Headscratchers / The Owl House

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Power Glyphs

• Why didn't Luz try drawing power glyphs used by construction workers? The boost to her magic could really help out.
  • You can't boost what you don't have.

Hexside school year

• Why is the Hexside school still open if the show itself takes place over the course of the summer holiday? Granted, maybe the school year operates differently on the Boiling Isles, but Luz is supposedly going to be joining the school for the next semester, so the current must still be in progress, followed by a break before the next semester. Do any of the students even get time off school?
  • It’s possible that Hexside is a year-round school and students get time off every couple of weeks. Eda apparently had no idea what 'summer camp' was. It's possible the Boiling Isles don't have the same seasons as the human realm. After all, summer in the Northern Hemisphere is winter in the Southern Hemisphere, and that's just on our planet.

Potions Track

• Eda says that once you choose a coven, you're only allowed to do that magic for life. What magic does the potions track give you? Assuming it's simply mixing magic ingredients together, it requires no clear specific abilities. And how does one "seal off" making potions?
  • A Witch would lose the ability to add her own magic to the brew either to boost the potions strength or control the reaction. This would mean that while simple potions made just from magical ingredients would be possible for any Witch more complex things like Eda's curse remedy would be practically impossible.
  • We did see Amity and Willow had to make an Abomination as homework, but we've also see Amity create Abominations with spell circles. Likewise, we've seen Willow nurture and grow plants, but can also create them herself using her own magic. It's possible they have to learn hands-on knowledge first about the subject matter and then apply that knowledge through a spell circle. Amity can likely make Abominations because she carefully studied their anatomy first. If that's how it works, Potion magic may just be a case of mixing and creating ingredients through spell circles after learning how to do it manually. As to how one might seal it off, it might only seal off their ability to use spell circles. Willow could still grow plants the old-fashioned way even if she lost her magic.
  • We do see spell circles being used in the Potions track, but not a lot of them. It's possible people in the Potions track can, with enough skill and practice, erase brewing time. People not in the Potions track may be unable to make potions anymore, or at least their potency is greatly diminished. IIRC, when Eda makes a potion after losing her powers, Lilith reacts like the potion is poorly made, and we see there's a rat skull inside the bottle which is likely not supposed to be there since the camera zooms in on it. Potions does seem to have the least magic though, as both Eda and Luz were put in the track and it's clear Boscha doesn't care for magic since all she wants to do is play grudgby.
    • Lilith didn't react like it was poorly made, episodes throughout the latter two seasons season show the sisters can brew potions just as well as before, she reacted like it was gross and being shoved in her face.

Luz’s phone reception and charging

• How was Luz able to send and receive text messages in the pilot when the Boiling Isles doesn’t have cell phone reception or electricity for recharging the battery?
  • Both are from Earth. The cold opening for "Enchanted Grom Fright" reveals that Luz uses Eda's portals to charge her phone, and in season 2 when the portal is closed off Luz is unable to send messages. Whether the portal itself is providing the juice or if she's plugged into an outlet somewhere in her realm is not clear.
  • She got wifi through the portal until it was destroyed. After that, she can't send messages. As for charging, Luz uses some sort of electric bugs she keeps in a jar on her nightstand to charge her phone, as seen in Reaching Out.

How is Eda still on the run?

• If Eda is such a wanted criminal, then why don't the guards just go straight to the Owl House to capture her? It's just outside of the town and nothing implies it to be a secret or hard-to-reach location. Guz, Willow, and Amity all know where it is.
  • In "Agony of a Witch," Lilith tries to ambush Hooty while he's sleeping. It doesn't go well for her, given Hooty curbstomps her and the other Emperor's Coven members. Couple this with Eda having access to all brands of magic, the law enforcement probably doesn't want to deal with a rogue witch like Eda on her home turf.

Monster Hunters

• In a world where everyone's a monster, why do they need monster hunters?
  • Monster hunters may be for wild, non-sapient animals of higher danger than regular animals. Basically, it's like having pest control dealing specifically for mammals when we're all humans. Some can be tamed like pets or reasoned with like humans, others are just giant wild creatures that need to be contained.
  • They might be monsters by our standards but most of them don't seem to consider themselves monsters.
    • The difference between our world and theirs is that humans are the only sapient species capable of committing a crime and be trialed/interrogated for it, while for animals, those things mostly involve their owners or any representant. The Boiling Isles have different sapient species instead of just one, some wilder than others. Not having a police force or hunters for an array of monsters, sapient or not, is like not having the marine to stop pirates and other types of criminals working in the sea.

What are the opportunities on the Abomination track?

• During her pep talks to herself in "I Was A Teenage Abomination" Willow mentions that her parents put her in the Abomination track at Hexside because of better opportunities. What opportunities? And how can conjuring and controlling presumably toxic sludge puppets be more "in demand" than growing and controlling plant life (which could be used in crop production, lumber production, potions ingredients, medicines, etc.)
  • It's possible that it's simply considered to be more prestigious than other tracks, likely because it's one of the more difficulty tracks to excel in. We saw students other than Willow struggling in class as well. Also, Amity's own ambition is to get into the exclusive Emperor's coven, which only takes the cream of the crop, so the Abomination track is likely the fastest one to get there.
    • There's also a possibility that the Abomination track at Hexside specifically is prestigious. In "The First Day", while Willow tells Luz that the heads of the main nine covens were once students at the magic schools, there's a panning shot that shows Hexside's coven banners. As Willow mentions Hexside, the shot falls on the Abomination banner, which could imply that the original head of the Abomination track was once a Hexoleo. This history would likely make the Abomination track at Hexside more prestigious and therefore open up other career opportunities.
  • Abominations might be the menial workers of the isles, doing repetitive or simple tasks because of their non-thinking and commendable nature, and many people who need large amounts of these workers just hire a few abomination conjurers instead of hundreds of witches; like hiring someone to build robots
  • And it bears mentioning that the Abominations that are created seem to be completely loyal and obedient, to the point of being given near-suicidal orders without issue. Given the controlling nature of the Emperor and the coven system that probably has some ideological appeal. And the Abominations, while not as impressive in some regards, are basically unstoppable, surprisingly fast, and strong foot soldiers; even the most extreme attacks just cause them to glob themselves back together. Their combat appeal is probably pretty high, especially as guardians for the squishier spellcaster.
  • Also, from what we've seen, Willow is an incredibly advanced plant magic user. While no one else on the track has gotten much focus, there are no other examples of plant magic on the scale that Willow performs, even from Eda or Lilith. Most people probably don't have that much raw power with plants, so the top of their potential might be "make a seed sprout moderately faster than it normally would," which isn't particularly prestigious. It might even be a case of Klingon Scientists Get No Respect, where most people dismiss it as "controlling a few vines" and don't bother to explore the full potential.
  • Amity's parents develop and sell Abominations for a living, and consider their social status very important. Could be it's to keep the business in the family.

Does the Owl House now have a gaping hole in one of its walls?

• When Luz and King subdue Eda in her cursed form, Luz draws a massive light glyph on a wall to provide a necessarily powerful burst of light. But every instance of her using a light glyph has the surface it is drawn on (a leaf, a piece of paper) consumed and transformed into the ball of light. Does that mean Luz blasted a hole in one of the walls to fuel that massive spell circle?
  • In Once Upon a Swap, we saw Luz make a signpost out of wood for Eda's shop using her light glyphs. So it seems that the light glyph may not affect a solid object such as wood as it does for a piece of paper. And in any case, Eda or Hooty could probably fix the wall if needed.
  • Also in the finale, King draws a new Light glyph in the ground and activates it, with the ground itself still being there afterwards.

Eda’s problem with the Emperor’s Coven

• Eda dislikes the coven system because it restricts its members to one type of magic, plants, illusions, etc. Since Eda has no coven, she is free to use all types of magic. But it was stated that Emperor’s coven also allows for all types of magic and they obviously want her to join. Why is Eda against joining the only coven that won’t restrict her magic?
• Well she does seem pretty rebellious in general so she probably doesn't want to become the authority. Plus she will still be upholding the system and forcing other people. Plus she will be under the direct control of the Emperor, the one at the top of a system she seems to deem unfair.
  • It seems very likely that members of the Emperor's Coven are all incredibly loyal to the Emperor, which is why they are the only ones allowed to use all types of magic. This has the double benefit of encouraging others to be loyal to the Emperor, as well as ensuring that those loyal are the most powerful magicians.
• Despite appearances Eda is not entirely selfish, it's not that she specifically will have limited magic its that she doesn't want any part in a system that would limit ANYONE'S magic.
• The season finale answered this. It turns out that Emperor's Coven spots are limited, and Eda didn't want the spot as much as Lilith did when they were compelled to duel for it. Then the curse kicked in, forcing Eda to drop out of Hexside and as a result, she became an outcast. This made her crusty and cynical about the system. It also is revealed that Eda was right not to trust Belos, who reneges on the deal he made with Lilith to cure Eda and force her to join the Coven.
  • Speaking of the duel, why didn't Eda forfeit the moment she was told there is only one opening in the Emperor's Coven? She would've spared herself that nasty curse and wouldn't actually lost a thing since she clearly wasn't interested in entering the Coven.
    • Considering her age at the time, and that it was her beloved sister (consider the lengths she went through to avoid being separated via expulsion from school in a later episode) we're talking about, Eda may have needed time to work up the nerve to tell Lilith.
• As we learn from Hunter in Any Sport In A Storm, the Emperor's Coven is very demanding and restrictive. They only get one day off in a whole year, and have very strict rules. Maybe Eda did want to be in the coven until she learned that and decide the coven wasn't her thing.

Amity and Willow

• Why didn't Amity just tell Willow the truth about why she had to break off their friendship? And why didn't she ever stick up for Willow when her "new friends" picked on her, even though Amity clearly didn't enjoy it?
  • They were both children and Amity's parents were pretty darn strict on her. She might've not thought things through and decided it'd be better if she and Willow stopped talking rather than giving her false hopes by saying they could continue being friends later or fearing Willow wouldn't take her seriously if she said her parents forbid them from hanging out. She wasn't thinking straight as a young child and any attempt to defend her growing up would give her the spotlight and would end up alerting her parents if word got out Amity stuck for a "weaker" witch. It's only when Luz came into the picture that Willow was able to show herself to be a strong witch, Amity could be more honest with herself and both could resume their friendship without as much peer pressure as before.
  • Amity was young and she was clearly under a negative influence from her parents. Children can take up bad habits from bad parents. Another reason is that Willow would have wanted to stay friends with Amity regardless of what her parents said. Likely even more so knowing what Amity was now going through. Even if Amity had told the truth, Willow may have insisted on staying friends because she knew that's what Amity truly wanted. She lied to make sure Willow wouldn't try to patch things up. Now that Willow knows the truth, she and Amity have become friends again, and Amity has cut her own ties with Boscha. Amity simply was not strong enough to fight for her friend back then, but now she is. This also begs the question, what will Amity's parents say once they find out?

