The Raven Prince

Fanart of the Raven Prince by Suis0u https://suis0u.tumblr.com/post/187284321553/this-guy-was-far-more-difficult-as-i-thought-and-i

## General details

### Aliases

* King of the Unseelie
* The Once-King
* Wordstealer
* The Word Smith
* Master Mage
* My Prince
* My raven (Ondine)

### Relatives

Unnamed family members, including at least six brothers (deceased) and six uncles (deceased)

### Roles or Vocation

* King of the Unseelie Court (former)
* Master Mage; Principal of the School of the Staff (former)

## Physical description

### Hair color

Black

"*He could see the eternity of loneliness that was coming, he could see the paucity of ways he would place plasters over it, and he could see the final day where he simply became too tired, and willed a broken-hearted death for himself, only to know even that wouldn’t be a relief.*"
―The Raven Prince[[The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas, Chapter 18: Long Past Due]]**The Raven Prince** is a Master Mage and Unseelie raven shifter who rules over the Unseelie Court as King during a so-called golden age for the fae realm, and is considered one of the wiser and more powerful Kings to grace that throne. He is deposed by Augus Each Uisge when Augus mostly kills the Raven Prince via the Raven Prince's elaborate suicide plan. The Raven Prince returns to the Mantissa years later, to first attack Augus in revenge, and then to help Gwyn ap Nudd, Augus, Ash Glashtyn, and Mosk Manytrees on their journey to defeat Olphix. He becomes Mosk's teacher.

## Appearance

Heartsong

* None

Previously:

* Acceptance (which he had until it was broken by Augus deposing him)
* Mystery (his first heartsong, which was taken from him by Olphix and Davix)

#### Status

* Underfae

Previously:

* King

The Raven Prince never appears in hybrid-form, and always appears in either human-form or his true-form: that of a large, glossy raven with feathers that are unusually refractive. In human-form, the 'Raven Prince was tall and thin, his face composed of angles, his eyes a little too wild and wide to ever cause him to be mistaken for a human. His uneven hanks of black hair grew feathers intermittently, shining and glossy. His lips were thin, his lashes thick, and his skin very pale. He was always dressed in fine, fashionable clothing, leading trends with his mixes of the kempt and unkempt. He frequently wore silver and crystal charms about his neck, and despite only looking as though he was in his late twenties, physically, he radiated an ancient playful wisdom that reflected his true age.'

He has spiked hair with raven feathers growing from it, black eyes, an aquiline nose, a pointed chin, and a square jaw. He has black claws in the place of fingernails. He has 'birthmarks on the right-hand side of his ribs', and 'tiny overlapping feathers at the back of his neck . . . hidden by his scruffy black hair' as well as below his navel and down toward his pelvis.

The Raven Prince tends to wear formal, all black clothing along with a floor-length cloak of raven feathers. He is always wearing a number of charms on a silver chain around his neck. When he appeared in his Mage's motley on the Mantissa, he was 'covered in silvery chains, at least forty of them, many hung with clear or smoky quartzes. He wore a cloak, a Mage’s motley, long-sleeved, ground-sweeping, made perfectly of diamonds stitched together; silver, violet and a shimmery black-blue.'

When he was King of the Unseelie Court, 'he wore his silver crown, and around his neck he wore a frail, silver necklace with a charm of bone and crystal at the base.'

## Personality

The Raven Prince is mercurial, at times fickle or whimsical, incredibly intelligent, curious, strategic, and cares deeply about the Unseelie Court and the Unseelie. To many fae, he is beloved, especially to fae who have never met him, because he comes across as a strong but still quintessentially Unseelie ruler, who did not like to use war to win his battles. To many other fae, he is beloved for his love of language, his enjoyment of learning, and his playfulness. To other fae, he is a cruel villain, especially when he is stealing languages or manipulating situations to get what he wants. While some believe he's omnipotent, he is not, though he enjoys people thinking of him that way. He is 'famous for finding sense in intense disarray.'

He is 'known for his generosity'. He also 'cared a great deal for family,' So he doesn't mind listening to others talking about theirs.

The Raven Prince tends to shield his softest emotions, such as his deep and unrequited love for Augus, or his respect for Gwyn as a King. The Raven Prince has described himself as cowardly, and as 'just a raven.' He enjoys teaching, despite complaining that he doesn't want to be a teacher, and can be immature and petulant.

The Raven Prince demands respect from others, but doesn't often grant it to others, and can be incredibly patronizing and cruel (e.g., when he is particularly patronizing to Ash, wondering to Ash's face why Augus didn't kill such an ugly fae). He is easily insulted and slighted, and is known for stealing or oppressing people's language and ability to speak simply for disagreeing with him, though there are exceptions: fae like Fluri the Mouse-Maiden can disagree with him easily and he has never in the canon taken her language or threatened her for it. The Raven Prince is experimental when it comes to magic, and likes exploring new things - like Mosk's magic - as chance provides.

