According to KQ3 manual it states Manannan kidnaps children when they are one year old. KIXX synopses follows this detail state he was one year old when he was kidnapped. The summaries in KQ5 Hintbook and an InterAction article says that Alexander was kidnapped when he was around six months old.[9][10] Most sources (including the Companion and novels) state he was an infant when he was kidnapped (an infant is a baby up to age 1). In Kingdom of Sorrow it says that he was “no more than infant” which may suggest closer to the 1 year date than over.
In KQ3 (and About KQ5 and About King's Quest I-V), he was kidnapped from his cradle/crib one night (location not specified but presumably in the castle since it was at night)[11][12][13][14]
In KQ5 hintbook and an article in InterAction magazine he was kidnapped from his crib in middle of the night in the nursery.[15][16]
In the KQ6 and KQ7 hintbooks say he was kidnapped from home (implying the castle).[17][18]
In the Companion he was kidnapped on a summer day/evening/night from his cradle on edge of Lake Maylie.[19][20][21][22]
Hard times hit Daventry right after he was kidnapped. The family were despondent…[23][24][25][26]
One motive suggested why Manannan kidnapped Alexander specifically is because it was revenge over Graham rescuing Valanice from Hagatha.[27][28][29][30]
Alexander is kidnapped a second time by pirates during his escape from Llewdor.[31]
Alexander was kidnapped a third time by Mordack, along with his mother, sister, the castle staff along with the castle.[32]
Abdul Alhazred masterminded and helped with the kidnapping of Cassima by Mordack.[40][41]
Abdul effectively kidnapped the princess a second time by isolating her from everyone in the castle. He later kidnapped her hiding her in a tower in preparations to kill her after the false wedding to his genie Shamir. The Amiga box advertised her as a kidnapped princess Alexander needed to rescue.[42][43]
Shadrack wanted Abdul to kidnap Cassima for him as well for his peculiar habits. He didn’t care if she was dead or alive.
Telgrin effectively kidnapped Graham by stealing crucial aspect of his soul his mind and essence of his person.[46]
Alexander later rescues his father’s soul speaking to him, and brings him back to his body.
Telgrin as a stealer of souls has a habit of taking kings's souls turning them into his black knights. This kills the victim though as body cannot live long without a soul.
Lydia[]
Lydia was effectively kidnapped by Telgrin from her own father taking to away from her homeland in the stolen floating castle.[47]
Rosella[]
Kidnapped by Lolotte and her minions in order to marry a cursed Edgar.[48][49]
Kidnapped a second time by Mordack along with her brother, mother, castle staff and the castle.
Kidnapped a third time by the False Troll King (a cursed Edgar) to be forced into marriage yet again.[50][51]
Mananan had a history of kidnapping infant boys and killing them before adulthood (children can be considered an infant anywhere from birth to 1 year old).[75][76][77]
The legendary accounts of Manannan states that he kidnapped one year olds, and/or young boys. Most are infants at 1 year (or under). Youngest accounts given is a victim at around six months old.[78]
Manannan has had an unknown number of slaves. His first three are more or less acknowledged. Then accounts mention some unspecified later ones killed at 18, and number of ones had to be killed earlier than regular cycle. Finally we know of his last victim Alexander-Gwydion who defeated him.
Rosanella was kidnapped from her bed one night.[80]
References[]
↑"You're the one that kidnapped Ahi'aorina," he said. "You're Kuzgu."
↑ Kuzgu said he had kidn pped Queen Ahi'aorina in order to make Dunstan happy. That much seemed true, but was it the imp's only motive?
↑Captive for 17 years, kidnapped prince escapes evil wizard, Medusa, monsters, bandits, and pirates.
↑However, Manannan's most recent vassal, a boy he called Gwydion, was unusually bright and perceptive. He mastered several of the wizard's spells and turned them against the tyrant to gain his freedom. Gwydion was, of course, the kidnapped Prince Alexander.
↑One spell lets Gwydion understand what the small animals chatter between themselves. From them and a neighborhood oracle, he learns that he is really a kidnapped prince.
↑In a far-off land known as Llewdor, there lived a wicked old Wizard named Manannan. Like most of us, he hates housework. One day he discovers that a boy whom he has kidnapped makes a dandy housekeeper. As we join the story, the boy Gwydion--unfortunately, that's you--has reached his seventeenth birthday and lost interest in his chores; he has started to chase girls and hang out in town.
