Mateo

### Personality

Kinda sweet, nervous (at times), shy, helpful, friendly, cautious, goofy, clumsy, curious, clever, well-intentioned, protective, kind-hearted, cowardly, timid, worrisome, snarky

### Appearance

Slender, wavy dark brown hair, light brown skin, hazel eyes

### Age

16-17 (in season 1)
18 (in season 2)
19-20 (in season 3)

### Occupation

Master Wizard
Royal Wizard of Avalor
Wizard-in-training (formerly)
Keeper of the Codex Maru
Olivia’s mentor

### Goal

To become a master wizard like his grandfather (succeeded)

### Relatives

Rafa (mother)
Alacazar † (maternal grandfather)
Unnamed grandmother

### Allies

Princess Elena, Gabe (best friend), Naomi Turner, Princess Isabel, Zuzo, Chancellor Esteban, Migs, Luna, and Skylar, Francisco, Luisa, Armando, Princess Sofia, Cacahuate, King Verago, Olivia, Chief Zephyr, Nico, Bobo, Dulce, Daniel Turner, Scarlett Turner, Prince Marzel, Princess Marisa, Cuco, Flo, Doña Paloma, Cristina, Amara, Quique, Princess Valentina, Princess Rebecca, Princess Chloe, Ixlan, Carla Delgado (girlfriend), Victor Delgado

### Enemies

Fiero, Shuriki, Orizaba, Marimonda, Victor Delgado (formerly), Carla Delgado (formerly), Cruz (formerly), Vestia (formerly), Duke Cristóbal, Saloso, Ash Delgado, Chancellor Esteban (formerly), Zopilote, Tito, Chatana, Pili, Tziloco, Kizin, Four Shades of Awesome

### Likes

Carla, Elena, getting his spells right, helping others, Olaball, his friends and family, puns and jokes, dancing, crowds, singing, Carla getting his name right, adventures

### Dislikes

Elena in danger, crowds (at times), his mother embarrassing him, being nervous, disappointing his princess, mice, Carla getting his name wrong

### Powers and abilities

\*Various types of mid-level [[1]]* Magical Aura (light orange)
* Levitation
* Telekinesis
* Projection of magical shields and force-fields
* Scrying/Clairvoyance
* Minor destruction spells

**Elemental**

* Water
* Fire
* Earth
* Air/Wind
* Light

**Other Types of Spells**

* Invisibility via potion
* Restore those who have been turned into solid stone statues (via potion)
* Superhuman Agility
* Magical Deflection
* Transfiguration
* Sealing spells
* Project one's imagination via an orange projector

### Possessions

* Tamborita
* Ingredients to various Potions
* The Codex Maru (since Epi 6)
* Top-level spellbooks (since "Spirit of a Wizard")

### Weapons

Tamborita

**Mateo de Alva** is a major character who appears in the Disney animated series, *Elena of Avalor*. He is an unusually strong wizard-in-training, Avalor's current royal wizard and one of Princess Elena's closest friends.

## Role in Animated Series

### ***Sofia the First***

Mateo appears in the *Sofia the First* crossover special *Elena and the Secret of Avalor*. After Sofia frees Elena from the Amulet of Avalor, Mateo helps Elena free her family from the Enchanted Painting his grandfather, Alacazar, placed them in forty-one years ago. Unknown to Mateo, his grandfather still lives on as part of the storybook regarding Elena stored at the Secret Library in Enchancia.

### ***Elena of Avalor***

Mateo appears in the series that serves as the special's sequel.

In "First Day of Rule", Mateo helped Elena get Avalor's ships back by identifying the thieves as Noblins and helped them get defeated. However, it's realized that the Noblins are taking the ships to escape from Avalor, having been captured by Shuriki and just trying to return home now that they were not her prisoners anymore.

