# King Sekakis — Master Flea character guide

> King Sekakis in Master Flea by E. T. A. Hoffmann.

**Role:** supporting

**Also known as:** Sekakis

**First appearance:** 0000-i-first-adventure

## Snapshot

A magical monarch whose love for the beautiful Gamaheh draws him into the catastrophe that scatters her and imprisons Master Flea.

## Who they are

King Sekakis belongs to the enchanted prehistory that Master Flea recounts: a ruler whose infatuation with Gamaheh sets the tragedy in motion when the Leech-Prince strikes and the Thistle Zeherit and Genius Thetel blunder in. His presence lingers as the origin of the princess's peril and the reason the flea's kingdom fell into Leeuwenhoek's hands. Though distant from Frankfurt's streets, he anchors the novel's fairy-tale logic and gives Gamaheh's story its royal, doomed weight.

## In the story

### [II: Second Adventure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/master_flea_se/chapters/ii-second-adventure)

Mentioned in Leeuwenhoek's backstory as having lived in intimate intercourse with the Flower-Queen, fathering Princess Gamaheh.

### [III: Third Adventure](https://www.betterreads.dev/discover/master_flea_se/chapters/iii-third-adventure)

Mentioned as the father of Princess Gamaheh.

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