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edgar_of_etheria) wrote2013-07-29 10:06 pm
edgar_of_etheria) wrote2013-07-29 10:06 pm
App for Demeleier
Player Name: Ardruna
Player IJmirisa_ardruna (no personal DW account)
Contact: Email: ardruna@gmail.com; AIM: Mirisa Erato; Plurk: Ardruna
Character Number: 1
Character: Prince Edgar of Etheria
Source: King's Quest
Appearance: Nobody's really sure what Edgar is supposed to look like according to his genetics. He's had his body transmogrified against his will a minimum of three times that we know of: into a misshapen hunchback with black hair and green skin (which might be his natural coloring, based upon his mother's appearance), a troll king, and a handsome young prince.
In his present form, courtesy of the fairy Genesta, Edgar is a very handsome young man--almost unnaturally so. Although his actual chronological age is a matter of some question, he appears to be roughly in his early 20s. He is tall and fairly broad-shouldered, but has a slender, leanly-muscled build. Edgar has thick hair of a light brown color that he generally wears long and loose. His ears are usually covered by said hair, but are tipped with delicate points. He has a clear, fair complexion and bears no physical scars whatsoever. His eyes are blue, but the exact shade seems to vary depending on the light. In bright sunlight, they're a clear blue, but indoors or in a shaded/indirectly lit area, they often seem to be much darker.
Selected PB is Daniel Brocklebank.
Timeline: Immediately post-King's Quest VII finale
History: King's Quest Wiki
Edgar's Official Wiki page
Edgar's Unofficial Wiki Page
Edgar's First Appearance
Edgar Frees Rosella
Lolotte's Death and Edgar's Discovery
Genesta Releases Edgar From Lolotte's Curse
Edgar's First Appearance as King Otar Fenris III
Edgar and Malicia discuss her plan, and he reveals his lost memory
Edgar's Happy Ending
Edgar was born the son of Lord Oberon and Lady Titania, heir to the fairy kingdom of Etheria in the realm of Eldritch. Shortly after his birth, the evil fairy Lolotte was to be banished from the realm of Etheria for her treachery and wicked deeds. In revenge for her banishment, as she was leaving, she kidnapped the infant prince, taking him with her into the mountains of the faraway land of Tamir. While there, she used her magic to twist his body into that of a misshapen green-skinned hunchback, and tried to twist his mind as well, telling him that she was his mother by a human man--a magician, to boot. However, some part of Edgar knew that he was not truly Lolotte's son.
Years passed. While Oberon and Titania searched vainly for their lost child, Lolotte grew ever more power-hungry, amassing a legion of bat-winged goons (who were often Edgar's only companions aside from his “mother”), and one day deciding to steal a talisman from the rightful ruler of Tamir, the good fairy Genesta. With it, she would steal the power behind Genesta's life force and take over the land by force. However, one day, Lolotte's goons brought before her a beautiful young woman named Rosella, seemingly a peasant girl. Lolotte accused the girl of being a spy, and ordered her imprisoned. Edgar, however, was smitten with Rosella at first sight, knowing she was “special” from the moment he laid eyes on her. In fairness, she was the first woman other than Lolotte that he had ever seen that close. Edgar believed Rosella's story and begged Lolotte to offer her a chance to prove her innocence. Lolotte agreed, and assigned the girl a series of tasks, each more dangerous than the last, promising to set her free and reward her if she succeeded.
Indeed, Rosella was able to complete each task: taming a unicorn, retrieving the hen that laid the golden eggs and Pandora's box, bringing each to Lolotte. For her reward, the wicked fairy announced that Rosella was to marry Edgar the very next morning! Rosella was stripped of her possessions and locked in Edgar's room for the night, while he was to sleep elsewhere. Late that night, however, he snuck up to the west tower and slipped a red rose beneath the door with a small golden key attached that would unlock the bedroom doors. Freed, Rosella retrieved her items, including Cupid's Bow, with which she shot Lolotte while she slept. The evil fairy had no love in her heart, and so the arrow poisoned and ultimately killed her. At dawn, Edgar discovered Lolotte's death, and, bowing to Rosella, declared that she was free. In a sense, he felt free himself from Lolotte's spells, but he was too shy to say anything else to Rosella at the time.
After Rosella returned the stolen talisman to Genesta, Edgar unexpectedly found himself summoned to the beach of the good fairy's island. He was equally startled to see Rosella no longer dressed as a peasant, but as a princess. Genesta declared that Edgar had a beautiful soul and did not deserve to be in the body Lolotte had given him. With her magic, she gave Edgar a form to match his soul: that of a handsome young prince. No longer feeling unworthy of her beauty, Edgar summoned up all his courage and impulsively confessed his love for Princess Rosella, asking for her hand in marriage then and there. After a few agonizing moments of consideration, Rosella apologized but said she had to return home to save her dying father, and thus could not marry him. However, she suggested they might meet again one day. Edgar was sorely disappointed, but clung to the hope that he might, in fact, be reunited with his beloved in the future.
