Jorg will sacrifice any friend no matter how precious or how loyal to achieve his ends. Might made right and with Jorg’s warped and yet, at times astute view of world he is a man of his time. It was the day of a thousand suns taking the world from the height of civilization back to medieval in about the time it took everyone to say… oh shit.Īnybody who has studied a bit of history knows that in medieval times if there were laws they were only enforceable by those with the brawny strength to uphold them. The Builders who despite the wonderful technologies or maybe because of them destroyed themselves. I would shake the world until its teeth rattled if that was required to have it spit out an answer. ”Whatever lay broken inside me had started to wind too tight to be ignored. Jorg might have spent his days whoring, gambling, and drinking, taking full advantage of being the neerdowell son, but with William dead and his father rejecting him. His father made it clear that the wrong son died. We don’t know what kind of man Jorg would have become if he had not witnessed the brutal deaths of his brother and mother while he hung in the thorns, hooked, bleeding, and too scared to rip himself loose. You are either with him or you are against him dead. He wants to rule the entire Broken Empire. He has seven principalities, but he didn’t come so far so fast to stop there. He is a natural born leader of rogues, thieves, and murderers and soon learns how to best use their skills to obtain what he desires. At fourteen he could swing a sword as well as any grown man. Oh no, that would have taken too long and required the type of patience of which he has very little. He did not achieve this feat with political intrigue. Jorg Ancrath is king of seven kingdoms at the tender age of twenty. The scars of the briar mark me, a calligraphy of violence, a message blood-writ, requiring a lifetime to translate.” Every man has his thorns, not of him, but in him, deep as bones. Life can tear away what’s vital to a man, hook it from him, one scrap at a time, leaving him empty-handed and beggared by the years. The best part of me still hangs there, on those thorns. I failed him, and though I’ve let many brothers die since, that first pain has not diminished. I hung in the thorns and let him die and the world has been wrong since that night. There are occasional forays into computer games too. Now his time is really just divided between writing and caring for his disabled daughter. Mark used to have a list of hobbies back when he did science by day.
At one point he was qualified to say 'this isn't rocket science. He has held secret level clearance with both US and UK governments. Before becoming a fulltime writer in 2015 day job was as a research scientist focused on various rather intractable problems in the field of artificial intelligence.
Mark Lawrence is married with four children, one of whom is severely disabled.
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