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Colour me skeptical, but whenever I hear a character "never lies", I think that character ALWAYS lies, but in a very careful way.

I think that Aaravos wont scape through the cocoon, the caterpillar will evolve into a humanoid form and become some sort of avatar to be controlled by Aaravos while in prison.

From what I've seen, Aaravos is also something of a sadist. He helped Viren kill multiple guards back in season 2 even though he likely knew he'd be defeated regardless, went out of his way to torment Khessa over her grandmothers fate before killing her, and merely stunned Rayla so that she could watch Viren suck Zyms magic out. I can only imagine the ways he might try torment our main characters once he comes into direct conflict with them.

"Would you be seduced by him?" hmm, I dont know, A hansome, practically shirtless elf offering me power? maybe I would be capable of resisting for a couple minutes? then again that's just wishful thinking.

I think Aaravos started out as a genuinely good person at first. He was saddened by the hardship and oppression the humans had to go through at the hands of the dragons and elves and sought to free them from this oppression. So he gave them dark magic in order to free them. However, he went insane and started believing that he is entitled to be worshipped by all of humanity for freeing them from the hardships of their past rulers. Tragically, he has become just as corrupt and evil as the dictators he freed the humans from.

I want to imagine that Aaravos had a Human lover, and by the same token, he also wanted to help Humanity, by giving them Dark Magic, but the other Elves and Dragons discovered this, knowing the dangers that Dark Magic could posses, plus they nither could bear the thought of "Lesser Beings" finally reaching their level, so in pure arrogance, ignorance, and desperation, they kill he's love and locked him up in the mirror, thus explaining he's hatred for the Dragons and other Elves.

Fun fact Aaravos(in greek) or Erebus(in English btw it is a false translation because the letter of β is often confused with b) in ancient greek mythology is a god from the second gen of creation and is the son of chaos(Hesiod's Theogony). He is ofter depicted as a collosal winged mass of stars. I think he created the day and his wife/sister Nyx created the night. In short they created the day/night circle. He has a lot of children(i don't remember their names) The meaning of his name in greek is darkness. Also in ancient greek they used his name to refer to the darkest place of Tartarus. Also Hesiod mentioned that Zeus(king of gods and god of thunder) is afraid of him. If anyone wants more details comment and I will add more details.

I have a feeling that Aaravos was the one who cause everything...creating dark magic, having the humans get exiled from Xadia, and the overall war between Xadia, the Dragons and humans.

His goal is to produce the ultimate lifeform, an half-elf. Yes, Araavos is a shipper.

I feel like Aaravos (before mirror) had just wanted everyone to be equal but tried to accomplish this in such a way that the other elves felt the need to banish him and now (during the show) he wants to help the humans conquer everything in revenge. I genuinely feel it might have been a salem-witch-trial type of situation. One human made a bad choice and everyone started blaming all humans, even though it started from Aaravos. And maybe after they were divided, Aaravos came clean about giving the power and the dragon king (and maybe elven council?) banished him to the mirror to hide the truth. That could be what the deal with the Sunfire elf Queen's grandmother was about. Aaravos told the sun elf queen something about her grandma before he killed her: maybe her grandma was part of the council that wrongfully banished him, and he told her the truth of his banishment. I'm just hoping his character is more than "I want to rule the world!"

Ahhh I can’t wait for season 4 to come I need it now

Aaravos the attractive villain

I didn’t even consider the possibility that Aaravos might be making a physical body with the cocoon, I assumed it would be a creature able to counter the dragons, like maybe some evil dragon subspecies or even a dark magic kind of dragon. I like your theory better

He's still my favorite character

This lore is WAY deeper than I thought.

Seduced by Aaravos? Not Certainly! However, I would just be that person to ask him endless questions about who and what he is, his knowledge of magic, the history of the world, history of those who’ve lived, and his part played in that history. Curiosity is intoxicating.

Maybe Elarion was named after the girl who founded the city thanks to Aaravos and I think it is connected to Viren Think, the mage Iziard (I think I got the name right) might be Viren's ancestor hence the staff and why aaravos made that grin in that one scene when he saw Viren and the staff because according to Iziard "it is a gift from a friend" That's my theory

I think Aaravos may have ultimately good intentions that we as the audience may have difficulty disagreeing with, despite his methods and his desire to be praised. I love those kinds of villains.

Do you know if there are some actual half bloods of humans and elfs? And are there half blood elfs who had parents from different elf tribes?

I want to think tha Avroos is kinda like some of Korra's villains, with a bit of both Ozai and Iroh throw in: merciless toward those who oppose him( just like Ozai) and crazy powerful, but also capable of understanding potential when he sees it and loyal in a sense to his allies and those he loves, in a certain sense.

