Zandric

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**Zandric**, formerly known as the **Red Guard**, is a major character in *The Owl House*, initially depicted as an antagonist. He was the left-hand man of Emperor Belos. Zandric was presumed to be another nephew of Belos and as such, he was dedicated to his cause of ending all wild magic in the realm, but in reality, he is the latest version of the Red Guard clones created by Belos to serve him faithfully in his mad quest.

After becoming the Golden Guard he acted as another enforcer for Emperor Belos and antagonist to the residents of the Owl House. However, a chance encounter with Luz Noceda, gives Zandric a new perspective to life outside the Emperor's Coven. This soon culminates with Zandric learning the truth of his origins. Upon this discovery, and realizing he can never go back, Zandric abandons Belos and the Emperor's Coven altogether. Following his desertion, Zandric relocated to Hexside School of Magic and Demonics in order to hide from the emperor's reach with Hunter. There, he found acquaintances in Hexside's students, and after coming to terms with his identity, Zandric made it his goal to help them stand against Belos' plan to wipe out the Demon Realm.

Following the Day of Unity, Zandric and his friends were stranded in the Human Realm and spent the months working away to return to the Demon Realm. Unbeknownst to him and everyone else, a remnant of Belos returned to possess his brother Hunter, who nearly killed Flapjack in the process. However, this gave Zandric the courage to stand up against his uncle. Vowing to honor Hunters palisman, Flapjack for saving his brother Hunter, Zandric accompanied his friends to the Demon Realm to save everyone trapped by the Collector. After the group escapes capture by the Collector, Zandric helps evacuate the trapped residents from the Boiling Isles' destruction. Following the defeat and death of Belos, Zandric chooses to stay in the human realm with Vee, Luz and Xane as during his time on Earth he fell in love with Vee.

## Appearance

### Body

Zandric, like many of the Grimwalks before him, was created with the likeness of Belos' late older brother, Caleb Wittebane. He is a humanoid boy sharing the physical traits of a witch such as pointed ears. He has pale skin, a slightly hooked nose, dark magenta eyes, thick black eyebrows, bags under his eyes, however the only thing different about him is that he has black hair that is shaved below the top, with a blonde long, jagged forelock. He has a scar on his right cheek. He additionally has a sigil of the Emperor's Coven branded onto his right wrist.

In the epilogue of "Watching and Dreaming", Zandric's hair has grown out slightly further. Additionally, he has a red tattoo of a cardinal covers the place on his right arm where his coven sigil had previously been, to symbolize the loss of Flapjack.

### Clothes

During his time in the emperor's court, Zandric wore a red and black colored bird like hooded cloak, like other members of the Emperor's Coven. Under the cloak was a black, gold and red tunic with darker sleeves and a dark red belt, black, gold and grey leggings, black gloves with red braces and the empeors coven logo on them, and he has black boots with a golden trim. He wore a red pauldron on his left shoulder and a pointed two-faceted mask with a thin eye-slot across it. Underneath his tunic, he had a black and gold shirt and black gold chest armor with red straps.

In the epilogue to "Watching and Dreaming", Zandric wears a white collared shirt with red sleeves and picture of Flapjack, red pants with white feathers on them, white gloves with red cuffs, a red belt with a gold belt buckle, and red boots.Zandric

## Personality

As the Red guard, Zandric is very quiet and prideful in this perosna, while working for the Emperor’s coven. He was more layed-back, easy going then Emperor Belos, sometimes comedic and snarky in his dialogue. Despite his high-ranking position and upper-class status, he never takes advantage of his power for personal gain, only using his authority when ordered by Emperor Belos himself. He showed respect towards Belos, yet quite a bit of hubris and egotism towards anyone else. Unlike Hunter he hides his face underneath to hide something he is not comfortable with showing anyone who he looks like which shows that he's mysterious and doesn’t trust anyone. However deep down he is a nice person but he hides it from everyone.

## Abilities

### **Skillset**

* **Agility**: Although not an expert, Zandric has some degree of agility and parkour skills.
* **Combat**: Zandric displays some degree of physical fighting skills, using his staff and agility to evade and parry attacks as well as to land physical strikes on his opponents.

### **Unique Abilities**

* **Magic**: Zandric is highly skilled in magic and due to him being a wild witch his magic is not limited to one type of magic. Like all witches, his magic comes from a sac of magic bile attached to his heart.
* **Fire magic**: Zandric can summon flames with the snap of his fingers. He can produce fire in all forms, from lighting candles simultaneously to conjuring streams of flame. Zandric can also grasp balls of fire.
* **Lightning magic**: Zandric can summon massive bolts of electricity out of thin air. He can also conjure multiple circles of the spell at once for more damage.
* **Bard Magic**: Zandric can use music to manipulate the world around himself.
* **Flight**: Hunter can use his staff to fly, he is extremely skilled at flying.

## Gallery

*To view the various designs of **Zandric**, click **here**.*

## Trivia

* Zandric gets along well with Hunter and sees him as a father.
* Like Hunter, Zandric palisman is also a bird which shows that he and Hunter share some things in common.