Edgar returned to the cheerless castle in the mountains, having known no other home. Although he offered to release Lolotte's goons from their servitude in the wake of her death, many chose to stay on to serve their new young master, who was otherwise living alone. Of course, rumor began to spread beyond Tamir of the strange young fairy prince residing in the mountain castle, and eventually word reached Etheria. Intrigued and ever-hopeful, Oberon and Titania came to Tamir to see the young man for themselves and were ecstatic to discover he was, in fact, their long-lost child. Returning to Etheria, they threw a lavish ball in Edgar's honor, but the night of the party, Edgar once more vanished from the gardens. Oberon and Titania were crushed, and immediately began searching for him yet again, following allegations that he had been taken away by an evil wind. This time, his mother's sister, the evil Malicia (who had also been cast out of Etheria), was behind his disappearance.
Wanting revenge for her exile, Malicia decided that she wished to set off the volcano that comprised the Vulcanix Underground and cover all of Eldritch in slag while blasting Etheria right out of the skies. Unfortunately, she knew there was no way the trolls would allow her do so, and so she needed to get rid of their leader—and decided that Edgar would be the perfect person to help her.
Under the wicked fairy's power, Edgar was again transformed, this time into the form of the troll King Otar Fenris III, and Malicia erased his memories, brainwashing him into believing he was the leader of the Vulcanix Underground as well, while the real King Otar was imprisoned in the Land of Ooga Booga, and secretly supplanted by the unwitting Edgar. Yet, even in the fog of his mind, nearly all of his memories lost, he still longed for Rosella to be his bride, and came up with a plan to make it happen.
He sent a dragonet (which resembled a tiny flying seahorse) from Etheria into Daventry and showed the image of the Etherian castle in the reflection of the water to enchant and entice her—and it worked. Rosella followed the creature by jumping into the water from which it had emerged, and plunged into an interworldly vortex (followed immediately by her mother Queen Valanice) from which he snatched her from her mother's reaching hand and into the Vulcanix Underground. Unfortunately, this had the unexpected effect of transforming Rosella into a troll as well. Needless to say, this did not make her any happier with the prospect of becoming his wife, despite his attempts to reassure her.
Luckily, the real King Otar's nursemaid Matilda knew how to turn Rosella back into a human girl, and, with ingredients Rosella was able to recover, made a potion that did just that. Edgar-as-Otar was thrilled, and Rosella equally relieved. Malicia, however, was not at all happy with Rosella “distracting” her puppet-king, and tried to lock Rosella in her room. The princess was able to escape through a ventilation duct, but not before overhearing Malicia berating Edgar-as-Otar for his “obsession” with Rosella and demanding to know if he'd learned to work the controls to the volcano. He admitted he had, but also expressed concern for Eldritch and the various kingdoms within it. Malicia dismissed his concerns, and indicated it would be the only way to get rid of the “blight of Etheria.” Once Malicia left, Edgar-as-Otar lamented that he didn't know what was right anymore and wished he had his memory back so he could figure it out.
Rosella was able to escape to Ooga Booga and rescue the real King Otar from the Boogeyman's lair, much to Malicia's annoyance. At the king's urging, she also broke into Malicia's house, stealing a mysterious device needing to be plugged into the Vulcanix Underground—one that the fairy had stolen from Otar in the first place. They found a secret entrance into the Underground through the palace of the Archduke of Falderal, but when they arrived in the control room, they found it already occupied by Edgar-as-Otar who was igniting the volcano on Malicia's orders. The real King Otar declared him an imposter, and the two began to fight and wrestle. Using a wand she had acquired in her journeys through Eldritch, Rosella turned the imposter King back into his true form as Prince Edgar, much to her shock, as well as that of King Otar.
Edgar, finally back to his old self, however, was disoriented, not knowing where he was, nor the why nor how he had gotten there, let alone what was going on. Just then, Malicia appeared, and zapped King Otar into unconsciousness, Rosella into the volcano itself, and spirited Edgar right out of the Underground. While Rosella escaped from the volcano and worked to revive Otar and stop the eruption, Edgar quickly found and mounted Necromancer, the flying black steed of Count Tsepish of Ooga Booga, and went to Etheria to seek help. On horseback, his cloak drawn up to hide his face, he picked up Rosella's mother, Valanice, from where she was stranded in Etheria, took her to the Land of Ooga Booga, reopened the collapsed entrance to the Vulcanix Underground, and guided Valanice to reunite with Rosella at last.
