Faust (Fausto) is a name borne by three things the record does not merge: a disgraced lieutenant at once wanted and protected, a play “by the German”, and an ancient mage who built a tower-prison.
| Type | Character / work |
| Spanish entry | Fausto |
The Lieutenant
Fausto Alcorta Pérez (Lieutenant Fausto) was sent in disfavor to the distant Fortín de la Estrella Federal and serves as an officer at the Palace of Mud. Few really know him. His only physical record is his face on a reused wanted poster: “only instead of José María it now has his face”, with the price corrected.
The Mazorca hunts him, and his bounty overtook José María’s (“you surpassed José María”). Yet “nobody messes with him”, because of his English connection: Lord Ponsbury made him liaison between the English and the local group, sealing it with a handshake, in Antiterra an important seal of trust between men. The price stands and no one collects.
He was disgraced but not demoted, unlike Captain Vidal, who ended up a lieutenant, and “now they look on him with favor”. His remaining an officer annoys the captain of the Palace of Mud. The last to greet him was the Jesuit, probably Bertrando Black.
The play
“Faust, by the German” circulates and is rehearsed: a figure who “made a pact with the devils and in some versions ended very badly and in others very well”. It was explained to Arian as an example.
The mage
“An ancient mage called Faust who was very depressed” prepared a tower as a prison with pentagrammatic symbols, by design: “it was no accident, the princess could not have gotten out, idiots, this is a prison.”
Conflicting accounts
- The bounty is 400 pounds in one record and 250 (unit not fixed, probably gold) in another: two currencies, two moments, or unreconciled versions.
Open questions
- Whether the three share an identity is not established.
- Why the Lieutenant fell, and what turned opinion, is unknown.
- Whether the Fortín and the Palace of Mud are successive postings or one place is unclear.
- Who pays the bounty and who would collect it is unknown.
- Whether the play is known as fiction or as chronicle is unknown.