Claudia/Relationships

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## Love Interest

### Terry

Claudia and Terry met during the two years in which she was trying to revive her father, Viren. The two are in a romantic relationship and are enthusiastic about being affectionate together. When Ibis was about to kill her, Terry felt forced to kill the Skywing Elf in order to save his girlfriend and collapsed into sobs as Claudia gently held him in a comforting embrace. However, Terry's loyalty towards Claudia is not without limits. When Claudia passed a bag of rocks disguised as the coins Runaan and Rayla's parents are trapped in to Rayla, Terry rebuked Claudia for her deception. This prompted her to give the real bag of coins to Rayla.

Terry made sure that Claudia would not exhaust herself during their journey to the Sea of the Castout and convinced her to not be a sadistic villain towards their enemies. Terry was shocked when he saw that Claudia had lost her left leg from the knee down during her battle with Team Zym and could only give her a comforting hug when she broke down into tears.

## Relatives

### Viren

Viren and Claudia are close. Viren has been teaching Claudia how to use magic since she was very young. After she and Soren confronted him in his dungeon, she was having doubts about his intentions, but he was able to manipulate her to make believe that Soren misunderstood his instructions, making her believe him over Soren and retaining her loyalty. After Viren took the throne, Claudia seemed to be blindly loyal to him no matter how much physical and emotional damage he was causing to their people and Xadia. Her blind loyalty led her to revive Viren when he died during the final battle. She wanted to believe the best of her father, such that she was willing to allow herself to be manipulated by his honeyed words. She was not entirely blind to his faults, however, as Aaravos warned Viren that he would lose her if he was truthful about the directive that he had given to Soren. Despite all of Viren's obviously cruel actions to everyone around, she still believed he knew what needed to be done for the greater good of humanity and did not realize he was just using her to take over the world, betray the royal family, and lie to everyone and themselves about being heroes of humanity.

Following Viren's death upon falling from the Storm Spire, Claudia devoted her body and soul to finding a way to resurrect him, despite Viren starting to accept that he may be better off living the rest of his remaining days out in peace before he inevitably would die again. Also after being resurrected, Viren lost interest to "save humanity" and reflected on his fault that a lot of innocents died and turned Claudia into a copy of himself with his worst traits, even reflecting on all his crimes and mistakes but due to being catatonic, he failed to tell her they were wrong and Claudia kept emulating him. Until Claudia was acting like in Viren's vision, he reacted and tried to warn her to not do his mistakes with no avail. After accepting that this is all his fault that things got worse Viren decides to die alone to try to not let Claudia become more deranged than he was and feeling he does not deserve a peaceful death after what he did.

After Claudia lost her leg and prison during the battle with Team Zym, she broke into tears knowing that she failed in saving her father.

### Soren

Soren and Claudia are very different and do not always get along, but they find commonality in their love for and loyalty to their father. After they confronted Viren in his dungeon, she was having doubts about his intentions, but Viren was able to manipulate her to make her believe that Soren misunderstood his instructions, but Soren knew he was lying, so she remained loyal to Viren. After Viren took the throne, Soren realized the kind of maniac that Viren is and asked Claudia to betray him to not do more damage, but she remained blindly loyal to him, although she loved Soren too, she now no longer considers him her brother for betraying them, then became enemies when Soren killed the illusion of Viren to protect Ezran.

Despite their rocky relationship, Soren still loves and misses Claudia. He tried to reason with her that she is doing the wrong thing in releasing Aaravos and listening to Viren, that elves and dragons are nothing like the way Viren described them as bloodthirsty monsters. However, Claudia dismissed and believed that everything Soren said were lies and that Aaravos is the only good elf who was willing to help humans when he gifted them dark magic and that Soren would be dead if it were not for dark magic.

### Lissa

Claudia once told Ezran that she had loved her mother Lissa, and was heartbroken when she left them. Claudia said that she did not want to see her mother go and that losing her had been the hardest thing she had ever endured. Lissa was the person who showed Claudia the wisp grotto near Mount Kalik. Parting with her mother left Claudia with a great fear of losing her family, as well as a fear of having to choose between family members.

