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| “ | Ahhh, how long I have waited to hear the sound of another voice. | „ |
| ~ Aaravos speaking to Lord Viren for the very first time. |
| “ | Your arrogance is so predictable. You allowed my vessel to walk right into your court, and then you brought him directly to the source of all your power? [Laughs] Oh, the irony is wonderful! You're just like your grandmother. Would you like to know the truth of her fate before you face yours? | „ |
| ~ Aaravos taunting Sunfire Queen Khessa and telling the truth about her grandmother's fate before killing her. |
| “ | So these are the champions you've gathered to try and stop me? They're nothing but pathetic children. The whining child king. In over his head and he knows it. The Moonshadow assassin who...Can this be right? Isn't capable of killing. The failed son, whose father wishes he had never been born. And my favorite, the human mage, already tainted by darkness and destined to play right into my hands. Oh, my time has come. My return to this world is inevitable! | „ |
| ~ Aaravos possessing Callum and speaking to Team Zym. |
Aaravos, also known as the Fallen Star, is the main antagonist of the 2018 Netflix animated fantasy series The Dragon Prince.
He is an ancient and powerful Startouch Elf who was once a loving father to his daughter Leola. However, Leola was killed by his fellow Startouch Elves for breaking the cosmic balance by giving humans magic. Aaravos then swore revenge and caused chaos and strife throughout Xadia for centuries, before being imprisoned in a pocket dimension. 300 of years later, he is discovered by Lord Viren, and helps him with his attempted conquest of the magical lands of Xadia, while manipulating him into helping him get free. He later manipulates Viren's daughter Claudia into going on a quest to free him by promising save her father's life.
He is voiced by Erik Todd Dellums, who has also voiced Koh in Avatar: The Last Airbender, and Arcann in Star Wars: The Old Republic.
Biography[]
Backstory[]
Aaravos is a Startouch Elf, a race of elves originating from the heavens of Xadia. He at some point descended from the heavens and took physical form and had a daughter named Leola who was born with only one horn prompting her father to dub her his “unicorn”. Leola was stated to be a compassionate and innocent girl who befriended everyone whether they be human or elf or animal. Aaravos deeply loved his daughter and noted that the few years he spent with her were the best of his life. One day however Leola made the mistake of showing humans how to preform magic. This was witnessed by the Dragon Prince, Anak Arow who ratted her out to the Startouch Elf council. The council then explained to Aaravos that by giving humans magic Leola had broken the cosmic balance and thus a price must be paid; her life.
Aaravos offered to give up his own life for his daughter to live, but the council denied this and says that either she dies or they both die. Aaravos reassured his daughter in her final moments that everything was going to be okay and comforted her. Aaravos was then forced to watch helplessly as the Startouch Elves disintegrated his beloved daughter. For 100 years, Aaravos cried over Leola's death until his tears created the sea of the cast out. Aaravos then swore revenge on the Startouch Elves, Anak, as well as all of Xadia.
1200 years ago before the events of the show, Aaravos contributed to the rise of dark magic in the ancient human city of Elarion. He gave the first human dark wizard Ziard a powerful staff that he stole from an ancient cult know as the celestial elves, and hide a quiazzer diamond in it. He later saved the remaining people of the town from the wrath of the former Dragon King Sol Regem. Over a thousand years ago, Aaravos was present during the expulsion of the humans from Xadia alongside other elves leaders.
During an unknown period of time, Aaravos achieved or created, due to being a master of dark magic or the original inventor, a magical connection to dark magic and its users, which gave him the ability to possessed dark mages with a wave of his hands.
From then to the end of the reign of Luna Tennebris, Aaravos would cause worldwide crises by manipulating powerful leaders and mages in exchange for their desires. One of these included murdering Queen Aditi when she tried to bring peace between the dragons. He was presumably the one behind Luna Tenebris's death. Both of these incidents were caused between the Archdragons, and starting the conflict between elves, humans, and dragons.
Three hundred years before the events of the show, Aaravos's manipulative actions were discovered by an orphaned human girl who exposed his schemes to the Archdragons. Using the cooperation of the achmage tidebound elf Akiyu and a human mage named the Jailer, Aaravos was trapped in a magical prison as punishment for manipulation of global crisis for the past thousand years and possibly due to his involvement with dark magic.