The Raven Prince is introverted and something of a loner, preferring his own company, though when he prefers company, he 'prefers the company of the solitary and the reclusive . . . Those who are wry, bitter or even vengeful. Fae who have a core of something bright and hard inside of them, like a diamond.' When the Raven Prince is still King of the Unseelie Court, and 'wasn’t running his Kingdom, he indulged pursuits of the mind, and occasionally, pursuits of the body, provided they came in the form of fencing or horse-riding.' He and Augus would sometimes spend afternoons together where Augus would read a book to him.

The Raven Prince has fairly significant body dysmorphia when in his true-form, and vastly prefers his raven shape, to the point of finding himself ugly otherwise. He is also quite touch-averse and hates touching the ground or other dirty things. Part of this might be because he's a bird shifter, and bird shifters have issues walking on the ground, at least for long periods. If the Raven Prince finds conversations difficult or challenging, he has been known to simply fly away. Perhaps due to his previous heartsong of acceptance, he can be quite passive in the face of his own tragic emotional state. While hiding it well, he has a capacity for regret and remorse, and expresses both when it comes to how he treated Augus, and the death of King Oengus Og.

Near the end of his reign over the Unseelie Court, he is suicidal, at least in part due to the Winnowing, and says of his state when Augus enacted his plan: 'I no longer wanted to live, my every thought was bent towards dying or destruction. It happens. I’d reached that age.' Presently, he has some lust for life, even leaving open the option of training Gwyn and Mosk in magic in the future.

Gwyn notes that the Raven Prince isn't a martial king, and 'made it plain in his recruitments that he had no interest in communicating through war. That didn’t mean he couldn’t, just that he never wanted much to do with it.’ Gwyn noted that the Raven Prince found combat 'crude', and 'preferred *talking*'.

After Davix and Olphix are dead, and the Raven Prince is reunited with Mosk, confirming him as an apprentice, the Raven Prince notes he still needs time to himself.

## Life

#### Pre-*Game Theory*

The Raven Prince is the seventh son of a seventh son. As a child, after his magic starts to reveal itself and he chooses the moniker of the Raven Prince and eats his birth name from anyone who knows it, he is kidnapped by Olphix and Davix. He is tortured for nine months, three days, and twenty-one hours. His heartsong is stolen three times. The Mages only release him when he swears to become King and to 'wait for them to come and call in their very specific debt, at a time of their choosing', which the Raven Prince later realizes would be the theft of the magic of the Unseelie Court. The Raven Prince's heartsong is used 'to make the fixed classes . . . To render Kings nigh immortal, make them such arbiters of class and divide the world between underfae and all the rest. And then, to fix alignments in place, so that all fae must be born Seelie, or Unseelie, and no fae may ever change.'

The Raven Prince enters the School of the Staff and trains under Olphix, Davix, and Taronis. He later enters the Unseelie Court as an underfae and feels the Zahakhar, which he views as a curse. The Raven Prince then starts crafting plans to avoid ever paying out the debt to Olphix and Davix, even if it results in his own death. He becomes King of the Unseelie Court, and his reign is considered part of a golden age for the fae realm: his reign is mostly peaceful, there is greater inter-alignment cooperation, he sometimes runs the Wild Hunts, and his Unseelie Court is beautiful. His reign lasts thousands of years.

He becomes aware of Augus, and invites Augus to become a member of his Court, as the Raven Prince collects pretty things. Augus declines, and is later taken by the Nightingale. The Raven Prince later admits to Augus that he knew that Augus was a prisoner, could have rescued him, and chose not to.

The Raven Prince invites Augus to his Court again after Augus is released, and Augus accepts and becomes an advisor and Diplomat. Augus begins a campaign of seducing the Raven Prince, which takes years, and becomes one of his closest confidantes, all with the goal of taking revenge. The Raven Prince prepares him for Kingship - and Gulvi Dubna Vajat for Queenship - but is meanwhile aware by and large of Augus' goals, wondering just how Augus might take care of part of the Raven Prince's plans for him. The Raven Prince also begins to experience the Winnowing, a time when very old fae feel ready to die, and wants to experience death himself, which makes his plans with Augus suicide by proxy.

Augus sometimes runs the Wild Hunts on the Raven Prince's behalf, and sometimes with the Raven Prince at his side. The Raven Prince allows Augus and Gwyn to helm the Wild Hunt together 'to get closer to the Oak King's child of light.'

When the Nightingale, Olphix and Davix's protege, arrives at the Unseelie Court, he is a reminder of the ticking clock on the Mages' plans.

When Augus finally strikes, the Raven Prince plays along, but promotes Augus to Kingship of his own volition, and refuses to put up a fight. Augus uses a memoryeater he'd stolen from the underworlds, which sucks away the Raven Prince's mind. Afterward, the Raven Prince turns into a largely mindless raven, and flies away. Augus uses a locating charm on the raven that the Raven Prince made, and feeds him every now and then. Augus doesn't willingly tell anyone the truth of the event until Gwyn forces the knowledge out of him during *The Court of Five Thrones*. The rest of the fae realm believes that the Raven Prince simply disappeared, or was defeated and killed by Augus.

