Prince Callum

## Defining Moments

### Heroic Action

Willingly destroying his Primal Stone to create an eye of the storm so Zym can be born

**Prince Callum** is one of the three main protagonists of *The Dragon Prince* series.

He is a young prince who was adopted into royalty after his mother married his stepfather, King Harrow. He is also the maternal half-brother of King Ezran, the boyfriend of Rayla and the nephew of Amaya. He is also the good counterpart and foil of dark magic users, Viren, Aaravos and eventually Claudia and the friend/former rival of Soren.

Callum learns he has an affinity for magic and becomes a mage like Viren. In Season Three, he begins a relationship with Rayla. Two years later, he regrouped with his friends to embark on a new quest of preventing the liberation of Aaravos.However, by the time of Season 4, he has grown distant from Rayla after she we've on a quest of her own to hunting down Viren.

## Acts of Heroism

* He initially does not have any confident qualities about him because he is a prince by adoption. He is terrible at sword fighting, constantly mocked by Soren, pines for a friend who is not interested in him. However, a handful of people start genuinely show respect to Callum and accept him as their Prince, such as Opeli, Corvus, and Claudia.
* Callum truly loves his friends and family.
	+ He falls in love with Rayla despite a rivalry between humans and elves.
	+ He acts as a brother/surrogate father figure towards Ezran and extends it to Zym. This also helped him being able to connect with Ellis,
	+ He used to care about Claudia as a friend but now sees her as an enemy. However, Callum does feel pity for her because she's so blindly loyal to her father. On the other hand, he felt no remorse for removing her vial that helped her breathe underwater.
	+ He maintained a close friendship with Soren in the two time jump. Soren becomes something of an older brother figure for Callum and Ezran. They didn't develop a genuine friendship until Soren apologizes to Callum for making fun of him in the past.
	+ He genuinely loves both of his parents and still mourning their deaths. Callum does consider Harrow his father despite not being his biological parent. He even was considering Claudia's help to free Aaravos because she risked it all to help Viren. However, Callum refused despite the opportunity Claudia was proposing: she could save both their fathers.
* He feels remorseful for yelling at him in "Echoes of Thunder" and Season 1b
* He will do whatever it takes to protect those he loves, especially his friends Zym, Soren, his brother and girlfriend even resorting to dark magic twice to save Rayla.
* Eventually, Calum starts to feel remorseful for the way he treated Rayla at the Banther Lodge, by assuming she and her race are blood thirsty monsters. He makes up for it by showing empathy with Rayla when she mentioned her parents were dead. He also tries to help her get over her fear of water by distracting her with questions. After Callum suspected Rayla wasn't telling the group a truth, he later tells Rayla that they should have trusted her with the egg because they were friends how. By season 2, Callum narrates in the prologue to the new season that everything he thought about elves was wrong.
* Callum is disgusted by dark magic's nature and capabilities. Unfortunately, his small exposure to dark magic in "Finnegrin's Wake" makes him an easy target for the Startouched elf Aaravos to possess him in the future, who often targeted Mages like Callum.
	+ He calls it "your kind of magic" to Claudia twice, first with discomfort and then with disdain. He's also hitting dark magic so much he really rejects Claudia's dark magic created pancakes.
	+ Two years since he used dark magic to save Rayla and Pyrrah, he refuses to use this kind of power, even refusing to go through with Finnegrin's plans to get rid of Domina Profundis.
	+ After he resorted to dark magic during his and his friends' captivity aboard the Sea Legs, Callum was disgusted with what he had done so much that he kept it a secret from Rayla and his friends.
* Calum never gives up especially when he was trying to connect to the sky arcanum and spends most of season 2 connecting to it
* Despite his hatred towards Avizandum, Callum still cared for Azymondias despite him being the son of his mother's killer. He even sacrifices his primal stone (containing an actual storm) and created an eye of the storm so Zym child be born. It was the only way to save him. He also developed something of a paternal/fraternal bond for Zym as time went on.
	+ Upon seeing his mother's spear in Avizandum's statue, Callum admits to Rayla that he feels angry at the Dragon King for taking his mother from him. On the other hand, he is sad that
* Despite their differences, Callum gives Soren the breathing spell so he can survive the storm Spire's altitude and learns he genuinely came to help him and Team Zym about Viren's army. The Team was further convinced to stay and fight due to soren's rousing speech. Soren also makes up to Callum before the battle of the Storm Spire. After learning that Soren used to bully him because he was jealous of his relationship with his step-father, Callum seems to understands him a little better.
* While Callum is understandably angry at Rayla for abandoning him on his birthday, he still loves her. In Season 4 episode 9, Callum admits to Ezran that he still loves Rayla. In the finale, he was afraid Rayla died in Umbar Tor but was later relieved when she emerged out alive
* After Aaravos' was able to possess and control Callum's actions, the young were, in his terms, traumatized by this encounter. He felt dangerous and out of control, fearing that Aaravos would try and possess him again. This fear is so strong he even asks Rayla to kill him Aaravos controlled him again. However, Callum's greatest fear is that Aaravos won't hurt him but the people he cares about. Unfortunately, the exposure to dark magic still makes Callum more susceptible to falling under Aaravos' control.
* Callum becomes the first sorcerer/mage in centuries to connect to a primal source in this case two: the Oceans and the Skies.