3:25 I think we can safely assume that the Sunfire elf all the way to the right-Queen Aditi’s left- is her daughter and Janai’s mother. Not only are their headpieces the same, but they even have similar eye markings; the two lighter stripes down the cheeks. Makes sense, since royal elf siblings seem to hold each ranking title. I hope we see them both, even in flashbacks

CU: Maybe the Orphan Queen gave him the apple! ME: Come on that’s a bit of a stretch! CU: This links in with the apple tree in the first episode perfectly ME: 😱

Here's a crazy theory: Aaravos is trapped on a world inside the Mirror (a much more cozy version of Viren's coins) for his crime of creating Dark Magic and PERFECTING it, what do i mean? simple: throughout the show we've seen Callum, Viren and Claudia use different types of magic but only when they had a mana source for tapping on each and yet Aaravos could use several different magic runes ON HIS OWN when he was guiding Viren, why is that? -PERFECT Dark Magic: unlike normal Dark Magic which drains mana for a single spell, the Perfect version drains magical POTENTIAL (literally adding more mana to your own mana pool and also unlocking a connection to other Magic Sources by draining the talent the creature had for that magic, hence the cube of Aaravos that Callum has reacted to differeny magic sources, it was an easy tool for Magic-Potential Hunting essentially). you following? good, here is where it gets interesting: Aaravos created Dark Magic but needed time and much, MUCH practice to perfect it to this point, hence he helped to create the first human Wizards and make the ancient city of Elarion prosper, however while he got to perfect his Dark Magic through the trial and error alongside humans this caused the divide between humans and magical creatures and their exile from Xadia, eventually Aaravos trickery was discovered by Thunder and he got trapped inside the magical Mirror, kept in the Dragon King's tower to keep an eye on him. This Mirror-World on it's irony works abit similar to Dark Magic itself, using Aaravos' own Mana to keep him locked, so long Aaravos is alive and keeps all the magic potential he drained from other Magical Creatures he can never leave, but THIS is where Viren enters, think about it: Every single thing Aaravos has guided Viren towards is more power, first political power through the assasination ploys,but after that through Lux Aurelia and the draining of Zym's Potential is been all MAGICAL POWER, he's been slowly revealing PERFECT Dark Magic to Viren in order to make him more powerfull, why? Because if Viren becomes more powerfull than Aaravos, then he can break him free from the Mirror-World, and for someone that has drained so much magic potential, with such age and wisdom as Aaravos while Viren would outrank him in power, he still would outsmart him easily and thus could get rid of Viren should they have a...direct confrontation. wheew that was a long one, what do you guys think? do you agree? disagree? got something to add? lemme know and thanks for reading!

Aaravos isn't evil, He's just misunderstood :D And angry. You would too if someone shoved you into mirror.

If I see dragon prince I watch.

6:45 😂😂😂😂 But seriously WHERE IS THE CRIWLORD?

“Would you be seduced by him?” My ace ass: *the face Viren makes when Claudia asks him why he told Soren to kill the princes*

It would be really cool if Aaravos was imprisoned by the dragons because he teached magic (real magic) to a human and then they started a relationship, they had a baby (half human half elf) and Avizandum and the dragon queen try to kill them. This way the dragons wouldn't be as innocent as the humans think, the baby would be saved and raised by step parents, and be the ancestor of Amaya and Sarai, witch would explained by the kids (Callum and Ezran) have powers. Aaravos' lover could be a friend of the Orphan Queen and the cube could actually belongs to her, as a gif from Aaravos while she leans magic, the Orphan Queen kept the cube after her friend died.

I think Aaravos had a human lover who was killed by the elves and dragons as punishment for helping the humans and imprisoned

10:05 when your having salty urges and haven’t felt another mans touch in 300 years 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

I have this theory that the orphan queen, queen Aditi & Aaravos we’re close to one and other Aditi May have had feelings for Aaravos cause Stars ⭐️ and ☀️ But Aaravos and the orphan queen seemed to have a closer connection, it was in Aaravos character website that he never paid attention to time when it came to birthdays but there was this one thing that happened on his birthday were a human female picked a red fruit for him and he cherished that taste even to this day. So maybe queen Aditi got the orphan queen killed out of envy

7:12 For some reason I'm getting an Adam and Eve type vibe from this section (if the orphan queen was the one who picked the fruit). Also, do you think the "Fallen Star" event might refer to Aaravos removing the glowing star thing from his chest and maybe giving it to humans? I ask because we see he doesn't have it in present day and also isn't present with the other elves by the time of Avizandum. Do you think he might have given it to the Orphan Queen via the Key of Aaravos?