They arrived just as Rosella and King Otar were able to stop the eruption in its tracks. Rosella tried to explain how she had gotten there, and was just starting to try and explain Edgar's role in the entire mess when Malicia arrived, furious that Rosella had thwarted her plan. Edgar leapt in front of Rosella to protect her, declaring that the wicked Malicia was not to touch his beloved princess. Malicia threatened to enslave his mind once more, but Edgar resisted, insisting he would never allow such a thing again. Malicia turned as if to leave, but Edgar, suspecting it was a ruse, fired a ball of magical energy at her. It hit, and caused her own magical attack to miss Edgar and, after ricocheting about the room, strike her as well. Thinking the twin shots had incapacitated her, Edgar turned his back on Malicia to see if Rosella was all right... and was promptly zapped in the back by a deadly lightning attack from the wicked fairy. He collapsed to the ground, barely clinging to life. Rosella cried out his name, and, before Malicia could attack her next, pulled the freshly-charged mysterious device from its socket and used it on Malicia first.
Malicia was defeated, turned into a baby by the mysterious device, as was her dog. Using the extra life she had gained from a cat she had rescued in Ooga Booga, Rosella was able to restore Edgar to life. He was joyfully reunited with his family again. However, he confessed to Rosella that he was the one to lure her away from Daventry, assuring her that he wasn't in his right mind at the time, and begged her forgiveness. She readily gave it, asking Edgar to show her the sights of Etheria, seeing as that was why she had come in the first place. He eagerly obliged, first showing her the capital and the royal palace—much of it by air. As she gazed out over the city from one of the palace balconies, she admired its beauty. Edgar again took the opportunity to confess that he had loved her from the moment he first laid eyes on her, and asked for the honor of courting her—having finally learned his lesson about proposing marriage too quickly. She agreed, and the overjoyed Edgar celebrated with their first kiss.
Etheria rejoiced. At least for the moment.
Personality: Truthfully, Edgar has spent so much of his life under the influence of magical brainwashing and being forced into personae not his own that he isn't entirely sure who he really is in terms of being "Edgar." It is nearly impossible for him to tell exactly where the magical mental enslavement ends and where his own memories and thoughts begin—something he secretly finds incredibly frustrating, since it makes his grasp of self tenuous at best. In many ways, he is still trying to figure out his own identity. This often makes him seem rather bland in personality at first glance, but he also possesses immense inner strength and a great deal of bravery when he chooses to call on them.
He believes what Genesta told him—that he has a “beautiful soul”—and he genuinely wants to do the right thing in life. Of course, being reared by an evil foster mother doesn't exactly set the most reliable reference point for a moral compass, but he honestly tries his best. He has a kind and gentle heart, and hates the idea of innocents being trapped, enslaved or harmed in any way. Thus, he will go out of his way to ensure their comfort, or--better yet—-their freedom if he can. He sympathizes with anyone or anything in such a situation, having spent so many years tricked and manipulated into similar circumstances.
Having been heavily sheltered for the vast majority of his life, Edgar is largely ignorant of the wider world, with nearly all of his knowledge coming secondhand from books or oral tradition. He is trusting of other people, often quite naїvely so, and is willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if he otherwise has no reason to be suspicious. Needless to say, this has led him into trouble more than once. If an information source is lacking on something he wants or needs to know, he likes to use his own intuition to try and puzzle it out for himself rather than asking for help.
For all his apparent gullibility and ease of manipulation, Edgar is far from stupid. He is cunning and crafty enough to develop and execute elaborate plans in secret without being found out—even if they don't always work out quite the way he expects. He also knows exactly what he wants when he sees it, and will do everything in his power to get it, even if it means resorting to less-than-honest tactics. Violence is not his preferred method of getting things done, as he almost never loses his temper, but he is willing to fight if necessary. For Edgar, the ends justify the means (although he will apologize for his actions afterward), and he would much rather beg forgiveness than ask permission. Nowhere has this been more evident than in his feelings for Princess Rosella of Daventry. Although he would never force or coerce her into it, wanting her to come to him willingly instead, he has shown dogged persistence in trying to win her hand in marriage. He is extremely protective of Rosella, and will not hesitate to interpose himself between her and a threat, even at the risk of his own life.
