Prince Skye is the second youngest prince of Lienid. He is the sixth son of King Ror and Queen Zinnober.
Appearance[]
Prince Skye looks like most Lienid. He has black hair, gray eyes, and sun-kissed brown skin. He greatly resembles Po. He wears gold hoop earrings and each of his fingers has gold rings, and as a result, he is "glowing with gold." Skye is quite handsome. He has strong, straight shoulders, and strong hands. He is in his twenties. He also has dark tattoos on his upper arms that are part of Lienid ornamentation. Each of his rings represent a member of his family. Po's ring is the thinnest and has a tiny inlaid gold stone and silver stone. The ring representing his father is wide and heavy with a sharp, glittery white stone. Prince Tealiff's ring is plain. His mother's ring is small with a gray line running through the middle. He also wears a ring that marks his prince hood and inheritance.
Personality[]
Skye is demonstrative, voluble, and outwardly affectionate, like most people from Lienid. He is practical. Skye is friendly and light-hearted. Like Po, Skye is capable of sitting in silence. He is good company. Skye admits he'd “jump into an argument quick enough.” He shares Po's cockiness.
Biography[]
Early Life[]
Like all of his brothers, Skye is well-known in Lienid for being an exceptional natural hand fighter.
Graceling[]
Skye is with the other members of his family at Po's castle, brought there by King Leck. he is under the control of Leck's Grace, like all the family. After Katsa kills Leck, Skye and the rest of his brothers are furious about what has happened. Skye is the first brother to speak with Katsa. He asks if she thinks Po's alright and tells her that when she goes back for Po that he'd like to go with her. He tells Katsa that she is exactly as he imaginer her. He and and Katsa take easily to each other.
Later he joins Katsa, Bitterblue, and King Ror on the journey to Monsea. He loves climbing into the riggings aboard Captain Faun's ship with Katsa. One day on their journey, Skye asks Katsa if she is married to Po. Katsa says she isn't. Skye asks why then do the sailors and Captain Faun call her "Princess." Katsa admits to him that Po gave her his identity ring. Skye is astonished. He says that Po will have some rational reasons for giving it to her. Katsa responds that she intends to beat it out of him, making Skye laugh.
Skye, Katsa, Bitterblue, and a continent of Monsean Guards make the trek to the cabin where Po has been hiding. On one of the stops at an inn one night, Katsa saves Skye from a Monsean guard at the inn who thought he was Po, who has been declared a criminal and is to be shot on sight. In thanks, Skye kisses her forehead and announces he will name his firstborn child after her. Katsa suggests he wait until all his children are born and then name the most troublesome and obstinate after her. Skye laughs and hugs her. Katsa realizes that she has made another friend.
When they find Po, Skye does not realize that his brother's eyesight is gone. He stays in the cabin with Po, Katsa, and Bitterblue, and then later attends Bitterblue's coronation. At Bitterblue's coronation, Skye accuses Po of refusing to marry Katsa. He doesn't understand their decision not to marry, and worries it will lead to problems. After the ceremony and festivities, Skye returns to Lienid.
Bitterblue[]
Prince Skye has developed a good friendship with Queen Bitterblue in his role as ambassador of Lienid. Her adviser Thiel wants to marry her to Skye. Bitterblue mentions that she sends letters to Skye frequently, and that the eighteenth letter of Skye's ciphered messages always contains the key for King Ror's ciphered letters. It is revealed by Bitterblue that Skye has feelings toward men, hence why King Ror never suggested a marriage between her and Skye.
Later, Skye visits Monsea with King Ror. Skye arrives in Bitterblue City ahead of his father and is excited to be reunited with Po. Po reveals the truth of his Grace to Skye, to which Skye replies by giving Po a black eye before deciding to leave with the Dellian and Pikkian delegation as Lienid's ambassador. Giddon hopes that Skye will follow his model of "Punch Po, go on a long trip, feel better, come back and make up."
Winterkeep[]
Skye has been staying with at Queen Bitterblue's castle. He has spent the last few years sailing with Sapphire Birch on Pikkian mapmaking missions in the northern Winter Sea. He is incredibly upset at the news that Saf is going to look for Katu Cavenda who is missing. They had made an arrangement that Saf would go to Winterkeep without Skye, for six months at the most, because Saf needed some time. Skye has been hanging around Bitterblue City because a letter from Winterkeep would arrive there five or six weeks sooner than it would arrive in Lienid.
Three months later, Skye has joined Saf in Winterkeep. He is staying at the Cavenda residence. Skye and Saf have gotten back together, and are going to Mantiper to help the Mantiperans look for a sea passage east to Lienid.
Upon arriving in Ledra, Giddon picks up a letter from Perry that Skye sent for Bitterblue. He and Saf have passed through Kamassar and most of the Borza coast. Before leaving Winterkeep, Saf kept getting an image from the silbercows of Quona Varana's house and a disturbance that upset them. Skye says he finds riding on trains to be thrilling.
Relationships[]
Sapphire Birch[]
Skye and Saf have been together romantically for a little more than two years. They have spent the years after the events of Bitterblue sailing together on Pikkian mapmaking missions in the northern Winter Sea. Saf keeps breaking up with Skye, only to come back to him. Saf's a lot younger than Skye, and he more or less hates that Skye is a prince.
Trivia[]
- Skye and Po are the only unmarried sons of King Ror.