Eda his hated competitor in the potion-selling business, Eda wasn't even aware of his existence until he learned that she had taken an apprentice and took her as bait. During their fight, he takes King as a hostage as well when Luz and Eda threaten to overpower him.
  • Early-Installment Weirdness: That fact that he's Killed Off for Real. After his episode, the show mostly avoided killing off characters, with all the future fatalities Note (spoilers!)  being in Season 3.
  • Eating the Enemy: After he's defeated, he's casually eaten by Eda.
  • Fish Eyes: His eyes never focus on anything and instead just stare into space. They don't appear capable of movement at all.
  • Hard Light: He can make his illusions feel solid.
  • Killed Off for Real: The first death in the series. He is eaten by Eda after being defeated.
  • Made of Plasticine: For all his bluster, he's easily undone and depowered when Luz refuses his illusions and kicks a blunt plastic sword into his head.
  • Manipulative Bastard: Plays Luz like a fiddle by taking advantage of her desire to be The Chosen One.
  • Master of Illusion: He can cast illusions that make the puppets on his tentacles look and sound like real people, make huge and derelict locations appear populated, and put Luz in a Lotus-Eater Machine.
  • Monster of the Week: In "Witches Before Wizards".
  • Squishy Wizard: He would have no chance in a fair fight, so he relies on luring people in with his illusions so he can ambush them.
  • Small Name, Big Ego: He considered The Owl Lady his rival but in reality he was a pathetic loser who Eda didn't even acknowledge until he took Luz as bait.
  • Sleep-Mode Size: Shrinks down to a powerless form when Luz kicks a toy sword into his forehead.
  • Sore Loser: His entire reason to trap Luz and kill Eda is because he cannot stand that Eda took his customers from him.
  • Tentacled Terror: A giant octopus-like monster that uses his tentacles to operate puppets and restrain Eda and King.
  • Underestimating Badassery: He thought that Luz was just a weak delusional girl, only for her to turn the tables on him and knock him out in one hit.
  • Unknown Rival: He considered Eda his rival but before he took Luz as a bait The Owl Lady wasn't even aware of his existence.

    Tibbles 

Tibblet-Tibblie Grimm Hammer III

Voiced by: Parvesh Cheena

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"Capitalism! Where everyone wins, except you!"

A shady merchant who works out of Bonesborough's "night market". In his introductory episode "Hooty's Moving Hastle" he tries to capture Eda for her bounty.


  • Atrocious Alias: King is quick to chuckle at how he prefers to be called "Tibbles".
    • Also, his guise as the fortune teller Obvioso.
  • Back for the Finale: After being absent since "Any Sport in a Storm", he makes a background appearance in "Watching And Dreaming" attending Luz's birthday party.
  • Beware the Silly Ones: His silly name and appearance doesn't keep him from being an intelligent threat.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: He seems kindly and polite at first, but quickly reveals this to be a ruse.
  • The Cameo: A picture of him is briefly seen in "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door".
  • Con Man: He flat-out admits that all of his "businesses" are really just scams.
  • Didn't Think This Through: For some reason he set patting his cheeks as the release mechanism for his shrinking potion, without considering that he might do it absent-mindedly or because of an itch.
  • Fluffy the Terrible: He calls himself "Tibbles", and he's a con artist. You do the math.
  • Half-Dressed Cartoon Animal: He wears a vest and shirt, but no pants or shoes.
  • Heel–Face Turn: Implied. He attends Luz's birthday party in the epilogue, hinting that he had a change of heart at some point or at the very least has come to respect her as the savior of the Boiling Isles.
  • Honest John's Dealership: He deals in overpriced sundries and he isn't above hustling people at cards to scam them out of their money.
  • Hustling the Mark: Feigns ignorance of Hexas Hold'em when Eda spots the cards on his counter, then beats her handily.
  • Jerkass: His true colors are thoroughly unpleasant, being incredibly arrogant, manipulative and controlling.
  • Karma Houdini: Despite extorting Eda, taking King as an indentured servant, and nearly turning them in to the Emperor's Coven, all he suffers is having his stand destroyed, which he quickly bounces back from.
  • Karma Houdini Warranty: However, in "Really Small Problems", he suffers a humiliating misfortune when the unicorns he shrunk as entertainment turn on him.
  • Kick the Dog: In "Any Sport in a Storm". When Luz finds out that the Azura books really were written by a human and washed up on the Boiling Isles, he mocks her for "expecting some dramatic discovery".
  • Near-Villain Victory: Succeeds in capturing Eda, and only fails to turn her in because he was distracted by the Owl House stomping on his stand.
  • Not-So-Harmless Villain: Funny name and small stature aside, he leveraged Eda's weaknesses well and got extremely close to capturing her. In his second appearance, Willow and Gus admit that they knew the invitation he sent them to his carnival was a trap but attended anyway because it was fun. The same episode has him almost succeed in killing them, Luz and King through a shrinking potion and hungry carnival animals.
  • Our Demons Are Different: "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door" reveals that he qualifies as a biped demon.
  • Paper-Thin Disguise: By putting on a fake mustache and a wizard hat and robe he's able to trick King into thinking he's the fortuneteller, Obvioso. King doesn't figures it out until much later.
    King: You fiend! When Obvioso finds out you stole his mustache—Ohhhhh.
  • Pig Man: He's a bipedal pig-like demon.
  • Plagiarism in Fiction: "Any Sport in a Storm" reveals that he's the reason why The Good Witch Azura books can be found for sale in the Demon Realm, having found some of them washed up on the shore and and then published them on his own in a (failed) money making scheme.
  • Revenge: He swears revenge on Eda and King for escaping him and also plots revenge against Luz, Willow and Gus for accidentally destroying his stand at the Night Market.
  • Small Role, Big Impact: Even though he's a minor antagonist that only has a speaking role in three episodes, Amity never would have become a fan of The Good Witch Azura (thus forming the Commonality Connection that eventually gave way to her romance with Luz) if he hadn't found copies of the books washed up on the shore and published them.
  • Stealth Pun: He's a literal capitalist pig.
  • Would Hurt a Child: In his second appearance, he tries to kill Luz, Willow, Gus and King by shrinking them down and trying to feed them to shrunken animals as a carnival attraction.

    Willow's Dads 

Gilbert and Harvey Park

Voiced by: Matt Chapman (Harvey), Eric Bauza (Gilbert)

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Harvey (Left) and Gilbert (Right)

Harvey: To make sure you're getting a topnotch education, we're quitting our jobs to homeschool you.''
Gilbert: And we'll spend all our free time having fun as a family.

Willow's fathers. They first appear as a cameo in "Understanding Willow", and then make their in-person debut in "Escaping Expulsion".


  • Actor Allusion: Willow's voice actor, Tati Gabrielle, is half Korean and half African-American. Willow's fathers have matching ethnicities to this, one Black and one Korean (or at least the Boiling Isles equivalent).
  • The Big Damn Kiss: The two of them share a kiss after being freed from the Collector's puppet magic in "Watching and Dreaming". This is rather significant, since it's the only non Luz/Amity kiss in the entire series.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: Both of them have cameos in "Them's the Breaks, Kid" in their respective school's outfits. Harvey wore Glandus' orchid abomination uniform and Gilbert had the brown uniform of St. Epiderm's construction track.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: Since he studied in the construction track, Gilbert would have access to rock manipulation and creating constructs out of rock.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: They first appear in snippets of Willow's memory as Luz and Amity journey through her mind in "Understanding Willow".
  • Education Papa: They're definitely Education Papas, but not nearly to the extent of the Blight parents. They initially force Willow to study a track she hates and has no natural aptitude in because it'll set her up for better opportunities after graduation, and absolutely freak out when she's temporarily expelled. However, they do let her switch tracks after the events of "I Was a Teenage Abomination", probably after Bump talked to them, and after they've had time to cool off from the expulsion thing, they seem determined to make the situation work and even give Willow some books on plant magic to study. So they're definitely invested in Willow's education, push her to succeed, and sometimes fail to consider her feelings, but their hearts are undoubtedly in the right place and they can be trusted to see reason eventually.
  • Follow in My Footsteps: It's subtly implied that Harvey was the one primarily responsible for Willow starting off on the Abomination track, given that he's portrayed as the stricter parent and is an Abomination witch himself.
  • Formerly Fit: Harvey has a noticeable gut in the present day that his younger self lacked.
  • Gentle Touch vs. Firm Hand: From what little is seen of their individual personalities, Harvey is more focused on seeing that Willow gets a good education while Gilbert is willing to cover for her when she sneaks out of the house.
  • Good Parents: Willow had a loving relationship with them growing up.
  • High-School Sweethearts: A newspaper clipping in "Any Sport in a Storm" indicates that they were together since they were teenagers. Although, it's later shown during Eda's flashback in "Them's the Breaks, Kid" that they weren't classmates (Harvey went to Glandus and Gilbert went to St. Epiderm).
  • Magic Staff: Willow alludes to them having staves of their own in "Escape of the Palisman", and her newspaper clipping of them in "Any Sport in a Storm" reveals that Gilbert's is a pig.
  • Maker of Monsters: Harvey, being a former abomination track student, would have the ability to create said creatures.
  • Named After Somebody Famous: They share names with two famous gay rights activists - Gilbert Baker (creator of the pride flag) and Harvey Milk (first openly gay man elected to public office in the United States).
  • Parents as People: They obviously love their daughter, but they pressured Willow into studying abomination magic because they thought it would give her better career opportunities. Thankfully, they seem to come around after Principal Bump switches her track.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: Gilbert in "Escaping Expulsion". When he comes into Willow's room to check on her and discovers she's about to sneak out to save Luz after being grounded, rather than stop her, he lets her leave.
  • Uncertain Doom: While Gilbert is turned into a puppet by the Collector, Harvey's fate by the time Willow returns to the Boiling Isles in "For the Future" is unstated. Willow even tries asking Gilbert where he is, though his transformed state makes it impossible for him to tell her one way or the other. The family is shown reunited during the wrap-up of "Watching and Dreaming", but it still never specifies what happened to Harvey prior to that point.
  • You Are Grounded!: In "Escaping Expulsion". Upon learning that Willow has been expelled from Hexside, they decide to ground her for three years, thinking she might have done something horrible to get herself expelled.

    Perry Porter 

Perry Porter

Voiced by: Gary Anthony Williams

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"This is Perry Porter with breaking news. In light of recent events, Augustus Porter will be grounded for no less than a year."

A news reporter and Gus' dad.


  • Alliterative Name: Perry Porter
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: During his time at Hexside, he wore the purple Oracle track uniform.
  • Early-Bird Cameo: Makes a short appearance in "The First Day" before his name is revealed.
  • Education Papa: When Gus is expelled, Perry immediately grounds him for a year without even waiting to learn what he did.
  • Everyone Went to School Together: In addition to "Them's The Breaks, Kid" showing him as a student at Hexside at the same time as Eda, "King's Tide" implies that he was also a friend of hers.
  • Last Episode, New Character: He is named in the final episode of season 1.
  • Punny Name: His name is a pun on Harry Potter, as well as "reporter" (Perry Porter).
  • Seers: Eda's flashback in "Them's the Breaks, Kid" reveals that he was a member of the Oracle track when he attended Hexside.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: He looks like an older version of his son. The similarity is even more notable after Gus' growth spurt in the second season.
  • You Are Grounded!: In "Escaping Expulsion". Upon learning that Gus has been expelled from Hexside, he decides to ground him for a year.

    Malphas the Master Librarian 

Malphas the Master Librarian

Voiced by: Fred Tatasciore

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The Bonesborough Library head librarian.


  • Bait-and-Switch: At first, he appears to be some kind of intimidating Eldritch Abomination. But once he makes a proper appearance, he's revealed to be a mild-mannered fellow.
  • Deathbringer the Adorable: Downplayed, but that name is definitely not what would be expected of a chill, Totally Radical librarian.
  • Disappointed in You: As he puts it, he's 'super disappointed' in Amity for breaking the library's rules.
  • Draconic Humanoid: He is a demon who resembles a humanoid dragon with feathered wings.
  • Expy: He's deliberately based off of the demon of the same name from Pseudomonarchia Daemonum and The Lesser Key of Solomon; a demon that takes the form of a bird-headed Winged Humanoid with a hoarse voice that can build mighty strongholds (the archives which he dwells in being pretty mighty) and grant familiars onto those who summon them (his echo-mice becoming integral to Luz's mission to create a portal). He's also known for being a deceiver (comes across as a Scary Librarian, but is actually a Reasonable Authority Figure), but is otherwise affable to those around him.
  • Power Echoes: When he confronts Amity and Luz for trespassing in the Library's forbidden stacks, his voice is distorted and echoing.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: When compared to other residents of Bonesborough who wield authority, he comes off as this, simply firing Amity after he catches her and Luz in the forbidden stacks before letting Luz earn Amity's job back with apparently no strings attached. Amity even says he's usually quite nice unless he catches someone breaking the Library's rules.
  • Scary Librarian: Subverted. He definitely looks the part when first seen, but his personality and voice are anything but scary.