Amity and Willow's Age

• How old were Amity and Willow when Amity broke off their friendship? There's talk of Willow getting admitted into Hexside, which has a kindergarten/pre-school class, so I would guess 6 or younger, but the girls are also shown being able to read, and specifically read books meant for Teenagers, so...? There doesn't seem to be any requirements to be in the Kindergarten, since it's implied Luz would have been put in the baby class even knowing basically nothing and mostly incapable of magic, so it's not as if willow not being able to do magic would have kept her out of school longer than other kids her age.
  • It's implied Willow was especially bad at doing magic at that age, and Amity's parents probably forced her to practice spells to get into the above classes earlier. Regardless of her efforts, Willow would always seem behind Amity one way or another while Amity would be expected to be exceptional. The problem was also not their ages or how long they'd stay in school, but the fact Amity's parents would prevent Willow from even attending somehow, using their status (probably by saying awful things about her parents and her being a troublemaker). The only way Willow could have an education would then be to enroll in another school, which would lead her to maybe move out to another town. Either way, she would be separated from Amity.

Luz becoming Eda

• If Luz was just transformed to look like Eda in "Once Upon a Swap", as was implied by the end where they still had articles of clothing they had acquired throughout the episode, then how was she able to do magic?
  • The swap seems more than aesthetical given that Eda-as-King couldn't use magic in that form, implying she effectively gave Luz her magic bile sac upon swapping their bodies.

Amity's secret hideout

• Why does Amity have a Bookcase Passage in a public library triggered by a book that anyone could pick up, and why does she keep her diary in there without any kind of lock?
  • We know that Edric and Emira were the ones looking for the diary and it would be a fairly safe bet to assume they have stolen before. Amity may have just chosen a public location because her own home wasn't that secure due to her siblings, leaving her with fewer options. Amity obliviously wouldn't want her Azuara books to be found either, unlike Luz, Amity does not want anyone to know she is a fan.

Easily Forgiven

• Luz is a good kid, but aren't Eda and the Blights pretty quick to forgive her after she stole Amity's wand and got Eda and the twins captured by the slitherbeast in "Adventures in the Elements"? I'm not saying it should be a multi-episode grudge, but don't they get back to joking a bit too fast within the episode?
  • Similar to another certain show with a similar context, the Boiling Isles is kind of a Death World. Monsters and danger are commonplace here. Even the weather is dangerous, not to mention their favorite sport. Amity and her siblings go on a camping trip to where a dangerous monster lives but it's presumably dangerous no matter where they go, so the inhabitants of the Isles are less likely to bat an eye at the thought of getting eaten than a normal human would. Doesn't mean they are oblivious to danger, since they use magic to take precautions, but they are quick enough to get over almost dying.
  • The twins seem to accept it as Laser-Guided Karma for nearly getting Luz and Amity sewn into books, since that was their fault. There's Character Development on Amity's part that she has learned Luz doesn't mean to cause trouble; just look at her face when she says she can't let Luz get hurt on her watch. As for Eda, she is used to Luz getting into scrapes and endangering their lives.
  • Keep in mind to that Luz was the one that helped Amity realize that she wanted to try and be a better person after what they initially went through. So, she probably felt it wasn't worth it to hold a grudge against the one who helped her to change her ways.

Amity's Leg

• Seeing that Amity could still walk around with her bad leg using her crutch, "Wing It Like Witches", why couldn't she come along on the field trip?
  • Perhaps when her parents found out about the leg, they forced her to stay in bed, not for her well-being but because a "Blight must not appear weak" and needing a crutch to walk around would definitely be what they consider "weak".
  • There's also a difference between "walking to a friend's house" (and she could have ridden most of the way and only walked into the actual house) and "spending an entire day walking around."

Luz's weak nerd arms

• Luz was too weak to move that lever in the prison to free the unfortunate fellow weirdos. How come about 16 episodes later she's strong enough to Princess Carry Amity?
  • Early-Installment Weirdness? It was the first episode, after all.
  • Muscles atrophy when you don't use them. It's not like Luz just lies on the couch all day, so she likely has gotten a lot more physically activity done through her adventures. That and perhaps the lever was just very stiff? Also, bear in mind that Luz is something of Large Ham anyway. She may have just been exaggerating a little.

Witches, Warlocks and Wizards

• Is the term Witch used exclusively for all practitioners of magic? Belos is referred to as a witch, I think the same applies to other male characters like Gus and Edric? Wouldn't male witches be called warlocks? We know that wizards technically exist as well in the world since Eda mentions them in the second episode. Is witch just a catch-all term in this setting?
  • It's implied that "witch" is sort of the term for the people of the Boiling Isles, as opposed to "human", since only witches have the magic bile sacs (which likely you have to be born with, hence why a point is never made of getting Luz one). And because magic is so commonplace, that just causes "witches" and "magic" to be synonymous like in our world.
  • As for wizards, they could just be a type of witch.
  • It's only in stories like Harry Potter that Witches are only female; historically, men have also been accused of being Witches as well as women.
    • However, they do have the Triwizards Tournament and they had Bill Weasley’s yet-to-be wife, Fleur, competing.
    • To note, the Tournament is ancient—potentially it really was a triwizard tournament when first concieved, with women being allowed to compete later. "Tri-Witch-or-Wizard Tournament" just doesn't ring. It's been made clear through the parent series that Witches are female and Wizards are male.
  • Terrace confirms "Witch" is a gender neutral term for the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles.
  • In Little Witch Academia, every witch happens to be female. We never see any male witches.

Half a curse

• How does splitting an Owl Beast curse end up draining magic and greying the eyes? Should they not at least have a bit of bird beast showing?
  • I suppose the split curse referred to the curse as a whole rather than Eda's Owlbeast form.
  • Witches magic is stated to be biological, it's likely they are partially transformed, it's just the hair and eye color is the only part that's visible, but whatever internal changes occurred is interfering with their bile sack

Rusty Smidge

• If the Rusty Smidge (Golden Snitch expy) really is such a game-breaking part of Grudgby, why didn't Willow or Gus bring it up to Luz while explaining the game, or why not Amity explain it after she joined their team?
  • It just never occured to them the same way it might not occur to you to explain to a Fish out of Water you're not allowed to do things like blow up the ball to prevent the other team scoring a goal. They did say that "all magic games have it", after all.

Amity's sexuality

• If Amity is exclusively lesbian, why'd she draw that self-insert of herself fawning over an ostensibly male character?
  • It's been confirmed by Dana Terrace that the character Amity drew wasn't strictly (or something like that) male.
  • Lesbians can enjoy stuff about fictional men while still being lesbians. Or she just didn’t realize she was a lesbian yet.
• The character wasn't necessarily male. They could have been a more masculine woman and/or Amity didn't draw breasts on the character. "Malingale" sounds like a feminine name to me.

Other Covens

• It's frequently stated that a witch must join one and only one of the nine main covens under the Emperor's system. And throughout the series, it's these main nine that are most frequently referenced (along with uniform colors reflecting them). However, we've also seen in Covention that there are many more covens to join (such as the Cat coven and the Menders Coven) but which seem more like clubs. These covens don't seem to be referenced again. So what's the deal with them? Can't a student simply choose one of the minor covens? Or are they more like the Boiling Isles equivalent of minors at a college or even a school club, whereas the main nine are like majors? If so, why haven't we seen more of these minor covens talked about, or seen a student try to join them after Covention?
  • It was stated that a witch must join a coven or be banished, but was it ever specifically stated that they must join one of the nine main ones? If the smaller covens abide by the same rules, as in the witch who joins has their magic sealed away, then it would accomplish the same thing. The nine main covens are likely just the most famous or most important covens because they were the first covens to be formed. Basically, they are the founders of the coven system and thus are highly regarded. The smaller covens may receive less attention because they are relatively less significant.
  • I think that it's just that you have to join one of the nine covens, but you can also join the more "club-like" coven. Maybe some of the club covens require you to be a part of one of the nine covens. Like the cat coven requires beast-keeping for example.
    • Most likely the smaller covens are just extensions of the nine covens anyway.

Technology on the Boiling Isles

• So the Boiling Isles has their own equivalent of phones, along with other social media websites on Earth, but so far, we haven't gotten the slightest hints of TVs, or even computers. What's going on here? Understandable cars aren't around since you can just use Palismen to fly, but if you have phones, you think tech that came before that would already be around.
  • Tech Trees are not a thing in Real Life. With a wildly different world, one should expect what inventions exist to be anything but resemble our own world. We have TVs mainly because the tech to create smartphones wasn't around yet, and it's not hard to imagine if smartphones came first we might've never invented TVs either - a non-portable screen that you have to share with your family can easily be seen as a step backward to personal pocket entertainment devices.
    Computers do seem to be the primary invention that's limited in commonness (we see something resembling computers when Luz is looking for Philip's diary, but like TVs they're just crystal balls) but in a world where you can create abominations that can do the sort of work a computer does, again it's not out of the question to imagine witches and wizards simply never saw a need to.
  • With a branch of magic dedicated solely to creating illusions, maybe the idea of an in-home entertainment system didn't occur to people. Which would you rather do, look at a flat image of something on a screen at a predetermined time and which you have no control over, or see a three-dimensional, photorealistic illusion that can fill a room and be anything your heart desires? If you already have access to the latter, why would you ever spend time trying to invent the former?

The timing of the twins' prank

• It seems that Ed and Em were planning to steal Amity's diary for a while so why wait for that specific night? They already knew about the hideout and how to find it, knew the diary was there somewhere, and it's not like they needed the Wailing Star's magic or Luz to post the pages around.
  • They probably wanted to use the Wailing Star's magic to make Amity's diary produce a copy of Amity that would recite all her most embarrassing secrets for their amusement. That and so they could record it and post it on the Witch social media thing with those enchanted scrolls all the kids have.
  • They didn't seem to know that that would happen beforehand. They might have just wanted to use the Wailing Star as a distraction.