Aaravos is Dragon Prince’s equivalent of Sauron and Emperor Palpatine.

omfg this is one of the most informative tdp videos ive ever seen, literally 90% of the tdp lore videos just cover what we’ve seen on the show, i appreciate this sm like omfg i didn’t even think we had a confirmed timeline??

Do we actually know if the Startouched Elf in the intro is ACTUALLY Aaravos? I just saw it as being another of his subspecies of Elf.

I just found your channel, and I have to admit I'm impressed. You take a very deep look into your info and make sure what you are saying is factual and actually makes sense to people watching, such as myself. I have recently started uploading The Dragon Prince, (and I'm doing pretty well if I do say so myself...) however the main difference is that your videos are educational while mine are more of an AMV style that cannot be monetized or promoted. I am currently working towards a goal of being able to do these types of videos, so when I searched up inspiration, I came across your channel and watched some of your interviews with the shows creators and theories. I was wondering if perhaps we could do a collaboration video of some kind in the future? My channel has brought in thousands of new The Dragon Prince fans, as I have recently transitioned from How to Train Your Dragon. I'd love to spread said fans out around the community. Just lemme know if you think this would be beneficial. - Magicov :)

When Aaravos whisper into the sun queens ear I’m pretty sure he says “there human”

my theory is that aarvos may come frome a race of dark eles who were whiped out by dragons and or other elves and that was why aarvos helped humans feeling for them as being viewsd as lesser cretures or just to spide the dragons and other elves

I think Aaravos is imprisoned in his own head hence we see him in a library, and he doesn't know where he is or how much time has passed. He's probably used that mirror before he was imprisoned to see what his enemies were doing or maybe used them to teleport between places. that caterpillar magic is probably a fragment of his imagination that became real when the spell was cast by Viren. the link between his imprisonment and the real world was strengthened the more dark magic his caterpillar was exposed to, as it was close to Viren the entire time. that cacoon at the end is a 'vessel' made with so much dark magic that Aaravos could finally materialise in the real world. it's probably a way for him to rescue his actual body and regain consciousness.

You're doing a great job! keep it up! Looking forward to more contents on the Dragon Prince :)

if aaravos is a master of all the primal sources, and his primal source is timeless star magic, wouldn't he be essentially immortal, making all things obsolete? and what you said about him replenishing his supply, that seems to confirm this. if so his goal could be the pursuit of knowledge, as we say when viren saw him in the mirror, he was working, researching, theorizing. if he is an arch mage wouldn't hee be studying more powerful magic? and if he was studying dark magic, wouldn't he be unable to put his theories to practice, unable to verify, or experiment. it seems to me that his goal is more auspicious than the attainment of worship, but to push the boundaries of what he is capable of, to see what is possible, what limits he can stretch or break. if he is immortal, and a master of all sources, wouldn't he be a god? and whats the point of a god, if not to create, destroy, have fun. if he sees a problem he changes it until he has a solution.

Personally I don't like the idea that Aaravos is a grand chessmaster manipulating everyone to eventually make himself the undisputed master of the world. The Dragon Prince has been a show about well intentioned but flawed characters doing bad things for what they think is right or just, I feel it'd diminish the story thematically for the show to be about ending the cycle of hate, and coming to understand and accept each other, and having it end with beating up a big bad puppet master kinda cheapens that theme. I believe that Aaravos is someone who does actually care for humanity and has done everything in the series for humanities sake (and his own hatred for Magical Creatures which has shown contempt for, primarily do to the arrogance that many of the magical races have shown in the series) I think it's more thematically fitting for this series that a lot of the conflict done in the is a result of an act of legitimate love and charity, while also being twisted by hatred.

I can't wait to see Callum and Rayla meeting Aaravos

At all of this, aside from Aaravos, we don't know any startouch elves. They're supposedly rarely seen so it would be nice to come in contact with one in season 4. If they focus on the stars which is the power of divination, would that mean that the startouch elves night have foreseen or sensed a shift in whatever balance that they have? It would be interesting if that is the case.

7:44 My dear Eva, You picked the apple for the snake Or the caterpillar

For janai there is the 95 percent chance of her to become the next queen unless she has other siblings or kheesa has some (secret) kids we don't know about yet.

