Question

Who was the bearded man?

Answer 1

Hint:
-The "Three Questions" chapter is a very fascinating tale of a King who feels he/she will never lose in life if only one knew the answers to three basic questions.
-To those three questions, he finds answers.
-His journey towards seeking the answers circles around the plot.

Complete answer:
The bearded man was the brother of the person who was sentenced to death, and the king took away his land. He was injured when the king's soldiers came out of the ambush and killed the king. By killing the king and taking away all his land, he decided to take vengeance for his brother's death. The bearded man begged mercy from the king because he tried to kill the king, but his life was spared by the king. He is now thankful to the monarch.

The king is able to pardon the bearded man and even arranges to treat him with his own doctors. The king said goodbye to the bearded man, and went outside, where the hermit revealed to him the answers to his three questions. Since the king supported the hermit, he did not arrive at the ambush site of the bearded man, so he could not be killed. Since the man's wounds were bound by the king, the man did not die, and he was willing to make peace with the king. The compassion of the king was important to the path events taken, and so the safest course of action is to act with kindness in any case.

Note: For the moral of the parable, the bearded man then acts as a kind of "delivery method": the one who was an adversary became the steadfast friend of the king, since the king showed him kindness and offered him support when he needed it.