Admittedly, although he does his best to be polite and genteel, Edgar is not especially comfortable with social interactions, particularly with other males. After all, he'd had so few people in his upbringing to look up to or even talk to, and even fewer that he could consider actual friends--nearly all of them female. He is working on overcoming it, but he becomes embarrassed easily, and has been known to blush and look at his feet when he doesn't know what to say. He's spent so little time among his own people, let alone as part of a royal household, that he isn't really sure how a fairy prince, or, for that matter, the Etherian people in general, should properly act, and he doesn't expect people to treat him as royalty, even though he'll usually introduce himself with his full title. Having encountered them in both Tamir and Eldritch, though, he is aware that different worlds are home to different types of fae. He is also extremely inexperienced in terms of romantic relationships, having only ever kissed one girl in all his life, and nothing more. Although he has some general idea of how the mechanics are supposed to work, he honestly does not know what would be expected of him in a healthy relationship, let alone how to act in the bedroom.
Abilities: Known skills include getting kidnapped, being a hostage/pawn/minion of evil, stealth movements, impersonation, working the controls to the Vulcanix Underground, horseback riding (including flying horses), and piloting Etherian swan-shaped air-cruisers. At the very least, he seems to have an intuitive knack for mechanics. He also seems to have some persuasion, leadership, horticultural (at least, for growing roses and probably other flowers) and animal care skills, though they are inferred more than they are shown. He has no apparent weapon skills, aside from the use of magic. Although not confirmed one way or the other, he is also presumed to be literate, and, though he has a strong distaste for such practices, is probably well-versed in torture techniques learned under Lolotte.
As a Fairy Prince, Edgar possesses some innate magical powers (ones that evidently have the potential to be quite powerful, though the extent of how knowledgeable he is about the scope of his abilities and how well he can control them is unclear--it is presumed that he has had little, if any, formal education in using his powers), able to at least offensively cast balls of magical energy. He also has some sway over lesser magical creatures, for instance the dragonets native to Etheria and the flying horse of Lord Tsepish, the rightful ruler of Ooga Booga. Edgar is immortal by birth, and so can't die a natural death, but he can be killed through magical attacks or by weapons, particularly enchanted ones. As is common to Fairy-kind, it is likely that he has some vulnerability to iron as well, although this is never specified in canon.
It is probably worth mentioning one particular skill set that he doesn't have, which is most domestic skills. Despite being practically an indentured servant himself (and he is a very competent minion), Edgar has never learned how to take care of himself. He's never cooked his own meals, sewn or laundered clothing or had to do menial cleaning--he's always had a ready staff to take care of that for him while he was tasked with more important minion duties.
Inventory: The clothes on his back. Seriously, we never see him carrying anything that he doesn't immediately give away or wearing anything with obvious pockets or storage.
Prose Sample:
It was dark where he was. Underground, surely. That... was normal, wasn't it? Being in the dark and the gloom? Yes... that seemed right... He was King Otar Fenris III of the Vulcanix Underground. This was where he was supposed to be, in the dark, under the volcano.
No. No, I'm not. My name is--
His name. What was his name? It wasn't Otar. It was... It was... It was beyond his memory, lost somewhere in the fog of his mind. But Malicia said who he was. Taught him how a troll king is supposed to act. And wanting him to learn to control the volcano. But wasn't he supposed to already know how? How to handle the heat and the light and...
And that reminded him of something else. Sunshine. The beach of an island. Golden sun and golden sand and a girl with golden hair...
A girl. A girl he'd watched from a window high in the mountains. Her name... What was her name? It was like a flower... A flower as beautiful as she was...
Rosella.
His memories were vague, but this girl was important. She was special. She knew the truth. She was the sun that would burn away the fog in his mind. She could help him!
And she was beautiful. Very beautiful. And... he wanted to marry her. He knew that much. Hmm. Perhaps it was time for the Troll King to take a wife. Why not Rosella? Wasn't she a princess? That seemed right.
Now... where was she from? Not here. No, definitely not here. Not Eldritch. Tamir? No, no, no. That wasn't right either. She had told him once. Hadn't she? There had to be a way to find her.
He fought through the fog of his mind. There was a castle in the clouds... The seat of Etheria... Home. Wait, was that right? He wasn't sure. But it was pretty. Enough to attract his princess? Coax her into coming? And a song... Four notes. He whistled them. And again. And again. And soon, a small buzzing was in his ear. A little dragonet had come to him, down from Etheria. He murmured gently to the little winged beast, telling it of his princess and what it needed to do...
Find her. Bring her here.
Journal Sample:
[The mirror shows a very handsome young man, the rowan wreath settled on his brow--the style works for him, oddly enough, looking perfectly natural. The lad himself looks a little nervous, though.]
Ah, hello, people of Demeleier. I am Edgar, Prince of Etheria. I'm... not quite sure how I got here, but I appreciate your welcome.
[awkward pause]
I haven't seen much of your country just yet, but it seems a lovely place. In some ways, it reminds me a little of Etheria...