In "Island of Youth", Mateo has to go with Elena to take Esteban sailing while the castle is preparing for the surprise party as it's Esteban's birthday. Mateo tries to warn Esteban about the Fountain of Youth, however, he didn't listen. After he turned into a kid, Mateo explains to Esteban that he drank too much water from the Fountain of Youth when Esteban didn't listen to Elena. Mateo asked if he wants to get out. Mateo got the flower of age and turned Esteban back to normal. Mateo pushed the boat away from the Fountain before they vanished. Elena and Mateo then went back to the palace. For the party. Esteban was surprised, and during the birthday song, Mateo did his floating spell on the gifts.

In "Spellbound", Mateo is going to be the palace's new royal wizard and follow in his grandfather's footsteps. At first, Mateo didn't believe in himself, thinking that wizards are old, wise, have long beards, and robes that fit. However, he soon has to take charge of things when his grandfather's arch-enemy, the malvago wizard Fiero, turns everyone in the castle throne room to stone, including Elena's family, knowing that Mateo would look for the hidden Codex Maru to undo the spell and return everyone to normal before the spell became permanent. After defeating Fiero and turning him to stone with his own reflected spell and returning everyone else to normal just in time, he proves to everyone, especially himself, that he's good enough to be the palace wizard.

In The Scepter of Light, Mateo and Elena defeat Orizaba, the Moth Fairy from the Spirit World, and Mateo promises to teach Elena how to use the Scepter of Light without passing out from using it too often due to how it drains the user of energy with each use. It was when Orizaba first appeared that Mateo decided to go after her alone, but when he mistakes Elena for Orizaba at first, he agrees to let her help him. When Elena attempted to use the Scepter of Light against Orizaba, noticing Elena weakened from using it, Mateo takes her back to the castle and summons Zuzo to discuss the Scepter of Light with him, then goes with Elena to hunt down Orizaba when she tries to escape after being confronted by Elena and Mateo at the Sun Stone after she placed the Eye of Midnight into it to freeze the solar eclipse. Even when Elena becomes more and more fatigued from using the Scepter, Mateo continues to support her until Elena defeats Orizaba for good when she put Isabel in danger.

In Navidad, Mateo invites Elena to his Noche Buena celebration. However, Elena merges the celebrations into one. At Castio park, Mateo was playing the tambourine. Elena decides to have a parade to make everyone happy. However, everyone wasn't happy after the planning of the parade due to Doña Paloma lying that Elena will choose someone to lead the parade. Doña Paloma lies so that she could get more money. However, in the end, they apologized to each other and have a party at the palace to celebrate the true meaning of the holiday.

In My Fair Naomi, Mateo is picked to be on Naomi's court for her birthday celebration, which Elena makes into a Royal Quinceañera, but when Naomi begins to let the thought of her birthday being perfect go to her head thanks to advice from Esteban and begins to reprimand Mateo and Gabe for not dancing as she and Esteban want, they quit Naomi's court and abandon her, as does Elena. However, thanks to Luisa, Naomi realizes her error and asks for their forgiveness. They accept her apology and return to enjoy the party with her.

In Wizard-in-Training, it has shown that Mateo has grown in his confidence as a wizard and gains an apprentice named Olivia. At first, he has a little trouble teaching but soon learns that he has to guide her every step of the way and admits to himself that he still has a lot to learn.

In the special Realm of the Jaquins, Mateo has worked with Migs and Jaquin Chief Zephyr to set up two tests for a trio of young Jaquins, including Skylar's younger brother Nico, to see if they are worthy of being made full Guardians of Avalor alongside Chief Zephyr, Skylar, Luna, and Migs. The first test has them avoiding the attacks of a version of Orizaba that had been conjured by Mateo and defeating it, the second was to locate an idol and return it to Mateo and Chief Zephyr intact within a set time limit that Mateo conjures. While Nico's fellow trainees succeed, Nico fails the test when his idol is secretly shattered by Victor Delgado to provide a means for him and his daughter to enter the Jaquin home world of Vallaestrella. Despite Mateo's concerns about entering Vallaestrella, Elena enters with Luna, forcing Mateo to follow her on Migs to convince her to return to Avalor. However, both come before Skylar and Nico's father and leader of the Jaquins, King Verago, who prohibited Nico from taking the test again per his rules, and demands that Elena and Mateo leave Vallaestrella as humans are prohibited from being there due to a past incident involving a human that resulted in one of the hardest battles the Jaquins have ever faced. However, when word comes that the forest sprite Marimonda has been released and is attempting to reach Avalor through the portal, Mateo and Elena head to seek out Quita Moz, a sunbird spirit that could help them stop Marimonda. When they find his nest, Mateo and the Jaquins are barred from entering so Elena may speak with Quita Moz in private, learning a new power regarding the Scepter of Light, and a means to imprison Marimonda again.

