#tdp lore

[ac0531]

Did an analysis and got some of the most interesting things Aaron said during this interview!!

“Whatever it unlocks, do you have to be connected or master some arcanum to unlock that? Anyways, I will say that there is a big reveal about the key of Aaravos in season 6”- Aaron

“We have many plans for Terry’s character. He’s a main character and we’ll see a lot of him in seasons 6 and 7. In terms of the meeting story between Terry and Claudia, yes we do have a story in mind but I don’t know how it’s going to get told. Sometimes we’ve talked about a book 3 and a half that’s sort of Claudia’s story that’s focused on the two years Claudia is moving around Xadia trying to solve the problem of saving Viren. You’d also have the story of Rayla hunting for Viren and you might have them cross paths, but yeah during that time you’d see her (Claudia) meet Terry- so we’ve talked about Book 3 and a half as maybe a novel or maybe a movie between season 3 and 4.”- Aaron

“That’s another story we’d love to tell at some point. That story sort of involved her rise from her being an orphan to her becoming the queen of Katolis- part of that story also connects to Aaravos and what happened a few hundred years ago. There is more story after season 7 that is important and I’m actually going to talk about it at SDCC.”- Aaron!

“You’ll learn more about Leola in season 6 and the questions you’ve asked will be answered very clearly.”- Aaron (Goji asked “Who is Leola, if she has a connection to Aaravos and if she’ll play a role in season 6”)

“The two examples that came to mind in your list are one: the symbol on the coins which is also the symbol on the book, and yes it connects to old deep magic and you will see a bit more of that in the coming season.”- Aaron

“And then the second thing you mentioned was the staffs in the starscraper, so I’ll share something a little meaty which is that is where they came from, so the question would be- how did it go from there to Viren? I know we’ve seen the scene with Ziard talking about the staff and it being a gift from a great one but yeah, that (the starscraper) is where it’s from.”- Aaron

“A lot of the origin story on who and why (Aaravos backstory) are going to be revealed in season 6.”- Aaron

“Who is he? What does he want? How has he come to be in a situation where he has somehow been involved in magic passing from Startouch elves and you know the elves and dragons to the humans- what is his involvement in that? Some of those questions will be answered in season 6”- Aaron

[bat-snake]

Something something about "is Aaravos a Promethean or Luciferian figure" with the apples....where a human gave HIM an one, not the other way around, as is "Luciferian" tradition.

[redr0sewrites]

Hi out of interest how would humans, elves and dragons react to seeing a space ship and when the spaceship opens thy meet well other humans that came from a different planet where magic, elves and Dragons are well myths ?

i literally tried to write this 3 times but i kept accidentally refreshing the tab and it would delete everything so im sorry if this sucks but i legit am going to die if i have to write this again😭

Callum

he was scared af at first ngl

he was super interested in learning ab the human technology and explained the magic to the new humans since mages r a myth in their world

wants to learn ab other worlds

probably would befriend a lot of the other humans and teach them ab how xadia worked

Rayla

she would probably be super wary of the humans at first and the giant ass ship

would prob try to attack jt 💀

once she warmed up to the humans, she would teach them ab xadia and elven culture!

shed be super interested in the humans weapons, she is an assassin after all

Ezran

he would prob try be the most diplomatic

would try to make some alliance or peace treaty

hed be the first to approach the ship and interact with them as he wanted to know if they were a threat

very interested in learning ab the othee humans

he would bring them to katolis, much to opelis annoyance

Aaravos

now hed be intrigued

traveling among the stars? now that caught his attention

like 50 humans would fall in love w him just like me fr lmfao hed flirt mercilessly

the idea of other worlds and planets intrigues him alot

def asks a lot of questions

also wants to learn ab human tech and weapons, but for more malicious purposes lmfao

they all think that elves and dragons r myths, so he would show them magic and explain the entire history and lore of xadia to them💀

Zubeia

she would help to ensure peace with ezran adn make sure they werent a threat

the humans would prob either be super scared of her or think she was super cool since dragons were myths

teaches them ab xadian and dragonic customs!!!

is wary of letting them meet zym tho, she doesnt want to endanger him

if they see the statue of avizandum and ask questions she will legit just ignore them 😭

overall is a little wary of them but accepts it as it is

i cant find the strength to write more im so so so sorry 😭😭😭

[lunanightriderofthecove]

I really wanna know what that battle between Avizandum and the humans is in the prologue.

