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14-year-old Luz Noceda (Sarah-Nicole
Robles) just could not fit in. Teachers found her troublesome and disruptive, classmates
found her weird and gross, and Luz herself had little interest in what the
“real world” had to offer. Instead, she was enthralled with the fantastical
elements found in The
Good Witch Azura book series—something her father got her
into around the time of his passing. After one too many incidents of Luz
enhancing her reports with animals, insects and explosives, her mother, Camila
(Elizabeth Grullon), was encouraged to send her to a special
summer camp that would help “normalize” her. Instead, Luz found her way
through a portal to the Demon Realm, populated by magical beings, supernatural
creatures, and other oddities. A place where Luz could finally find her place
and become a witch.
Season 1 poster featuring Luz, Eda and King riding Owlbert.
The Owl House was created by Dana Terrace--the
4th series for Disney
Television Animation to be created by a woman--while she was
working on the reboot of DuckTales.
Feeling
unfulfilled artistically and emotionally, the works of painters Hiëronymus
Bosch and Remedios
Varo
inspired her to pitch a show to with strong surreal visual elements. She
shopped it to places like Cartoon
Network and Nickelodeon
before Disney
ultimately picked it up. The show would deal with the themes of uniqueness and
conformity, inspired by Terrace’s own childhood of being bullied for her habit
of drawing roadkill and people constantly trying to dash her dreams of becoming
a cartoonist, as well as mature topics like grief and depression. Additionally,
the show was an attempt to prove a colleague who thought “it was a dumb idea”
wrong. Disney had concerns about the horror elements she wanted to include, but
Terrace argued that Disney often ran the full spectrum of emotions in their
works already and she liked being a little scared when she was younger. Ultimately,
they allowed her to do a great deal of what she envisioned—with some
compromises.
The Boiling Isles (top) and Bonesborough.
The series was primarily set on a
place called the Boiling
Isles, which was comprised of various towns and districts
built on the decaying corpse of a giant being known as a Titan;
in particular, the town of Bonesborough
around which most of the show was set. Initially, Terrace considered setting
it in the afterlife after Luz had died. Witches and demons
were the main population; most of them resembling humans beyond their pointed
ears and unique skin tones, while others had very non-human extra appendages or
proportions. Magic was granted to them by sacks attached to their hearts, and
the majority of their spells were cast by first drawing an energy circle in the
air (the bigger the circle, the more powerful the spell). The Isles was meant
to represent the cycle of death and rebirth found in nature. Along with the
influence from surreal artwork, the designers took inspiration from medieval
architecture for various locations and made real-life elements different to
further distinguish the Demon Realm from the Human Realm; such as water being
purple as well as boiling, vegetation being red instead of green (changed from
black due to Luz’s hair constantly being lost in it), a beverage of choice
being apple
blood instead of apple juice, etc. And
while there was a medieval influence to the world, modern elements were also
incorporated, such as tiny magic scrolls
acting as mobile devices that browsed the web, took photos and video, allowed
texting and accessed to their social media of choice, Penstagram;
crystal
balls that could be used as televisions, video phones and
computers; and crows
used as phones.
Painting of Belos eliminating wild witches.
50
years prior to the start of the series, a powerful witch known as Belos
(Matthew Rhys) rose to power and became Emperor of the Isles, building his castle
around the still-beating heart of the Titan (Arin Hanson)
with whom he claimed he could communicate with. As part of the “Titan’s will”,
he banned the practice of “dangerous” wild magic and created the Coven System.
At a certain point, witches were required to join a coven where they would be branded
with a sigil on their wrist that would restrict their
magical abilities to those specific to that coven.
The Coven colors and their symbols: Potions, Abomination, Plant, Healing, Construction, Beast Keeping, Illusion, Bard and Oracle.
The
nine main covens were the Abomination
Coven, which utilized a purple ooze to create golems or
constructs; the Bard
Coven, whose magic was cast via soundwaves, particularly
those generated by instruments; the Beast
Keeping Coven, focusing on the taming and control of
various beasts and the assuming of bestial traits when needed; the Construction
Coven, which built and created things from the earth; the Healing
Coven, which dealt with various forms of medicinal
treatments; the Illusion
Coven, able to create various kinds of illusions and often
derided for their spells’ lack of physicality; the Oracle
Coven, which dealt in fortune-telling, spirits and
mind-based spells; the Plant
Coven, specializing in the manipulation and rapid growth of
flora; and the Potions
Coven, which concocted potions of different varieties and
effects. Additionally, there was the Emperor’s
Coven, often considered the most elite, where witches
worked directly for the Emperor and were able to keep access to all of their
magic. Other smaller
covens also existed as extensions of the main ones geared
towards particular interests (Tiny Cat Coven, Carnivorous Plant Coven, Fashion
Coven, Prose Coven, Wood Coven, etc.).
The Bat Queen and her orphaned Palisman charges.
Witches customarily also had a Palisman.
Palismen were sentient magical totems carved into a creature form (generally
resembling a normal animal, like a bird or sloth) from a special kind of wood
called Palistrom.
Palismen acted as loyal friends and familiars to witches they bonded with, but
could also be a powerful magic-enhancer. When not in autonomous form, the
Palisman could be found atop of a witch’s staff through which magic could be
channeled or used as flying transportation. Upon joining a Coven, however,
witches were required to surrender their Palismen.
Eda with one of her many wanted posters.
Luz’s chosen mentor was Eda
Clawthorne (Wendie Malik), also known as “The Owl Lady” due to her living in
the titular Owl
House, having an owl Palisman named Owlbert,
and being inflicted by a curse
that caused her to turn into an Owl Beast
unless kept in check with a special potion. Eda was a rebellious witch,
refusing to join a coven and continued practicing wild magic, which often put
her at odds with the Emperor’s Coven and their police force, the Coven Scouts.
She was in possession of the portal
that brought Luz to the realm, which was a doorway that collapsed into a
carrying case and led to an abandoned house behind the Nocedas’. She used it to
visit the Human Realm and acquire human items—read: junk—to bring back and sell
at
her stall in the market as collectibles. Because of the curse,
Eda had to monitor her magic use as running out would cause her to change
permanently, and it also allowed her to remove body parts at will. Eventually,
Eda and the Owl Beast would come
to an understanding and she would gain the combined form of
Harpy Eda, which allowed Eda to remain in control while giving her enhanced
strength and wings with which to fly. Eda was the first character created for
the series, inspired by the women in Terrace’s life that raised her.
