Dragon Prince

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What the world building and conflict could be in dragon king:

We know that it will be about another dragon claiming the Titel of King. But that can’t be the only conflict since there has to be a reason why the people would even consider another king. If they were content and happy with zim why would they accept another’s attempt at the throne? Or what will this other kings reason be for wanting the throne and what does he want to change and why. I have a theory about what this conflict could be about.

it’s about human-elven relationships and dark magic again. Why ? Because the reason for the first conflict 1000 years ago was never probably Adressed.

We learned that humans had been able to cast magic but still felt the need to perform dark magic. That they were then banished to the other half of the continent, which was as prosperous as the elven half before they ruined it themselves and that the elven fear of humans was justified while the human fear was just loathing. The dragon and elves are even friendly with humans from the beginning, seen with the dragons who accepted the gang without trouble and later with the sun elves who forgive the humans after their territory was destroyed. The only bad elves were dealt with and humans finally progressed into good people.

This retcon in the later seasons sucked and took away from the main conflict from season 1 to 3. so while I will not change those facts, I will give the people a reason why the felt a need for dark magic. By showing how the conflict started back then by repeating the same thing now. Afterall, everkind is the first human-elven city in 1000 years, showing us what it was like for humans back then.

The city we see is trying to treat both parties equally. But fails because the natural magic of the elves. Humans want to hunt? The moon shadow elves already built a group and won’t allow people to join who can’t keep up. Humans want to work with fire, heat or metal? They only get the job as long as no sun fire elv is around, since they would be preferred. The humans go fishing? The sea elves will always have a bigger catch than they have. In short, the humans are second rate citizens because they lack the talent of the elves. Even if a few learned prime magic it will not make up for the blatant imbalance of power. Not every human can perform magic, it requires time to access it and you need an elven teacher willing to teach you. This leads to some elves seeing the humans as lesser and the humans getting jealous of the elves.

At this point I can see Claudia stepping in and doing the same thing as aaravos had done. Teaching a few dark magic tricks to the humans to tip the scales. For example hex bait so that the fisherman will get the same about of fish as the elves. This starts the conflict that the humans want to use some amount of dark magic to equalize their chances and elves hating the thought of dark magic and wanting to banish it.

This whole thing is a call back and explanation of what happened back then and a chance to chose the right path this time.

Ezran will find the solution to this problem at the end of the series, which is that they open up magic schools where everybody gets the chance to learn magic.

Until then Claudia will try to come up with a solution, which is her main arc this time. She already learned that elves and humans can live together, she can’t bring back her dad and aaravos is no longer out for revenge. So she needs a new reason why she does things. She sees that history repeats itself and wants to make sure that this time it will not be the humans who get banished from their homes and city’s, but the elves. This is why she has the next candidate of the dragon king at her side. We can also see more dark mages around as Claudia trains them to help her cause. Even some elves like the pirates could come back and join up with her, since they want to learn dark magic as well.

Forming two sides. The one of zim where only prime magic is allowed and dark magic gets banned. And the side of Claudia where dark magic is allowed as equalizer. In the end Ezran will find a way to make both sides come together. But for now this will be the conflict of the next seasons.

What do you guys thing? Does this make sense or would another conflict be more reasonable? It can’t simply be one claim to the throne and I don’t want to see another „everyone in the world against aaravos and Claudia, who just want vengeance“ trope. This was so disappointing in season 7.

[empress-6-3]

Dragon King, Viren will haunt Aaravos in the next seasons

Why do I get this impression?

First Aaravos seems to have had a change of Harth, where he is willing to put his anger aside because he loves Claudia. Meaning he is good and will try to change Claudia to be good as well (as long as his Monolog wasn’t a lie, and he never lies). But based on the leaks that Claudia will go down an even darker parth, aaravos is not able to change her. This could lead him into getting help from Virens ghost. Reversing the dynamic from the first seasons.

Viren would want to interfere and agree to be a ghost. Since He never had a chance to put things right with Claudia. Especially now that the man who told him that Claudia is an asset, got her to spent 3 years bringing Viren back and kill at least 2 people (resurrection, sir sparklepuff), etc is back to manipulate his daughter. You can’t tell me that Viren was dying without regrets and wouldn’t try to help her if he got a chance again.

Further I would love this dynamic and it would be justice.

Aaravos was the one who corrupted Viren and then killed him. He should not get a new father daughter relationship without feeling guilty about it. Viren deserves to call Aaravos out on it.

It also causes the necessary drama we will otherwise not see. Claudia is a mature adult now who doesn’t need guidance. She has a new boyfriend who does what she tells him and if aaravos really loves her and only try’s to surport her. Than adding the guilt that he is the one who is responsible for her past misery would spice things up. For that Viren would be great since he could call aaravos out on everything he did and we wouldn’t have to hear an inside monologue the whole time.

It would also tie back into a few plot points with Viren who weren’t probably addressed. His relationship with Claudia. His bond with aaravos where he could see and hear him. Sir sparklepuff and his role as son. Why there was no impact after Claudia killed her half brother (why no father cared that their child was killed). Virens weird dream. Etc. the explanation is that aaravos is still tied to Viren and can hear him because of the ritual. The reason why aaravos wanted to see Claudia again was because he wants to stop what he has done to her, (killing sparklepuff will do, has done something to Claudia). This way some past actions will get relevance again.

