Secrets of Magicar

## Synopsis

*Princess Fader Magicar knows the powerful Dark wizard, The Lord of the Dragons, is moving to seize control of the wizarding world. Unable to stop him alone, she entrusts the Magizoologist and Earthbender Bolin Sansson to lead an intrepid team of wizards, witches and one brave baker on a dangerous mission, where they encounter old and new beasts and clash with The Enemy's growing legion of followers. But with the stakes so high, how long can Fader remain on the side-lines?*

## Plot

Princess Fader takes a train to meet Isaac Nasser (aka The Dragon Lord) in a restaurant for a peaceful confrontation. The Lord of the Dragon's arrives several minutes after Fader and the maternal cousins greet each other cordially but frostily and, over tea, they argue about their past as close friends (Fader admitting then, as they dreamed of leading the world into a new era that she had known her younger sister Darkness was in love with Isaac and had shared his ideology), how their goals used to be aligned, and the blood troth between them, ending with Nasser telling his cousin to stay out of his way and making it clear he intends to burn down his enemy’s world, with or without Fader's help, and departing, leaving Fader sitting before a cooling cup of tea. Meanwhile in the jungles of Kweilin, at night time, Bolin Sansson helps a Qilin, a magical creature that can see into one's soul as well as the future, give birth, but some of The Dragon Lord’s disciples, led by Luz Noceda, attack and overpower Bolin, Darkness swiftly delivering a fatal curse to the mother, and, after a short skirmish, the acolytes, knocking out Bolin, kidnap the newborn. Unbeknownst to them, the Qilin has birthed twins, the younger of which Bolin is able to save after he wakes up by the dying adult Qilin moments before the mother succumbs to her injuries and passes on. In Nurmengard, The Dragon Lord greets his Dark Ones and after a short conversation with Luz, who he sends inside to rest, uses dark magic the Qilin to harness its ability of precognition after it doesn't bow to him, watched by a concealed Queenie Nightingale. In the Qilin's reflection, he sees Fader showing the blood pact to Mako and Bolin in the Hog's Head Inn. Shortly afterwards, Queenie speaks to Luz. She tells her that The Dragon Lord regularly asked her to spy on the young woman and tell him her thoughts, but she revealed to Luz that she did not tell their leader everything. After that, Luz looked in a mirror and saw an inscription: "Forgive me", which she erased immediately.

Bolin and his brother Mako head to Hog's Head Inn in order to question Fader for the best course of action against The Dragon Lord. With Fader still powerless to break the Blood Troth she had made with the Dragon Lord when they were young and desired to change the world, but that now prevents her from fighting her cousin, she reveals that she has plans to defeat The Lord of Dragons and stop him from tearing the world apart with hatred and suspicion, but they have to trust her and the three plan to gather a group of individuals to fight the Enemy. Kuvira (who has also been enlisted into the band Fader is gathering) recruits Jacob Kowalski, who is depressed with Queenie Nightgale having left him and his Kowalski Quality Baked Goods suffering as a result of the growing war and initially wants nothing more to do with the magic world but eventually decides to help out after Kuvira convinces him he is still needed. In the Great Wizarding Express heading for Berlin, Bolin, Mako, Bolin’s assistant, Bunty Broadacre, Amity Blight, Nagini, Gus Porter, Willow Park and Yusuf Kama greet the two, who arrive via the Floo network, and Bolin, after giving Kuvira an introduction, then reveals that in order to thwart The Dragon Lord's future-seeing abilities, they will split up and perform different roles. He gives Mako a tie with a large golden pin, Jacob a coreless snakewood wand from Fader, and Bunty a letter holding within it Fader's instructions that will burn when she reads it. Kuvira meanwhile has been gifted beforehand with a Portkey book while Yusaf has his own instructions and as they pull into a station, Bunty and Yusaf set out to fulfil their roles.

Bunty has Bolin’s suitcase duplicated into half a dozen copies and Yusaf departs for his mission with the companions best wishes, while the rest go to Berlin in order to visit the Germanian Ministry of Magic, where a gathering for the election of Supreme Mugwump is taking place. Passing the gathering of supporters for the two candidates, Lui Tao and Vicência Santos, Mako uses his authority to gain access to the gathering of the International Confederation of States. Meanwhile, however, Dark Ones and members of the 13 Forsworn, including Princess Darkness, Fader's younger sister and the Dragon Lord’s wife and deputy, Ex-Queen Wasp and Farland Kingsbrood/Chompy Mage, infiltrate the supporters and Wasp sets a Santos campaign poster alight, while Darkness watches on smiling.