King addressing his toy "army".
Eda’s roommate/pet/son was King
(Alex Hirsch), the second character created. He was a dog-like creature with a horned skull
for a head. King believed he was the one-time King of Demons, cursed into a
tiny form and cast out from his kingdom. In actuality, it turned out that Eda
had found him alone in a large ruin shortly after he hatched and had encouraged
his fantasies of grandeur. In the ruin, he had built little “subjects” out of
rock, and at the Owl House he amassed an “army” of stuffed animals. King was
eventually revealed to be the last remaining Titan, and the son of the Boiling
Isles itself. As King matured, he would gain access to a sonic “Weh!”,
projecting out a rainbow wave of energy from his mouth. Until Luz came along,
King’s best friend was a stuffed rabbit with a button eye he named Francois.
Terrance described him as “a little guy that wants to be big” and related to
his desire to be taken seriously despite his small stature.
Hooty.
Protecting the Owl House was a house
demon named Hooty (also Hirsch, doing the “world’s worst Mickey Mouse
impression” he had used to help lay down temporary tracks which Terrace ended
up liking enough to use). Hooty had an owl’s face and primarily resided in the
house’s front door; however he could stretch his tube-like body to great
lengths, allowing him to travel well into the woods around the house or
anywhere within the house itself (Terrace once responded to the question of
Hooty’s length during a Reddit
Ask Me Anything session: “There is no beginning. There is no
end. There is only…Hooty.”). In fact, he was the house, and proved
capable of modifying its floorplan on a whim if so desired. Hooty could
dispatch a legion of Emperor’s Coven Scouts as easily as he could annoy with
occupants of the house with his incessant and cheerful prattling in his
attempts to be included. At times, Hooty could (disgustingly) remove himself
from his door to go into a wearable birdhouse backpack to join the others on
adventures as Port-A-Hooty.
Luz figuring out the invisibility glyph combination.
Luz was harder for Terrace to nail
down. It was only through conversations with her best friend, roommate, story
artist and creative consultant Luz
Batista, that the character began to take shape. Terrace
asked if she could name Luz after her, which Batista allowed so long as Luz was
made Dominican. A lot of her personality came from the conversations the pair
had about being “wayward” and “awkward” teams that dreamt of escaping to a
magical place. Being human, Luz had no inherent magical ability. Instead, she
was able to cast spells using a kind of magic few had ever encountered: glyph
magic. At various intervals, the Titan would reveal one of four
glyphs to Luz: light, ice, fire and plant. Once revealed,
Luz could draw the glyphs on any surface and then touch them to activate them;
the effects of the spell determined by her own mind. Eventually, Luz learned
the glyphs could
be combined in various configurations to create new
spells, such as invisibility and hovering. As these glyphs were powered by the
Titan, they didn’t work in the Human Realm despite witches maintaining their
own magical abilities. Terrace infused much of herself in Luz to the point it
was almost semi-autobiographical. Many have come to regard Luz as having ADHD,
and while Terrace did consider her neurodivergent when creating her, she didn’t
specifically envision ADHD.
Luz with her besties Gus and Willow at school.
When Luz realized Eda wasn’t going
to be the most dedicated of teachers, she decided to enroll in the nearby
school of magic: Hexside
School of Magic and Demonics (the school being one of
the compromises Terrace had to make). At Hexside, each student was assigned a
track of study that aligned with one of the main covens (including an
additional “detention track” for troublesome students). After Luz’s admission,
however, the concept of multi-tracks was allowed and students began to learn
different disciplines at the same time (with Luz, of course, studying all
of them). It was there that Luz met her new friends: Willow Park (Tati
Gabrielle), an adept plant magic user whose years struggling being misassigned
to the Abomination Track led to a long period of self-doubt and believing
taunts that she was just “half a witch”, and Augustus “Gus” porter (Issac Ryan
Brown), a younger prodigy that was adept at illusion magic and was the
enthusiastic and excitable president of the Human
Appreciation Society where he shared his (inaccurate)
knowledge about human culture and artifacts. Collectively, they and later
friends would be known by fans as The Hexsquad. Willow’s Palismen was a bee
named Clover
and Gus’ a chameleon named Emmiline
Bailey Marcostimo (named after a combination of writers Emmy Cicierega,
Madeleine
Hernandez, John
Bailey Owen, Zach Marcus
and Mikki
Crisostomo). Many inspirations from Harry Potter
were taken for the school, including secret doors and pathways, a Choosy Hat (a
parody of the Sorting
Hat)
that picked student’s tracks for them (before trying to eat their heads), and
the school’s chief sport Grudgby,
which was like rugby with magical perils galore and featured a bug called the
rusty smidge (a parody of the Golden
Snitch from Quidditch)
that resulted in instant victory. A Flyer Derby
team, a sport that was like capture
the flag with extreme flying, would eventually be established
by Willow.
The Grudgby team: Skara, Amelia, Boscha and Cat.
What school would be complete
without its clique of mean girls? Boscha
(voice director Eden
Riegel) was a three-eyed potions student that was captain of
the Grudgby team, which allowed her to lord over the other students unchecked
and make sure they all knew they were beneath her. Skara
(Kimberly Brooks)
was a bard student who was excitable and sociable, often followed Boscha’s lead
in belittling others, and engaged in practical jokes when not playing on the
Grudgby team. Cat
(based on storyboard artist Catherine Harman-Mitchell,
voiced by Grey
DeLisle) was a healing student and a member of Boscha’s
Grudgby team. Amelia
(Riegel, using different voices each time) was a plant student and the fourth
member of the Grudgby team.
Amity enjoying her job at the library.
Amity
Blight (Mae Whitman) was an abomination student who was bright and competitive,
driven to succeed with the goal of ending up in the Emperor’s Coven and earning
the top student spot because of it. She was once Willow’s best friend until
forced to abandon her for Boscha and Skara by her parents, Odalia
(Rachael MacFarlane),
an oracle who ran their company, Blight
Industries, and Alador
(Jim Pirri),
an absent-minded inventor who merged abomination magic with technology to
create the weaponry the company sold. Originally, she detested Luz and treated
her as shabbily as she did her fellow classmates, but after coming to know her
Amity reevaluated her life choices and began making decisions outside of her
parents’ whims. That included reigniting her friendship with Willow, and giving
in to her growing attraction towards Luz to become her awesome girlfriend (the
pairing dubbed by fans as “Lumity”). Amity worked at the town
library reading to little witchlings, had her own secret
space behind the “Romance” section, and was also a fan of The Good Witch
Azura series. Her Palisman was a white cat named Ghost
(based on Terrace’s own cat).