## Powers and Abilities

### Powers

**Magic:** Like Viren and Claudia, Callum was born with an affinity for magic and arguably could become one of the most powerful mages in the entire series, with the potential to even become the first human Archmage. By Season 4, he was promoted from "Prince" to "High Mage".

* **Primal Magic:** Callum learned he could access primal magic, having first learned this by looking through her Sky Primal Stone. Although he initially lost the ability to perform magic after destroying the Primal Stone, he later formed a connection to the Sky arcanum. This makes him also the first human being who can control magic that doesn't require a special conduit or totem. He has connected to the Sky, Moon, and Ocean arcanum.
	+ **Sky Magic**
		- **Fulminus**
		- **Aspiro**
		- **Ventus Spiralus**
		- **Wing Growth: By chanting the spell "Manus. Pluma. Volantus.".**
		- **Angustiae Lautus**
		- **"Eritque Arcus Ignus"**
		- **"Sepultura Caelo"**
		- **"Stratum Caligo"**
		- **"Ventum Circulo"**
		- **"Aspiro Frigis"**
		- **"Ventum Angulus"**
		- **"Ventus Validus"**
		- **"Lapis Caeli"**
		- **"Ferrum Venti"**
		- **"Levare Ventum"**
	+ **Moon Magic**
		- **Historia Viventem**
		- **Mors Aperta**
	+ **Ocean magic**
		- **Underwater Breathing**
		- **Anti-Blood Freezing Spell**
* **Dark Magic:** Callum refused to use this kind of magic by drawing power from other magical creatures.
	+ **Snake Morphing Spell**: He used the snake spell twice; first, to save Rayla and the down dragon and to free himself from his chains aboard the *Sea Legs* and save Rayla again.

### Abilities

* **Art**
* **Photographic memory**
* **Languages**
* **Physical Strength**
* **Tactician**
* **Adaptability**
* **Dancing**
* **Mediation**
* **Riding**
* **Swimming**

## Weaknesses

* **Dark Magic Usage:** When Callum learned dark magic for the first time, the energy took a toll on his body, thus weakening him. He suffered from nightmarish dreams, hallucinations, and terrible visions. However, a vision of his late mother confirming him and Rayla crying his name causes him to snap out of it. Callum fears magic so much that he fears he will go down a dark path similar to Viren.
	+ **Dark Possession:** Becoming exposed to dark magic also allowed Aaravos to take control of Callum, using him as a conduit so he can mock his enemies, Team Zym. He fears that it could get worse if he continues using dark magic. However, Callum fears that Aaravos will control him again and make him hurt his loved ones.

