Malik Korath

Malik Korath, King of The Realm, was a reluctant but much beloved monarch during the Second Age of Eden. The son of the so-called “Evil Queen,” Mercy Graves, some expected he might be as harmful to The Realm as his mother had been. And yet, any hint of megalomania or despotism he might have inherited was stamped out of him during his time as a student of the wise rabbit—and future Sage of Saltgate—Albus Lepus.

Born in 117, he was the child of a political union between his mother—the widow of the late King Jacob—and Governor Djimon Korath of Frult Üft. For the first sixteen years of his life, he was raised alongside his stepsister Sadie Winters. And according to all accounts, the two got on famously—despite the Queen Regent’s attempts to drive a wedge between her son and her stepdaughter. But in the year 113, on the eve of Sadie’s eighteenth birthday—the day the regency would have ended—the young woman disappeared and was presumed dead.

Two years later, Malik became king instead.

It was not a job the young man wanted, as he told Albus Lepus early and often, but that lack of desire for power may have been exactly why he was such a good king. Amongst his many accomplishments were the establishment of The Crown’s Assembly and the drafting of a constitution which ceded much—but not all—of the monarch’s decision-making power to said assembly.

And yet, Malik is perhaps best known for his choice of wife—and for how the two of them met.

In 136, whilst returning from yet another war against neighboring Neverland, Malik came across a small island in the Sea of Tears which was dominated by a tower. And there, locked inside the tower, was the the woman Malik was destined to marry: Daisy Rampion.

After helping Daisy to defeat the desperate spirit which was holding her hostage, Malik brought her back to The City of Hearts, courted her, and eventually made her his queen. They had a son together in 138, and lived happily together until Malik’s death in 168.