In the real world, Prestor John is considered to be a myth. But who exactly is he, and what is his basis in history? It’s clear that Prestor John will be a major figure in season 3, perhaps even the main antagonist. But when Jingim and Byamba ride in from Karakurum at the end of the episode, the camp is completely abandoned - except for Prestor John’s bloody staff stuffed into the dirt. Marco, seeing the approaching force, is able to warn Kublai. Then, after Kublai’s forces destroy the Crusader army that Pope Gregory had sent to China, Niccolo Polo is left to wander alone through the wilderness until he encounters Prester John the same way Nayan had.Īnd then, finally, in the season finale, we see Prester John’s army for the first time as it approaches the Mongol camp at Xanadu, where Kublai and a whole bunch of other major characters are staying.
First, when he wipes out a camp of Mongols - with no bodies left behind, weirdly. We catch glimpses of Prester John in later episodes. I’ve sent emissaries in search of him, but none has ever returned.”Īlso Read: 'Marco Polo' Season 2 Trailer Promises All Out War for Mongolia (Video) His vast army sweeps undetected across the land, leveling faithless villages and cities…Our Crusaders have long prayed to meet him and his army. “Descended from the Magi, casts shadows in the night, resides by the river of heaven, which imparts everlasting life.” “We’ve all heard the stories,” Nayan says. They walked together for weeks, Nayan says, without food or water and without any thirst or hunger.
Nayan says he was alone in the desert, dying, when he encountered a man who saved him through supernatural means. Also Read: 'Marco Polo' Fact Check: Did the Pope Really Send Crusaders Against Kublai Khan?
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