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The Otherworld in Fate: The Winx Saga has always been a complicated place. For 16-year-old fire fairy Bloom (Abigail Cowen) — who’d only known a life among humans in the First World — her time at Alfea College has been a crash course in magic, the history of the Otherworld and defending herself and her friends against evil. After releasing former Alfea headmistress Rosalind (Lesley Sharp in Season 1 and Miranda Richardson in Season 2) from her imprisoned state at the end of Season 1, Bloom quickly learns that there is so much she still doesn’t know.
With Alfea headmistress Farah Dowling (Eve Best) missing and Rosalind back in charge, ancient evils are resurrected, and people from the past reappear to seek vengeance.
At first, Bloom and her friends believe they have an ally in Alfea alum Sebastian Valtor (Éanna Hardwicke), but they are mistaken.
During the Fate: The Winx Saga Season 1 finale, Alfea specialist instructor Saul Silva (Robert James-Collier) is arrested for the attempted murder of his best friend, Andreas of Eraklyon (Ken Duken), who’d been presumed dead since the battle at Aster Dell, 16 years earlier. Following his presumed death, Silva raised Andreas’ son Sky (Danny Griffin) as his own. It turned out, though, that Andreas wasn’t dead but was, instead, sent into hiding under Rosalind’s orders.
When Andreas emerges from hiding, Silva is jailed. In response, Bloom and her friends concoct a jailbreak and lead Silva to the home of his old friend Sebastian, who lives in Blackbridge, a town just outside of Alfea. At first, Sebastian seems happy to help in any way he can, but he has his own ulterior motives for offering a helping hand.
Sebastian had some very personal feelings about what went down at Aster Dell.
Sebastian is a blood witch, capable of using magic to manipulate and control blood, muscles and bones. His entire family was killed during the massacre at Aster Dell. Since Rosalind believed only fairies should have magic, she lied to her mentees Silva, Dowling and Professor Harvey (Daniel Betts), saying that Aster Dell was overrun with Burned Ones. However, she was really ordering a genocide of the blood witches who lived there.
Though blood witch magic doesn’t work on fairies, Sebastian came up with a plan to steal fairy magic to make himself more powerful.
Sebastian released octopus-type creatures called scrapers that latch onto fairies like leeches and drain them of their magic. When Season 2 opens, the scrapers only attack a few fairies here and there. But by the Season 2 finale, Sebastian has unleashed a full-fledged attack on Alfea, aided by Beatrix (Sadie Soverall) and Grey (Brandon Grace). More importantly, he transfers all the magic leeched from the fairies into himself.
As it turns out, and as Bloom discovers when she learns that Sebastian is a blood witch, he has a bit of an obsession with her. Bloom, as we know, is a fire fairy who possesses something called a dragon flame. The dragon flame is an ancient and potent magic that burns within her.
As a baby, Bloom was kidnapped from her fairy parents by Sebastian’s father, a blood witch himself, who wanted to use her inborn flame for his own purposes against the fairies. After Rosalind obliterated Aster Dell, killing Sebastian’s entire family and countless innocent blood witches, she took Bloom and placed her in the First World, swapping her with a sickly human baby.
Determined to “right the wrongs” of Aster Dell, Sebastian seeks to get his hands on Bloom’s dragon flame, believing it would allow him to help raise the dead.
Sebastian wants to amass as much fairy power as possible, hoping thereby to open the portal to the Realm of Darkness and to call upon the Shadow Lord to raise the dead. Bloom’s dragon flame alone could open the portal and keep it open until his plans of resurrection came to fruition.
In the Season 2 finale, Sebastian kidnaps Bloom’s boyfriend Sky and tries to bargain with his life for her dragon flame. He also kills Beatrix, who tries to intervene. However, Bloom’s besties, Aisha (Precious Mustapha), Terra (Eliot Salt) and Stella (Hannah van der Westhuysen) tap into their ancient fairy magic to transform, and together, they kill Sebastian and save the day.
Though Sebastians’s full plan is thwarted, the portal to the Realm of Darkness is still opened. In the final scene of Season 2, Bloom can be spotted walking through it, attempting to close it from the inside, and, in the process, to find her fairy birth mother, who also had the dragon flame.
