The youngest legitimate son of King Shrewd, whose resentment of Fitz and contempt for the coastal duchies he considers beneath his ambitions make him the primary antagonist of the Farseer Trilogy. Regal is not a subtle villain - his cruelty and self-interest are apparent - but Hobb grounds his behaviour in comprehensible psychology rather than pure malevolence. His treatment of Fitz and of Verity is the source of the trilogy's most direct moral outrage.