Fitzroy Angursell

Summary
Warning: This page has massive series spoilers if you have not read The Return of Fitzroy Angursell

Fitzroy Angursell is a legendary poet, wild mage, bard, and adventurer. He is known throughout the Nine Worlds for his poetry and his adventures with The Red Company.

His poetry was banned for treason in the Empire of Astandalas. This did absolutely nothing to make it less popular.

Major Works:
Aurora, or the Peacock Kissing the Moon

Other Works:

 * "The Law of Apposite Injustice": Wildly seditious and extremely banned. Beta-read by Jullanar of the Sea, rediscovered by Jemis Greenwing
 * "That Party": The story of The Red Company infiltrating Melissa Damara's betrothal ball in The Palace of Stars.
 * "White Stone and Ivy": Describes Olive Greenwing on a night when The Red Company passed through the Woods Noirell
 * "Song of the Sword-Bridge"
 * "The Company of the Armed Gentlemen"
 * "The Customs-House of Colhélhé"
 * "A Riot in the Painted City": An early work
 * "The Glorious Defeat of the Third Army of Astandalas": Also an early work, perhaps about the army they were trying to stop when Damian, Fitzroy, and Jullanar met Pali.

Early Life
Fitzroy Angursell was born to the Imperial princess Lamissa Damara and the Grand Duke Mantorin Damara in the third year of their marriage. He was named Artorin Damara, though he did not know his own name (or that he didn't know it) until much later.

As a child with a very powerful and popular father and the lion eyes of the old Emperors, his uncle Emperor Eritanyr saw him as a threat, and had him appointed the Marwn, the second heir to the Empire.

He was confined first to a house where he was raised by a tutor and only occasionally visited by his parents. At sixteen, he was magically bound into his role as Marwn and exiled to a Tower on the Long Isle of Colhélhé to live out his life there, maintaining the Empire via regular prayers and magical rituals. Upon his exile, his name was magically wiped from his parents' minds and his tutor tortured to insanity.

At the age of eighteen, Fitzroy discovered his own wild magic by studying a book left behind by Harbut Zalarin, and was able to move most of the magic binding him (particularly an injunction to "Accept what you are told") to into a necklace and leave.

While planning and packing for his departure from the Tower, he named himself Fitzroy and resolved to become a poet and adventurer, a bard like the bards of old. The plan was originally to avenge himself and die in a blaze of glory and justice.

Red Company Years
Fitzroy (not yet Angursell) met Jullanar of the Sea and Damian Raskae by falling out of the sky and into their boat.

After the Red Company
At the age of 32, following the death of Emperor Eritanyr and the crown prince Shallyr Silvertongue, Fitzroy was chased and captured by the remains of the magic binding him as Marwn, which dragged him forcibly from the Tower on the Long Edge of Colhelhe to Astandalas, where he was crowned Emperor. He learned his own birth name that day, from the crowning ceremony.

Fitzroy was the first Marwn in the Empire's history to actually become Emperor.

One of Fitzroy's titles was Prince of the White Forest, so his presence allowed the Red Company to travel and camp in the Silver Forest. When he fled the magic hunting him, the magical protections there rose up and scattered the rest of the Red Company across the Nine Worlds.

He served as Emperor of Astandalas until the Fall 14 years later.

The Fall knocked him into a coma, and he slept for 100 years before being woken by Lady Jivane's Spell of Seeking.

Lady Jivane handed over to him the Lordship of Zunidh, and he served in that role for approximately 900 years (Solaaran subjective time).

Red Company Reformed Years
Fitzroy was eventually freed from the role of Lord Magus of Zunidh and Last Emperor by Cliopher Mdang's bureaucratic work to reform the remaining government of the Empire, which allowed him to go questing for his successor as Lord Magus.