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.

Works
Aurora The Law of Apposite Injustice Kissing the Moon That Party White Stone and Ivy Song of the Sword-Bridge The Company of the Armed Gentlemen

Early Life
Fitzroy Angursell was born Artorin Damara, son of the Imperial Princess and Grand Duke of 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 named Marwn, the second heir to the Empire.

He was exiled, first to a house where he was raised by a tutor, and then magically bound into his role as Marwn and sent to a Tower on the Long Isle of Colhélhé to live out his life there, maintaining the Empire via regular prayers and magical rituals.

In the tower, he 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.

Shortly after, he named himself Fitzroy and left, determined to become a poet and adventurer.

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
When Fitzroy was 32, Emperor Eritanyr died, and within 12 hours his heir, Shallyr Silvertongue, who was cruel and mad, fell off a balcony in front of an entire crowd of people. No evidence was ever found that it was not an accident.

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

With the Emperor and heir dead, the Ouranatha invoked the ancient magics, and they caught him and bound him to the position, dragging him forcibly to Astandalas by the magics he was already bound into as Marwn.

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 was forced to leave, 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 him the Lordship of Zunidh, and he served in that role for approximately 900 years.

Red Company Reformed Years
Fitzroy was eventually freed from the role of 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 of Zunidh.