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The Broken Empire Trilogy

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The Broken Empire Trilogy	comment	We first meet our hero, Prince Honorous Jorg Ancrath, when he's a lad of thirteen years, burning a peasant village, slaughtering the farmers and raping their daughters. It only gets worse from there. Jorg may be nothing but the leader of a murderous band of outlaws now, but his ultimate goal is to win the war that has torn the land asunder for centuries and crown himself Emperor over a hundred squabbling kingdoms. There's nothing he won't do and nobody he won't sacrifice to get there.The Broken Empire Trilogy - considered one of the defining works of the Grimdark genre - consists of Prince of Thorns King of Thorns Emperor of Thornsas well as the short story collection Road Brothers, Tales From the Broken Empire, which features side stories and backstories for some of the characters.The author has another trilogy, The Red Queen's War - set in the same world - which can be read independently. That said, it does provide some crucial information on what is going on in the background of this one, and Jorg even shows up at one point to meet the other protagonist, Jalan.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1237828f	comment	Anyone Can Die: Including quite a few Brothers and Jorg himself.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_14fbe67f	comment	Godiva Hair: Chella manages to make her rotting body look attractive though the combination of magic, strategically placed slime and this.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1501e2dd	type	Hero Antagonist
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1501e2dd	comment	Hero Antagonist: Prince Orrin in the second book is this. He wants to unite the Hundred broken kingdoms into the original Empire in order to bring peace to the people, not for the sake of power or challenge like Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1645005b	type	Evil Versus Evil
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1645005b	comment	Evil Versus Evil: Jorg is by no means a good person, but his opponents (with the notable exception of Orrin) are just as bad, often even worse than him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1779f10e	type	"Well Done, Son" Guy
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1779f10e	comment	"Well Done, Son" Guy: While Jorg has shades of this in the first book, before vowing to become a Self-Made Orphan, a clearer example is the Dead King, who is actually William, Jorg's deceased little brother. In their confrontation, the Dead King says he wanted to show Jorg how powerful he had become after being "abandoned" by Jorg the day he died, right before offering to join him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_17a606bd	type	Master Swordsman
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_17a606bd	comment	Master Swordsman: Many in this book, even amongst the Brotherhood who are better known for being combat pragmatists - Jorg and Makin are true masters of the sword and will show that a blade in their hands becomes little more than a blur when fighting dirty would be inappropriate.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1888979e	type	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1888979e	comment	Not-So-Well-Intentioned Extremist: Sageous presents himself as a Well-Intentioned Extremist, justifying all his manipulation with the goal of peace and eventual recovery of lost technology. To him, this justifies things like tricking Jorg into killing his baby brother and making Katherine think she was pregnant and arranging a fake abortion for her that leaves her infertile. However, his decision to arrange Orrin's murder when he would have brought the peace needed to put the more suggestible Egan on the throne proves that, ultimately, he only cares about his own power.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1b590025	type	Dead All Along
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1b590025	comment	Dead All Along: Prince Orrin turns out to be this in all Wedding Day chapters (i.e. present moment, as opposed to "four years earlier" flashbacks), as he was betrayed earlier by Egan.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1cc9f5e5	type	Playing with Fire
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1cc9f5e5	comment	Playing with Fire: The powers used by Gog, an eight-year-old mutant child, as well as Ferrakind, an ancient fire-sworn. Subverted in that neither actually create any new fires but instead combine and transport the existing ones to wherever they're needed. They're also capable of seeing from one fire into another anywhere in the world. As Gog puts it at one point, "There's really only one fire in the world."
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1daa7fce	type	In the Back
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1daa7fce	comment	In the Back: How Prince Egan kills his brother Orrin.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1de9f7f7	type	Advanced Ancient Humans
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1de9f7f7	comment	Advanced Ancient Humans: See After the End below for more details.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1e584efa	type	Cruel and Unusual Death
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1e584efa	comment	Cruel and Unusual Death: Bishop Murillo, a corrupt clergyman in Prince of Thorns, gets killed by Jorg by having nails hammered into his head. Jorg later complains that it wasn’t slow enough for him. (Don't worry, Murillo deserved it.) Sunny, Jorg's traveling companion in the Emperor of Thorns flashback sections is brutally tortured to death at the hands of raiders, which involves having his ribs stripped of meat and his organs exposed while he's still alive.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1ebbdddb	type	Power at a Price
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_1ebbdddb	comment	Power at a Price: The fire powers of Gog and Ferrakind slowly convert their bodies and mind into flame until they get completely consumed. Both die before that happens, however.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_208c4494	type	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_208c4494	comment	With Great Power Comes Great Insanity: Ferrakind, who is the most powerful fire mage in the world and uses that power to devastate his land with volcano eruptions. This apparently becomes the fate of most powerful magic users. Fire-sworn like Ferrakind and Gog lose their minds in the fire, wind-sworn like Kai lose their sense of identity if they fly for too long, and an earth-sworn named Arron collapses into a puddle and sinks into the earth. Jorg also does many bad things just because he can get away with them as a king and a skilled fighter.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_21d70919	type	Crapsack World
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_21d70919	comment	Crapsack World: In line with the grimdark genre, Jorg's world is a place you wouldn't want to live in. Large stretches of countryside are uninhabitable due to nuclear pollution, mutants and zombies roam the lands, there are spots where time flows in ways that just don't comply with the laws of physics ... and you will need to be badass to survive at all, if you don't like to be raped, enslaved or killed.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_22071825	type	I'm a Humanitarian
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_22071825	comment	I'm a Humanitarian: The trolls in King of Thorns don't know what human flesh is like, but are rather willing to try.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2439b588	type	As the Good Book Says...