[beautifulterriblequeen]

When the tales of Xadia talks about the star primal, they said it is the most powerful of the primals and has reality bending powers. That does seem to imply that all primal magic came from the stars.

That's one interpretation - or two? Do you mean that primal magic could've been created from manipulating Star magic, or that it was created by Startouch elves?

Either is possible, since Star magic is the one we know the least about, in lore and in meta. And there's just as likely a chance that something else is at work, too, all things considered.

One of my favorite things about TDP is that it takes a leaf from Tolkien's book and lets the texts themselves have limited and even incorrect perspective, as if they were written by real people in real time and then frozen in the TDP timeline that way. (Which they kind of were, since time only flows one way.)

The overall effect of this is exquisite to me: Callum was very certain about everything he wrote in his Spellbook, but was he always correct? Signs point to No. Yet the very inaccuracies in the text lend themselves to a greater enjoyment of TDP lore as a whole - Callum's Spellbook is not canon-perfect, but it is meta-canon, and that in itself can spark such fun thoughts and discussions.

That's ever so much more fun, don't you agree?

[jellydrawsposts]

Im way too tired to clean this up but I’ve been cackling at this i still absolutely love how The Dragon Prince randomly decided to drop the fact that Corvus not only knows how to play the cello but also that he writes his own pieces AND THEY NEVER MENTION IT AGAIN

Based off of that redraw trend on Twitter

[sunstone-nerding]

You didn't offend me. It's ok! :) I just wanted to know if you expected an answer from me or not.

I don't know how long you have been in The Dragon Prince fandom. I've been following it for about five years now. (Wow, so long...) Way back, what horn cuffs meant was not decided. As more lore was written and released, that gradually changed.

I can list the sources if you would find that helpful.

Kim'dael's Horn Cuff

Kim'dael's horn cuff looks more like a support bracket than purely decorative jewelry.

Maybe her horn cracked or was gouged through the keratin years ago. Even if she only wears it out of habit anymore, I like what it says about her.

[raayllum]

thinking about things

We know that Sol Regem when he was still the Dragon Prince turned Leola in to the Cosmic Council, and she was executed. We also know that Sol Regem later became King of the Dragons + had and lost his mate, Aithne Solaire. We know that both of these things happened before he attacked Elarion since as he says, "I lost my hope long before I lost my sight" (5x04) and that he accidentally killed/buried Aithne Solaire alive in his fury... but fury over what?

We also know it's apparently expected / typical that the dragon monarchy is hereditary, passing from parent to child: Avizandum and Zubeia to Zym, presumably Sol Regem from his parental figure(s), and that at the very least Storm archdragon eggs are very rare / only laid every 1,000 or so years (1x05).

Two theories:

1) Sol Regem lost both his mate and his heir before the Fall of Elarion. Aaravos killed his child (as what could be more fitting revenge for Aaravos, who lost his child because of Sol Regem, than to kill that dragon's child), and Sol Regem, enraged by the loss of their child / heir accidentally killed his mate.

2) Sol Regem lost his heir before the Fall of Elarion (for similar revenge driven reasons). It was during the Fall of Elarion or some other attack on humans (maybe he blamed them and/or dark magic for the death of his child) that Aithne Solaire.

I could also see Sol Regem's "lost hope" being about having lost a parental figure. Not only would it provide nice parallels to both Claudia and Ezran in particular in S7, it'd also contrast Aaravos-Leola and show the almost symbiotic relationship parents and children have in the show in regards to hope and maintaining meaningful, healthy senses of identity.