I also really want to see Viren again. But not bring him back to live. I found his death to be dissatisfying since all he did was wander around, fall into come, Leave and then have one interesting arc with Soren. It just feels like there should have been more. He should have talked with Claudia. Feel regret about harrow and Ezra. Have some thoughts about having a son made without his consent. About aaravos wanting to kill his son and then kill him. What he did to the sun elves and what having dark magic would mean to him. We saw that he doesn’t want to use it anymore but that he still can and will use it if it is necessary (cave before the Dream, attack against the dragon). There was still so much to do with him, he is incredible complicated with having good intentions who led to dark outcomes, having the best relationships (horrow, Claudia, Soren, terry and aaravos) and is the only character who is on the middle ground with dark magic (callum just wants to never use it, Claudia will forever use it and it would be nice to see a third option where it is only used if necessary)

And at last I just want to see more interaction between aaravos and Viren. I just feel that aaravos was the most sincere when he was with Viren. Neither to nice, hiding his darkness, nore to evil. They had some kind of toxic friendship going on I found really interesting and would love to see more off. Especially I would like to know what was aaravos actually take on Viren. He seemed to like him and gone out of his way to bring him back. Yet he killed him. He had a freakish son with him. Like what exactly was his end goal with Viren if he hadn’t backed out? was he angry at Viren and that is why he killed him, did he not care about him? I just want to know from aaravos perspective what exactly had been going on all this time.

[kradogsrats]

jump into the night x

[stuck-in-jelly]

The Princes vs The Kings

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The dragon king

They better not fuck this up.

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is this outfit too subtle or something

[yeoldeghostofmushrooms]

Hello! For the past few months my sister and mom have been watching a Netflix series The Dragon Prince. I saw with them the first half of season 1 and some episodes from season 2, but apart from that and some characters my sister told me about, I didn't know much about it.

Last week I managed to come home just as they were watching and even though they were already on season 5, I decided to tag along for fun! I really enjoyed it (even if I didn't really understand some of the story😅) but I do have to say that out of all the things, toxic yaoi divorce was not something I was expecting…

[elvesdragonsanddarkmagic]

(Tw: blood)

Haunted house's walls: *starts to bleed, revealing 666*

Claudia:

Heh nice

[elvesdragonsanddarkmagic]

Hot brown morning potion for the bday girl. This is just a coloured version of an old doodle. I'm a little tied up with studies and couldn't put together something new :'(

Edit: I know the sunfire staff makes no sense, this was drawn from memory and I don't have time to fix it I'm so sorry

[elvesdragonsanddarkmagic]

Time to Let Go

Sappiness under the cut

I've had this doodle since the end of season 6 and only now finished it lol.

I'm glad to have had such an attachment to Viren of all characters in this amazing show. What started as an infatuation for Aaravos and dozens of rewatching his scenes throughout s1 and s2 turned into a growing interest towards the middle aged guy that just yelled at his own reflection. Then, I find myself answering for why I find Viren interesting much less straightforward (in a good way) than any other character. His arc was everything I've wanted it to be and I couldn't have asked for a better way for him to go, all things considered. Loving this character was a wild ride tho, being my first fav character who's not a protagonist. Loving Viren allowed me to look inward a lot and engage in some really difficult conversations (from my days of being active on reddit). And I've gotten to know a bunch of great people through our shared love for this disaster of a man.

Viren's truly gone in the TDP universe, but he lives on in my mind, in the fanfics I read or the AUs I imagine in my head bc I'm shit at writing. I'll miss seeing him in TDP, I'll miss making fun of him and generally using him like a punching bag when things were much less high stakes. I'll miss the content of him we'd get every now and then. I'll miss him dearly. Am I still delusional and holding onto hope that we'll get a prequel of some kind about his life growing up? Yeap :D Is that even anywhere near possible? I'm sure not lol

I'll continue to doodle him. I'd hate to stop seeing him and I'll always carry him, if not on paper/drawing screen, then in my heart.

Fly high, High Mage Viren of Katolis

[kradogsrats]

you affect me/you infect me I'm afflicted/you're addicted you and me are incurable

[madou-dilou]

Can't even dress up for the day without a gloomy reminder that he sold away his body and soul

[dailytdp]

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[onthosecoldwinternights]

Runaan is one of my favourite characters in The Dragon Prince. I’m glad he got out of that cursed coin, but I think using an incredibly rare and powerful diamond to release him didn’t make sense. Sure, he’s an important character with a love interest that needed him back, but using one of the only three existing Quasar Diamonds on a pretty average elf seems insane. Yes, he’s Xadia’s best assassin, but that’s an insane amount of power to sacrifice for him. The diamond could likely cast a spell that could do anything he could, but better.

I’m not saying this to put shit on Rayla’s actions of releasing him, I’m more focused on the power imbalances in this series. The spell that put Runaan in the coin was seemingly a pretty simple spell as it just needed a dark mage and a cursed coin. But the only way to get out of the spell is with star magic? It seems incredibly unbalanced and not well thought out. And even if the coin spell required a larger, rarer component to cast, Viren has done it 4 times (5 if you count Harrow) to characters that wouldn’t be worth the hassle. Tiadrin and Lain were captured instead of killed for seemingly no reason other than Viren wanting to “collect” them. It could be a major plot hole to have a spell that must be reversed with star magic yet can be cast by pretty average humans that happen to use dark magic.

Also, Harrow is an average guy too. It’s likely that the last diamond will be used to bring him back - a man that died two years ago, his kingdom has moved on and a new ruler is in place. Sure, it would be great for Callum and Ezran to have their father back, but he also seems unnecessary and like a waste of powerful magic. Perhaps the writers just wanted the diamonds gone for arc 3, for some reason. But to have all 3 used in a single year?

Does this make sense? The power imbalances of magic in this show are pretty important.

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