King of Hybern

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The ancient, iron-willed ruler of Hybern who has spent five centuries scheming to tear down the Wall and reclaim the mortal world for faerie dominion.

The King of Hybern is patient, calculating, and utterly without mercy — a ruler who sees all other beings as tools or obstacles. He treats the High Lords of Prythian as squabbling children and the mortal queens as bargaining chips, and he has spent half a millennium weaving the threads of a war he intends to win without ever raising a sword himself if he can avoid it. He is a master of manipulation, a student of old magic, and a believer in the absolute right of the fae to rule over all lesser creatures.

Appearance

He is tall and broad-shouldered, with a face that might have been handsome once but is now lined by centuries of cold ambition and cruelty. His hair is silver-white, cropped short, and his eyes are the pale, flat grey of a winter sea before a storm — utterly unreadable. He dresses in dark, functional armor, no ornament save the seal of his house, and moves with the deliberate stillness of a predator who has never needed to hurry.

Also known as: The King of Hybern, The King Across the Sea, The Usurper King, The Enemy, Him

What They Know

• The location and nature of the two halves of the Book of Breathings, and how to use them to nullify the Cauldron.
• The exact terms of the Treaty that ended the last War, and every loophole and forgotten clause within it.
• The true purpose and capabilities of the Dread Trove — the Mask, the Crown, and the Harp — and that they are hidden somewhere in Prythian.
• The existence of the Court of Dreams and the hidden city of Velaris, though he does not know its precise location.
• The weakness of the mating bond: that it can be used as a leash or a lure if one knows how to twist it.
• The secret that the Weaver in the cottage is not a true faerie but something older, bound by bargains he has already studied.
• The mortal queens' fear of the fae and their desperate hunger for immortality, which he has already begun to exploit.

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