"Safe?” said Mr. Beaver; “don’t you hear what Mrs. Beaver tells you? Who said anything about safe? ‘Course he isn’t safe. But he’s good. He’s the King, I tell you."
― C.S. Lewis, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

"It is so fatally easy to make young children believe that they are horrible."
― T.H. White, The Once and Future King

King of Shadows.
King of Amber.
Father. Grandfather. Cunning.

He is in his prime, although perhaps not the beginning of his prime. His hair is thick and black, but there is silver at his temples, when he wears a beard, silver there too. He possesses an immense presence: vitality, intensity, power.

Hated. Loved. Feared.