Afterward, they find King Verago, but ruin a trap he set to capture Marimonda himself. Feeling responsible, Elena tries to capture Marimonda herself using an illusion after being told of the ability by Quita Moz, but Victor and Carla reveal themselves and prevent it. As a result, Elena and Verago put their differences aside once Skylar stands up to his father and tells him off for blaming Elena for dooming Avalor to Marimonda, and they return to Avalor together to stop Marimonda. Mateo acts as the last line of defense to keep Marimonda from entering the Royal Palace, but Marimonda easily overpowers him, only to fall into Elena's trap and be imprisoned in the jar Elena was given by Quita Moz, which Mateo closes the lid on to lock Marimonda away again, this time for good. Afterward, he learns of the Delgados being involved with Marimonda's escape but returns to Vallaestrella with Elena to watch as King Verago promotes Nico to full Guardian status, and they celebrate. However, unknown to Mateo, the Delgados are working for Shuriki, who is planning revenge on Elena for her previous defeat, along with Victor and Carla.

In The Jewel Of Maru, Mateo is planning on finding a gift to put on Alacazar's altar for Dia de Los Muertos, such as a tamberitia, before he and Elena are told by Skylar and Luna that the Delgados were seen heading for the abandoned capital of Tepet Muul of the Kingdom of Maru by Jaquin scouts. Seeing this as the possible test forewarned by Quita Moz, Elena heads there with Mateo and the Jaquins, but once inside the temple, she and Mateo are forced to split up to find Victor and Carla. Mateo finds them first but is overpowered, injured, and Victor takes his tamberitia, preventing him from casting any more spells. However, Mateo recovers and rejoins Elena after she had trapped herself trying to stop the Delgados from escaping with the Jewel of Maru, and take off in pursuit of Skylar and Luna. Thanks to Elena, Victor is forced to drop Mateo's tamberitia, which he recovers with Luna's help, while Elena manages to recover the Jewel of Maru with Skylar and take it back to the temple to seal away permanently. Afterward, they return to the graveyard, only to find that Dia de Los Muertos is over. However, Elena assures Mateo that she still saw King Raul and Queen Lucia before the celebration was over, and will see them again next year.

In The Curse of El Guapo, Mateo learns that Gabe has been possessed by the spirit of the aggressive General El Guapo when he comes to seek his help and explain his situation to him and how to break the curse. He brews up a potion that, when drunk by Gabe, would break the curse on him. After Elena helps Gabe separate himself from the sword that El Guapo's spirit is stored in, he drinks Mateo's potion and breaks the curse, allowing him to complete his test to become the new Captain of the Royal Guard to replace the one that had just retired.

In Three Jaquins and a Princess, Mateo is struggling with an Enlarging Potion, trying to get it perfected so it works properly. When he succeeds, one of Migs and Dulce's new Jaquin babies drink the potion and grows to giant size. However, thanks to being able to lure it back with an Anoki Berry affected by the potion as well with help from Isabel, Elena, Skylar, and Luna, Mateo is able to return it to normal size before Migs and Dulce can find out about it.

Later on, during Science Unfair, Mateo reveals that he's been working on a Reversal Potion to undo the petrification spell he rebounded on Fiero to turn him to stone previously. However, he tells this to Rita Perez, unaware that she's Carla Delgado in disguise, who passes this knowledge back to Shuriki, providing a means to further their plan to retake Avalor from Elena, her family, and the Jaquins, as Shuriki intends to revive Fiero and recruit him to her cause.

