Dorreon II Beth - 23rd Known Ruler of Revellia
Called the Green Prince, later the Green King
Prince Dorreon II Beth
Reign: 975 RA - 982 RA
Mox Master: Jonah Slabh
High Magus: Aaran Dylaen When his father was slain in battle, Prince Dorreon was a mere boy of eleven years. Bold and charming, possessed of a deep sense of duty to his people, the boy king was prepared to accept the crown and lead Revellia in the coming war. His Council unanimously overruled him in this, however. He was allowed to attend council meetings, that he might learn to rule, but he would have no authority beyond this until he entered majority. His mother, Queen Zun'jel, was convinced to attend meetings as the Queen Regent. She had never expressed any interest in rule however, and it quickly became clear that, while she bore the title of Regent, it was three men who were ruling the East.
Even in the earliest meetings, Mox Master Jonah Slabh and Prince Harek Beth began to butt heads. They had been dear friends since youth, but King Garland's death had altered them both deeply, and each would openly seek unilateral power over the other. As Mox Master, Lord Jonah argued it was his right and duty to lead the realm until Dorreon's majority. Prince Harek indicated his blood ties, arguing he was heir to the throne after his young nephew, and should therefore take the chiefest hand in raising him and managing the canton. Factions formed around them, filtering into the city. The Green Prince was a matter on everyone's lips. Owing to his Liddinawth heritage on his mother's side, Prince Dorreon had been born with green hair, reminding Revellia of the legendary King Tranton Gall. Great things had been expected of the boy from the day of his birth, and both men had differing ideas on what those great things would be.
As the warriors battled one another, Brother Aaran Dylaen sought to rule in the shadows. Dylaen had replaced the first High Magus, in charge of the royal spellers who kept the canton aware of current events far and wide. The number of royal spellers had grown from three to twelve, and Brother Aaran expanded this to fifteen whilst intensifying communications with northerly cantons of Bastis and Yvruel.
While the royal council grew more contentious, the heir apparent found himself with little to do. He trained rigorously with sword and shield and lance and was rumored to even try his hand at spelling. He spent time at the shipyards of Wedding and even observed the lumber work at Timber Town to the south. Legends say he helped build a ship and even sailed upon it to Aerwoth and Ethelbrand before returning to Revelback, all before his thirteenth year.
The Prince was of course not allowed to wander off alone. Accompanying him everywhere were Sir Laurel Odon, a young squire named Medrik Maan who would earn his knighthood on the road, a young speller named Lily Finn (a lesser offshoot of Clan Uirlis), and a Hostess named Sister Salvian who would continue to instruct the prince on the Host of Hosts. Spells would remember these as the Four Companions.
The Prince began by sneaking off by himself to see Wedding and Timber Town. Later, the Four Companions would take turns keeping their eyes on him in the capital, until Sir Laurel prevailed upon the council to let the prince make a Progress across his kingdom. The land was growing more peaceful, and peasants on either side of the Nightfall celebrated the Green Prince. Consent was eventually granted, and Prince Dorreon departed for Swining at fourteen years, accompanied by the Four Companions, ten household knights, two of them Mox Men, twenty men-at-arms, seven squires, and fifty servants of various stripes.
Progress was slow, and the Green Prince would often ride ahead to see the tiny villages along the way, always pursued by one or more of his companions. Speller Lily recorded many adventures both amusing and entertaining, oft suggesting that she failed or refused to record nearly as many others. The Prince was evading his companions as often as his travel party, especially at the chief settlements, where he seemed driven to walk amongst the people and learn more about them. It was impossible to blend in with his green hair, but Dorreon claimed it was easier to speak with the common folk on their own terms, "rather than through a wall of twenty knights."
At first, these knights were eager to chase the Prince down, each one hoping to prove his ingenuity and dedication, and perhaps win a sort of respect from their future king. By the time they reached Saolmoth, however, all but the Four Companions had given up, and young Dorreon found it easier and easier to evade supervision. Yet as often as he enjoyed time away from his escorts, Speller Lily records that the Prince would often seek out his Companions to spar, to speak, or to share the sights he had discovered with them.
It was rumored, though unrecorded, that the Prince rode south of Saolmoth to visit his great aunt, Lady Helena Maraigh, at Malbrand. Most tellings say he was pursued by Sir Laurel, who became a terribly unwilling guest at the Lady's castle, where she and her nine ghastling sons entertained the pair for three or four days before they returned to Saolmoth. Some tellings include the rest of the Companions as well, but it seems likely Speller Lily would have recorded this if she had been present.
When the Royal Progress at last arrived at Dubraigh, Prince Dorreon was well into his fifteenth year. He was eager to visit his eldest sister, Princess Kirin, whom he had once tried to teach swordplay. He had many warm memories of her from childhood, but Princess Kirin was his elder by a decade, and they had not seen one another in many years. He found her cold, and the city tense and tired after the great strife between Clans Luutar and Eskmai. In would be only a day or two before the royal escort began discussing their journey home. It had been over a year-and-a-half since they had seen their families, and they were eager to see the state of the capital.
