Jorg Ancrath

Character from Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

A prince who fell into a thorn bush at nine and came out a monster — who burned villages at fourteen, conquered kingdoms at eighteen, and saved the world at twenty by refusing to let anyone else destroy it first.

Also known as: Prince of Thorns, King of Thorns, Emperor of Thorns, The Prince, King Jorg

What They Know

• At nine, watched his mother and brother William die in a briar patch during Count Renar's attack — the thorns scarred his arms and his psyche permanently
• Led the road brothers from age fourteen — a band of criminals who followed a child because the child was more dangerous than any of them
• The dream-mage Sageous had been suppressing his will for years — when Jorg broke free, the accumulated rage drove his most destructive acts
• Discovered the world is post-apocalyptic Earth — 'Builders' are our civilization, 'magic' is radiation and remnant technology, the Hundred Kingdoms are feudal Europe rebuilt on nuclear ruins
• Can see and command the dead (necromancy), manipulate fire, and interface with Builder technology through the data-space — the line between magic and science is deliberately blurred
• Won the Empire at the Congress of Lords in Vyene — united the Hundred Kingdoms through a combination of conquest, politics, and the threat of the Dead King's army
• Married Miana of the Horse Coast — began as political convenience, became genuine love, had a son
• His father King Olidan chose politics over avenging his family — Jorg's relationship with his father is defined by that original betrayal of inaction

Connections

• leads — makin
• leads — rike
• leads — nuban
• leads — gorgoth
• loves — katherine
• married_to — miana
• child_of — olidan
• enemy_of — sageous
• enemy_of — dead_king
• enemy_of — renar
• ally_of — fexler

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