Prince Deep Water
Names: Prince Deep WaterDeep Waterthe prince
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 king's elder son, who went to Tomb Island in the Glutton's Sea as a child and never returned.
- Ch 49Deep Water is the only person in the kingdom Needle-Eye cannot paint, and he is on Tomb Island; he alone can stop Ice Sand.
- Ch 50Rumored to be a giant or monster, he is stranded on Tomb Island, having gone there by boat to fish as a child.
- Ch 51Appears as a giant from afar because he looks the same size at any distance; up close he is an ordinary-sized man, kindly and calm.
- Ch 51Has been stranded on Tomb Island for twenty years with a few followers after glutton fish sealed off the way home.
- Ch 51Deep Water appears tall from afar and shrinks to normal size as he nears, defying perspective, so opponents misjudge his distance.
- Ch 51After Ice Sand's death the army pledged fealty to Deep Water and Dewdrop; he announced Dewdrop's coronation and pledged to aid her.
- Ch 52His violations of perspective rules were cited by some scholars as evidence the message referred to four-dimensional space.
Connections
- family ofPrincess Dewdropbrother
- inTomb Island
- family ofPrince Ice Sandbrothers
- ally ofGuardian Shaded-Forest
- enemy ofPrince Ice Sand
Key moments
- 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 51Identity proven and return
A blood test confirms Dewdrop's identity; Deep Water, his followers and the party return along the foam wake. Cavalry sent to kill the princess do not attack and escort them toward the palace.
- Book 3 · Ch 51Needle-Eye fails to paint Deep Water
Ice Sand sends Needle-Eye to paint Deep Water, but the painter returns shaken, saying the prince defies perspective and cannot be painted.
- Book 3 · Ch 51Deep Water kills Ice Sand
Deep Water arrives at the palace with the army watching; in a duel Ice Sand misjudges distance because of Deep Water's lack of perspective and is stabbed through the chest.