Hexside's one track education and the Emperor's Coven

• How could anyone that goes to Hexside be at all prepared or experienced enough to join the Emperor's coven, which includes using all types of magic, when Hexside limits a student's study to just a single track? We know it's been a single-track system since at least Eda was at school, considering Principal Bump told us Eda also wanted to study all the tracks.
  • That is actually a very valid point but it likely just speaks to the actual problems with the one-track system in the first place. No one is allowed to use multiple magic unless they work under Belos directly because that's the way Belos wants it. He wants to limit the general population, not those that serve him. Even if his soldiers aren't that experienced with every type of magic, they would still have an advantage over those that only use one type. In any case, Belos likely prefers that over the alternative of letting everyone use all types of magic. As for Hexside, the students CAN actually study more than one track. Just not at the same time. Willow was initially in the Abomination track but was then moved to the Plant track. So she did study both. And according to Word of God, a witch will only lose their other magic types when they officially join a coven, so Willow, Amity, and Gus can use any type of magic they want until they join one.
  • It's designed to brainwash the students. Give them a taste of power as students, so they work hard to be loyal to the Emperor, so they aren't forced to choose a track and give up a lot of their magic. And they're all fighting for one spot. One spot that allows them to use any kind of magic they desire. One spot that doesn't restrict them. One spot, and all they have to really do is prove they're powerful and loyal. Most kids would work extremely hard to get that spot unless they're content to being in a coven. It's also not an old system by any means, it's stated the track system has only been around for 50 years. That's not old at all. There are coven heads who are likely much older than that, such as the head of the Plant Coven. So it's likely too, that there hasn't been enough time for people to realise that something weird is going on with the system.

Forged Letters

• Who's forging letters by Luz and mailing them to her mother, and; either containing information from the camp knows Luz is missing or, through means of magic makes the camp unaware that Luz is missing at all
  • We'll find out later in the series. We now know there's a doppelganger of Luz who's at home with her mother.

Use of butterflies as stationery

• Party invitations are painted on live butterflies, which are then kept in pockets, yet paper exists. There is no apparent reason to use live butterflies for this purpose. It doesn't make sense to use butterflies.
  • The pointlessness is part of the extravagance. It's either a display of money or magical talent/power, possibly both.

"This isn't a cartoon from the '40's, Gus!"?

• This line from Escaping Expulsion confuses me. How does Willow know what a cartoon is, let alone what the 1940's were?
  • The Owl Pellet shorts established that the Boiling Isles have their own version of television via crystal balls. Animation is probably much easier and cheaper with magic to draw and move the pictures so cartoons existing would make sense.
  • It was stated in Season 1 that the Emperor had been in power for around fifty years, meaning that Willow could have been referring to those years in Belos' reign.
  • In the Forbidden Section of the Bonesborough Library, there is a sign that says "Donations - Deadwardian Era - 1600s," so we know there are years in this world. It's likely that there was a Boiling Isles version of the 40s.
  • Maybe Willow was Breaking the Fourth Wall or she means the new, future 2040s.
  • Maybe Luz used her cell phone to show Willow and Gus cartoon videos during some of their visits to the Owl House.

So... no other way to make money?

• What happened to Eda's potion making business that Luz helped with in episode 2? Separate Tides seemed to imply that Eda's human junk was the only way they made money, and that bounty hunting was their only alternative. But the episode confirms that Eda and Lilith can still brew potions, so why not go into that full time?
  • The episode also shows that more advanced potions require rare and dangerous components that are especially difficult to get without magic. It's also possible that she's still making potions but not making enough money to support two grown witches, a 14-year-old girl and whatever King is.

Hooty's puppet show with the guard

• In "Agony of a Witch", Hooty supposedly knocks out one of the attacking guards and then proceeds to hijack his head via the back of the hood, controlling him like a puppet. How does that work? Where did the guard's head disappear to?
  • Are you looking for an answer other than 'Hooty ate the guys head and used his corpse as a puppet'? Because that's the most obvious response here.
  • Alternatively, he could have forced the head downwards or behind him.

Palismen's Purpose

• In "Hunting Palismen", we're shown that the Palismen bond when a witch states their life goals. Luz is basically rejected because her goals aren't long term, but neither is the kid who wanted just to graduate, and he got a Palismen with no further comment.
  • Actually its her lack of conviction or a specific objective that got her rejected, not the duration of said goal. Wanting something as simple as graduating still counts, since the person knows what they want. Luz is still unsure what she will do next if she were to somehow return to her home, she wants to be a witch but at the same time she knows she can't do magic in the human realm.

Why does Luz go to Hexside?

• If Luz is supposed to be Eda's student, so why does she attend Hexside? And the only magic Luz can learn is through the glyphs, which are obviously not taught at Hexside, so what exactly is Luz learning?
  • She's learning everything except how to cast them. How the different kinds of magic work, what kinds of spells exist, how they interact, what's possible and what isn't. Luz's education is just largely based on theory rather than practice.
  • And it’s clear Eda isn’t very good at teaching, since she wasn’t able to hold Luz’s interest and struggled the few times she actually tried to teach Luz something. Plus, she doesn’t know all that much more about wild magic than anyone else. Luz wanted to go to Hexside, and Eda realized she wasn’t much help, so she enrolled Luz there.
  • Hexside is more condusive to Luz's needs. Interaction with people her own age as well as her living out the magic school fantasy. From a real world perspective, it expands the cast (Willow, Gus, Amity etc) and allows for more world building. And as mentioned, teaching isn't something that comes easily to Eda. Nor being a student. No wonder she stands outside of the coven system.

Wizards, are they a type of magic user that's similar to Witches?

• In "Witches Before Wizards" Eda mentions the existence of wizards, since "witches" is a gender-neutral term does this mean wizards are a different type of magic users and possibly use magic differently? Granted, the "wizard" in the episode was actually a fake and the show (so far) hasn't shown a legitimate wizard but Eda doesn't really deny their existence either. Eda also shows a mild dislike for them, if they're real does this mean wizards and witches have some sort of rivalry? Or is it just Eda being Eda?
  • According to Dana Terrace, wizard is more of a title on the Boiling Isles.

A hierarchy among covens?

• In "I Was a Teenage Abominations" Willow mentions that her parents put her in the Abomination track because they thought it would give her more future opportunities, and in "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" Bria mocks illusions as "high-def party tricks". Even though these are a small set of characters saying these, is it possible that there's an unspoken "hierarchy" among the covens, where some covens (and overall types of magic) are looked down on and others placed higher?
  • Almost certainly. Naturally magic that is more difficult or more in demand is going to considered more important than magic that's neither. It's probably a system with different tiers, so while there's no wort coven there are definitely some that are top covens.
  • I think it's also possible that there are just more or better-paying career opportunities in the Abomination track than the Plant track. We see Abominations cover home security and servitude, for example. That will pay more than a gardener or landscaper (especially in the Boiling Isles, where there doesn't seem to be a demand). Illusionists likely don't have much they can do with their magic either, other than as entertainers or tricksters. Based on dialogue from the first episode, it doesn't seem the Boiling Isles have movies and TV, so while an illusionist would be fantastic at creating what we'd call CGI, there is no market for that. Bards would be low on the pole if music wasn't in high demand. Healers and Potioneers would be in high demand for ailments and other issues. It's less that there's a hierarchy and more that some tracks are simply more useful or provide more or better opportunities than others do because there's more of a demand for them.
• And while we're on the topic of hierarchy within the covens & its system I also would like to ask this: "within the coven system and the empire of Belos,who out ranks who ?
• We all know Belos is at the top, no mistake about that. However, when it comes to the other characters such as Kikimora, the Coven heads and such, it gets blurry. In theory, since kikimora is technically Belos' right hand, she ought to be technically above the Coven heads and the Coven heads should above the captains and ranking file of The emperor's army. As for the Golden Guard (before recent events were discovered) he being related to the Emperor and a directly serving Belos should put him a step up above Kikimora.
• Then again the boiling isles has proven that whoever runs things it's run on the continent Might makes right, a.k.a. whoever is stronger calls the shots. So,could someone try to explain this to me? Because in-show it's a little fuzzy.

Library's Forbidden Stacks

• If only the Master Librarian is allowed to be in the restricted area, then why does Amity's staff card give her access?
  • He's the only one who can grant access. She's allowed in there under certain circumstances, as an employee, but she's not supposed to bring friends, and there are probably limits to when and why she's allowed, like to clean, put things away, or help him carry books or things like that.

Apple Blood

• What IS apple blood? When we're first introduced to it, it's treated like coffee (Eda refuses to talk or do anything before having any, exactly like people with morning coffee), later episodes treat Eda's preference for it to be tantamount to alchoholism, but yet, we see the students at Hexide drinking it as well. It comes in child-friendly little boxes with straws, not bottles, regardless of if it's what Eda drinks or what the students at Hexide drink. The boxes are identical, so there's no visual distinction to say one is alcholic and one isn't. So what is it? Coffee? Alcohol? Juice?
  • It's probably alcoholic but since witches have a different biology than humans do kids drinking it might not be a big deal. It's also likely that the alcohol content varies in potency depending on the version.
  • Maybe Apple Blood is the Boiling Isles version of apple cider, which can be made alcoholic by fermenting?
  • Or alternatively, it's 100% nonalcoholic and Eda's obsession with it is just a case of getting Drunk on Milk.

Fighting Grom

• Why does Hexside allow a student, even the absolute best one, fight alone against Grom? Why doesn't Bump fight Grom instead? Or why don't they get someone from the Emperor's Coven to fight? Or literally just any professional? Especially since they have a lot riding on this fight, since if the student loses, Grom will get free and terrorize the rest of the island. Is it just a dumb tradition thing?
  • It's stated in the episode that the whole Grom thing happens because Principle Bump has faith in his students so not only does he get one to fight it but also turned it into a part. The episode also shows that one student being overwhelmed doesn't mean others can't step in and finish the job. So even if the Grom King/Queen fails then Bump can still step in and finish it off.
    • There's additional Fridge Brilliance here. The Boiling Isles are dangerous and dark places. Sure, children's greatest fears might include the occasional killer clown or giant doll — but many, like Luz and Amity's, will just be low-scale personal stuff which is very affecting to them, but doesn't present an immediate threat to the school. With everything an experienced Emperor's Coven Scout, or even someone like Principal Bump, has seen over the course of their lives, imagine what their worst fears might be. The same reasoning applies for having only one fighter: it limits the number of forms Grom has to choose from.

