Storyless Kingdom
Names: Storyless KingdomStoryful Kingdomthe kingdom
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 49A kingdom with no stories, whose people were happy until the king's children grew up and the succession question brought story to it.
- Ch 50Once the Storyful Kingdom, a trading land full of change, it became agrarian and storyless after glutton fish cut off sea travel; people chose to forget.
- Ch 50It is a large island with the palace at its center; the palace tutors teach that only it and He'ershingenmosiken exist.
- Ch 51Isolated from the outside world by schools of glutton fish, the kingdom had no outside contact once the last soap was taken.
Connections
- includesTomb Islandisland off its coast
- related toGlutton's Seathe sea seals off the kingdom from the universe, a metaphor for the black domain
Key moments
- Book 3 · Ch 49Ice Sand's feigned loyalty
At the king's sixtieth birthday, where Dewdrop is named heir, Ice Sand humbly supports her and presents Needle-Eye as the new royal painter.
- 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 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 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.
- 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.