The Crown Prince

Names: The Crown Prince, The Little King, The Mordred

Classification: Archetype- Threadbearer- Circle Walker- Kudavbin King

Power Class: Protagonist

Lair: City of Glass- Glass Tower

Common Habitats: The Ring, Foglands

Associated Stories: Flight from Glass Tower

Personality Traits: Brave, Self-Sacrificing

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Synopsis: The Crown Prince is, practically speaking, less a character than a decision. The first form that the Kudavbin King takes, and the only form to appear in ever telling of the Kudavbin King’s story, regardless of the conclusion to that story, the Crown Prince is larval stage where the Kudavbin King becomes aware of the purpose and form of the Tribute and resolves to flee with his sister- The Last Princess- seeking the aid of the Dreamwalker in escaping and ending the Tribute.

The story of the Kudavbin King ends in the Flight from Glass Tower, sometimes in triumph, sometimes in tragedy. Only two forms of the Kudavbin King continue past this tale, and both are broken creatures. But the Crown Prince knows none of this, he is a decision in the face of horror. He is the Buddha awakening to suffering. He is refusal. He is protest.

Excerpt:

“Who are you? And what are you doing in here?”

Fitzroy turned and found himself looking at a growing crowd of villagers. A Middle aged woman was standing in front and when she spoke again, Fitzroy realized she had been the one to speak before.

“What manner of witch or wizard are you in these clothes? Why are you here? What do you want?”

“I’d love to answer you, because then maybe you’d help. I’m just not sure how to answer the questions, because things have gone very weird lately. I mean my father murdered my mother for some sort of ritual. A guy calling himself the Witchdoctor tells my sister and I to run, find the Dreamer and the Walker, because apparently they can help. We find them, but that doesn’t help, because they don’t know much more than us. So we’re running from these men in black and white suits. Then we’re also running from this black hound thing. I managed to scare the hound off, but because of that, I can’t stay focused. I think I passed out. Now I’m here.”

The crowd was silent.

“I’m dead,” Fitzroy said to himself, “I said the wrong thing, you’re going to kill me.”

Finally the woman in front spoke, “You are Mordred, but you have chosen to become the Kudavbin King.”

“I don’t know what you mean,” Fitzroy said carefully and slowly, “My name is Fitzroy. Salt. I’m on the run with my sister and two guys named Marion and Harley who are apparently the Dreamer and the Walker. I don’t know anything else, because nobody has told me anything else.”

“You are the Kudavbin King, your sister is the Last Princess. Your sister is destined to lead the tribes back to freedom, to the old ways. You are destined to kill your father and end his reign of terror as the Locust King.”

Fitzroy shook his head, “I really am dead,” he said.

-Firebird Nested in Darkness VOL 1. CHP 4. VERSE 5.