He is roughly 5,000 years old, having lived during the age of the First Elves. At some point in his life, he was able to obtain mastery over the six Primal Sources of Magic, thus becoming an "Archmage". He also came to possess a cube with symbols of the Primal Sources on each side said to be the key to unlocking great power in Xadia which would one day be called the Key of Aaravos. Not long after, he would become a master (if not the original discoverer) of the life-draining Dark Magic, a taboo power he would share with humanity, resulting in humanity's banishment, and possibly his imprisonment and erasure from all historical texts.
Book 2: Sky[]
Viren first meeting Aaravos and trying to communicate with him.
Three centuries later, Viren found Aaravos through the mirror that showed Viren the place Aaravos was in and would try to make contact with him, and while first attempts were unsuccessful, Aaravos would somehow find out about Viren and asked him to find several items, and after he did so, Aaravos has him do several things for him, the final one being asking Viren to cut his hand, but he was originally against it as Viren didn't trust Aaravos.
After a while, Viren accepted cutting his hand, having become desperate after failing to convince the leaders of the Human Kingdoms to wage war on Xadia and knowing that he was likely going to get arrested for using the king's seal, with both of them spilling several drops of their blood in a goblet. A caterpillar would then come out of Aaravos' mouth and fall into the goblet, with it then appearing in Viren's and then crawling to his ear. Through the caterpillar, Aaravos would ask Viren to speak, which he does, and asks him who he was, with Aaravos saying that he had been waiting to hear the sound of another voice. Aaravos would then tell his name to Viren, with the latter then putting his caterpillar in a jar.
After going to search for his name and finding out that every time his name was mentioned in any type of literature the texts about Aaravos would get erased, Viren would return to his dungeon and ask why he should trust him, with Aaravos telling him that he shouldn't yet. An angry Viren then told Aaravos that he should drop his mirror into a river, but Aaravos just simply told him that he wouldn't, as he was curious and desired knowledge and power, both things he could provide him. Aaravos then asks him what was standing in the way of his goal, with Viren telling Aaravos that he was having problems convincing the leaders of the Human Kingdoms to listen to him.
Aaravos would then convince Viren to send the spirits of the Moonshadow Assassins that attacked Katolis and caused the death of Harrow to kill the other leaders of the Human Kingdoms, causing the deaths of King Florian and Queen Fareeda, the leaders of Del Bar and Evenere respectively, while King Ahling was heavily injured, causing his son Prince Kasef to later take over Neolandia.
Opeli then sent soldiers to arrest Viren because he illegally sent the message to the other leaders of the Human Kingdoms with Harrow's seal, and while Aaravos originally gave Viren the power to fight against the soldiers and killing several of them, after understanding that Viren couldn't win, Aaravos told him to give up, causing Viren to later get imprisoned in a dungeon.
Book 3: Sun[]
In the dungeon, Aaravos would tell a depressed Viren to be patient and wait for the right time. He would also later tell Viren to get up and use dark magic to hide his true form because his children were visiting him, and after Claudia asked Viren why he ordered Soren to kill Ezran and Callum, Aaravos tells Viren to be careful about what he would say next as he would need her soon.
Viren would laugh about what Claudia asked and tell her that Soren didn't understand what he said, with Claudia believing Viren since she knew that despite how much she loved her brother he was dimwitted. Aaravos would then make Viren able to see him. Viren would then be freed after Ezran abdicated from his throne to protect Katolis from going to war, with him then convincing the people of the Human Kingdoms (except the Kingdom of Duren and several soldiers who refused to help Viren with his goals) to wage war on Xadia.
Later, Claudia would talk to Viren, with Viren convincing her that she was doing the right thing by helping him. Aaravos then appeared and praised him for manipulating Claudia and told him that she would be a valuable asset, but Viren angrily told Aaravos that Claudia was not an asset, she was his daughter.
Aaravos mocking Queen Khessa and sensing irony in the situation.
