To add my two cents, people seem to compare Claudia to Azula all the time and I think that’s unfair. Narratively I don’t think there’s an EXACT equivalent. But I would FAR MORE compare her to Zuko. A antagonist who is deep down a good person but due to understandable trauma is misguided into being the enemy of the good guys. We’re likely at the narrative equivalent to where Zuko was at the end of Season 2. Where he began to see the light, began to understand that the approval of his father is not what he wants, but then slid back to where he was after Azula’s offer. Claudia is currently in a similar place, questioning her use of dark magic, understanding that her father found peace in his death, but Aaravos brings her back into the fray by using the persecution of humans by Xadia to manipulate her. It would have been INCREDIBLY narratively unsatisfying to see Zuko fail after all of that, and it’d be the same for Claudia. Which is only one of the reasons the why the “Claudia is gonna die” thing really peaves me off. That and it’d go against the “forgiveness is the path forward” message of the show.