Principal Bump with Edric, Emira, Jerbo, Hunter, Viney, Skara, Willow, Amity, Barcus and Matt Tholomuel.
Other students included Amity’s
antagonistic (yet supportive when it counted) twin siblings, Emira
(Erica Lindbeck)
and Edric
(Ryan O’Flanagan),
who were both studying illusions but expanded to healing and potions and beast
keeping, respectively; Matt
Tholomule (initially said as one complete name, voiced by Jorge Diaz),
an overconfident construction student who had power-hungry plans of supplanting
Gus in the Human Appreciation Society, but instead became Gus’ friend and was
inspired to join the illusion track as well; Viney
(Ally Maki),
a healing and beast keeping student with a casual and laid-back demeanor and a
penchant for leadership, who had a pet griffin named Puddles;
Jerbo
(Noah Galvin),
a plant and abomination student who was best friends with Viney and had
ambitions of evolving the Coven System to involve more mixed-magic covens; Barcus
(named after writer Zach
Marcus), a dog-like student of oracle and potions who only
spoke by barking (though others understood him), had a deep loyalty to his
friends, and stood up against injustice; Eileen
(Brooks), a potions student whose entire head was a giant eye and always had a
slouched, emotionless posture (she was never named within the show, but
character designer Matthieu
Cousinrevealed
her name in a tweet); Bo
(inspired by storyboard artist and director Bosook “Bo” Coburn,
voiced by Riegel), a healing student who was friends with Skara apart from
Amity and Boscha; Celine
(aka Moon Girl), an oracle student with one eye and a head shaped like a
crescent moon (again not named on the show, but in
a tweet by Cousin and during
a stream by Terrace); and Mary
(Riegel), an abomination student with large horns on her head. Overseeing the
school was Principal
Hieronymus Bump (Bumper Robinson),
who, while strict, genuinely cared for his students’ welfare and success. Bump
was a wielder of abomination magic, and his Palisman rested on top of his head;
helping him to see due to a missing eye, and concealing his long, raven locks.
Never meet your heroes--Luz encounters Philip through time travel shenanigans.
Emperor Belos was the primary
antagonist of the show, although he was only a background presence for the
beginning of it. It would be discovered that Belos was actually a human named
Philip Whittebane (voiced by Alex Lawther when not Belos) who had found his way to the Isles with his older brother, Caleb,
back during the height of anti-witch
hysteria in America. As such, both he and his brother had
aspirations of becoming witch-hunters. That is until Caleb met and fell for a
witch named Evelyn.
Philip murdered Caleb and dedicated the next few centuries to finding the
glyphs (actively hidden from him by the Titan) and learning their secrets, and
then establishing himself as a savior and ruler as part of a plan to destroy
the Demon Realm as he found his way back to the Human Realm. As part of his
attempt to harness magic himself, Belos had carved glyphs into his body which
backfired and cause his body to destabilize and turn into a black goo. The only
way to revert back was for him to regularly consume the essence of Palismen,
which he collected by from those surrendered by new Coven members.
Lilith accepting a Grudgby challenge for Eda's surrender.
Serving directly under Belos was Lilith
Clawthorne (Cissy
Jones as an adult, Abigail Zoe Lewis
& Lily
Sanfelippo in her younger years), Eda’s estranged sister who had
actually put the curse on her believing it would only remove her magic for a
day, allowing her to win her position in the Emperor’s Coven. She worked her
way up to the head of the Coven and led the attempts to capture Eda, believing
that Belos would help cure Eda. Upon learning Belos had no intentions of doing
so, Lilith left the Coven and took on half of Eda’s curse; losing her magic and
gaining a Raven Beast form, before eventually getting her own Harpy form.
Kikimora antagonizes Lilith over her failure to capture her sister.
Kikimora (Mela Lee)
was Belos’ assistant; a diminutive demonic-looking witch with two hands joined
at the wrist for hair. She was fiercely loyal to Belos and did whatever she
could to maintain his favor, including subtly eliminating or sabotaging any
competition within the Coven. However, after a string of failures thanks to Luz
and Eda, Kikimora’s position gradually diminished along with her mental state,
turning her into an unhinged paranoid with fits of aggression. She absolutely
hated the Golden Guard and viewed him as the ultimate threat to her status,
doing whatever she could to undermine and outright destroy him.
The Golden Guard and Coven Scouts.
The
Golden Guard was a title bestowed upon Belos’ right hand. The latest in the
line was a boy named Hunter (Zeno Robinson), who had ascended to the head of
the Coven after Lilith’s defection. Secretly, Hunter possessed no magic of his
own and could only cast “spells” via the technological staff Belos made for him.
Hunter was not above doing whatever it took to achieve Belos’ goals--including
blackmail or extortion—as he was always told by Belos that the Titan had great
plans for him. However, Hunter ended up defecting as well when he learned that
he was a grimwalker (a magically-created clone), the latest in a very long line
made to resemble Belos’ brother and, in fact, be a better version of him that wouldn’t
“betray” him (read: continue to help destroy wtichkind and not befriend them).
Hunter would find a new place as a member of the Hexsquad, using his Golden
Guard training and extensive personal studies on magic to help aid in the
battle against Belos. Part of this shift came about through his acquiring his
own Palisman, a one-eyed cardinal named Flapjack,
which was strongly hinted at having a connection to Caleb.
The Coven heads: Raine, Hettie, Eberwolf, Adrian, Vitimir, Darius, Orsan, Terra and Mason.
