King Johan II of Capetia
Second king of all Capetians, second of his royal name, and second among all children of the Tripartite god. King Johan is an absolute monarch of great energy and fickle taste. It is quite easy to gain his favor but impossible to keep it, and few who lose the King's interest survive boring him. He is always eager to to engage with any new stimulation but will inevitably become bored with any activity after a short while.
Johan has no greater ambition than personal pleasure. Within the palace itself he inflicts cruelty directly on his servants and all those citizens of the capital who fall within his reach. These include innumerable tortures physical, spiritual, and sexual, but of a particular favorite is a game he calls Ministrello. This involves the king's men kidnapping a commoner from their home and dressing them in the cloths of a noble. The peasant is then expected to perform all the proper etiquette of a schooled noble through a night of revelry with the court; each misstep of manners, pronunciation, or conversational flow resulting in bodily mutilation. This begins with the removing of fingers and escalates to more severe forms of dismemberment. At the end of the night commoners able to walk under their own power are turned loose on the streets, but those unable are either killed or turned into demonhosts.
For those serfs and freemen further afield the King's cruelty is most commonly felt through his ruinous tax demands and enforcement of feudal customs. The rural poor are always at the verge of starvation and leaving the land of one's lord without permission is punishable by death without trial.
Physical Description
General Physical Condition
The King is a red haired man with wrinkled grey skin. His drooping eyes suggest a man immensely tired, but still too amused to retire to bed.
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