Lord Viren (also known as High Mage Viren) is one of the two secondary antagonists of the high fantasy adventure series, The Dragon Prince. He is the High Mage of the Royal Court who uses dark magic to solve his problems. He is also King Harrow's former best friend, Claudia and Soren's father, as well as the latter and Rayla's archenemy. He is also formerly the unwitting pawn of Aaravos, who he was trying to help break out of his prison.
Two years later, he was revived by Claudia, who went great-lengths to save him. They needed to find Aaravos' prison so the spell on Viren would be made permanent. After stealing the map from Umber Tor, Viren fell into a coma, and went through a vision quest where he gained an awakening. However, the heroes got the Pearl before Claudia could. Despite Viren's death, he was shortly revived by Claudia but left her alone in disgust. He would later return to Katolis but his return was faced with grief from Soren and anger from Ezran. However, Viren sacrificed his heart in order to save the people of Katolis from Sol Regem's fire. Before he used the spell, Viren begins to remember his good memories with Lissa, Soren, and Claudia.
He was succeeded by Prince Callum as the next High Mage of Katolis.
Sky magic: With the assistance of a Sky Primal Stone and later Aaravos, Lord Viren was able to use sky magic.
Aspiro Frigis/Ice Blast: A variant of the spell, "Aspiro", "Aspiro Frigis" creates an arctic ice blast that allows the user to immobilize a powerful enemy. Viren cast the spell to immobilize Avizandum, Tiadrin and Lain. He used the same spell on their daughter, Rayla during the battle of the Storm Spire, but he had Aaravos' assistance this time.
Victims
Avizandum (indirectly)
Runaan (trapped in coin, later freed)
Sarai (indirectly; his plan to steal the heart of a magma titan led to Avizandum killing them.)
Neha and Annika (indirectly; his plan to steal the heart of a magma titan led to Avizandum killing them.)
Lain and Tiadrin (trapped in coins; later passed onto the afterlife)
Villainous acts
He performed dark magic to cure his son of a deadly illness. While it was his sacrifice to ensure his son's survival, Lissa grew frustrated and left.
Takes advantage of King Harrow's hidden grief of losing his wife to the Dragon King. Viren points out that because of Avizandum, his sons, Ezran and Callum grew up without a mother. Harrow gave into his hatred and provides the blood Viren needs for the unicorn home. The two murder the Dragon King, who was protecting his unhatched baby son, Azymondias to avenge Sarai's death, something the Queen wouldn't have wanted.
Viren was part of Soren's arrogant behavior.
Refused to let Callum into see his father and warn him that the dragon Prince is still alive. Viren even called him an ungrateful child and threatened to have him arrested. He also victimized Callum by removing his voice just put of spite for Harrow.
Orders Soren to hunt down the Princes and kill Ezran and Callum. He also conspired to drain Azymondias of his life force so Aaravos's powers are replenisher. He later tries to kill Rayla when she defended the Dragon Queen in the season 3 finale. He is willing to hurt Team Zym, despite being children.
He is verbally abusive to his son Soren and turns his attention the Claudia, his favorite.
Killed many others.
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Lord Viren usurps the throne as the King of Katolis.
Claudia's story, beginning
Claudia's story, Ending
Trivia
Originally, Viren was going to have purple eyes but was changed to avoid any confusion that he might be an elf.
The core theme of his character is sacrifice.
Viren is somewhat like Lord Ozai:
They're both power hungry men and powerful users of phenomenal powers (Viren is a dark mage and Ozai is a powerful Firebender).
They also wear dark colors (red for Ozai and black and gold for Viren).
They seek to get rid of an ultimate power (Aang and Zym).
Their enemies are a young group of heroes (Team Avatar and Team Zym) serving as a threat to their goals.
They both need to unite the world together under one rule (Viren wishes to unite all the human kingdoms and wage war on Xadia. Meanwhile, Ozai wants to take over the Four Nations).
They both have two children (Azula and Zuko and Claudia and Soren. They ironically favor the daughter (Azula and Claudia) over the older son (Zuko and Soren).
Both their sons end up getting tired of his abuse and side with the heroes instead.
Unlike Ozai, however Viren is more of a tragic villain. He truly loves his son, as he used dark magic to save Soren when he was a young child and immediately horrified by Aaravos' revelation that his resurrection requires the blood of one of his children to ensure Lord Viren's resurrection.
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