The
Coven Heads serving Belos were Raine
Whispers (Avi
Roque, whom they were modeled after, and Blu del Barrio
as a youth), the head of the Bard Coven with tremendous stage fright, Eda’s
former romantic partner, and secret leader of groups against Belos (first Bards
Against the Throne, or the BATs, then Covens
Against the Throne, or the CATs); Darius
Deamonne (Keston
John),
the posh and meticulous head of the Abomination Coven who was also secretly
working against Belos and joined up with Raine; Eberwolf the
Huntsman (Kari
Wahlgren), the animalistic leader of the Beast Keeping Coven
who often drove Darius nuts, but was working with him against Belos until
joining up with Raine as well; Terra
Snapdragon (Debra
Wilson), the merciless head of the Plant Coven that was
fanatically loyal to Belos for the rewards he promised and enjoyed sadistically
toying with her prey; and Adrian
Graye Vernworth (named after the character Dorian
Gray
and whose surname was only seen in the credits, voiced by Noshir Dalal),
head of the Illusion Coven with an overdramatic and theatrical diva demeanor
who approached things as if they were scripted productions of which he was the
director. The other Coven heads—Mason
for Construction, Hettie
Cutburn for Healing, Osran
for Oracle, Vitimir
for Potions—were seen, but their screen time was limited due to circumstances
explained shortly, and their names only ever revealed in
a Tweet.
Celebrating Lilith's new job with Flora D'Splora, mother Gwendolyn, Morton and Steve.
Other
characters included Steve
(Hirsch at first, then Matt
Chapman), a Coven Scout who slowly became disillusioned with
the Emperor’s Coven and eventually quit, and was Matt Tholomule’s older
half-brother (confirmed by Terrace
on Twitter, as it didn’t make it into the show itself); the Bat Queen
(Isabella
Rossellini), a giant Palisman who had long forgotten her
original owner and now took care of other lost and abandoned Palismen; Morton
(Shannon McKain),
who worked at an elixir shop and sold Eda the one that helped keep her curse in
check; Warden
Wrath (Roger
Craig Smith), one-time warden of the Conformatorium
(Belos’ prison for witches that refuse to conform to his established standards
for society) and father of the deep-voiced Braxas
(Kevin Locarro);
Tinella
Nosa,
also called Tiny Nose (a self-caricature voiced by Terrace), a tiny round demon
with a large nose who often popped up in the main characters’ lives; Tibbles
(Parvesh Cheena),
an opportunistic con artist that resembled a demonic pig and whose schemes
often included getting the better of Eda, King and Luz; Number 5, aka Vee
(Michaela Dietz),
a shape-shifting basilisk
brought back from extinction by Belos for their magic-eating abilities, who
escaped from him and took Luz’s place in the Human Realm before adopting her
own human identity; Eda’s parents Gwendolyn
(Deb Doetzer),
who became obsessed with curing Eda’s curse much to Eda’s chagrin and to the
neglect of Lilith, and Dell
(Peter Gallagher),
who lost an eye and the ability to carve Palismen when he accidentally
triggered the Owl Beast to attack him; Perry Porter (Gary Anthony Williams), Gus’ reporter father; Gilbert
(Eric Bauza) and Harvey (Chapman)
Park, Willow’s dads; Flora D’splora
(a parody of Dora the
Explorer, voiced by Eileen
Galindo), Lilith’s old mentor and an adventurous historian; and Masha
(DeLisle), an attendee at the summer camp with Vee (as Luz) that took over the Gravesfield
Historical Society after its former manager, Jacob
Hopkins (Smith), a wannabe witch hunter, was fired for
altering the exhibits to include himself as a hero.
A pilot
comprised entirely of storyboards—mandated by Disney—was
developed between April and September of 2017. It was similar to the first
episode, except for Amity defending Luz against bullies and Luz drawing a
picture of her in gratitude (a resulting papercut’s blood was used to add blush
to it); Lilith was the principal of Hexside and could transform into a
bat-creature; and Luz ended up trapped in the Demon Realm needing to find a way
home. This pilot often ended up confused with the animation test used to
demonstrate the show’s tone and art style. While similar to the final product,
there were some notable differences: Luz (dubbed “Beta Luz” by fans) wore a
striped shirt and leggings without the shorts (which would reappear in her
closet in “Yesterday’s Lie”); King had amber fur and red and blue eyes; Willow
was named “Paulina” and she used a broken wand to cast spells (wands existed in
the final show, but were known as “training wands” for novice students); Eda’s
shop was at the Owl House itself; necromancer magic was present; and a character
named “Sir William” never appeared in the series, but Luz’s slapping him awake
was recycled for her encounter with Hunter in “Hunting Palismen”. Two versions
of the test reel exist and are virtually identical, but one
featured slightly different animation and no dialogue. Both were eventually
leaked online.
The
Owl House debuted on January 10, 2020 on Disney Channel.
It initially aired on Friday nights, repeating the next morning, for its first
batch of episodes. New episodes moved to Saturday mornings in July. It was
originally intended to air in 2019 alongside sister series Amphibia—also
about a human girl being stranded in a strange alternate dimension in
production around the same time—but was held over until January. A trailer for
the series was shown at Annecy
Festival 2019, the main title sequence at San Diego Comic-Con,
and a sneak peek and the end credit sequence at a panel at New York Comic Con.
It received early pick-ups for both a second and third
season. While the first season primarily set up the
characters and the world, it steadily introduced elements of the world’s lore
that would ramp up in the second. This was supplemented by two shorts series on
Disney Channel’s
YouTube channel: Look
Hooo’s Talking, which had two live-action owls providing
recaps and commentary on the first ten episodes, and Owl Pellets,
featuring the characters in small slice of life misadventures (a 6th
short centered on Tinella Nosa was never released due to being deemed too
scary to air).
Official season 2 poster.
The
second season would also skew into a darker tone, closer to what Terrace always
envisioned. Gradually, Luz would become more proficient in magic while steadily
descending into the depths of depression due to blaming herself for Belos
almost succeeding in his plans; an extension of her already feeling like a
burden to others due to her treatment by others back in the Human Realm. It
would also showcase the growth of Lumity’s relationship, Eda’s sense of
responsibility and maternal nature, Willow’s confidence and the restoration of
her friendship with Amity, and Hunter finding the support he never had before.
Luz would also spend most of it trying to find a way back home with the help of
Philip’s
journal after having to destroy the portal door to keep it
out of Belos’ hands.
Luz and Hunter trapped in Belos' mind.
