List of episodic characters

Main article: List of characters

07-01 — The girls, with Archie, Spike and Sugar, meet the Fairy Princess Wisp

24-15 — Ezmeralda with Derek (and the Fortune Jewel)

The following is the list of episodic characters in Princess Gwenevere and the Jewel Riders.

First season[]

Alfred and Winerva[]

Alfred and Winerva are Fallon's father and mother featured in the episode "Badlands". They are a pair of Craft Masters: "Winerva is a craftsmaster in the Weaving guild, her Master insignia is embroidered on her sleeve. She wears a feminine yet practical outfit in bright colors. Alfred is a Master Jeweler. Together, they are always traveling from town to town, craft fair to craft fair, to sell and teach their crafts."

The relationship between Fallon and her parents is strained. Fallon's father wanted a son he never had. Fallon's mother always wanted Fallon to exploit her artistic skills and talents. But Fallon always had her own ideas on what she wanted to do, and has become a Jewel Rider. Her parents had no idea of how to handle such a rebellious and strong willed child. Winerva wanted to attend Fallon's Circle of Friendship ceremony, but was forbidden to by Alfred. Eventually, they reconcile after they witness her daughter's daring rescue of Princess Gwenevere from being captured by Lady Kale. (Alfred: "Fallon, what you did today was the bravest thing I've ever seen anyone do.")

In Avalon: Web of Magic, Adriane's estranged patents are artists who travel around the world. Like Fallon, Adriane too eventually confronts her mother, who accepts her connection to the magic.

Biker Sheep[]

Fluffy, Stuffy, and Muffy are three magic faery sheep from Faeryland. They are members of King Odeon's herd (other members of which include Puffy, Larry, Harry, Barry, Tim, and Slim), whose dragonette 'sheepdog' is Windy. They get missing in "The Faery Princess" when Stuffy swallows the Desert Star Crown Jewel. They then wander around into Avalon and come upon the Jewel Riders' enemy Lady Kale, which leads her into the land of faeries. A baby sheep is also given to Tamara as a new baby animal for the Crystal Palace.

The Sheep have an active role expelling Kale from Faeryland in the episode's script.^[1] They can be also later briefly seen in "Home Sweet Heart Stone" in the care of Doc and Charity.

In Avalon: Web of Magic, the bonded griffin named Winddancer is also known as Windy.

Carnie and the Sword of Garmandell[]

Carnie and the Sword of Garmandell are two characters featured in "Love Struck".

Carnie is a sly carnival barker who does a magic trick with the Sword at Craft Fairs, sticking it into the knot of a tree and seeing if anyone can pull it out.

The Sword of Garmandell is a feisty, irascible talking magic sword who wants to steal the powers of the Enchanted Jewels. The Sword gets Drake to propose to each of the three Jewel Riders and then tries to use to ceremony to absorb their magic, before being defeated and taken back by the Carnie.

The sword-in-the-tree motif was obviously inspired by the Arthurian legend's iconic 'Sword in the Stone'.

Dennan[]

Dennan is a knight of Avalon and a wagon master who is appears as a caravan leader in the episode "Badlands", commanding the escort squad known as Dennan's Riders. He helps Jewel Riders beat back the attack on his caravan by Kale and her Outlaws, and later they meet at a party. Dennan and Fallon have a liking for each other, and Princess Gwenevere too is interested in him. (In the script: "Tall, handsome, he's dressed for adventuring. He sits atop his mighty steed."^[2]) His horse is white, with red mane.

Doc and Charity[]

Doc_&_Charity_-_Princess_Gwenevere_(Starla)_and_the_Jewel_Riders — Doc & Charity - Princess Gwenevere (Starla) and the Jewel Riders

Doc with his daughter Tamara

Doc and Charity (named May and Orvan in the show bible) are Tamara's caring father and mother featured in the episode "Home Sweet Heart Stone". Doc and Charity are a pair of farmers living in Heartland Farms, where they take care of Heartland Animal Farm. They have tended the land and raised various magic animals all of their lives.

