Great Multicolored Prince

From his home in the Screaming Jungle, the Other known as the Great Multicolored Prince captures and hunts Beast changelings of all stripes.

Biography
When the birds stop calling and the hybrid hobgoblins no longer howl at one another, he is drawing near. Silence is the herald of the Great Multicolored Prince, a Beast among Beasts, equal parts ape and tiger and brilliantly plumed raptor. He constantly stalks the Screaming Jungle, pausing only after a particularly satisfactory kill to return to the palatial slave-borne litter that acts as his nomadic domicile.

The Great Multicolored Prince is fabulously wealthy and tremendously feared. Dozens of privateers are said to ply their trade for him, bringing him new prey for the hunt. Those captives brought to the jungle are given time enough to grow stronger and more cunning before the Prince decides they’re worthy to hunt. He wants to hunt proper Beasts, not weak humans. And so his jungle is filled with Beasts of every kith. Some try to assist newcomers for a brief period of time, but few are willing to gather in groups for survival: the Prince always finds the groups first.

Those who are able to scale the peaks without the Prince noticing sometimes make it back home to the mortal world; various clefts and caverns in the mountains lead back into the Hedge. A Beast who remembers stalking and being stalked in the Screaming Jungle is often much happier in an urban environment than in the wild. In the city, it’s never completely quiet.