Prince Eugene Edouard Emmanuel D'Pasha, heir to the Kingdom of Marble, sporting a set of horns that suggest unusual parentage on at least one side of his family, is feeling a little bored. He spies an ad from an adventuring party looking for a fighter, and joins up.
Eugene is a good fighter, but energetic, easily distracted, and constantly horny, managing to exhaust each of Michel, Hocus, and Ani in various ways. Still, when they reach a town where people keep going missing and the local church may be involved, he doesn't shy from a fight, or from asserting his authority as Prince to make certain the guilty party will face repercussions.
Wells throws in some backstory for each party member, and has them interact as a group and in various pairs to let the personalities show through. For example, Ani is the most abrasive, but there's an ease to how Michel and Hocus react that shows they're familiar with her personality in a way Eugene is not.
Wells sets up a few things that likely would pay off in subsequent adventures - Michel having been hunted in the past, Ani's fury at how people like her who gained magic without praying to a deity were exterminated, Michel's warning to Eugene that if he rules, his hands will become bloody - but as far as I know, there hasn't been another volume released.
I posted a longer review 3.5 years ago. Doesn't feel like it was that long ago, but time flies.
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