Connects to: 19.31.03, 37.01 and 39.12.
The elves of the Kingswood refuse to say much of him and some say they have forgotten nearly all, but the famed historian Sabrek of Ungolath makes the following conjectures: long centuries past the Prince was the heir to the Imperium Undying, which once lay across the Ocean of Bitter Regrets (00.06) and claimed imperium over all men. However, before he could he could claim the Sun Throne he was betrayed by his beloved sister and his bastard half-brother. He fled in exile to the Shrouded Lands around the Kingswood in order to raise an army in the Imperium’s colonies across the ocean.
However, the colonists lacked the timber to create a fleet capable of weathering the Prismatic Storms that wrack much of the Sea of Bitter Regrets and the Prince of Men cast his covetous eyes upon the proud trees of the Kingswood. The elves promised him all of the timber his men could haul and much other help besides if he became a signatory of the ancient Seelie Accords that shared out elfish lands between the Seelie and Unseelie elves and returned to the elves the precious Seal of the One King that had been lost beneath the waters of the Mirror Lake (37.01).
The Prince was a brave and powerful man and with all of the sorcery of the Sunset Lands to aid him he dove deep into the Mirror Lake, promising to return the Seal of the One King and to become the true Prince of all men. He never surfaced again and many will say that he sleeps under the water still, his dreams bringing visions of what is and what might be to the surface of the lake and that he will rise again one day with the Seal of the One King in his hand and bend all mankind to his will.
Connection:
- A ruin of the Imperium Undying can be found east of the City of Shuttered Windows (39.12).
- For hints about the ancient religion of the Prince of Men, see (19.31.03).
Hooks:
- What did Sabrek get wrong?
- Where is Ungolath?
- What happened to the Imperium Undying?
- Where are the remnants of an ancient Imperial colony?
- Are the local humans the descendants of these colonists? Did they build Shuttered or are the separate from the local humans?
- What are the Prismatic Storms and why would wood from Kingswood trees keep your boat safe from them?
- What else do the Seelie Accords specify?