While the human army was marching into Xadia, Aaravos and Viren would talk about how the latter and King Harrow killed Avizandum, with Aaravos being glad that Avizandum was killed. When Viren and his army got close to Lux Aurea, Aaravos had Viren go to Lux Aurea and convince their queen Khessa to allow his army to pass through Lux Aurea, and in return, he would tell her about what happened to her grandmother Queen Aditi. While Khessa originally decided to talk to Viren, she first decided to torture him by forcing Viren to look into the sunlight from her staff, causing him to reveal that he was a dark magic user.
Khessa then brought to the energy source of Lux Aurea to remove Viren's dark magic, but while doing it, Aaravos' familiar came out of Viren's mouth and infected the Sunfire High Priest Pharos, with it then corrupted the Sunforge.
Viren and Aaravos ready to take Zym's life.
Aaravos then possessed the high priest's body and laughed about how predictable Khessa's arrogance was and killing all of her guards. He then told Khessa about her grandmother's fate before killing her by casting a spell on her which caused her to disintegrate. Khessa's sister, Janai, then tried to attack Aaravos and Viren in a fit of rage for the death of her sister, but Amaya stopped her.
Aaravos would then give Viren the Sunfire Staff, before returning to their human army. There, Viren turned almost all his allies with the exception of his children and Saleer into sunfire monster, leading Soren to become horrified and leaving to join with Callum's group and help in stopping his father.
Viren's army would then go to the Storm Spire to get to the Dragon Prince Azymondias so Viren could extract his life force so he could become so powerful Viren could transcend his human form and become so powerful he would be able to face anyone. While there was a battle between Viren's army and the remaining Sunfire Elves that were still remaining after the events in Lux Aurea, Aaravos would tell Viren to brace himself from an attack of a group of dragons, with Viren annoucing to Claudia the second phase of their plan to begin.
It's later revealed that the plan was while the enemy army was distracted with the battle, Viren would climb the Storm Spire and get to Azymondias so he could extract his life force. While the plan almost suceeded, it ended up being stopped by Rayla who threw Viren off a cliff which lead to him getting killed. It's later shown that Viren was revived by Claudia, and would then tell her father that Aaravos' familiar was metamorphising inside a cocoon.
Book 4: Earth[]
It's revealed that during the time Viren was dead for 2 years Aaravos made Claudia retrieve artifacts and do horrible actions which Claudia regrets doing in order to revive for 30 days and told her that Viren would be saved if they freed him from his prison and that the creature that would come out of the cocoon would help them get to where his prison was.
Aaravos destroying the mirror in order to prevent Team Zym from interfering with his goals.
Aaravos would appear after they get his mirror to the Storm Spire, where he possesses Callum. While in his body, Aaravos would taunt the members of Team Zym about their greatest insecurities before saying that his return was inevitable as his familiar finished his metamorphosis. Aaravos would then destroy the mirror. While he does not appear physically for the remaining of the season, he's the main reason for its events, as Team Zym went to find Rex Igneous since he had a clue to where Aaravos's prison was through a map and wanted to obtain it before Claudia.
However, Claudia finds out about this and tries to get the map, and while Rayla tries to stop them from getting it by waking up Rex Igneous and making him see the attempt to get the map from him, Claudia's boyfriend Terry, was able to get the map that was marked on Rex's tooth.
Book 5: Ocean[]
While Claudia was going to the bottom of the ocean to get the pearl where he was imprisoned in, Aaravos would appear to Viren in a spectral form through the homunculus and takes his consciousness in his prison. He wanted to speak to Viren on the matter of his resurrection and how to make it permanent. Aaravos tells him about a spell called Infantis Sanguine and that to do the spell he must sacrifice his child. Viren, understandably, is angered by this but Aaravos tries to calm him down by saying that he needs to kill their own child, who happens to be the homunculus.
Aaravos pushes Viren to kill their child in order to make the spell work but Viren refuses. After his self-reflection, Viren finally rejects Aaravos telling him that he will no longer do dark magic again then walks off to die in peace. That night, Aaravos appears to Viren one final time and tells him that when the sun rises he will die, with him then vanishing and leaving Viren crying in the middle of the woods.
