Prince Maralathus

Perhaps 40 centuries before Spellmonger, Maralathus was an Alkan Prince of the Second House of the Imlaradi kindred on Callidore some 3,000 years after the Alon escaped Alonaral.

## Personality and Characteristics

Maralathus was a skilled duelist, warrior, and poet. He was friendly, but prone to artistic introspection. This is not to say that he didn't take his duties as prince and heir seriously. He was very aware of the Alon place in the universe.

> "It was a tragic pattern with his people, he realized, leaping from one doomed world to another, trying to outwit the universe. One day, when he was long dead and his hopes and his worries would no longer matter, his descendants would use molopors to escape and sing their own sagas about once-great, twice glorious, unimaginably beautiful Callidore and its tragic history." - Maralathus
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## Relationships

Maralathus is son and heir to High King Amasarel of the First City of Tyranalon.

The Prince is cousin to Parasemus, who is the "grandson of a Spiritsinger." (Given that the only Spiritsinger to come to Callidore from Alonaral was Mel Thenreyal, it is she who is Parasemus' ancestor.)

Maralathus is friend of the Vamari grove of the Met Sakinsa.

Minalan encountered the life experience and memories of Maralathus during his interrogation by Szal the Yith. As such, the Prince is now one of nine personalities incorporated into Minalan's psyche. Minalan's other hosts include Tuaa Folauga, Saram, Michael Anthony Palgrave, Lieutenant Colonel Martin Fitzgerald Andrews, Mel Thenreyal, Raer Rinthon, Umank, and Aza'methet.

## Summary

Maralathus was an Alkan Prince of the Imlaradi kindred three generations (about 3,000 years) after the Alon arrival on Callidore. He was an accomplished spear dualist, poet, and master of using irionite. He learned from the Met Sakinsa of the Vamari grove about the theft of the Celestial Mother egg by the Beldurrazeko, a servant of the Formless in the distant past. Maralathus wrote the great Alon epics "Saga of the Moonriders" and "The Theft of the Queen." It is his memory of a conversation with Parasemus, a grandson of Mel Thenreyal, that Callidore will move beyond the Ralaan, the obscuring nebula protecting Callidore's magic from the Withering Light. Maralathus' memory also reveals the Celestial Mothers of the past had moved Callidore to pull the sun back behind the cloud to safety.

### Footwizard

Maralathus and his cousin Parasemus discuss the problems in the West (probably referring to what would later be called the Alon Wars). Parasemus tried to negotiate some reduction in hostilities for two years, alas to no avail. The Draolani instigated the unrest in a vain attempt to recapture their deposed command of Alon on Callidore. The factions were using lower Alon as proxies in the fights, as well as the devastating powers from Alonaral. They also have begun using dragons. These, and other acts, risk bringing the wrath of the Vundel onto the Alon.

> "And worse," Parasemus said, grimly. "The Draolani have seized Castabriel from its rightful rulers," he reported. "They demand that they be recognized as the High Kings of the realm, over King Amistil." - Parasemus to Maralathus
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## References

1. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Footwizard: Book 13 Of The Spellmonger Series. Ch 41
2. ↑ Mancour, Terry. Footwizard: Book 13 Of The Spellmonger Series. Ch 41