As described in the episode's script, "Doc is an animal doctor and wears the simple clothes of a country vet." The beautiful and welcoming Charity "wears the simple cloths of a farm-housewife, except with lots of pockets for animals and animal treats."^[3]

They later inspired the characters of Emily Fletcher's parents Carolyn (especially) and David in Avalon: Web of Magic.

Sunstar's father and other unicorns[]

Main article: Unicorns

Fox[]

The Fox (unrelated to Kit the prism fox) is a magical red anthropomorphic animal creature featured in the episode "Travel Trees Can't Dance". The Fox appears at a wild magic party in a magic garden ballroom created within the Great Forests. First he sweeps away and foxtrot-dances with Princess Gwenevere until she is completely exhausted. He later waltzes with Lady Kale, flirting with her too until Kale unceremoniously dumps him upon finally learning how to use the Jewel of the Northwoods.

The draft script describes him as "the man-sized fox wearing a white tux and bow tie" and speaking in exaggerated French accent. Kale's dance partner was to be a "waltzing bear" instead of him, and later further replaced by "a herd of dancing wildlife" for the hard beat rock dance around Kale after she would take control of the Jewel and totally transform the scene.

The Fox later inspired a minor character of the talking fox named Colfax in Avalon: Web of Magic.

Hawk[]

The Hawk (introduced in a draft script as "Hawk Leader - Guardian Hawk") is one of Merlin's loyal animal friends featured in the episode "Jewel Quest, Part I". The bird that first appears when he arrives to tell Merlin of the strange trouble brewing in the forests. Soon later he swiftly sweeps in and snatches Merlin's key away before the evil Lady Kale can steal it to open the Jewel Box. The furious Kale then pursues the Hawk by Grimm until the dragon's fire breath singes the Hawk's tail when the witch cruelly commands to "roast" him. Having failed to get the key to the Crystal Palace on his own, the injured Hawk gives it to Sunstar, who just happened to come by, and flies away safely after Kale's full attention turns to Sunstar.

Highlander Riders[]

The Highlander Riders are a group of Mongolian-warrior-looking men featured in the episode "Wizard's Peak" where they deliver a map to the Jewel Riders and the Pack, saying they obtained it on a great risk to themselves. (The draft script describes them as wearing "high fur-lined boots, baggy trousers, ponchos, and scarves, which trail behind their necks like banners. They ride large unicorns, with long fetlocks to protect them from the cold environment.")

Indigo and Spirit[]

Indigo & Spirit — Indigo and Spirit with Tamara

Indigo and Spirit are the adult prism fox creatures (of the size of small horses) from another world. They are the baby prism fox's Kit's caring mother and father who like her can travel the Wild Magic in their prism form. The two arrive for Kit after she is rescued from being taken by Lady Kale in "Home Sweet Heart Stone" and Tamara helps her summon them. Unlike Kit, they have jewels that allow them to telepathically communicate with humans without singing, and they say they do know of the Jewel Riders. They are later mentioned in "Full Circle" as having asked the Gliders to watch over the inexperienced Kit so she could not get lost within the Wild Magic again.

Indigo and Spirit are named only in the script. A unicorn named Indigo also appears in Avalon: Web of Magic.

King Odeon, Princess Wisp and Windy[]

King Odeon and Wisp are two faeries who are the ruler of the hidden realm of Faeryland and his daughter, featured in the episode "The Faery Princess". They are much smaller then humans and their magic is very different.

King Odeon initially does not like outsiders and wants to so wants his magical kingdom stay separated from Avalon. He does know Merlin but distrusts humans, and so Merlin had agreed to keep the existence of his kingdom secret. Odeon's fears seem to be confirmed when the witch Lady Kale arrives from Avalon to immediately declare herself the queen of his kingdom despite the helpless Odeon's protestations. But after Jewel Riders rescue him and rid Faeryland of the evil "faery queen", Odeon comes to believe not all humans are bad and agrees to sign the treaty peacefully uniting his kingdom with Avalon.

Faery Wisp and her best friend Windy the dragonette watch over the magical sheep for her father, King Odeon. The carefree Wisp has pretty wings that release faery magic dust when she laughs; the sparkling dust swirls and makes everyone around her laugh too. When one of their magic sheep swallows a strange red stone and wanders away, it leads Windy to find Avalon and discover humans are not made-up fantasy creatures. She later saves Fallon during the fight to force Kale out, and gifts a baby sheep to Jewel Riders as her new best friends after the victory.

