‘The Dragon Prince’ creators tease the past and future in their ‘best season’ yet
Creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond discuss character arcs, Aaravos, and the very big bigger picture of The Dragon Prince season 3.
This interview is spoiler-free for The Dragon Prince season 3.
For fans, the wait for The Dragon Prince season 3 may seem interminable. But rest assured, series creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond are even more eager to share the slowly-unfolding story as fans are to drink it all in.
When the nine-episode third season hits Netflix on Nov. 22, the quiet epic of The Dragon Prince will once again blossom past prior boundaries. The dense current-day plot — an infant dragon returned to his mother by enemies-turned-friends, a boy assuming the mantle of king, a mage who may have made a deal with the devil — is in constant dialogue with a past both ancient and painfully recent.
Hypable recently spoke with Richmond and Ehasz on the careful process of unfolding The Dragon Prince, their plans for exploring future stories from Xadia — and what it’s like to see the internet lose it over your work when the story is just getting started.
How do you guys feel going into ‘The Dragon Prince’ season 3?
Justin Richmond: I’m really excited! This season we spent a lot of time trying to make sure that a lot of the really cool stuff that comes, particularly later in the season, both feels amazing from the writing, but also looks amazing and is [on] another level from what we’ve done before. So I’m really excited for people to see it. Yes, it’s going great!
Aaron, you’ve been posting a lot of teases for season 3 on Twitter —
Richmond: To be fair, he teases stuff at the office too! It’s not just for the public!
Well, it’s been an interesting blend of comedy and tragedy in those hints. Does that tell us anything about the tone of the season?
Aaron Ehasz: I think it will have the usual mix and blend, but it will also be more serious and more intense than the previous seasons.
You’ve mentioned that Book 3 acts as a kind of conclusion for the first segment of ‘The Dragon Prince.’
Ehasz: I would clarify that it’s not the end. I would say that it’s the culmination of a set of significant arcs, but there are still a lot of open questions and things that are not resolved, and new things that are bigger questions that start. So, I think there was a misunderstanding that went out when I said that the pieces formed, in some ways, whole parts of the arc, but–
Richmond: There’s a lot more going on. It doesn’t just end and then, ah, okay, everything’s cool.
Ehasz: It’s a culmination, not an end.
