The Old Ones

> “*We apparently used to**CALL US THE OLD ONES,”**Damian said. **“AS WE WERE ANCIENT WHEN HUMANITY FIRST LEARNED TO CRAWL. WE HAVE JOURNEYED FAR TO** return to their former home. But they need**THE HELP OF THOSE WHO CAN USE MAGIC TO FULLY COME BACK.”***
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> -**Ketas**/Damian to Dr. Opps
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## The Old Ones

The Old Ones are terrifying and mystical creatures, who were once Atlanteans, an ancient and extinct race of human-like people. By weakening magic itself, (just because they assumed humanity would use magic and they were inferior), they created the six types of magic: Time, Space, Elemental (or Destruction), Corporeal (or Healing), Mind, and Spirit. This in turn caused magic to fight back, giving them their horrible forms. They were called the old ones for their age in comparison to humans, and used humans as servants, as they could not be trusted with magic on their own.

Eventually, D’hea created the dragons. They weren’t formed or changed out of any existing being, and were D’hea’s favorite creations. However, the dragons taught the humans magic, which angered some of the old ones. Emrys convinced Ni’nev and D’hea to side with the humans, while Ketas, Q’baos and D’vale wanted to keep their magic to themselves.

The Faeries were also at war with the Old Ones during their civil war, but after their Queen hearing the Dwarves lost their spirits to Q’baos, she made a bargain with Emrys to keep them safe. Emrys changed every Faerie into a child, so they could not attack the old ones, and exiled them to Avalon. When the war ended, D’vale Q’baos and Ketas were banished to a different dimension with their dwarves and most of the dragons, along with D’hea. Ketas then took over D’hea’s mind and turned them and anyone that entered the Underrealms into Dracsi.

## Ketas, Old One of Mind Magic

Ketas, described has having tentacles across his body, is the master of Mind magic. Tentacles sprout from his legs, arms, and mouth, and wears a creepy diamond-like crystal armor that emits a cold aura. With the armor, he has a helmet made of crystal in the shape of a skull. He can remove spells from someone’s head (as seen when he takes Fort’s spells) and can control minds. He can also speak telepathically in a being’s mind, which is very painful for the listener. He was last seen in The Last Dragon, when D’hea tried to turn him into a Dracsi.

In TTO, he is seen in the distance from the yellow glow of Mental Magic, along with Q’baos and D’vale.

In The Chosen One when mind magic is released to Magic, his skull helmet cracks which leaves him in pain, and leaves his horribly distorted mind visible to everyone. Luckily for him, Fort fixes it. Unluckily for him he‘ll probably stay in the Faerie Queens dungeon for a long time.

## Q’baos, Old One of Spirit Magic

Q’baos is an Old One who is made up of hundreds of screaming human-like faces. She wears a creepy diamond-like crystal armor, and is described by Fort as being the only similarities between her, Ketas and D’vale’s. She is the master of spirit magic and used the spell Create Devotion on the dwarfs. By her commands, they created beautiful cities and statues; they also crafted her throne from precious stones and metals. In The Revenge of Magic, Q’baos stole the wills of the residents at Oppenheimer School to prevent them from intervening. In The Last Dragon, it is found out that Q’baos controls the Dwarfs in The City of Dra. She makes them mine precious metals to feed the Dracsi, because that’s all they’ve been able to eat since they were transformed. The Dwarfs use the remaining pieces to build their homes. They fuse the “junk diamonds” together in the mines to make statues of Q'baos. When Q’baos loses control of her spirit magic, the Dwarfs rise up and threaten to knock down the statues of him, and possibly the city from their anger for the Old Ones. Unfortunately for the Dwarves, she steals their spirits again, and they continued to work for her.

In TTO, he is seen in the distance from the orange glow of Spiritual Magic, along with D’vale and Ketas.

In The Chosen One after Ember releases spirt magic to Magic, the screaming faces on her body for the first time in a long time, finally smile as their spirits disappear, and she returns to her normal Atlantean self.

## D’vale, Old One of Elemental Magic

D’vale is the master of Elemental magic and is made of bright fire that burns black at the edges and white at the center. She wears a creepy diamond-like crystal armor, with a cold aura. She can summon elements and willingly change her form to a different element, and also rip something apart from its atoms.