[raylasrightbraid]

hey yall i would like to share my headcanon of the moment rayla and callum fell for eachother bc why not

OK SO FIRST

personally, i think rayla fell first. (sweet little callum was still crushing on claudia at this time 😓) but honestly, this moment is where rayla saw callum as this kind and genuine person and probably caught some tiny little feelings 🤭

now obviously we all know this iconic scene where the writers decided that rayllum wasn’t a bad idea 😭 at this point, i think rayla has her pretty decent crush on callum and i dont think he liked claudia anymore ?? idk 😰

finally after that lightning scene when rayla says “good :)” and hugs callum i think callum realized how much she cared for him and that he cared so much about her too, and developed feelings after.

all in all

i think rayla fell first, and callum fell so much harder 😭 quite literally might i add

[kradogsrats]

no but seriously since presumably we all have Netflix accounts I encourage everyone with a usable device for it to give TDP: Xadia a try, bc assuming it has remained anything like the alpha it has:

fun play for players of all skill levels, like I know someone's definitely gonna get super sweaty esports about it but there's much more space for just playing and having fun... it was also very playable solo, despite being co-op oriented which is great if you are like me and hiss like an offended cat at other gamers

legitimately funny writing, also there were so many new characters in the alpha and I love all of them, even the ones who are total disasters (especially the ones who are total disasters)

absolutely gorgeous environments, obviously this is not a triple-A bleeding-edge PC game that will melt your RTX 4080 or whatever but dang it was actually really pretty even in alpha

lore shit that will blow your damn mind, and while it's wasn’t stuff I've had to stuff my fist in my mouth to avoid revealing in s6 speculation (thankfully), I can't wait for everyone to get their fingers into with me because it's really world-expanding

like unless they managed to completely fuck it up right at the finish line (admittedly possible), this is going to be a really cool game

[ac0531]

Who’s ready to get emotionally wrecked with season 6 of TDP?

Bring it on Wonderstorm!

[redr0sewrites]

Out of all the arch dragons from the dragon prince who is your fave?

URGHH THATS SUCH A HARD QUESTION <\\\3 if were talking design-wise, then id probably say luna tenebris bc her design that we saw just seemed really aesthetically pleasing to me, and she just looks very interesting and she is probably going to be important lore-wise and i just want to know more ab her. if were talking ab archdragons that we know better/have interacted with in the show, id probably say zubeia. shes a caring mother towards zym, and the whole corruption bit at the end of s5 made me feel really bad for her. im glad that shes helping to make progress towards peace between the humans and the elves, and i just think her character is very interesting. all of the archdragons have interesting characters and personalities, and i feel like theyre all really cool to think about lore-wise and theory-wise! (also, id like to clarify that i saw ur other ask and in working on it currently, tysm for requesting! :D)

[lunanightriderofthecove]

How come I only recently realized the sunbirds accompanying Sol Regem in the prologue have 6 eyes?

[lolabearwrites]

One thing I'm still really confused about is Star touched elf reproduction.

No mother was mentioned so I'm assuming Leola never had one. Star-touched elves are basically gods so I assume they can just whoosh a kid into existence (take a part of their soul and mesh it with magic shit??)

Anyways, they are also immortal which means there doesn't really seem a need to reproduce.

So, my question is, did Aaravos just really want to be a dad? Because...that's so sweet. Aaravos I fucking love u so much

[a-very-sparkly-nerd]

Wait it would be messed up if the cube had like the heart of leola (IT COULD HAPPEN LIKE THE STARTOUCH ELVES ARE SERIOUSLY DISTURBED) and aaravos's heart is just Somewhere Else and he wants the cube back so bad because that's His Daughter's Heart

[raayllum]

He was betrayed by a trusted advisor and he began to doubt everyone around him. So he made them all spies, turning one against another. His seeds of doubt grew into tangled vines of paranoia that strangled his kingdom. His fear became a self-fulfilling prophecy. One by one, everyone abandoned him. The king died friendless, his kingdom consumed by chaos.