Unfortunately,
for its third season, the show became a victim of circumstance. March 2020
marked the beginning of the COVID-19
pandemic, which forced the cast and crew to work on the second
season from their homes. It also meant that Disney’s parks,
which generate the revenue needed for their productions, were shut down and not
making any money. As a result, budgets were slashed for their programs moving
forward. Amphibia was farther along, losing only a single episode in its
third season. The Owl House, however, had received a third season
renewal of only three 44-minute specials and would be the show’s final season
with no possibility to discuss a fourth. During another Reddit AMA session,
Terrace explained that the decision came down to a single executive who felt
the show didn’t fit “into
the Disney brand” being that it was serialized—something
Disney had decided to move away from with their newer shows—and its audience
skewed older than their desired demographic. Terrace and the crew had ample
notice of their show’s abrupt ending, allowing them to retool the second half
of the second season to focus more on what they needed to wrap up by series’
end as well as slip in a few personal jabs at the decision. The tonal shift was
not only a creative decision, but also an outlet for their collective
frustration of dealing with quarantine.
The Collector: phenomenal cosmic power! Itty bitty body.
To
help facilitate things, Terrace and Owen introduced a character they had
developed from a folder of collected reference images to potentially appear
later on the show. That character was The
Collector (Fryda
Wolff), inspired by the works of Varo, puppets and clown
dolls. The Collector was a humanoid childlike being with two-toned
cosmic-themed clothing and a large blue blotch on his face that created a
crescent moon shape on his face. He had god-like powers, but the mentality and
temperament of a child which meant he only wanted to have fun and had little
understanding of what that fun could do to other beings. He was part of a group
of Collectors known as The
Archivists who were dedicated to observing the passage of time
and life, and took members of various species to preserve for all time. Any time
they were met with resistance, they would destroy the offending planet. They
were also the ones who bound the Owl Beast to Eda’s curse. The Collectors had
come to fear the Titans that once populated the Demon Realm as their magic was
the only thing that hurt them, and facilitated their extinction. The Collector,
however, had no interest in that and simply wanted to play with the younger
Titans. Believing them the perpetrator of his race’s annihilation, King’s
father imprisoned the Collector in the In
Between Realm, a strange place that connected all
realms. A group of ancient witches calling themselves Titan
Trappers would come to worship the Collector as the “Grand
Huntsman” and were dedicated to finding the last Titan—aka King—as his blood
could free them. Belos, however, found one of the crescent
moon tablets that allowed direct communication with
the Collector and manipulated him into helping fulfill his plans.
The Hexsquad in the Noceda household.
Further
parallels between Amphibia and The Owl House arose during their
respective third seasons, as the action was transferred briefly to the Human
world at the beginning and ended with a time jump once the stories concluded.
However, without a full season of episodes, The Owl House had to
condense any non-story-focused adventures into the opening sequence montage
for the first special. This montage was previewed as part of the episode’s
first 6 minutes to attendees of the show’s panel
at New York Comic Con in 2022, which featured Terrace, Robles, Whitman, Hirsch
(complete with Hooty hand puppet), Robinson (complete with Golden Guard mask)
and Jones, who also moderated.
A pair of awesome girlfriends share an on-screen kiss.
The
series was written by Terrace, Marcus, Owen, Crisostomo, Cicierega, Batista,
Hernandez, Rachel
Vine,
Charley Feldman,
Manuel Jesse Nieto
Jr.,
Jeff Trammell,
Molly Ostertag
and Janae Hall,
with Vine serving as story editor. Each episode contained two types of hidden
messages. The first were comprised of runes—phonetic symbols used as a complementary
language in the Boiling Isles alongside the spoken language—with one word
hidden somewhere in every episode as indicated by an eye symbol and decoded
with a provided cipher. These rune messages when completed alluded to the
overall plot of the season in the format of poems. The second kind of message
came by using the first letter of every episode title to spell out a phrase
that also alluded to a plot element for the season (excluding the third season,
where the entire first word of each title was used to give fans the parting
message: “Thanks For Watching”).
The Titan Trappers seek to make a sacrifice out of King.
The
series’ opening served as an introduction to the world and characters utilizing
completely original animation by Sugarcube, ending with the title enhanced by a
quick burst of glyph magic. In season two, the intro received continued
alterations to reflect the changes to the characters’ designs (based
on a storyboard Wan drew as an alternative to the flying
sequence from the original, done by Fiagome); Luz’s proficiency with glyph
magic; the state of the show’s secondary villains and prominence of Belos; and
all the learned glyph spells projecting from the title. The intro would often
end up shortened or eliminated entirely in favor of a quick musical cue and the
title if more time was needed for the story. The show’s outro for the first season
featured Luz strolling through the Boiling Isles before returning to the Owl
House. For the second season, that was replaced by artwork
created by Jesse
Balmer depicting events of the season, with new images being
added for the second
half
of the season. Episode
1
and episode
2
of the third season featured new pictures by Daun Han
depicting events between those shown on screen. The final episode’s served as an epilogue;
following Owlbert as a means to showcase everyone after the timeskip (including
new background characters based on members of the crew). For crucial episodes,
the outro was replaced with a shot of the Emperor’s
castle, the Titan’s
skull, and the old
house in the Human Realm, respectively.
Luz finally gets a Palisman.
One
of the show’s enduring mysteries was what kind of Palisman Luz would get. While
others in her class had gotten theirs in the second season, Luz was unable to
as she wasn’t clear on her hearts’ desire; one of the requirements for bonding
with a Palisman. Eda and King would then get Luz some Palistrom wood to carve
her own from, and she ultimately chose to carve an egg so that her Palisman
could choose what it wanted to be as she had. Fans speculated that it would
either be a bat, due to the wings on Luz’s phone case and it being her icon in
the Tamagotchi-like
device she used to communicate with Amity via emojis, or a snake, due to all of
the snake imagery throughout the series. Further bolstering the latter idea was
that viewers noticed that in The Owl House’s title logo, part of the “H”
looked like a staff with how it was positioned under the “O”, which contained Owlbert.
When the logo was flipped upside-down, the “L” resembled that part of the “H”
and was positioned directly under the “S” which looked like a snake. Those fans
were, in fact, half right. Terrace
noticed that herself after the logo was finalized, which kind
of cemented her own desire to have it be a snake tying into their appearances
in the first episode, and Luz ended up with the snakeshifter named Stringbean.
A snakeshifter was the invention of Marcus to allow them to utilize all the
other suggested animals the Palisman could be since she could change into any
of them at will, and the name appealed to Terrace’s love of lame puns.
The beginnings of Lumity.