Meanwhile, Fader’s army make contact with Anton Vogel, the Supreme Mugwump and the Minister, Bolin delivering a message to Vogel from Fader encouraging him to do what is right, rather than what is easy. Though Anton initially seems to take Fader’s words into consideration, thanking Bolin, despite referring to the Magicar Princess as one who would not leave her school when the world outside was burning, he subsequently gives a refusal to help Bolin and the others to stop The Dragon Lord for political reasons and they can only watch as The Dragon Lord is acquitted of all charges by the International Confederation of Nations, to the shock and horror of many present. The band subsequently notices Darkness, Wasp and several acolytes they remember from the rally in Republic City present and Mako attempts to take them into custody, only to be incapacitated by Helmut and kidnapped by the acolytes. Though Bolin attempts to go to his sibling’s aid, Kuvira stops him and convinces him not to act, realising that the Dragon Lord’s people have already undermined and taken control of the Germanian Ministry as the crowd of officials depart in chattering trios and pairs. Outside, Farland has conjured into the air a massive campaign banner of the Dragon Lord’s cause while dozens more of the acolytes fire their master’s symbol into the sky around the ministry headquarters.

That same night, Fader dines with her brother Spirit in his inn, recounting their past, only for Spirit to cut her off with the reminder that he needed no reminder, as he had been there. A knock on the door which Fader answers interrupts them and the visitor is revealed to be none other than Suyin Beifong, who's duties, like that of her daughter Opal, prevent her from joining Bolin like Kuvira has. Suyin reveals the new position the pardoned Dragon Lord has achieved to Fader, to her disappointment, and is asked to take over Fader's morning classes, which she agrees to immediately, with the added plead for Fader to be careful. Fader thus prepares to depart and, when Spirit asks if she's "off to save the world", Fader cryptically responds that such an action "would take a better woman" than her. Bolin, Jacob, Amity, Gus, Willow, Nagini and Kuvira went to the Germanian Ministry of Magic to look for information about Mako, but receive none, the official they speak to simply answering that their Ministry had no records of Mako' apprehension. Jacob spotted Helmut and another and the group attempt to pursue them, Jacob demanding at a shout to know where Mako was. The man disappeared when a wall appeared out of nowhere in front of them, with Helmut on the other side - it turned out he was one of the local Aurors.

Reuniting with Fader after departing the Ministry, she tells Bolin where Mako is imprisoned and assigns Kuvira, Jacob and the four teenagers (Amity, Nagini, Willow and Gus) with the task of preventing assassination attempts on one of The Dragon Lord's competitors: Brazilian Supreme Mugwump candidate, Vicência Santos. The Dragon Lord, at Nurmengard, then has a vision Yusuf Kama going to Nurmengard, and Fader going to Bhutan to confront him, with Darkness entering just as the vision fades. Ordering his wife to have his inner-circle acolytes prepare to depart on the morrow, the two watch as the dragon that guards Luz since her magic was revealed swoops over its owner, Darkness asking why it stayed with the young girl. As the dragon flew over Luz, The Dragon Lord concluded by saying that the phoenix was probably supposed to protect Luz in connection with her assigned task and assures Darkness that Luz’s pain made her more powerful than Fader. Next morning, Yusuf enters Nurmengard Castle and is promptly installed as a spy in The Lord of Dragons's inner-circle, after the Enemy seemingly removes Yusuf's memory of Ophelia's death.

Fader walks across Berlin with Luz following her as The Dragon Lord has ordered her to kill his cousin. Aware of Luz's spying, Fader quickly faces her, and they fight due to Luz's anger about her family supposedly being abandoned. Fader defeats Luz after a fierce fight, and it's revealed that she is not a pure human but rather Fader’s great-niece as the daughter of her nephew Terrin. Meanwhile, in Berlin, the Dragon Lord has been allowed to run in the election. Anton Vogel defends his stance on The Dragon Lord running as a candidate for the next Supreme Mugwump to other high-profile ICW members, who are appalled. Isaac is on the same street, driven in a car with Darkness. He sees a vision of Jacob Kowalski pulling out his coreless wand to threaten him, then is pulled out of the car by his thousands of cheering supporters, who crowd the street.