For thousands of years, the Raven Prince stored his memories and experiences in a fith-fath, or effigy, so that someone in the future might at least find all his knowledge and translate it. This turned into a faeth fiadha, which shrouds him in part from the Nightingale. At the time of his true self's seeming 'death', his true self travels to the faeth fiadha to recover his memories.

#### *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas*

The Raven Prince appears in human-form once more on the Mantissa, when he attacks and nearly succeeds in killing Augus. Gwyn ties him up, takes away his staff, and demotes him to underfae. The Raven Prince is confused, and missing some memories, and agonizes that Olphix still lives. The Raven Prince is struck by how Gwyn - an untrained Mage and Unseelie born to a Seelie family - should have been the Raven Prince's from birth, as it is the law that fae born of the opposite alignment be given to the appropriate Court as foundlings. Gwyn, still furious on Augus' behalf, and what he viewed as the Raven Prince's cowardice, disdains him.

While Ash stands guard over the Raven Prince, Mosk and Eran visit him, and the Raven Prince uses his abilities to force the three fae to tell him much of what he'd missed as a raven. Gwyn and Ondine negotiate that the Raven Prince is to be given his freedom aboard the ship, but if he attacks any of them, Gwyn will kill him. The Raven Prince takes to staying in raven form on the tallest crow's nest, and only comes down occasionally to visit the healers or eat.

Mosk begins climbing up to visit him, which interests the Raven Prince. Mosk promises to speak to him about Olphix, if the Raven Prince didn't use his dra'ocht on the Aur dryad. The pair strike up a friendship.

After Mosk unknowingly dreamwalks to visit Davix for a time, the Raven Prince finally confronts him. The Raven Prince looks Mosk over to discover that Mosk made a connection with Davix when Mosk murdered him. The Raven Prince then uses Gwyn as a proxy to travel with Mosk into the icy dreamworld and visit Davix, briefly. In the dreamworld, the Raven Prince appears as 'a large white stag' that walks at Mosk's side, and Davix recognizes him but can't place who he is. The Raven Prince can tell that Davix is 'severely debilitated', and advises Mosk to train with Davix.

The Raven Prince encourages Mosk during their training sessions/meetings, particularly when Mosk doubts that he can still grow things. The Raven Prince requests that Mosk grow golden mistletoe: 'a kind of mistletoe that could only be discovered by those with a rare heart'. Although Mosk can't understand why the other Aur dryads struggled to find it, the Raven Prince clearly understands the 'issue'.

The Raven Prince also begins training Mosk in the mastery of his magic. He also discusses the strangeness of Gwyn's atrophied magic, and the pair communicate their mutual disdain towards each other.

When Ash goes berserk with bloodlust and nearly kills another fae on the ship, the Raven Prince steps in and removes the bloodlust, restoring Ash to sanity. The Raven Prince berates Ash for his cowardice in handling his own inner waterhorse. The Raven Prince later seeks out Gwyn on the main deck, in the rain, insisting that Gwyn owes the Raven Prince Gwyn's story. After much coaxing, Gwyn explains why his magic is so atrophied: he suppressed it since childhood, out of fear. Gwyn also speaks of the Coalition of the Classless, and the Raven Prince waxes nostalgically about what-ifs of Gwyn being surrendered to the Unseelie Court as a child so that the Raven Prince could train him properly, which only annoys Gwyn.

After sleeping with Stertes, Mosk takes shelter in the crow's nest, not knowing what else to do, and the Raven Prince encourages him to grow every kind of night-scented orchid. The Raven Prince is incredibly impressed, and then shares the story of his past, and how Davix and Olphix tortured him, too. He explains that he is on the run because he can still be asked to fulfill his debt to the twins, because he still knows how to enter the Unseelie Court and get its magic. He demands that Mosk destroy them. The Raven Prince then seeks out Gwyn and Augus with Mosk, to tell them much the same tale, and officially learns that Ash has a life debt with Olphix.

The Raven Prince and Augus meet alone one last time on the afterdeck, where Augus, unable to forgive the Raven Prince's cruelty towards himself, says that he never wants to see the Raven Prince again, and the Raven Prince experiences true heartbreak. He knows Mosk is watching, and confronts Mosk after speaking with Augus. Mosk fights back, and manages to pull the Raven Prince's memories of the conversation with Augus. The Raven Prince says that in another lifetime, he would have killed Mosk, but otherwise swears Mosk to secrecy, and leaves.

When Mosk next visits the Raven Prince, the Raven Prince demands Mosk grow him some pale violet wisteria as streamers on the crow's nest. At their next meeting, when Mosk asks about the hickory tree Mosk had accidentally grows underwater, Mosk creates an entirely new plant in response to the Raven Prince's demand that Mosk grow something the Raven Prince hasn't seen: it has cream, purple, and grey flowers, 'the leaves curled like shining white shells', and it didn't have a scent, since he hadn't thought to add one. The creation *greatly* scares and amazes the Raven Prince.