The Owl House had received
special notoriety for its unprecedented and overt LGBTQ+ representation—particularly
for a Disney show. Over the course of the series, Luz would come out as bisexual
(first made official during
a Reddit AMA with Terrace, and making her Disney’s first
as a lead character), and Hunter was also stated to be by
Terrace after the show ended; Amity was
declared a lesbian by Terrace and actively dated Luz, who was
also her first crush; Willow had two dads and was said to be Pansexual (again, by
Terrace after the fact); Raine was non-binary with they/them
pronouns (a first for Disney) like Roque used, as was Masha; and Lilith was
aromantic and asexual (revealed during a
charity livestream). The Collector also alternated between
he/they pronouns. Other queer characters would appear as background or minor
characters, all of which was completely normalized in the Demon Realm and not
really presented as an issue for the brief time in the Human Realm. After Luz
came out to her mother, Camila started wearing a heart pin in Pride colors.
Additionally, many scenes would employ a color palette representative of the
various Pride Flags. These efforts earned praise from GLAAD, resulting in a
nomination for a GLAAD
Media Award in 2021, and won the series a Peabody Award.
From a personal perspective, many LGBTQ+ fans found
comfort in a show like this existing; having lacked such
representation in media when they were children themselves. However, this also
came with its fair share of detractors in the form of parent, conservative and
religious groups who felt any form of queer was akin to degenerate and
pedophilic behavior (they also
had a problem with the witchcraft and demonic elements
to it). In certain countries where Disney aired, episodes were required to be
edited to remove any queer content, left out of circulation altogether, or the
series was outright banned in its entirety. Terrace was upfront about her desire
to include LGBTQ+ characters, but Disney was
initially hesitant to allow it. Terrace credited
her stubbornness for their eventual change of heart and support. Other award
nominations included Annie Awards, Daytime Emmy Awards, Imagen
Foundation Awards, Pena
de Prata, and Autostraddle TV
Awards, winning one of those and a BMI Film & TV Award.
Our own effort to try and show Disney the show deserved to stick around.
While the show was in production,
members of the cast and crew were very active on social media; showing off
behind the scenes material, giving background on story and character choices,
and just interacting with the fans in general. Fans, in turn, worked to try and
reverse Disney’s cancellation decision by ensuring the series would be one of
the top
trending topics every week. Numerous YouTube reactors reacted
to the series; some even attracting the attention of members of the cast and
crew including Zach
Reacts, The
Third Bill, Man
of 1000 Thoughts, and Not-So-Average-Fangirl.
The day before the second half of season 2 began, Jones and Robles started an
informal Instagram
Live show on Jones’ account called the Post Hoot.
Typically posted the Friday before a new episode, they would discuss events up
to that point and answer some fan questions as time allowed. The duo would soon
become a trio with the addition of YouTube reactor-turned-Production Associate Rebecca Bozza,
aka Rebecca
Rose. Bozza's reactions were followed by an in-depth analysis of the episode, themes, characters and the hidden codes. Despite her comparatively short time with the show, she became almost an encyclopedia of knowledge about the ins and outs of everything on screen and behind the scenes and displayed that knowledge within each Post Hoot appearance. Various members from the cast and crew joined them to talk about the show and
their own creative backgrounds for the benefit of viewers looking to join the
industry themselves. Bozza would upload several of these to her
YouTube channel for wider access, while other users would
upload the ones she hadn’t yet.
Eda's Bad Girl Coven t-shirt.
There hasn’t been much in the way of
Disney-branded merchandise for the show. A platforming game titled Witch’s
Apprentice was released for PC and iOS. Players
controlled Luz as she performed errands for Eda and collected 19 “relics” that
corresponded to the 19 episodes of the first season. The game featured new
dialogue from Luz, Eda, King and Hooty. Disney Books
published a picture
book
adapting “Witches Before Wizards” and an easy-reader book adapting “I Was a
Teenage Abomination” and “Adventures in the Elements” called Hex-cellent
Tales from the Boiling Isles. The Mystery Shack,
a website dedicated to ensuring shows get some products out there when their IP
holders seem unwilling to do so, had become central in providing a wide variety
of merchandise ranging from plush
dolls, clothing,
posters
and pictures,
and even props like the Golden
Guard’s mask and Amity’s library
staff ID. Anything else was provided by the fans for the fans
through various online storefronts like Etsy, Kickstarter
campaigns, or attempting to get an official
LEGO set made. Webcomic artist MoringMark took
to doing continuing strips set between and following events of the show. Terrace
and various members of the cast have participated in Streamily
live signing events and maintained Streamily storefronts to allow fans to
acquire signed official
season posters or prints provided by fan artists and Terrace
herself.
How it started, how it's going. Tracking the viewership of season 3.
The Owl House aired on Disney
Channel for its entire original run, and simultaneously on Disney XD
for its third season. After its finale aired, the series was moved to Disney XD
for reruns until October of 2023, where it became exclusive to streaming
services. It was first uploaded to Disney+
in October of 2020 after the first season had completely aired. The second
season was uploaded in batches of 5 (with one batch including 6) a few weeks
after the last episode of each batch aired. The third season was uploaded within
about a month of each episode’s debut. “A
Lying Witch and a Warden”, “Separate Tides”,
“Eclipse
Lake”,
“Labyrinth
Runners” and “King’s Tide”
(the latter four now only clips as of this writing) were uploaded in full to Disney
Channel’s YouTube channel, as were each part of season three
within a day or two of their televised debut. “Thanks to Them” was made private
when “For the Future” was uploaded, but returned when “Watching and Dreaming”
was added. All three would also be combined into a single compilation
movie. Numerous clip videos have been uploaded, which
include episode teasers or character moment compilations. “For the Future” was
accidentally released early to iTunes
Canada, but was quickly deleted within hours—though not
before many had already viewed it. Owl Pellets was made available on
Disney+ in the United Kingdom.
Luz taking center stage in an episode of Chibiverse.
As each special of the third season
broke a million views faster than the last on YouTube, coupled with the massive
attendance at the panel during New York Comic Con, Disney executives finally
realized just how successful the show was (they had been dismissive of all the
fans’ efforts to get it trending as they felt “anyone can trend on Twitter”).
Unfortunately, this newfound awareness couldn’t do the show any good at that
point in time. It did continue to live on, however, as part of their
Chibiverse. Inspired by the Big
Hero 6 short series, Big Cibi 6: The
Shorts, Disney began a series called Chibi Tiny Tales
that would feature Chibi
versions of Disney characters in quick 1-minute comedy adventures that aired
during commercial breaks on the networks. The Owl House received four
dedicated shorts, while King and Luz and Amity each cameoed in another short,
respectively. A spin-off series, Chibiverse,
collected previously aired and new shorts together in a single episode with an
all-new connecting story with full voice acing (the shorts themselves were
typically done in mime with sound effects). While The Owl House
characters appeared in the new material, Robles reprised her role of Luz for
one episode.