    BATT 

Bards Against the Throne

Voiced by: Grey Griffin (Katya) | Kari Wahlgren (Amber) | Zeno Robinson (Derwin)

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From left to right: Katya, Derwin, Amber

A group of bards who feel the Emperor and his coven are unjustly imprisoning people. Led by Raine, the group tries to find and free all wild witches.


  • Astonishingly Appropriate Appearance: Amber is a part of a group called the BATTs and has bat-like ears, bat-like wings and a slightly upturned nose like a bat. Mostly averted once the groups rebrands as the CATs though she does sport a Cat Smile.
  • The Bus Came Back:
    • Katya was first introduced in the first episode, and then wouldn't be seen again until the rest of BATT was introduced over a season later.
    • The BATTs end up imprisoned in the Conformatorium in "Eda's Requiem". They return in "O Titan, Where Art Thou" where their new allies have caused them to rebrand themselves as Covens Against the Throne, aka, the CATs.
    • The trio return in the final scene of "Watching And Dreaming", attending Luz's 18th birthday party.
  • Cool Mask: All of them wear masks resembling bat faces to disguise their identities.
  • Defrosting Ice Queen: Amber is initially cold toward Eda. But after Eda leads the group in freeing several wild witches in one night, Amber changes her tune considerably (to the point of calling her "Mama Eda").
  • Forced Sleep: Amber uses her recorder to make members of the Emperor's Coven fall asleep during a raid.
  • Genki Girl: Amber is extremely energetic, even when the rest of the team are exhausted from spending the whole night raiding.
  • Honorary True Companion: Played with. As seen during the narration at the end of "Watching and Dreaming," Steve has remained notably close with the BATs, helping them to rebuild the Boiling Isles.
  • Little Bit Beastly: Amber has batlike ears, an unusual nose, and tiny bat wings on her back.
  • Magic Music: They are all bard witches who use magical instruments to preform magic. Katya uses a tambourine, Amber uses a recorder, and Derwin uses a bassoon.
  • Magic Staff: "Clouds on the Horizon" shows that Katya has her own palisman staff, which takes the form of a rhinoceros beetle.
  • Most Fanfic Writers Are Girls: Katya was first introduced having been locked up in the Conformatorium for writing romantic fanfiction about food.
  • Oh, No... Not Again!: Katya's reaction when she ends up in the Conformatorium again thanks to Darius.
  • The One Guy: Derwin is the only male member of the group. Averted once the group is absorbed in the CATs, which has a near equal number of male and female members.
  • Out of Focus: Derwin receives the least characterization in the team's debut episode.
  • Rose-Haired Sweetie: Amber has pink skin & hair and a cheery personality. Being voice by Kari Wahlgren may also bring to mind another character who fits that trope.
  • Smoke Out: Derwin uses his bassoon to create a pink smokescreen in order to cover BATT's escape into the sewers.
  • Vague Age: Amber is small and acts very childish, but she seems to be a full member of the bard coven.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: Amber is the only member of the three to not appear in the season 2 finale. Katya and Derwin are shown being a part of the group to help smuggle Eda into the Day of Unity ritual, and getting captured, but Amber's whereabouts are completely unknown.
  • You're Not My Mother: Played for Laughs. During one planning session, Eda offhandedly refers to herself as "Mama" only for Amber to petulantly say, "You're not our mom!" One successful mission later and Amber's calling her Mama Eda.
  • Youthful Freckles: Amber has freckles on her face and looks and acts younger than the rest of the team.

    Piniet 

Piniet

Voiced by: André Sogliuzzo

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A book publisher who forces authors to write books under threat of "crunch time".


  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Presents himself as a fairly friendly publisher willing to give new authors a chance, only to milk them for their success and literally crush them into living cubes if they don't meet their writing deadlines.
  • Karma Houdini: Luz and King manage to escape from the crushing cube, but Piniet receives no punishment and presumably continues his practices.
  • Lizard Folk: He is a lizard-like demon.
  • Magically-Binding Contract: The contracts he signs with his authors force them into glass cubes that crush them if they don't publish books in time.
  • Super-Speed Reading: He can read entire books in seconds thanks to his third eye.
  • Third Eye: He has three eyes but only opens the third one when he speed reads.
  • The Walls Are Closing In: He places authors that fail to reach their deadlines into shrinking cubes that crushes victims into tiny living cubes.

    John De Plume 

John De Plume

Voiced by: Jake Green

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A famous book author in the Boiling Isles who has a large following.


  • Chick Magnet: He has hordes of fangirls that grovel beneath his feet, even Tiny Nose is crazy for him.
  • Fate Worse than Death: Is literally crunched into a small cube by Piniet after presumably failing to finish his book by deadline.
    John: Help me!
  • Punny Name: His is a play on "Nom de Plume", another term for pseudonym.
  • Throw the Dog a Bone: A minor one, but he and the rest of the "crunched" authors kept by Piniet escape their captivity, even if they are still cubes.

Blight Family

    Odalia Blight 

Odalia Blight

Voiced by: Rachael Macfarlane

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"What is my business, is keeping our family ahead of the rest."
Click here to see her as of "For the Future" 

"Mama to Mittens. Remember our deal, make this look good and we'll forgive your recent lackluster performance at school."

Edric, Emira and Amity's mother, and one of the most influential and powerful witches in the social hierarchy of the Boiling Isles. She's part of the oracle coven and works as a salesperson of sorts for Blight Industries. Her debut in "Understanding Willow" reveals her and her husband's involvement in Amity and Willow's ruined friendship.