After a terrifying encounter with Davix, Mosk again consults with the Raven Prince, where the Raven Prince berates Mosk for potentially bringing Davix back into the world. When Mosk asks if the Raven Prince can use his magic to unmake Mosk, to make him stronger, the Raven Prince removes the memory of the idea from Mosk's mind, in an attempt to stop such dangerous thinking. Mosk quickly realizes that something happened, and takes his memory *back*.

To void Ash's life debt to Olphix, which might endanger Gwyn's group, and the world if it causes them to fail in their mission, the Raven Prince gathers a group of *adar llwch gwin* and attacks Ash, nearly killing him. The Raven Prince then demands that Ash beg for his life. When Ash complies, the Raven Prince uses Mosk's magic to heal Ash, simultaneously teaching Mosk what it's like to have someone else use your magic, and that Mosk can heal. When Mosk flinches away in terror from the Raven Prince afterward, the Raven Prince is shocked, and says, 'Oh, I…' with regret. The Raven Prince then uses Ash's life debt to never obey Olphix or any mage connected to him, nixing the life debt to Olphix and Davix.

The Raven Prince speaks with Mosk one last time, and Mosk asks to be his apprentice. The Raven Prince comforts Mosk and says that he isn't like Olphix and Davix, and that the Raven Prince will miss Mosk. The Raven Prince also gifts him a necklace that will help Mosk train his magic.

When the Raven Prince finally leaves the Mantissa, he grants gifts to Bhatha, Ondine, Julvia Dubna Vajat, Gwyn, Augus, and Eran. Some of the gifts are meant to help with the mission of beating the ice plague and stopping Olphix and Davix, although it is unclear what Bhatha's, Julvia's, or Ondine's gifts are for. He grants Gwyn a book to help him train as well, with the offer of some sort of apprenticeship in the future, should they both survive the ice plague and Olphix be defeated. When Gwyn informs Ash that Augus has collapsed again, Ash points out that 'It reminds me of how he was after the Nightingale', which the Raven Prince overhears, and seems shocked by.

The Raven Prince tells Eran that the dragons yet live, and to watch over Mosk, to help keep him from becoming villainous. He then bows to Ondine and Gwyn, smiles at Eran and Bhatha, and flies off.

#### *The Ice Plague: Book 3 - The Ice Plague*

Mosk experiments with the Raven Prince's charm, and finally manages to unlock it for the first time by directing a fine thread of magic to it. An apparition of the Raven Prince appears, revealing he'd been working on the charm on the Mantissa even while Mosk was standing next to him at the time.

When Mosk presses his magic into small filaments to activate the charm, the Raven Prince visits him a second time in shade form, ordering Mosk to use someone else's magic. Mosk then takes a bit of magic residue from the area - left over from other fae - and uses that on the charm. The Raven Prince appears again, teaching him about taking advantage of magical residue and magical sight.

Some time later in Cleat, when Mosk figures out how to see lifeforce and detect different kinds of magic, and then takes some of a plant's magic for himself, the Raven Prince's phantom emerged from the pendant again. He tells Mosk to take the magic he could *'from the big lakes and the big rivers, take it from the air and clouds, but leave the plants and animals alone now, they don’t have enough of it. Make sure you practice using it. Give more than you take. It should be easy for a dryad, even a dryad like you.’* Then he instructs Mosk to practice blending his magic with someone else's, including possibly Eran or Gwyn, but three people in total, and that he would reappear when Mosk did it the third time.

After Mosk blends his magic with Eran, then Julvia, and then Gwyn, the Raven Prince appears out of Mosk's pendant for the last time, saying he has nothing left to teach Mosk this way. He also notes, *‘Mosk Manytrees, it is a Season of Turning. It is time for the world to change. And you, my weedy world-changer, are at the centre of it. Don’t turn yourself into someone I have to destroy. What a waste of my time. But, ah, you grow the most beautiful versions of plants. Give yourself that gift, Mosk. Farewell, my friend.’*

When Mosk thinks of the Raven Prince during the battle with Olphix, 'he thought of the Raven Prince hiding out there in the world, waiting for Mosk to be successful so he could step back into the public eye. Maybe he could be King again, and Gwyn could finally get his wish of stepping down from the throne.'

In the sixth year after the battle with Olphix, the Raven Prince visits Eran in the new Aur forest, asking if Mosk returned. When Eran says no, and the Raven Prince says he'd 'come back in a decade or so', Eran begs him not to leave, asking how he knew Mosk would return. The Raven Prince encourages Eran to look for a river, and says that Mosk was still in the landscape, but at risk of not returning the longer he stayed away. The Raven Prince notes, ‘I want to claim an apprentice, and I was hoping for a good one before I laid eyes upon that cow of a King.'

