Crocodile

Cold, calculating king who crushed enemies with icy precision.

Philip IV, known as 'the Fair,' was famously emotionless and inscrutable — contemporaries noted his sphinx-like, unreadable face and total emotional detachment. He systematically destroyed the Knights Templar through patient, methodical plotting, fabricating charges and waiting years to execute his plan, then struck with devastating legal and political precision in 1307. His reign was defined by cold strategic calculation — suppressing the Pope, expelling Jews from France, and breaking any institution that threatened royal power — without ever appearing ruffled or reactive.