↑ Manannan was waiting for him in the dining hall. Princess Cassima, if you recall, had warned the king about the cat. Here he was now, the same evil one who had kidnapped his son, and was now threatening to eat his family.
↑TFC, pg. 49: While still an infant, he had been kidnapped by the wizard Mannanan; he was eighteen years old before he could escape and return to Daventry.
↑ Mannanan" stole you from your family when you were only one year old, to be trained to serve his every need.
↑Instead, he impressed a very young boy to do his bidding, taking the lad when he was only a year old, so he would have no memories to tug at him in the years to come.
↑"\"Well,\" began the other one, \"When he was a baby, he was stolen from his cradle one night by that awful wizard, Manannan, who brought him here and raised him. I hear he treats the boy terribly.\""
↑"King Graham points to the mirror. \"That was once a magic mirror, son,\" he says sadly. \"But, it has been clouded ever since the night you disappeared from your cradle.\""
↑Unfortunately, Alexander, as a baby, was stolen unnoticed from his crib one night.
↑ time. But the young prince was stolen from his cradle, and the kingdom went into years of deep mourning.
↑One morning about six months later, Queen Valanice looked into the nursery and found it unattended with Alexander's crib empty and Rosella crying uncontrollably. The castle was scoured high and low, and every inch of Daventry was searched, but there never was any sign of the little boy.
↑Six months after their birth, Alexander was kidnapped from the nursery at night by an unseen interloper. Every inch of Daventry was searched, but he had disappeared without a trace.
↑Alas, we will never forget the terrible day that King Graham's tiny heir was spirited away from his cradle.
Snatched from his home as a tiny infant, he was enslaved by the evil wizard Manannan for almost eighteen years in the Land of Llewdor.
↑But when the baby boy was still just a squeaker, he was snatched from his home by the evil wizard Manannan, and made a slave. He was so little when the nasty sorcerer took him that he never even knew he was a prince.
↑As an infant he was kidnapped out of his cradle by the wizard Manannan. His parents had taken the babies and some friends on a summer outing on Lake Maylie. Manannan evidently put some kind of a brief spell on the assemblage; one moment Alexander was there, the next he was gone, though the cradle still rocked.
↑To look at Prince Alexander today, it is hard to imagine that he is the same person as the bawling babe who was snatched one summer's evening from the rocking cradle on the shores of Lake Maylie, all those years ago.
↑Merlin's Mirror, which had been dull since the night I was kidnapped, shone again, ready to foretell the future.
↑The pleasure of seeing those smiles on Alexander's face was denied me, as was his childhood and youth after he was stolen from his cradle by the shores of Lake Maylie.
↑She replies, \"Hard times hit Daventry right after you were kidnapped. Dad and Mum tried, but it was like they had lost their will.\" Clenching her fist, Rosella continues. \"We were down on our guard, and the terrible dragon came. We all thought it was the end.\""
↑"You hear one of the birds speak to the other, \"See that young fellow over there? When that old wizard, Manannan, kidnapped him, I heard tell his real parents were heartbroken over his loss.\""
↑Perhaps his good judgment and wisdom hadn't recovered from the shock of Alexander's kidnapping, or perhaps it was just poor advice on the part of his prime minister.
↑A sharp twinge of sadness ran through Graham. Graham's own son, Alexander, had been kidnapped while no more than an infant. If he had still been at home, he would have been about the same age as this boy. With the years that had passed since Alexander's disappearance, the pain of his loss did not come as often. Days went by now in which Graham thought of Alexander not at all-which only compounded his loss with guilt.
↑A Daventry People excerpt that Derek sent to us (written soon after Alexander's escape) speaks of Hagatha as sister to Manannan, and claims that Manannan kidnapped Graham and Valanice' s son in revenge for Graham deed against Hagatha.
↑The evil wizard who kidnapped Prince Alexander and kept him as a slave for 17 years. Manannan is the brother of both Mordack, and the evil witch Hagatha (sometimes known as Dame Hagatha). Manannan is said to have kidnapped the infant Alexander in revenge for King Graham's rescue of Valanice from his sister.
