Spurred on by the awakening of magic, the pair are forced to uncover the truth behind their parent's disappearance and a surprising connection between Elsa and her mother. Frozen 2 revealed that Elsa and Anna's mother was also able to connect with the magical powers that help make Elsa the lost "fifth element".
The implication, and it's only ever just that, is that Elsa and Anna's mother is herself somehow attuned to the magical forces such that Elsa was given the gift of superpowers. (Why Anna never received such powers is equally vaguely defined: just as Elsa and Anna's father had no powers, so too would she be power-free.
In conclusion, Elsa is only the fifth spirit because of her mothers sacrifice of her powers. Queen Iduna was the fifth spirit all along and chooses to save King Agnarr knowing that as a royal, she would need to be with him to have her royal daughters.
Because of the kingdom's negative feelings towards the Northuldra, Iduna kept her heritage a secret for many years, though she finally told him everything shortly before their deaths. Agnarr and Iduna's oldest daughter (Elsa) was born with the power to control ice and snow.
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Was Elsa's mom the one calling her?
It was after that the decision was made to fully commit to the voice calling to Elsa being that of her mother, Iduna. As Marc Smith, Frozen 2's Director of Story, notes in the documentary, the idea "unifies the movie" since it starts with a flashback featuring Iduna and Agnarr, and it brings those elements together.
Due to the bad blood between their people, Iduna kept both her heritage and her rescue of Agnarr in the forest a secret for many years, though she finally confessed everything to him shortly before their deaths.
Despite her daughter Elsa having magic ice powers, Queen Iduna does not appear to wield any sort of magical abilities, making her a normal human being. Since she is a monarch, it is most likely that she is skilled in politics and diplomacy.
Frozen explicitly shows the audience that Iduna and Agnarr's ship has sunk, killing both of the young princesses' parents. It's later revealed in Frozen 2 that the king and queen were traveling to Ahtohallan, a magical glacier in the north, and Frozen's sequel again confirms that Anna and Elsa's parents died at sea.
The fact that granting Anna powers would invalidate or at least muddle the spirit-human bridge concept is only part of the issue. Aside from the logistical problem it poses, a sudden manifestation of magic in Anna would also take away from the beauty of her character.
It has a slot for November 2024 and November 2025 for “untitled Disney animation”, according to Business Insider. Again, assuming that Frozen 3 is following the same release pattern as its predecessors, it's safe to bet that it will be released November 26, 2025.
According to Iduna, Ahtohallan is considered a spirit and is the "mother" of all the other spirits. According to Iduna's notes, Ahtohallan is the source of the magic in the Enchanted Forest as well as those of the spirits, including Elsa's powers.
She died and was reborn to take on her true form like has happened in so many stories before. With that transformation, Frozen 2 has made Elsa an immortal spirit now. Like how Frozen 2's other four spirits appear as animals but more than just that, Elsa still appears human but is more than just that.
There hasn't been any indication that Elsa will have a girlfriend in Frozen III. That said, some fans have theorized that Honeymaren, a member of the Northuldra tribe, will be Elsa's girlfriend in the next Frozen film. Honeymaren was introduced in Frozen II as a resident of the Enchanted Forest.
While Iduna's selfless actions were the reason Elsa was bestowed with ice powers to begin with, her daughter received powers instead of her because beings are born with elemental powers in the Frozen universe and don't acquire them later on in life.
While they're in there, Anna and Elsa also discover another twist: They're half-Northuldran. Their mother, it turns out, was a tribe member who saved their father during the battle, escaped with him out of the forest, and later married him.
In Frozen 2, the four elemental spirits are behind the deaths of Anna and Elsa's parents, Iduna and Agnarr. The shipwreck, which resulted when the Arendelle rulers were caught in a storm while crossing the Dark Sea on the way to Ahtohallan, was not an accident.
In the original Frozen, it's revealed that Anna and Elsa's parents (played by Alfred Molina and Evan Rachel Wood in the sequel) were killed when their boat sank en route to an important wedding, and fans have long theorised that this was in fact the wedding of Tangled characters Rapunzel (Mandy Moore) and Flynn Rider ( ...
So, even though the mission of Frozen 2 was to explain the lore of Elsa and Arendelle, large chunks of this backstory were cut from the film by Disney. What is left is a confusing, hard-to-follow mess that feels less like a compelling story and more like a YouTube explainer video.
The ice from which the palace is constructed is capable of taking on different colors, such as purple, blue, red and yellow, based on Elsa's emotional state (blue when she is happy or neutral, yellow or amber when she is angry, and red when she is frightened).
Kristoff may not have initially known that he had seen the royal family as a boy. But because he grew up with the trolls, he would have asked about what he saw and learned the truth. In that case, Kristoff had learned that Elsa had ice powers and Anna was healed by Pabbie before.
Even after the script was changed to make Anna and Elsa sisters, Elsa retained her villainous status as Anna's jealous and bitter sibling that sought to take the kingdom for herself. She would have her snowmen capture Anna, but would eventually face a redemption when Prince Hans threatened both her and Anna.
True love in Frozen is described as “putting someone else's need before your own” and that's what Elsa did, trying to control her powers and protect people. She couldn't talk to Anna because she had to “conceal” and “not feel” her emotions and if she was talking, she would be expressing her emotions.
Anna's parents rush her to the sacred realm, where discussions with the trolls reveal that Elsa was born with her powers/ depigmentation and deafness, rather than them being due to illness or accident. Grand Pabbie troll heals Anna but removes her memories of Elsa's magic.
