Lord British is the older male who rules Britannia and functions as a sort of icon. He achieved this position by forging one united kingdom from many fractured city-states. He cares deeply about this land and its people, but he is currently overwhelmed by the problems at hand. Unlike the Avatar, he has made Britannia his permanent home and is not split between worlds. Unfortunately, though, and in spite of his good intentions, his governorship has been passive, and he repeatedly relies on the Avatar, whom he personally knighted, to rid the land of evil. Like a loving but preoccupied father, he loves those in his care but canΓÇÖt keep up with their new-fangled activities and problems, and they cease to rely on him. The evil present in his land is unlike anything he has ever seen or expected to see, and he simply does not know how to handle it. His reaction, or non-reaction, has become a kind of paralysis.
