George followed the Nordic adventurer known as Bartlett, step by step toward the hot springs.
The current king of Griffin Kingdom is also named George, is twenty years older than Squire George, and is known around the world as 'Kindhearted George'. He is a ruler praised for his benevolence or what could even be described as woman-like compassion. Regardless of whether these evaluations are true, they are widely spread:
Because he cannot bear to eat animals, even chickens, the king is a staunch vegetarian. Whenever he sees even an ant die, he stops and mourns for a while, ensuring the palace is cleaned thoroughly, thus no insect would ever appear before the king.
He's also a melancholic poet. When his favorite parrot died, he fasted in grief for three days and wrote six long poems for it, almost following it to the afterlife…
