Aaravos/Relationships

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## Relatives

### The Being

Aaravos is the Being's creator who birthed it inside the cocoon that his familiar had spun itself into two days before the resurrection of Viren. To assist Claudia and Viren in freeing him, Aaravos instructed the Being with acting as their guide so they could locate the whereabouts of his prison.

Aaravos eventually revealed that the Being was his technical child with Viren, and the Startouch Elf was willing to sacrifice the homunculus to make the dark mage's resurrection permanent.

## Allies

### Claudia

Aaravos regarded Viren's daughter as nothing more than a useful "asset". Following Viren's death, Aaravos made his presence known to Claudia, instructing her to seek out Xadian ingredients on a two-year quest to temporarily resurrect her father while his familiar preserved his remains inside a cocoon until the spell could be performed. He further told her that the Being that would emerge from the cocoon, once it had matured from its chrysalis, would aid her in freeing him from his prison, so that he might help ensure that Viren's resurrection would remain permanent. As such, her obsession with keeping her father alive only served to aid the Startouch Elf's goals further.

At the same time, Claudia thinks highly of Aaravos, believing his words when he told her that he was the only elf who saw the potential in humanity and that he had gifted them dark magic in the distant past to aid them in times of struggle and famine. This trust runs deep enough for Claudia to defend Aaravos, even deflecting Soren's claims that he only seeks to sow strife.

## Enemies

### Aditi

Little is known about the relationship between Aaravos and Aditi, though he claims to have killed the Sunfire Queen by swallowing her.

### The Orphan Queen

Aaravos shares an unknown history with The Orphan Queen. After the mysterious death of the Dragon Queen Luna Tenebris and the disappearance of Queen Aditi, it was the Orphan Queen who discovered that it was Aaravos who was pulling the strings behind several crises the world had to suffer through.

### Avizandum

Aaravos was once respected and beloved as one of the Great Ones by Avizandum as he was with most others of Xadia. When a young human girl revealed that Aaravos had orchestrated several crises throughout the world for a thousand years, Avizandum and the other Archdragons, along with the elves, tricked Aaravos into a state vulnerable enough to successfully imprison him. Aaravos despised Avizandum for imprisoning him for centuries, having taken immense satisfaction and outright joy in Viren's tale of how he and Harrow had slain the Dragon King. He considered Avizandum to have been an "arrogant monster" and finds ire in not knowing the location of his prison behind the mirror which the Archdragon had banished him to.

### Zubeia

Aaravos was once respected and beloved as one of the Great Ones by Zubeia as he was with most others of Xadia. When a young human girl revealed that Aaravos had orchestrated several crises throughout the world for a thousand years, Zubeia and the other Archdragons, along with the elves, tricked Aaravos into a state vulnerable enough to successfully imprison him. Zubeia growled and huffed in anger when Aaravos possessed Callum to taunt her about her "ravishing" looks, her "betrayal", and the death of her beloved mate Avizandum.

### Khessa

Aaravos met Khessa when Viren surrendered himself to Lux Aurea with the intention to enter the Sunforge. Upon meeting her, Aaravos condescendingly called Khessa as arrogant as her great-grandmother Aditi, before asking her if she desired to know how she had died. He whispered that he swallowed Aditi into Khessa's ear, which horrified the Sunfire Queen, then disintegrated her through an enchanted touch.

### Azymondias

Like Viren, Aaravos treated Zym as an object of magical usefulness. When cornered by Viren at the Storm Spire's pinnacle, Aaravos encouraged Viren to drain Zym's life force so his capacity for dark magic could grow exponentially.

### Team Zym

Aaravos first met Team Zym through Avizandum's Looking Glass and mocked them as pathetic children while perceiving them as the champions that Zubeia had gathered to prevent his return. While using dark magic to control Callum as a mouthpiece, Aaravos called the flaws of each member of Team Zym out: Ezran for being a whining child king who knew that he was in over his head, Rayla for being an assassin who was not capable of killing, and Soren for being a failed son whose father wished he had never been born. Aaravos called Callum his favorite since the human mage was destined to play right into his hands and for being already tainted by darkness. Aaravos then declared to Team Zym on how his return was inevitable before he released Callum and shattered the looking glass so that they would not use it to spy on him again.

### Viren

Since revealing himself as the Startouch Elf behind the magic mirror, Aaravos has been instructing and mentoring Viren in various ways by using a caterpillar-like creature as an earpiece for his human ally to listen to. He further acted as a confidante, like when Viren told him of how the other rulers of the Human Kingdoms refused to listen to his warnings, leading Aaravos to encourage him to use fear tactics to provoke them into action against Xadia. The two maintain contact after Viren's arrest by the Crownguard for summoning a meeting of the Pentarchy under false pretenses.

After Viren assumed control of Katolis as "king", Aaravos became Viren's right hand. The two began to form a companionship, in which Aaravos asked Viren if he is his "little bug-pal", a way Viren had introduced his caterpillar familiar to Soren. When Aaravos was interested to know how Viren had slain Avizandum, Viren showed outright surprise and disdain as he did not recognize the dragon's true name at first, though elaborated once enlightened, earning the elf's respect. Initially, Aaravos did not understand what Viren desired and the two shared a comical yet complicated conversation on "conquering Xadia", in which Aaravos assured Viren that by conquering Xadia, he would fulfill most of his desires. He was also the one to suggest to Viren to steal the Sun staff from Lux Aurea, the capital of the Sunfire Elves, stating the staff would hold useful power in strengthening his forces. This was true as the Sun staff, reforged with dark magic, was able to corrupt humans into strange magma beings.

After being revived, Viren started to reflect most bad things in past few years were his fault, as he was lying to everyone and himself of doing the greater good, for he actually did it for his hubris, his greed for dark magic, and his unwillingness to accept his mistakes. After Aaravos told Viren that he has to kill the Being to make the resurrection permanent, Viren refused and he accepted the fact that he did not care for the consequences of the dark path he had taken. As a result, he rejected dark magic all together and cut ties with Aaravos before going to a nearby forest to die in peace.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Book Three, Chapter 9: "The Final Battle"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Book Four, Chapter 1: "Rebirthday"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Book Five, Chapter 9: "Infantis Sanguine"
4. ↑ Book Three, Chapter 5: "Heroes and Masterminds"
5. ↑ Book Four, Chapter 7: "Beneath the Surface"
6. ↑ IGN Live At San Diego Comic Con 2022
7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 Book Four, Chapter 4: "Through the Looking Glass"
8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Book Three, Chapter 6: "Thunderfall"
9. ↑ 9.0 9.1 Book Three, Chapter 7: "Hearts of Cinder"
10. ↑ Book Two, Chapter 9: "Breathe"