Just learn all the spells from the get go

• So Luz was able to learn the light glyph by recording Eda doing the spell on her phone and slowing down the footage, right? Why doesn't she do that with every spell?
  • Word of God is that she has all the glyphs. Her more complicated spells are combinations of glyphs, which she has to learn on her own. Presumably Eda's light spell was just the absolute simplest form of light magic, so it was nothing more than the glyph.
  • Also, since you find the glyph in its natural environment, i.e. the ice glyph is found in a snowflake, perhaps the phone method only works for a light glyph since a video is a recording of light.

Switching Covens

• Gwendolyn mentions how she joined the Beast Tamer Coven to try to find a way to deal with Eda's curse. This would mean she either switched covens somehow, or she managed to avoid joining a coven at all until well into adulthood.
  • There's never been any indication a witch can't change covens, just that they have to be in one or else be considered a wild witch.
  • The rules about being in a coven likely became more strict over time. It most likely started as a suggestion to make the Titan happy then after a few decades was made into a law as the Emperor's influence spread.

Hunter's Typing

• In "Any Sport In A Storm", Hunter gets a Penstagram account, and it's remarked by Willow and Gus that he types really slowly. But how could they tell? If Penstagram works like real life social media, Hunter would have to type a whole post before it went "live" on the website, and nobody could tell how long it took. If they were referring to the messaging system, wouldn't they have to add him as a friend before he could send a message? The dialogue implies this is the first they're seeing of his account.
  • They probably noticed it takes a longer time than normal for him to respond compared to other people who have used Penstagram longer than him. Think of it like an old person who got a phone for the first time and uses one finger to type slowly.

Reading

• When Luz peeks over at Philip's journal, she says out loud "Tragically, I did not save my companions" in a confused tone, despite it not being written down and Philip not turning a page. Where did she read it?
  • He was in the process of writing it, and the mouse had already read that part of his diary to her in the present. That was her realizing that he's an Unreliable Expositor.

Coven Heads allegiance

• Darius and Eberwolf apparently also oppose the Emperor, but they were willingly in charge of capturing Raine, and they have no reason to fake their loyalty, so what's the explanation for that? And what about the other Bards? Darius did send them in the Conformatorium without a second thought. If they weren't on board back then, what changed?
  • Darius and Eberwolf had every reason to fake their loyalty at that point. Given how much trouble Raine was stirring up, and their importance to the Day of Unity, Belos would be paying close attention to Raine's capture and whether or not anything was amiss. Much like he said to Hunter, it would probably be inconvenient for Belos to replace Raine at this point. Eber and Darius going on this mission in particular could be a result of Belos doubting their loyalties, and they may have been aware of this, thus playing up the 'evil coven head' act on purpose. They were trying to throw suspicion off them. In their consequent appearances, Belos was either absent (Any Sport in a Storm) or probably believed by them to be unaware of their plans, (Them's the Breaks, Hollow Mind.) hence why they act more benevolent.
  • It was later revealed that Darius and Eber already had deep doubts about the Day of unity and were attempting to protect Raine by taking charge of their capture. That was likely one reason Darius was so annoyed by Kikimora's "assistance".

The Titan Trappers' Logic

• How did the Titan Trappers not think that King might actually be a titan? Inviting him to their island wasn't, like, a trap or anything, they genuinely thought he was just a witch wearing a costume. Why would their automatic assumption be that he's part of their cult hardly anyone knows about instead of the titan that they've dedicated their lives to hunting? If they were simply unsure about King being the last titan that might make sense, but the mere possibility that King might actually be a titan seems to not even have crossed their minds.
  • We're told that none of them, save Bill, has ever even SEEN a live Titan. They simply don't know how to recognize a living one. They all seem to constantly wear those skulls and pelts and Tarak's first assumption on seeing King's skull was that King got it from his own father. Considering King's size, they all likely assumed he was a very young child who was wearing a full body costume. Given how shaggy the pelts they wore are, it would be easy to make a full body suit for such a small toddler. From their perspective, a young child just showed up with two others saying he's one of them and they just welcomed him.
  • Occam's Razor comes to mind. Which is more likely to a tribe of people who spend all their time in costumes? That someone is a person in a costume, or that a mythical deity they have never seen and have no physical evidence actually exists put out a video almost literally asking them to come find him and then asked to play catch?

Emperor's Coven sigils

• It's learned that the sigils for the main nine covens exist not only to seal away a witch's magic, but to also kill them when the Draining Spell is activated. However, the Emperor's Coven members get brands that don't restrict their magic and they aren't shown to be included in Darius' illustration for the Draining Spell or when Belos first tested the sigils. So, they aren't known to do either of the things sigils are supposed to, so why do they exist?
  • "King's Tide" shows that the Emperor's Coven is included in the draining spell, so this question is now a moot point.
  • Probably to let people know that they are part of the Emperor’s Coven. It’s also probable that they serve as all 9 coven sigils at once and/or allow Belos to restrict their magic if necessary, meaning that they could still be under the effect of the draining spell.

The witches with no sigils

• The Draining spell works by killing everyone that has a sigil branded on them. So how is Belos/Philip going to get rid of the wild witches that were simply kept in his prison, the students of Hexside and the other kinds of sapient demons that inhabit the Boiling Isles?
  • Don’t forget the Titan Trappers! They exist, too!
  • Step one: kill a huge chunk of the magic-using population. Step two: re-enter the human world and introduce yourself as someone capable of killing a huge chunk of a magic-using population. Step 4, gain enough respect and adoration from previous to gather an army of magic-hating humans to exterminate the rest of the Isles, then rule on high as Emperor of the Witch Hunters.
  • How was Philip planning on getting back to the Demon Realm, though?
  • He didn't intend for the portal to be destroyed after one attempt.
  • Well, he still lacked the titan's blood for the trip back, though maybe he could have eventually reverse engineered a sci-fi version of the door. However, perhaps he realised that he can't solo the demon world and settled for the next best thing? With the portal rendered unoperational and the majority of the residents dead, the Boiling Isles, in Below' eyes, can no longer threaten humanity. The few survivors may not suffice for species propagation, after all. Relatedly, does he even know about the Titan Trappers? The Collector doesn't seem to be the type to tell him about them.
  • The "few survivors" includes an entire generation of kids and teenagers who haven't yet received their sigils. So when they grow up they would definitely pose a threat, and the Boiling Isles population would still exist. It's weird Belos's plan seemingly didn't take this into account at all.
  • Since Belos grew up in a time period where the concept of an atomic bomb or something with such destructive force wasn't imaginable, he can't conceive of methods that would render the Isles uninhabitable for any living creature and would be much harder to evade or hide from whilst it was underway. The only other method available to him was unleashing the Collector and allowing their god-like power to do the deed underneath the guise of a 'game', and not even Belos is crazy enough to go that far, especially when he intends to 'survive' the method by which he destroyed the Isles to tell tales of his exploits on Earth. Belos never included any other humans in his plans to destroy the Demon Realm, apparently out of a desire to be seen as the lone saviour of humanity once he was done, and thus he had to come up with the plan himself, rather than gaining outside aid to perspectives to be more effective, beyond the Collector, whose status as a sealed individual made them the perfect confidant for Philip to confide in in order to gain the kind of magical method of killing he was looking for. The Collector themselves clearly doesn't have any interest in killing the inhabitants of the Boiling Isles, so they likely just taught Philip the knowledge he was looking for about a type of magic spell that would affect a large group of people at once, rather than offering something that would be more damaging and destructive, which was what Philip was actually aiming for, but had to filter through the Collector's game-obsessed perspective. Since he was alone in enacting this plan as a human and never intended to spare any of the inhabitants of the demon realm that he tricked into aiding him, Belos likely accepted that there was a list to what he could do on his own, and there was a chance that there would be survivors in the end, but he satisfied himself that his plan would still kill most of the population, which was an outcome he was happy to accept, and it would also teach the survivors to fear the people of Earth as a result, helping to keep the two worlds separated, which was another thing he was obsessed about achieving.
  • How would Belos's plan have "taught the survivors to fear the people of Earth"? If everything had gone according to his plan, the handful of people who actually knew he was human would've been dead, and Belos himself would've returned to Earth. There's no indication he was planning to give some grand speech to the survivors of the Day of Unity about his true identity and intentions. So if the plan had worked, the surviving kids and teenagers wouldn't have known anything else than that something went wrong with their Emperors's spell — they might not have even have realised that the spell killing everyone was intentional rather than some horrible accident.
  • Note that his plans immediately before the Day of Unity include rounding up wild witches more intensely than before and sending a coven head to discretely brand the students at Hexside before their regularly-scheduled deadline. There's no reason to think he wasn't also forcibly branding the prisoners and students at the other schools. While there's no way he could ensure every single witch on the Boiling Isles has a coven brand, he did everything he could to drastically increase that percentage. As for the Titan Trappers, there's no indication he knows they exist; Lilith, his head scholar, had no idea either King's island of origin nor the portal to the Trappers' home existed. While Belos is excellent at compartmentalizing information to manipulate his minions, he's also not the type to ignore them. Since they didn't factor into his plans at all, it's pretty clear that he thought the residents of the Boiling Isles constituted the entirety of the Demon Realm, which simply means he didn't account for variables he couldn't have known existed.

The split Owl Beast

• How did splitting the owl curse work? The Owl Beast is its own distinct being that's simply imprisoned inside Eda. How does a conscious, actual being be split in half? Is half of the Owl Beast's soul now in Lilith? Why would half of the Owl Beast being put inside Lilith make her turn into a raven? Did Lilith's half create a whole new creature and she now has her own raven beast living inside of her?
  • Presumably, the interaction of Lilith's magic, the Collector's original spell and the magical properties of the Owl Beast resulted in Lilith accidentally creating a new creature, while partially draining away the Eda's condition. So the Raven Beast might be an offspring of Lilith and the Owl Beast, hence its raven features and the same side effects on its host. After all, Palismen show that magic can create living beings with their own souls and that is not particularly hard to do so.