Jacob, Kuvira and the four teenagers attend the dinner as instructed. The Dragon Lord soon arrived with his entourage, including Yusuf and Queenie. Jacob would calling for Queenie as she passes him, but she didn't even look at him, while Amity searches without success for Luz. Kuvira is able to prevent the assassination of Vicência Santos but Jacob's reckless face-off with The Dragon Lord, who secretly manipulates his threatening movements via magic, allows The Wolf to frame him for attempting to kill him. Another wizard saw the altercation between the two with Jacob holding Nasser at wand-point and yelled "assassin!", the dinner breaking into a frenzy. Kuvira casts a spell with her wand, making it appear as Jacob's wand was actually magical, creating a weather storm within the hall, making all the wizards present, including the enemy, exit in the chaos.

The six army members barely escape, giving Isaac Nasser an incentive to turn the wizarding world against the allies. Queenie secretly aids in their escape by launching a chair at Helmut and his henchmen to distract them as Yusaf gently leads her away and buy Jacob and the others more time to escape, the six escaping via Kuvira’s Portkey book. Meanwhile Bolin enters the Erkstag prison and successfully rescues his brother despite the guarding Manticore and the warden attempting to stop them.

The group reunite at Zaofu Pine Prep Great Hall, where Bolin and Mako find Kuvira giving several students career advice while Jacob ate and spoke with some others. After all the students leave for their lessons, the Sansson brothers learn of their foe’s new position and go to the Hog's Head for dinner.

   As the Dragon Lord uses Necromancy in order to zombify the Qilin he killed in front of Luz, King, Darkness and Anton Vogel (who is secretly one of his supporters), subsequently having a vision of another Qilin and getting furious at Luz and King, Fader confronts Luz’s mother, Camilia (who, following her husband’s death years ago, has grown deeply averse to magic) about her responsibilities to Luz, encouraging her to take up her wand again, and Bolin learns the truth about Fader's past as Luz, disillusioned with The Dragon Lord, secretly contacts them via a mirror asking to return home. Fader comes up with a plan to save everyone with Luz and King's help, and the next day, she tells the others that they must go to Bhutan to stop their enemy, as the election will be held there.

Travelling to Bhutan with a device provided by the Room of Requirement, each with a suitcase, one the true one, the other fakes. They split up and, after several battles, are able to defeat all of Isaac's disciples based in Eyrie to attempt to seize the Qilin assisted by the traps Fader had placed within the copied cases, with Yusuf revealing his true allegiance in process. Jacob also met Queenie, who he wanted to persuade to return, but she insisted that it was too late for her, stating she had made far too many mistakes. Moments later, they were captured by Darkness and several acolytes, who have secretly pursued Queenie, and led to the ceremony. Bolin, meanwhile, nearly reaches the election stage, but bumps into Henrietta Fischer, secretary to Vogel, who claims that Fader had contacted her, a claim Bolin is uncertain whether to believe due to the presence of so many Dark Ones. Fischer takes the case from Bolin after several Dark Ones stunning him and proceed onwards, while Bolin awakens among the feet of the crowd. Pursuing Fischer, Bolin later discovers the case he has is a fake after it Fischer turns and makes as if to hands the case to the young Earthbender, only for it to disintegrate in Fischer’s hands.

