Stone Prince

The Stone Prince was first found at the iron gates at the entrance to the Caves of Fire and Night by Cimorene.

When he was born, and not made of stone, his father invited a soothsayer to his son's christening because he didn't think fairies were appropriate. The soothsayer said that the Stone Prince would grow up to do a great service to a king, and the poor prince has lived with the prophecy ever since. His father had the prince learn from special tutors to prepare him, and even sent him to a special school for people where are meant to do special things. The Stone Prince graduated at the top of his class, but all of his classmates have already made names for themselves, even the ones that nobody expected to amount to anything! At first, it seemed easy to find a king. Kings on both sides of a war wanted him to lead their armies and sent for him, but they were so concerned that he would pick their enemies, so the Stone Prince didn't chose anyone. As long as he didn't pick, messengers would pounce on him when he stepped outside, so the Stone Prince ran away. He soon realized that, even if nobody around him expected him to do something great, he did. The next place he visited, he asked if the king needed his aid. It turned out that the king was ill and the only that could cure him was the Water of Healing in the Caves of Fire and Night. The king had three sons and the eldest had failed. As these things go, the youngest son would have succeeded because it's the proper way of things, but the Stone Prince set out at once, eager to get the prophecy fulfilled. When he got to the cave with the water, he saw the stones that had once been princes. He knew he should take the tin dipper but he thought it wouldn't do harm to just look at the gold dipper. As soon as he touched the gold dipper, he began to stiffen, so he stuck his arm in the spring. It didn't work as he expected. Instead of being a stone slab, he became the Stone Prince, walking around like a living statue.

After his story, Cimorene left the Stone Prince in the service room off of the banquet cave. There, he learned of a plot between Woraug and the wizards. He fell in love with Alianora as soon as he saw her, but they had to stop the wizards from successfully rigging the crossing of Colin's Stone. He helped melt the wizards with Cimorene, Morwen, and Alianora with buckets of soapy water with lemon juice. When Woraug turned into a frog, it was revealed to him that the king he was to do a great service for was, in fact, the King of the Dragons, which he did by stopping Woraug and the wizards. Since Alianora was no longer a dragon's princess, and it could be said he rescued her in a fashion, he and Alianora returned home and got married, after he was turned back into a man because there are a lot of things you can't do when you can't take off your clothes.