Archduke of Autumn

Archduke of Autumn
Main aliases:	Koschei, Duke of Autumn
Place of origin:	Obverse
First mentioned in:	Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death [+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"]
First appearance:	The Scarlet Shadow [+]Loading...["The Scarlet Shadow (short story)"]
Appearances:	PROSE: The World of Lies [+]Loading...["The World of Lies (novel)"]

An individual once named Koschei, known in the wider multiverse as the Archduke of Autumn (PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow ^[+]Loading...["The Scarlet Shadow (short story)"]) and in Egortiye as the Duke of Autumn, (PROSE: The World of Lies ^[+]Loading...["The World of Lies (novel)"], AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death ^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"]) was a sinister yet beguiling alchemist. (PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow ^[+]Loading...["The Scarlet Shadow (short story)"],The World of Lies ^[+]Loading...["The World of Lies (novel)"])

Iris Wildthyme knew him to be a renegade from the Obverse. (PROSE: The Scarlet Shadow ^[+]Loading...["The Scarlet Shadow (short story)"])

The Queen of Spring mentioned the Duke of Autumn to Bernice Summerfield when she visited their prison realm. (AUDIO: Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death ^[+]Loading...["Professor Bernice Summerfield in the Masquerade of Death (audio story)"])

Behind the scenes

• The "Duke of Autumn" was a name taken by the Tremas Master in the story It's Raining Again by Stewart Sheargold and Paul Magrs in the charity publication Perfect Timing II.
  • Sheargold referenced this in PROSE: The Velvet Dark ^[+]Loading...["The Velvet Dark (short story)"], which showed the Tremas Master being trapped in a forest resembling the prison of the Duke of Autumn.