One can imagine their surprise and frustration, then, when on the morning of the third day, Prince Dorreon managed to sneak aboard a Khabarese merchant ship called Black Tooth, bound north for Royport. Sir Medrik Maan, Speller Lily, and Sister Salvian accompanied him, but Sir Laurel had been left behind and thus had the duty of pursuit and capture. Princess Kirin was able to secure a modest boat for Sir Laurel and seven men, while the Mox Men Sir Lothar Paddox and Sir Barammos Dylaen rode north on horse, taking advantage of the union between the cantons to pass borders at speed.
The merchant ship stopped at Madport before Royport, yet the Prince's pursuers were unable to catch him. Legends say Dorreon and his Companions even visited Ghastfort at the Pass of Peril, but if so it is unrecorded. It may be they continued on foot from there, but it seems far likelier that Black Tooth brought them to Tyr's Harbor, where it was said the Green King was made.
The Green Prince was sixteen at this point, and Speller Lily indicates he had every intention of continuing around the Triangle Sea, expecting to arrive home in time for his eighteenth birthday and coronation. These plans would change at Tyr's Harbor. They were now on the northern side of the Pass of Peril, in what was then Monosi territory. As they waited for Black Tooth to take on cargo and prepare to sail, the port city was attacked by the Roylians , a people with both Monosi and Milosian heritage who sought independence from the Mortal Kingdoms. It is widely assumed that Dorreon helped to repel this attack, though Speller Lily's account is uncharacteristically vague and ill-spelt. Likewise, most assume it was here that Prince Dorreon was knighted, most likely by his Companion Medrik Maan, as Speller Lily and Sister Salvian looked on.
It was also at Tyr's Harbor that Sir Laurel and his men finally caught up with the Prince. Sir Laurel was furious, but it took very little to convince Dorreon it was time to return. Whatever his experience during the attack on Tyr's Harbor, it seems he finally came to understand the nature of his duty.
Finding a south-going ship proved easier than north, and a ship was soon found to take them back to Dubraigh. They arrived in Winter, making it impossible to sail around the Capes to Revelback. Sir Laurel sent two of his knights east with word of the Prince's return, while the rest elected to wait out the Winter before crossing the Nightfall.
During their stay, they would learn that Sir Lothar Paddox and Sir Barammos Dylaen had been slain just north of the Pass of Peril, chasing the Prince into Monosi territory.
Speller Lily reports that the Prince's manner had been utterly changed. Whilst Wintering in Dubraigh, Dorreon spent much of his time negotiating a marriage with Lady Magaana, first daughter of Lord Wurset Sirtal. Lady Magaana was a widow of five-and-twenty with two daughters, and indeed the Prince showed no especial fondness for her, but he maintained that an ironclad alliance between East and West was needed. Legends say Dorreon and Lady Magaana wed one another in a Deinain ritual in the Fiirwood in the last month of the year. When Spring broke, Lady Magaana accompanied the Prince back to the capital.
They arrived to find the city in chaos. Full factions had amassed around Mox Master Jonah Slabh, Prince Harek, and High Magus Aaran Dylaen. Prince Harek was asserting his claim to the crown in the Prince's absence. Aaran Dylaen had driven the faithful to a frenzy against Sir Jonah (whose family had strong ancestral ties to the Siiari) and Prince Harek (who was named tangentially after Harrek the Thief, who stole the wives of King Tranton Gall). Sir Jonah continued to press his own supremacy as Mox Master.
Most surprising of all, the Prince found his other sister, Princess Hwinell Glast, there at Revelback. Sir Jonah had invited Princess Hwinell to the capital, along with her infant daughters Nym and Pyrcella. Sir Jonah was already trying to arrange a marriage between little Nym and his nephew Garren. Hwinell was older than Prince Dorreon, and had spent the last five years in Urudun, where women were afforded many more rights than in Revellia. Sir Jonah meant to put forth Hwinell as the Prince's heir, uniting her with the ancient line of Clan Slabh to help legitimize the claim. Hwinell was not the elder daughter, Kirin was, yet Sir Jonah argued that Princess Kirin, being wed to a Revellian man, did not have the same rights of inheritance that Princess Hwinell had, being married to a Glast of Urudun.
The Return of the Prince was able to calm the waters to some extent, yet too many pieces were in motion, and none of the three men were prepared to abandon their plans. Dorreon was seventeen at this point, and declared it was high time he assumed his responsibilities. "Revellia has been using the other cantons as a shield against Monos," he said. "I have seen the war with my own eyes now. It is time for the dithering to end, and for us to aid our allies."
