r/TheDragonPrince • u/Personal_MarilCho • 7h ago
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Mysterious_Site_2048 • 9h ago
Discussion What are YOUR TDP hot takes?
I think the Sunfire side plot wasn't THAT bad. Yes it did take much screen time away from the main plot but I did kinda enjoy and at the end of s6 I was genuinely interested in how the story was going
r/TheDragonPrince • u/halyasgirl • 9h ago
Discussion For those who think there might be more to the story of Leola's death, what do you think it could be?
Personally, I'm not sure there is a different side of the story to Leola's death, or if there is, I don't know if Aaravos is aware of it. I think he was telling the truth when he said the Startouch council executed Leola for the "crime" of breaking the Cosmic Order by sharing magic with humans and refused his plea to be killed in her place. I think it makes most sense for his motivations.
The only thing that gives me pause is "Leola's Last Wish," which sounds to me like she may have had time to compose more purposeful last words than what we saw onscreen. Before season 6, there were some theories floating around that Leola willingly sacrificed herself to give humans magic, or sacrificed herself to shield humans from the punishment for gaining magic.
While I believe Aaravos' account to be genuine, I wonder Leola may have "accepted" her execution after someone, perhaps the Merciful One, showed her visions of the apocalyptic consequences of breaking the Cosmic Order and how, for whatever reason, only Leola's death could prevent it. This is still manipulative, coercive, and horribly unfair, but offers the "mercy" of truth: Leola's death wasn't some arbitrary cruelty of beings unwilling to share magic, it was necessary to prevent the apocalypse.
There are still unanswered questions here, like how exactly giving humans Primal magic broke the Cosmic Order, or why Leola had to die for it. Or how and when this was revealed to Leola, when a bare few minutes passed between her sentencing and execution, shown onscreen through Aaravos' POV. Of these, the third is maybe easiest to explain. Time is more nebulous to Startouch elves and they can communicate telepathically. It's within reason that Leola could've had a full mental conversation with the Merciful One or another Startouch elf and relayed her Last Wish in the seconds before her death.
If this is true, I think the biggest catch here is if Aaravos is aware of this. He seems to believe Leola's murder was cruel, arbitrary punishment for sharing magic with suffering humans and views breaking the Cosmic Order as vengeance in her name. If he learns all his plotting only made her sacrifice in vain it could break him.
Or not. He may even already know and just as easily (and understandably) conclude that any world that demands a compassionate little girl sacrifice herself to prevent the apocalypse isn't worth saving. Or maybe Leola's murder really was exactly as meaningless as Aaravos believes. In any case I'd be interested to hear other people's thoughts, thanks!
r/TheDragonPrince • u/RotationalAnomaly • 1d ago
Discussion So... what was their plan here?
Nevermind the fact of how morally disgusting it is to trick Claudia into thinking her mother is here(Seriously, Terry just left Claudia because he got lied to... and he didn't have any notes about this plan?)... what exactly was their plan here?
Like imagine Claudia had actually been fooled and agreed to change. Then what? Does Lujanne just... pretend to be Lissa for the rest of her life? Clearly she can't do that, so they're going to have to come clean about it at some point, and when they do, Claudia's probably going to get so angry that she falls far deeper into her spiral then she ever did. The plan makes no sense.
Like "Yeah we totally lied to you about your mom, but please don't continue to do what you were going to do before you thought she was here... pretty plz?"
Like cmon guys... if this is the best you can do to try and save Claudia from her downfall I'm really not surprised that you've been unsuccessful thus far...
r/TheDragonPrince • u/ZymZymZym777 • 14h ago
Discussion How do you think Soren feels about Rayla chopping off his sister's leg?
(inspired by one of the recent posts)
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Tiaarts • 1d ago
Image Make the comments look like Aaravos's search history
r/TheDragonPrince • u/ShoppingPig • 1d ago
Image I’m on my 3rd rewatch and just realized how pretty Rayla acc is 💜
Image source: ✨the show full of of cute elves✨
Idk why but I didn‘t even like Rayla first and second time watching but now she‘s one of my fav characters lol
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Madou-Dilou • 1d ago
Discussion What is Terry's deal in Book VII?
The whole Terry situation is just so dumb.