The Dragon Lord uses the zombified Qilin to be announced as the Supreme Mugwump to the watching world (including Opal, Korra, Tenzin and Asami, standing among the crowds of Republic City citizens watching a magical vision of the scene from the city) and has his people bring Jacob before him. After Darkness takes Jacob's wand and strides forwards to pass it to her husband and master, the Dragon Lord makes a speech to his the world at large, immediately declares war on the Day Ones and oppressors, to his millions of gathered followers and supporters cheered delight, torturing Jacob for his attempts to assassinate him and to make an example of him. However, Luz, a similarly disillusioned Queenie, and Bolin are able to expose him, Luz denouncing the 'Qilin' to be dead, before Darkness cuts her off with secret bloodbending, and Bunty reveals the true Qilin. It chooses Vicência after Fader refuses to be the next Supreme Mugwump. His plans having been foiled, The Dragon Lord angrily attempts to kill Luz, who Darkness has weakened, but Fader and Camilia save her. As he was protecting Luz rather than attacking her cousin in the clash, the blood pact finally breaks, and Fader immediately battles the Dragon Lord. The intense battle ends with their wands on each other's head and their hands on the other's heart, reaching a stalemate, and Fader moves herself away from the Dragon Lord, who sneeringly asked who will love her now. Most of the small crowd of officials, bar the Dragon Lord’s followers, attacked then, forcing the Dragon Lord before a ledge. Telling Fader and the crowd that he was never their enemy, not now or then, The Dragon Lord subsequently retreats.

The weakened Luz is reunited with her mother, girlfriend and best friends and is taken away for recovery by her mother as the Dragon guarding her follows them. In the aftermath of the election, Jacob and Queenie marry with most of the group and Opal attending, reuniting Bolin and Opal. Fader watches from a distance as she thanks Bolin for all he's done before walking away alone.

*Troubled times are still ahead for Bolin and his friends. Even with The Dragon Lord thwarted, he is still out there and he has began his plans to take victory, even if by force, and the Global Wizarding War will truly begin soon. While the heroes are given a brief respite and moment of happiness, it is clear the road ahead will be filled with many difficulties even after this victory …*

