Artus in Campione! is a God who only descends to eliminate Campiones who have begun wreaking havoc in the world, sleeping in solitude the rest of the time.Yhwach reveals the last stanza of the legend is that 9 days after he regains his power, he'll regain the world. The Final Arc takes place during the year he regains his power and plunges everyone into a war he started a thousand years ago. The legend states that 900 years after he is sealed, he will regain his heartbeat 90 years after that, he'll regain his intellect 9 years after that, he'll regain his power. Bleach: The Quincies have ancient folklore speaking of a Sealed King.The legendary warrior king Colus III really is dead, but his Humongous Mecha and Artificial Human partner Clotho are sealed away waiting for a worthy descendant of the king to use them in his nation's time of need. Saya in Blood+, until a couple years before the first episode, and then again in the epilogue.Nakiami becomes this in the ending of Xam'd: Lost Memories.In Phantom Dreams, the Gekka family have a 'sleeping king.' Probably Sealed Evil in a Can for once.Unfortunately, the current Big Bad learned about her and sought her out, planning to use her and her undead army to terrorize Mid-Childa. Intended to never wake up despite all the text that spoke of her return since she was sick of all the fighting. Was sleeping in the underwater ruins uncovered during the construction of the Marine Gardens. The Dark King Ixpellia in StrikerS Sound Stage X of Lyrical Nanoha.Compare Present Absence, Rip Van Winkle, Year Outside, Hour Inside, and Stumbling Upon the Lost Wizard. Sister Trope to Sealed Good in a Can and Sealed Badass in a Can they overlap in those rare stories where the king does wake. See also Awakening the Sleeping Giant, which comes into play when it does happen while not technically neutral, they are effectively so because they are not in the fray. The implicit power is such that this trope is usually not played out to the end the king is alluded to, or seen asleep, but seldom wakened during the course of a story. The original folkloric motif generally referred the hero's awakening to The End of the World as We Know It the rise of nationalism altered the focus from the entire world to merely the nation. He will come again in his country's hour of need to play Big Damn Heroes. At any rate, somewhere difficult to access.

Islands and a Magical Land are other possibilities. Usually, but not necessarily, under a mountain. Thorin III Stonehelm † ( T.A.A legendary form of Faux Death: the Long-Dead Badass is not really dead, but asleep.Other figures can include Fëanor and Túrin (said to return from the dead at the Dagor Dagorath) and the King of Gondor (with Aragorn as the returned King). It refers to a kingly figure who remains hidden in a mountain or cave until a messianic return at the appointed time.Īccording to the Wikipedia article, the motif is also present at several points in Tolkien's legendarium: Ar-Pharazôn with his Great Armament was buried in the Caves of the Forgotten beneath the Pelóri until the End of the World the King of the Dead and the Men of the Mountains in Dunharrow, who returned to fulfill their oath and of course the King under the Mountain himself, with Thorin's return to Erebor. The term ' King under the Mountain' is a philological term for a certain motif in various mythologies and folklore around the world. Dáin II Ironfoot - reigned after Thorin's death in the Battle of Five Armies.Thorin II Oakenshield – regained the Kingdom.Smaug - claimed title and kingdom after the Sack of Erebor.Thrór – restored the Kingdom but lost it to Smaug.Thorin I – abandoned the Kingdom for the Grey Mountains.In both cases, the line was restored to a rightful heir. The line was broken twice, once by Thorin I (he and four generations of his descendants ruled from the Grey Mountains, not Lonely Mountain), and once by the Dragon Smaug (who claimed the title for himself). King under the Mountain was the title taken by Thráin I, founder of the Dwarf-kingdom of Lonely Mountain, and maintained by those Kings of Durin's Folk who dwelt there.

The king under the mountain trope