[sighs]
...my parents aren't going to be happy about me going missing again...
Player IJ
mirisa_ardruna (no personal DW account)Contact: Email: ardruna@gmail.com; AIM: Mirisa Erato; Plurk: Ardruna
Character Number: 1
Character: Prince Edgar of Etheria
Source: King's Quest
Appearance: Nobody's really sure what Edgar is supposed to look like according to his genetics. He's had his body transmogrified against his will a minimum of three times that we know of: into a misshapen hunchback with black hair and green skin (which might be his natural coloring, based upon his mother's appearance), a troll king, and a handsome young prince.
In his present form, courtesy of the fairy Genesta, Edgar is a very handsome young man--almost unnaturally so. Although his actual chronological age is a matter of some question, he appears to be roughly in his early 20s. He is tall and fairly broad-shouldered, but has a slender, leanly-muscled build. Edgar has thick hair of a light brown color that he generally wears long and loose. His ears are usually covered by said hair, but are tipped with delicate points. He has a clear, fair complexion and bears no physical scars whatsoever. His eyes are blue, but the exact shade seems to vary depending on the light. In bright sunlight, they're a clear blue, but indoors or in a shaded/indirectly lit area, they often seem to be much darker.
Selected PB is Daniel Brocklebank.
Timeline: Immediately post-King's Quest VII finale
History: King's Quest Wiki
Edgar's Official Wiki page
Edgar's Unofficial Wiki Page
Edgar's First Appearance
Edgar Frees Rosella
Lolotte's Death and Edgar's Discovery
Genesta Releases Edgar From Lolotte's Curse
Edgar's First Appearance as King Otar Fenris III
Edgar and Malicia discuss her plan, and he reveals his lost memory
Edgar's Happy Ending
Edgar was born the son of Lord Oberon and Lady Titania, heir to the fairy kingdom of Etheria in the realm of Eldritch. Shortly after his birth, the evil fairy Lolotte was to be banished from the realm of Etheria for her treachery and wicked deeds. In revenge for her banishment, as she was leaving, she kidnapped the infant prince, taking him with her into the mountains of the faraway land of Tamir. While there, she used her magic to twist his body into that of a misshapen green-skinned hunchback, and tried to twist his mind as well, telling him that she was his mother by a human man--a magician, to boot. However, some part of Edgar knew that he was not truly Lolotte's son.
Years passed. While Oberon and Titania searched vainly for their lost child, Lolotte grew ever more power-hungry, amassing a legion of bat-winged goons (who were often Edgar's only companions aside from his “mother”), and one day deciding to steal a talisman from the rightful ruler of Tamir, the good fairy Genesta. With it, she would steal the power behind Genesta's life force and take over the land by force. However, one day, Lolotte's goons brought before her a beautiful young woman named Rosella, seemingly a peasant girl. Lolotte accused the girl of being a spy, and ordered her imprisoned. Edgar, however, was smitten with Rosella at first sight, knowing she was “special” from the moment he laid eyes on her. In fairness, she was the first woman other than Lolotte that he had ever seen that close. Edgar believed Rosella's story and begged Lolotte to offer her a chance to prove her innocence. Lolotte agreed, and assigned the girl a series of tasks, each more dangerous than the last, promising to set her free and reward her if she succeeded.
Indeed, Rosella was able to complete each task: taming a unicorn, retrieving the hen that laid the golden eggs and Pandora's box, bringing each to Lolotte. For her reward, the wicked fairy announced that Rosella was to marry Edgar the very next morning! Rosella was stripped of her possessions and locked in Edgar's room for the night, while he was to sleep elsewhere. Late that night, however, he snuck up to the west tower and slipped a red rose beneath the door with a small golden key attached that would unlock the bedroom doors. Freed, Rosella retrieved her items, including Cupid's Bow, with which she shot Lolotte while she slept. The evil fairy had no love in her heart, and so the arrow poisoned and ultimately killed her. At dawn, Edgar discovered Lolotte's death, and, bowing to Rosella, declared that she was free. In a sense, he felt free himself from Lolotte's spells, but he was too shy to say anything else to Rosella at the time.
After Rosella returned the stolen talisman to Genesta, Edgar unexpectedly found himself summoned to the beach of the good fairy's island. He was equally startled to see Rosella no longer dressed as a peasant, but as a princess. Genesta declared that Edgar had a beautiful soul and did not deserve to be in the body Lolotte had given him. With her magic, she gave Edgar a form to match his soul: that of a handsome young prince. No longer feeling unworthy of her beauty, Edgar summoned up all his courage and impulsively confessed his love for Princess Rosella, asking for her hand in marriage then and there. After a few agonizing moments of consideration, Rosella apologized but said she had to return home to save her dying father, and thus could not marry him. However, she suggested they might meet again one day. Edgar was sorely disappointed, but clung to the hope that he might, in fact, be reunited with his beloved in the future.