Book 6: Stars[]
Aaravos is influencing Callum by make him walking in his sleep and gave him a vision of him free inside the pearl.
Janai nightmares are continue to hunt her about Aditi and Khessa fate. Callum also is being hunt by a vision of his possessed by Aaravos again.
while Pharos guiding Sol Regem in the sky, Aaravos Strengthens his hold on Pharos and start control him. Sol Regem is lead unknowingly to Katolis and start attack the castle,which leads to her collapse in destruction and fire, but not before Viren is able to cast a protection spell on the citizens at the cost of his life. Sol Regem lay down on the land near the castle, heavily injure and bleed to death. Aaravos reveal himself to him and laughing on the condition of the dragon. he reveal to sol Regem the fate of his beloved mate who disappeared, angry, Sol Regem trying to eat Aaravos but only can take Phares body, leading him get choke by his corpse while Aaravos watching and laughing at the archdragon who is choke to death and burning.
Claudia later is hearing Aaravos voice while she grief on her dad, is leaded by him outside the castle to burry her father and deciding to help Aaravos.
Aaravos is explain to Claudia about the spell and reveal the quazard diamond in Viren staff, Claudia is cast the spell but it doesn't work. confused, Aaravos explain to Claudia the spell must be cast with love, to help her understand, Aaravos is sharing with her and Terry the story of his falling daughter and how he lost her because of Sol Regem and the startouch elves council, which what motivated him to help humans in order to get justice for his daughter. Claudia is cast the spell again and free Aaravos after 300 years of imprisoned. Aaravos return to his true form as the size of small mountain, he grub Claudia in his hand and rise her up under the light of the moon.
Physical Appearance[]
Aaravos is a tall, slender male Startouch Elf who has pure white flowing hair, deep purple horns, yellow eyes with black sclera, and skin ranging from purple to dark blue to black with white stars dotted all over. He wears robes of similar coloration to his skin, with a splash of blue-green thrown in. When introduced, he wore a dark magenta hood that obscured the upper half of his face.
Powers and Abilities[]
Aravaros is arguably one of the most powerful being in the series canon, having mastered the six Primal Magics, seven if one were to count Dark Magic.
Aaravos is an exceptionally skilled manipulator and strategist, as he is able to earn the trust and loyalty of Lord Viren (an extremely sharp-minded individual himself), helps the latter orchestrate a war with Xadia, and pulls a sly and carefully planned trick on the Sunfire Elf Queen, anticipating her every decision with complete accuracy.
Like other Startouch elves, Aaravos is a being from the heavens, meaning he's immortal. He is extremely long-lived, as he is roughly 5,000 years old at the time he is introduced. He also one of the first elves who lived in Xadia.
Due to his ties to dark magic, Aaravos can possess any human wizard who has used dark magic at least once. this is currently unclear what the limits of his ability to possess someone.
due to being a startouch elf, Aaravos can't be kill by mortal ways due to him be an immortal being from the heavens. the only knowing existing way to destroy the mortal vessel body of Aaravos is by a the nova blade, a legendary sword that can kill the mortal vessel of a startouch elf, even with the sword, in a few years, Aaravos could be able to return to the mortal world when his stars would align again and he would be able to manifest physically in Xadia once more.
Personality[]
| “ | I know the patience of countless candles burned down to waxy puddles. I know the patience of apple seeds plucked from the flesh of their fruit, planted and nursed until the strongest of them birth new life from rich soil. I know the patience of a woven tapestry, how the weaver plaits the purpose of every thread, even as they disappear into the beauty of its design. I know the patience of a prisoner. I have not seen the stars in centuries. But when I see them again—when the stars are forced to look upon me, their dark brother—they will know how I have waited. And when everything they have built lies shattered, I will savor their fall from the sky. For I have been patient. | „ |
| ~ Aaravos in Patience. |
Aaravos is mysterious and secretive, but also charming and charismatic. He is usually rather casual in his body language and mannerisms, and hardly ever loses his temper or raises his voice. He remains completely calm even when Viren threatened to smash his mirror and when he disintegrates the Sunfire Elf queen. He is also somewhat smug, as he speaks to Viren as if he were a child.
