Saladin

Headmaster Saladin is the headmaster of Red Fountain. Before the series aired, it was obvious that he worked with the Company of Light and Bloom's parents. In the first season, he helped to defeat the Trix, with the help of Cloud Tower and Alfea. In Season 2, they were attacked after the opening of their new school for the Codex.

He is Helia's uncle and a friend of Bloom's parents, Oritel and Marion, and was once part of the Company of Light together with them and fought along with them against the Ancestral Witches and Valtor when Domino was destroyed.

Appearance
Saladin is a short, round, elderly man with thick gray eyebrows and waist-length gray hair. He is clean shaven.

Civilian
He wears a simple dull tunic/robe.

Personality
Saladin is shown to be a very wise and calm person, as shown when Red Fountain was attacked by the Army of Darkness. He also cares about his students and is willing help them when needed. He is however, not afraid to scold them. He also appears to be very protective of his school seeing as he was devastated when he lost it because the Trix had over powered him and everyone else.

Saladin also does not trust people easily, in particular those who have any relations with evil but he is quick to forgive especially when they have proven themselves. As seen when Knut asked for Saladin's help, Saladin was very skeptical and even critical of Knut until he realized Knut was telling the truth.

Magical Abilities
Saladin was an accomplished and powerful wizard whose magic could rival those of other highly formidable magical beings, such as Faragonda and Griffin, who were his old colleagues in the Company of Light, and with whom he fought and defeated the Ancestral Witches.

Despite his old age, Saladin's powers were revealed to have retained their potency: he was able to fire powerful magical blasts as well as cast high-level spells, such as a fire-extinguishing spell that could cover an extensive area. When his magic was used in conjunction with those of Faragonda and Griffin, it was even able to permanently vanquish creatures with the ability of regeneration. Saladin may know some basic, first-level spells that all wizards can use, such as telekinesis, transmuting objects, fixing minor messes. His magic manifests as orange illusive waves. And using certain spells his magic is green.

Uses of Magic

 * Shield of Justice

Trivia

 * In the 4Kids version, Helia is Saladin's nephew.
 * Saladin's name might have been based on that of Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub, more commonly known as simply Saladin, who was a Sultan of Syria and of Egypt who successfully fought the Crusaders in the twelfth century and won the respect of many of them, gaining the reputation of a great knight and becoming a legendary symbol of chivalry on Europe.
 * Saladin's tunic appears to have been based on the changshan, a traditional tunic worn in Imperial China under the Qing Dynasty.
 * Saladin appeared to be taller in his younger years and had black hair (as seen in Season 3 flashbacks) or brown hair (as seen in the second movie).
 * In Issue 37 of the comic series, it is revealed that Saladin dated a classmate named Zatura when he was young. The two broke up when Zatura began dabbling in the dark arts with the hopes of gaining everlasting youth and immense power.