Prester the BlazingWind – Prester John
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Prester the BlazingWind is one of Sandstone Village’s Hopper Elders. The other two Elders are Edwin the ArcaneArchitect and Saul the OneWhoKnows.
After drinking the Suraldin and joining the tribe, Edwin and the other village elders give you what help they can in finding the Solar Arc. Prester warns YOur Wizard to be wary of power to easily gotten. He tells you that the Arachna who side with the Shadow Queen are lost in darkness.
Prester John was a mythical Christian patriarch, presbyter, and king. Stories popular in Europe in the 12th to the 17th centuries told of a Nestorian patriarch and king who was said to rule over a Christian nation lost amid the pagans and Muslims in the Orient. The accounts were often embellished with various tropes of medieval popular fantasy, depicting Prester John as a descendant of the Three Magi, ruling a kingdom full of riches, marvels, and strange creatures.
At first, Prester John was imagined to reside in India. Tales of the Nestorian Christians’ evangelistic success there and of Thomas the Apostle’s subcontinental travels as documented in works like the Acts of Thomas probably provided the first seeds of the legend. As Europeans became aware of the Mongols and their empire, accounts placed the king in Central Asia, and eventually Portuguese explorers came to believe that the term was a reference to Ethiopia, which at that time was an isolated Christian “exclave” distant from any other Christian-ruled territory.
Prester John is a fictional character appearing in American comic books published by Marvel Comics. The character is based loosely on the legendary Christian king Prester John.
Prester John first appeared in Fantastic Four Vol.1 #54 (September 1966). He has mostly appeared as a villain, opposing Thor and Deadpool as well as the Fantastic Four.
Prester John is a centuries-old explorer who was born in an unnamed kingdom in Eastern Asia, which he once ruled. He has been a priest, king, adventurer, traveler, and explorer. He was an ally of King Richard the Lionheart and served in his court. He is the possessor of the Evil Eye of Avalon, a mystic object of power bestowed upon him in the extra-dimensional land of Avalon, and which can project vast amounts of energy.
The alchemists of Avalon preserve John from the 12th century until the modern era using the Chair of Survival. When he awakes, John meets the Human Torch and Wyatt Wingfoot and witnessed the seeming destruction of the Evil Eye.
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