  • Abusive Mom:
    • Her very first scene quickly paints her as such. Odalia threatened Amity with ruining Willow's life if she didn't cut ties with her, simply because Odalia viewed their friendship as an embarrassment.
    • In Season 2, she tries to get Luz, Gus, and Willow expelled for what she perceives as interfering with Amity's education. Odalia is the main force behind the action, with Alador being too much of an Absent-Minded Professor to even be involved except for being a mouthpiece for his wife. When Odalia tries to go back on her deal with Luz to allow her and her friends back into Hexside, he calls her out on this and argues that Amity is actually growing stronger despite what his wife thinks.
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon" she uses her children as bargaining chips to force Alador to keep working under threat of them being forcibly conscripted into Blight Industries and later tries to force her children to allow everyone else on the Boiling Isles to die because she believes Belos will make them royalty in exchange. She doesn't even care at all when her actions turn her entire family against her.
    • "For the Future" deconstructs this: Odalia makes a deal to serve the Collector in the hopes of secretly manipulating him for her own ends. But when confronted with a child she can't just bully into submission like she did with her own children, Odalia's totally out of her depth and is unable to assert any sort of control over the Collector.
  • Affectionate Nickname: While acting as his servant, the Collector refers to her as "Mama-dalia". It's pretty clear that Odalia herself does not approve of the name, but is in no position to do anything about it.
  • All There in the Manual: Her name isn't spoken in "Understanding Willow", but it is shown in a storyboard video by Dana Terrace.
  • Ambition Is Evil: Odalia is always wanting to improve her family's status in any way she can, and that includes making sure Amity is at the top of her class so she can join the Emperor's Coven. And if it means hurting or killing someone to do so, so be it.
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse:
    • At the end of "Escaping Expulsion" the Golden Guard announces that the Emperor's Coven has purchased her and Alador's entire Abomaton stock and is willing to fund the creation of more... while making it very clear that the Blights will probably be branded as traitors for trying to make their own army if they refuse.
    • During the beginning of "Clouds on the Horizon" Odalia gives one to Alador when he grows suspicious about the number of Abomatons ordered for the Day of Unity. After Alador suggests they reconsider the deal, Odalia cows him into continuing their work by threatening to make their children more involved in Blight Industries in an unspecified but very sinister way, causing Alador to give in to her demands.
  • Arms Dealer: Blight Industries sells Abominations and Abomination-based accessories for use as personal security, with them specializing in weaponry. Odalia handles the sales portion of the business while Alador actually creates the products. Belos ends up buying all their Abomaton 2.0s to gain a personal army for himself rather than allowing anyone else to possess one and when Alador later becomes concerned over their deal due to the sheer number of them Belos has requested, Odalia makes it clear she doesn't care what their customers do with the weapons they buy.
  • Bad Boss: While we don't see much of her business, what we do know is that she's a slave-driver. She has her husband work day and night with no breaks, creating a divide between him and their children. She uses Amity as a test subject for demonstrations of their products as a punishment, and tries to have Luz killed as part of their Abomaton demonstration. In "Clouds on the Horizon", Alador reveals that not only does she make him work while still recovering from fire-flu, but in that time she had half his team fired while still expecting them to finish their projects.
  • Bad People Abuse Animals: She crushes a butterfly in "Escaping Expulsion" for no other reason than because her husband was distracted by it.
  • Beyond Redemption: The final straw that broke any remaining relations with the rest of the Blight family beyond repair is the revelation that Odalia knew that Belos' goal was the complete extinction of Witch-kind, but still aided him for the empty promise of her family being spared and then become royalty. After that, Alador divorces Odalia and his children chose to live with him rather than their mother.
  • Big Bad Wannabe: In "For the Future", Odalia tries to take advantage of her servitude to the Collector to get him to make the Boiling Isles "bigger and better". But since the Collector has no interest in any such thing, her attempts go nowhere and she quickly backs down once the Collector gets annoyed with her.
  • Blackmail: In "Understanding Willow", she threatened to end Willow's future if Amity didn't cut ties with her.
  • The Bully: Strip away her rank and social standing, and this is who Odalia is at heart. She happily insults, humiliates, and terrorizes those weaker than her for fun and to make herself feel big, going as far as to antagonize Willow, and also Luz.
  • The Cameo: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", in the flashback to Eda and Lilith's duel, what appears to be her younger self can be seen if you look carefully.
  • Cloudcuckoolander's Minder: Odalia actually does manage to make Alador act somewhat appropriately at times, either by squashing the butterfly he's chasing or verbally reining him in to remind him of what's going on, but much to her chagrin she's not always able to do so.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In her cameo in "Young Blood, Old Souls", Odalia is wearing the indigo robes of an oracle student during her Hexside years. In present day, she wears similar-colored work attire.
  • Condescending Compassion: In "Clouds on the Horizon", she feigns feeling sympathy for Kikimora over their demotion (in the most patronizing way possible).
  • Control Freak: Besides blackmailing her own daughter to cut ties with her best friend in order to hang out with more "suitable" friends, Dana Terrace says that Odalia forces Amity to dye her hair green so she would be color coordinated with her siblings. In "Escaping Expulsion" she intimidates Amity into not standing up for her friends when they're getting expelled. In "Clouds on the Horizon" she orders Amity to break up with Luz and says she'll find her daughter a more suitable girlfriend.
  • Corrupt Corporate Executive:
    • Season 2 reveals that Odalia—in addition to being an abusive mother—runs Blight Industries, an abomination-based home security and weapons manufacturing corporation that frequently holds Arms Fairs to show off their product line. Odalia, in particular, uses her connections in "Escaping Expulsion" to get Luz, Gus, and Willow expelled (temporary), basically blackmails Luz (her daughter's crush) into being the guinea pig for their weapons showcase, and is all-but said to be trying to kill her, and shown to have had no intention of following on her end of the bargain; her husband has to call her out on this last one to get her to honor their agreement.
    • "Clouds on the Horizon" takes it further when Alador tells King that despite being down with the fire flu, Odalia still fired half his work team, refused sick leave for the rest and expected them to continue working at normal pace. Just to top it off, it's also revealed that Odalia has known about the Day of Unity the entire time, choosing to stay quiet so she can gain more power and status out of it.
  • Crush Blush: When Amity shows Luz a photo of Alador winning the Bonesborough Brawl in his youth, Odalia can be seen smirking in the crowd with a faint blush.
  • Deliberately Bad Example: Odalia is ironically to offset the idea that all witches are evil. At worst, most witches like Eda partake in acts like lying and stealing from each other, but are still big on honor that they extend it to those they're indebted to. Odalia however, is nothing but ruthless, selfish, and power-hungry that she's willing to betray her family and her own kind just to fulfill her own evil ego. Odalia virtually embodies all the qualities Belos hates about witches to a tee.
  • Didn't Think This Through: Seems to be something of a reoccurring problem with her.
    • In "Escaping Expulsion", her attempts to control Amity's life by expelling her friends and trying to kill Luz only serves to motivate Amity to lash out and rebel against her—then afterwards, she still intends to break her promise to Luz until Alador explains why that'd be bad for their reputation. Also, she openly brags about Blight Industries forming its own army—while clearly not considering how the Isles' authoritarian Emperor might feel about that, which results in the Golden Guard paying them a visit at the end of the episode.
    • In "For The Future", Odalia manages to talk her way into serving the Collector, hoping to manipulate him for her own ends. But having no idea how to handle a child—much less an omnipotent one—all her attempts fall flat as the Collector is only interested in his games, leaving her stuck as a glorified maid.
    • After she's disowned by the rest of the family, she vows to find a new business partner, forgetting that Alador was the main reason why Blight Industries was so profitable. She also doesn't consider that no one would be willing to work with her after the draining spell kills almost everyone and she enabled it.
  • Disowned Parent: In "Clouds on the Horizon", Amity swears that she'll never speak to her again after 14 years of abuse, trying to break her up with Luz, and revealing that she's an accessory to attempted genocide. "Thanks to Them" shows that she's sticking to her decision, as her family drawing only includes Alador and the twins. As of the Finale end credits, it sticks and Odalia is no longer a part of the family.
  • Domestic Abuse: "Clouds on the Horizon" reveals there's an element of emotional/psychological abuse in her and Alador's marriage. Not only does she push him to keep working 24/7 at the cost of his own physical health, but she also generally shows little regard for his autonomy or opinions. She also uses their children as pawning chips to get what she wants, threatening to make them "more involved" with Blight Industries (what exactly this means isn't revealed, but Alador's reaction makes it clear it's nothing good) if he doesn't bow to her will. The episode heavily implies she sees Alador, along with his creations, as cash cows and lackeys to do her bidding, and very little else.
  • Education Mama: She cares a lot about Amity's academic performance, explaining Amity's initial introduction as an Academic Alpha Bitch. "Reaching Out" confirms that Amity joining the Emperor's Coven was always her dream, not her daughter's.
  • Entitled Bitch: She's very used to things going her way, and can't stand anyone not going along with her desires. In "For The Future", she's seen grumbling to herself over wanting someone to recognize her "potential".
  • Equal-Opportunity Evil: Due to the absence of homophobia on the Isles, Odalia has no problem with her daughter dating a girl. Downplayed in that she still intends to break them up; it just happens to be a different reason as to why.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Even if her parenting skills leave much to be desired, she and Alador do seem to love each other. "Clouds on the Horizon" calls even that into question when the two fight over Odalia willingly working for Belos while knowing his true motives, and Alador "quitting" Blight Industries as a result, with Odalia coldly saying she's been meaning to find a more competent business partner.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: Once she realizes that Amity's friendships with Luz, Willow, and Gus are actually making her stronger, she allows her daughter to continue to hang out with them, but it's made clear that she doesn't exactly understand why Amity's gotten stronger.
  • Evil Is Petty: In "King's Tide", where it's implied she informed the Emperor's guards that the airship Alador, Amity and her friends took had been "stolen".
  • Evil Matriarch: She controls every aspect of her children's lives all while justifying it as being best for the family. "Clouds on the Horizon" confirms she's not just amoral but actually evil when she reveals she's known all along about Belos's plans to sacrifice everyone on the Boiling Isles but is helping because she believes the Blight family will be spared and made into royalty. She truly doesn't understand why her husband and children are disgusted by her instead of being grateful.
    Odalia: What he does with our products is none of our business. What is my business is keeping our family ahead of the rest. You're welcome, everyone!
  • Failed a Spot Check: As a sign of just how little she cares about Amity or the twins, in "Clouds on the Horizon" its implied that she's completely oblivious of Ed and Em's troublemaking and mischievous behavior and also reveals that she didn't find out that Amity started dating Luz until almost two months after the fact despite neither of the girls making any effort to hide their relationship.
  • Fantastic Racism: She not only seems to think of Luz as a lesser being for being human, but she also calls Kikimora a "gremlin".
  • Fatal Flaw: Lack of Foresight. Ironically for an Oracle, Odalia can be remarkably shortsighted and often doesn't think about the potential consequences of her actions until they come back to bite her. In many instances, she's too fixated on getting what she wants to consider them or thinks that her status means that such things won't apply to her. The best example of this probably comes from "For the Future" where Odalia fails to anticipate that making a deal to serve the Collector would leave her stuck being his maid rather than being in a position of power as she clearly hoped she would be. In the end, her shortsighted decisions permanently separate her from her family, who want nothing to do with her.
  • Faux Affably Evil: In "Escaping Expulsion", she offers to talk things out with Luz, leading the girl to assume she's a strict but reasonable person… but this turns out to be a ploy to get Luz killed, refusing to call the Abomaton 2.0 off even when Alador tells her she's going too far.
  • Foil: To Lilith. Both worked for Belos under false promises (the former to heal her sister, to become royalty for the latter). Both are given moments where they realize that the Emperor was deceitful but the difference is how they react. Lilith is horrified to learn the Emperor has no intention to remove her sister's curse whereas Odalia does not care about him wanting to destroy all life on the Boiling Isles. And, most important, one undergoes a Heel–Face Turn while the other still tried to make the Day of Unity happen.
  • For Your Own Good: Odalia justifies her controlling abusive actions towards her family by claiming it's for their own good even when it's clearly only for hers. It's even how she rationalizes sacrificing everyone else on the Boiling Isles so Belos will make the Blights royalty, even when her entire family is disgusted by her.
    Amity: I am never speaking to you again!
    Odalia: You'll thank me when you're a literal princess, princess. It's what's best for the family.
  • Greed: She gets angry at Amity for going off-script during a demonstration and costing their company a lot of money.
  • Green and Mean: Odalia has bright green hair, and she's not a nice person.
  • Hair-Trigger Temper: It doesn't take much to set Odalia off, a trait that was clearly passed down to Amity.
  • Hartman Hips: Present-day Odalia is shown to have rather wide hips. This is especially noticeable since her first appearance during a flashback showed that she looked near identical to her youngest daughter Amity (who has a rather thin build) as a teenager.
  • Hate Sink:
    • She is a mean-spirited and manipulative socialite who cares more for power, wealth, and reputation than the happiness of her children. While both she and her husband have Social Darwinist tendencies, Odalia is the primary disciplinarian while Alador has little interest in anything aside from his studies.
    • "Clouds on the Horizon" has her reveal that she knew all along that Belos plans on wiping out life on the Boiling Isles with the Day of Unity. But Odalia kept it a secret because she believes her family will be spared and made into royalty as a reward for their service, all while acting smug and self-righteous about it. This is too much even for Alador who sides with their children, destroys their factory, and "quits" his and his wife's partnership. She also disapproves of Amity's relationship with Luz, telling Amity that they'll find her a more appropriate girlfriend once Luz is arrested, which causes Amity to disown her mother and vow to never speak to her again. After everything is said and done, she doesn't even acknowledge Alador as her husband but heartlessly says she'll find another business partner. All of this is done with the intention of making Odalia into a character that the audience would want to see fail.
  • Hereditary Hairstyle: "Them's the Breaks, Kid" reveals that as a teenager she styled her hair exactly the same way her daughter Amity did up until "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" and is the one who mandated Amity do so.
  • Hey, You!: One of the more subtle signs of her abusive behavior is that she's the only member of the family that exclusively refers to Ed and Em as "the twins", reflecting how she sees them as part of a set rather than individuals.
  • High-School Sweethearts: Implied. While it's not stated if she and Alador were already dating, Lilith's flashback to her duel with Eda shows that they at the very least knew each other during their time at Hexside. The picture of Alador winning the Bonesborough Brawl has her blushing while looking at him in the crowd.
  • Hypocrite: In "Escaping Expulsion" she constantly reminds Amity that "A Blight always keeps their word." and then voices her intent to renege on her promise to Amity, which Alador immediately calls her out on.