Philip's Diary

• What purpose was it meant to serve for Philip? A diary is usually meant as a way to organize one's thoughts, as a memory aid, a snapshot of one's identity in a given time frame, to show the progression of one's identity over time, or to given one's life a narrative through line. Philip not only lies in his diary, but avoids talking about his greater intentions to the point that Luz never learns them from the memory mouse. He has no reason to leave behind a historical record to endear himself to the witch-kind, because he HATES witches and assumes the Belos identity while Philip was still mostly unknown. The only reason a person would write a diary in that way is if they expected it to be a plot device that would mislead another character.
  • Philip would not have any problems with the diary, because he knows what parts of it are false. If anything, the way it is written is his cipher that paid off massively, just ask Luz. After all, one need not be a genius to realise that others might want/be able to read a private diary. Relatedly, endearing himself to the witch-kind was important as he needed their voluntary cooperation for his plans. This way, if anyone wondered about his intentions and took a peek at the diary all they would see is a noble, if tragic explorer and not a witch hunter general.
  • The diary seems to have been written over the course of several decades. We do not know when exactly Philip came up with the idea of actually exterminating the witches of the Demon Realm, but it's perfectly possible that for quite some time he merely wanted to get back home to Earth. So the initial entries depicting his attempts to discover a portal might have been written honestly. Then, later on, when he started to concoct a plan to kill the witches, he decided to leave all that out of the diary in case anyone on the Boiling Isles took it from him and read it.
  • As for why Philip kept the diary to begin with, back in 17th century it was not uncommon for people who traveled to faraway lands to record the events of their travels for others to read, as traveling outside one's own land was still quite rare. And obviously few if any humans had ever traveled to the Demon Realm before Philip, so he probably thought recording his life there would provide valuable information and insight for other humans once he returned to Earth. Luz also finds out that the diary contains notes on various glyph combinations Philip was working on (which Luz is then able to reproduce to some degree), so he certainly seems to have been using it as a memory aid also. Even if the diary contained lies and omissions about Philip's true intentions, recording glyph combinations and other such findings would have still been useful to him. Especially since he had spent decades in the Demon Realm, and his mind was clearly deteriorating as a side effect of his misuse of wild magic, so most likely he couldn't trust his memory alone.

The Training Wand

• In 'Adventures In The Elements', Amity is using a Training Wand to get better at magic... but Luz is able to use it too, despite supposedly possessing no innate magic power. And okay, so the Wand has a battery that drains over time, but is there really no other reason Luz couldn't just carry a Training Wand (or several) on her constantly to perform spells like everyone else can? This seems no different from a person who can't walk using a wheelchair, yet the show completely forgets about the Training Wand after this one episode
  • The training wand probably uses similar technology to Hunter's staff, which also allows a non-magical entity to perform genuine magic, so the concept itself didn't completely disappear. As for why Luz doesn't use one, she doesn't need it. The episode itself proves that she's able to accomplish just as much with her glyphs as she could with a magic wand, and she seems to genuinely enjoy playing around, discovering, inventing, and experimenting with glyphs. Even Gus and Amity are shown using glyphs later instead of attempting to cast the corresponding spells organically, so glyphs definitely fill a role that training wands simply don't. Also, Amity's family is rich, so training wands could be prohibitively expensive to get and/or maintain. If they were common, you'd think they'd be standard issue at school—heck, they seem ideal for that purpose—but they aren't.

Coven heads' complacency

• To what degree were the other coven heads complicit in the Day of Unity? Since we know that Kikimora and Odalia already knew about the draining spell, and were fine with it under the assumption that they'd be rewarded for their loyalty, were the coven heads in a similar boat or just as out-of-the-loop as everyone else in the Boiling Isles? Terra and Graye would definitely be believable, especially since Terra admitted that letting Eda and Raine live all those years ago was a "mistake". But for all we know, that could've just been those two being malicious out of their own nature.
  • Terra, at least, believed every lie Belos told—her reaction to the Draining Spell wasn't "Yes, my Emperor, take my magic!" but "Wait, we AREN'T going to Paradise?!" It's potentially the same with the other Coven leads, but there's no real way of telling.
  • My question is, did Odalia really know about the draining spell? Listening to her speech to Alador, it sounds more like she was just suspecting the Day of Unity would be bad for everyone else, rather than straight-up knowing everyone would be drained.
    • Considering that Kikimora had a sigil, it's possible that both she and Odalia were kept in the dark about details such as the magic being drained through sigils, and that by having one they were both doomed regardless of how loyal they both were to the Emperor Belos.

When did Luz have time to sabotage the branding glove

• If you watch the scene in King's Tide there's no clear opportunity for Luz to put the invisibility glyph on the glove and put it on her hands. So how did she do it without Philip noticing?
  • The glove is right behind her while she's being petrified. She probably grabbed a glyph and stuck it on before her arms froze. As for how Philip didn't notice, Eda no doubt taught Luz some slight of hand tricks in the weeks they've spent together.

Luz coming out to her mother

• Luz comes out to Camila about her sexuality, but she already had a magnet on her fridge with the colors of the bisexual flag. How did Camila not pick up on the hint or was she unaware of what the flag meant?
  • It's possible she did "pick up on the hint", but didn't feel the need to pry her teenage daughter as to whether she was bisexual or not, and decided to let Luz come out on her own terms.
  • Camila also could have gotten the magnet from something that had nothing to do with Luz (for example, a craft store or fair booth).
  • Or, as stated above, she simply didn't know what the flag meant.
  • It's possible she even got it to drop a hint herself—it's perfectly in-character for Camila to notice Luz's attractions, but want to give her space to come out on her own while still being supportive. So she puts a bi flag on her fridge and kind of nudges the conversation towards it—"Mija, look at this pretty magnet I got, does it remind you of anything?" but doesn't outright say anything.
  • It's also perfectly possible that Camila has the flag magnet because she's bi too.
  • It is not unusual for queer people to come out "officially" even if their orientation might have been known to their social circles implicitly. It is an opportunity to clear up any ambiguities and set the record straight. Given that coming out is also something of a rite of passage for queer people, it is possible that Luz chose to come out for her own inner peace as well as for Camila's benefit.

Human Realm time skip

• It's stated that the Hexsquad were trapped in the Human Realm for months, and most of the episode takes place near or on Halloween (October 31st). However, the events of "Reaching Out" took place on August 22nd, and while a lot of time could have passed between then and "Kings Tide" due the months in the Demon Realm being significantly longer, that would still place their arrival in the Human Realm to be in the earlier months of the following year, and Word of God says they were only there for a few months as opposed to the longer amount of time before Halloween, and that Hunter is still 16. Making things even more confusing is the fact that Hunter's hair grew down to his shoulders before he cut it off^note While it's possible that a Grimwalker's hair could grow faster, this hasn't been previously hinted at and raises the question of how it didn't grow at all when he was forced to go on the run between "Hollow Mind" and "Labyrinth Runners", and Willow's scrapbook has photos of activities that the group did during the summer, and while summer doesn't technically end until late September, if they arrived not too long after "Reaching Out" then that means it's only been about two months at most.
  • Perhaps the date that "Reaching Out" took place was retconned to be a month or two earlier, or this is a case of Writers Cannot Do Math?
  • Maybe the date for "Reaching Out" may have been a mistake given season 1 is supposed to take place during summer (being when Luz's reality check summer camp was) and given season 2 begins only about a week and a half after the end of season 1 as well as the timespan from "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" to "King's Tide" being a month, it's unlikely for the events of "Reaching Out" to be a year after season 1 or for it to be so close to season 1 timeline wise.
  • The date in "Reaching Out" definitely seems to be a mistake. In "Yesterday's Lie" Vee has been impersonating Luz for a while already, and she seems to be going to school instead of her. But "Reaching Out" takes place some time after "Yesterday's Lie", so the events in that episode can't be on August 22nd, since school year hasn't even started then. Maybe Luz got confused what day it is, since the calendar is different in Demon Realm? But if the events of "Reaching Out" actually take place in the autumn or even later in the year, that would mean that the Hexsquad's months on Earth happen during the following year, since they are shown spending the summer there. Which wouldn't jibe with Hunter still being 16, but does the actual episode say anything about his age?

Belos is Philip - so what?

• Why was Luz so distraught when the Inner Belos revealed that he was Philip? Philip was already a Broken Pedestal for her, she found out way back that he was a conniving anti-witch bigot. Yet she goes to pieces as though she'd still idolised Philip and couldn't possibly reconcile him being the same person as Belos. Is this The Artifact from a different plan where she never realised Philip was evil in the time-travel episode? Or is there some factor I'm overlooking?
  • Luz is distraught because she realises that she unwittingly helped Belos with his genocidal plan. In the time travel episode she taught Philip a glyph he didn't know and helped him get in contact with the Collector. If that hadn't happened, Philip/Belos may have never found the information he needed to carry out the Day of Unity. Sure, at the end of the time travel episode Luz found out that Philip is a witch-hating bigot, but at that point Luz only thought she had helped some asshole human who lived centuries ago and has been dead for a long time, so it's not that big a deal. When she finds out Philip became Belos, she knows how big a deal it really is.
  • There was also the that the Stable Time Loop implies she was destined since the day she was born to help Philip meet the Collector, allowing him to commit mass murder.

Why didn't Camila stop Luz from throwing her Azura book?

• Good Witch Azura was Manny's parting gift for Luz before his death, so already it has a lot of sentimental value on top of Luz loving the story. Why would Camila just let Luz throw it away considering how it was from her dear late husband?
  • She might not have been aware of the significance.
  • Camila may have guessed that Luz would retrieve the book from the trash as soon as she left for work. Which was exactly what happened. Camila herself being a former closet nerd, she may have done the same thing herself as a youngster, "throwing something away so they would stop bothering her, then retrieving it and hiding it as soon as no one was looking."
    • It is also possible that Camila planned to retrieve the book herself. Just like how she recovered Luz's things that Vee had thrown away in "Yesterday's Lie".
  • Maybe... it's not the same book that Manny gave Luz, but rather a new edition. Luz seemed to be about 6 or 7 years old when her father died, but when she is 14 years old, the book she has seems new. The original book may have worn out over the years, so Luz kept it as a souvenir of her father, and Camila gave her a new edition.