After Mosk returns, the Raven Prince comes to visit, and seems pleased to see Mosk again. Mosk takes the Raven Prince on a tour of the treehouse, where Mosk says he'd be an apprentice, and would train at the treehouse. When Mosk jokes about destroying the School of the Staff, the Raven Prince and Eran carefully attempt to dissuade him from that course of action, at least for the present.

At some point the Raven Prince visits Gwyn, says he didn't want Gwyn as an apprentice yet, but will still seemingly work out some system of apprenticeship. Gwyn notes he seemed at least glad that Gwyn was still working on the magic.

## Special Abilities

#### Fae Abilities

**Dra'ocht:** His dra'ocht does something that makes people not care, and can also be used to force people to answer his questions.

**Shapeshifting:** According to Augus, the Raven Prince has 'a broad-spectrum shapeshifting ability' that he obtained through trade, though he seldom uses it. This is different from his ability to change into his regular fae forms.

#### Magical Propensity

The Raven Prince is a Master Mage, and can perform many different kinds of magic. He has the ability to remove memory and language to varying degrees, whether it's a few words, all spoken and/or written language, or even the ability to think in words. He can also store memories, which is how he kept them safe for his later recovery. He can destroy metal. He possibly has some version of quelling or nullification, as he used his abilities to quell Ash's bloodlust.

He has the ability to detect fae using invisibility spells (or was at least able to spot Mosk while on the Mantissa).

**Resistance to Compulsions and Dra'ocht:** He can resist compulsions. He is also powerful enough to resist even the most powerful of dra'ocht, including from Crielle ferch Fnwy and Ash.

**Charm Creation:** He also appears to have some ability to create charms, as shown in the charm he gives Mosk for training, the tracking spelled stone he gives Augus, the stone he gives to Augus to protect his lake, as well as the necklace he gives Augus to help him feed.

**Fencing:** The Raven Prince is renowned for his fencing ability.

**Horseback-riding:** The Raven Prince enjoyes horseback-riding when he is King of the Unseelie Court, though it's unclear how good he was.

## Relationships

### Albion

The Raven Prince doesn't appear to think that much of Albion, and expresses shock when he learns that Albion is in charge of the Seelie Court.

### Amaley Manytrees

The Raven Prince calls Amaley 'a marvel of an ally', and notes that he always liked Aur dryads.

### Ash Glashtyn

The Raven Prince finds Ash ugly, poisonous, and a 'misbegotten wretch', and has said as much to his face on multiple occasions. The Raven Prince notes, patronizingly, that the Glashtyn's previous incarnations were 'vile sexual sadists', but 'still possessed of stronger heart and conviction' than Ash, and that Ash's current incarnation is 'a smear across the very heart of what it is to be Unseelie.' The Raven Prince even notes, 'I’ll never understand why the Each Uisge didn’t just kill your misshapen form when you came out of that lake.' He's also calls Ash 'the worst excuse for an Unseelie fae [he's] *ever* seen', as well as a coward, and the Raven Prince has no patience for him. The Raven Prince appears to respect how powerful Ash's dra'ocht is, and notes with some pleasure that Ash *might* be stronger than the Raven Prince is, but Ash appears untrained in it, at least in comparison to the Raven Prince. Ash once seemingly thought of the Raven Prince as a 'headcase'. Ash tolerates and seemingly accepts the Raven Prince's verbal abuse, partly due to his own self-hatred. The Raven Prince nullifies Ash's debt with Olphix, possibly to save himself, Augus, and/or the Unseelie Court, but Ash is grateful nonetheless.

### Augus Each Uisge

The Raven Prince genuinely loves Augus, and is heartbroken that they'll never be together again, and knows it is his own fault. Augus loves the Raven Prince, of old and still, but Augus also wants nothing to do with him. Augus later notes, ‘I said everything I had to say to him. I…got my closure. I pity him sometimes, and I don’t even think he’d begrudge me of it after everything.’

### Bhatha

When the Raven Prince departs the Mantissa, Bhatha is one of those called by magic bird to appear. The Raven Prince speaks to Bhatha first in the group, while cloaking his voice, and gives him 'a pendant or charm' of unknown use. Whatever it is apparently pleases Bhatha.

### Crielle ferch Fnwy

The Raven Prince tells Gwyn: 'I knew your mother quite well. And how does she fare?' The Raven Prince is evidently surprised that Augus killed Crielle, and expected her to be ruling the Seelie Court in Gwyn's absence, rather than Albion.

### Davix and Olphix

The Raven Prince fears both Olphix and Davix: that they could return and demand their life debt from him, and that they could use him to destroy the Unseelie Court and the world.

Davix was one of the Raven Prince's 'direct tutors', and knowing the Raven Prince helped make Davix love languages. The Raven Prince hates and is terrified of Davix, after he and his brother tortured the Raven Prince, and what they could make him do, still. As a result, the Raven Prince pled with Mosk to destroy Davix, but also told Mosk to learn from him, when Davix is trapped in ghost form within the ice.