The official poster for The Owl House/Amphibia crossover.
During
the 2021 San Diego Comic-Con’s Disney Television
Animation panel, Amphibia and The Owl House
fulfilled fans’ desires to see the two shows cross over. Terrace and Amphibia
creator Matt
Braly penned a script set between “Through the Looking
Glass Ruins” and “Knock, Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door” that saw one of Luz’s
attempts at recreating the portal shunting her and Eda to the world of
Amphibia, where they met Anne Boonchuy
(Brenda Song),
Hop
Pop
(Bill Farmer),
Sprig
(Justin Felbinger)
and Polly
(Amanda Leighton).
The crossover was done as a remote table read, with Terrace and Braly serving
as narrators. 65 fan artists came together to animate the crossover and uploaded
it to YouTube. A more visual official crossover
happened as one of the aforementioned Chibi
shorts.
The Chibi Owl House/Amphibia crossover.
Both
series would continue to reference each other with little easter eggs. In The Owl House,
Hop Pop’s face appeared on a book in Willow’s room and a poster in Camila’s
veterinary clinic; Sprig as a doll in Hunter’s room; the Calamity Box
in the Owl House’s basement; Anne’s tennis racket and Sasha’s
sword in a weapons rooms on Titan
Trapper Island; Anne’s picture in an online article
about her return on Camila’s tablet; a snail that resembled their
transportation, Bessie,
outside the Noceda house; Polly in a realistic sketch in Luz’s sketchbook and
as a pin on her bulletin board; someone wearing a Grime
costume for Halloween in “Thanks to Them”; Bibsy
as some graffiti; and a Hexside student resembling Anne wearing the Calamity
Trio colors. In Amphibia, King’s skull adorns a staff Anne holds as
she’s outfitted with an armor choice and the Owl House was shown in an
alternate dimension (an unconfirmed one is a planet with purple oceans
appearing in a book during research of the Calamity Box). Hirsch’s earlier
series, Gravity
Falls, also
got in on the action. The graphic novel, Gravity
Falls: Lost Legends(on which Terrace
worked), featured several easter eggs including Eda’s silhouette on a wanted
poster, the Boiling Isles mentioned in the journal, and Eda’s staff showing up
in a bundle of wood. On The Owl House, an image of series villain Bill Cipher
was featured
among the demons King was teaching Luz about in the
episode “The Intruder”, Bear-O
was seen on a wanted poster, and the revelation of one of Eda’s Human Realm
aliases being “Marylin” fueled
the speculation that she was Grunkle Stan’s
ex-wife, who shared that name and Eda’s general description via Hirsch’s
in-character commentary on the DVD
set. It’s often said that Dipper’s
hat appears in Eda’s stand, but Bosma corrected
that it was a Philadelphia
76ers hat.
From the Boiling Isles to the viewers: "Byeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee!"
Once
the show wrapped, Terrace left Disney;
taking time to recover from the exhaustion of running a show, the constant
battles with Disney leadership, and the frustration of the company’s refusal to
fully
stand up for a large part of their audience and workforce—particularly in
the face of Florida’s controversial “Don’t
Say Gay” bill. However, she has repeatedly said that she hopes to get a
chance to revisit The Owl House someday, either with a spin-off series
or in some other medium like a comic book she’d write and draw, as while the
main story was concluded, there were still many others that they had to
abandon. Until that time, many fans continue to keep the show alive in their
art, their cosplay, and various efforts to let Disney know that they want more.
EPISODE
GUIDE: Season
1: “A
Lying Witch and a Warden” (1/10/20) – Luz ends up in a magical world where she
manages to convince Eda the “Owl Lady” to take her on as a witch’s apprentice. “Witches
Before Wizards” (1/17/20) – Luz ends up being tricked into going on a phony
quest in a ploy to trap Eda. “I
Was a Teenage Abomination” (1/24/20) – Luz meets Willow and agrees to pose as
her abomination in exchange for being shown around Hexside, which puts them at
odds with bully Amity. “The
Intruder” (1/31/20) – Luz and King learn Eda’s elixir is meant to keep her from
succumbing to a curse and transforming into an owl beast. “Covention”
(2/7/20) – Luz convinces Eda to take her to the Covention to check out various
covens, which ends up with her getting into a witches’ duel with Amity under
the tutelage of Eda’s sister, Lilith. “Hooty’s
Moving Hassle” (2/21/20) – When they’re not invited to Amity’s Moonlight
Conjuring, Luz, Willow and Gus have one of their own and end up causing the Owl
House to become mobile. “Lost
in Language” (2/28/20) – A shooting star causes book contents to come to life
in the library, which has Luz and Amity facing a children’s character Amity’s
siblings turned into a monster. “Once
Upon a Swap” (3/6/20) – Convinced each other has an easier life, Eda casts a
spell that causes her, Luz and King to swap bodies for a day. “Something
Ventured, Someone Framed” (3/13/20) – To best his rival in the Human
Appreciation Society, Gus ends up getting Luz thrown into the detention pit
when he lies that her ban at Hexside was lifted. “Escape
of the Palisman” (3/20/20) – While King uses Eda’s owl form for revenge, Luz is
put to a series of trials by the Bat Queen to earn back Owlbert’s trust after
she crashed and damaged him. “Sense
and Insensitivity” (7/11/20) – King ends up stealing credit for the book he
wrote with Luz and has trouble coming up with the second volume his publisher
demands. “Adventures
in the Elements” (7/18/20) – Luz and Amity take to the wilds to train in magic
and end up having to team up to rescue Eda and Amity’s siblings from a
Slitherbeast. “The
First Day” (7/25/20) – Luz is sent to detention when she attempts to mix magic
and ends up rallying her fellow detentionees to save the school from a
magic-draining basilisk. “Really
Small Problems” (8/1/20) – Tibbles manages to trick King, Luz, Willow and Gus
into being shrunk to become part of his miniature circus attraction. “Understanding
Willow” (8/1/20) – Luz and Amity journey into Willow’s mind to fix her memories
after Amity attempted to destroy evidence of their prior friendship. “Enchanting