Four Glyphs

• Why are Light, Ice, Plant, and Fire the four basic elements within the Owl House? Light and Fire would both take up energy, Ice is just a lack of energy, and Plant is too complex of a lifeform to count as 'basic'.
  • It's based on the four classical elements. Ice is water, plant is earth, fire is fire (self-explanatory), and light is air (with them both being intangible natural forces).

Lilith's coven sigil

• Both of Lilith's season 2 outfits leave her wrists uncovered, yet we don't see a coven sigil on either of them. Is it somewhere else on her body, does she not have one at all, or did it just somehow fade away when she made her Heel–Face Turn?
  • There are many shots of characters throughout the show who don't appear to have a sigil in some scenes but do in others, so this is mainly down to the animation and it's safe to assume she does have one even if it's not always visible to the audience.
  • That is true, but why is Lilith so consistently sigil-less in particular? Maybe the crew just Didn't Think This Through.
  • "For the Future" confirms Lilith doesn't have a sigil due to not being affected by the Day of Unity. How Belos didn't notice when she was in the Emperor's Coven is pretty unknown though.
  • A recent livestream by Cissy Jones has Dana Terrace confirm that they simply forgot about Lilith's sigil.
  • For a speculative Watsonian explanation, we could always lean on the Stable Time Loop. Maybe, in hindsight, Philip Wittebane remembered that "Aunt Dertrude" had no sigil, and thus allowed Lilith a special permission to remain sigil-less (which, of course, young Lilith would have interpreted as a show of favour from the Emperor). After all, if You Can't Fight Fate, trying to give Young Lilith a sigil despite Older Time-Travelling Lilith not having had one would guarantee that some means of removing a sigil from someone would be discovered.
  • What crueler punishment could Belos devise than having her witness everyone she knows and loves be killed by the Draining Spell, left in a dead world?

How Lilith got un-puppeted

• Lilith clearly gets turned into a puppet at the beginning of "For the Future", yet when we see her later making elixirs for Eda, she's not a puppet. How did she get freed?
  • It's mentioned later on that King convinced the Collector to free her. He presumably did so by mentioning that her experience in potions could help with Eda's curse.

Illusions

• "Through the Looking Glass Ruins" establishes illusions as being insubstantial and intangible... but Gus is shown using Illusion magic to augment Willow's plant monster with beefy arms and a student accidentally uses their Illusion magic to erase their face and acts like it's gone until the teacher undoes it. What's going on here?
  • If I had to guess, the augmentation to Willow’s plants worked because it was a combination of plant and illusion magic rather than solely being illusion magic, thus the arms had more substance to them than if Gus had just made a floating pair of arms. As for the facial erasure, it was either a legitimate barrier to her sight and speaking, regardless of it was real or not, or some sort of prank.
    • The faceless student had clearly messed up: maybe they had messed up so badly that what they cast wasn't actually (or wasn't purely) illusion magic.
  • In "Reaching Out" Edric fortified the rope in Eda's skin badger trap. This and some other scenes implied that illusionists can't create solid objects, but can enhance objects that already exist.

Ghosts

• So, what… are ghosts? How do they work? Assuming they're not just all in his head, are Caleb and the Grimwalkers in For the Future really the same type of entity as the ghosts Eda put in the girls' changing room and the School Spirits from Wing It Like Witches? The one we see in the latter episode is a cartoony Bedsheet Ghost and the changing-room ghosts in Something Ventured, Someone Framed look like tinier versions of him. They don't look much like the For the Future ones, in short. But in Understanding Willow Boscha asks if the purported ghost in Photo Class is "cute" and acts like dating them would be a possibility, so we kinda have to assume that ghosts with more distinct appearances are a known phenomenon, don't we? Not to mention the Keeper of the Looking Glass Graveyard is (wrongly) speculated to be a ghost by the characters. But Demon Realm ghosts being genuine spirits of the dead brings up a lot of Fridge Logic issues. For one thing, clearly the School Spirit who talks to Luz isn't someone significant from her past, so ghosts can appear to whoever they like, so… why wouldn't Caleb and the Guards appear to, say, Hunter to warn him of his fate? Even if the "ghosts" from For the Future are a special case, shouldn't other ghosts who predate Belos's rule still be around to debunk his propaganda about the Savage Ages? Equally, it's hard to see what ghosts might be if not dead spirits. They don't seem to fall into any of the "three Bs" so it'd be a stretch for them to be demons; and the changing-room ghosts are tangible entities Eda can carry in a sack, so they aren't illusions…
  • Something to keep in mind is that Caleb is human and being clones of him, Grimwalkers can be considered "part human" in some way. The rules for the ghosts of the Boiling Isles may not apply equally to the ghosts of the inhabitants of the Human Realm.
  • Perhaps they can only be seen by someone who is on the verge of death, as Belos when his body decomposes.
    • It's indeed possible that human/human-duplicates leave ghosts of a different types than demons or witches would, but that still leaves a lot of questions about the part that regular witches and demons' ghosts would have on the worldbuilding. (After going ghost-hunting through older episodes, we also see a stand of literal Ghost Writers in "Sense and Insensitivity", and the private detective Eda hired to investigate Raine in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade" was a ghost, a very good joke I'd somehow missed on first watching.) Also, Belos doesn't seem surprised to see Caleb's ghost, just aggravated, which suggests to me that this isn't the first time he's seen him…
  • Or, as mentioned above, the ghosts are nothing more than hallucinations, in which case analyzing how they work is relatively pointless. Given how all the Caleb ghosts just stand there silently not doing anything, it's very likely that this is all just in Belos's head.
    • That's definitely a plausible interpretation, although I do think the ambiguity is part of the appeal, so I wouldn't say anything so definitive "very likely". But it still doesn't answer the question of how all the other ghosts seen in the series fit in with the worldbuilding — the ones in the girls' changing room, Boscha's hypothetical cute one, the School Spirit, the ghost detective in "Follies at the Coven Day Parade"… The Incident Report on the changing-rooms incident in "Something Ventured, Someone Framed" mentions a "Ghost Dimension" that you can open "portals" to, which just creates more questions.

Lilith's scrying potion

• We see Lilith make a scrying potion to spy on the Emperor's Coven....and then after Separate Tides she never uses it again. Why? Why didn't Eda use it to find Raine or figure out Belos' plans?
  • The potion likely didn't last too long, there was no suggestion it was a permanent window into the castle. It was just a gift from Lilith to attempt to show she can be trusted. The whole thing was symbolic, not important.

Other Places Beyond the Boiling Sea

• Does other land exist besides the titan lands in the Demon Realms? This is also operating under the belief that the Boiling Seas, where the Boiling Isles and other titan parts are located at, isn't the only ocean on the Demon Realm. If there are other oceans, are there potentially entire unexplored continents that exist? Perhaps other civilizations whose relationship with magic is drastically different than the witches on the Boiling Isles.
  • It's possible, but if Titan Trapper Island is literally on "the other side of the world", that would narrow down the areas where there could potentially be unknown continents a fair bit. Some people have interpreted the claim in For the Future that the Collectors deal with "meddling" mortals by "cleaning the planet and scorching the air" as implying that maybe the Demon Realm planet used to be more Earth-like, but the Collectors wrecked it, reducing everything to a uniform and still-boiling ocean with only the Titans surviving long enough to fight back.

Amity asking Odalia to go out to the Bonesborough Brawl

• Why didn’t Amity ever asked Odalia to go to Bonesborough Brawl in “Reaching Out” if asking Alador didn’t work?
  • Odalia would never agree to let Amity waste her time on something as silly and pointless as the brawl unless there was a gain in it for her and the family. Amity joining the Emperor's Coven is Odalia's goal, she's not going to let Amity skip tryouts.
    • Plus Odalia also is a bit greedy and selfish so Amity decided to go to a parent that could trust her. Odalia wants her children to have their hair dyed green. She sorta is a bad mother to her kids. Alador is someone Amity and her siblings can trust. Amity probably knew her mother would only let her do something she wanted.
  • Alador specifically mentioned that Odalia had signed Amity up for coven tryouts. She assumed (probably correctly) that there was no way her mother would let her skip out on them for something she'd likely consider frivolous.
    • This is already answered.

Odalia Blight 3 years later

• What happened to Odalia 3 years when Luz attends college. Did she die? Are she and Alador divorced? Did she decide to be a permanent Mamadalia to the Collector?
  • Well, the Collector's off in space trying to grow up a little, so it's not the last one. Given we don't see her at all with either Alador or the kids post-timeskip, it can be inferred she is no longer part of the family. She probably slinked off and joined the former Coven heads to sulk about the power they lost, whatever that means for them.
    • Maybe she was forced head with the Collector in space. There’s are many possibilities.
  • Odds are nothing happened to her, aside from nobody wanting to put up with her crap anymore. She's ignored during the reunion between Amity and Alador which suggests they really are done with her and Alador later gets a ship-tease moment with Darius during the ending so that's just another nail in that coffin. The time skip largely focussed of Luz's friends in the Boiling Isles so it makes sense we don't see Odalia, just like we didn't see Terra or Tibbles.
  • According to Terrace herself in the Post Hooty Q&A, it does turn out she and Alador were divorced. So the second option was right. Probably it’s that what she’s been through while taking care of the Collector and seeing her husband and youngest child reunite from the Archives, she probably decides to just be amongst the stars. Maybe she will visit Collector sometime.

Belos' possession

• If Belos has the power to possess living things, AND he despises witches enough to want to execute all of them...what was stopping Belos from possessing the Titan's heart and going on a murder spree over the Isles earlier? Why wait so long for a Day of Unity?
  • Belos's Season 3 power to possess living things seems to have been a perk of getting his monstrous form under control. Previously, until Hollow Mind, giving over to the transformation also meant giving the Palismen souls control, at least in part. (This makes it a dark mirror of Eda learning how to go into Harpy-mode, of course.) So it seemingly wasn't an option for him until the latter half of Season 2, by which point the easier Day of Unity plan was smoothly underway.
    • Besides, until the end of King's Tide, Philip Wittebane was fully counting on returning home through the portal and being hailed a hero; while Luz was, in the end, able to tear him free of the Heart and he briefly recovered some semblance of a human form, by the time WaD Belos possessed the Heart he was even considering the question of whether there'd be a way back from the merger. (The way in which him merged into the Heart resembled Christ on the Cross really hammered home that by that point, the significantly unbalanced Belos was essentially sacrificing himself just for one last shot at wiping out the witches.)
    • He also apparently didn't know about the heart being Titan's, and/or Titan's power negating the Collector's, until Collector told Belos-possessed Raine.
    • (I think only the latter. He's the one who volunteers the information that the Heart is "the last of many", which the Collector didn't mention, and besides, it'd be pretty weird for him to have put his throne under the Heart if he didn't know what it even was.)

