Chapter 1: Ice Princess (A)

"You don’t know? You’d think such a fantastical tale would spread like a wildfire… It is said that some two decades ago out King Haiqin found a baby encased in ice on a hunting trip. He took her in as his own daughter, and because of her pale hair and pale eyes as well as her icy cradle the King dubbed her the Ice Princess. It was all kept very hush-hush… but some months ago there was a supposed leak, and rumours reached Ostin’s ears. It went downhill from there. He called her a freak, a harbinger of destruction, the second coming of the Feathered Race that very nearly decimated the humanity two centuries ago!…"

- Mars to GhostBlade

Chapter 1: Ice Princess (A) (第1章冰公主（A）) is the second chapter of the overall GhostBlade comics, written and illustrated by Wang Ling.

Overview
GhostBlade comes to the Kingdom of Haiqin where he meets the citizens of Haiqin protesting outside the royal castle and a fat little boy named Mars working in Grey's Smithy. Mars tells this unknown traveler why the people are protesting, because of a princess in the castle who could start a war. With a gold bar, GhostBlade gets Mars to help him.

Grey and Mars
"Fairy tale? I assure you, Mars, that this is no fairy tale. Our own younger generation denies out history; what has the world come to"

- Grey to Mars

Grey sits with big books and candles in a dark room telling Mars the fantastic tales of war from ages ago and a hero named Ostin who is a half-angel and half-human. Mars who listens thinks they're boring as he has heard them so many times. Grey gets upset about Mars. Though before it ends they talk about this Ostin and how old angels like him could be.

GhostBlade meets Mars
"You don’t know? You’d think such a fantastical tale would spread like a wildfire… It is said that some two decades ago out King Haiqin found a baby encased in ice on a hunting trip. He took her in as his own daughter, and because of her pale hair and pale eyes as well as her icy cradle the King dubbed her the Ice Princess. It was all kept very hush-hush… but some months ago there was a supposed leak, and rumours reached Ostin’s ears. It went downhill from there. He called her a freak, a harbinger of destruction, the second coming of the Feathered Race that very nearly decimated the humanity two centuries ago!…"

- Mars to GhostBlade

GhostBlade comes to the Kingdom of Haiqin finding citizens trying to storm Haiqin castle. He asks a little boy named Mars, standing working in Grey's Smithy. Mars tells him what is going on and says that Ostin, a member and leader of the Templars and The Six wants the ice princess, the princess of Haiqin. He thinks she is an enemy and could start a new feather race war. But the king of Haiqin doesn't want to hand her over so Ostin says if he hasn't handed her over by the end of the month the Templars will come to get her themselves. Mars describes the ice princess to GhostBlade saying she is like an insect. GhostBlade thinks this is interesting and gives Mars a block of gold and byes to horses.

Characters

 * GhostBlade
 * Mars
 * Grey

Locations

 * Neraland
 * Kingdom of Haiqin
 * royal castle
 * Grey's Smithy

Events

 * Haiqin Citizens storms Haiqin Castle (start)

Species

 * Humans
 * Angels (mentioned)
 * Horses (mentioned)

Organizations

 * Templars (mentioned)

Mentioned

 * Ostin

Trivia

 * Chapter 1: Ice Princess (A) is pronounces in Chinese Mandarin like this Dì 1 zhāng bīng gōngzhǔ (A)