## Allies

### Aaravos

In the two years Viren was deceased, Aaravos talked to Claudia and instructed her on how to successfully revive her father, which required her to do a few horrible things to achieve. Claudia think highly of him, as he told her that he was the only one who would help humanity when the rest of Xadia abandoned them, and that he had gifted them dark magic. She appears to be unaware of his past of causing multiple crises for Xadia for a thousand years.

## Enemies

### Callum

Callum and Claudia have known each other since early childhood. She seems to be oblivious to his crush on her, as seen when he tried to ask her to be his date at the Moon Nexus, though she had feelings for him as well, leading to the two having their first date, where they almost shared a kiss. She, however, could not bear the thought of fooling Callum any longer, being the good friend he was to her, and was heartbroken when she had to tell him that his stepfather had been killed. She also felt guilty when she had to betray Callum and his friends and was shocked to learn that her father had ordered Soren to kill him and his brother. Despite this rocky development, Callum still believes Claudia to have a good heart. However, she eventually no longer considered him a friend.

It was not until at the Sea of the Castout that they met again, with Claudia trying to convince him that she sought Aaravos out to save her father, has not changed and even tried to convince him that she could even help him save King Harrow, but Callum refused. Soon a fight broke out between them for Aaravos's prison, and Claudia even threatened to kill her former friend if he decided to not reveal the prison's location. However, she could not obtain the knowledge due to Rayla's intervention and with Callum destroying her potion, the battle ended with her fleeing in defeat.

### Ezran

Ezran and Claudia have known each other since childhood. She considers Ezran to be a good friend and was heartbroken when he left, Claudia felt guilty when she had to betray Ezran and his friends while capturing and kill Zym several times and was shocked to learn that her father had ordered Soren to kill him and his brother.

Although she betrayed the princes, Ezran had enough heart to forgive her and have a moment to talk to Claudia about her feelings, she shared the story of when her mother left them and fooled him into leading her to a deer herd so she could kill a fawn to heal Soren.

When she and Soren were arrested for treason, she tried to reason with Ezran that they were innocent, then Ezran chose to spare them from being arrested. When she and Soren confronted Viren about their secret missions, she revealed that she knows that he ordered Soren to kill the princes, but Viren manipulates her to believe Soren heard wrong his instructions, but Soren knows he's lying. After Viren took over the kingdom, Claudia was excited her father was now the king as she believed he would ensure the safety of humanity, it is unknown if she knows he blackmailed Ezran to abdicate or if she cares about it.

As they were at the Storm Spire, she killed many elves with the Sun staff, then after Viren's army was defeated, Viren did not give up and Claudia helped an illusionary version of Viren kill Ezran and help the real Viren kill Zym with a grin.

It was not until at the Sea of the Castout that they met again, with Claudia trying to convince him that she sought Aaravos out to save her father, has not changed and even tried to convince him that she could even help him save King Harrow, but Ezran refused. Soon a fight broke out between them for Aaravos's prison, and Claudia even threatened to kill her former friend if he decided to not reveal the prison's location. However, she could not obtain the knowledge due to Rayla's intervention and with Callum destroying her potion, the battle ended with her fleeing in defeat.

### Rayla

Rayla and Claudia were enemies from start to bottom, at first because of the blind hatred they have on each other for the prejudges of their cultures, also because she was willing to use Zym as a dark magic ingredient, not acknowledging him as a living being, then she attacked her with summoned smoke wolves.

When Rayla and Claudia met again, they resumed the heir fight, even after Rayla had removed the prejudice she had on humans. Callum convinced the two of them to be civil until they finish their quest of getting Zym home. The two of them managed to have a stable relationship, but Rayla still had distrust on Claudia. When Rayla knew that Claudia and Soren would betray and kill the princes, she tried to warn Callum about it, but he did not believe her, so she made a diversion to prove their betrayal.