  • I Gave My Word: Averted. She repeatedly states that "A Blight always keeps their word." However, this is revealed to not be something she believes in personally and only uses it to help the Blight family's image and whenever it suits her. When Luz and Amity take the fall against the Abomaton 2.0 on the promise that Luz, Willow and Gus can be let back into Hexside, she tries to vow to use all her connections and every authority to ensure that they remain banned. Alador immediately stops and scolds her, reminding her of her own words that "A Blight always keeps their word." She concedes that he's right.
  • It's All About Me: She claims that everything she does is for her family's best interests even when it hurts them, but it's clear from her actions she's a Control Freak who's only concerned with what benefits her. She tries to control every aspect of her children's, especially Amity's, lives from their friends, romantic partners, education and future jobs all so it will reflect better on her. "Clouds on the Horizon" shows she's literally willing to let Belos kill everyone else on the Boiling Isles if it means the Blights will be made royalty afterwards, all while justifying it as being what's best for her family, even as her husband and children are disgusted by her and fight against her.
  • Jerkass: Odalia cares about the Blight family's social standing so strongly that she's willing to ruin her daughter's friendship with a less-than-satisfactory witchling and get her daughter's friends expelled to keep up appearances. Worse, in "Escaping Expulsion" she tries to kill Luz, and plots to use her connections to ruin Amity's friends' lives before Alador sternly reminds her that she gave her word not to. Of course, calling her a jerkass is being quite generous, as we see in "Clouds on the Horizon" where she remains haughty, self-righteous and mocking even when her husband and daughter are disgusted by her willingness to let everyone on the Boiling Isles die just so she'll profit from it.
  • Karma Houdini: Downplayed. Despite being forced to served as the Collector's nanny for a time in "For the Future", she manages to avoid any significant punishment for her role in the Day of Unity (especially compared that to Belos, who ends up decaying into a skull that gets stomped on). That said, Blight Industries appears to be finished, and she's been disowned by both Alador and Amity, who'd she'd spent years trying to control. The last shot showing her in "Watching and Dreaming," shows that while she's still alive and free to her own devices, she's little more than Alador and Amity's petty stalker. She also isn't seen walking free, so it's really anyone's guess what happened to her during the four year timeskip.
  • Know When to Fold 'Em:
    • As arrogant as she is, even Odalia knows better than to try and resist when the Emperor's Coven comes by with a generous "offer".
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon" she's still prepared to fight Alador, even after he destroys their factory and Abomatons. It's only when Amity, Willow, Gus and "Luz" stand alongside him that she slinks away, saying she's been meaning to find a "more competent business partner."
    • In "For the Future", Odalia immediately abandons her attempt to convince the Collector to make a "bigger and better" Boiling Isles once he starts getting annoyed with her, knowing better than to push her luck with a temperamental, omnipotent child.
  • Lack of Empathy: She shows no concern for her family's feelings or even the lives of others, as shown when she's willing to keep Luz's fight with the Abomaton 2.0 going even when it looks like it'll kill her. "Clouds on the Horizon" shows this extends to all life on the Boiling Isles as she's willing to let Belos kill literally everyone else if it means she and the Blight family are rewarded. Even more telling is her outright lack of a reaction to her husband and daughter effectively disowning her. She actually has more of a reaction to Alador destroying the Ambomiton lab than the loss of her family.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: She is controlling and abusive towards her children, treating them like accessories and forcing them to obey under threat of punishment. She abandons her family completely after they refuse to stand by while the Day of Unity kills the rest of the Boiling Isles. When we see her again in "For the Future" she is acting as a servant to The Collector, who calls her "Mama-dalia" and forces her to perform stereotypical maternal duties like cleaning up after him and preparing snacks under threat of being turned into another one of his "toys".
  • Les Collaborateurs: Once the Collector takes over the Boiling Isles, Odalia becomes his servant and "mom." Unlike everyone else (for now at least), Odalia is still capable of independent thought, since she urges The Collector to make the Boiling Isles into a monarchy.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Odalia is originated from Odalys, which means "wealth", fitting for a wealthy witch.
    • Her status as an Abusive Mom means that the family name fits her more than it does to their kids, with her being a blight on at least Amity's life and ability to make real friends.
  • More Deadly Than the Male: Odalia is revealed to be far more charismatic, aggressive, and manipulative than her husband.
  • Narcissist: She only cares about ensuring that her family is at the top of the pecking order by controlling her children's behavior from making Amity dye her hair green to forcing Amity to end her friendship with Willow. When she reveals that she knew the truth about the Day of Unity, she claims that she is working in her family's best interests in assisting Belos but makes it clear she is doing it for her own gain once her family rebukes her.
  • Nothing Personal: She says this to Luz after getting her, Willow, and Gus expelled from Hexside, claiming that she's just trying to teach her daughter a lesson in the world of business.
  • Obnoxious Entitled Housewife: Not really a housewife since she has a lucrative full-time job (and she is clearly the one in charge of the family business), but overall, she's a wealthy, high-status woman who's stuck-up, haughty, controlling, selfish, vindictive, manipulative, expects everyone else to accede to her personal wants, and goes to unreasonable extremes just to assert her authority over others. Her daughter is afraid of her, her husband is exasperated with her and Principal Bump only reluctantly goes along with her demands because she's the head of the Boiling Isles' equivalent of the PTA.
  • Obviously Evil: Green hair? Icy Blue Eyes? She's definitely not one of the good guys.
  • Odd Couple: Odalia is a strait-laced and stern woman who's obsessed with controlling her daughter, Amity's, every move—while Alador is so consumed by his experiments that he's constantly oblivious to anything else. Despite their differences, they do seem to care for one another, though "Clouds on the Horizon" ends with their relationship seemingly ending.
  • Opposites Attract: She's the polar opposite of her husband in terms of personality, yet they somehow manage well together as a married couple.
  • Plot-Irrelevant Villain: While the emperor is a danger who causes everyone great dread, and whose defeat will be what matters to most, Odalia's role in the narrative is rather inconsequential. That said, she is a different kind of monster to Luz in that she serves to remind everyone the idea that corruption is never centralized—corruption in the Boiling Isles is a byproduct of the Emperor's reign, and Odalia's role is tantamount to being a snake in a jungle of snakes. She may be a pawn to a much bigger player, but she takes advantage of the corruption that exists in the Boiling Isles to be a personal threat to Luz, her daughter Amity, and their closest friends in all her appearances.
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: An interesting case: due to homophobia not existing on the Isles, she has no problem with Amity dating a girl. However, it is made evident that, besides being a "criminal," Odalia looks down on Luz for being human. She also treats Kikimora as being inferior to her as well.
  • Power Stereotype Flip: Odalia is a member of the Oracle coven, but she is a very selfish and short-sighted woman, so focused on getting what she wants right now, that she doesn't consider the long-term consequences of her actions until things backfire. Basically, she's an oracle who lacks foresight.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: In "Escaping Expulsion" the thing that convinces her to let Luz, Willow and Gus back into Hexside isn't Alador reminding her she gave her word to Amity but pointing out that Amity's friendship with them is causing her to become stronger, even strong enough to someday become a Coven Head.
  • Prematurely Grey-Haired: Her hair has visibly faded by the time of "For the Future", implied to be the result of stress from serving as the Collector's glorified maid for several months.
  • Preppy Name: Her name is very fancy, rare, and perfect for a mean rich socialite.
  • Psychopathic Womanchild: If you thought Amity was a Spoiled Brat (at first), Odalia acts more like a childish, entitled brat than her kids do, but in the evilest way possible; she's willing to allow Emperor Belos to commit genocide on her fellow witches, believing she'll get to live like royalty, and she'll gleefully murder anyone who stands in her way. Plus, we see she's such a Sore Loser when things don't go her way. Clearly, Amity in Season 1 was an angel compared to this.
  • The Quisling:
    • "Clouds on the Horizon" reveals that Odalia knew that the Day of Unity would be catastrophic to everyone on the Boiling Isles but went along with it out of a belief that her and her family would live like royalty in the new world Belos creates.
    • Continues in "For the Future", where she has become the Collector's housekeeper to avoid being turned into a puppet, while also trying (unsuccessfully) to convince the Collector to use his power for her purposes.
  • Riches to Rags: By "For the Future", Odalia has lost Blight Industries and while she's managed to avoid being turned into a puppet like most of the other Boiling Isles residents, she's still been to reduced to being a glorified housemaid stuck cleaning up the Collector's messes.
  • Sadist: In Lilith's flashback, she is shown cruelly smirking and taking pleasure at Eda getting rocks thrown at her after transforming into her cursed form, showing she was quite rotten even when she was younger.
  • Secret-Keeper: "Clouds on the Horizon" reveals she knows that Belos plans on wiping everyone out on the Boiling Isles, which is why she's been ignoring her children's warnings. She's been keeping it secret because she believes the Blight family will be spared and made royalty after the Day of Unity.
  • Seers: Odalia is an oracle with telepathic abilities.
  • Shipping Torpedo: In "Clouds on the Horizon", Odalia finds out that Amity is dating Luz and is appalled, sneering that a human criminal is unworthy of being romantically tied to the Blight name and that she'll find Amity a new girlfriend. Amity is enraged by this and attempts to attack her mother.
  • Sinister Silhouettes: This is how she appears in her debut. And she turns out to be just as bad as we're led to believe.
  • Slave to PR: Part of how Alador convinced her to honor her deal with Luz; Odalia herself had made a big deal out of how "A Blight always keeps their word.", so breaking the agreement would be potentially damaging to their reputation. Better to call it a bad deal and walk away.
  • Slimeball: Doesn't get any slimier than blackmailing people to throw them under the bus, coercing a principal to gain control of an entire academy and attempting murder in a plausibly deniable way so that she doesn't have to fulfil her end of the bargain. And that's just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to how despicable she truly is.
  • Smug Smiler: Odalia doesn't seem to be physically capable of smiling at someone without giving off the air of "I can manipulate this person for my own gain". Even an old photo featuring her blushing at her future husband displays her with that same smug grin.
  • Smug Snake: Ultimately, Odalia's ambition and arrogance far outstrips her actual ability to attain the power she so desparately craves, leaving her as a minor threat in the grand scheme of things.
  • Social Darwinist:
    • She believes Blights should only associate with the strongest of witches, and consider Willow to be weak, either because of Willow's low aptitude at the time, or because she's not as mean as Boscha, and in Season 2 the only reason she allows Amity to associate with Luz, Gus and Willow is because their influence is clearly making Amity stronger.
    • Deconstructed in "Clouds on the Horizon". Odalia has apparently known for some time about the Day of Unity's real purpose as a draining spell, but is so convinced of her family's superiority that she's let Belos talk her into being part of his plan, and seems to be under the delusion that the Blights, the only witches left alive, will be treated like lesser royalty when all is said and done — an absurdly unlikely possibility, but one she wholeheartedly believes. Moments after her husband leaves her, she walks off, implicitly abandoning her entire family for a more willing and ruthless partner.
  • The Sociopath: Odalia cares more for their family's social ranking than her children's' wellbeing and happiness, and is very controlling of them, with Alador mostly going along with whatever she wants.
    • Season 1 reveals she caused Amity to end her friendship with Willow at the threat of making her life hellish, and is fully responsible for all of Amity's issues; while Season 2 has her intimidate her daughter into not standing up for her friends when they're expelled, and tricks Luz into agreeing to help demonstrate her company's weapons—something that would have gotten Luz killed had Amity not stepped in and finally stood up to her.
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon", she reveals that she's willingly gone ahead with the Day of Unity even knowing it'll be mass murder, solely because she's convinced, that she and her family will thrive and imprisons and attacks her children and spouse just so they can't attempt to stop her. When Alador has finally had enough and "quits" being her husband, she stalks off, sneering that she's "been meaning to find a more competent business partner, anyway".
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Her appearance in a flashback shows her looking a lot like her future daughter, Amity. Enforced by Odalia, as according to Word of God she forces Amity to dye her hair green because "she likes her kids to be color-coordinated". This becomes increasingly downplayed as the series goes on thanks to Amity dying and restyling her hair, which represents Odalia's grip on her loosening. It reaches its apex by the time of the epilogue (by which point Amity has completely cut ties with her), as even with Amity beginning to inherit her figure, the two look less like each other than ever before.
  • Summon Magic: In "Clouds on the Horizon", it's revealed she can summon forth an entity of magical energy to defend her, an ability she puts to use against Alador and the group when the situation goes south.
  • Talker and Doer: She is the talker to Alador's doer, running the company that sells his inventions.
  • Telepathy: Odalia, being an oracle, uses a pair of amulets to telepathically communicate with Amity, typically using it to keep her daughter in line. When Amity finally has enough of her mother's manipulations, she destroys her half of the amulets.
  • Treachery Is a Special Kind of Evil: Without a doubt, Odalia has earned far more disgust from the kids than Emperor Belos himself, due to her willingness to actively turn on her own kind and abet a human witch hunter's genocide.
  • Unholy Matrimony: She's a horrible mother (and a horrible person in general), though she does appear to have a stable marriage. In "Clouds on the Horizon" reveals their marriage is less stable than it first appeared. Alador apparently made a "deal" with her so their children wouldn't have to be involved in their business, she's been firing his workforce and making him work nonstop to meet the Emperor's demands, and Alador finally turns against her when he finds out she's willing to sacrifice everyone else on the Boiling Isles to Belos.
  • Used to Be a Sweet Kid: Flashbacks and pictures imply she was a better person at some point (even if she did seem to take pleasure in seeing Eda suffer from her curse the first time). There's no hint of the old innocence in the cold business woman she became as an adult.
  • We Used to Be Friends: "Them's the Breaks, Kids" shows that she was formerly friends with Darius. "King's Tide" rather shockingly implies that she was once friends with Eda of all people.
  • What Happened to the Mouse?: What became of her following the four year Time Skip at the end of "Watching And Dreaming" is unrevealed. While Alador has formed a research partnership with Darius, there's no indication that Odalia found the "new partner" she was hoping to get.
  • Would Hurt a Child: In "Escaping Expulsion", Odalia has no qualms making Luz be part of the Blight Industries' "demonstration" showcasing the strength of their abomination soldiers. When Alador tries to get her to stop, Odalia gleefully voices her intent to have the Abom-iton 2.0 kill Luz, and only stops when Amity threatens to rip it to pieces in front of her investors.
  • You Are What You Hate: Odalia hates that Luz is a criminal and a traitor and Amity shouldn't even be dating her. This is bold coming from someone who is committing treason against her own people and her own family, and abets genocide, which is an even bigger crime.
  • You Wouldn't Shoot Me: Though it goes unsaid, she is so confident of the threat she and Alador represent that she knows they're untouchable. Their actions would amount to Bullying a Dragon since every potential victim has magic powers and can potentially retaliate. For starters, she has a prestigious reputation that attacking her would net serious backlash. Also, she can easily find leverage to blackmail the witch unfortunate enough to cross her. Or in the case of Principal Bump, all she has to do is stare him down and he's intimidated enough to do what she and Alador say. After revealing she'll actively allow the Emperor's genocide and will gladly murder anyone who tries to prevent her from being rewarded, she's fair game to the heroes.