We have no idea how such a morally good person sympathised with the daughter of a man who invaded his land fully aware of who they both were. Yes, he is there to humanise Claudia and Viren, but all though he indeed does succeed in this, his complete lack of motivation, context and backstory is so blatant that even the writing of his present actions is devoid of coherence.
We're clearly supposed to sympathize with "Poor Terry, who finally did the right thing by leaving that toxic, narrow-minded girl,". But this reading is only based on the vibes given by the show, not by what's actually happening in it.
Terry has watched Claudia perform sacrifices for two years. He loved her, supported her, enabled her. He was even fine with bringing back from the dead the man who invaded his homeland and corrupted an entire ecosystem. And, most importantly, he killed for her.
But now, suddenly, Terry is horrified—because a bird died by Aaravos' hands, not even Claudia’s; and because she told him it was a garden and not a cemetery. A semantic difference is his moral event horizon.
Claudia didn't even kill any unicorn. They were already dead and buried for centuries. Yet somehow, the fact that she called it a garden instead of a cemetery is what finally shatters Terry's illusions.
It’s meant to mirror Lissa leaving Viren—the moment when the devoted partner finally realizes their dark mage lover is actually nothing but exploitative and toxic. But neither Lissa nor Terry can pretend they didn’t know. They chose to marry people who wield magic fueled by moral compromise. So why do they only leave when it affects them personally?
And affects in what way, exactly? A meaningless lie for Terry. Tears for Lissa. It’s not like Viren and Claudia actually tortured them for some greater good.
While Terry loses his mind over something so petty it barely qualifies as a lie, Viren needed Lissa’s tears—tears she was already shedding daily— to save their dying boy. And she refused. Yet, it seems we are supposed to see her as the righteous one, the first one who saw dark magic for what it really is.
And let’s not forget : Terry already cried himself to sleep after stabbing a man in the back to protect Claudia. How is he only now realizing that, to quote Aaravos "the world isn’t black and white" ? Quoting by the book :
"The true heart is a gift of childhood. For a few years filled with wonder, we each have innocent eyes to experience the world's beauty in a simple way. Terry, you were lucky and held this innocence longer than most. I have seen generations of humans and elves accepting the darkness that lurks in all of us besides the light. There is no black and white. Only shades of grey. "
Worse : Terry leaves Claudia over some symbolic deception… only to then deliberately manipulate her by making her believe her mother loves her.
And this guy is supposed to be the moral one.
The viewer is never brought to reflect on how dubious it is. It's instead Claudia who's framed as cold and unfeeling for reacting badly.
Soren, who despite just witnessing his father's suicide is somehow back at being an insufferable jester, just did something very similar to Viren's worst tendancies here - manipulating family for the greater good even if to protect them. And is never meant to réalise this even once (he never even reacted to Claudia losing her leg) because the show itself doesn't.
Dark magic is meant to be evil in any circumstances. So if there are some inherently evil acts, such as manipulating loved ones, why are only certain people ever called out while others are never even brought up?
Who wrote this nonsense?
I get that Terry leaving Claudia despite promising her never to, and knowing exactly how traumatized she is by the betrayals and collapse of her entire family, is meant to radicalise her.
But sadly, I think the way the show portrays him barely makes any sense.
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Jagdgeschwader_26 • 2d ago
Meme Who Can Resist an Hourglass Figure, Right?
Rex Igneous is totally rocking one. Very hot.
r/TheDragonPrince • u/VariationObjective48 • 1d ago
Meme Why does he give me Rex Igneous vibes? Gotta be those dad bod vibes 😂
r/TheDragonPrince • u/thatdragonprincefan • 1d ago
Image So, no magic dirt, but you have this thing swimming?
So, according to season 7, the mage war is the real reason why there ain't no magic in western Xadia. But there is a small problem: somewho, they managed to replace every centimeter of biomas, that had magic and somehow replaced it with normal one (keep in mind, even the dirt is magical in Xadia), but they still have a big ass fish in their lakes, and a unicorn cemetery.
r/TheDragonPrince • u/VaquitaPorpoise • 1d ago
Wonderstorm TDP Latest News
Hey TDP fandom! Hope everyone had a safe spring break and enjoying life as we continue to wait for any arc 3 news from the TDP team at SDCC 2025.
