Tutan I

Tutan I, King of The Realm, was a curious figured in Wonderlandian history. Nicknamed the Farmer King, he managed to do what his mother could not: rule effectively from the countryside. He held court inside a barn that had been in his father’s family for generations, revolutionized the Realmish economy with agricultural subsidies, and stabilized relations with the kingdom’s lawless neighbors in Neverland by commissioning the infamous Captain Hook as a privateer to help “keep the peace.”

Born Tutan Kaamraan in 202, he was the fifth in his family to bear that name. Tutan knew from an early age that his Earthling ancestors had begun the tradition after they’d learned, during a visit to the Edenian Athenæum, that their universe had ended a mere 10 years before the tomb of a certain Tutankhamun was to have been discovered in their ancestral homeland of Egypt. He knew that his name was half a joke and half a tribute, and therefore approached his life with similar mixture of respect and irreverence.

A strapping and devilishly handsome young man, he was pursued by countless women and men once he came of age—both during his springs and summers on the family farm in Mira’s Well and his autumns and winters at the palace in The City of Hearts—but he eventually settled on the daughter of a cattle rancher that he’d known since childhood. Then, in 224, at just age 22, he had a son of his own.

Three years later, following his mother’s suicide, he took the throne.

The typically even-tempered Tutan was unconsolably angry after the loss of his mom and blamed the Crown’s Assembly for her death. As a bitter rebuke of that body, Tutan’s first act as king was to move the royal court from the City of Hearts to his ancestral farm in Mira’s Well. And despite the Assembly’s protests, Tutan spent the entirety of his twenty-eight year reign ruling from the farm. He traveled when he had to, or when he wanted to teach farmers across his kingdom of some new practice he’d developed, but otherwise he demanded that the world come to him. That was the price they would all have to pay what they’d done to his mother—and, by extension, to his family as a whole.