Emperor Charles II

Emperor Charles II is a hemigod with the body of an emperor penguin and a member of the Leafeaters; he is the archnemesis of King Arthur.

Charles II came into being around 750 AD when an English monk—whose name is unknown but who is sometimes referred to as ‘Charles I’—by chance obtained and subsequently consumed some of King Arthur’s extrasterile algae tea. This act led to a severe distortion in the nature of his existence, turning Charles I into a mindless Sterility addict who subsequently went on a rampage near what is now the town of Adwick le Street in the West Riding of Yorkshire, leading to the death of around three dozen locals.

He was subsequently tracked down by King Arthur and had his Sterility severed from his mortal body via an Inverse Mandelbrot Transfer, granting him Super Death. By chance, remnants of his Sterility drifted all the way to Antarctica where they came to reside in the body of a penguin. This event engendered the hemigod known as Charles II. Though now an entirely different being, memory fragments of his death at the hands of King Arthur remained, which kindled a life-long hostility towards the latter.

The creation of Charles II became a well-known tale within C.H.E.S. and is generally used by King Arthur to dissuade new members from handing out Sterility-enhanced tea to untrained individuals. Murdock mac Leod subsequently recruited Charles II into the Leafeaters shortly after the establishment of the faction.