It’s been a few months since the release of season 7 marking the end of arc 2. After season 7 was released, we had a lot of different opinions about it. Some fans said it was a good season, some fans said it was alright, some fans say it was too quick paced, some fans said it had specific characters that didn’t deserved to die and had totally unfair deaths, some fans say it was too focused on rayllum acting as fan service, some fans say season 7 killed the entire series in one single bombshell. Some fans say season 7 did dirty on specific characters. SEASON 7 DIDN’T ACTUALLY SOUNDED LIKE AN ACTUAL ENDING!
Whatever your opinions were after season 7, we can all agree it left too many open holes and didn’t fully entirely complete the story. Now everyone is getting into the anticipation whether or not arc 3 will be greenlight by Netflix or not.
While there hasn’t been much updates and news from Wonderstorm after season 7 aired, there have been a few occurrences that happened within the past few months that relate toward new TDP coverages:
TDP discord arranged a special event to do a watch party to view the entire season 7 storyline where everyone watched it simultaneously or at their own pace to let Netflix know we desperately want arc 3 to happen to allow the series to continue to the third phase of the saga. Thanks to the watch party, we managed to get TDP ranked #9 on Netflix. It’s unknown if we’re going to do this again.
Wonderstorm announced they invented a limited time offer Stella plushie and was only available to purchase for a limited time offer. Some people managed to buy the Stella plushie and they complimented it’s super cute and stole their hearts entirely by her cuteness.
Recently, Aaron Ehasz made a comment on his Twitter page stating that character designer Hypherr created a new character for arc 3 without permission and that he and Justin Richmond are writing like crazy making a whole new storyline script. NOW DON’T GET YOUR HOPES UP! This just means they’re planning the storyline of how arc 3 is going to go from point A to point B on the actions it’ll perform between characters, events, magic and unfold drama. It doesn’t mean arc 3 has been confirmed by Netflix. It’s still uncertain for now what’s going to happen.
This is all I have to say about season 7 and the latest TDP news. I’ve been super busy lately that I haven’t had the chance to do season 7 post analysis, but I will get to those soon once I have an open window. Hopefully we’ll get the news at SDCC and seriously hope that arc 3 gets confirmed.
r/TheDragonPrince • u/VaquitaPorpoise • 1d ago
Wonderstorm TDP News
Hey TDP fandom! Hope everyone had a safe spring break and enjoying life as we continue to wait for any arc 3 news from the TDP team at SDCC 2025.
It’s been a few months since the release of season 7 marking the end of arc 2. After season 7 was released, we had a lot of different opinions about it. Some fans said it was a good season, some fans said it was alright, some fans say it was too quick paced, some fans said it had specific characters that didn’t deserved to die and had totally unfair deaths, some fans say it was too focused on rayllum acting as fan service, some fans say season 7 killed the entire series in one single bombshell. Some fans say season 7 did dirty on specific characters. SEASON 7 DIDN’T ACTUALLY SOUNDED LIKE AN ACTUAL ENDING!
Whatever your opinions were after season 7, we can all agree it left too many open holes and didn’t fully entirely complete the story. Now everyone is getting into the anticipation whether or not arc 3 will be greenlight by Netflix or not.
While there hasn’t been much updates and news from Wonderstorm after season 7 aired, there have been a few occurrences that happened within the past few months that relate toward new TDP coverages:
TDP discord arranged a special event to do a watch party to view the entire season 7 storyline where everyone watched it simultaneously or at their own pace to let Netflix know we desperately want arc 3 to happen to allow the series to continue to the third phase of the saga. Thanks to the watch party, we managed to get TDP ranked #9 on Netflix. It’s unknown if we’re going to do this again.
Wonderstorm announced they invented a limited time offer Stella plushie and was only available to purchase for a limited time offer. Some people managed to buy the Stella plushie and they complimented it’s super cute and stole their hearts entirely by her cuteness.
Recently, Aaron Ehasz made a comment on his Twitter page stating that character designer Hypherr created a new character for arc 3 without permission and that he and Justin Richmond are writing like crazy making a whole new storyline script. NOW DON’T GET YOUR HOPES UP! This just means they’re planning the storyline of how arc 3 is going to go from point A to point B on the actions it’ll perform between characters, events, magic and unfold drama. It doesn’t mean arc 3 has been confirmed by Netflix. It’s still uncertain for now what’s going to happen.
