Prism

Prism is a land mentioned in *Every Heart a Doorway.*

## Description

Prism is described as a Fairyland in all the colors of the rainbow.

Kade describes spending his time there chasing rainbows and growing up by inches. He also describes everybody in Prism were taught to play funky pipes at the age of two, and it became another way of communication.

There is a Court of the Rainbow Princess, who take young girls to the world in order to fight with them against the Goblin Empire; they liked to take pretty girls in order to contrast the Goblin Army. Even thought they could have won, they chose to keep fighting, as both society's cultures were so wrapped up in war that they couldn't function without it.

After Kade killed the current Goblin King, he was declared the Goblin Prince-in-Waiting. When the Court of the Rainbow Princess realized that this meant Kade was a boy, they threw him down the next wishing well they passed, causing him to wake up in Reality, with no time having passed there.

Prism is described as valuing rules very much; Kade was kicked out for violating the rule of not being what they wanted him to be, and he knew that they would not let him return.

## Place on the Compass

Prism is a High Logic, Virtuous World. It is unknown where it falls on the Rhyme, Linearity and Vitus/Mortis scales.

## Known Members

* Goblin King (deceased)
* Court of the Rainbow Princess
* Kade Bronson (formerly)
* Moth-Eyed Girl

## References

1. ↑ Every Heart a Doorway, Page 38:

"I'm Kade, by the way, Fairyland."

"I'm Nancy, and I'm sorry, I don't understand."

"I went to a Fairyland."
2. ↑ Every Heart a Doorway, page 148: Kade dreamt of a world all the colors of the rainbow, a prism of a country, shattering itself into a thousand shards of light.
3. ↑ Every Heart a Doorway, page 39: "*They* thought they had snicker-snatched a little girl- fairies love taking little girls, it's like an addiction with them- and when they found out they had a little boy who just *looked* like a little girl on the outside, uh-oh, donesies. They threw him right back."
4. ↑ Beneath the Sugar Sky, page 110: Kade's face darkened. "The Fairy Court always snatched little girls. The prettiest little girls they could find, the ones with ribbons in their hair and lace on their dresses. They liked the contrast we made against the goblin armies."
5. ↑ Beneath the Sugar Sky, page 109: "In Prism, the Fairy Court has been fighting a war against the Goblin Empire for thousands of years. They could have won a hundred times. So could the goblins. They don't, because the war is all they know anymore. They have so many rituals and ceremonies and traditions wrapped up in fighting that if you took their war away, they'd be lost."
6. ↑ Every Heart a Doorway, page 38: "I went to a Fairyland. I spent three years there, chasing rainbows and growing up by inches. I killed a Goblin King with his own sword, and he made me his heir with his dying breath, the Goblin Prince in Waiting." Kade walked off into the maze of books, still carrying Nancy's suitcase. His voice drifted back, betraying his location. "The King was my enemy, but he was the first adult to see me clearly in my entire life. The court of the Rainbow Princess was shocked, and they threw me down the next wishing well we passed. I woke up in a field in the middle of Nebraska, back in my ten-year-old body, wearing the dress I'd had on when I first fell into Prism."
7. ↑ Every Heart a Doorway, page 68: "Prism is never taking me back," he said instead. "That's not a nonstarter, that's a never-gonna-happen. I violated their rules when I wasn't what they wanted me to be, and the people who run that particular circus are *very* picky about rules. But Eleanor went back a bunch of times. Her door's still open."
8. ↑ http://www.tor.com/2017/06/12/mapping-fantasies-into-a-single-multiverse-through-seanan-mcguires-wayward-children-series/