captain of the palace guards
Names: captain of the palace guardsthe captainLong-Sail
First appears in Book 3: Death's End, chapter 49 (The First Tale of Yun Tianming “The New Royal Painter”)
Appearances
What you know
Book 3: Death's End
- Ch 49The captain drives the escape carriage, and neither he nor Auntie Wide has been seen by Needle-Eye.
- Ch 50The captain of the guards; his father was an architect from He'ershingenmosiken who brought the family to the kingdom when Long-Sail was little.
- Ch 50He promises to hold the umbrella up for the princess forever so she will not disappear.
- Ch 51Devises the plan of using a washbasin-sized small boat and soap foam to cross the glutton-fish sea to Tomb Island; he rows the boat himself.
- Ch 51Long-Sail burned Needle-Eye's portrait of Dewdrop, resisting its intoxicating pull, and thereby ended the danger to her.
- Ch 51Long-Sail agreed to follow Dewdrop to the end of the world, and they sailed away together on a white-sailed boat.
Connections
- ally ofPrincess Dewdrop
- leadsPrincess Dewdropguards and drives her party
- ally ofAuntie Wide
- partner ofPrincess Dewdrop
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ethereal warns the princess
Ethereal arrives with a spinning umbrella, explains Needle-Eye's magic, and with Auntie Wide's obsidian iron begins flattening snow-wave paper to paint Needle-Eye.
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ethereal sacrifices himself
Ethereal gives instructions for the umbrella and tells the princess to bring Deep Water to kill Needle-Eye. He urges her to leave, then is painted into a picture and vanishes.
- Book 3 · Ch 49Flight from the palace
At dawn the princess, Auntie Wide and the captain leave in a carriage in disguise, while Needle-Eye finishes the princess's portrait.
- Book 3 · Ch 50Flight to the sea
Having escaped the palace unpursued, the princess, Auntie Wide and Long-Sail travel a day by back routes, keeping the umbrella spinning, and reach the shore at midnight, where a plank is devoured by glutton fish.
- Book 3 · Ch 50Long-Sail tells the story of the glutton fish
At night on the beach, Long-Sail recounts how glutton fish escaped into the sea, sealed off the kingdom, and turned the Storyful Kingdom into the Storyless Kingdom. The princess confesses her yearning to sail away.
- Book 3 · Ch 51Crossing to Tomb Island
Long-Sail, Dewdrop and Auntie Wide row a small boat to Tomb Island, dragging soap foam that pacifies the glutton fish, and reach Prince Deep Water.
- Book 3 · Ch 51Long-Sail burns the portrait
Long-Sail finds Needle-Eye's studio empty with his self-portrait and portraits of Dewdrop and others, and burns Dewdrop's portrait. Dewdrop then closes her umbrella unharmed.
- Book 3 · Ch 51Dewdrop and Long-Sail leave the kingdom
Dewdrop takes the last soap bars and sails away with Long-Sail at dawn, leaving the kingdom storyless and isolated.