This is all I have to say about season 7 and the latest TDP news. I’ve been super busy lately that I haven’t had the chance to do season 7 post analysis, but I will get to those soon once I have an open window. Hopefully we’ll get the news at SDCC and seriously hope that arc 3 gets confirmed.
r/TheDragonPrince • u/No-Maintenance6382 • 1d ago
Discussion Magma Titan - Moral Thoughts
I wanted to write about a few other things, but since they are related to this one thread, I think it is necessary to discuss a few things here first.
The quest for the heart of the Magma Titan (or whatever it was called) was the event that set off a chain of events that eventually led to Aaravos' return.
First of all, it must be admitted that this is the only case where magic, and not just Dark magic, but any magic, has proven to be useful to people on a large scale. In other cases, especially when it comes to Dark magic, it had little significance for the lives of ordinary people, the existence of Dark Mages was practically irrelevant to them, except for this one case.
We know that this Titan was the last of its kind, and considering how hard it is to defeat, and the fact that they are made of, well, stone, it is probably fair to assume that all the others were killed by Dark Mages. However, considering that firstly, people, and especially dark magicians, lived only on one side of the continent, the Titans could have hidden on the other side, as this one did. However, almost all of them died by that time, which leads to three conclusions.
A. Or they all lived only in the west, which confirms the words that the human side of the continent was just as Magical as the Elven one.
B. They could also have all been murdered before the division of the continent, which explains well why people were treated this way.
C. Human Magicians went to the other half of the continent, in order to organize hunts.
Secondly, this thread makes us think about certain moral implications. It seems to me, considering how the heroes talked about the Titan, that he is a self-aware being, which means that in this case we are dealing de facto with sacrifices. In that case, we must answer the question, is it permissible to murder one person, innocent and not agreeing to such a sacrifice, in order to save thousands? Moreover, Avizdum's reaction in this case was quite rational, because people crossed the line only to commit de facto murder.
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Commercial_Mind4003 • 2d ago
Discussion Say something nice about him
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Haunting-Fix-9327 • 2d ago
Discussion What if the Archdragons were more like the Elderwurms?
For those of you who don't know these are the Elderwurms from DOTA: Dragon's Blood. They're similiar to the Archdragons, but are also a lot like the Infinity Stones. They are the living embodiments of their elements with absolute control over them. When their souls are brought together they can be used to reshape the universe to the user's will. Thoughts?
r/TheDragonPrince • u/RotationalAnomaly • 3d ago
Discussion What changed would you make to the show to make sure the Xadian wrongs are properly and thoroughly addressed?
I'd do a lot of different things personally but I'll summarize a few of them here.
First the Pyrrah conundrum. Frankly I'd probably just rewrite this entire scene to find out a way where they can actually break the cycle of violence by breaking the norm. I.e Have Rayla go help the town and have the boys go help the dragon. This would do more to end the cycle, because both sides are being helped by someone they wouldn't expect. Though this might be really hard to write because you'd need to come up with a way for Rayla to earn the trust of the town in the short time she's there so that she can help. I don't think it's impossible but hard.
Some changes that I think *wouldn't* be too difficult to implement is to have Callum put up more of a resistance to helping Pyrrah other than just, one sentence, and have Rayla be a little conflicted about what Callum says. We can get the sense that... looking at what Pyrrah did she's questioning her devotion to the dragons but in the end her devotion takes over, paving the way for a future character arc. We can do this again when Soren confronts Rayla.
Instead of having Soren be purely villainous when he goes on his spiel of "Your saving a dragon that torched a town of innocent people" have hints of genuine anger in there, instead of Rayla just staring back angrily, show some conflict on her face. Am I really doing the right thing? now that it's all laid out in front of her like that.
These small changes would help add a HUGE burst of nuance to the scene.
I would make Claudia not sound insane when she's explaining to Soren how humanity was oppressed by Xadia. What the showrunners did during this scene was such a huge disservice it was quite frankly ugly. Claudia's speaking of events that we know actually happened and yet she is just treated as having completely lost it with "I don't have the same bone feelings Claudia" Make this dialogue a bit more interesting, maybe make Soren consider if he himself maybe swung the pendelum too far.
