WARNING: The following contains spoilers for Season 1 of Fate: The Winx Saga, now streaming on Netflix.
Netflix's Fate: The Winx Saga hides quite a bit of background about its characters. However, when Bloom (Abigail Cowen) comes to Altea's magic school to explore more of her powers as a Fire Fairy, as she meets others like her, more comes to light.
Apart from their histories, the intentions of the characters in Fate: The Winx Saga vary and keep switching up as the first season roll on. With that in mind, let's break down Season 1's biggest mysteries that are left unanswered.
It's established early on by Aisha and confirmed by headmistress Dowling, that Bloom is a changeling, essentially a fairy baby taken from the Otherworld and swapped in for a baby on Earth, which is then raised to think it's human. However, it's never revealed what happened to the baby Bloom was swapped for. When she breaks the news to her Earth parents, they don't even ask about the kid. Bloom also doesn't inquire about it to the woman who made the swap, Rosalind, so it seems the show just forgot about it this other child.
Bloom was taken to Aster Dell after Blood Witches kidnapped her from her fairy parents, but the show never addresses what happened to them. While Aster Dell was blown up, it doesn't seem like they were there at the time. It's odd she doesn't even reach out to Dowling for help finding them, or show interest in the search herself. Bloom just heads to Earth to tell her "parents" about her new life in the finale. and comes back to the school to train, totally ignoring the fact her real parents are somewhere out there.
Terra, the Earth-based fairy who manipulates plant life, grew up all her life at the school, because her dad, Harvey, is the master chemist. The professor is also close to Dowling and the Specialist/warrior chief, Silva, but even in flashbacks, no one mentions what happened to Terra's mother. People assume she died, but the fact Terra and her brother, Sam, never speak about it suggests she may have left them. Secrets are a big theme in this story, especially with Harvey and the faculty, so maybe Season 2 will expand on this, especially since Terra needs a mother-figure.
Rosalind hated Blood Witches and the Burned Ones, so she tricked her faculty into bombing Aster Dell. However, it's implied some witches survived, which is why Rosalind, Andreas and Queen Luna of Solaria launch their coup in the finale. Fans are left wondering if these witches are close with the Burned Ones, as these creatures were on the borders of Aster Dell where the witches lived. It hints that they co-existed, and if the Burned Ones aren't extinct and are rampaging in the Otherworld, it makes sense that the Blood Witches may have found a new home, too.
Most of the Burned Ones were assumed to be destroyed when Rosalind blew Aster Dell up, but clearly, if they're now hunting in packs, they must have a lair somewhere. While Rosalind wants to find it, the show needs to explain not just where it is, but why they took 16 years to come back into action. They should have been seeking revenge for Rosalind's genocide, looking to tear the school to pieces.
Rosalind tricked Dowling and Harvey into combining magic and bombing Aster Dell, not telling them Blood Witches were there all along. They thought it was just Burned Ones, which is why they turned on Rosalind and imprisoned her. But it doesn't seem like this could've happened if she was more powerful than her students at the time.
The show should also explain why they didn't kill her. Hiding Rosalind away doesn't add up because she's shown them she's a liar and genocidal maniac. Dowling keeps her alive in an energy prison because of some sentiment, but if she got out, she'd obviously want to kill her juniors, which is what ends up happening.
Silva impaled Andreas after the best friends fought, all because Andreas helped Rosalind cover up the fact she was going to commit genocide. But Andreas shows up in the finale, completely healthy after healing at Solaria under Luna and training loyalists like Beatrix. However, the show never explains how he made it out. He couldn't use magic because Specialists are trained warriors and soldiers reliant on swords, not mystical abilities. Silva left him for dead, so seeing how Luna got was able to heal him would be important context.
The audience is told that Dowling came to Earth and had Bloom enlist, but fans never find out how Dowling learned about Bloom. Seeing this transpire and how she got Bloom to buy-in would have been a pivotal moment, as an overall sales pitch, Bloom's shocking reaction to the truth and Dowling promising a better life would have created finally given insight into why the headmistress felt Bloom was a good person to have on board.
Executive produced by Brian Young (The Vampire Diaries) and Winx Club creator Iginio Straffi, Fate: The Winx Saga stars Abigail Cowen (Chilling Adventures of Sabrina) as Bloom, Hannah van der Westhuysen as Stella, Precious Mustapha as Aisha, Eliot Salt (Normal People) as Terra, Elisha Applebaum as Musa, Sadie Soverall as Beatrix, Freddie Thorp (A Discovery of Witches) as Riven, Danny Griffin as Sky, Theo Graham as Dane and Jacob Dudman (The Stranger) as Sam. Eve Best (Nurse Jackie), Robert James-Collier (Downton Abbey), Josh Cowdery (Legends), Alex Macqueen (Peaky Blinders) and Eva Birthistle (The Last Kingdom) also star. Season 1 is now streaming on Netflix.
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