King Odeon's name seems to be inspired by that the fairy king Oberon. In Avalon: Web of Magic, is a character named Winddancer is also known as Windy. Besides that, Windy from Jewel Riders also partially inspired the Gliders-like D-Flies. Furthermore, there is a fairy king character in Avalon too, named Oriel.

Lord Arville, Lord Drebin and Lady Newton[]

Lord Arville, Lord Drebin and Lady Newton are three Avalonian nobles talking in a scene in "Jewel Quest, Part II" (named only in the script). They can be also briefly seen in the second season's episode "The Wishing Jewel".

Lord Delphonse and Murray[]

Lord Delphonse and Murray are two brothers and members of Avalon's nobility featured in the episode "For Whom the Bell Trolls".

Lord Delphonse is the ugly and power-hungry ruler of the remote Castle Rivermist located in the Misty Moors. (Original script version: "a tall, elegant man with a hint of menace in his eyes.") He has been a follower and suitor of the beautiful but evil Princess Kale, keeping it in secret out of fear of Merlin. But Kale made Delphonse believe Merlin was really gone so she could send him into a dangerous wild magic outbreak to find the Misty Rose Jewel. He went into the outbreak without any protection to the exposure of the uncontrolled magic that turned him into the "Lord Swan" but has still remained determined to win Kale's favours by finding and getting out the jewel. (Described in the script as "the most beautiful, great swan anyone's ever seen," but with glowing evil eyes and speaking in a manner similar to Scar from Lion King.) After meeting the Jewel Riders, the swan leads the girls into a trap, however they get out safely and then he himself is rescued by them from a peril. After he turns back to a human and confesses to the entire plot, Delphonse is forgiven by Merlin, but Gwen makes him take part in Murray's shows as an assistant in a humiliating role. He partially inspired the Avalon: Web of Magic character of Howard.

When Murray found the Misty Rose Jewel, it transformed him into a rhyming, riddling troll. Thinking that would make him popular, Murray used the magic of this Crown Jewel to keep "guests" in his also transformed castle and entertain them with his magic tricks. He is described as "troll wearing a traditional magician's outfit with a black cape. The troll is a combination of Quasimodo and a classic fairy tale troll, ugly but sympathetically funny." He has the Pack turned into frogs and their wolves turned lizards, and threatens to cook and eat the frogs. Eventually, he transforms back and earns friends in the Jewel Riders. ("Where he was once an ugly troll, he is now a rather frumpy, clumsy-looking little guy rumpled clothes. A change for the better, but not by much. He is still sympathetic, though, nerdy, but very sweet.") Just like his bad brother adored Kale, he instantly fell in love with Fallon but was especially smitten by Tamara.

Mist Monster[]

The Mist Monster is a wild magic monster featured in "For Whom the Bell Trolls" and inspired by the monster from the classic science-fiction film Forbidden Planet.^[4] The Jewel Riders manage to defeat the monster by forming an Enchanted Jewel Circle, trapping it in a bubble of power and shrinking it until it flees (in a script they turn it back into a small mouse).

Sorrel[]

Sorrel is a non-human boy and instrument-maker featured in "Song of the Rainbow" with a shop near Rainbow Falls. The script describes him as "a short, stocky fellow in a blue tunic and high laced-up sandals." Sorrel adores Tamara and so he gifts her his special magic harp that he made with splinters of the Rainbow Jewel as a perfect instrument "worthy of Lady Tamara", which sets into motion the events of the episode. Princess Gwenevere suspects Sorrel is a spy for Lady Kale and accuses him putting Tamara under a hypnotic spell of the harp on purpose. But after Sorrel proves loyalty and innocence, helping them to secure the Rainbow Jewel before Kale can get it, the healed Tamara has him declared a Master Musician.

