Woodward/Plot

==Plot==
===Background===
Woodward was originally one of the Nine Olde Witches and helped seal away the Grand Triskellion. She was also the original owner of the Shiny Rod. She was seeing as a mentor figure in the Nine Olde Witches.
Upon the creation of Luna Nova Academy in the 5th century, Woodward guided the 100 first students of Luna Nova in the way to restore te prestige of witchcraft. Upon the destruction of Luna Nova during the Witch Hunts, Woodward, along with the great witch Jennifer take the task of reconstruct the academy in the Golden Age of Magic.
After eventually passed away, Woodward's spirit resides at the Blue Moon Abyss and the Arcturus Forest, something which made possible through attaining sufficiently immense magic in life.
In the past, Chariot and Croix entered the Arcturus Forest in hopes of Croix getting the Shiny Rod but instead, Chariot ended up getting the rod. Woodward's spirit then tasked Chariot to search for the Seven Words and release the Grand Triskellion. After several years, Chariot failed to open the Grand Triskellion and after damaging the moon's surface with the Shiny Arc, she lost possession of the Shiny Rod, and it returned back to the Arcturus Forest.
===TV Series===
====Blue Moon====
Woodward makes her debut as the blue moon spirit, who is said to be omnipresent and resides in the Blue Moon Abyss, an area only accessible during the night of a blue moon. After Akko makes it to the bottom of the abyss, Woodward, disguised as a monstrous spirit, appears before Akko. Woodward asks what she wants, and Akko questions if she can ever become like Chariot. Woodward's disguise states that it is not happening, yet she can give Akko the bright future, at the cost of all her past memories and friends. Akko, however, isn't willing to forget all her past memories and friends in change for being exactly like Chariot. Woodward's disguise commands Akko to leave, telling her that she will never be like Chariot. Akko, accepting the fact that she can't be Chariot but still can be a great witch, revives the second lost word and transforms the Shiny Rod into an axe, and uses it to damage Woodward's disguise, which reveals her actual spirit, and makes appear a vision of the future strike of the fairies, war in the country, and the dark shape of Croix. Akko passes out on the ground before Ursula, who is revealed to be Chariot, comes in and greets her mentor. Woodward and Chariot have a discussion about how Akko passed her trial and revived the second lost word. Before disappearing, Woodward states that Chariot must guide Akko to unseal the Grand Triskellion. A drawing of her also appears in the manuscrit about the Grand Triskellion Diana's reading in the Luna Nova Archives.
====What You Will====
She controls the magical mirror that transforms Akko's appearance to that of Diana's, and then briefly appears inside the mirror, as three leaves representing the first three Words of Arcturus flutter at the bottom of the mirror's base.
====Pohjola's Trial====
She appears in this episode during a flashback in Arcturus Forest, talking to Chariot and Croix about the seven lost words and how to revive them.
====Wagandea====
In a flashback, Woodward appears before a young Chariot and Croix. Woodward chooses to give the Shiny Rod to Chariot, much to Croix's disdain, which leads her to scream at Woodward. Woodward ignores Croix, commands Chariot to search and revive the seven lost words, and then disappears.
====The Road to Arcturus====
After Croix unseals the Grand Triskellion, Woodward appears before her. Believing that the stick was not the Grand Triskellion, Croix demands to know where the actual Grand Triskellion is. Woodward reveals that the stick is, in fact, the Grand Triskellion, but Croix believes otherwise and shouts at Woodward, confronting her that if she is just going to keep looking right through her. Croix throws the Grand Triskellion at her and asks her to go away. Woodward listens to Croix and fades away.
====Tree of Leaves====
Woodward starts broadcasting Akko and Diana flying to save the world, tempting everyone to lend their Fuel Spirit and assist the two. She appears again after Akko and Diana release the Grand Triskellion, happily watching as the world-changing magic spread throughout the world.
===Keisuke Satō Manga===
====Chapter 15====
Posing as the headmistress of a rival magic school, Woodward personally meets Finnelan and Holbrooke in order to propose and interschool broom race. Their meeting is soon interrupted by Hannah and Barbara who inform them about Diana's burning sickness.
On the next day, Woodward is introduced by Nelson to gathered students of Luna Nova at the courtyard. Woodward introduces everyone students from her school who selected in the upcoming interschool broom race. There's a brief uproar among Luna Nova students upon learning Diana's absence due to her sickness, prompting Amanda, Constanze, and Jasminka to step in as their academy's representatives. To everyone's shock, Woodward chooses Akko to be Luna Nova's fourth representatives in the light of her rumored success in taming Shooting Star despite Nelson's objections.
====Chapter 16====
Woodward's decision in choosing Akko to be the participant of the interschool broom race between her school and Luna Nova is final, and there's nothing Holbrooke and Finnelan can do about it. As the race commences, Woodward continues observing its progress during which Ursula brings them some beverages. It is when Ursula notices something familiar in the rival school's headmistress.
====Chapter 17====
Unlike Holbrooke and Finnelan who panicked because of Miraj escalates the race by stealing Shiny Rod from Akko and later, a brief skirmish, Woodward sees no point of stopping the race and implores them to let it continue. When Akko and Diana finally win through improvising, she abruptly disappears alongside her students, leaving nothing but crescent-shaped leaves in their wake, leaving Holbrooke and Finnelan confused.
By the time Woodward dismisses her students who revealed to be disguised Dryads, Ursula finds him and reveals to have figure out her true identity. Shedding away her mortal disguise, Woodward talks to Ursula about Akko's success in overcoming the trial she set up all in order to test Akko now that she is the latest wielder of Shiny Rod. Before departing, Woodward tells Ursula that Akko will face many trials ahead, in which Ursula expresses her confidence in the Japanese witch-in-training's abilities.
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