### Eran Iliakambar

'Eran didn’t talk to him, found him both intimidating and rude, and knew the Raven Prince didn’t want much to do with him.' Though the Raven Prince later admits to regretting not getting to know Eran better.

### Fluri the Mouse-Maiden

Fenwrel says that Fluri 'admired and adored the Raven Prince, and she was ever so loyal to him, but she thought of him as a wayward nephew. A wise, powerful but... wayward soul.' Fenwrel says Fluri's stories of him were frightening, describing a 'mad creature who could take away other people's language in a fit of pique.'

### Gulvi Dubna Vajat

The Raven Prince kept Gulvi on his Inner Court as an assassin but also an advisor. He is the first one who knew that Gulvi felt the zahakhar, and was training her to be Queen of the Unseelie Court. They were close, and Gulvi is still bitter about his vanishing, and blames Augus for it. Gulvi 'loved the Raven Prince, *adored* him.' She also says that, 'one would be foolish to *trust* him.' She also says, 'He was a liar when it suited him. Which was often. I thought I missed him, but I don’t.'

### Gwyn ap Nudd

Gwyn used to respect the Raven Prince, and once even dreamed of meeting him, but Gwyn has hated the Raven Prince since Augus' reveal of his actions during *The Court of Five Thrones,* and seems to take some joy in fighting and taking down the Raven Prince while on the Mantissa. Over the course of their trip on the Mantissa, Augus notes that now that Gwyn has actually *met* the Raven Prince, even Gwyn loves him in his own way, because the Raven Prince just does that to people. The Raven Prince originally thought Gwyn was, 'a warring, oafish, cod’s head of a General who was an effective killing machine, yes, and a not entirely terrible strategist, but nothing more than that. Not a scholar. Not skilled in the arts. Not anything more than a post-script at the end of the illustrious An Fnwy bloodline', and was shocked to learn that Gwyn had many powerful alliances and knew a great deal. Now that he knows Gwyn's true alignment, the Raven Prince feels proprietary towards Gwyn, as Gwyn should have been given to the Unseelie Court at birth. Despite Gwyn's lack of magical training, and, and despite the Raven Prince never taking an apprentice, the Raven Prince essentially offered Gwyn an apprenticeship in the future upon their parting. Mosk theorizes to Gwyn: ‘I think the reason the Raven Prince is so upset with what you did to your magic . . . is that your magic is actually very beautiful.' The Raven Prince is still patronizing about the apprenticeship, though, and would prefer Mosk as an apprentice.

### Ifir

Ifir doesn't like the Raven Prince because the Raven Prince 'was anti-military and he always treated [Ifir's people] with disrespect.'

### Kabiri

The Raven Prince calls Kabiri 'Cadmilus', and is surprised that Gwyn is indebted to him. The Raven Prince also calls Kabiri a fool for relying on Gwyn. The Raven Prince calls himself and Kabiri 'cautious allies'.

### Mosk Manytrees

The Raven Prince implies that he possibly encountered Mosk while the former was in his mindless raven form, and Mosk mistook him for another animal, and spoke to him, which possibly encouraged the Raven Prince to start conversation with Mosk on the Mantissa.

The Raven Prince and Mosk are both seventh sons of seventh sons, and were also both tortured by Olphix and Davix, which helps them bond on the Mantissa. The Raven Prince also teaches Mosk a bit during their time together, and Mosk considers the Raven Prince his second friend, and loves him, deeply. The Raven Prince is very fond of Mosk, as well, and views him as a friend, even saying, 'I'm going to miss you', before he leaves. He also finds Mosk's magic fascinating.

### The Nightingale

The Nightingale is sent to the Unseelie Court to feed upon the Raven Prince's misery, and also as a warning for Olphix and Davix's plans*.* The Raven Prince redirects the Nightingale's attention to Augus, becoming directly responsible for Augus' imprisonment. However, this didn't stop the Nightingale from visiting his Court, and even once Augus is freed and a member of the Raven Prince's Court, the Nightingale continues to visit. The Raven Prince and the Nightingale often have tea together, and the Raven Prince even gifts the Nightingale land.

### Old Pete

The Raven Prince seems to have some respect for Old Pete, and is shocked that Gwyn has Old Pete on his Court.

### The Oak King

The Raven Prince doesn't seem to have a high opinion of Quercus, though it seems they do spend some time together over the years, at least to the point that Quercus accidentally reveals his debt to Olphix and Davix.

### King Oengus Og

Oengus had a raven feather in his tower - a gift from the Raven Prince - and the Raven Prince was surprised to hear of Oengus' death. They seem to have been good friends, and talked poetry together. After hearing of Oengus' death, the Raven Prince even stated that, 'Perhaps . . . I should have stayed', rather than die to avoid Davix and Olphix. They used to discuss poetry, and seemed to share a love of the art of language.

### Ondine

It's possible that Ondine and the Raven Prince were friends prior to his 'death'. The Raven Prince traveled on the Mantissa many times prior to the events of *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas*, and Ondine was rather tender towards him. She called him, 'my raven'.