Aaravos is an exceptionally intelligent, cunning, and manipulative individual. Prime examples of this, are him earning the trust and loyalty of Lord Viren (who is an extremely intelligent and cunning individual in his own right), and his trick on the Sunfire Elves, anticipating their every decision with complete accuracy. He also knows when to back down from a fight that cannot be won, shown when he stopped Viren from trying to fight a group of archers which surrounded him. However, Aaravos is not incapable of making mistakes, as he failed to anticipate that Rayla would be brave enough to sacrifice herself to save the Dragon Prince by throwing herself and Viren off the Storm Spire.
According to auxiliary material, Aaravos may have held a soft spot for humanity, as it is implied he taught them the ways of Dark Magic so they could hold their own against, if not exceed the elves. Whether he still does or not remains to be seen.
So far it is not made clear what Aaravos's true personal goals are, or whether or not he is truly or completely evil. The series' creators have stated he is a complex character, and that he was erased from history because he was disliked, not necessarily because he was evil. However, he has shown signs of arrogance, sadism and ruthlessness. For example, he states that individuals who cannot be reasoned are simple animals who deserve to be motivated by fear, and encourages Viren to use such to against those who reject him. He also encourages Viren to drain the essence of an innocent dragonling, and whispered to Khessa about how her grandmother Aditi died before killing her too.
Aaravos is also capable of holding a grudge, as shown by his hatred of Avizandum for imprisoning him, a hatred that remains even after almost 300 years. The greatest example of holding a grudge on his part was showed in his hatred of Sol Regem, who reported his daughter to the startouch elf council. For centuries Aaravos maneuveried and manipulatioetd the archdragon to destroy his life and unwittingly serve his purpose, his revenge on Regem continued for a thousand of years until he leaded the dragon to destroy Katolis castle and release his prison, while leading him to a certain death, taunted him before his death, showing that his hatred towards him remained pure all those years.
In Season 6's finale, Aaravos reveals to Claudia that he is motivated by his love for his daughter. The Startouch elves killed her for teaching magic to humans, even defying him death alongside her; he spent 100 years weeping in the crater that formed from her death impact, creating the Sea of Castout. In retribution against Startouch elves, Aaravos willingly spread magical knowledge to humans and encouraged their war against Xadia; feeling that Sol Regem and the elves who helped him get his daughter killed talsdeserved punishment.
Before Leola died, Aaravos had a good heart and empathy for morals, including humans. Unlike his kind in the stars, Aaravos enjoyed discover and exploring the mystery of Xadia and the universe, including learning all the other primal sources of magic in Xadia. Aaravos was good father to his daughter Leola who he's loved more than anything else in his life. In his quest to get revenge on his daughter killer, Aaravos buried his empathy under 100 years of grief and haterd, without caring who will get hurt as side damag.
Quotes[]
| “ | Long ago, Xadia was one land rich in magic and wonder. In the old times, there were only the six Primal Sources of magic. The Sun. The Moon. The Stars. The Earth. The Sky. And the Ocean. But a thousand years ago, a human mage discovered new magic, the seventh source. Dark Magic. It used the essence within magical creatures themselves to unleash dark power. Horrified by what they saw, the elves and the dragons put a stop to the madness. They drove every last human to the west. And so, the continent was divided in two. In the east, the magical lands of Xadia. And in the west, the human kingdoms. For centuries, the King of the Dragons himself defended the border. The humans called him Thunder, for when he spoke, his voice shook the Earth and the sky. But on the eve of last Winter's Turn, the humans used unspeakable Dark Magic to slay Thunder. Then, without mercy, they destroyed his only egg, his heir the Dragon Prince. Now the world stands on the edge of all-out war. | „ |
| ~ Aaravos narrating at the beginning of the story. |
| “ | Let me tell you a story. | „ |
| ~ Aaravos at the begning of each of his short stories. |
| “ | Like all the oldest tales, time has bent its shape and blurred its color. It is a fable whispered on some tongues and shouted on others. While one may say it ends with a sunrise, another will insist it ends at nightfall. Yet at the heart of the story is a single, simple truth… A star fell from the sky. | „ |
| ~ Aarovos starting Ripples. |
| “ | No, the human could not know it. Not yet. He could not see how the slightest touch—a breath in the wind, a spark before a flame, a mere teardrop in the sea—could change the world forever. Such elegant simplicity, such power. For ripples grow: They collide, they churn, they drown. They rise like waves or drag into the darkest depths below. I hope the stars were watching. I hope they saw it: the moment their perfect reflections turned warped and ruined, churned to chaos by the touch of a single human hand. In this, the humans taught me another lesson. And so I touch the surface of the water. I watch the ripples spread. | „ |
| ~ Aaravos ending Ripples. |
Trivia[]
- Aaravos may have been responsible for Aditi's death. However, this hasn't been confirmed or disproven.
