Jayant Mir Madhu is a character from Mermaid Princess Amelia fantasy series by Maxine Foti. He made his first appearance in “Stories from the Undersea World of Mermaid Princess Amelia.”
Jayant Mir Madhu was the old great maharaja of Honey Earth. He was the father of Jaya Mia Madhu and Shri Mir Madhu, and grandfather of Jet Mir Thakur and his three cousins: Lipika Mia Madhu, Sha Mir Madhu and Shafia Mia Madhu.
After giving away the throne to his children (Jaya Mia and Shri Mir), Jayant Mir retired and sailed across the ocean in his crab-shaped submarine, one in which Jet Mir Thakur fled the country after his exile.
In the submarine, Jet Mir Thakur found many objects belonging to his grandfather Jayant Mir. This helped him reconstruct his identity after exile.
For starters, Jayant Mir travelled plenty, and must have known some mermaids from Bursztynia (Southern Baltic), or at least been acquainted with Polish culture. In the front page of his logbook, he had the quote written by Poland’s national bard:
“Be your own rudder, your own sailor, your own ship;
Hello, the dawn of freedom, the sun of salvation is behind you.“
– Adam Mickiewicz
Jet Mir spent quite a lot of time looking for his grandfather’s cabin on the submarine. Eventually, he found it. The cabin hasn’t been frequented for around twenty years (probably) and smelled like old paper, decaying wood and stale perfume. Inside, Jet Mir found: chimes made from bottle glass, a candy tin with screws, nails and scraps of metal, a map with his grandfather’s routes and notes from his journeys. From those, Jet Mir learned that the man was looking for the guardian plates because he first read about them in the Universal Legend, a document which was originally from Lihirient, Arabian Sea.
Jayant Mir Madhu found the guardian plate with the help of the succulents storing memories. The one who gave him this idea was Braam von Weidst, an elderly ascetic from the Skeleton Coast. Jayant Mir then bought succulents on the flea markets in the poorer areas of the southern oceans (or traded them with local merchildren for coins, bottle caps and metal pins).
Jayant Mir didn’t die in the submarine; he died in the Mrigatrishna City, after returning home to celebrate Holi. He died from a lingering illness.
What’s interesting is that Jet Mir, was exiled shortly after Diwali. Holi and Diwali are India’s greatest holidays. Holi is the festival of spring and color, Diwali is the festival of autumn and light triumphing over darkness. So, in a way, one captain finished his trip before Holi, and another set off after Diwali.
Jet Mir felt that he had to continue the mission of his grandfather, but he didn’t have enough money. He ended up running out of fuel and needed to go to the Bermuda Triangle. Queen Larimara Lanorth helped rescue the submarine, and bring it back.
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