### Taronis

The Raven Prince considers Taronis to be cruel. The Raven Prince also believes that Taronis is not Gwyn's friend, but rather his enemy, but Taronis would also be Gwyn's ally against Olphix.

## Quotations

* Augus: 'I’m sure your parents chastised you often.' . . . The Raven Prince: ‘Oh, *yes.* They did. I turned up at the dinner table as a bird. They were *most* vexed.'
* 'I didn’t know it could be beautiful.’
* Gulvi: 'It’s not as though we didn’t live peacefully under the reign of the Raven Prince! What wars we had then tended to be amongst the Seelie.'
* Gwyn: 'The Raven Prince had one of the best minds of any fae. He was a Mage, a master of words, a diplomat, the fairest King of any Unseelie reign, despite his capricious and cruel ways. It was one thing to attack the Raven Prince’s body, to try and destroy the flesh. But Augus had loved the Raven Prince, and that hadn’t been enough to stop him from going after his mind.'
* Augus: 'I went to that Unseelie Court – I hated the Unseelie Court, and I hated it more after being released – knowing what my plan was. I had to organise different components, but the plan itself was simple. Earn the trust of the Raven Prince. Lure him somewhere secluded. Destroy him.'
* 'You were meant to be mine all along. You belonged to me and my Court, and your magic was mine. They withheld you from me. I’ll not have you continue what they started.'
* 'For what being does not wish to know what death is like?’ the Raven Prince said, black eyes gleaming with an alien hunger. ‘And what being then doesn’t wish to be reborn within himself? To resurrect? But there were caveats. It could not be a true death, or I’d only leave that shade of myself in the world. And I would only permit my resurrection once Olphix and Davix had been killed. Say what you will about them, but they are dangerous to me, and I wished to see a world no longer touched by their active, voracious hands.'
* 'How humbling. If I can still make mistakes, it means there is still much for me to learn. I find I like that thought.'
* Gwyn: 'You talk like it would be a privilege to train under you, that I am the one who should feel rejected,’ Gwyn said calmly, ‘but it is no interest of mine to be played by a bird shifter who took pleasure in harming those who served him so loyally. I know what you are, I know the true colours of you, and I know there is nought in your soul except a bleak, empty wasteland. Keep your pretty words, orator, everything about you is poison.'
* 'I have been a dumb fucking bird for some time . . . and while I am a genius and quite astute, I am not the god that people like to think I am.'
* 'You are there, Augus, at the fulcrum of my regret. And, it seems, my melodrama.'
* 'What saddens me,’ Augus said with slow deliberation, ‘is that I can see that you suffer, and I can see how easily I could heal it for you. I’m not blind to it. I have an inkling of what it will be, for you, for me to do this to you. . . . I am done with you . . . Not because of Gwyn’s love, not because of my brother telling me I deserved better than your Court running me into the ground, not because I found better things for myself, but because of you. I am done with you, because of *you*.'
* 'Olphix will find this easier than I do,’ the Raven Prince said absently, ‘if you want an idea of how much of a chance you have of fighting him. But watch. I want you to watch what your magic is capable of.'
* 'I think Olphix will attempt to destroy everything we have ever known. The past, present and future. Time and space. Everything we have ever been. Every star, every piece of matter and antimatter, every molecule and atom. I do not know if he can do it with that power in the Unseelie and Seelie Courts, but I will never let him try. I hate them both, Mosk Manytrees, and I promised to be the one to kill them but it was a promise I made myself and it is one I have to break, to make sure they cannot use me to destroy something far greater than myself.’
* Gwyn: 'You have incredible, nearly impossible amounts of magic, but you use it only to satisfy your whims. You spend every day doing whatever you wish, which is largely nothing at all. You watch us as though we’re characters in a story, descending only to offer information that gives me one more thing to be burdened with, but no tangible assistance beyond that. You behave as though your words are sacred, some gift, but you are only another fae zealously protecting some painful thing as Mosk did, as Augus has, as I have. It’s ordinary.'
* 'It’s nice,’ Mosk said, leaning into the crow’s nest. ‘It’s nice to have you as a friend.’ ‘Well, of course it is,’ the Raven Prince cried. ‘I am tremendous company, even at the worst of times. Ah, but, Mosk Manytrees, the last Aur dryad, it is quite something to count you among mine, too.'
* 'Then trust that I know a thing or two of tales. Trust that you are a marvel, and that if you didn't feel tired after doing what you'd just done, I might feel threatened enough by you that I'd scheme your downfall.'
* On Gwyn: 'We’ve had worse Kings.'
* 'Mosk imagined the Raven Prince working on that charm, night after night, to give the love of his life a parting gift that mattered. If anyone in the world could make that charm work, it was the Raven Prince.'
* To Mosk: *'You cannot learn much more without direct guidance. These skills, Mosk, they are enough to change the world. Can you yet tell? They seem simple, but learn them well, and they are the same skills that Olphix used to unmake everything. You must build where he breaks, you must grow where he grieves, you must fight hardest in the places he fears most. I would do it myself, but it’s not my path. And Mosk, no matter how powerful and strong you feel, you cannot do this alone. Perhaps you cannot do it at all. . . . It is a strange thing, to have hope, after so long without it. But hope is not fact, Mosk, and your imminent defeat may be. But it is in the fiction of things that we weave new beginnings. Tell yourself good stories, sapling, with good endings.’*
* To Eran about Mosk: 'I hope he remembers you, Eran Iliakambar. He wanted to live for you, never forget that. If he remembers anything, it will be you. Not me, I suppose.'

