ALL THREE POEMS explore different sides to the Rumpelstiltskin archetype – the guesser in Eon peninsula embodies the idea of the trickster having a dose of their own medicine, the usurper in Yakar peninsula is a diabolus ex machina, but also a coward who crawls away after the damage is done, and finally, the sterile rogue in Jikrrah peninsula is a deus ex machina in spite of his reputation as a “rogue".

KING DRUSUS AND KING RAVUS spearhead the destruction of Norfell and divide its resourc...