Lord Jonah, Prince Harek, and Brother Aaran had been close friends in youth, but the Prince's absence had transformed them into the bitterest of foes. Nevertheless, they were united on two points. The Prince would not be crowned before his eighteenth birthday, nor would he be wed to Lady Magaana Sirtal. Lord Jonah meant for him to wed Lady Helisann Odon. Prince Harek meant for him to wed Lady Liessa, Harek's daughter and Dorreon's own cousin. Brother Aaran supported wedding a Westerner, but insisted the Prince take a bride from Clan Eskmai, to counter the imbalance caused by Princess Kirin's marriage into Clan Luutar.
Upon hearing these contrary commands, the Prince folded his arms and scowled. His Four Companions stood behind him, even Sir Laurel. "In less than a year's time," Dorreon said, "I shall be King. I advise you to reconsider your counsel to me." Yet the men would not be moved. Lord Jonah went so far as to threaten his claim, insisting that Princess Hwinell might well be called to replace him. "Hwinell is not a warrior," the Prince answered, hand on his sword. "But I am," Lord Jonah said. Dorreon nodded at that, saying "We shall see," then turned and left.
All three men sought to turn Sir Laurel to their cause. Having been deep in the boy's counsel for years, he was uniquely suited to compel Dorreon to one of their paths. Yet it seems all three were frustrated in this. Rather than betray him, all Four Companions took to the city, riling up the populace in support of their impending king. No riots occurred, but cries for the Green King rang out all over, and even holy days became eclipsed by talk of Prince Dorreon.
Three moons before Prince Doreon's eighteenth birthday, a courier arrived from Bastis. Ghastfort, in the Pass of Peril, was under siege. Urudun and Ethel were exhausted, by turns supporting and fighting Yvruel as it continued to twist and turn in its allegiance. The courier, speaking on behalf of someone named Rosheen, begged for aid. The time had come to act. Prince Dorreon did not bother to speak with his three captors. Instead, he joined his Companions in the streets, calling all able men to join him against the Monosi invaders (Speller Lily records that the Prince referred to them as Westheart invaders, hoping not to muddy the issue among the faithful, who might still see the Monosi as the chosen people of the King of Kings).
The Prince sent couriers to Aerwoth and Saolmoth as he rode for Swining, then Berleigh, raising such armies as would answer a Prince. Legends say nearly twenty-thousand men answered the call in merely two moons' time. It was a fortnight before his birthday when the army rode north into Urudun. All four of his Companions came with him, as did Lady Magaana Sirtal. Dorreon meant for Sister Salvian to wed them on his eighteenth birthday.
Legends and spells say they were in a swamp somewhere in Urudun on the day in question. Dorreon asked Sir Laurel Odon to crown him, which he did. The cheers that followed shook the earth, but even before quiet came, the King and Lady Magaana were saying their vows. It was said a full two days' march were lost in the celebrations.
Of the King's heroic rescue of Ghastfort, much has been spelt and spoken. It has oft been said that Kingsrift, one of the two new cantons that would come of the Century War, was born in those days, as King Dorreon II and his armies freed Ghastfort, Bothe, and Tryphon from Monosi hands. "What Dorreon the First promised, Dorreon the Second made manifest," the wizard Vilma Vain famously spelt.
It will never be known what decisions were made, after the three northern cities were freed, that would once again place Dorreon on a ship. Most assume he wished to finish his voyage around the Triangle Sea, though he famously declared after his victories that their work was only beginning. Some have questioned why his army did not continue marching north into Monos, perhaps to seek out the King of Kings himself. Others wonder that he did not take his queen with him, but rather sent her home in the care of Sir Laurel and the rest of his army. What the King meant, we will never know. Perhaps the Hosts, angry that the Monosi had been so thoroughly defeated, confounded the Green King to his doom.
Dorreon the Second chose to sail home on a ship of unknown name. With him, he took Medrik Maan and Sister Salvian. Three different ships were reported sunk not long after that point: the Ferocious Bark, the Lady Asula, and the Star Seeker. It would be assumed that the King and his Companions were on one of these ships. They would never be heard from again.
Mox Master: Jonah Slabh
High Magus: Aaran Dylaen When his father was slain in battle, Prince Dorreon was a mere boy of eleven years. Bold and charming, possessed of a deep sense of duty to his people, the boy king was prepared to accept the crown and lead Revellia in the coming war. His Council unanimously overruled him in this, however. He was allowed to attend council meetings, that he might learn to rule, but he would have no authority beyond this until he entered majority. His mother, Queen Zun'jel, was convinced to attend meetings as the Queen Regent. She had never expressed any interest in rule however, and it quickly became clear that, while she bore the title of Regent, it was three men who were ruling the East.
THE THREE-HEADED REGENT
THE GREEN PRINCE'S PROGRESS
DUBRAIGH AND THE TRIANGLE SEA
THE GREEN KING
THE PASS OF PERIL
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