Edgar returned to the cheerless castle in the mountains, having known no other home. Although he offered to release Lolotte's goons from their servitude in the wake of her death, many chose to stay on to serve their new young master, who was otherwise living alone. Of course, rumor began to spread beyond Tamir of the strange young fairy prince residing in the mountain castle, and eventually word reached Etheria. Intrigued and ever-hopeful, Oberon and Titania came to Tamir to see the young man for themselves and were ecstatic to discover he was, in fact, their long-lost child. Returning to Etheria, they threw a lavish ball in Edgar's honor, but the night of the party, Edgar once more vanished from the gardens. Oberon and Titania were crushed, and immediately began searching for him yet again, following allegations that he had been taken away by an evil wind. This time, his mother's sister, the evil Malicia (who had also been cast out of Etheria), was behind his disappearance.
Wanting revenge for her exile, Malicia decided that she wished to set off the volcano that comprised the Vulcanix Underground and cover all of Eldritch in slag while blasting Etheria right out of the skies. Unfortunately, she knew there was no way the trolls would allow her do so, and so she needed to get rid of their leader—and decided that Edgar would be the perfect person to help her.
Under the wicked fairy's power, Edgar was again transformed, this time into the form of the troll King Otar Fenris III, and Malicia erased his memories, brainwashing him into believing he was the leader of the Vulcanix Underground as well, while the real King Otar was imprisoned in the Land of Ooga Booga, and secretly supplanted by the unwitting Edgar. Yet, even in the fog of his mind, nearly all of his memories lost, he still longed for Rosella to be his bride, and came up with a plan to make it happen.
He sent a dragonet (which resembled a tiny flying seahorse) from Etheria into Daventry and showed the image of the Etherian castle in the reflection of the water to enchant and entice her—and it worked. Rosella followed the creature by jumping into the water from which it had emerged, and plunged into an interworldly vortex (followed immediately by her mother Queen Valanice) from which he snatched her from her mother's reaching hand and into the Vulcanix Underground. Unfortunately, this had the unexpected effect of transforming Rosella into a troll as well. Needless to say, this did not make her any happier with the prospect of becoming his wife, despite his attempts to reassure her.
Luckily, the real King Otar's nursemaid Matilda knew how to turn Rosella back into a human girl, and, with ingredients Rosella was able to recover, made a potion that did just that. Edgar-as-Otar was thrilled, and Rosella equally relieved. Malicia, however, was not at all happy with Rosella “distracting” her puppet-king, and tried to lock Rosella in her room. The princess was able to escape through a ventilation duct, but not before overhearing Malicia berating Edgar-as-Otar for his “obsession” with Rosella and demanding to know if he'd learned to work the controls to the volcano. He admitted he had, but also expressed concern for Eldritch and the various kingdoms within it. Malicia dismissed his concerns, and indicated it would be the only way to get rid of the “blight of Etheria.” Once Malicia left, Edgar-as-Otar lamented that he didn't know what was right anymore and wished he had his memory back so he could figure it out.
Rosella was able to escape to Ooga Booga and rescue the real King Otar from the Boogeyman's lair, much to Malicia's annoyance. At the king's urging, she also broke into Malicia's house, stealing a mysterious device needing to be plugged into the Vulcanix Underground—one that the fairy had stolen from Otar in the first place. They found a secret entrance into the Underground through the palace of the Archduke of Falderal, but when they arrived in the control room, they found it already occupied by Edgar-as-Otar who was igniting the volcano on Malicia's orders. The real King Otar declared him an imposter, and the two began to fight and wrestle. Using a wand she had acquired in her journeys through Eldritch, Rosella turned the imposter King back into his true form as Prince Edgar, much to her shock, as well as that of King Otar.
Edgar, finally back to his old self, however, was disoriented, not knowing where he was, nor the why nor how he had gotten there, let alone what was going on. Just then, Malicia appeared, and zapped King Otar into unconsciousness, Rosella into the volcano itself, and spirited Edgar right out of the Underground. While Rosella escaped from the volcano and worked to revive Otar and stop the eruption, Edgar quickly found and mounted Necromancer, the flying black steed of Count Tsepish of Ooga Booga, and went to Etheria to seek help. On horseback, his cloak drawn up to hide his face, he picked up Rosella's mother, Valanice, from where she was stranded in Etheria, took her to the Land of Ooga Booga, reopened the collapsed entrance to the Vulcanix Underground, and guided Valanice to reunite with Rosella at last.
