#why would aaravos purposefully expend the magic resources of someone whose power he’s potentially relying on to help conquer xadia

[self-spaghettification]

so we know aaravos has some spell to save/extend viren’s life in season 5.

expectation: magic life saving kiss, viren becomes part elf or something, aaravos expends a bunch of his magic energy for the sake of this guy he met like basically a day ago (relative to how he probably perceives the passage of time as basically immortal)

reality, probably: aaravos has some key knowledge/ingredient but makes claudia do the spell to extend her father’s life knowing full well it may permanently scar if not kill her in the process to make her choose between her own life, but more importantly her own happiness and humanity, and her father’s life.

—the father who never wanted his daughter to go through the same pain and sacrifice that he had and was hesitant to let her learn dark magic in the first place—

just for kicks and giggles. maybe to test how far claudia would go for her dad.

like sure hey he may not be that cruel (or at least, more pragmatic) but just think. the angst potential

and of course, she would do it.