Rayla and Claudia continued to stand in opposition to one another, first when Rayla tried to free Pyrrah, and later when Claudia fought to help Viren in the Battle of the Storm Spire. They met again in Umber Tor two years later. During their confrontation, Claudia reveals the coins containing Runaan, Tiadrin, and lain. When Rayla takes Terry hostage, Claudia threatens to throw the coins into the lava if Rayla refuses to release him. But then it is revealed that Claudia was bluffing as the bag she tried to throw into the lava contained rocks, much to Rayla's sadness and frustration. However, Claudia began to question her actions after receiving criticism from Terry. Claudia gives the actual bag to Rayla soon after before they part ways.

It was not until at the Sea of the Castout that they met again, with Claudia being struck from an arrow fired by Rayla. She threatened to kill Rayla if Callum or Ezran chose to not reveal the prison's location. However, Claudia failed to obtain the prison after Rayla sliced her leg off and Callum destroying her potion, which ended the battle with her fleeing in defeat.

### Azymondias

Because of the way Viren raised her, she saw Zym as the deadliest weapon in the world, but to a degree, she acknowledged him as a living being with his own identity, she was enchanted of Zym's cuteness, but that did not stop her from willing to steal and harvest him. Although she was genuinely sorry for doing it at first, she then believed killing him was the only way to save humanity.

### Corvus

Corvus fought against Viren's children to protect Ezran but was knocked over and tied up, so he spent days with them, many times fooled Soren into releasing him to escape, Claudia telling Soren he would escape. When Soren was going to attack Pyrrah, Corvus begged not to do it, but Soren provoked her and destroyed the town they were on, then they released Corvus to help the survivors. Back in Katolis, Corvus was shocked to hear from Claudia that Viren sent her to kill Ezran and Callum. When Claudia pleaded for her innocence, Corvus chose not to defend her.

### Pyrrah

During their first encounter, Claudia and Soren tried to kill Pyrrah and to use her body parts for dark magic ingredients. Later on during the battle at the Storm Spire, Pyrrah tried to burn Claudia, but the mage created a magic barrier to block the fire.

### Ellis and Ava

At first, the two of them shared a civil relationship, with Ellis taking an interest in Claudia's pancakes. However, upon discovering their betrayal, Ellis and Ava helped Rayla to prove that Claudia and Soren would betray Callum and Ezran.

### Rex Igneous

Claudia puts Rex Igneous as well as most of Team Zym to sleep with a dark magic spell so they would not stop her in acquiring the location of Aaravos's prison. After Rex was awakened, he created an earthquake that threatened to kill Claudia as well as everyone else. Rex Igneous did not seem to realize that Claudia had been acting independently of Team Zym, considering her actions a betrayal by all.

### Ibis

Ibis confronted Claudia when she attempted to retrieve her father's staff from the Storm Spire's vault. Before Ibis could kill Claudia, he was stabbed in the back by Terry.

## References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Book Four, Chapter 1: "Rebirthday"
2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 Book Four, Chapter 3: "Breathtaking"
3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 3.3 Book Four, Chapter 9: "Escape from Umber Tor"
4. ↑ Book Five, Chapter 2: "Old Wounds"
5. ↑ Book Five, Chapter 6: "Bait & Switch"
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 6.3 6.4 Book Five, Chapter 9: "Infantis Sanguine"
7. ↑ Book One, Chapter 6: "Through the Ice"
8. ↑ Book Three, Chapter 3: "Ghost"
9. ↑ Book Four, Chapter 2: "Fallen Stars"
10. ↑ TDP Twitter
11. ↑ 11.0 11.1 Book Four, Chapter 7: "Beneath the Surface"
12. ↑ Book Two, Chapter 9: "Breathe"
13. ↑ Book One: Moon (Novel)
14. ↑ Book Four, Chapter 4: "Through the Looking Glass"
15. ↑ The Dragon Prince Interview - 3:20
16. ↑ Book Two, Chapter 2: "Half Moon Lies"
17. ↑ Callum's Spellbook
18. ↑ Book Three, Chapter 9: "The Final Battle"
19. ↑ Book Two, Chapter 3: "Half Moon Lies"