Raven

Old name Redrose, purchased from KoTiss for 50g. After many months of serious consideration (read: I made plans and then forgot about them, and then in discord chats about old kids TV shows remembered again) I FINALLY got a fandragon of the host from one of my favourites.

I watched the original series plus a couple of the spin offs (esp The Island) frequently as a kid. I even tried to get on the show but it didn't pan out, so I just played the online CBBC games instead. The show is big nostalgia bait for me and even though the effects and dramatic storyline are a bit cheesy now, it still makes me smile when I see old clips.

Just gonna focus on Series 1-10 since that's the show I remember, but it did get renewed for Seasons 11-12 with a female Raven instead (his successor).

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Raven's arch enemy (introduced in Season 2) is named Nevar, the enemy of all that is good and true. His sole aim is to defeat Raven and conquer the land. He is also responsible for the demons featuring heavily in the warrior's tasks in an attempt to impede their progress. He only appears in person in The Last Stand as Guardian of the Portal, where he attempts to stop the remaining warriors from reaching the portal. CHARACTERS & SPIN-OFFS WARRIORS/CONTESTANTS ELIMINATION: THE WAY OF THE WARRIOR THE LAST STAND: A BATTLE AGAINST NEVAR COMMON CHALLENGES FORMAT: Series 1-10 Raven is a BBC Scotland children's adventure game show. It originally aired on CBBC in the United Kingdom from 16 December 2002 to 11 March 2010, over the course of ten series, with three spin-offs. In the original release, the show was hosted by James Mackenzie who played the title role, and conducted a group of six children, known as warriors, over five days through a series of tasks and feats. At various stages in the adventure, the group loses the least successful warrior, until two go through to the final week to compete for the title of Ultimate Warrior. This format of the show features three groups of six warriors who compete in various challenges over the course of three (broadcast) weeks. Each group features for five days, and after the second day, the warrior with the fewest lives and rings must face the Way of the Warrior, an elimination challenge deciding whether they would continue to the next day or not. Only two warriors in each week go through to compete in the final week of the quest, where one becomes the Ultimate Warrior. Each warrior starts out with a number of lives, represented by feathers on a standard. The number of lives started was 7 from Series 1–3, and this changed to 9 lives from Series 4–10. From series 5, contestants with a full number of lives intact could gain further lives with 9 rings, whereas they couldn’t beforehand. Warriors also received symbolic emblems that follow them throughout their quest (Sun, Mountain, Tree, Wave, Cloud, and Moon). Losing any challenge meant the loss of a life, but these could be won back, by winning at least 7 (Series 2–3), later 9, gold rings, although in Series 1, the final day's challenges were played to win back lives. To lose all lives from a standard meant the warrior would be automatically eliminated from the process, though this never occurred. At the end of days 1–4 (Series 1, Series 7 final week), days 2–4 (Series 2–10 heats, Series 4–6 final week), and 5 in the final weeks in Series 2–3, 8–10, the warrior with the fewest lives and rings must face the Way of the Warrior, a complex and difficult series of obstacles that only four warriors, (Ishal, Varna, Worjo and Kinsa), have ever completed. Only in Series 1 that warriors volunteer to do the challenge but in the first day, no-one was sent home. Should a warrior reach the portal at the end of the Way of the Warrior, they will be admitted through to the next day of the quest, and the task must then fall upon the next warrior with the fewest lives and rings. This process continues until somebody is eliminated. If there was a tie on lives and rings, a drawing of feathers decides which one would face the challenge, that warrior being the one who picked the black feather. (Wikipedia)

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