Location from Prince of Thorns by Mark Lawrence
Where the Brothers live — the muddy, dangerous paths between kingdoms where a band of killers is both predator and pilgrim.
The roads are where the first book lives — Jorg and the Brothers moving from one atrocity to the next, sleeping rough, raiding villages, and slowly working toward Jorg's goal of returning to Ancrath. The road is freedom and savagery simultaneously. It's where Jorg became what he is, and it's where the reader is forced to ride alongside him.
Mud, rain, forest, and the occasional village that hasn't been burned yet. The roads of the Hundred Kingdoms are not maintained infrastructure — they are tracks through wilderness, connecting settlements that exist in a state of permanent vulnerability. Bandit territory. War territory. Jorg's territory.
Also known as: The Road