↑King Graham's family, in fact, his entire castle, has been kidnapped by the evil wizard Mordack! He has shrunk them all down and imprisoned them in a glass bottle, intending to feed them to his brother Manannan (whom Alexander turned into a cat in King's Quest III).
↑He told Graham that Mordack, the brother of Manannan (remember him? Cat man?) had kidnapped his family in revenge for his brother's kittyfication.
↑Free at last, he goes into town and is kidnapped by a band of pirates who could recognize a country bumpkin when they saw one.
↑Mordack's kidnap of Castle Daventry and everyone in it was a direct, if
unforseen, consequence of Alexander's triumph over Manannan.
↑Princess of the Kingdom of Green Isles, she was kidnapped by Mordack and enslaved in his castle as a scullery maid. This experience is quite similar to what befell Alexander- Gwydion, and probably explains the instant bond that formed between the two when they met.
↑Cassima says that she lost the locket when Mordack kidnapped her in the Green Isles.
↑Once there, he emerges from Mordack's basement maze (doesn't everybody have one?) and befriends the captured Princess Cassima, kidnapped by Mordack from the Green Isles for refusing to marry him.
↑ "Why, this is mine. Where did you get it? I thought I had lost it when Mordack kidnapped me."
↑My name is Princess Cassima, and Mordack kidnapped me when I refused his offer of marriage.
↑In the process, Graham also released a stolen princess, Cassima, from her bondage in Mordack's castle and sent her back to her home of the Land of the Green Isles.
↑Haunted by the memory of the kidnapped princess who helped his family escape the malevolent wizard Mordack, Alexander learns of a plot to force the beautiful Cassima to marry an evil Vizier.
↑”Alhazed has been plotting to take over the kingdom from the very start—he's in league with someone named Shade-and as you suspected, he was even behind your kidnapping by Mordack.
↑ That Alhazred was the one who helped Mordack kidnap Cassima?
↑Amiga box: “Help Prince Alexander rescue a kidnapped princess.”
↑The royal family of Daventry was finally all together. No one was kidnapped, no one had heart disease, and everyone was content. Okay, not everyone. Alexander was pining away for the lovely Cassima. He had taken one look at her and fallen madly in love. He was gazing into the magic mirror one day (doesn't that thing cause a lot of trouble?) and saw that poor Cassima had been locked up in a tower!
↑Well...you see...I was stolen as a baby, by an evil faerie named Lolotte. She twisted my body and tried to twist my mind, but somehow I know I was not her son...then Rosella appeared. I--knew she was special. She released me from my slavery to Lolotte, and I went home to Etheria."
↑He had been stolen as a baby by Lolotte. You remember her, Father," Graham smiled. "Not nearly as well as you do, I'm sure, Rosella." "Then he told about how we had first met, and all that." "AIl that being how you rescued him and how he had never forgotten you?" her father reminded her.
↑ The magician Telgrin has stole. a crucial part of your father's soul. Without it, this body is but an empty husk. It will linger for a while, growing steadily weaker, until it finally dies. No man can live without a soul."
↑ Alexander frowned. "I don't know. It may be that she is someone Telgrin ki nann d from another place, perhaps a great beauty. Telgrin did seem jealous of us."
↑In the space of two days, just before her eighteenth birthday, Rosella was tied to a stake and left as sacrifice to a dragon, was rescued by the brother she had never met and had thought dead, watched her father collapse into a near-death coma, was taken to Tamir to find the magic fruit that would save him, kidnapped by a witch, swallowed by a whale, chased by an ogre, escaped a troll, and a few other things.
↑In the great tradition of both her mother and brother, however, she gets herself kidnapped by Lolotte, a wicked witch down to the green of her skin.
↑Edgar (KQ7): “Rosella...it was I who lured you into this world. I--kidnapped you. I know you can never forgive me, but please let me assure you that I was not in my right mind. I would never..."
↑"After all, you had seemingly been snatched away before my very eyes and taken away-kidnapped. My only thought was to save you."
↑Graham rescued Valanice
from the Crystal Tower, where she had been held prisoner by Hagatha after her kidnapping. Valanice is a scholar and a teacher in Daventry, and is the author of the court chronicle detailing Rosella's adventures in Tamir. The kidnapping of her son Alexander from his cradle was a massive blow to her, not just because of the loss, but because it reopened memories of her own kidnapping.
