Avizandum

Avizandum (Known to the Humans as Thunder) is a major posthumous protagonist in The Dragon Prince. He was an Arch Dragon of the Sky and the King of the Dragons before being killed by Harrow and Viren in revenge for killing Sarai. He was the late father of Azymondias and spouse/mate of Zubiea.
He was voiced by , who also voiced Thrall from the Warcraft franchise.
==Powers and Abilties==
Flight: As a dragon Avizandum had the ability to fly.
Electrokeneises: As a Sky Dragon, Avizandum had the ability to channel lightning through his body, He could also shoot it from his mouth.
Fireproof: Avizandum is shown to have the ability to withstand fire dispite his primal source being the Sky instead of the Sun as he was able the guard the Border located in the Volcanic regions for centuries.
Temperature Resistance: Avizandum was also immune to the cold as shown in the flashback of Heart of a Titan as he had no problem breaking free from a wave of ice Viren Trapped him in and showed no signs of even minor injuires.
==Biography==
300 years ago, Avizandum succeeded Luna Tenebris as king of the dragons after there was a battle between the archdragons. He personally stood guard at the border for most his reign. He killed any humans who dared to trespass into Xadia. No human ever knew his true name so they nicknamed him "Thunder", as his voice shook the ground whenever he spoke. Avizandum also took pride in his actions in defending the border, and left the remains of the human armies he wiped out as a reminder of his triumphs.
He was also given a magic mirror to make sure the villainous startouch elf Aaravos was kept locked in his prison, which he guarded for centuries. Over the years, he would grow to have a rivalry with his former friend Rex Igneous when their battle for monarch of the dragons got in the way of their friendship. Avizandum also helped Xadia from time to time outside of protecting the border, such as ending a drought in the Far Reaches, and killing a shadow-eater that was tormenting the southern Moonshadow tribes.
Avizandum was the one who abolished the Order of the Blood Moon, disgusted by their actions, and had it's members wiped out one by one, with the exception of their leader Kim'dael, who Avizandum would eventually allow to live due to her being binded by Queen Aditi.
Avizandum appears in the flashback in the episode Heart of the Titan when he finds a deceased Magma Titan with it's heart stolen. Rezaling that humans had tresspassed into Xadia and killed the creature. He then tracks down Harrow and his expidetion party as they were the ones who tresspassed and killed the Magma Titan to kill them in revenge for their tresspassing and murder. However, Harrow and Lord Viren along with a portion of their party manged to make it out alive.
Unfortunetly, Queen Sarai was among the fallen. Her death causes Harrow to deem Avizandum his archenemesis. Harrow originally put his hatred towards Avizandum aside for the sake of his sons but 4 months before the events of "Echos of Thunder", Viren manipulates Harrow into givening in to his desire to kill Avizandum in revenge for killing Sarai by connvincing him that its what she'd want.
Harrow then allows Viren to use Dark Magic to enchant Sarai's spear into the "Ultimate Weapon of Vengence", The pair then part for The Border only for Avizandum not to show up show they go a few day long journey to the Sky Dragon's Place where Avizadum greets them with hostilty but because he's in a mercful mood that day since he deems this day a speical day, he agree's to let Harrow and Viren off the hook for their tresspassing but only if they agree to do it instantly.
However, Harrow and Viren refuse do so since they dead-set on revenge for what Avizandum did to Sarai and the rest of the members who Harrow's expidention who also perished nine years prior to a lesser extent. Harrow acknowleges this as the reason for his a Viren's defence by reminding him that he didn't give Sarai that chance.
As punishment for their defiance, Avizandum attempts to strike his human foes with a death-blow for each of them, but Viren uses his staff to restrains Avizandum long enough to buy Harrow enough time to strike Avizandum with Sarai's magic enchanced spear. 
Even though Avizadum had recently broke free of Viren's restraints it was already too late for him becuase the Archdragon broke free from them too soon. The spear then kills Avizandum by turning him to stone but not before Sarai's voice screams "Nooooooooo!" confirming once more that killing Avizandum was not something she'd want dispite him being her killer. As soon as Avizandum is killed, Viren hesitates before departing the Storm Spire with Harrow as he realized that the reason why Avizadum was in a mercful mood that day was becuase he sired an egg thus, he was going to have a hatchling.
He then convinces Harrow to let him destory the unhatched Azymondias as Viren was afraid that Azymonidas would grow up to become vengeful enough to turn evil by wiping out humanity in cold blood for what he and Harrow did to his father and convicnes Harrow that his fear about the full grown Azymondias was well founded, promting his friend to agree but out of reluctance as Harrow still thought killing an innocent baby dragon wrong even if they grew up to become a dangerous misanthrophobe.
Harrow merely tolerated Viren's decison to "kill" Azymondias becuase he thought it was the only way to protect the human kingdoms from the future king's wrath. Four months later Azymondias (who was saved by Team Zym) spots his father's stone corpse and disturbed by the sight since he knew that the stone corpse used to be his father and knew the concept of death dispite only being alive for a few weeks since Sky Dragon infants have a better understanding of the world around them than a human infant would.
He is then contronted by Callum who later reveals to share his late Step-father's hatred for Zym's late father for what he did to Sarai as she wasn't only Harrow's wife but Callum's (and Ezran's) mother. However, Callum can't decide weather he should feel happy about Avizandum's demise even though it avenged the death of his mother or sad for Zym who lost a parent before they had a chance to meet. Rayla reassures Callum that they'll break the cycle of hatred between their Kingdoms before heading to the Storm Spire.
Avizandum's rivalry with Rex Igneous would be the reason why his mate Zubeia decided to keep Azymondias in the Storm Spire while Team Zym talked to Rex Igneous so they could find where is Aaravos' prison, but Azymondias went to Umber Tor anyway to see Rex Igneous, so Callum made an illusion and turned Azymondias to a dog.
However, when Rex found out that Team Zym was sent by Zubeia, he started to believe that Avizandum was a coward, causing Azymondias to attack Rex, and as a result the illusion disappeared and he finds out about Azymondias, causing him to laugh about how much he thought that the fact that Avizandum allowed his son to see him instead of going himself made him even more of a coward.
After seeing that Rex's words were hurting Azymondias, Ezran angrily told Rex that Avizandum was dead, which lead Rex to feel bad about it as Rex says that despite having been his rival, he was once his friend as well. When Zubeia was dying from the corruption of the Sunforge caused by the bite of a corrupted banther, a hallucination of Avizandum appeared in her dreams and told her to keep fighting for her life for Azymondias, which motivated to try to fly to the tidepools where she left Team Zym, but she fell during the flight, although she ended up being saved by a elf who called himself the Mushroom Mage.
==Trivia==
* The name "Avizandum" is derived from the Latin word "Avizare", which means "to consider".
* Aaron Ehasz confirmed that Avizandum's petrification turned everything inside of him into stone as well, meaning he cannot be revived.
* Avizandum's earlier designs featured a crown of horns, though the idea was saved to reuse on Sol Regem instead. He now derives uniqueness from his crackling lightning and furry mane.
* The relationship between Avizandum and Rex Igneous can be seen as similar to that of King Harrow and Lord Viren. As they were both friends with each other until certain differences drove them apart.
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