During the Sunflower Festival in "Rise of the Sorceress", Carla manages to get the key to Mateo's lab off of him by wanting to dance with him. With the key in hand, she is able to enter his lab and ransack it before finding the potion to take back to Shuriki. When Mateo discovers his lab's condition later, he is shocked when he finds Fiero, fully revived, comes in to confront him, and steals the Codex Maru. Mateo is able to protect the book, but not before Fiero escapes with several blank pages from the back of it. Mateo later arrives to save Elena from Shuriki by arming her with the Scepter of Light while protecting her and Naomi from Fiero's spells. Once Elena breaks Shuriki's new wand, Fiero creates a distraction to allow the villains to escape. Mateo joins Elena, Gabe, and Naomi with pursuing them on horseback, but lose sight of them, forcing Elena to have Gabe summon the Royal Guard to hunt down Shuriki and her crew, while they return to Avalor City and the palace.

In *Shapeshifters*, Elena is told to stay in the palace for her own protection, Mateo has managed to complete his Shape-shifting Potion to turn himself into a Jaquin. After running into Gabe and revealing the potion to him, Gabe joins Mateo and Elena as they head to attend Luna's birthday party with many other Jaquins, including Chief Zephyr. When Elena notices Zephyr leave with Cruz, she and Mateo pursue him to Commander's Rock. Finding nothing of interest there, Elena and Mateo return to the others, only for Cruz to arrive afterward and frame Elena, Gabe, and Mateo for Zephyr's disappearance. Believing him due to their friendship with him, Migs, Luna, and Skylar lock them up, but Elena manages to convince Mingo, Zoom, and Estrella to let them out. After traveling to Commander's Rock and letting Zephyr out, Mateo and Elena pursue Cruz, but Mateo gets snagged in some vines. He later catches up as Elena and Zephyr have captured Cruz, and Gabe, Migs, Luna, and Skylar see to his imprisonment. Back at the castle, Elena asks Mateo about the missing pages from the back of the Codex Maru that Fiero stole, and using the Scepter of Light, they learn of its dark counterpart, the Scepter of Night, and the riddles left behind by Mateo's grandfather Alacazar, that lead to the pieces.

Following the riddles, and joined by Naomi, they travel to the abandoned capital of Tepet Muul to find the first piece. However, Mateo is blinded by pride, thinking that if they get the scepter first, he could become as powerful as his grandfather, maybe even surpass him. However, he ends up in the wrong pyramid at first, and then his pride leads to where he leads Fiero and Victor Delgado to the first piece, leaving him demoralized at his mistake. A pep talk from Elena manages to cheer him up, and he is able to help stop Fiero and Victor from escaping with the piece by saving Naomi, while Elena gets the piece and forces the villains to retreat without it. After Mateo apologizes to Naomi, Gabe, and the Jaquins for his screw-up, they regroup to decipher Alacazar's riddle that leads to the second piece, knowing that Shuriki and her team are heading for it as well.

However, once at the second piece's location in Vallaestrella, the decision is made to have Mateo and Gabe return to Avalor on Migs and Dulce with the first piece while Elena and Naomi get the second and third pieces. However, en route back, Mateo and Gabe are ambushed by the Delgados, now full-fledged Malvagos on Shuriki's order to Fiero, and lose the Scepter of Night's Staff to Victor and Carla. When they return to tell Elena and Naomi, they learn that Shuriki and Fiero got the Mount and Jewel due to Elena's own fault, letting her lust for revenge for Raul and Lucia cloud her judgement so Shuriki has all three pieces now. Luckily, Quita Moz arrives to take Elena to train to unlock the full power of her Scepter of Light, and Mateo sees her off with Gabe, Naomi, and the Jaquins as Elena departs with Quita Moz.