    Alador Blight 

Alador Blight

Voiced by: Jim Pirri

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"I goofed off a lot back then. But you have a bright future and shouldn't waste it on that nonsense."

"...A Blight always upholds their end of the deal."

The Blight siblings' absent-minded but intelligent father. He specializes in creating home security weapons out of abominations with Odalia describing him as the "greatest abomination inventor of our time". Like his wife, he too was involved in Amity and Willow's current broken friendship


  • Abusive Parent:
    • While less overt about it, Alador is extremely neglectful of his children, not noticing very basic aspects of their lives. With an episode even where he does show up, the twins are clearly unhappy to see him and Eda of all people has to prompt him to actually talk to his kids following a big incident. In addition to that, he was shown in a flashback to have also been very against Amity being friends with Willow instead of pre-approved ones - and while he did interfere in preventing Odalia killing Luz it was only because it would make the family look bad going back on their word. Immediately after, he raises the possibility to Odalia of Amity being strong enough to become a coven head, making it clear it is not just her who is the origin point of all the ambitions forced on Amity.
    • Later episodes play with the trope by all but stating Odalia has her hooks in Alador as deep as anyone else and has him working constantly to fulfill her own ambitions with some implicit threat to hold over him. While it doesn't excuse his mistakes it does add a layer of complexity that his neglect is due to abuse by Odalia severely overworking him into exhaustion. "Reaching Out" has him starting to realize the affects of his neglect on Amity and "Clouds on the Horizon" has expressing regret over how little time he's spent with his children and plans to change his ways after the Day of Unity. When told there won't be an after to the Day of Unity, he sides with his children against his wife.
  • Absent-Minded Professor: Alador, the brains behind Blight Industries, is constantly lost in his own head and staring off into space, allowing Odalia to speak for the both of them. Later episodes imply that Odalia's demanding production schedules have him working to the point of exhaustion constantly leaving him rather zoned out. In "Reaching Out", Amity calls him out for being such a scatterbrained workaholic that he hasn't noticed she dyed her hair or started dating Luz; Alador, who previously was shown to implicitly understand his daughter's crush, responds "Edalyn's kid?" in confusion, like he's completely forgotten any prior interactions he's had with her.
  • Accomplice by Inaction: Alador does nothing to prevent Odalia's treatment of their daughter, and is so absent from Amity's life that he didn't even know she was dating Luz. Some of this is implied to be a form of abuse on Odalia's part holding the children or their marriage over his head to keep him working past the brink of exhaustion for her gain but he still hasn't made an effort to stand up to her. In "Reaching Out", Amity confronts him about it, and he resolves to do better, promising to talk to Odalia. He fully breaks out of this by "Clouds on the Horizon" after learning about the true nature of the Day of Unity.
  • All There in the Manual: His name isn't mentioned in "Understanding Willow," but it is displayed in Dana Terrace's storyboard video.
  • An Offer You Can't Refuse:
    • In "Escaping Expulsion" the Golden Guard visits Blight Industries and announces to buy all of his creations and is even willing to fund for further creation. However the Golden Guard also warns him that the Emperor doesn't look kindly on citizens attempting to create a private army.
    • In "Clouds on the Horizon" when he expresses suspicion with why the Emperor needs so many Abomatons for the Day of Unity, he asks Odalia if they should reconsider their deal with Belos. Odalia throws back that Blights don't go back on their deals, unless he wants her to go back on the deal he made with her so that their children wouldn't be forced into being involved in Blight Industries.
  • Arms Dealer: Blight Industries sells Abominations and Abomination-based accessories for use as personal security, with them specializing in weaponry. Alador actually creates the products while Odalia handles the sales portion of the business. Belos ends up buying all their Abomaton 2.0s to gain a personal army for himself rather than allowing anyone else to possess one and while Odalia doesn't care what he or any of their customers does with their products, Alador is at least concerned over the sheer number of Abomatons Belos has requested.
  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Alador is shown being distracted easily to many things, much to his wife's chagrin, ranging from Principal Bump's demon "hat" to butterflies.
  • Badass Bookworm: He's both one of the greatest abomination witches on the Boiling Isles (enough so to have a long running rivalry with the current head of his coven) and was also a former winner of the Bonesborough Brawl in his youth. "Reaching Out" confirms that he hasn't lost any of his old combat skills either, as he effortlessly disposes of the current reigning champion with a single spell.
  • Beard of Evil: He sports one in the flashback of "Understanding Willow". By the time he appears in the present, he's shaved it, although some visible stubble remains.
  • Berserk Button: If you're a Blight then you better keep your word after you give it. About the only time he shows any emotion is when Odalia intends to renege on her deal with Amity.
  • Big Ol' Eyebrows: Alador possesses extremely thick eyebrows.
  • Blackmail: During Amity's youth, he and Odalia threatened her with the possibility of Willow being unable to attend Hexside if Amity didn't stop being friends with her.
  • Blasé Boast: After beating Warden Wrath, the reigning Bonesborough Brawl champ, in mere seconds and with no visible effort, Alador is offered the championship belt. His response is a dismissive "I already have one", demonstrating how little he thinks of this sport.
  • Bolivian Army Ending: His final scene in "King's Tide" is protecting Amity, Gus, Willow and Hunter from an army of Abomatons and pulling a You Shall Not Pass! against them, with absolutely no hints about what happen to him stated anywhere else in the episode. His gentle fatherly kiss on Amity's forehead just before just adds to the spirit of this trope.
  • Brainy Brunette: He has brown hair and is noted to be incredibly skilled when it comes to crafting abominations, two traits that he passed down to his younger daughter.
  • Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He's easily distracted, doesn't always follow the flow of conversation well and seems pretty spaced out when he's not in the lab. When he is though he quite possibly lives up to his wife's boast about being the Abomination crafter of the age. It took Amity interfering for his Abomaton 2.0 to be even slightly held back and that was through trickery instead of combat.
  • The Cameo: In "Young Blood, Old Souls", within the flashback to Eda and Lilith's duel, what shows up to be his more youthful self can be seen in case you see carefully.
  • Characterization Marches On: The first time we see him in silhouette in Amity's flashback, he's just as austere and prim as Odalia, and seems on equal footing with his wife; his cameo as a teenager in "Young Blood, Old Souls", however, shows him listless and hunched over, much more like his present self. When he finally appears in "Escaping Expulsion", he's a bedraggled, easily sidetracked mess who needs her to guide him outside of the lab. "Reaching Out" reveals he's a Former Teen Rebel, and has him admit he's proud of his daughter's growing independent streak.
  • Chasing a Butterfly: A sort of Running Gag in his official debut episode involves him becoming distracted during a conversation and following a flying bug, resulting in Odalia becoming exasperated with his antics.
  • Cloudcuckoolander: Compared to his wife, Alador acts rather "off" and loses his focus quite often (a trait clearly passed down to his son). Even though demons take many forms on the Isles, he doesn't even seem to notice that the scout he's speaking to in "Clouds on the Horizon" — King in disguise — is unusually small and barefoot.
  • Color-Coded for Your Convenience: In his cameo in "Young Blood, Old Souls", Alador is wearing the orchid robes of an abominations student during his high school years.
  • Deadpan Snarker: Alador tends to express himself with a lot of dry, blunt wit and sarcasm.
  • Ditzy Genius: He's a brilliant abomination-maker and inventor, but generally he'd rather be chasing butterflies. This is why he leaves running the business side of Blight Industries up to his wife. But he still makes sure she doesn't make stupid decisions.
  • Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Despite the fact that his parenting abilities are lacking, he and Odalia do appear to care for each other. He also cares for Amity and the twins, even if his workaholic tendencies prevent him from showing it. "Clouds on the Horizon" deconstructs this by showing how Odalia commits domestic abuse against Alador, from working him like a dog to threatening to force their children to work for Blight Industries if he doesn't obey her. Alador eventually has enough of Odalia when he discovers she knew all along that Belos is going to use the Day of Unity to commit genocide. Alador even states "This is too much, even for you."
  • Even Evil Has Standards: While he does nothing to stop it, he does show disapproval towards Luz getting killed by one of their Abominations during a demonstration compared to Odalia openly enjoying how it will happen. Albeit this is more because it is against a deal made and a Blight always keeps their word. He later ends his relationship with Odalia upon learning that she always knew about the Day of Unity but went along with it in the hopes of gaining power and money.
  • Evil Cannot Comprehend Good: When he discovers that Amity's connections with Luz, Willow, and Gus are actually strengthening her, he permits his daughter to continue hanging out with them, but he makes it obvious that he has no idea why she has grown stronger. It's not until Amity calls him out for his negligence as a parent when he finally sees her for the person she's become.
  • Evil Parents Want Good Kids: Alador believes Amity joining the Emperor's coven would secure a future for her. The reason he doesn't want her joining the Bonesborough Brawl is because he very nearly destroyed his own future doing so, and claims she'll lose focus if she does this and not go to coven tryouts.
  • Evil Virtues: Honesty. Alador recognizes that sometimes, a bad deal is just a bad deal and it's better to suck it up. Once Amity threatens to ruin the presentation, Odalia proves to be a Sore Loser who silently attempts to get every authority possible to keep Luz and her friends permanently expelled, he tells her it's not worth it and to just to keep their word and take the loss.
  • Fantasy-Forbidding Father: In "Reaching Out", Alador vetoes Amity taking part in the Bonesborough Brawl fighting tournament, something he did in his youth, and even builds a special Abomaton to chaperone her and make sure she applies to the Emperor's Coven. When Amity disobeys him to take part in the tournament anyway, Alador is angry at her until she stands up to him and reveals her reasons for doing so, calling him out on being such a workaholic that he didn't even notice she dyed her hair purple or started dating Luz.
  • Former Teen Rebel: "Reaching Out" reveals that Alador was once the champion of the Bonesborough Brawl, though he now considers his youthful escapades to have been a waste of his time and talent.
  • Freudian Slip: When he and Odalia are pressuring Principal Bump into expelling Luz & co, he first says "executed" before correcting himself.
  • Genius Slob: Alador has messy Einstein Hair, Exhausted Eye Bags, Perma-Stubble, and his lab coat is disheveled and covered in abomination goop. It's eventually revealed this is because Odalia makes him work to the point of exhaustion, even when he's sick. Alador mentions he hasn't had a weekend off in five years.
  • Grew a Spine: After years of blindly going with his wife's decisions without considering the effect it's having on his relationship with his kids, in "Clouds on the Horizon," he saves Luz and her friends from Odalia, wrecks the Blight's factory, and quits.
  • Heel–Face Turn: While he was always more of an Accomplice by Inaction when he finds out his wife is willingly helping Belos in his plan to sacrifice everyone else in the Boiling Isles, Alador firmly sides against her and supports his children in wanting to stop Belos. Knowing this, he was willing to destroy years of his life’s work to prevent Belos or his wife from getting ahead. Suffice it to say it nearly cost him his life.
  • Henpecked Husband: Downplayed. He often gets dragged into his wife's schemes, but it seems to be less submissiveness on his part and more that his distractible nature causes him to let her take charge. In fact, he is a shrewd, yet cutthroat businessman himself, but with a pragmatic streak. Plus, he's perfectly willing to protest when he thinks she's going too far and when he argues against going back on their promise to Luz in "Escaping Expulsion", Odalia actually listens to him, instead of shutting him down. Still though, he was capable of disciplining Amity himself that when Amity disobeyed him, he was going to lay down the law on her. In "Clouds on the Horizon" it's revealed his seeming Workaholic nature wasn't entirely by choice. He apparently had to make a "deal" with Odalia so that their children wouldn't be forced into being a part of their business, she fired half his workers while he was sick with the fire flu and expected him to continue normal production, she hasn't let him have a weekend off in five years, and she keeps secrets from him about their business so he won't object to her practices. He turns against her when it turns out one of those secrets was knowing the true purpose of the Day of Unity and keeping quiet so their family would be rewarded in the new world. He dissolves their business partnership by destroying their factory and quitting.
  • Hey, You!: Averted. Unlike Odalia and similar to Amity, Alador has only called Edric and Emira by their actual names instead of "the twins".
  • Hyper-Competent Sidekick: Odalia may be the head of Blight Industries, but she's more of a dreamer. Alador on the other hand is level-headed and realistic, and it's because of him Odalia avoided making really disastrous business decisions that would've killed their corporation. It really shows when Odalia decides to willingly help Emperor Belos commit genocide against their people, in exchange for a position of power, which is both despicable and stupidly delusional if she thinks she'll win. Alador knows better that there's no winner on the Day of Unity; she's only dragged everyone into loser column with her.
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: He willingly goes along with near anything that Odalia gets up to but shows somewhat more in the way of morals than she does. Unlike his wife, he genuinely believes in keeping his word and knows when to let sleeping dogs lie instead of trying a brute force approach that might just backfire. In fact, he did for the most part, keep her ambitions in check. A more moral aspect of his character is shown in "Reaching Out" and "Clouds on the Horizon" when he shows regret over how little time he's spent with his children and, in the latter episodes, turns against his wife when he finds out she knew about the Emperor's intention to sacrifice everyone on the Boiling Isles on the Day of Unity and chose to keep it secret so their family would be rewarded.
  • Locked Out of the Loop: "Clouds on the Horizon" reveals Alador had no idea that his inventions were helping Belos set up a Draining Spell to take out everyone on the Boiling Isles, and he's repulsed when he finds out his wife knew all along.
  • Meaningful Name:
    • Alador means "confidence and diplomacy", which is perfect for a rich, influential witch. The "diplomacy" shows itself in "Escaping Expulsion"—he's able to firmly but persuasively talk some sense into his wife at the end, convincing her that appeasing Amity will still get their family the prestige it craves.
    • Because of his reputation as an Abusive Dad, the family name fits him more than it does their children, with him being a plague on at least Amity's life and capacity to make genuine friends.
  • The Minion Master: Alador is a member of the Abomination Coven and is stated by his wife to be "the greatest abomination creator of the era". In fact, his Abomatons are so powerful that Emperor Belos personally funds his research to make them stronger (after buying out the entire stock to make sure they couldn't be used against him).
  • Minion with an F in Evil: In "Escaping Expulsion", Alador is revealed to be less evil than Odalia. Either that or he's just too busy to care until it matters. Though he's probably still committed a good number of crimes offscreen.
  • Noble Demon: He has no qualms about selling weapons to the highest bidder and using teens as target practice, but unlike his wife he actually takes his status as a noble seriously and refuses to let her go back on her deal with Luz and Amity. In "Clouds on the Horizon" he turns on his wife when it's revealed she's known all along Belos will sacrifice everyone on the Boiling Isles but kept quiet so their family would get more wealth and power.
  • No Social Skills: He's not very good in social situations and Odalia has to prompt him to act properly.
  • Odd Couple: Alador is so engrossed in his experiments that he is completely ignorant to everything else whilst Odalia is a strict and harsh mother obsessed with controlling Amity's every move and placing unrealistic expectations on her. They do appear to care for one another, despite their differences and are both very ambitious people. However, he draws the line at her willingly going along with the Day of Unity despite knowing the truth about it, dissolving their partnership and seemingly also their relationship.
  • Offstage Villainy: Don't let his wholesome appearance fool you; his Freudian Slip in "Escaping Expulsion" implies he has a body count, and he buried some of them.
  • O.O.C. Is Serious Business: The moment he finds out Amity skipped coven tryouts, he won't let anything deter him from laying down the law.
  • Opposites Attract: The more subdued, mostly quiet and distracted inventor to Odalia's overt furor of a scheming businesswoman.
  • Papa Wolf: In "Clouds on the Horizon", it is revealed that sometime before the start of the series, Alador made a deal with Odalia to cater to her business demands in order to prevent their kids from being more involved in Blight Industries.
  • Parents as People: His very first scene shows him as an Abusive Dad, with Social Darwinist views. Alador saw Amity and Willow's connection as an embarrassment and a waste of his daughter's potential, so he threatened Amity with preventing Willow from attending Hexside if she didn't cut ties with her. He has also been shown to be chronically neglectful and that he wanted to push Amity to be a coven head and/or an emperor's coven member. However, "Reaching Out" confirms that Alador does legitimately love Amity, but due to his Social Darwinist and workaholic tendencies get badly in the way of that. After Amity stands up to him he agrees to at least talk to Odalia and expresses approval for her hair dye. In "Clouds on the Horizon" he regrets how his work has kept him from his children, to the point where he practically knows nothing about them, and promises to start spending more time with them after the Day of Unity. Finding out there won't be an "after" to the Day of Unity causes him to change immediately instead and side with his children against his wife.
  • Parental Neglect: He rarely gives time and guidance to his children and when he does it is mostly to support his wife's decisions for the family or scold them for something he disapproves of such as Amity missing coven tryouts to go to the Bonesborough Brawl instead. Alador himself doesn't mean to be neglectful and recognizes his mistake after getting called out by Amity on this.
  • The Pig-Pen: He's perpetually covered in Abomination goo from his experiments.
  • Pragmatic Villainy: He's the more level-headed one, in regards to the Blight ambitions. He shuts Odalia down when she intends to renege on her promise to let Luz to go back to Hexside, because doing so would be bad for their reputation and would be more trouble than its worth, although it's possible that he's only doing that because of his desire to push Amity into becoming a Coven head.
  • Preppy Name: His name airs a sense of aristocracy, just like his wife.
  • Reasonable Authority Figure: While he generally goes along with whatever his wife wants, he protests her trying to kill Luz, smiles when Amity finally stands up to Odalia, and puts his foot down when Odalia voices her intent to renege on her promise to Amity. In "Reaching Out" he is initially angry at Amity for disobeying and lying to him, but when she calls him out on being an absentminded workaholic he admits she has a point and agrees to have a word with his wife about her Control Freak tendencies.
  • Retired Badass: He competed in the Bonesborough Brawl when he was younger and even won the championship belt on at least one occasion. While he's put his fighting days behind him and now considers them to have been a waste of time, it's clear that his combat skills haven't dulled in the slightest.
  • Serious Business: Keeping your word. While unhappy about it he didn't do much to stop his wife from having Luz killed, but the moment Odalia voices her intent to go back on her deal with Amity, Alador puts his foot down and reminds her that a Blight always keeps their word.
  • Shared Family Quirks: Like his daughter Amity, whenever Alador gets mad, his entire face turns red.
  • Sinister Silhouettes: How he's shown in his first appearance.
  • Sitcom Arch-Nemesis: He seems to have a running rivalry with Darius going back to when they were teens. When Darius calls him a "hack", Alador is seen mocking him on Penstagram with the hashtag "#WhosTheHackNow" while showing off his new model of Abomaton. He even scoffs in disgust when he finds a book on abominations signed by Darius. Despite his Absent-Minded Professor personality, Darius will always find a way to get on his bad side.
  • Social Darwinist: As shown in the flashback in "Understanding Willow", he states and believes that "Blights should only associate with the strongest of witchlings"—which Willow was not (during that time anyway). Though he does convince Odalia to allow Amity to hang out with Luz, Willow, and Gus, but only because he believes that the three's influence on his daughter is making her stronger. Though it's clear he doesn't understand why. Additionally, his complaint about the Bonesborough Brawl is less about how barbaric it is and more about it being a showboating contest for chest candy.
  • So Proud of You: Implied. When Amity goes into battle against the Abomaton 2.0, he looks very concerned for his daughter but shifts to an intrigued and delighted smile when she and Luz prove capable of handling it. In "Reaching Out" he also approves of Amity dying her hair purple, the color of most abominations.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: In "Reaching Out", it is revealed that without his Concealment Stone, Edric resembles Alador the most once his true appearance is shown, especially with his Messy Hair and Facial Scruff.
  • Supernatural Gold Eyes: He has gold eyes, and is cited by his wife as being "the greatest abomination creator of the era". All three of his children inherited them.
  • Talker and Doer: He is the doer to Odalia's talker, making the inventions that she sells.
  • Unholy Matrimony: He's an apathetic Ambiguously Evil inventor who's married to a Jerkass Control Freak; despite this, they're shown to be fond of one another. "Clouds on the Horizon" shows the relationship is much more strained as Odalia only seems to view him as a business partner instead of a romantic one, and when her lack of ethics go too far, Alador "quits" and sides with their children over her.
  • Useless Bystander Parent: He is complicit in a lot of what Odalia does when he even notices it. Aside from supporting her bid to expel Luz, Gus, and Willow, he also allows her to nearly kill Luz in the weapons demonstration, and doesn't stand up for Amity until the end of the episode. (But even then, it's more on Pragmatic Villainy grounds.)
  • We Used to Be Friends: In "Them's The Breaks, Kid", it's shown that he was once friends with Darius when they were at Hexside, in contrast to their rivalry in the present day. "King's Tide" implies that he was also formerly friends with Eda.
  • When You Coming Home, Dad?: Alador, as much as he cares about his kids, hasn't been able to spend any time with or even make the effort to get to really know them since Odalia's got him working nonstop on their products, even mentioning he hasn't had a day off in 5 years in "Clouds on the Horizon".
  • Workaholic: Alador is almost always seen tinkering with his Abominations, working on new ways to improve them. Even when someone is talking to him he won't stop working, and it's negatively impacted his relationship with his children. "Clouds on the Horizon" provides a Cerebus Retcon to this when it's revealed Odalia is the one forcing him to constantly work, going five years straight without a weekend off, and that Alador truly does regret knowing nothing about his children. He vows to change his ways after the Day of Unity but upon being told what Belos is really planning, he changes immediately by helping his children, destroying his factory and "quitting" Blight Industries.