They arrived just as Rosella and King Otar were able to stop the eruption in its tracks. Rosella tried to explain how she had gotten there, and was just starting to try and explain Edgar's role in the entire mess when Malicia arrived, furious that Rosella had thwarted her plan. Edgar leapt in front of Rosella to protect her, declaring that the wicked Malicia was not to touch his beloved princess. Malicia threatened to enslave his mind once more, but Edgar resisted, insisting he would never allow such a thing again. Malicia turned as if to leave, but Edgar, suspecting it was a ruse, fired a ball of magical energy at her. It hit, and caused her own magical attack to miss Edgar and, after ricocheting about the room, strike her as well. Thinking the twin shots had incapacitated her, Edgar turned his back on Malicia to see if Rosella was all right... and was promptly zapped in the back by a deadly lightning attack from the wicked fairy. He collapsed to the ground, barely clinging to life. Rosella cried out his name, and, before Malicia could attack her next, pulled the freshly-charged mysterious device from its socket and used it on Malicia first.
Malicia was defeated, turned into a baby by the mysterious device, as was her dog. Using the extra life she had gained from a cat she had rescued in Ooga Booga, Rosella was able to restore Edgar to life. He was joyfully reunited with his family again. However, he confessed to Rosella that he was the one to lure her away from Daventry, assuring her that he wasn't in his right mind at the time, and begged her forgiveness. She readily gave it, asking Edgar to show her the sights of Etheria, seeing as that was why she had come in the first place. He eagerly obliged, first showing her the capital and the royal palace—much of it by air. As she gazed out over the city from one of the palace balconies, she admired its beauty. Edgar again took the opportunity to confess that he had loved her from the moment he first laid eyes on her, and asked for the honor of courting her—having finally learned his lesson about proposing marriage too quickly. She agreed, and the overjoyed Edgar celebrated with their first kiss.
Etheria rejoiced. At least for the moment.
Personality: Truthfully, Edgar has spent so much of his life under the influence of magical brainwashing and being forced into personae not his own that he isn't entirely sure who he really is in terms of being "Edgar." It is nearly impossible for him to tell exactly where the magical mental enslavement ends and where his own memories and thoughts begin—something he secretly finds incredibly frustrating, since it makes his grasp of self tenuous at best. In many ways, he is still trying to figure out his own identity. This often makes him seem rather bland in personality at first glance, but he also possesses immense inner strength and a great deal of bravery when he chooses to call on them.
He believes what Genesta told him—that he has a “beautiful soul”—and he genuinely wants to do the right thing in life. Of course, being reared by an evil foster mother doesn't exactly set the most reliable reference point for a moral compass, but he honestly tries his best. He has a kind and gentle heart, and hates the idea of innocents being trapped, enslaved or harmed in any way. Thus, he will go out of his way to ensure their comfort, or--better yet—-their freedom if he can. He sympathizes with anyone or anything in such a situation, having spent so many years tricked and manipulated into similar circumstances.
Having been heavily sheltered for the vast majority of his life, Edgar is largely ignorant of the wider world, with nearly all of his knowledge coming secondhand from books or oral tradition. He is trusting of other people, often quite naїvely so, and is willing to give them the benefit of the doubt if he otherwise has no reason to be suspicious. Needless to say, this has led him into trouble more than once. If an information source is lacking on something he wants or needs to know, he likes to use his own intuition to try and puzzle it out for himself rather than asking for help.
For all his apparent gullibility and ease of manipulation, Edgar is far from stupid. He is cunning and crafty enough to develop and execute elaborate plans in secret without being found out—even if they don't always work out quite the way he expects. He also knows exactly what he wants when he sees it, and will do everything in his power to get it, even if it means resorting to less-than-honest tactics. Violence is not his preferred method of getting things done, as he almost never loses his temper, but he is willing to fight if necessary. For Edgar, the ends justify the means (although he will apologize for his actions afterward), and he would much rather beg forgiveness than ask permission. Nowhere has this been more evident than in his feelings for Princess Rosella of Daventry. Although he would never force or coerce her into it, wanting her to come to him willingly instead, he has shown dogged persistence in trying to win her hand in marriage. He is extremely protective of Rosella, and will not hesitate to interpose himself between her and a threat, even at the risk of his own life.