## Quotes

> **Soren**These are big doors, but we just have to push them open. We can do this!**Callum**It takes two giants to open these, there's no way we can--**Soren**Never give up! At times like this, the only strength that matters is the strength in your heart.

## Relationships

### Family

* Ezran - Maternal Half-brother and King
* Amaya - Maternal Aunt
* Sarai † - Mother and Queen
* Biological Father †
* The Orphan Queen † - Distant Step-Ancestor
* King Harrow † - Adoptive Father and King
* Rayla - Girlfriend and Temporarily Enemy
* King Atticus - Step-Grandfather
* Janai - Aunt by marriage

### Allies

* Ellis - Friend
* Ava - Friend
* Team Zym - Close Friends and Teammates
	+ Rayla - Girlfriend, True Love, and Former Best Friend
	+ Azymondias - Close Friend
	+ Bait - Friend and teammate
	+ Soren - Rival, Former Attempted Killer and Brotherly Figure
* Lujanne - Friend and Brief Mentor
* Ibis † - Sky Magic Mentor and Friend
* Aanya - Friend and Savior
* Phoe-Phoe - Friend
* Villads - Associate and Ally
* Janai - Friend
* Ethari - Friend
* Pyrrah - Temporary Enemy and Friend
* Zubeia - Friend
* Kingdom of Katolis
	+ Crownguard
		- Corvus - Friend
		- Associate Crow Lord - Friend
		- Gren - Friend
	+ High Council
		- Opeli - Friend
		- Barius - Friend
	+ Allen - Friend
* Kazi - Friend
* Stella - Friend and Girlfriend's Companion
* N'than - Friend
* Akiyu - Friend and Temporary Enemy
* Elmer - Friend
* Nyx - Situational Ally
* Deadwood - Situational Ally

### Enemies

* Lord Viren - Predecessor
* Aaravos - Enthraller
* Claudia - Ex-Crush, Former Childhood Friend, and Enemy
* Sol Regem - Attempted Killer
* Runaan
* Kasef † - Attempted Killer
* Warlon
* Rex Igneous - Temporary Ally turned Enemy
* Finnegrin †
* Terry

## Trivia

* Some sources state that Callum is Harrow's adopted son while the characters in the series call him his stepson instead.
* His darker counterparts include Claudia and Lord Viren.
	+ He and Claudia are mages and quite talented with magic.
		- However, Claudia revels in dark magic but Callum hates it.
		- "They both lost their mothers, are heavily devoted to their families, and will do anything to save them.
			* Claudia becomes desperate to keep her father alive and Callum resorts to dark magic to save Rayla twice).
			* Unfortunately, while Claudia starts falling apart and loses her family and friends, Callum's friends and family keep him together.
		- They also fall in love with two elves, Rayla and Terry.
		- They both have brothers but their dynamics are reversed.
			* Claudia is Soren's younger sister and Callum is Ezran's older brother.
			* Additionally, Callum remains loyal to his brother while Claudia, on the other hand, ends up betraying and denouncing Soren.
	+ He and Aaravos could be considered opposites as well.
* Both Callum and his adopted father, Harrow harbored a deep resentment for Avizandum due to his role in killing Callum's biological mother, Queen Sarai. Unlike his stepfather, however, Callum never gives in to it. This is, in part, due to Harrow acknowledging the lessons of love and forgiveness in his final letter to Callum. Instead, he expresses deep remorse that due to his friendship with Azymondias, his father was taken away from him.
* Callum used dark magic for the first time when he was saving Rayla and a downed dragon from Claudia and Soren. He later resorted to dark magic again so he could save Rayla and the rest of his friends.
* So far, Callum has connected to two of the seven arcaniums, the Sky and the ocean. He also did two spells in Moon magic.
* it is quite ironic how Callum is a talented drawer and artist. This is the opposite of Jack DeSena's character, Sokka, who was a terrible artist.
* Callum is, by far, the first human mage to ever connect with one of the Primal Sources of Magic.
* One of Callum's fears is using dark magic and becoming a monster like Viren or Aaravos.