Other minor Season 1 characters[]

Cloud creatures ("Full Circle")
Dweaselette - "a vampy female dweasel" summoned by the Guardian to pose for Rufus and Twig in "Wizard's Peak".
Faeries and faery creatures ("The Faery Princess")
Lady Robbins - the beautiful lady of Castle Greenwood and a friend of Queen Anya in "Badlands".
Professor Hill - Tamara's music teacher the New Camelot's music hall in "The Faery Princess".
Tortoise - a magic animal that helps Tamara in "The Faery Princess".
Other magic animals - assorted magic animals ("Jewel Quest, Part II", "Home Sweet Heart Stone"), including more wolves ("Revenge of the Dark Stone")
Other people of Avalon (different episodes) - various aristocrats and commoners.

Second season[]

Antonio[]

Grand Designer Antonio is a master fashion designer featured in "Fashion Fever". Antonio works with the Elf Wood Craft Association to organize the Crystal Palace Charity Fashion Show, when he gets entranced by Lady Kale's Dark Stone. Still under the influence of the Dark Stone in a manic state, he later uses Kale's abandoned magic spinning wheel to make a weird dress that he gifts to Queen Anya.

He might have been inspired by the character of Master Antoine, a cleric connected to the prophecies of Merlin in the medieval French Arthurian tradition.

Chance and his crystal dragon[]

Chance (renamed Chanceux in French, meaning 'Fortunate') is a gnome gardener from Gardenia featured in the episode "Wizard of Gardenia". He once has been an apprentice of the evil ancient wizard Mallory (it is not explained how exactly Chance is still alive 1,000 years later without even a magic jewel of his own) but he helps the Jewel Riders find a Wizard Jewel. In the end he defies the evil wizard queen Morgana (who does recognise him^[5]), telling her he is not afraid of her anymore. He then actually manages to create a wondrous crystal dragon to force out Lady Kale from Gardenia and recapture the Garden Stone for the Jewel Riders. As the magic dragon is intelligent and able to talk, the girls tell Chance he is now a real wizard that would make Merlin proud.

In Avalon: Web of Magic, Chance inspired the character of Tasha who is a good apprentice to secretly-evil goblin sorcerer Tangoo - himself the creator of fire-elemental stallion named Starfire.

Demi and the Wishing Tree[]

Demi is a friendly bear-like humanoid creature that lives in the Eighth Land. In the episode "The Wishing Jewel", Demi wants to use the Wishing Jewel to open The Two-Headed Inn and is initially misunderstood by Gwen due to his monstrous looks as he has two heads, each with own personality. The Wishing Tree is an old tree who once held the Wishing Jewel.

Derek[]

Main article: Ancient wizards

Ezmerelda[]

Gwen and Esmeralda — Ezmeralda gives her jewel to Gwen

Ezmerelda (voiced by Micaëla Kreißler in German), working as Madame Esmeralda, is an old fortune teller whose family has used the Fortune Jewel for generations. Her Great North Woods-based business has been booming since she met "her lucky cat", really the ancient wizard named Derek, who would use his remaining magic to help her out.

In "The Fortune Jewel", after Derek saves Ezmeralda from Lady Kale's attempt to destroy her and steal the Fortune Jewel for herself, Morgana appears and tempts her to exchange the jewel for a fame and fortune beyond wildest dreams, yet Ezmeralda decides to give it all up and hands the jewel over to Princess Gwenevere. She and Derek then agree to form a business partnership, with him to now work as a talking cat attraction.

In Avalon: Web of Magic, an elf named Esmerelda is Ozzie's love interest who seems to return his feelings.

Gilly and Grunge[]

Gilly the merboy (voiced by Sascha Draeger in German) and the giant, dragon-like sea serpent named Grunge are featured in "Jewel of the Sea". They begin in the story as the girls' rival (Gilly) and enemy (Grunge) but end up as their friends.

Originally, the working name for Gilly was Neptune. In the end Grunge was to turn into a sea unicorn after freed from the Wizard Jewel control that had him under a curse for a thousand years.

Gilly (together with Ian) and Grunge inspired the Avalon: Web of Magic characters of the merfolk prince Marlin and the sea dragon Niva.

Grandfather Tree[]

Main article: Travel Trees

Kip and other wood elves[]

The magical elves live in Glimmer Glen, a small elfin village near the Elf Woods. They are featured in the episode "Trouble in Elf Town". Elven products bring magic to common folk in Avalon.

