Maia

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Maia

(also: Maya^[1])

Winx Club
Comics

Title

Chief Elder of Pyros^[2]
Sage of Pyros^{[citation needed]}

Profile

Class

Sorceress
Fairy (Comics)

Gender

Female

Age (at first appearance)

Over 100^[3]

Personal Status

Origin

Pyros

Relationships

Faragonda (old friend)
Bloom (former pupil)
Cadyr (former pupil; comics only)

Debut

Cartoon

From the Ashes

Comic

#115: The Last Dragon of Pyros

Last Appearance

Cartoon

The Magic Stones

Comic

#115: The Last Dragon of Pyros

Voice Actors

Italian

Ludovica Marineo

4Kids

Erica Schroeder

Atlas Oceanic (Nickelodeon)

April Stewart

Maia^[4] is a sorceress who resides on Pyros, the Island of the Dragons.

Appearance

She has a lean physique^[3], light tan skin tone, gray eyes, and orange scale-like eye brows. She also has dark eye shadow, an elongated chin, a wide nose, high cheek bones, and three bumps on her forehead. She also has long white straight hair; the ends are tied with gold color ties. She wears a red dress with yellow outlines, sandals, and she carries around a white staff with the top looking like a dragon head.

Personality

She is a spartan with an air of calmness, rude^[3] but also kind and very wise, offering advice to Bloom.

Series

Season 3

She only appears in the third season and works to train Bloom in order to help her achieve the Enchantix level. She is also a friend of Faragonda's, and kept her informed of Bloom's progress. She saved Bloom from falling into a chasm after winds kept her from flying to safety, a stick knocked her in and the ground opened. After Bloom woke up Maia gave her a drink in a rock cup and asked her why she was on Pyros and gave her advice after Bloom answered.

Season 7

Maia was only seen during Bloom's flashback from Season 3.

In "The Magic Stones," when Stella proposes that Bloom uses her Dragon Flame to restore the volcano, she remembers the lessons that Maia had given during her stay on Pyros and says she cannot. As the Dragon Flame cannot in fact recreate the magic fire of Pyros, as the two flames have a different origin and in many aspects it is even mysterious.

Comics

Season 5

Maia is seen training Cadyr, her new pupil, on controlling the magical flame. Although, her pupil is becoming more discouraged as she had already been training with her for one month and no progress has been made.

To help her, Maia takes Cadyr to the peak of the tallest mountain where the endangered dragon species, the Flame, lives with her babies. Maia explains that the babies hold strong power. And as Cadyr begins to feel her fire powers becoming stronger she proposes absorbing the Flame's magic. Maia is completely against it as it could kill them. However, Cadyr does not care and when Maia tries to stop her, Cadyr attacks her.

Cadyr then tries to capture the babies but they escape and Maia is just recovering from her attack. She senses her rampaging pupil powerful dark magic and believes she cannot act alone without suffering consequences. She contacts Bloom telepathically and requests her help. After reaching Bloom, she is eventually found by the Trix and frozen solid.

When the Winx arrive, they learn that it was the Trix who was attacking the baby Flames and that Darcy is in fact, Cadyr. Once Maia is released from the ice by Bloom she alerts Bloom to Darcy's sneak attack. Maia orders Bloom to combine her powers with hers and successfully stop Darcy. Then the Mother Flame flies above them and takes her rage against the Trix causing them to flee.

Everything is peaceful again and Maia expresses her surprise that the Winx had successfully trained a Flame. Aisha then reveals it was all thanks to Musa and Flora. Maia praises them while Flora releases the baby Flames from Darcy's dark cage. She then watches the Flames alongside the Winx, happy that they are safe.

Magical Abilities

As a sorceress she may know first-level spells that all sorceresses can use, such as telekinesis, transmuting objects, and fixing minor messes. She has shown to be a strong sorceress and is an expert in the magical arts^[3]. Alongside her magical abilities, she is also a warrior and despite her advanced age, she remains agile and flexible due to her lifestyle and constant training.^[3]

In the comics, she is shown to be capable of astral projection when she reached out to Bloom at Alfea and it was revealed by Icy that Maia draws her power from dragons that are native to Pyros called flames.^[5]

Trivia

Maia is:
- A Greek Goddess. She is the mother of the God Hermes and she is the eldest of the Pleiades, who became the the constellation of the same name.
- A Roman Goddess of Spring and of Growth. The month of May (Latin Maius) was named after her.
According to an older version of the official website, she is older than Faragonda.^[3]
In some dubs, Maia's name is spelled as "Maya."
Her Nickelodeon voice actress, April Stewart voiced many other characters as well. These include Vanessa, Aisha's Guardian of Sirenix, Eldora, Noemi, Blue Ethereal Fairy, Zarathustra in the Specials, Rukola in Season 6, and one of the vampire girls from the vampire group Children of the Night.
According to what Bloom says in Issue 115 of the comics, Maia is actually an old fairy.
In Season 7, Maia's training session with Bloom is different; it is shorter and reanimated to fit this season's animation. The scene where Maia explains the different sources of magic between the Dragon's Flame and Pyros, Bloom is wearing her camping outfit from Season 4. It is possible that Bloom had visited Maia during the fourth season or after off-screen. It is also possible that it was a production error.