Tenebra Remanis

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"Tenebra" redirects here. For the nihil, see Tenebral Nihil.

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Prince Tenebra Remanis
Race								Vampyre
Gender								Male
Status								Deceased
Faction								Morytania (formerly Varrock)
First appearance								Return to Canifis
Last appearance								Legacy of Blood

Prince Tenebra Remanis, also known as The Black Prince, was a prominent member of the Drakan family, and was a human-born vampyre lord. He serves as the main villain of the RuneScape novels Return to Canifis and Legacy of Blood.

History

Tenebra was one of the Five Princes of Misthalin, being the eldest of the quintet. He, along with his brothers, rode to war against the dark forces of Morytania. He was captured by enemy forces and was tortured, killed and resurrected for nearly 20 years at the hands of Vanescula Drakan before he was converted into a vampyre. Tenebra was presumed dead along with his brothers Henry, Hywell and Bran. The youngest of the Five Princes of Misthalin (unknown name, the ancestor of current King Roald III) inherited the throne of Misthalin.

Charos's Journal records that Tenebra once attended a Great Hunt organised by Charos, Drakan's adviser. After Charos insulted Drakan's secret desire to find the Stone of Jas, Tenebra advised Charos to flee.

Tenebra took the moniker, "The Black Prince" and spent the following centuries planning how to take the throne, which was his by right. He amassed an army of undead, planted a false prophecy spoken by Leo V, and produced several heirs, though most were grotesque monstrosities that he incorporated into his army. He eventually succeeded in the Fifth Age, siring a child by a werewolf, Gar'rth. Gar'rth, being a werewolf-human hybrid (vampyrism was not hereditary), proved to be more wilful than his purebreed werewolf kin, resisting Zamorak and escaping over the River Salve in Year 163 of the Fifth Age.

Tenebra sent Jerrod, Gar'rth's maternal uncle, after his heir, though did not tell the werewolf why Gar'rth was so important. He also sent a Wyrd into Misthalin to weaken the River Salve in preparation for his invasion.

Jerrod the werewolf.

With Gar'rth currently in his father's possession, Tenebra moved forward with his plot to invade Misthalin, using several large siege machines built in the slums of Meiyerditch to take his place as Lord of both the Land of the Dead and of the Living.

While Gar'rth was under his watch, Tenebra forced him to try and accept Zamorak as a way of dealing with the Myreque. Throughout this time, Gar'rth tried and failed to kill his father several times. When Gar'rth refused to kill some Myreque captives and tried to kill Tenebra instead, Tenebra imprisoned Gar'rth with a dying girl and his old journals.

At the second Battle of the Salve, Tenebra released Gar'rth and marched with him and an army of zombies to the Paterdomus Temple. The zombies defeated the Misthalinian army and were on the point of victory when Gar'rth and Kara-Meir used the Sunspear to attack him. Tenebra ran back to get reinforcements from Vanescula's army, but she refused to send them over, having intended for him to die all along. When Tenebra died, the zombies in the temple lost any form of coherence and were easily defeated.

Personality

He treated those he deemed to have failed him harshly, banishing Jerrod from Morytania for being tricked into killing the Wyrd and imprisoning Gar'rth for disobeying him.

He seemed to have some form of rivalry with Vanescula Drakan.

Family

Roald I †

Tarrlo †

Unknown

Unknown

Henry †

Hywell †

Bran †

Tenebra †

Unknown

Jerrod

Unknown

Gar'rth

Siblings

Claudius †

Unknown

Unknown

Botolph †

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Unknown

Roald II †

Unknown

Unknown

Roald III

Ellamaria

Unknown

Tarquin Marjoribanks

Notes

• While Roald III and Tarquin Marjoribanks are fourth cousins once-removed, it is unknown if it is Roald in Tarquin's parent's generation, or Tarquin in Roald's parents' generation.

Mentioned

This list is compiled as a part of an ongoing project and may be incomplete.

Transcripts Tenebra Remanis is mentioned in:

• Charos's Journal

Trivia

• It is likely that Tenebra is based on Edward of Woodstock (1330-1376), the eldest son of Edward III of England, known better as "the Black Prince". This name was given either due to the colour of his arms, or due to his black reputation against the French he ruled over in Aquitaine. This seem to be in par with Tenebra's character, who is also the eldest son of a king but did not succeed him. Additionally, both of them were very successful military commanders.
• Tenebra is likely derived from tenebrae, which is Latin for darkness.
• If the player is wielding the Sunspear when speaking to Kara-Meir at the desert goebie camp she describes how she used a similar dagger which likely originated from the same spear used to kill Tenebra.