Honestly, when you eventually see Rayla, she's been through two years of struggle, and it's made certain things really clear to her, but maybe too late.

What was it about having that time jump, and how did you want to approach Xadia and these characters after a two-year gap?Īaron Ehasz: Having a time-jump was a huge opportunity in a lot of ways to evolve each of the characters a little bit in a way that made sense and see two years of change baked in - Callum's feelings about love versus his devotion to magic or seeing Amaya and Janai's relationship and where that is. It's almost a reset on design and status quo. That time jump gives you the opportunity to redesign everybody. I think that time-skip lets us do some really interesting stuff that hopefully fans will dig as they start to get into Season 4, and I'm super interested for people to see it. It's super fun to introduce the characters in a different way - they're older, they've got different struggles now, and they're the same characters that they were in Season 3. I think people will hopefully be surprised when they find out the whole story that's been going on there. He's so intricately woven into the fabric of what Xadia is. All will eventually be revealed, and he's just a fascinating character. Justin Richmond: It's awesome! When we started tackling Season 4 and beyond, we knew that Aaravos was going to be a big piece of it, unraveling what was happening there and what his plan is. How was it turning over some of these cards this season? We finally see the grand deceiver who has quietly been shaping the history of Xadia, with the fate of the continent hanging in the balance.

CBR: With Season 4, it feels like everything leading up to this was subtext.

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