| “ | It's up to us now. We have to return this egg. We have to keep it safe and carry it to Xadia. | „ |
| ~ Callum deciding to return the egg of the Dragon Prince to Xadia and end the war between elves, dragons, and humans. |
Prince/High Mage Callum is one of the three main protagonists (alongside King Ezran and Rayla) of Netflix’s The Dragon Prince/King ongoing franchise.
He is the stepson of King Harrow, and one of the two princes of Katolis (alongside his younger half-brother Ezran), who goes on an adventure to get the Dragon Prince to his mother and end the war between elves, humans, and dragons. He is also the boyfriend of the Moonshadow elf Rayla.
In Book 4: Earth, two years after the war with Lord Viren, he becomes the new High Mage of Katolis. He also has a distant relationship with Rayla, who traveled to find and exact her revenge on Viren. Eventually, during their journey to stop Aaravos, the two reconciled their relationship. Seven years later, they become parents to the first half-human, half-elf child in many generations; a daughter who is named after his late mother.
He is voiced by Jack DeSena, who also voices as Sokka of the Southern Water Tribe from Avatar: The Last Airbender and MK from LEGO Monkie Kid.
Personality
Callum has a dry sense of humor, where he makes jokes or with his friends when they are not in danger. Callum also wants to learn magic because he was always interested in it, but was never able to be good at anything.
Callum also can lash out at others when they do the same or to make people less insecure about themselves, although he mostly does it for good reasons and apologizes when in the former situation. Despite his flaws, Callum is a selfless individual, as he cares about others more than his own.
He also refuses to use dark magic, as he knows it's wrong, and only used it once when a dragon was about to get killed by Soren and several human soldiers, and refused it's temptation even when he was very sick and was likely going to die from it. Callum is also very protective of his brother, and would become paranoid when he thought he was in danger when Ezran was planning a birthday party for him.
Despite all of this, Callum has a great desire to learn more magic, and Aaravos notes that him using dark magic once had caused him to become tainted by darkness and he says Callum would fall right to his hand. His desire to become more powerful was so big that he didn't destroy the Key of Aaravos, despite him knowing that it could cause bad things to happen. Callum also had some problems accepting Rayla back because of her leaving him, but he came to reconcile with her later on upon discovering that she is his one deep truth; his light that shines brightly enough to fill the darkness/evil deep within him.
It's revealed that Callum is deeply regretful for using dark magic for Rayla's sake, and tried his best to avoid using it. However, three years later, Ocean Mage Finnegrin had goaded a desperate Callum do it when he told him he planned to kill Rayla out of spite for Callum punching him in front of his crew, since it made Finnegrin look weak. He had again resorted to it a third time to imprison Aaravos in a cursed golden coin, but it was interrupted. However, this still left a moon-white streak in his hair that gradually begins to spread, enough for him to be fully tainted and corrupted by his inner darkness, as Kosmo had warned if Callum ever resorted to dark magic again.
Backstory
Callum was born on the fifteen day/night of July somewhere in the Kingdom of Katolis to a warm-hearted poet Damian and General Sarai of the Standing Battalion during a full moon. Greatly resembling his open-minded, philosophical, poetic father, Callum had lived out the first three to four years of his infancy and being an equally smart and funny toddler until his father had passed on by succumbing to an unspecified breathing illness he had been afflicted with all his life. For the next year, he was doted on by his grieving widowed mother and deaf aunt until the former had accepted a proposal from Prince Harrow himself.
The Dragon Prince
Book One: Moon
At fourteen years old, a cocky and insightful but awkward Prince Callum continued his very best to live up to being adopted into the Katolisian royal family as the stepson of King Harrow and being a good elder half-brother to the nine-year-old heir apparent Ezran. Upon learning that highly trained, brutal elfin assassins are coming to do away with his stepfather in retribution for turning the mighty King of the Dragons to stone and presumably crushing the egg of the great Sky Dragon Prince himself, Callum was determined to go and help the Crownguard in the search, but was rebuffed by his good friend Soren, a fellow Crownguard.
Book Two: Sky
After reading his stepfather's "final" words to him, Prince Callum becomes more fascinated by the rune-cube he had pleadingly asked Rayla to retrieve for him at the Banther Lodge, now knowing it is is called "the Key of Aaravos" and starts rolling it. Noticing mysterious marks left pointing to only one single direction to wherever this "great power" dwells deeper in Xadia, Callum is determined to finally get the hang of the sky arcanum in order to prove Moon Mage Lujanne and others wrong, that humans can indeed do magic other than "dark" magic considered an atrocity!