Clawthorne Family

    Gwen Clawthorne 

Gwendolyn "Gwen" Clawthorne

Voiced by: Deb Doetzer

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"I will find a way to cure you Edalyn. No matter what it takes."

Eda and Lilith's slightly overbearing mother.


  • Affectionate Nickname: She calls Eda "Witchlet" and Lilith "Sweet Flea".
  • All for Nothing: Later episodes reveal that Gwen's obsession with finding a cure for Eda's curse and her needlessly spending money and resources while alienating her daughters were all for naught: No one on the Boiling Isles would be capable of curing the curse because the Owl Beast came from a different Titan, and the Collector's magic is far more powerful than anything a witch could accomplish.
  • Animate Inanimate Object: She can use beastkeeper magic to conjure animate animal traits onto inanimate objects. She demonstrates this by adding eyes and bat wings to roofing tiles so she can walk across them in the air.
  • The Beastmaster: As a member of the Beast-Keeping Coven, Gwendolyn is able to take command of a swarm of fire bees and threatens to turn all the animals of Bonesborough on the gremlins if she sees them again.
  • Because You Can Cope: She spent so much time trying to heal Eda's curse that she completely ignored Lilith, reasoning that she was self-sufficient enough to not need her. Understandably, this left Lilith feeling like The Un-Favourite. Then she finds out the hard way Lilith has the curse too.
  • Big Entrance:
    • She marks her arrival at the Owl House by having her Palisman whip up a tornado for her to emerge from.
    • A second, smaller one when she intimidates the goblins that scammed her, where she agitates the fire bees in their campfire and has them part to reveal her like a curtain, her eyes glowing purple with magic and Tranquil Fury.
  • Cool Old Lady: Just like her eldest daughter, she easily befriends the much younger Luz with her enthusiasm in finding a cure.
  • Determinator: Even though it took her years to find a cure for her daughter combined with said daughter's constant rejection of her methods, she never once gave up on finding a way to heal Eda.
  • Fatal Flaw: Is so obsessed with curing Eda instead of just treating the curse that she neglected Lilith because she thought that she could handle herself on her own, fell for numerous scams and cons, and drove a wedge between her and her daughter with her yearly failed attempts.
  • Familiar: Like her daughters, she has a bird-themed Palisman, in the form of a hawk she named "Hawksley".
  • Glowing Eyes of Doom: Her eyes very briefly glow purple as she intimidates the gremlins.
  • Innocently Insensitive: Combined with Parental Neglect below. She spent so long trying to cure Eda she didn't even realize she was hurting Lilith's feelings in the process.
  • Mama Bear: After she realizes she's been scammed, and her attempts to cure Eda have only made things worse, Gwendolyn threatens the three gremlins that scammed her, by using her skills in beast-keeping, to leave Bonesborough and never return.
    Gwendolyn: Leave. (The fire bees flare into an inferno behind her) And if I ever see you in Bonesborough again, every beast in the forest will be after your head!
  • Magic Staff: Also like her daughters, she carries a staff topped with a Palisman which she uses as a method of travel.
  • Mum Looks Like a Sister: A rare elderly example. She and her youngest daughter appear very close in age due to Eda being significantly Younger than She Looks as a result of her curse.
  • My Beloved Smother: Invoked. Eda felt her mother was this because Gwendolyn was so desperate about finding a cure that none of her attempts helped. This also pushed Eda to keep reusing the door to the human world just to hide from her.
  • My God, What Have I Done?: After she finally sees that she's been scammed, she realizes she's been wasting time (and money) finding a made-up cure for Eda from a scammer and also that she's been neglecting Lilith over Eda.
  • Never Mess with Granny: While probably not as powerful as her daughters used to be, she's still clearly not someone to be trifled with as shown by how she intimidates the three goblins who scammed her. Luz is also quite surprised at how muscular she is.
  • Parental Favoritism: Played with. Lilith thinks she favored Eda, and it's true that she spends far more time with her and often completely overlooks Lilith. However, it's not that she loves Eda more or doesn't get along with Lilith when she remembers to talk to her; it's that, because Eda was cursed and Lilith was always a particularly self-sufficient child, Gwen figured Eda needed her love and attention more.
  • Parental Neglect: Because Eda's curse took priority, Gwendolyn stopped giving Lilith attention - so much that Gwendolyn was too busy trying to find a cure to visit Lilith even once in thirty years; Lilith comments that Gwendolyn didn't even attend her inauguration for being accepted into the Emperor's coven. Notably, when they do reunite, Gwendolyn makes a quick, neutral comment on Lilith's hair, neither positive nor negative, before moving on to Eda.
  • Parents as People: She clearly cares a great deal for her daughters, but her obsession with curing Eda's curse creates a rift between them. What's more, in her desperation to cure Eda, she refuses to accept anything less than a complete removal of the curse, resulting in debunking actual experts on the subject and falling prey to a number of scam-artists taking advantage of her. Luckily, she comes around in the end and acknowledges how her actions had only made things worse since.
  • Perfect Solution Fallacy: Gwen is guilty of this in-universe. Rather than trying to find a way to help Eda manage the curse, Gwen wants something to get rid of it. In doing so, Gwen has wasted a lot of time and resources, and caused both of her daughters to resent her.
  • Shared Family Quirks: Like Eda, she's fond of stashing stuff in her hair.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: She looks like a stouter Eda.
  • Well-Intentioned Extremist: Genuinely wants to help cure Eda, but her obsession with a cure rather than a treatment like the potions (which she distrusts in general) will lead to her trying obvious scams in the hopes that they'll work.

    Dell Clawthorne 

Dell Clawthorne

Voiced by: Peter Gallagher

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"Let the past stay in the past, witchlet. It's okay to move on. And give Owlbert my regards. Carving him with you is one of my dearest memories."

Eda and Lilith's father.


  • Affectionate Nickname: He calls Eda "pumpkin" and "witchlet".
  • Career-Ending Injury: "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" reveals that the injury he sustained from the Owl Beast left him with nerve damage that made it impossible to carve palismen. He instead elects to make a career change to cultivating the critically endangerered palistrom trees.
  • Eye Scream: Eda scratched his eye out (or at least damaged it) when partially transformed into the Owl Beast. He survived the ordeal, thankfully.
  • Family Eye Resemblance: Eda gets her gold eyes from Dell.
  • Familiar: Like the rest of his family he has a bird Palisman; a yellow cardinal.
  • Good Parents: From what little was seen in a flashback to Eda's childhood, he and Eda had a very good relationship, with Dell helping her carve Owlbert. He's spent decades trying to reconnect with Eda, seemingly never holding a grudge against her for her owl transformation scarring him and ending his career, while Eda hasn't been able to forgive herself. Though she's avoided him every time he's visited, when he runs into her while she's trying to escape their meeting, he just sadly resigns himself to being "too late again." After a talk their relationship is on the mend.
  • The Mentor: The epilogue all but states that he becomes Hunter's mentor in Palisman carving.
  • Scars are Forever: When he finally appears in the modern day, he's shown to still have a large scar across his left eye and some on his hand from Owl Eda's attack, the latter of which left him with permanent nerve damage.
  • Uncanny Family Resemblance: His nose is near identical to Caleb Wittenbane's, which is one of the clues towards being his distant descendant.
  • Uneven Hybrid: He's a direct descendant of Caleb and Evelyn, which would make him and his daughters partially human by a very small percentage.
  • Unwitting Instigator of Doom: He unwittingly triggered Eda's transformation and gets attacked by her Owl Beast form.

