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High Elf King Finian

King Finian · Finian · king-finian

The dead high-elf king who fathered Signet and whose decline prompted Imogen's purge of his half-elf children.

Story so far

King Finian secretly impregnated the woman who would have become naiad tsarina, making Signet his half-elf daughter. He later died after a period of decline.

As his condition worsened, Princess Imogen systematically eliminated his half-elf children. Signet survived by fleeing to the Over City and joining the circus.

Role

Finian connects Signet to the high-elf throne and explains Imogen's campaign against her.

Relationships

Signet — She is his surviving half-elf daughter.
Princess Imogen — She is his high-elf daughter and purged his other children during his decline.
The High Elf Castle — He formerly ruled from the protected high-elf seat.

Earlier in this series

Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:

Sources — 3 recorded facts, by chapter
Chapter 2
  • The High Elf king who ordered every Pocket Kuma executed once it was discovered they were intelligent.
Chapter 14
  • Late king of the high elves, father of both Signet and Imogen, who exiled his bastard daughter as a child.
Chapter 25
  • The dead high-elf king who fathered Signet and whose decline prompted Imogen's purge of his half-elf children.
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