r/TheDragonPrince • u/MrBKainXTR Soren • Nov 22 '19

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Season 3 Episode 9

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u/[deleted] Nov 22 '19

Aaravos's worm has continually grown bigger ever since they left Lux Aurea. I wonder if the worm has parasitic properties. I find it hard to believe that that could be a child of Aaravos, so I would bet more on it being a tangible vessel of some kind.

They really straight up portrayed patricide on screen in a children's show, huh? Damn. Sure, it was an illusion, but it Soren can't be okay with the knowledge that he really has the capability for patricide inside him. On top of that, Claudia is okay with manipulating Soren like this? What does she get out of it? All I can see is that she really has fallen down the rabbit hole, and she's looking to convince herself of something she's been conditioned to already believe: "don't trust your brother." Man, that's heavy.

Claudia's eyes were black when Viren woke up, meaning she just performed a spell, presumably the one to bring Viren back to life. She mentioned the Aaravos-worm crawled into a cocoon 2 days ago. How long have they been there? What was she, and more importantly the other people who's lives she sacrificed, doing this whole time? Maybe she used wounded soldiers who couldn't escape. This is probably one of those things you're just supposed to breeze over though, so whatever.

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u/Wolf6120 Am I your little bug pal? Nov 23 '19

I have no doubt that Aaravos leeched off at least part of the magic that Viren siphoned out of Zym, unless all that was reverted once he got yeeted off the mountain.

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u/Chaotictanker Nov 23 '19

I reckon it's kind of like Zym has a certain amount of magic inside him and if all of it's gone he dies, but he recovers it over time so no harm was done, just that Viren/Aaravos have some of his power.

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u/DarthWingo91 Nov 28 '19

In a lot of fantasy, dragons themselves are sources of magic, so I wouldn't be surprised if Zym recovers rather quickly from that. Especially being the son of such powerful dragons.