He is the most dangerous type of Person. He's Smart, like on a Deep Intellectual Level. He's not evil he just see's the bigger picture and see's how something dosen't really matter in the long run. He fails to see what he's doing as right and wrong but rather sees them as what is efficient and what isn't. He see's kindness in the Humans and likes their Fascination with him. He wants attention (I mean that in a good way) He wants to help Humans in a manner that they will adore him. He likes to be seen and respected as a powerful Mage and treated with that Respect. Perhaps he identifies with the Humans who didn't get the respect they deserved by Elves and Dragons and See's them as Kindled Spirits. He being the powerful being that he is was surprised to find beings with such a short life-span make their lives soo meaningful. For someone that is practically immortal that is fascinating. It gives him new purpose and meaning in his Eternity, to help these Humans further love the Best of their lives so that he can feel fulfilled through them. That one line "I didn't Lie, I never Lie" is what sets off red flags because if he never lies it doesn't mean he's incapable it means that he doesn't need too.

Very informative video. I like the theory of Avros being ancestor of Ezran and Callum

Why do cartoons always have so much stuff in them that happens in the past and is never filmed? We have to do so much research to figure out what is going on! It makes my head hurt... 😢 But still it is pretty fun to do the research...😅😁

Great theory! I always enjoy watching your Dragon Prince episodes, because of the remarkable research you do for them. You clearly put a lot of time and effort into your work, and it shows! :) That said, I do think your videos could benefit from you slowing down the rate at which you speak. Currently, it is very difficult to understand what you are saying half the time without captions, because you talk so quickly. I know what it's like to talk super fast when you're nervous, and I know how nervous public speaking can be, but I do think your videos would benefit tremendously from a slower rate of speech and better enunciation of certain words--in particular, names like Ziard and Elarion, which fans may not recall right off the bat. I also think this would help your interviewing skills. I hope you don't mind my constructive criticism. :) Otherwise, great job on your research, and thank you for sharing your theory with us! :)

Aaravos is a great villain cause... 1- He's the mastermind seemingly behind everything and I love those types of manipulative baddies. 2- He's implied to have alot of history in this world that remains hidden which I also love. 3- He makes me question my sexuality.... Which I adore.

Good job doing This i like that you do theory and stuff keep it up🙂🙂🙃🙃

great video

Interesting theory. It actually makes sense as most major characters who aren't the main character but also the narrator are the ones who are playing around with fate. P.S at 13:50 did you honestly say "would you be seduced by him" like wut .XD

“would you be seduced by him” yes obviously next question

3:24 The way we had not see any ocean or earthblood elves in the intro of the show would suggest that they are peacefull

claudia will go farther into the dark side, and viren will snap out of it once he sees what his daughter has become. He will attempt to redeem himself by making the ultimate sacrifice to save his daughter

This might be the most dangerous cartoon character ever made. He scares me. And the fact that the star symbol on his cloak is upside down..Scares me even more..He must have done something really bad to flip the star..He can alter reality...He can see the future...What else can he do?...

Did anyone notice that on the first episode aravos was shown as one of the elves does dis mean he was once good :0

Hell yeah love these series

I can't wait for season 4 nyan!

5:08 👀 Aaravos has yellow eyes... when in present day his eyes are dark (like the eyes of those who just finished casting a dark magic spell)..... so maybe he once was “good” and something happened that made him betray the other elves? Maybe he is the source of dark magic, as in he taught the first dark magic mages the secrets of how to do magic themselves?

One can say, Sol Regum is blinded by wrath, figuratively and literally

For some reason; I had a thought that humanity was original a slave race in Xadia, and Dark Magic was originally founded as a way for the first humans to rebel. Aaravos seems like he has a god complex and sees humanity as the best source for his worship, so it kind of makes sense for me to think of him as some sort of twisted version of Moses and Prometheus.

I love this show!!

Heck yeah dragon prince I love this channel

I think the caterpillar will evolve into the actual body of Aaravos, therefore getting him out of the mirror. This theory is supported because if you look closely at the web Aaravos spun, you can see horns that resemble Aaravos’s horns.

aaravos probably betrayed the “great ones” and big blue dinosaur trapped him in the mirror

I would be tempted...but not for the normal "I want the power to Crush my Enemies" or "I want to become more powerful!" Instead I'd be temped more by Wisdom and being able to become more skilled at things, via shortcuts. Like "Here! Take this potion to become super confident and great at seduction!" or "Here's how to recall knowledge more easily"

From what we seen Aaravos like human can give two bait frats about elf kind and Drgons words I can't put in comment .I'm look forward to how he acts when the queen part start.

