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  1. Mysticon Scout5 (Guest) on Chapter 1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 10:10PM UTC

    I'd expected for him to have access to the Ocean (the element Water) at this point at least, being a master airbender and lightningbender already makes Callum extraordinarily strong but with waterbending added makes him ever more of a formidable mage opponent, which is saying something when he will later gain the arcanums of the Earth and Sun, Moon and Stars.

    Callum being the first human prodigy in history (if the Jailer was not the very first and most powerful high mage prodigy of her time) to bend all six primal sources of deep magic (an alternate way to four of the eight classical elements) makes him quite a force to be reckoned with as much as Archmage Aaarvos, as he wells knows. I am have a feeling that deep down, he is afraid of Callum.

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    1. Talia_Black on Chapter 1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 10:38PM UTC

      More on Callum's magical path will be addressed in the next chapter. I will say, Callum has gaping holes in his studies as a result of being essentially self-taught. Aaravos, who has been an archmage for a millennia, vastly outstrips him in pretty much every way possible when it comes to magic. Barring some incredibly clever plan or Disney-approved deus ex machina, Callum cannot realistically beat Aaravos in a one-on-one. (They are apparently introducing another Startouch elf next season, and I suspect the show's plan for Aaravos' downfall starts there.)

      Callum may be a prodigy, but Aaravos himself was also a prodigy. Tack on lifetimes of experience and study that Callum could never hope to replicate, and it's rendered moot. Aaravos doesn't fear Callum, merely sees his potential and wishes to harness it to finish the task he set out to do. If Aaravos does fear something, it's certainly being tossed back into the mirror.

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      1. Mysticon Scout5 (Guest) on Chapter 1 Sun 26 Nov 2023 11:47PM UTC

        Into the pearl, you mean. And why would he fear something far greater than our dove of the Heavens?
        Make it sound like here, there is an ancient, deeper magical power beyond both Callum and Aaarvos combined.

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