## Characters

* **Bolin Sannson**
A young earthbender and lavabender of multi-national origin, as well as a self-proclaimed magizoologist. He is a confidant of Fader Magicar, despite being an outcast from certain circles of the community due to his checked past. He served as the co-leader of the band of individuals united to fight the Dragon Lord where people like Bolin's friend Korra cannot and is nearly always accompanied by his fire ferret companion, Pabu. He is currently in a long-distance relationship with Opal Beifong.
* **Princess Fader**
* **Mako Sansson**
Bolin's firebending older brother who is a dedicated and loyal Policeman, as well as the Head of the Auror Office in the Republic City Ministry of Magic. He is famous for the title "war hero" for his excellent show of bravery and generosity in the various conflcits he partook in as a member of Team Avatar. He constantly tries to tame Bolin into more elegance so that he is better accepted in society, yet loves him all the same and cares deeply for him. Mako is level-headed and fiercely loyal, but tragically seems to have lost his fiancée Ophelia Brown after she apparently died, sacrificing herself in The Dragon Lord's rally in Pere Lachaise, Republic City to save the Sansson brothers.
* **Kuvira Beifong (true name: Kuvira d'Lestrange)**
Once known as the Great Uniter, Kuvira, having fulfilled her house arrest sentence, now serves as a respected Charms teacher at Illvermory School as well as a warrior and is Suyin Beifong's surrogate daughter and Opal, Wei, Wing and Huan's adopted foster sister. She has since been enlisted into Fader's Army and is currently reengaged to her former fiancé Baatar Jr. She is well known for her skill in magic, her witty tongue and her sharp mind, but has a tragic backstory regarding her parents, her cruel father having never loved her, nor given the love she really needed as a child before giving her to Suyin as a protégé.
* **Jacob Kowalski**
An Earth Kingdom nonbender veteran of the Earth Wars, owner of a bakery, friend of Bolin's, and lover of Queenie who has since had experience with the Dragon Lord's activities. When she returns he later marries her and Bolin serves as his best man.
* **Queenie Nightingale**
The pretty and vivacious renegade younger sister of Scarlet Nightingale, who worked alongside her in the **M**agical **C**ongress of the **U**nited **S**tates of **R**epublic **C**ity (MACUSRC). She is a powerful natural Legilimens. After being convinced that The Dragon Lord will make her dream of marrying Jacob come true, she went rogue and joined his side as an advisor, telling him how to address Luz, and, eventually abandoning her lover and sister. She later returns to Jacob and they marry at his bakery. Opal serves as maid of honour.
* **Bunty Broadacre**
Bolin Sannson's soft-spoken but indispensable Magizoology assistant and a member of Fader's army
* **Yusuf Aama**
A Republic City wizard of Senegalese descent from an old Wizarding family, the half-brother of Ophelia Brown and an ally of Bolin, who previously attempted to kill Luz while falsely believing him to be his former stepfather's daughter, Corvina White V. Now he seeks vengeance on the Lord of Dragons for his half-sister, who's absence he feels every day.
* **Luz Noceda**
A young witch from foreign shores who sought a way to find her way back to her mother, Camilia, as well as unravel the truth about her father. This prompted her to join the Dragon Lord, who believed Luz and Luz alone could kill Princess Fader. It is later revealed she is half-human, half-Magicar and becomes disillusioned of her master's cause, resulting in her defected at a crucial moment in the war against the Lord of Dragons and reuniting which her mother and best friends.
	+ **King**
	A strange, small creature – about the size of a small dog – who acts as the closest thing to an animal familiar. He is covered in soft, black fur and has a canine-like face concealed under what appears to be a skull-styled mask. Armed with the ability to speak, King is loyal to Luz and will often follow her anywhere, which has resulted in him joined The Alliance with Luz.
* **Amity Blight**
Luz’s loyal and affectionate girlfriend and a skilled, violet-haired witch. She specializes in the Abomination Track – manipulating and forging items from a sludge-like substance. After Luz is manipulated into joining The Alliance, Amity has since joined Bolin’s anti-Dragon Lord movement to save her beloved from the Dark Lord’s poison.
* **Willow Park**
One of Luz's closest friends, just as Amity specialises in Abominations, Willow is skilled in Herbology and Plantcraft. A somewhat timid, but loyal girl, Willow, like all her friends, is a bit of a loner and prefers to stick with her nearest friends and as such has joined Fader's army to help save Luz.
* **Gus Porter**The youngest of Luz's small group of friends and of Fader's army. Determined, smart and occasionally reckless, Gus is most skilled in conjuring Illusions to fool and trick his foes.
* Nagini
Once the main attraction of a wizarding circus and freak show called Circus Arcanus and a Maledictus, who carries a blood curse that enables her to transform herself into a snake. For as long as Nagini can remember, the Circus Master Skender has exploited her transformative powers, resulting in Nagini becoming a timid, soft-spoken woman. Nagini befriends Luz and her friends when they work as a menial worker at the circus, then escaped with them and beheld Luz joining the Dragon Lord, after which she pledged her services to Fader and Bolin's group.
* **The Dragon Lord**
