The Dragon Prince’s creators on the series’ storytelling and the rules of dark magic
Back in 2018, when Netflix announced its new original series The Dragon Prince, fans of American animation immediately went on high alert. Co-creators Aaron Ehasz and Justin Richmond, whose recently founded studio Wonderstorm was behind the show, were familiar names: Ehasz is a Futurama writer and head writer of the unparalleled Nickelodeon series Avatar: The Last Airbender, while Richmond is a game developer and director from the fan-favorite Uncharted series. And their premise for the series — a quest taking place in a world full of dragons, elves, and magic — sounded like a kind of epic high fantasy that in theory should be perfect for animation, but in practice isn’t much seen on TV screens.