The Titan's arm raising

• When Belos possessed the Titan's heart (to be more precise, his bile sac), the Titan's arm was seen raising upwards. Any idea what is the significance of that scene? Was he trying to make a glyph/circle?
  • Perhaps. Or he could just have been trying to reach and physically swat Luz, the Collector & Co. out of the sky.

Glyph Studies with glyphs

• One of Luz's classes at the University of Wild Magic is Ancient Glyphs and Combos. However, after the Titan died for good glyph magic stopped working until King uncovering his own first glyph. How did students practice this course?
  • First option is just a history class. Here's what glyphs were and how they worked. No real practicing like you would magic just knowing what once was.
  • Second option is whatever new system of magic Luz and Stringbean came up with has glyphs of some kind and they study those.
  • We don't know how long it has been since King discovered the new glyphs, or how long that class has been in existence. Maybe it's a new class that's only beginning this semester, and they started it because of the discovery of new glyphs.

The Collector's understanding of death

• So does the Collector understand how death works or not? In Hollow Mind, The Collector remarked on how Belos keeps making grimwalkers only to destroy them by the end, as well as thinking that the emperor seemed mad enough to kill Hunter then and there. He also knew what the Draining Spell would do on the Day of Unity and had no problem gifting it to the puritan witch hater. Then comes the finale where The Collector remarks that they can just fix what's broken and has zero idea on what's happened to Luz after she sacrificed himself for him. What the heck?
  • It's not that he doesn't know what death is: what Luz says is that he doesn't understand what death means to mortals, in large part because he's never lost anyone he cared about. He knows death exists; he just doesn't understand that you can't fix it, and how terrible that feels when it happens to someone you like. He sums up his perspective himself: "Toys break all the time; you just fix 'em." In fact, his knowledge of the Grimwalkers likely contributed to his misapprehension about the seriousness of death: with Belos's treatment of them as interchangeable as his only reference point, he likely genuinely thought that making a new Grimwalker made up for "breaking" the old one and there was no need to fret or mourn. It's likely that he similarly thought the Draining Spell could just be reversed later if for some reason they wanted any of those "itty-bitty spiders" back. (Indeed, he genuinely seems to have expected his Badass Fingersnap to "fix" Luz and was surprised it didn't work: perhaps, if it weren't for the Belos-fungus overtaking him and weakening his powers, he really *could* bring anyone back from the dead over… and over… and over….)

Titan's Blood in Gravesfield

• Who hid the vial of Titan's Blood in Gravesfield and made the rebus/map pointing to it, and why? And how did Flapjack know where to dig up the rebus?
  • Most likely from Evelyn, so Flapjack knew because he was her palisman. The rebus was either for Caleb to find or for anyone who needed a way to travel between the worlds.
    • According to Word of God, Flapjack was actually Caleb's Palisman, but carved for him by Evelyn as a gift.

Golden Guards

• How was Belos able to get away with the whole Golden Guard thing? Like... how does no one find it odd that, whenever the current Golden Guard is "retired", Belos promptly replaces him with another one that looks and sounds exactly the same as the previous one? Along with having the same name? And this happened literally hundreds of times in a row. It's not like Belos tries to hide whenever a "new recruit" to the Golden Guard lineage comes in; Belos gave Hunter a whole ceremony for being the "youngest" scout to become the Golden Guard. And on top of all that, Belos goes around saying the Golden Guard is his nephew! How has no one thought to ask that, if this is his nephew, where is Belos's sibling that is Hunter's parent? Does he go around saying that every Golden Guard is his nephew? How does no one find it suspicious where all these "nephews" come from, considering Belos has had a Golden Guard with him for hundreds of years? And if he doesn't claim every Golden Guard to be his nephew, why would he only start with Hunter? And he is indeed insinuating that the Golden Guard is his biological nephew, as he repeatedly stresses to Hunter about their family, which wouldn't really make sense if they weren't biologically related.
  • Well, starting at the bottom, "family" doesn't necessarily mean blood. Could be the cover story was that Hunter's parent was a dear friend of Belos, like a "brother-in-arms" type thing—when "wild magic" killed said companion, of course Belos would raise their orphaned child like his own. Lots of adults call their close friends their kids' "Uncle" or "Aunt," after all.
  • How many people in the inner circle actually knew Hunter was Belos' nephew? Luz was surprised to even find out how young he was when he took off the mask, and Hunter was only ever allowed out of his room for GG missions so it's unlikely too many people were allowed to get close to him and his personal life. Do we ever actually see Belos and the Golden Guard together outside of the throne room, and thus in the public eye?
  • Finally, it's likely nobody knew about the Golden Guard having the same face, name, etc. for centuries—if Belos' attitude towards the current Hunter is any indication, he probably kept the 'walkers locked up until he needed their services, at which point they'd mask up and go out on their missions. Several characters at Hexside were shown to be incredulous when Gus revealed Hunter used to be the Golden Guard, so it's not likely the previous Guards went around maskless saying, "Hey everyone, my name is Hunter!"
  • Well, in “Thanks To Them”, Hunter talks to Gus about his life as The Golden Guard, about how he spent most of his life training and studying, about how he wasn’t allowed to go outside of the castle, except whenever he had a mission, which happened every weekend, and he wasn’t even allowed to interact with the scouts. Which it does makes sense, both because of Belos’s undying hatred towards witches and because if every Golden Guard spend much of their life in nearly total isolation, they would never form strong bonds with other people, and be remembered because of said connections. I mean, you don’t miss someone you don’t really know, right?
  • One possibility is that previous Golden Guards have generally been a bit older than the Hunter we got to know. If the previous Golden Guards all had the same general height and build, and were never seen outside of mask and uniform, it would be much more difficult to tell them apart. And then along comes Hunter, who is noticeably younger and shorter than the last, so Belos had to say or do something in order to minimize suspicion.
  • Belos says to Hunter, "Out of all the grimwalkers, you looked the most like him." This implies that there were differences between grimwalkers and Caleb in terms of appearance. On top of that, the idea that all the grimwalkers look alike is based on the assumption that they come out looking exactly the same every time, or that each Golden Guard gets publicly introduced like Hunter was. We don't know when Belos started making grimwalkers, but it was prior to becoming emperor. There are dozens of bodies in the Titan's head, and even more in Belos's lair, so how many did he kill in the fifty years he was in power? Did he simply replace one he killed with another that was similar enough in appearance and voice to hide it unless the Golden Guard died in a place or way that other people saw? Hell, we never find out if Darius knew the truth about Hunter, though being friends with the previous Golden Guard means that he'd have been in a better position to find out than anyone else in the Emperor's Coven. And another thing: maybe the reason why Hunter is so much younger than other Golden Guards and had to be claimed as Belos's nephew is due to dwindling resources? Think about it: palistrom wood is required to create grimwalkers, and that's becoming hard to come by. And even if palistrom wood wasn't becoming rare, there is another ingredient that definitely is: a piece of whoever the caster is trying to copy. Belos has been making grimwalkers for decades, how much of Caleb's body is left to make grimwalkers with?

Eda and King at the palace

• In the final episode, how were Eda and King brought to the palace in the location where Luz is at the beginning from the forest?

King's blood

• Has King never been scratched or otherwise wounded badly enough to draw blood? Wouldn't the color of his blood make it obvious that he was a Titan? (Titan's Blood being blue seemed like a pretty big deal, or we should have seen other creatures bleeding blue.)
  • Likely—even baby Titans are probably super tough. Add in Jean-Pierre and Eda protecting him from the time he was an egg, and you get a kid that's never bled.
    • There would still remain Hooty and Tinella Nosa's blood-sample. I think the easiest answer is that it wasn't well-known that Titan's Blood was blue until Eclipse Lake. Eda (or whoever) might have noticed that King's blood was an unusual colour, but they didn't know quite how significant that was, so it was just one more weird clue on the pile of "what kind of demon even is he". It's not like Eda didn't already know King's origins were mysterious, what with the mysterious misty island.
    • Who knows what Hooty did with that sample? Given his usual bizarre and erratic behavior, it's entirely possible he never showed or mentioned it to anyone.
  • Most of the violence we actually saw was pretty bloodless. Demons come in many different forms, so maybe at least some do bleed blue.

Turning Lilith back into a puppet

• Why was Lilith turned back into a puppet?
  • The Collector probably found her, since Belos showed him where they were hiding.
    • But he wasn’t shown using strings like he was doing to Luz, Camila, and the Hexsquad.
    • Presumably the Collector did so offscreen.
    • This could also answer the Headscratcher two parts above. But still, Collector didn’t bring Raine back into the Archives but that’s likely due to Belos possessing their body. Either way, who cares if someone loses something in their collection. The Collector had plenty of people Archived (like Principal Bump, Cat & Amelia, Bill, Steve, Willow’s fathers, Perry (possibly), Alador (possibly despise being in Luz’s dream turned to stone though believe Bump also has been turned into stone (if recalled)), and Lilith & Eda’s parents plus Camila and the Hexsquad (temporarily)) there’s no way he needs more. He could’ve turned Eda into a puppet instead or have Odalia cosplay as Lilith similar to how he had Terra Snapdragon cosplay as Eda.
    • Actually, Lilith is not part of King’s Adventures and she hasn’t fully escaped. King convinced Collector to not have Eda turned into a puppet and that Lilith is family.

Grom's appearance against Amity

• If Amity's worst fear was that Luz would reject her, why wasn't Grom's appearance recognizable as Luz when it tore up Amity's letter? Or was Amity just afraid of being rejected in general?
  • It probably did look just like Luz to Amity. But since we're seeing the scene from Luz's perspective we just see the vague shadowy image. Everyone most likely saw Grom's version of Camila as a similar vague image.
  • One theory is that Grom can't convincingly imitate someone who's actually present. That would explain why its attempts to morph into Eda and Luz were both indistinct and monochrome. Since Camila wasn't present, its version of her was far more realistic.
  • It is possible that, at that moment, Amity was more afraid that Luz would get hurt. And that put things "in perspective" for her. That is to say, being rejected no longer seemed so serious compared to something happening to Luz. So the Grom took the appearance of Amity's fear of rejection, but in a weaker form.