## Trivia

* The Raven Prince is at least tens of thousands of years old during *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas*
* 'He was so unused to his [human-form] that he avoided common names and insisted that all – even his brothers and parents – call him the Raven Prince. He had insisted on that name long before he knew he was going to be a King in the Unseelie Court.'
* The Raven Prince traveled on the Mantissa many times prior to the events of *The Ice Plague: Book 2 - The Seething Seas*
* The Raven Prince tended to rely on smaller militaries and 'a very strong, interlinked network of assassins and other fae to do wetworks' for military operations.
* Although gryphons consider 'the raven a lesser animal', the Raven Prince was seemingly one of the few raven shifters they would work with during diplomatic matters.
* Mosk notes that, while using his magical sight to study the Raven Prince's charm, the 'Raven Prince’s magic was blue and violet and green. It spiralled prettily, not wild and messy like Mosk’s, but contained and controlled.'
* The Raven Prince found *'the jellyfish shifters fascinating.’*
* He was 'one of the first Kings to ascribe different methods' to conducting 'diplomatic relationships amongst the Unseelie' . . . 'into canon'. Gwyn reviewed one of his tomes on the subject.

## Folklore/Mythology

'Many references to ravens exist in world lore and literature. Most depictions allude to the appearance and behavior of the wide-ranging common raven (*Corvus corax*). Because of its black plumage, croaking call, and diet of carrion, the raven is often associated with loss and ill omen. Yet, its symbolism is complex. As a talking bird, the raven also represents prophecy and insight. Ravens in stories often act as psychopomps, connecting the material world with the world of spirits.

. . . In Irish mythology, ravens are associated with warfare and the battleground in the figures of Badb and Morrígan. The goddess Morrígan alighted on the hero Cú Chulainn's shoulder in the form of a raven after his death. Ravens were also associated with the Welsh god Bran the Blessed (the brother of Branwen), whose name translates to "raven." According to the *Mabinogion*, Bran's head was buried in the White Hill of London as a talisman against invasion. He is depicted as a giant and the King of the Britons in a tale known as the Second Branch of the *Mabinogi*. Several other characters in Welsh mythology share his name, and ravens figure prominently in the 12th or 13th-century text *The Dream of Rhonabwy*, as the army of King Arthur's knight Owain.'

## Image Gallery

Fanart of the Raven Prince by Suis0u https://suis0u.tumblr.com/post/187284321553/this-guy-was-far-more-difficult-as-i-thought-and-iFanart of the Raven Prince by bastgrr https://bastgrr.tumblr.com/post/190216773873/raven-prince-for-not-poignantFanart of the Raven Prince by MorbidLizard https://morbidlizard.tumblr.com/post/189739813117/yesterday-was-not-poignant-s-bday-and-i-wantedFanart of the Raven Prince and Mosk Manytrees by deepseabed https://deepseabed.tumblr.com/post/188614881947/faedom-week-day7-free-day-so-this-is-the-art-iFanart of Augus Each Uisge and the Raven Prince by brenoftarth https://brenoftarth.tumblr.com/post/185695444119/revenge-the-man-said-the-raven-prince-andFanart of the Raven Prince by brenoftarth https://brenoftarth.tumblr.com/post/177261755954/not-poignants-oc-the-raven-prince-decided-toFanart of the Raven Prince during the Wild Hunt by tsarlunarmimmy https://tsarlunarmimmy.tumblr.com/post/82011534758/the-wild-hunt-of-the-raven-prince-ravens-areFanart of the Raven Prince by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/133265983591/the-raven-prince-by-raesalanderFanart of the Raven Prince by Ravenemore https://raven-nemore.tumblr.com/post/133040507401/theres-not-enough-fanarts-of-the-raven-prince-soCrochet plush of the Raven Prince by Ace https://www.instagram.com/p/B4E8RMuCohv/Fanart of the Raven Prince by justsomeperson1920 https://www.instagram.com/justsomeperson1920/Fanart of the Raven Prince eating a book by justsomeperson1920 https://www.instagram.com/justsomeperson1920/Mosk Manytrees and The Raven Prince on the Mantissa by KoiKalico https://mythoughtfulwindow.tumblr.com/post/708375398931709952/still-reading-not-poignants-fae-tales-verse-and
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