The Builders

Item from Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence

Us. The pre-apocalyptic civilization that the Hundred Kingdoms remember as mythological precursors — whose highways are ruins, whose bombs made the wasteland, and whose ghosts still flicker in the machines.

Also known as: The Builder Civilization, The Ancients

What They Know

• Our civilization — the pre-apocalyptic humans whose technology, infrastructure, and weapons created and destroyed the world the Hundred Kingdoms inhabit
• Destroyed by nuclear war approximately 1000 years before the trilogy — the Broken Empire is post-apocalyptic Earth
• Their technology is treated as magic by the Hundred Kingdoms — highways, bunkers, and weapons are incomprehensible artifacts
• The data-space is their internet; the radiation zones are their bomb craters; the leucrota are their mutation legacy

Connections

• created — data_space
• created — builder_ruins

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