The Last Princess

Names: The Last Princess, The Tribute, Maia, Little Mother

Classification: Archetype- Thread Bearer- Circle Walker- First Mother

Power Class: Protagonist

Lair: City of Glass- Glass Tower

Common Habitats: The Ring, Foglands

Associated Stories: Flight from Glass Tower

Personality Traits: Hopeful, Heroic

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Synopsis: The Chrysalis from which First Mother is born, the last Princess is the female Buddha, realizing the cost of the tribute along with her brother the Crown Prince and fleeing from the Glass Tower and the Hungry Empire. Incompletely realized, the Last Princess flees out of fear and anger at what the Locust King did to their mother. Fully realized, the Last Princess flees with the intent to stop the cycle of tribute and spare the story another telling of the tale of Hunger.

The Last Princess is already in contact with First Mother’s patron: The Weaver, but the contact is sporadic and unpredictable. The Last Princess is not yet fully realized as First Mother; for where the Crown Prince’s story ends with the Flight from Glass Tower regardless of his choices, the story of the First Mother is just beginning.

 

Excerpt:

Maia felt the ground open up around her and the void spread beneath. She felt herself falling and looked up to see the stones above her as she disappeared into the darkness. As she fell she could hear Harley’s voice, “Oh come on. Not again. I can’t carry all three of them by myself.”

Maia felt herself settle into the cold of the void and in the void she felt the familiar strands of spider webs spreading into infinity in all directions.

“At last,” The voice said, stretching the vowels like violin strings the darkness,”Little mother has arrived. I greet you little mother. You are finally all here and now your initiation into this new cycle begins. It have been a long time. We have missed you.”

“You’re the Weaver again.” Maia said carefully.

“I am still the Weaver and I am always the Weaver. Just as you are still and always First Mother, no matter how many times you are called upon to play that role.”

“I’m not a mother. My mother is dead.”

“The death of the old mother is a recurring part of the False King’s story. He must destroy the mother to give dominance to the false father.”

“Are you going to help me?”

“I am going to offer you a deal. The same deal that I always offer you. I will help you find your way in the story. I shall give you power. In exchange, you shall weave my stories for me, and weave me back across the cultures of the land. You shall resurrect me and give me new life.”