His theory and everlastingly fierce dedication is ultimately tested when he chooses to cast a dark spell he recalled Claudia casting to restrain the illusions of him and Crown Prince Ezran a few days ago, and Callum magically turns the chains that restrained a Sunfire dragon female into slithering green-black venomous snakes, as he desired to stop Rayla from making any mistakes to endanger herself for Pyrrah's sake. It was this rash first attempt in casting dark magic that resulted in Callum passing out and falling a feverish nightmare of both confusion and epiphany in finally mastering the Sky primal source at last under his own sheer willpower. He demonstrates this to an astonished Rayla, Bat and the infant Dragon Prince Azymondias, by again casting the Aspiro Sky spell which utilizes his own breath as a very powerful and useful weapon from a distance.
Traveling the into Eastern Xadia itself with Rayla and Zym, Prince Callum is nervous at making a good first impression upon meeting Rayla's people of the Silvergrove village in the Moonshadow Forest by donning a weak disguise identical to that of an Earthblood elf. However, he is confused at discovering that he, alongside Rayla and Zym, is completely invisible and unheard to all who live there, as Rayla soon reveals that she has been, in fact, "ghosted" from her homeland.
Two Years Later
Book Four: Earth
Book Five: Ocean
Book Six: Stars
Book Seven: Dark
The Dragon King
Book One: Blood
Seven long years of shared peace and conflict has left High Mage Callum, now twenty-four years old and living in Evrkynd, continuing as Primal High Mage for his younger half-brother, nineteen-year-old King Ezran, has been equally renowned and feared for his extraordinarily high aptitude and affinity of magic and being wholly capable of maintaining his unique role as the first and youngest human being to ever have full access to more than one type of magic in his own right, and without the requirement of any the rare primal stones or gemstones as the rest of his kind does. Having had been a highly accomplished archmage prodigy in Sky magic for an whole decade, in addition to seven more years of perfecting Ocean magic, Callum has more than settled into his new life in Evrkynd City alongside his beloved elfin partner Rayla. The two have grown ever closer since reaffirming their romance at the Star Nexus, and then their stressful yet temporary defeat of Archmage Aaravos, and have now become loving parents to the first half-elf, half-human child to be born in all of Xadia- A daughter whom Rayla has named in honor of her late human grandmother's and her never-ending bravery to the very end!
Now an infinitely loving and deeply devoted father himself, Primal/Deep/Dark High Mage Callum, as a young adult, shows how deeply and infinitely he genuinely loves his newborn daughter with all this heart, wondering how he could he could love her more than he loves anything in the world, becasue she is both his and Rayla's child. An additional white streak has appeared in his brown hair alongside the very first one he had gotten from resorting to dark magic a third time in spite of said spirit/essence-imprisoning spell via the empty cursed golden coin not being fully completed. This addition of further whiteness starting to spread throughout Callum's hair on its own is merely signs that Callum shall indeed be fully overwhelmed by the perpetual empty corruption and wholeheartedly embrace his own innermost darkness in its entirety, no matter what he tries to fight it.
Powers and Abilities
Magical Powers
- Primal Magic: Callum became the first human mage to ever connect primal magic without using a conduit or a source. In Season 2, he forged a connection to the sky arcanum. He can also use several moon spells through Moon Opals and later forged a connection with the Ocean arcanum during Season 5. Seven years later, he shall finally master the last four sources of the Moon, Earth, the Sun and the Stars after an entire decade of extensive training and dedication to possess and master all magic.
- Sky Magic: Callum was able to understand the sky arcanum by drawing from the sky. His sky magic is stronger near the Storm Spire and the Storm. His most commonly used spells are "Aspiro," which creates a strong breath of wind and Fulminis, allowing Callum to generate white-blue electricity in a variety of forms. He also a spell that allowed him, Rayla and Ezran breathe in areas of low oxygen and a spell that allowed him to grow brown wings from his hands to his shoulders, granting Callum flight.