In Spirit of a Wizard, Mateo and Elena decide that it might be time for Mateo to reunite with his grandfather, so they contact Princess Sofia in Enchancia, asking that she send *The Lost Princess of Avalor* back home to Avalor. Sofia agrees, and once the book is returned to them, Mateo reunites with Alacazar, only to learn that the spell that Alacazar cast to turn him into the book is wearing off. When the book disintegrates, he'll die and go to the Spirit World. Not wanting that to happen, Mateo works with his grandfather to concoct a potion that saves Alacazar, but tragically, he sacrifices himself to protect Mateo from Ash Delgado and a now fully evil Esteban, though his sacrifice allows Mateo and Elena to get the stolen Scepter of Light back from them.

In Crash Course, Mateo is then asked by Elena to train the best of her Royal Guards to use magic to fight Ash and Esteban when they return, and though he has Elena and Naomi take Doña Paloma with them to find what he needs to make more tamberitias, he soon has problems of his own when Gabe loses patience with the training, and a protege wizard makes a mess of Avalor Palace that Gabe and his guards can't fix with their inadequate magic training. Mateo is able to set things right before Elena and Naomi return with what he needed and noticed anything.

In Sweetheart's Day, Flo and Armando go to Mateo's workshop and whip up a potion to make Armando's singing better. Unfortunately, all it does is make everyone but him sing nonstop. Mateo manages to make a reversal potion with an ingredient from Dona Paloma's shop. However, for it to work, Armando needs to sing from his heart. Armando does so and breaks the spell.

In the Lightning Warrior, Mateo alongside Naomi encourages Elena to give Victor and Carla Delgado a chance to help her free Ixlan the Lightning Warrior. Mateo uses a reversal potion to revive Victor from a solid stone statue. Later, when Elena, Naomi, Victor and Carla return with Ixlan, Mateo reverses the spell that made Victor and Carla Malvagos and they become good wizards.

In To Queen or Not to Queen, Mateo is seen as a jester in the alternate reality. After Elena convinces Gabe and Mateo to take part in the King's Challenge, King Esteban declares that Gabe must fight against Captain Higgins and Mateo against the royal wizard, The Great Bronzino. Bronzino deflects Mateo's attack spells but when Gabe defeats Higgins, Bronzino gets distracted, allowing Mateo to defeat him. Despite this, the king chooses the other contestants over Gabe and Mateo because they paid him money. When Elena confronts the king about this, he has her thrown in the dungeon. Mateo, Gabe and Naomi feel sorry for Elena because she was only trying to help them. Mateo and Gabe manage to break Elena out of jail, and they all rally against the king.

By the series finale, Mateo has learned several master-level spells. He was able to cast a spell that could get past Ash's cloaking spell to reveal their location. A battle occurs in Coronado, and Mateo freezes Pili to ice. Elena's group easily overpowers Ash's group, and all, except Ash and Esteban, are taken prisoner. However, Ash manages to release the Four Shades of Awesome, forcing Mateo and the others to retreat, while Elena and Ash went to the Spirit World. Mateo assists Isabel with defending Avalor from the Four Shades of Awesome when they attack with Esteban. Mateo distracts Hetz, enabling Isabel to place a metal rod on his head, causing Hetz to electrocute himself. However, when Cahu enters the palace and tries to strike Mateo, he flees with Gabe, Naomi and Isabel to his basement. When Elena returns with reinforcements from Vallaestrella, Mateo enchants Gabe's sword enabling it to paralyse two of The Shades, Vuli and Yolo, with one touch. Mateo then send Vuli and Yolo back to the Spirit World , but as he and Gabe exchange a high-five, they are turned into a stone tablet by the most powerful and dangerous member of the Four Shades, Cahu the Time Shade.

Thankfully, Elena is able to revive them after Esteban sacrifices himself to take a shot Cahu made at Elena to turn her into a stone tablet and takes the hit himself, and when she forgives him, it awakens her emotional magic, allowing her to undo all of the Four Shades' damage to Avalor. Once Elena and Esteban defeat Cahu and banish her back to the Spirit World to join the other Shades, Mateo attends Elena's coronation with everyone else, including the Royal Family of Enchancia. After her crowning, Elena names Mateo the Master Wizard of Avalor, and he joins in the celebratory dance afterwards.