Glandus High

    Bria 

Bria

Voiced by: Felicia Day

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"You're playing by Glandus rules, Matty. You can have anything you want if you're strong enough to take it."

A student from Glandus High who seek the Galdorstones.


  • Alpha Bitch: She's the leader of the trio, and at one point threatens to feed Angmar a butterfly if he doesn't listen to her.
  • Ambition Is Evil: She only cares about power, and wanted to take the Galdorstones for herself so she can take over Glandus.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: Gavin is lean and tall, Angmar is stout and wide, and Bria is as small as Gus and Matt.
  • Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: Applicable to the whole group, but especially her. She's introduced as being friendly, helpful, encouraging, and claims she wants the stones to upend Glandus' social Darwinist status quo. The facade quickly falls away once they reach the ruins, and she reveals she just wants to be on top herself.
  • Dishing Out Dirt: She uses Construction magic to summon pillars of rock from the ground.
  • Elemental Eye Colors: Bria has brown eyes, fitting for someone in the Construction coven.
  • Evil Counterpart: Bria is more ambiguous, but she either contrasts Luz, Mattholomule, or both.
  • Foreshadowing: Her true nature is first hinted at outside the ruins, when she tells Angmar that if he keeps letting himself get distracted by bugs, she'll make him eat them.
  • Hate Sink: She is the most detestable of the trio, only caring about power and control, in contrast to Gavin who wants to impress his father and Angmar who wants to make a butterfly sanctuary. When her mask slips she acts like an absolute bitch to Gus and sees her team-mates as expendable, claiming she never liked them anyways.
  • Inferiority Superiority Complex: She's heavily implied to have a history of being viewed as weak, which her Social Darwinism is likely to stem from.
    "That's right! Who's strong now!?"
  • Kick the Dog: She threatened to make Angmar eat a butterfly if he wasn't focused.
  • Laser-Guided Karma: After mocking illusion magic as "useless", Bria ends up getting scared off by an incredibly elaborate illusion Gus creates.
  • The Napoleon: She is one of the shorter students, being Gus' height, and is an arrogant and brash delinquent who loves being in charge.
  • Ornamental Weapon: She has a short sword hanging from her belt, though like most witches she's only ever seen using magic.
  • Pet the Dog: She stops a Slitherbeast that rampages through the town and saves a little child.
  • Social Darwinist: She seems to subscribe to this, like the rest of Glandus
  • Unequal Rites: Looks down on Gus and other illusionists due to finding them weaker in terms of magic.
  • Youthful Freckles: She has three freckles on each cheek.

    Gavin 

Gavin

Voiced by: Nik Dodani

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One of Bria's friends, assisting her search for Galdorstones.


  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: Gavin is lean and tall, Angmar is stout and wide, and Bria is as small as Gus and Matt.
  • Elemental Eye Colors: Gavin has purple eyes, matching up with the color of his coven, Abomination.
  • Evil Counterpart: Gavin, like Amity, is a skilled Abominations track member with issues with their parent(s).
  • Familiar: "Eda's Requiem" reveals that he has a mole palisman, which he uses to win the Gland Prix.
  • Hidden Depths: He's apparently very good at flying and he even wins the Gland Prix.
  • Pet the Dog: He stops a Slitherbeast that rampages through the town and saves a little child.
  • Slippery Skid: He uses Abomination magic trip the Slitherbeast by summoning an unreconstituted puddle of Abomination goop under it.
  • Strong Family Resemblance: Parodied. Gus' illusion of his father, which is just Gavin with a mustache, fools him surprisingly well. Although given how distant his dad is, Gavin might just not have a good idea of what he looks like.
  • "Well Done, Son" Guy: He has issues with his father paying attention to him.

    Angmar 

Angmar

Voiced by: Harvey Guillén

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Bria's other friend.


  • Attention Deficit... Ooh, Shiny!: Is easily distracted by interesting bugs.
  • Big, Thin, Short Trio: Gavin is lean and tall, Angmar is stout and wide, and Bria is as small as Gus and Matt.
  • Cartoon Creature: He's a squat yellow dog-like mammal while his friends are humanoid. Like other Boiling Isles residents, it's not clear what species he is.
  • Chasing a Butterfly: He easily gets distracted by bugs and butterflies, following them instead of focusing on his task, and is the most innocent member of Bria's gang.
  • Evil Counterpart: Angmar is basically a more malicious Willow.
  • Friend to Bugs: Loves bugs, and even considers building a butterfly sanctuary with his new powers once he gets the stones.
  • Green Thumb: Is in the plant track, and proves it with his magic.
  • A Lighter Shade of Black: Is the least openly malicious compared to Bria and Gavin.
  • Pet the Dog: He stops a Slitherbeast that rampages through the town and saves a little child.

The Woods

    Snaggleback 

Snaggleback

Voiced by: Arin Hanson

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A supposedly vicious beast that hunts during the boiling rains. In reality, a timid, shelled creature no more dangerous than the average witch.


  • Butt-Monkey: Seems to get the short end of the stick in all his appearances so far with him getting devoured and later barfed back out by a cursed Eda then used a living disco ball and forgotten about during Grom. He also shows up in the Distant Finale being used as a living piñata for Luz's party.
  • Deathbringer the Adorable: King describes the Snaggleback as a terrifying demon, but it turns out to be weak and harmless.
  • Informed Ability: In-universe, their shells are supposed to allow them to hunt when others are driven inside by the boiling rain, but it turns out even the Snaggleback seeks shelter in that kind of weather. To be fair, his shell did have a crack in it, which could have compromised its ability to resist the rain.
  • Mix-and-Match Creatures: He turns out to be an adorable pink monkey with a tortoise shell.
  • Our Monsters Are Different: Physically, the Snaggleback is basically a Kappa, just with a bigger shell than most.

    The Bat Queen 

The Bat Queen

Voiced by: Isabella Rossellini

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"I protect... all! I made home in forest. I'm here to take the lost. The forgotten."

The wealthiest demon on the Boiling Isles, who also looks after abandoned Palismen. She is a large bat with a human face and hair.


For tropes about the Bat Queen, see this page.

Other

    Demon Hunters 

Demon Hunters

Voiced by: Kevin Michael Richardson (Lead Hunter & Tom), Eden Riegel (Female Hunter)

A group of nomads who capture and sell the most dangerous creatures in the Boiling Isles. They first appear in "Hooty's Moving Hassle", trying to capture the animated Owl House.


  • The Cameo:
    • The lead hunter makes brief crowd appearances in "Sense and Insensitivity" and "Young Blood, Old Souls".
    • The female hunter is arrested by Emperor's Coven scouts in "Eda's Requiem" for being a Coven-less witch only to be rescued by the BA Ts, and by the time of "King's Tide" she's joined a coven as she's seen among the crowds being affected by the Draining Spell.
  • Eyepatch of Power: The lead hunter has one over his left eye. It is later revealed that said eye still works just fine.
  • Fallen-on-Hard-Times Job: "Escape of the Palisman" reveals that they have been reduced to working as animal control officers. The lead hunter also MCs the Bonesborough Brawl.
  • Our Demons Are Different: During Hooty's lesson on Demons, the Demon Hunter leader is categorized as a bi-pedal demon. He was even featured on a demon magazine.
  • Psycho for Hire: Tom, who, when asked if throwing children off a cliff is really what he wants to do with his life, says yes, and that he's dreamed about throwing children off cliffs since he was a kid. He admits he was a strange kid.
  • Tom the Dark Lord: One of them is literally named Tom.
  • Would Hurt a Child: They have no problem throwing Luz, Willow, and Gus off a cliff. Tom emphatically admits he's wanted to do it ever since he was a kid.

    The Titan (SPOILERS) 

The Titan

Voiced by: Arin Hanson

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Click here to see them in "Watching and Dreaming" 

The incredibly enormous humanoid whose decaying remains form the Boiling Isles, providing the magic that powers witches' spells.


