Peter Stuyvesant II, nicknamed “Pata de Palo” (“Peg Leg”), is Director General of the Dutch West India Company and governor of New Amsterdam, an antagonist. He wears a felt hat, a cuirass and an eye patch, and carries a staff of command that generates barriers of thorns.
He holds children hostage and commissions a three-faced golden construct, a “liberator of Black people.” He compares his situation to “the chains of Glaucus,” a reference to the Iliad. He is a colonial administrator rather than a monster, and justifies torture as “pagan rituals.”
He is defeated in combat but left alive, and seeks retaliation. He appears first as a reference, then in the Battle of the Mill, the fortress combat and the golden construct. His connections are Nicaramsa (antagonism), the Chains of the Pact, the Golden Construct (Queen, Child, Golem) and Manhattan.
Open questions
- The “liberator of Black people” construct is the most intriguing unresolved storyline; it connects with the Black Prophet.