## Appearances

### Season One

* First Day of Rule (debut)
* Island of Youth
* Spellbound
* The Scepter of Light
* Navidad
* Elena and the Secret of Avalor (debut; flashbacks)
* My Fair Naomi
* Spirit Monkey Business
* Captain Turner Returns
* Wizard-in-Training
* Realm of the Jaquins
* Party of a Lifetime
* Blockheads

### Season Two

* The Jewel of Maru
* The Curse of El Guapo
* Three Jaquins and a Princess
* A Spy in the Palace
* Science Unfair
* Rise of the Sorceress
* Shapeshifters
* The Scepter of Night
* The Race for the Realm
* A Tale of Two Scepters
* Song of the Sirenas
* The Tides of Change
* Snow Place Like Home
* Finding Zuzo
* Movin' On Up
* Not Without My Magic
* Naomi Knows Best

### Season Three

* Sister of Invention
* To Save a Sunbird
* The Incredible Shrinking Royals
* The Magic Within
* Captain Mateo
* Spirit of a Wizard
* Team Isa
* The Last Laugh
* The Birthday Cruise
* Giant Steps
* Crash Course
* Sweetheart's Day
* The Lightning Warrior
* Elena's Day Off
* To Queen or Not to Queen
* Coronation Day (final appearance)

## Magical Abilities

**Magical Aura:** His innate mystical aura and magic energy is colored a light orange that appear around the things he magically moves telekinetically, from objects to people.

**Spell-Casting****:** Having inherited his inherent magical ability and prowess from his grandfather, he has a strong natural affinity with magic and mysticism. He is therefore capable of casting a variety of both basic/low-level and middle-level spells of nearly all types of good/light magics. Upon stumbling on the secret workshop underneath the royal sorcerer's chamber, he begins to further develop and strengthen his magic in order to cast topmost spells of supreme magics, which the spirit of his grandfather Alacazar refers to as being on the "master wizard" level.

**Elemental Magic:** Like all wizards, witches, sorcerers and sorceresses of good or evil qualities, Mateo is capable of magically generating and controlling the classical elements- Water, Fire, Earth, Air, Light, and Aether/Quintessence.

However, he never wished to stop low enough to utilizing the elements of Nether and Shadow/Darkness/Dark, which is mainly associated with those who dabble in the most evil of magical arts (namely Shuriki, Fiero, Chatana and Ash Delgado).

## Trivia

* Mateo's tamborita is inspired by the drums used by the Mapuche "Machi" (shaman) in Chile. His spells have Mayan glyphs integrated into them.
* Mateo has been training to be a wizard since finding his grandfather's hidden stuff. He kept it a secret at the time because Shuriki banned magic, except for her own.
* Mateo is the same biological age as Princess Elena
* In "The Scepter of Light", Mateo revealed he has a fear of riding horses (equinophobia).
* Mateo had nine wardrobe changes. The first was in *Elena and the Secret of Avalor,* the second was in "First Day of Rule", the third was in "Island of Youth", the fourth was in "Spellbound", the fifth was in "The Jewel of Maru", the sixth was in "The Tides of Change", the seventh was in "Captain Mateo", the eighth was in "Spirit of a Wizard", and the ninth was in "To Queen or Not to Queen".
* In the episode "Spellbound", Mateo mentions that he has his own spells.
	+ After he defeated Fiero, he was cheering and mentioned that it was his own spell.
* Mateo became the Royal Wizard in “Spellbound”.
* Mateo does not like changing a baby's diaper, as mentioned in "Island of Youth".
* Mateo summoned and met his first chanul, Zuzo, in *Elena and the Secret of Avalor*.
* Mateo and Gabe try to upstage each other to see which one of them is Elena's best friend in "Party of a Lifetime".
* In the alternate reality, Mateo is the court jester.

## Gallery

*The image gallery for **Mateo** may be viewed here.*