- In Janai's dream, Aaravos said that he "swallowed" her but it is unknown what he means by this but it's implying something horrific. In a way, it's confirming that he had something to do with her grandmother's death.
- According to the Art of the Dragon Prince, Aaravos is a "fallen" Startouch Elf and because of this, can only access a fraction of his former power. It also stated that he is the only member of his race that has ever been encountered by humans and that he has many names, among which were "the last of the great ones" and "the bearer of gifts", further strengthening the fan theory of him being the one who gave Ziard his staff.
- Its later shown in Season 6 that Aaravos loathes his own species for killing his daughter for teaching magic to humans. So he is fallen in that he taught or cheated dark magic in order spite the other Startouch elves.
- In the finale its shown that he indeed create the staff as the purple gem is a disguised Quasar diamond, which was needed to give Aaravos a body again
- Although not confirmed, it's heavily implied by Viren's purple glowing eyes by the end of Season 4 that Aaravos is possessing him. This is further hinted at by the end credits of the same episode.
- There is a popular fan theory that Aaravos is Callum's biological father. However, this has been debunked when his father was confirmed to be a human in an interview and season 6 revealed that he was a simple poet, who had problems when it comes to breathing.
- Not only that, The story clarifies that blood relations do not matter as a way to form a family and Aaravos being his father would ruin Callum's character journey to cast magic. It would also contradict the show's narrative and themes.
- Aaravos is the narrator of the first episode's opening sequence, where he incorrectly said that the Egg of the Dragon Prince was destroyed by humans as it was revealed to still be alive in episode 2 of Book One. He is also the narrator of episode one of Book Three's opening for a brief amount of time and the narrator of the first novel's prologue as it was signed by him. However, he also incorrectly claimed that humans hunted unicorns to extinction as Viren said that Claudia captured a unicorn in episode six of Book Three and unicorns are almost impossible to hunt and are too powerful and cunning to be hunted, according to a home page from the Art of the Dragon Prince.
- As a character Aaravos is viewed in two ways.
- By the humans he is viewed as a Prometheus-like character, who granted humanity the gift and knowledge of dark magic.
- The elves and dragons view him as a Lucifer-like character since he is represented as a great threat to everyone and is very manipulative and malicious. What drives this even further is when is often described as being very interested in mages, especially human mages, driving their inner ambitions.
- He is later shown to genuinely be a bit of both, being a bit similar to the Lucifer from Hazbin Hotel; albiet with some actions swapped to the daughter. Aaravos was a very loving father to his daughter, who was killed by his Celestial brethren for gifting humans magic; in his grief, Aaravos decided to spite his brethren by purposely helping empower humans and ruin the lives of the dragons as revenge.
- Aaravos desire to help humans may also come from respect his daughter who loved them and wanted to help them, however, Aaravos does that by corruption and chaos, in a way that is twisted from Leola true desir.
- Ever since the release of season 4, a misconception was created when some fans thought the animators changed Aaravo's design. Compared to the previous seasons, they felt he looked less terrifying and more "cute" looking.
- It was later revealed that animators did not change his design at all but the lighting of his character model.
- In season 6 it’s revealed that Aaravos is responsible for the creation of the Sea of Castout because he grieved his daughter’s death for one hundred years.
External Links[]
- Aaravos on the Dragon Prince Wiki.
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