- Ocean Magic: After connecting to the Ocean after three years of pouring through Ocean spellbooks, Callum used spells that negated Finnegrin's blood-freezing spell and allowed him, Rayla and Ezran to breathe underwater via "mage gills." He also created conjured a waterspout to assist their shadowpaw mount out of the Frozen Sea, summoned a shield out of seawater to defend from Dark Sun Mage Claudia's vile corrupted/darker Sunfire magics, and to partially freeze the Tidebound Archipelago floor in ice which had collided/cancelled out Claudia's Dark Sun spell to burn said floor. Initially, he had intended to cast a very powerful Ocean spell that would have again imprisoned Archmage Aaravos within an additional Ocean Pearl. However, Aaravos had a contingency by sending Claudia to do away with the Ocean Archmage Akiyu.
- Moon Magic: He has yet to fully gain access to the mystical Moon primal source. At one point, he used a moon opal to perceive what had ultimately become of Rayla's long-lost parents. And two weeks later, he reconstructed most of the Moonhenge at the Moon Nexus by drawing on his natural photographic memory with an additional moon opal.
- Earth Magic:
- Sun Magic:
- Star Magic:
- Dark Magic: Callum can still use this dark and quite unnatural form of corrupted and wild type of corrupted magic if he draws power from the life force of a magical organism but he has only used it in dire situations. He mainly used the Snake Morphing Spell, which he used to turn Pyrrah's chains into snakes, and his own steel bindings in "Finnegrin's Wake." Out of options, he resorted to trapping part of Aaravos' vital essence in the cursed golden coin he had revived Runaan from, but the spell was interrupted. However, this still left him a moon-white streak of a gradual corruption and darkness in his brown hair; seven years later an additional white streak has appeared.
- Deep/Old Magic:
- Blood Magic:
Natural Abilities
- Art: Callum is a very skilled artist, having made realistic portraits of many individuals and paying attention to details.
- Photographic Memory: He can remember mostly anything he has seen for the very first glance, which he expresses in his drawings. He can also recall things at very first glance, like carvings or etchings on a wall, by drawing them in perfect detail.
- Sign Language: Callum has an limited knowledge of sign language, which he used to communicate with Aunt Amaya due to her deafness.
- Physical Strength: While not appearing super strong bodily, his strength and prowess in all kinds of the mystical arts is quite apparent as it is effective.
- Master Tactician & Strategist: He can think ahead and think things through whenever the situation calls for it.
- Adaptability: He is capable of adapting to almost any situation with relative ease, as he is the most open-minded of the team.
- Dancing: He was able to reenact a Moonshadow elfin ritual to reconstruct most of the Moonhenge from his enhanced memory alone.
- Meditation: This higher state of mind helps him in gaining more insight on primal magic, mainly the the Sky to which has the first and strongest connection to.
- Riding: This seems to not be an ability that does not come easily and naturally to him as much as magic does.
- Swimming: Since becoming an ocean archmage prodigy in his own right, his swimming skills become easier now that he has full power over water.
Trivia
- His name Callum derives from Gaelic that translates to Dove King. It also derives from Caelum, which means Heaven and Sky in Latin. This is explored through him becoming a master Sky archmage first, and the fact that he is destined to work alongside the primal/deep/dark archmage Aaravos to enact his bitter, coldblooded vengeance on the other Startouch elves by ushering in a new cosmic order called "the great unraveling."
- Callum so far only knows how to use the Sky Arcanum. He later connected to the Ocean Arcanum in Season 5.
- Callum learned a distressed fact in Season four; having used even one dark spell left a taint in him that Aavaros can take advantage of, having even possessed Callum to be used as a way to communicate with Team Zym and Zubeia.
- In Season 6: Stars, High Mage Callum cleanses himself by taking in starlight to heal the holes in his spirit caused by the dark magic he had used twice to save Rayla, whose everlasting love for her is so profound and genuine that she is his one deep truth and his inner light that shines brightly enough to fill the darkness/evil within him that has manifested as his cloaked darker side three years prior when his fourteen-year-old self was desperately attempting to connect to the Sky primal source in his own right.
- He is addressed as high mage by the staff of the castle after the time-skip. Though it remains unknown if he is still considered a prince, he is referred to as "Prince Callum" by High Clerc Opeli in "Rebirthday" and "Domina Profundis", and Claudia in "Infantis Sanguine," implying that he still has his previous title.
- Since Callum is voiced by Jack DeSena, it is funny to mention that Callum is an exceptionally flawless artist/painter and is very detailed and thorough when it comes to images, much unlike Sokka, whom despite being a creative person, is not very good when it comes to drawing but is an expert map-reader.
- Callum's quote "One does not walk into Xadia" is a reference to the popular Lord of the Rings quote by Boromir, who said "One does not simply walk into Mordor."
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