  • Adults Are More Anthropomorphic: King is still a baby Titan, and he demonstrates canine-like traits. The Titan's true form is more humanoid, and even his scaled-down appearance to Luz lacks animalistic behavior.
  • Alien Blood: Its blood is bright blue, full of potent magic, and can open rifts between worlds.
  • Almost Dead Guy: Despite being reduced to a rotted skeleton, the Titan is indeed still alive, sustained by their last functioning organ, their beating heart. In this state, their mind is kept in the In-Between Realm where they can only watch the other worlds and barely interact with them. Once Belos consumes their heart, the Titan finally dies for good.
  • Ambiguous Gender Identity: In the final episode, he calls himself "both King and Queen, best of both things". Whether this is a specific gender identity choice or Titans are a One-Gender Race with only a single biological sex isn't made clear though.
  • Ambiguous Situation: It's unknown if the Titan is really in a dormant state where it can communicate with people as Belos claims or simply dead. In addition, it's unclear if there's a direct connection between the Titan and Luz's glyphs, since that's apparently how witches originally used magic. "Hollow Mind" reveals that Belos, who is really the human Philip Wittebane, lied about talking to the Titan. However, Belos/Philip does also note in "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" and "King's Tide" that Luz seems to have a much easier time than him finding and using the glyphs, leaving it ambiguous if the Titan is alive in some way, and aiding Luz. The finale reveals that the Titan, while having little connection to his corpse, does still exist as a consciousness in the In-Between Realm capable of giving his power to Luz, but only barely having any strength left thanks to Belos taking over his heart.
  • Ambiguously Evil:
    • Belos claims that his iron-fist over the island is the Titan's wish. Throughout the second season, it becomes clear Belos made this up; if the Titan is still alive, he's doing his best to hinder Belos from gaining magic power, and possibly even aid Luz with the same. The Titan also turns out to be King's father and the one who sealed away the Collector, leaning towards him being a Greater-Scope Paragon.
    • This is fully subverted in the finale - the Titan is actively working against Belos and its final action before finally fully dying is to give Luz the power to stop him for good.
  • Ambiguously Related: "Edge of the World" reveals King is a Titan, opening up the possibility that the deceased Titan himself may be King's father. Bill's poster even refers to the lost Titan egg as "The Lost Son of the Boiling Isles". In "O Titan, Where Art Thou", a flashback to "Edge of the World" has Luz say a line not in the actual episode itself, where she tells King he's "the son of the Boiling Isles" (though it may have been another Self-Serving Memory). This is finally confirmed in "King's Tide" with the Collector telling King that he is indeed the son of the Boiling Isles Titan.
  • Anti-Magic: Its fossilized veins reflect all forms of magic, understandably so since its blood contains the most powerful magic known to exist.
  • Baritone of Strength: His voice is warm and gentle, but (befitting of the giant seen as a nearly deific figure by those who live on his corpse) also incredibly deep.
  • Barrier Maiden: It's implied its body kept the Collector trapped and the Titan itself was the one who sealed the Collector to begin with.
  • Benevolent Abomination: The Titan sounds like something out of HP Lovecraft — an immensly powerful, unimaginably old, island-sized Undead Abomination who lies between death and life, creating a world from its dying slumber. He's also a really nice guy who tells bread puns and makes silly jokes, and ultimately sacrifices himself to save his creations from Belos.
  • Benevolent Precursors: In "King's Tide", the Collector says that the Titan imprisoned him. Given what the Collector is capable of once freed, this was intended to be a good thing. Unfortunately, the Titan got the wrong Collector and it's his siblings that were the real threat. Later, once Luz ends up in the In-Between Realm again, he highlights what a mistake that was in the process of giving Luz a pep talk and grants Luz his remaining power so she can beat Belos.
  • Big Fun: The form he takes to communicate with Luz sports a "dad bod" with a large stomach and he's an incredibly laidback, funny and friendly person.
  • Big Good: Its enormous carcass is the island that most of the series takes place on, and the people of the Boiling Isles worship it as a god. Even past death, it helps push Luz towards the glyphs, hindered Belos' attempts to learn glyphs for years, and gave his life imprisoning the Collector in the In-Between Realm in a well intentioned if mistaken attempt to protect his last surviving son. Not to mention he's also King's father having spent a lifetime watching over his son in the In-Between Realm.
  • Bizarre Alien Biology: Much like King, he has an exposed skull and seems to talk without moving his jaws. In addition to that, his skeleton has a lot of smaller quirks to it, mainly the presence of two fibias in each leg & a toe on each foot acting as a heel all in service of supporting his enormous weight, the fact that a Titan's wings apparently come in part of the way into their life cycle, those wings having membranes partially made of bone, and he appears to have some form of symbiotic connection to Hooty.
  • Bones Do Not Belong There: If the brief shot of his skeleton as they sink into the waters of the In-Between Realm is any indication, his wing membranes are made of bone.
  • Cargo Cult: As the source of both the Boiling Isles itself and the Background Magic Field within it, and the Monster Progenitor of the various demons, the people of the Boiling Isles worship the Titan as a god, though they know nothing about its origins. Belos claims divine authority as Emperor of the Boiling Isles by claiming he can hear it speak.
  • Creepy Good: He appears as a skull-faced, one-eyed, winged dog-like demon lord but, as the finale reveals, a completely chill dude.
  • Deceased Parents Are the Best: Although King never had the chance to actually meet him, it's suggested that the Titan cared for him deeply, doing everything in his power to hide him from the Collector. "Watching and Dreaming" reveals that he's been watching over King from the In-Between Realm, and he's very fond of both Luz and Eda because of the kindness they've shown his child. When he decides to gives up the last of his life to revive Luz and help her defeat Belos, the message he asks Luz to deliver to King is simply "I loaf you": a playful expression of his love that indulges King's enjoyment of bread puns.
  • Dem Bones: In the final episode, the Titan's spirit briefly appears as his true form's full skeleton — revealing that his physical corpse comprising the Boiling Isles has deteriorated over the millennia, as its ribcage is all-but gone — but is still able to move.
  • Disappeared Dad: King has been looking for his father throughout Season 2 and "O Titan, Where Art Thou" implies that the Titan is King's father when Luz tells King "you're the son of the Boiling Isles." In a very tragic and morbid way, this would mean that King's father wasn't disappeared at all, since his son literally grew up on his corpse. This is confirmed by the Collector in "King's Tide".
  • Eldritch Abomination: It's unclear if the Titans are a breed of demon or something else entirely that demons simply spawned off of when it perished. The fact that their brand of magic is so far the only thing that counters the Collector's magic and that they do not fit in any conventionally used demon category doesn't help make things any clearer.
  • Face Death with Dignity: He's completely calm, composed and even jovial as he passes on, confident and satisfied with the knowledge that Luz and her friends will stop Belos, and that his son is surrounded by people who love him.
  • A Form You Are Comfortable With: When speaking to Luz in the In-Between Realm in "Watching and Dreaming", he takes on the form of an older, bearded, King with blunted teeth, a dad bod, and a miniature Hooty sticking out of his right eye; wearing glyph-covered pajama pants and a "Bad Girl Coven" shirt. When he finally dies after giving Luz the last of his power, he appears as his full skeleton and is roughly the size of a small mountain (and even that pales in comparison to his actual country-sized body).
  • Genius Loci: The people of the Boiling Isles believe the Titan is still living and talks to them through Belos. Turns out, Belos is lying through his teeth about being its messenger, but it is still implied the Titan's will or consciousness lives on by sabotaging Belos' attempts to learn the glyphs and pushing Luz forward in the same respects. Confirmed outright in the finale revealing that as long as its heart continues to beat, the Titan's consiousness has remained in the In-Between Realm watching as well as occasionally influencing events to protect his child.
  • Giant Corpse World: Its corpse forms the Boiling Isles and exudes the Background Magic Field witches use for their spells, as well as spawning the various species of demons, though it may actually still be alive. Following this, locations are named after body parts, though not always directly corresponding to the part they're actually at.
  • Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: When the Titan appears before Luz as his complete skeleton, his left eye-socket glows with a yellow light.
  • God's Hands Are Tied: While he was able to guide Luz to the glyphs, and make it difficult for Belos to do the same, he seems unable to actually stop Belos from using the glyphs and glyph combos once he has them.
  • Horned Humanoid: And that's the least strange thing about it. Especially since King's status as its son means that it would've been canine in appearance when it was alive.
  • In Place of an Eye: The form Papa Titan takes to converse with Luz has a miniature Hooty growing out of his right eye socket. What it means in relation to the real Hooty or if it's even an accurate representation of his true self are never explained.
  • Instant Runes: As a Titan, his magic is still based on the glyphs, but he doesn't need to draw them out like Luz and the others do. The glyphs are his language and he can just make them appear out of thin air or simply shout them into existence just like King does with his 'weh', and when given his power, Luz can do it as well.
  • Luke, I Am Your Father: After numerous hints throughout Season 2, the finale "King's Tide" reveals that it is indeed King's father from the Collector himself when he meets King for the first time.
  • Made of Magic: It's implied that before the inhabitants of the Isles evolved their own reserves of magic, witches would draw from the Isles themselves to cast spells, a fact confirmed as true when Luz tries and fails to cast a spell with her glyphs in her brief time in the Human World in "Young Blood, Old Souls". Because of this, the inhabitants seem to view the island itself as a god worthy of reverence, Belos' authority stemming from his alleged connection to the Titan and supposedly knowing its intentions though he is lying. Even long after its death, its blood is still a powerful source of magic capable of piercing holes in reality itself.
  • Man of Kryptonite: "For the Future" reveals that as a Titan, their magic is actually capable of negating the magic of the Collectors, leading for the former to try and wipe the latter out.
  • Monster Is a Mommy: Despite being referred to with masculine pronouns and terms, the Titan had a child in the form of King. A mother is never brought up, making it possible that Titans can reproduce asexually. The Titan himself would confirm this, saying that he is "king and queen, the best of both things."
  • Monster Progenitor: All of the various demons of the Boiling Isles arose from the decomposing body of the Titan.
  • My Greatest Failure: It is revealed in Season 2 that the Titan imprisoned the Collector in an attempt to save their son and as revenge for the deaths of their brethren. "Watching and Dreaming" reveals that the Collector had nothing to do with it, rather it was the Collector's older siblings, and they deeply regret taking their anger out on the wrong person.
  • Mysterious Past: The inhabitants of the Isles are at a loss to explain where it came from, how it died, or if other members of its species still exist elsewhere in the Demon Realm.
  • Nice Guy: Ultimately revealed to be a very friendly and easygoing character who cares deeply for King despite not being able to be with him.
  • Nice Job Breaking It, Hero: He mistook the Collector for the one kidnapping the baby Titans, when the Collector was an Unwitting Pawn for their siblings, the Archivists. A lot could have been avoided if he investigated a little more.
  • No Name Given: It's only ever referred to as "the Titan", as are the rest of its kind. Even when he talks to Luz in the In Between Realm, he never identifies himself with a name, and the credits only refer to him as "Papa Titan".
  • Non-Human Non-Binary: They describe themself as "both King and Queen, best of both things", but don't mind being referred to as King's father, or with masculine pronouns and terminology.
  • Not Quite Dead: Though his body is a Giant Corpse World, his heart still beats, and until "Watching and Dreaming" his consciousness is in the In-Between Realm, watching over King using the cubes.
  • Oh, My Gods!: The Titan is worshipped as a deity by the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles, and they frequently invoke its name in a manner humans would with a god, such as "Oh, Titan" or "So help me, Titan". When Luz says, "Oh, Titan," upon meeting him, he cheekily replies, "Oh, me!"
  • One-Gender Race: Titans reproduce asexually, but appear to all be masculine. Not knowing this, King was assumed to be male and identifies as such. The Titan seemingly describes themself to Luz as bigendered, but is fine being referred to as male.
  • Otherworldly and Sexually Ambiguous: Downplayed. While he is coded as and typically referred to as male (He pronouns, father, etc.), when we finally meet him in person he says he's "King and Queen, best of both things", and implies his apparent masculinity is more for the ease of those talking to him.
  • Our Titans Are Different: It's simply called "the Titan", and has many of the typical traits: it's insanely large, vaguely humanoid (but the skull's shape suggests something different even than a witch), and the Boiling Isles are made from its body, which also spawned the various species of demon, which allows its inhabitants to use magic. Belos claims that it's still conscious, and can communicate with him however the last part is just a lie Belos made up to secure his rule as revealed in "Hollow Mind". Then "Edge of the World" reveals King Clawthorne is a baby Titan, and if his appearance is any indication, Titans in this series are giant canine-like creatures.
  • Papa Wolf:
    • The Collector reveals in "King's Tide" that the Titan is King's father and that it hid its son from him to keep him safe. In addition to leaving King in a temple guarded by powerful flesh constructs, it also had the temple covered in glyphs that rendered it invisible to the Collector.
    • Also, if the Titan really is still alive to some degree and aiding Luz, it probably isn't a coincidence in "The Intruder" that she just so happened to discover the glyph that she needed to protect its son from Eda's Owl Beast form.
    • "Watching and Dreaming" reveals that he managed to keep from fully passing on for centuries to watch over his son, guiding Luz to glyph magic as repayment for being so kind to him (and to stop Belos). He also imprisoned the Collector to protect King from him, not knowing the truth of things until it was too late.
  • Peaceful in Death: Just as he's about to be consumed by Belos, he transfers the last of his essence over to Luz, and does so willing without a second thought to protect his inheritors. He doesn't even seem the least bit pained when he finally goes.
  • Posthumous Character: The Titan died from unknown causes long prior to the events of the series. Now it's the Boiling Isles!
  • Reality Bleed: In "Keeping Up A-fear-ances", Gwendolyn mentions an extremely rare substance known as "Titan's Blood" which occasionally causes things to cross over from the human world. "Eclipse Lake" confirms that the substance is indeed the actual blood of the Titan itself. "Elsewhere and Elsewhen" also shows that it not only bridges realities, but can bridge different time periods in a phenomenon called "Time Pools".
  • Ribcage Ridge: Its massive ribs are the Boiling Isles' most prominent feature.
  • Roaring Rampage of Revenge: The Titan attacked the Collector and sealed them away after their species was wiped out. Turns out this was misguided, as it was other members of the Collector's race that killed them, and the Collector was actually close friends with them.
  • Sacrificial Revival Spell: In "Watching and Dreaming", the Titan gives the last of his life force and power to Luz so that she can defeat Belos upon her revival, and once that's done he passes on for good.
  • Satan Is Good: He's the ruler of a realm of demons, he's associated with dark magics and he even makes a sort of Faustian bargain with Luz to return her to life - and he certainly looks the part. However, he is a completely benevolent being, and the deal struck with Luz only requires that she protect his son, aka her foster brother, and thus is something she would have done regardless.
  • Sentient Cosmic Force: The ambient magic of the Titan's corpse is what powers Luz's glyph magic, and many people on the Boiling Isles believe that it's still alive in some capacity, with Emperor Belos serving as its messenger. Though the latter is a lie concocted by Belos to earn people's trust, Belos himself does consider the possibility that the Titan is actively helping Luz learn glyph magic, and its still-beating heart in Belos's palace does support the idea that it's not completely dead. "Watching and Dreaming" confirms both of these things: the Titan's mind still persists in the In-Between Realm and watches King's adventures in the Boiling Isles from it, and it's implied that he guided Luz to glyph magic out of gratitude for her kindness to his son.
  • Shared Family Quirks: When he gives Luz a message for King, it turns out to be "I loaf you", showing that he shares his son's fondness for bread-based puns.
  • Sophisticated as Hell: While he certainly has a sense of power and grandeur to him, and makes several grandiose and wise statements in the course of their talk, he speaks to Luz in a mostly very casual, easygoing manner. Also, his reaction to noticing that Belos is taking over his body faster than he expected is an understated "Ah, dang."
  • Taking You with Me:
    • It's heavily implied that the Titan was killed in the process of sealing away the Collector.
    • The Titan gives Luz the last remaining fragment of power he has to defeat Belos. Once Belos is dead, his power and spirit fade away for good.
  • There Is Another:
    • In "Knock, Knock, Knocking on Hooty's Door", we see that the Owl Beast seemingly originally came from what looks to be an entirely separate Titan corpse, with a much more elongated skull with no visible horns, confirming the above point that other Titan corpses and likely ecosystems exist.
    • "Edge of the World" reveals that other Titans existed in the past and that King is the only surviving Titan; with "King's Tide" confirming that King is this one's son. In "Knock, Knock, Knockin' on Hooty's Door", Edge of the World, and Watching and Dreaming, it's revealed that the corpses of these other Titans make up the landmasses of the planet the Demon Realm is located in.
  • Truly Single Parent: In the series finale, this is implied to be the case with his son King.
  • Undead Abomination: It's vast in size and power, and is apparently alive enough to speak to Belos. At least, that's what Belos tells the people of the Boiling Isles, while in private he seems to regard the Titan as truly dead. However, Belos also implies that the Titan favors Luz to some degree, as she obtained all four glyphs in a matter of months while Belos only found three over the course of several years, while also mentioning that she's figured out how to combine glyphs much faster than him during their second fight, meaning it's still possible the Titan is genuinely alive enough to help Luz. It would later turn out that the Titan, while seeming to have no influence over his corpse or what happens on the Boiling Isles, did guide Luz to the glyphs.
  • The Unpronouncable: According to the "Watching and Dreaming" Post Hoot, his real name isn't pronounceable by human tongue.
  • Winged Humanoid: While the wings on his physical body have long since decayed and sunk into the Boiling Sea,note  the manifestation of his consciousness sports a pair of bat-like wings, as does the appearance of his full skeleton after he gives the last of his power to Luz.

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