One of them, "Elvis Elf" was introduced in a small role in "Fashion Fever". There are also "Elf Baker", "Elf Cobbler" and other elfin townspeople, and even an "Elf Pony".

Kip the Elf (or Kippy) is a young (looking about 12 years old) elf lad that asks Jewel Riders for help in the episode. According to Tamara, someday he might be able to enter the Friendship Ring and himself become a future Jewel Rider.

Elves exist in the world of Avalon: Web of Magic too.

Lady of the Lake[]

The Lady of the Lake, also known as the Spirit of Avalon (voiced by Marion von Stengel in German), appears in the titular episode "Lady of the Lake" / "Spirit of Avalon". Her hand emerges from the lake in the Heart of Avalon to give the Staff of Avalon to Princess Gwenevere, so Gwen can use it and the Wizard Jewels to defeat the evil Lady Kale and Queen Morgana. The script actually lists her Staff as the seventh of the Wizard Jewels, which makes the Lady a good Wizard just like Merlin.^[6]

She was obviously inspired by the British folklore character of the Lady of the Lake, Merlin's apprentice and an enchantress rival of Morgan le Fay who gave the magic sword Excalibur to King Arthur in some versions of Arthurian legends. (There are interesting parallels between the Spirit and the Lady of Legend, most notably the gift of a weapon to fight evil: in the myth, the Lady of the Lake gives King Arthur the sword Excalibur, and in Jewel Riders, she gives Gwenevere the Staff of Avalon atop which to forge the One Jewel.) She was also originally supposed to at least be mentioned already in the first season of the show, where the Crown Jewel of the Riverdells was name the Lady of the Lake Stone in The Enchanted Jewel Riders show bible.

She also later herself inspired the water elemental characters of Marina and Neerie in Avalon: Web of Magic.

Mallory and Tiberius[]

Main article: Ancient wizards

Pepe and Gidney[]

Pepe and Gidney are the two dweasels that are featured in the episode "The One Jewel" as they interact with Tamara and Shadowsong as they stumble upon a crazy dweasel party. They are cousins to Rufus and Twig who also live in Dweasel Nook with the others, and are friendly but very silly, and completely obsessed with "magic bits".

Snowball[]

Snowball (named so by Archimedes and renamed Bébé Boul in French, meaning 'Baby Ball') is a lost giant baby seal creature from another world (time) that the Jewel Riders rescue and bring back to its parents in "Mystery Island" after Snowball helps them to save the Time Stone from Lady Kale. (The script refers to him as a "giant Totoro", a reference to Hayao Miyazaki's anime film My Neighbor Totoro.)

Snowball inspired the character Phelonius (Phel) in Avalon: Web of Magic.

Spider[]

Spider is a nasty creature featured in the episode "Shadowsong" - a hissing, "great, giant spider the size of a Buick" in the Veldt. It attempts to trap Shadowsong into its sticky web trap and eat him, but is foiled by Tamara, and later stalks and attempts to kill Tamara in revenge, who is then in turn saved by Shadowsong. Eventually, Tamara uses the power of her Heart Stone to turn the spider into a beautiful, nice, huge butterfly.

Troll-in-the-Wall Gang and snowman monster[]

The Troll-in-the-Wall Gang is the group of big, mean and ugly trolls featured as the antagonists of the episode "Trouble in Elf Town" in which they arrive to the elf village and menace the elves to steal their magic. The troll gang is made out of three members, each using an Enchanted Jewel: Chester (the leader, carries the Storm Stone shaped like a twister), Lester (carries the Night Stone shaped like a bat) and Binky (stupid, carries the Snow Stone, shaped like a snowflake). Eventually, the trolls are stopped by Jewel Riders, their Wild Jewels are taken from them, and they are sealed within the Wild Magic. According to the series' production materials, they were inspired by the trio of villain aliens from the film Superman II.

When Jewel Riders arrive to defeat the trolls and save the elves, a giant snowman monster is created by Chester the troll to attack them. It rampages through Glimmer Glen, "crushing buildings like Godzilla", with Archie and Kip stuck inside it, until the Sun Stone melts it down.

Queen Sierra and other unicorns[]