An infamous powerful dark wizard who caused mass violence, terror and chaos around the globe, seeking to lead a new World Order based on his strong belief that the separate nations are archaic and that by merging the entire world together into a single empire under his rule, he will create world peace. He leads a vast army of dedicated followers known as The Dark Ones, who he rules with an iron fist and, despite his actions, possesses many supporters who believe in the ideals of his cause. Before donning the title of 'Lord of the Dragons' (a title he took in honour of the army of wild dragons that, along with the Dark Ones, he leads, the Dragon Lord, then known by his birth name: **Isaac Nasser**, and his cousin Fader Magicar were as close as siblings, although they never felt the romantic attraction Isaac and Fader's sister, Darkness, felt towards each other. The Dragon Lord however, after becoming a Dragon Rider and seeing the suffering of some under foolish rulers, believed that all world leaders must be deposed off, leaving for the fractured Northern Kingdoms (which he reunited into the Northern Empire and took control of) which Darkness, 12 other Dragon Riders he persuaded to join his cause (who, along with Darkness, formed the 13 Forsworn), the 13's dragons, his own Dragon Inferno and a vast swarth of followers, becoming estranged from Fader and his three siblings in the process. He is an extraordinarily powerful wizard who wields command over the powers of Night itself.
* **Princess Darkness Magicar**
The Dragon Lord’s wife, cousin and devoted deputy, as well as a member of the infamous 13 Forsworn (13 Dragon Riders who betrayed their order to join the Lord of Dragons in his cause) and a disowned princess of the Kingdom of Magicar. Though officially, Darkness is the Dragon Lord’s third-in-command, she is his true right-hand witch who serves him with unquestioning obedience and often acts as his most constant companion. She is the Dragon Lord's most trusted confident and is ruthless and cunning in her actions against his enemies, being capable of killing without remorse and twisting nearly any situation to her master's advantage, yet is also a sophisticated, powerful and mysterious spellcaster who loathes her sister Fader with great conviction for her threat against the Alliance and possesses a strong bond with her black dragoness partner, Darkener.
* **Opal Beifong**
The daughter of Suyin Beifong and Baatar Snr, foster sister of Kuvira and Bolin's airbender love interest. After the events of the Lord of Dragons' Republic City rally, which she attended, Opal was promoted to head of the Republic City Air Fighting Force, leaving her unable to join Bolin's army, although she later reunited with her boyfriend during her friend Queenie's wedding, where she served as the maid of honour.
* **Camilia Noceda**
Luz’s loving mother and the widowed wife of the deceased Felix. It is revealed the Camilia is in face a magic user and a descendant of a long line of human spellweavers, but after the death of her beloved husband, she shunned magic and attempted to protect her daughter from it. After this failed and Luz was separated from Camilia, which in turn led to her joining The Dragon Lord, however, Camilia agrees to take up her wand again to save her child.
* **Anton Vogel**
The current Supreme Mugwump – the elected leader of the International Confederation of Nations – and the Minister of the Germenian Ministry for Magic whose career in coming to a close. Though he portrays himself as a fair and justice individual who has allowed the Dragon Lord to campaign for the position of his successor, Vogel is revealed to in truth be a secret follower of the Enemy who is assisting him in his corrupt intentions
* **Vicência Santos**
A candidate for the post of Supreme Head of ICN and Minister for Magic of Brazilia. Of the two originals (Santos and another candidate, Lui Dao), Vicência was unofficial noted in the papers to be the most likely to win. After Fader refused to take the position, Santos was chosen by the Qilin as the next leader of the magical world.
* **Lui Tuo**
A candidate for the Supreme Mugwump post and Minister for Magic of Japani. Lui Dao is a fair and noble man who opposes the Dragon Lord and his cause and is friendly towards his rival, Vicência Santos, as well as Nicholas Flamel and Suyin Beifong.
* **Orazira Lestrange**
The Dragon Lord's second-in-command and the deputy leader of the 13 Forsworn (aka the Forsworn), as well as the rider of the red dragon Ragnarök. She is fanatically devoted to her master, though not on the scale of Darkness's loyalty, and is proud of her rank in The Dark Lord's army, but her several failures has resulted in her beginning to lose her master's faith. She is currently engaged to Grimler Magicar, a fellow Forsworn member.
* **Prince Grimler**
Darkness's twin brother, Fader's estranged younger brother, the disowned Prince of Magicar and a member of The 13 Forsworn, his dragon partner is a dark brown named Gintoss. He is a skilled and intelligent warrior and battle leader with a great degree of knowledge in a range of weaponry, not just his typical rider sword, as well as a immensely powerful dark wizard who specializes in brutal dark magic. He and Orazira Lestrange are engaged fiancés and Grimler and his twin share a close bond.
* **Farland Kingsbrood**
Visibly the oldest of the 13 *Wyrdfell*, Farland goes by the self-imposed title of the Chompy Mage. However, in the series of events of the Dragon Lord's war, Farland was driven slightly mentally unhinged, although his loyalty to his master is not swayed.
* **Suyin Beifong**
Opal’s mother, Kuvira’s foster mother, Lin Beifong’s half-sister, the daughter of Toph and the Matriarch of the Metal City of Zaofu. She is an ally of the Order of the Dragons and Bolin’s Army, though not officially a member and is the one of alert Fader of her cousin’s new position. Suyin is a staunch humanist who is supportive in the technological progress that helps humanity. Though proud of her surrogate daughter's actions against the Dragon Lord, Suyin still silently prays for Kuvira to be careful.
* **Carrow**
One of the Dark Ones that make up the Dragon Lord’s inner circle of acolytes, she serves him obediently in his schemes and is a ruthless Dark Witch, willing to commit murder on her master's command.
* **Zabini**
A dark-skinned acolyte of the inner circle who serves as one of the Dragon Lord’s loyal underlings during his attempts to take the position of Supreme Mugwump.
* **Helmut**
A Germenian Auror with whom Mako is apparently acquainted with, yet is later revealed to be a Dark One member who assists in conducting Dragon Lord operations in the Germenian Ministry.