Admittedly, although he does his best to be polite and genteel, Edgar is not especially comfortable with social interactions, particularly with other males. After all, he'd had so few people in his upbringing to look up to or even talk to, and even fewer that he could consider actual friends--nearly all of them female. He is working on overcoming it, but he becomes embarrassed easily, and has been known to blush and look at his feet when he doesn't know what to say. He's spent so little time among his own people, let alone as part of a royal household, that he isn't really sure how a fairy prince, or, for that matter, the Etherian people in general, should properly act, and he doesn't expect people to treat him as royalty, even though he'll usually introduce himself with his full title. Having encountered them in both Tamir and Eldritch, though, he is aware that different worlds are home to different types of fae. He is also extremely inexperienced in terms of romantic relationships, having only ever kissed one girl in all his life, and nothing more. Although he has some general idea of how the mechanics are supposed to work, he honestly does not know what would be expected of him in a healthy relationship, let alone how to act in the bedroom.
Abilities: Known skills include getting kidnapped, being a hostage/pawn/minion of evil, stealth movements, impersonation, working the controls to the Vulcanix Underground, horseback riding (including flying horses), and piloting Etherian swan-shaped air-cruisers. At the very least, he seems to have an intuitive knack for mechanics. He also seems to have some persuasion, leadership, horticultural (at least, for growing roses and probably other flowers) and animal care skills, though they are inferred more than they are shown. He has no apparent weapon skills, aside from the use of magic. Although not confirmed one way or the other, he is also presumed to be literate, and, though he has a strong distaste for such practices, is probably well-versed in torture techniques learned under Lolotte.
As a Fairy Prince, Edgar possesses some innate magical powers (ones that evidently have the potential to be quite powerful, though the extent of how knowledgeable he is about the scope of his abilities and how well he can control them is unclear--it is presumed that he has had little, if any, formal education in using his powers), able to at least offensively cast balls of magical energy. He also has some sway over lesser magical creatures, for instance the dragonets native to Etheria and the flying horse of Lord Tsepish, the rightful ruler of Ooga Booga. Edgar is immortal by birth, and so can't die a natural death, but he can be killed through magical attacks or by weapons, particularly enchanted ones. As is common to Fairy-kind, it is likely that he has some vulnerability to iron as well, although this is never specified in canon.
It is probably worth mentioning one particular skill set that he doesn't have, which is most domestic skills. Despite being practically an indentured servant himself (and he is a very competent minion), Edgar has never learned how to take care of himself. He's never cooked his own meals, sewn or laundered clothing or had to do menial cleaning--he's always had a ready staff to take care of that for him while he was tasked with more important minion duties.
Inventory: The clothes on his back. Seriously, we never see him carrying anything that he doesn't immediately give away or wearing anything with obvious pockets or storage.
Prose Sample:
It was dark where he was. Underground, surely. That... was normal, wasn't it? Being in the dark and the gloom? Yes... that seemed right... He was King Otar Fenris III of the Vulcanix Underground. This was where he was supposed to be, in the dark, under the volcano.
No. No, I'm not. My name is--
His name. What was his name? It wasn't Otar. It was... It was... It was beyond his memory, lost somewhere in the fog of his mind. But Malicia said who he was. Taught him how a troll king is supposed to act. And wanting him to learn to control the volcano. But wasn't he supposed to already know how? How to handle the heat and the light and...
And that reminded him of something else. Sunshine. The beach of an island. Golden sun and golden sand and a girl with golden hair...
A girl. A girl he'd watched from a window high in the mountains. Her name... What was her name? It was like a flower... A flower as beautiful as she was...
Rosella.
His memories were vague, but this girl was important. She was special. She knew the truth. She was the sun that would burn away the fog in his mind. She could help him!
And she was beautiful. Very beautiful. And... he wanted to marry her. He knew that much. Hmm. Perhaps it was time for the Troll King to take a wife. Why not Rosella? Wasn't she a princess? That seemed right.
Now... where was she from? Not here. No, definitely not here. Not Eldritch. Tamir? No, no, no. That wasn't right either. She had told him once. Hadn't she? There had to be a way to find her.
He fought through the fog of his mind. There was a castle in the clouds... The seat of Etheria... Home. Wait, was that right? He wasn't sure. But it was pretty. Enough to attract his princess? Coax her into coming? And a song... Four notes. He whistled them. And again. And again. And soon, a small buzzing was in his ear. A little dragonet had come to him, down from Etheria. He murmured gently to the little winged beast, telling it of his princess and what it needed to do...
Find her. Bring her here.
Journal Sample:
[The mirror shows a very handsome young man, the rowan wreath settled on his brow--the style works for him, oddly enough, looking perfectly natural. The lad himself looks a little nervous, though.]
Ah, hello, people of Demeleier. I am Edgar, Prince of Etheria. I'm... not quite sure how I got here, but I appreciate your welcome.
[awkward pause]
I haven't seen much of your country just yet, but it seems a lovely place. In some ways, it reminds me a little of Etheria...
[sighs]
...my parents aren't going to be happy about me going missing again...