↑The place where Valanice was kept prisoner after she was kidnapped by Hagatha.
↑……win a kingdom, or win the hand of a kidnap, ed princess.
↑He knew also that the "fairest of all fair maidens," as he described her, was imprisoned in a tower somewhere. She had been put there by her kidnapper, a witch who called herself Hagatha.
↑Perhaps he could find a hiding place in the forest, someplace out of sight of the old hag he had just spied-the witch whose name, he was sure, was Hagatha-the same witch who had kidnap ed the object of his quest.
↑ Unlocked it was, the witch perhaps trusting the isle's remote and peculiar location as prison enough for the kidnapped princess.
↑That decision made, he checks out the magic mirror and, Lo!, he sees a beautiful maiden held captive in a Crystal Tower. She has been kidnapped by a wicked witch named Hagatha, and is crying out for rescue.
↑ She has been kidnar, ed by the witch Hagatha and imprisoned in a Crystal Tower on some enchanted island.
↑King Graham saw in his magic mirror a vision of a lovely young women held prisoner in a quartz tower. The captive maiden was named Valanice, a girl both beautiful and wise. She had been stolen from her home and taken to a far land.
↑Using it, and the fact that Mordack's Wand of Magic had been nearly drained dry of power, King Graham was able to defeat the evil wizard who had kidnapped his family.
↑Graham (KQ5): “He kidnapped my family and is holding them hostage there.”, "My family has been kidnapped by Mordack.”
↑One day, while King Graham was out for a swim, Mordack used his evil magic to kidnap Valanice, Alexander, and Rosella--along with the entire castle of Daventry!
↑Graham's family had been taken along for the ride, kidnapped together this time.
↑"Sir, my name is Graham, and the wizard Mordack has kidnapped my family. Cedric and I were trying to reach his island when we were attacked.
↑ Graham listened to the exchange and decided that if Madame Mushka could help unravel the mystery of his family's kidnap, ing, then it would be well worth the price of his lone piece of gold.
↑He said he knew that Mordack was "A bad one, with an evil mind," but could give no clue as to why he might kidnap the king's castle and family.
↑ The Third Adventure of King Graham (In which he Rescues the kidnapped Royal Family, recovers his missing Castle, and vanquishes the dread wizard Mordack)
↑His call was answered by a good-hearted owl named Cedric who told Graham the name of his family's kidnapper; Mordack, brother of Manannan.
↑ King Graham must rescue his kidnapped family from the clutches of an evil wizard, Mordack, who has whisked them and their castle to a faraway land in revenge for his brother, the wizard Manannan, who had suffered a humiliating defeat at the hands of Graham's son, Alexander (as seen in KING' S QUEST III: "To Heir is Human.").
↑King Graham's family was kidnapped by the evil wizard Mordack and imprisoned inside of a glass bottle. This was done in revenge for Alexander having turned his brother Manannan into a cat sometime back.
↑ One day, while King Graham was out for a swim, Mordack used his evil magic to kidnap Valanice, Alexander, and Rosella--along with the entire castle of Daventry!
↑The royal family of Daventry has been kidnapped! The castle has vanished without a trace!
↑It was his wont to kidnap infant boys and raise them to be his slaves, eliminating each in turn before he was full-grown and could pose a threat to the wizard's dominance.
↑It was his wont to kidnap infant boys and raise them to be his slaves. Before his slaves were full-grown and could pose a threat to the wizard's dominance, Manannan ridded himself of each in turn.
↑In the land of Llewdor, there lives an evil magician named Manannan. How evil is he? Instead of employing servants to cater to his peculiar needs, he keeps a slave, just one, a young boy whom he kidnaps and then raises from infancy. When the slave reaches his 18th birthday, there is no party - Manannan kills him and starts over with another boy. Now that's evil!
↑Instead, he impressed a very young boy to do his bidding, taking the lad when he was only a year old, so he would have no memories to tug at him in the years to come.
↑Rose quartz in color, it reminds us of the tower where Rapunzel was held captive after she was kidnapped by the witch named Dame Gothel. Rapunzel was stolen from her parents as payment for some vegetables in the witch's garden that her mother craved.
↑Rosanella, however, was kidnapped from her bed one night, and no matter how much the king and queen searched, she could not be found.
