King Doctor Rebel Princess

Emperor's Daughter

Judith

The Rebel Princess

The Pirate Princess (Alternate story title)

New Queen (wife)

**Judith, or King Doctor Rebel Princess** is the second founder of a religion based on Knives, in close affiliation with the Church of the Knife.

## History

Judith meets Zev, a prince from a kingdom neighboring her father's empire, while studying abroad, and they fall in love while studying ancient manuscripts together. When their parents begin trying to arrange marriages for them, they decide to elope, but both get lost on the way to their destination.

Judith spends a time living in a citrus grove, alone, until a business man spots her and demands she become his wife. She agrees on the condition he does not touch her until they are married. She then waits until everyone there is drunk from the festivities before the wedding night, steals a ship and escapes onto the high seas.

Passing a kingdom where a king builds his castles on the shore, she attempts to sail away from it, but the king sends people out to take her by force, and demands she become his wife. She agrees, on the condition he does not touch her until after they are married, and he provides her ten minister's daughters as companions, and she is allowed to keep her ship. She then takes her ten companions onto her ship for a day of sailing and playing music, but never returns to shore, disappearing from the seaside kingdom without a trace.

Her ten companions are initially wary, but come to agree with her given reasoning. They next reach an island hideaway of a dozen robbers who seek to murder them and take their things. Judith suggests they instead pair off and get married, and then the robbers would have wives and their things. Judith then secretly passes out Knives to her companions and asks them to murder their betrotheds.

After the robbers are dead, Judith and her companions steal their clothes and load up all of their gold and jewels (leaving the silver and copper) and head out once again. They pass by a ship where a king who's father has just died and his new wife are sailing. Judith bets her companions whether she can kill the king from this distance. She can. With the king dead Judith sails up close and, still dressed as a man, claims to be a Doctor who can help the king. She declares him dead from 'brain burn', and the courtiers on the sailing ship are so impressed by the 'Doctor's' intellect, they insist she should marry the currently-widowed queen.

Judith returns to this kingdom and marries the queen, becoming the King, then commissions drawings of her own face to be placed over every well in the kingdom, and for her men to bring to her anyone who reacts strangely. The men of her now kingdom bring her three men: the businessman, the seaside king, and Zev.

She returns the ship she stole from the business man to him, she offers to let her ten companions go home with the seaside king, and she takes Zev to travel abroad.

At some point on this journey abroad she encounters Robber Girl, founder of the Church of the Knife, and decides to take the philosophy of the Knife ("Knives are cool. Use them.") to the sea. Judith is presumably Jewish, as The Rebel Princess is a tale written by Rabbi Nachman of Breslov and the name Judith means 'Jewish woman', so she may call her branch of the Knife something different. Temple of the Knife? Possibly.

## Appearances

* Episode 262: King Doctor Rebel Princess