

Throughout season 2, Aavaros teaches Viren some more complicated dark magic spells.

“We don’t entirely understand what his role is or what his role has been.”

“The person who you thought was the omniscient narrator is in fact a character, an active player in this world, right? Or is some kind of player,” Ehasz continued. According to the lore page on the Dragon Prince website, star magic “draws on the vast and timeless power of the cosmos, and involves divination, cosmic vision, and seeing into the ‘beyond.’” This describes an omniscient-sort of narrator, but the fact that Aavaros has now made an actual appearance indicates that his role stretches beyond just telling us the story of Xadia and the Human Kingdoms. Startouch elves are elusive and mysterious, even more so than other types of elves. Someone asked me early on and they were like, hey, you got Eric Todd Dellums to do the narrator you have something more in mind for the narrator,” Aaron Ehasz told Polygon. Though we only got our first glimpse of Aavaros in season 2, sharp-eyed fans (who use subtitles) will notice that Aavaros isn’t just a mysterious and possibly evil elf - he also narrated the intro to the first episode. He plants himself in front of the mirror, until, finally, a Startouch elf named Aavaros appears.ĭoes that name sound familiar? It just might. When he interrogated Moonshadow elf Runaan about it, the elf’s eyes widened, and he replied that it is “something worse than death.”Īfter Viren nearly destroys the mirror in a fit of rage in the second episode of season two, it begins to glow, revealing some sort of pocket dimension, which contains a room with a bookshelf, huge window, and a desk. But no matter what he tried, the mirror never revealed anything. He explained to his daughter Claudia that the Dragon King and Queen kept it in their bedroom, and that he has been trying to figure out what secrets it holds since the humans snatched it up. The mystery of the magic mirror plagued dark mage Viren for most of the first season. Head writer Aaron Ehasz talked to Polygon about the big reveal, and how the fans who caught on that a brief tease in season one might mean something weighter for the world. As it turns it out, the showrunners planted this mystery very early on in the series. One of the most ominous and thrilling parts of The Dragon Prince season 2 is the reveal of Aavaros and what lies beyond the mysterious magic mirror. Sharp-eyed fans will notice a familiar name from the first season