Aaravos is a master of all primal sources and dark magic and a bloodbender since he control viren in “the final battle” he rlly is the most powerful character I’ve ever seen

The amount of lore in this show is crazy

Something i noticed only recently when I was rewatching the show for the third time: the dark mage that blinds Sol Regem uses a staff, and as you definitely noticed it's the same as Viren's, so I'm pretty sure it's the same one. Now, the mage says it was a gift. Sol Regem asks who gave it to him, he replies "One of the great ones". We know that Aaravos was "one of the great ones" and that he was the one who probably showed humans dark magic. When Viren sees Aaravos in the mirror for the first time, the elf has a quick look at the corner where Viren placed the staff. Pretty cool, didn't think about it before

Great video!! I think he did lie at one time though? When he narrates the first episode and said “humans destroyed the egg.” Wondering if he knew it was really alive?? 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

Personally I liked S3E07 where Aaravos said "your arrogance is so predictable". It could mean that he just expected it, or that he actually predicted it which is the power of the power of star magic.

Really did not expect this show to hook me the way it did

I am going to say he will hug Varin and ask him are you ready for round 3

I think of Aaravos as a Prometheus type character. He gave humans dark magic just as Prometheus gave humans fire, and was punished for it. Now after being imprisoned for hundreds of years, he's out for revenge.

Really cool video ! But I have a different theory about Aaravos. I personnally think that human were not, in fact, inferior to elf, but the opposite, and somehow he made everybody forget about it. Human mage were the only being, with practice, to be able to get any arcanum, as proven with Callum. Since getting an arcanum is hard for a human and take a lot of effort, he fake generosity and showed the human the way to have magic of their own : dark magic. In some capacity, he also himself stole that characteristic of the humans (with dark magic ?), since he is the only elf that we see capable of using multiple arcanum. I found my theory plausible, because otherwise, Callum would just be the first human to actually try after 2000 years ? It feel a bit far fetched ...

6:13 he said, "you're human."

Next time you get an interview with TDP can you ask if the show were to be canceled at any time would they continue the story through their upcoming book series?

Guys did any of you notice that vieren didn’t have that eye thingy aarovos gave him? ThAt means he’s definitely coming out. And now that they’ve concurred xadia aarovos doesn’t need vieren anymore

It’s clear that the key is the key to a better future for humans having magic. It makes forming attachments to sources of magic possible for humans.

I think Aaravos wants to be seen as a parent figure. He wants to be kind while having the humans come to him for help like children go to there parents when they need help. I think he has the parental instinct that makes mothers and fathers willing to do anything including kill for there children.

i think that Arravos is going to enter the human world in the caccon because now the caterpiller looks like a little bit like Arravos in the cacoon

When you realise if the king had just used the snake, none of this would’ve happened.

you have a soothing voice.

I suspect the King is not dead. I think Viren sealed him in the same amulet he sealed the other moon elves.

The magic the humans learned before dark magic was probably through the Primal Stones. One of the books that goes more deeply into the worldbuilding and characterization mentions that the unicorns created a handful of primal stones to help the humans thrive, before the majority of them were killed for dark magic

What happened to the city of elarion though? We may never know!

The dark mage in the beginning episode did mention the city of elarion with solragon

I'm no expert but lip reading Aravos when he killed the Queen it looks like he was saying "I know your spells"

I think that Aravos discovered dark magic and gave it to humans as a gift ( if you check the series in one episode the first dark mage says that his sceptre was a gift ) in order to get rid of the dragon guardians ( Soul Regen gets blinded by a dark mage , Thunder gets murdered by a dark mage and finally the newborn dragon guardian almost gets murdered as well by the same guy who killed his father ) so that Aravos can escape from prison (where he was prisoned for the discovery of dark magic) and conquer Zedia + to be worshipped as a god ( the second comes as a result because we see Aravos narrating us in the 1st episode of the series and we also see his hands opening the map of Zedia -which could make him feel like a god- and he is "offering help" to humans to become greater species )

What if that cocoon is- like you said a way for him tk.get out of his prison- but also makes him a dragonlike figure? Imagine a dragon star elf. That'd be very powerful- at least sounds lik it would

Can't deny Aarovos is still looking good!

Okay, little tinfoilhat theory. What if Queen Aditi somehow lost all her magic and became sorta kinda human, then started a family, which was eventually united with the Orphan Queen´s family, when a certain magical widow married the latter´s far of decendant. It would explain the royal brothers´ magical potential as residue magic passed down through generations and it would make at least some sence, with Amaya and Sarai being portraied as being almost abnormally powerful warrior women, just like the golden knight of Lux Aurea. Also wouldn´t it be hilarious that the human, who basically bullied Janai into liking her, was revealed to actually be related to her?

Can’t wait for season 4. And I think he said “And she’s human.”

If Viren was going to be redeemed it would probably be near the end of the series him maybe sacrificing himself for his children or for a higher purpose

13:15 What if after his death and reborn Viren's mind has been freed by the corruption of dark magic and now he can see things more clear