Grom Fright” (8/8/20) – Luz volunteers to take Amity’s place battling the demon
that lives under Hexside, but unfortunately isn’t as ready to face her biggest
fear as she thought. “Wing
it Like Witches” (8/15/20) – Luz challenges Boscha to a grudgby match on
Willow’s behalf after she picks on them all day, but Luz’s recklessness ends up
driving her friends away. “Agony
of a Witch” (8/22/20) – Lilith captures Luz and uses her to lure Eda into a
battle that drains all of her magic, allows her to become the Owl Beast and be
captured by the Emperor’s Coven. “Young
Blood, Old Souls” (8/29/20) – Learning Belos has no intention of curing Eda of
the curse, Lilith helps Luz attempt to rescue her from eternal petrification. Season
2: “Separate
Tides” (6/12/21) – Feeling like a burden to Eda, Luz takes on a dangerous
hunting mission to earn a lot of money that ends up being a trap set up by the
Golden Guard. “Escaping
Expulsion” (6/19/21) – Luz volunteers to help Odalia and Alador Blight
demonstrate their new weaponry in exchange for allowing her and her friends to
go back to Hexside. “Echoes
of the Past” (6/26/21) – When Lilith doubts King’s claim of royalty he takes
them to the island where Eda found him, but soon learns Eda made the whole
thing up. “Keeping
up A-fear-ances” (7/3/21) – Eda’s mother’s new attempt at a cure turns out to
be a scam, while someone impersonating Luz is living with her mother in the
human realm. “Through
the Looking Glass Ruins” (7/10/21) – While Gus goes on an adventure with some
new friends, Luz ends up getting Amity fired from the library when they find
Philip’s journal destroyed. “Hunting
Palismen” (7/17/21) – Unmatched with a Palisman, Luz decides to spend the night
in the Palisman nest just as it’s stolen by the Golden Guard for Belos. “Eda’s
Requiem” (7/24/21) – Eda is reunited with her ex Raine Whispers who is secretly
leading a rebel group against Belos. “Knock,
Knock, Knockin’ on Hooty’s Door” (7/21/21) – Hooty decides it’s up to him to
help his friends with their problems: King with his origin; Eda with her curse;
Luz asking out Amity. “Eclipse
Lake” (8/7/21) – Eda, King and Amity head off to find some Titan’s blood for a
new portal door and encounter Belos’ forces there, with Amity losing the portal
key to Hunter. “Yesterday’s
Lie” (8/14/21) – Luz’s new portal door allows her to view things through
reflections and discover that a shapeshifter is living in her house posing as
her. “Follies
at the Coven Day Parade” (3/19/22) – Luz attempts to help Kikimora with her
family problems by “abducting” her during the parade to prove to herself there
could be a balance between two worlds. “Elsewhere
and Elsewhen” (3/26/22) – Luz and Lilith end up going back in time and meeting
Philip, however they discover he may not be what he appears. “Any
Sport in the Storm” (4/2/22) – Hunter goes to Hexside to attempt to recruit new
members for the Emperor’s Coven only to end up a key player on Willow’s flyer
derby team. “Reaching
Out” (4/9/22) – Luz’s desire to avoid dealing with something causes her to ruin
Amity’s chances to win the Bonesborough Brawl and prove herself to her father. “Them’s
the Breaks, Kid” (4/16/22) – Eda recounts how she met Raine during a tense school
competition overseen by Terra Snapdragon. “Hollow
Mind” (4/23/22) – Luz accidentally gets herself and Hunter trapped in Belos’
mind where they learn the truth about both him and Hunter. “Edge
of the World” (4/30/22) – Luz, King and Hooty travel to the other side of the
world to meet people who might be like King, but they turn out to just want to
sacrifice King for the Collector. “Labyrinth
Runners” (5/7/22) – Gus’ anxiety problems resurface with a powerful spell when
he ends up getting tricked by an illusion from Coven Head Adrian Graye. “O
Titan, Where Art Thou” (5/14/22) – While King goes on an impromptu road trip
with Steve to gather his thoughts, Eda and Luz fight over Eda wanting to send
her and King away for their own safety. “Clouds
on the Horizon” (5/21/22) – While Eda takes Raine’s place at the Day of Unity,
Luz tries to help Amity convince her parents about Belos’ plans only to learn
Odalia already knows and there’s a spy in CATs. “King’s
Tide” (5/28/22) – When the Collector is freed and turns the Boiling Isles
upside-down, Luz and her friends are forced to flee through the reassembled
portal door into the Human Realm. Season
3: “Thanks
to Them” (10/15/22) – The Hexside gang believes they may have found a cache of
Titan’s Blood in the Human Realm, but Belos is still lurking in the background
ready to make his move. “For
the Future” (1/21/23) – The Hexside gang discovers that the Collector has been
using everyone as toys in his games while Kikimora has used Boscha to take over
Hexside and subjugate the remaining students. “Watching
and Dreaming” (4/8/23) – Luz, King and Eda manage to get the Collector on their
side just as Belos possesses the Titan’s body. Shorts: Owl
Pellets: “Welcome
to Hexside!” (4/4/20) – King stops his crystal ball on a commercial for Hexside
starring Principal Bump. “Eda’s
Cursed Brush” (4/11/20) – Luz shows off her drawing prowess with any kind of
instrument, one of which ended up being one of Eda’s cursed pencils. “Paint
Scare!” (4/18/20) – Luz is about to explain to King how she’s so good at art
when she notices a monster that she didn’t draw in her piece coming
progressively closer… “Art
Lessons with Luz” (4/25/20) – Luz shows King how she uses shapes to help in her
drawing, but her drawing of Hooty causes him to attack. “Coven
Lovin Soap Opera” (5/2/20) – King tries to pretend to not be into the soap
opera Luz watches on the crystal ball. Chibi
Tiny Tales: “The
Bake Off!” (5/17/22) – Disagreeing over what kind of snack to bake, Eda and
Lilith have a baking battle. “Hooty
the Palisman Sitter” (9/3/22) – Hooty is tasked with watching the mischievous
Palismen, but ends up having to protect the whole house from them. “Lumity
Date” (9/10/22) – Luz and Amity attempt to enjoy a quiet date, but it keeps
being constantly interrupted. “The
Amphibia House” (1/14/23) – The Calamity Box malfunctions and sends Anne
Boonchuy and the Plantars to the Boiling Isles where Anne becomes fast friends
with Luz.