Year show is set

• According to the Shout Out page, it says that this show takes place 2 years after Amphibia’s All In. But we have an article about Frog Vasion (possibly) on Camila’s tablet while she is cooking dinner. It had to be set recent. Matt Braly states on Reddit that Amphibia is set in 2019 (the year it premiered) and we know that COVID never occurred because no one expected it to happen (as pointed on the Amphibia headscratchers page) and that The Owl House Time Skip is set 3 years later and the show aired for 3 years so probably is summer 2020.
  • The news article we see on Camila's tablet wasn't necessarily recent. It would make sense for Camila to be doing her own research on strange happenings which she thinks might help her understand more about Luz's situation; so she could have pulled up an article from a few years ago about another girl who claimed to have traveled to another world.
    • How are is it certain that the article on the tablet isn’t recent.

Hexside Principal and Vice Principal

• Who took Bump’s place as Vice Principal of Hexside after he followed Faust’s footsteps? Also, who succeeded him 3 years later? Whoever was Vice?
  • The Illusion Teacher took over as principal, we see her wearing the sash in the ending montage. This, along with her recurring role, suggests she was the vice principal to Bump.
    • Then who is vice principal in epilogue?
    • Someone else. This is not really a Headscratcher, just a minor detail that was not mentioned in the episode, because it's not relevant to the story at all.

Amity and Ghost

• How did Amity meet her Palisman, Ghost? Did she have her carved or did she have an egg like Luz did with Stringbean? We know it has to be prior to "Eclipse Lake".
  • Likely Odalia poo-poohed the idea that her daughter take a secondhand Palisman and had Ghost carved specifically for Amity—Stringbean was a special case because Luz wanted her to choose what kind of Palisman she'd become, which fits Luz’s personality and goals.
    • "For the Future" even states that when Amity got Ghost, she was unsure what kind of Palisman she’d be and it was what she wanted with her life.
  • Leaving the Palismen at the school overnight implied that Bat Queen's adoption program was at least a two day event. While Amity skipped school the first day, it's possible she came back the next day and was chosen by Ghost then.

The Twins' Concealment Stones

• Whatever happened to the twins' Concealment Stones in between "Clouds on The Horizon" and "For the Future"?
  • They probably traded them for something they needed more of. During an apocalypse, appearance is the last thing to worry about.
    • What about after the apocalypse?
    • Just as Odalia was trying to control Amity's appearance by forcing her to dye her hair green, she may also have been trying to control the Twins' appearance, making sure they always look perfect so as to "not embarrass the family." Unlike Amity, the Twins decided to be more cunning and find ways to get their way without her mother noticing. So they started using the stones to maintain a "perfect image" in front of their mother. Odalia also possibly caused them some of insecurity about their appearance, which is why they continued to use the stones even though her mother wasn´t around. After their parents divorced and cut off contact with their mother, the Twins were finally free from Odalia's standards.
    • But would they keep them?

Kikimora and her mother

• Did Kikimora tell her mother about showing up for her dinner?
  • We don't know for sure, but if she did, it's unlikely to have made a difference. Kiki's mum is implied to be something of an Odalia type ("yes, I am standing up straight" — and honestly, who threatens to banish their daughter from the family home even though she's tried to explain that she will literally be executed if she doesn't fulfill her professional duties?); and clearly Kiki considered herself to on her own (well, her and "Roka") in For the Future, seeking out a place at Hexside instead of trying to find her family. I think we can assume Kiki's mum went through on her threat, and Kiki was banished from Palm Stings in absentia.
    • But does she visit from time to time like the Blight children?
    • By the sounds of it, she used to (in theory) but is now forbidden from doing so. Because she was banished.
    • Nothing is more important than family.

Why didn't Masha recognize Luz at the hayride?

• In "Yesterday's Lie", Masha immediately recognizes "Luz" despite the imperfections in her disguise. When the gang goes to the museum in "Thanks to Them" Masha thinks Vee "looks familiar" even with her altered appearance. But when the real Luz goes on the hayride, they show no sign of recognizing her. Granted Luz was in costume, but it didn't cover her face and it's not like her scar made that big a change to her appearance.
  • Maybe a Clark Kent-ing example?
  • At that time, they were working during the haunted hayride. They may have wanted to remain professional and not delay the next hayride by getting distracted talking to a friend.
    • Or between the museum visit and the festival, Vee told them the truth.
    • I could understand not spending a lot of time talking to her, but even on the clock I'd expect at least a hello.
  • Maybe they know more than they seem.
  • Maybe... Vee explained to them that she was posing as Luz at camp "with an elaborate costume", trying to look normal and fit in among her camp mates, but she really feels more comfortable with an "unconventional look" that stands out. Masha and Vee's other friends assumed that she was using contacts in "Yesterday's Lie", so such an explanation would be believable to them.

Odalia finding out about ditched tryouts for Emperor’s Coven

• Did Odalia ever find out about Amity ditching her tryouts for Emperor’s Coven in “Reaching Out”?
  • It´s possible that Odalia wanted Amity to join the Emperor's Coven when she believed that that was the highest achievement a witch could aspire to; perhaps she even hoped that Amity would manage to replace Lilith as the Emperor's right-hand. But when Belos offered her with a better deal, "her loyalty and services in exchange for turning her family into royalty after Day of Unity", she no longer cared about Amity abandoning the tryouts.

Whatever happened to Terra?

• What do people think happened to Terra Snapdragon during the epilogue?
  • She probably isn't doing much, due to Darius and Eberwolf's vigilance.
    • Or she may be plotting alongside Vitimir, Adrian, and Odalia to take control of the Boiling Isles.
    • She was in her seventies at least by King's Tide and For the Future, and per Word of God witches' lifespans match human ones. It's entirely possible that she passed on of natural causes at some point during the timeskip, or is now in the Boiling Isles equivalent of a care home.
    • But isn't she like the same age of Eda and Lilith's parents (who appear in the epilogue)?

Odalia preparing everything for the tryouts

• A follow up to the scratcher 2x [up], why couldn’t Odalia do all the preparations for Amity to make sure she doesn’t miss Emperor’s Coven tryouts? Why didn’t she even be the one to show up when the Abomination’s alarm went off? If it’s her goal, it’s all about her.
  • Again... Maybe those tryouts didn't matter to her anymore after Belos offered her make her and her entire family into royalty after Day of Unity. Why turn her daughter into just another guard when she could turn her into a princess (and of course that would make Odalia Queen)?
    • As for her absence... She may have been busy discussing the terms of her deal with the Emperor.

Ghost's Help

• Why is collecting a spider considering help to Amity? Unless if it's Amity's Groceries.
  • It is simply the equivalent of a pet trying to help its owner in its own way. And like a good owner, Amity appreciates Ghost's gesture and effort, even if a small spider is not a great contribution.
    • Unless... the spider was an ingredient for a healing potion for Luz.
    • More the former opt. Amity appreciates everyone doing chores around the house and since Ghost was taking a spider, she was helping and Amity appreciates her help.

La edad de la abuela de Camila

• How is Camila’s grandmother still alive? Presumably is that her mother or father was given to birth when she was 20? Or in her mid 20s.
  • Speaking from personal experience, it's not unheard of for people to have one or both great-grandparents still living on at least one side of the family, especially as average life spans continue to lengthen. Luz is 15 at the start of the series—assuming every Noceda woman before her gave birth at or around 20, and assuming a human lifespan of 100 years, Luz's great-great-grandmother could still be alive at age 95 (15 > Camila 35 > Camila's mama 55 > Camila's abuela 75 > Abuela's mom 95).

What was Belos' initial plan in the finale?

• Belos only learned about Titan's heart and Titan's magic negating Collector's in the finale (from the Collector himself, when Belos was possessing Raine's puppet). So, what was his plan for dealing with the Isles' inhabitants before that? (but after the Draining Spell's failure)
  • When Belos returned to the Isles, he didn't really have a plan, but rather his priority was to find a body to possess to stay alive. After possessing Raine, Belos was able to take some time to formulate a plan. Which was initially "ambush the Collector and possess him"; surely with the intention of using his magic to destroy the Boiling Isles. But after learning that Titan's magic negating Collector's, Belos realized that he could possess the Titan to destroy both the inhabitants of the Islands and the Collector, in the case of the latter as revenge for defeating him at the end of season 2.

Stringbean going to sleep after Luz Disintegrates

• OK. So when Luz initially dies, Stringbean just becomes an inanimate object. Caleb and every clone of him die repeatedly until Hunter, Flapjack's still wide awake. Well, until THAT moment. Anyway, why is it that Flapjack remains active every time a Caleb clone dies, yet Luz dies and she goes back to sleep? Where did this inconsistency come from?
  • We didn't actually see what happened to Flapjack when Caleb died, and as far as we know he never bonded with any of the grimwalkers until Hunter. All of Bat Queen's palismen were active despite the fact that their owners had died or abandoned them. It's possible a palisman goes into a sort of catatonic state out of grief or shock when their owner dies but eventually revives.

The Collector's Powers and King

• In For the Future, the Collector tells Belos that their powers don't work on King. But at the start of Watching and Dreaming, King is trapped in a nightmare created by the Collector. Is he only immune to the puppetization then, and if so why only that power specifically?
  • The mind manipulation spell might be closer to a form of hypnosis, getting around the Titan's immunity to Collector magic.

No Casual Clothes

• In some episodes that don't take place at Hexside (Hooty's Moving Hassle, Once Upon a Swap), why do students like Boscha, Amelia and Skara still wear their Hexside uniforms? Willow, Gus and Amity sometimes wear their casual outfits, so it shouldn't be hard for the designers to make normal outfits for them.
  • The production people presumably didn't have enough time. The stuff was rushed. Cat and Amelia did have their sports uniforms.

Fire magic, but not Fire Teacher

• How does Boscha, who was put into Hexside's Potions class, have access to fire magic? There doesn't seem to be a Witch Coven for learning fire spells, and Hexside doesn't have a fire track either.
  • Covens aren't regulated to one spell, they are regulated to spells related to their chosen path. Presumably the fire spell is used to light fires to create potions, thus its use in the potion track.

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