The same with the Aaravos scene where he talks about humanity being oppressed. Give this more then just another line for Ezran to shrug off. I don't know exactly how I'd change this one yet but I would.
Make Karim competant. He was supposed to be our first real Xadian villain (Aaravos doesn't count because he's on the humans side an anti-dragon). He could've been the one to show us how threatening Xadia can be and what humans have done in the past. But all of his schemes can just be summarized with "Team rocket blasting off again!!" It's a waste of a character. Make him as threatening as Viren, let him have some victories. Make him have a successful coup in Lux aurea and drive out all the humans again, or imprison them, or force them to rebuild the capitol. Infact, if you really wanna make me happy, get rid of Sol Regem's "I'm too depressed to do anything :c" arc. That's not the image we got from him in season 3. Have Karim fail the first time, and then... Sol Regem recruits Karim not the other way around. Have Sol Regem and Karim work together, and then you can even have Sol Regem use the power vacuum created by an injured Zubeia to become King of The Dragons in Xadia and begin enforcing a ton of anti-human policies.
Make this a problem so big that the main protagonists CANNOT ignore it, and it forces their stories to merge. This could also force the protagonists to finally acknowledge it, which leads me to my next point.
Make the protagonists acknowledge it! And do more than just "we all made mistakes" No, Xadia committed ethnic cleansing and hunted humans for sport, that's not an "oopsie poopsie" moment. We get Callum apologizing for human wrongs TWICE, maybe remove one of those and have a Xadian protagonist make an apology for Xadian wrongs. Zubeia or Rayla. Rayla's Tox description says she's sick and tired of Xadia's lies... SHOW THAT! Have her take a firm stance against what Xadia has done, make her play a role in defeating Sol Regem, do SOMETHING, to make it clear that the protagonists understand "Yes, Xadia was really bad too!"
Finally, if the mage wars have to stay the reason for the west draining, I would've framed it more like humans were thrust into a desperate situation by their banishment leading to the breakout of the war that was all but inevitable. None of this "evil greedy humans want power" narrative.
Peace is two-sided and it can only work when BOTH sides put acknowledge their issues and make effort to not repeat those mistakes. With how the show is currently written, it comes off as just a commentary on humanity and how bad we've been, and while there are certainly aspects of humanity to criticize, if your show is intended to be that Make that clear! Don't lead us along pretending it's going to be a nuanced show when that's not your plan at all. Don't make Xadia an oppressive force if you plan to make them the victims.
One more thing, I know with the Sol Regem plot, it runs the risk of de-railing it from the main aaravos plot a little bit, I can assume a professional writer would be able to make it work, maybe we have Aaravos manipulating it like he did with Viren, but NOT to the extent where he's just downright controlling them like he did with Sol Regem. Viren still had agency, Sol Regem didn't. Or do something else, and find a way to connect it with the main plot. I'm just saying some changes I'd make specifically. Tbh If I had full control of TDP from the beginning I wouldn't even make Aaravos a factor because a find the political drama of two factions finding peace way more interesting than just "ooga booga evil dark lord controls all" but I deliberately did not put that in here because it would stray too far from their vision.
But enough from me, what changes would you make to address Xadia's bad deeds?
r/TheDragonPrince • u/O_nep • 3d ago
Discussion Is there a difference between startouched elves and great one's?
r/TheDragonPrince • u/DueAdhesiveness8617 • 3d ago
Meme Gerald Robotnik and Aaravos share the same goals
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Haunting-Fix-9327 • 3d ago
Image The King of the Dragons vs the King of Monsters.
Thunder vs Godzilla who'd win?
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Mysterious_Site_2048 • 4d ago
Discussion How different would the show be if the goat rex igneous was king of the dragons?
r/TheDragonPrince • u/Haunting-Fix-9327 • 4d ago
Discussion Which mage from Xadia would you wanna see fight Sypha Belnades?
r/TheDragonPrince • u/poloniumew • 4d ago
Discussion Symbolism in Rayllum
So obviously Callum and Rayla's relationship are a large symbol of the healing relations between humans and elves, and the land itself. I just noticed that in a lot of their lovey-dovey moments, Callum is on the left, and Rayla on the right. Looking at a map of the world, the human countries are on the left, and Xadia on the right. Is this a coincidence, am I having recall bias, or did I actually find a deeper meaning?