The Atlantean King is the sovereign of the Atlanteans, a people expelled from their plane and condemned never to dream. He is addressed as Cakravartin, “the one who turned the wheel”, a universal sovereign of wide reach, though he “is not an especially large figure.”
| Title | Cakravartin |
| Emblem | The wheel |
| Spanish entry | Rey Atlante |
Description
He wears a robe in purple tones, with “that wheel that signifies his symbol” upon him. His face, age, voice and the wheel’s material are not recorded.
His people
The Atlanteans were expelled from their plane and sentenced: «Ustedes nunca más van a soñar» (“You will never dream again”), with no stated exception. The King addresses his people as “Atlantean” and asks them to stay “more united than ever.” They say: “some know my people as the Atlanteans. But we have other names too.” They keep birds and feed them by hand. A distinct subgroup, the Atlantes Extractors, are elves of a special kind who “are not normal elves”.
The platform audience
The King rules by presence. When the chosen of Atlantis are summoned, he gives the audience himself, in person, on the platform in the ocean. The companions of the gesta belong to his people and are “the chosen of Atlantis”; he names and calls them.
The northern pacts
To the north lies a frontier, on the American side, ruled by dragons, which the King cannot cross “because we have certain pacts with the dragons on the other side.”
Antiquity
The Atlanteans are among the founding civilizations: they appear beside the Egyptians as a possible origin of contact in the world’s cosmogony, and in the history of the regulators of the Mediterranean (“the Atlanteans were there too”). The King heads this lineage.
Open questions
- From which plane they were expelled, by whom, and whether by divine punishment or magical consequence.
- What “the two Atlanteans” of the expulsion story means; the accounts are confused.
- The people’s other names; what the Extractors extract.
- The content of the dragon pacts and the exact frontier.
- Where the ocean platform lies, and whether it is his seat or a meeting point.
- Whether the Egyptian contact exists at all.