The Color Prince, also known as Lord Omnichrome, and later known by his followers as the White King, is a primary antagonist for the Lightbringer series. He was originally a noble named Koios White Oak, but has since been burned horribly. The first time the Color Prince is seen he uses Luxin to reconstruct much of his body. He is (or rather used to be,) the brother of Karris.
Just before the War Of The Prisms, Dazen Guile and Karris White Oak planned to elope, against the wishes of both of their sets of parents, as well as Karris' brothers. Rissum White Oak, father of Karris and her brothers, learned of the plan and informed her brothers, who set a trap for Dazen. When Dazen arrived at the White Oak estate, Karris was not there, but a maid lied and said that Karris was inside. As soon as Dazen entered, the seven brothers attacked him, intending to kill him for the imagined shame he had brought to their family. Dazen fought back and drafted Black Luxin. He killed six of the brothers, gaining the ability to draft their colors, and thought that Koios was dead as well after a burning wall fell on top of him. How Koios managed to survive this is currently unknown.
Koios is currently known as the White King or Wight King, to his supporters and antagonists respectively. He is often seen as a leader who manipulates his subjects with elaborate speeches to retain their support.
He also calls himself "Crystal Prophet, the Polychrome Master, the Eldritch Enlightened.”
The Black Prism[]
The Color Prince starts the series as one of Rask Garadul's allies during his war of secession. He operates his forces of drafters and wights almost like a mercenary group working alongside Rask Garadul, supporting Rask but not over-committing to him. The Color Prince makes a brief appearance during the massacre at Rekton, teaching Zymun how to use Red and Sub-Red luxin by drafting whips of fire to stir up horses. He spots Kip and Sanson escaping and hurls a large ball of fire at them.
After Karris is captured by Rask Garadul's army she is introduced to the Color Prince, who she soon identifies as her supposedly dead brother Koios. Koios reveals he barely survived the night when he and his brothers ambushed Dazen Guile at their estate, and he needed to rebuild much of his body with Luxin as a result of the injuries he sustained that night.
Later, when Liv and Kip infiltrate Rask Garadul's army in an attempt to save Karris, Liv encounters the Color Prince at one of his speeches condemning the Chromeria and its treatment of drafters. When Liv is later brought to him the Color Prince treats her well, making it known he knows she is the daughter of Corvan Danavis, but decides to try to persuade her to join him not with a threat against her father, but with an appeal to her reason. The Color Prince 'gifts' Liv with killing a few of his own men to save Karris and Kip, picking them off with his rifle, a marvelous weapon that can shoot musket balls fairly accurately are extreme range.
After Rask Garadul's army, supplemented by the Color Prince's drafters and wights, took Brightwater wall just before it was competed, the Color Prince encouraged Rask to lead his forces into the town of Garriston personally to 'inspire morale'. Shortly after the king moved forward the Color Prince deliberately kept his drafters and wights off the battlefield, giving an opening for Rask to be exposed and thus 'martyred' in battle. After Rask was killed by Kip the Color Prince took control of the remnant of Rask Garadul's army, claiming vengeance against those that had killed the king.