Roi Gérôme II

Roi Gerome II was a king of Lormont in the Hubraic Era. He was the grandson of Roi Celestyn I. He is mentioned briefly in the Chronicle of the Star-Chosen Roi.

He was more content to bathe in starlight than concern himself with the governing of his kindgom

— An extract from The Chronicle of the Star-Chosen Roi

Youth and Marriage

When Gérôme was seventeen, he married Sabine-Erissa Oberosalia, great-grandaughter of Gauthier Oberosalia, the man responsible for coordinating the search of the destroyed de Cruqy Mansion in the hopes of finding survivors. Scholars are uncertain whether the marriage was pre-arranged, or one of the many spur-of-the-moment ideas of Roi Celestyn that dictated many of the marriages of his grandchildren.

Heretical Views

Early in his youth, Gérôme became a believer in the Forlorn Star-Sea Sect. This was a New Age movement in Lormont who believed that the night sky is a giant sea. The stars are the lights of underwater cities, and meteors are the tails of Celestial-merfolk. Some even go so far as to argue that the Celestial Rhoi himself is one of these beings.
Adherents to this section believe that a person can spiritually travel to these star cities and learn their wisdom by eating sweet cakes laced with horsythis, a hallucinogenic drug made from the horsynthia flower. The believer would then have to immerse themselves in a body of water that directly reflects the starlight. Only then could their consciousness pass from the mortal body of water into the celestial one.
Roi Gérôme is often referred to as the "Frozen Roi", because of the misadventure that led to his death. Seeking the stars' counsel on a matter of government during a particularly bitter winter, the monarch developed hyperthermia and died after lying on a frozen lake.

Roi Gérôme II via Bing by Caitlin Wright

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by Brinsmead