In The Revenge of Magic, she sets fire to a forest near the first Oppenheimer School. In The Last Dragon, D'vale murdered D’hea.

In TTO, she is seen in the distance from the red glow of Elemental Magic, along with Ketas and Q’baos.

In the Chosen One, Rachel returns her magic to Magic, and she burns into ashes.

## D’hea, Old One of Corporeal Magic

D'hea was the master of Corporeal magic, also known as healing. He created the dragons eons ago and cared for them deeply. He had the ability to reconstruct a being's form, which had both painful and remedial outcomes. D'hea could paralyze someone, like when Fort and his friends entered his prison, although it was not clear if he was using the spell, or if it was from fear.

In The Last Dragon, Fort and his friends- **Rachel**, **Jia**, and **Gabriel** -free D’hea so he could escape his prison, and Fort brought him to Earth, where he contorts guards at the Oppenheimer School. He leaves the school in search of the last dragon, and Fort follows him through a series of teleportation portals into the La Brea tar pits, into which D’hea dives and finds a fossilized, broken egg. Betrayed, D'hea lashes out at Fort. Quickly, Fort convinces D’hea that this could be a new beginning, so D’hea revives the egg and allows Fort to send it somewhere safe: his Aunt's house.

D'hea was the only Old One who showed any compassion whatsoever for humans, but unfortunately in The Last Dragon, he was murdered by his sibling D’vale, when he tried to transform Ketas into a Dracsi.

## Emrys, Old One of Time Magic

Emrys is a master of time magic. Not even his siblings know exactly what he does.

Emrys is described as a floating cloak figure, with a melting yellow infinity symbol on his forehead. His cloak is a dark red color, with magical symbols on the lining. He emits a purple-magenta smoke, with a hand made of bone on the left side, and a gloved hand made of black crystal on the right. In his dimension, the sky is blood red and the land is a barren landscape. He has what looks like a palace made of black crystal.

He is also Cyrus, and when he looks like Cyrus, he has curly silver hair, like all the time students. As Cyrus, He’s eleven years old, supposedly born on discovery day, not at the end of time and aging in reverse, like he actually is.

As Merlin, his older self, he has long white hair and a long white beard. He knows Time magic, just like his younger self, but he has much more knowledge in magic, as he seems to know Space magic, as well as Corporeal and Elemental magic. He seems to have taught Fort‘s future self in a possible future, which was probably destroyed, now that Merlin has no magic.

Emrys cursed the Faerie Queen’s children to never age, who in response closed off her realm from the universe. The Faerie Queen then sent all the humans who asked for something from her- power, peace, -to go after Emrys to kill him. No one has yet succeeded.

In 'The Timeless One', Emrys was revealed to be Fort's best friend Cyrus, as well as the wizard Merlin. Because he has time magic, it is possible for his younger and older selves to be at war. Cyrus, the younger version of Emrys, wants to bring the rest of the Old Ones back from exile. Merlin, the older version, is trying to stop his younger self by sending heroes after him with the sword Excalibur, the weapon that has the ability to take away magical powers.

In the fight, Cyrus got struck with the sword, just enough to barely scratch his cheek, and he lost all his powers. He was delivered to The Faerie Queen in exchange for stopping the war.

In The Chosen One, Ellora returns his magic to Magic, and for a while he grows old and young again, until mind magic is released back in the universe.

## Ni’nev, Old One of Space Magic

Ni’nev was the old one of space, and she is described as being in multiple locations at once, like her body no longer occupies a single space. Not much is known about her. She was convinced by Merlin to fight against Ketas, Q’baos, and D’vale, and successfully exiled them to their Dracsi world. However, not long after they defeated the other old ones she mysteriously disappeared.

Before Revenge of Magic was shortened to 5 books, Ni’nev was supposed to make an appearance in The Future King. After the old one’s family war Ni’nev fled to Avalon so the other old ones could not return, and became the lady of the lake. She would have explained why she hated her family and the faeries, and would have been the one to give Rachel Excalibur to get revenge on Emrys.

When Gabriel released space magic back to Magic, she either suffered from it or returned back to her Atlantean self.