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2439b588	comment	As the Good Book Says...: Averted in the traditional sense, as the Roma Church has gathered all the Bibles for its priests and refuses to give them to anyone else, much like the real Catholic Church did at one point. However, Jorg at one point goes and says something he just made up and claims he’s read it in the book. When asked on the book he replies "It's in the great Jorg’s book of Go Fuck Yourself."
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_269e82c1	type	Death of a Child
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_269e82c1	comment	Death of a Child: Jorg's Start of Darkness comes from witnessing the brutal murders of his mother and little brother William. From then on, it's frequently mentioned that kids (as well as adults) die a lot in the books. Notable examples include Janey, Marten and Sara's daughter that Jorg gave painkillers to, Gretcha, a small girl in a bandit group that Jorg kills himself, and Degran, Jorg's infant half-brother.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2bdae2ae	type	Awesome, but Impractical
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2bdae2ae	comment	Awesome, but Impractical: Jorg considers the medieval siege engines in this way in King of Thorns, because of how difficult it is to transport and supply them.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2d4fa515	type	Ax-Crazy
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2d4fa515	comment	Ax-Crazy: Jorg, who during combat, he reminiscences about the seven shades of fluid you can draw from a man, and finds the sound of sword cutting through flesh sweeter than the best flute.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2d6f00e4	type	Psycho for Hire
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_2d6f00e4	comment	Psycho for Hire: Jorg's band, especially Jorg himself.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3036294e	type	Scary Black Man
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3036294e	comment	Scary Black Man: Played with regarding the Nuban. While he can be intimidating, he is feared and despised out of racism. Otherwise, he also acts as a limited conscience for Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_30d2ae29	type	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_30d2ae29	comment	Self-Fulfilling Prophecy: Part of the prophecy that has the mages so worried says that two Ancraths will destroy their power, so Sageous arranges for Jorg and William's murders. Jorg survives, and the incident is what sets him off on his path to the Emperor's throne, learning about the Builder's reality meddling on the way, while William becomes the Dead King and takes over from the other side, thus allowing the two to be able to repair the universe and end all magic once they reunite.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_319e4a2f	type	Even Evil Has Standards
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_319e4a2f	comment	Even Evil Has Standards: Jorg has a few: He utterly despises the fanatical, intolerant and hypocritical Church of Roma. He can't bring himself to kill his baby half-brother, even though as the legitimate heir of their father he's an obstacle in his quest for the throne. Unfortunately, he isn't able to control his necromantic powers while holding him, and accidentally kills him. He would not hurt a dog, and neither should you in front of him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_334e48a1	type	After the End
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_334e48a1	comment	After the End: At first the world appears to be a classic medieval fantasy setting, although with fantasy elements like undeath thrown in. Soon enough we learn that it's our world when Jorg starts talking about Plutarch and Plato. As the story goes on it becomes apparent that it's set in the far future. Our civilization reached new heights in the past before it destroyed itself, leaving behind a changed world of little technology, powerful magic and remnants of the 'builders'. Jorg's house took the ruins of a skyscraper for their castle, among other things. The nuclear war caused sea levels to rise dramatically worldwide, which led to drastically changed coastlines as can be seen on the maps. The Drowned Isles are what's left of Britain, Crath City, Jorg's hometown, is actually Paris and the old Empire's capital is what used to be Vienna. Some places are also left permanently poisoned by the fallout of the ancient war.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_33ebf487	type	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_33ebf487	comment	Never Bring a Gun to a Knife Fight: Averted: Jorg bypasses what would have been a virtually hopeless duel by using a Colt. 45 revolver he is given by the Fexler Brews hologram.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_34579385	type	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_34579385	comment	Bad Guys Do the Dirty Work: Prince Orrin is a very likeable Anti-Villain bordering on Hero Antagonist, a good and compassionate leader and a far better man than Jorg. (And even Jorg ends up agreeing with that idea.) However, Jorg won't have to kill this Ideal Hero, as he is betrayed by his brother Egan before they can meet again.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_382a6399	type	The Hero Dies
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_382a6399	comment	The Hero Dies: Well, if you want to call Jorg a hero ...
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3a1c2171	type	The Man Behind the Man
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3a1c2171	comment	The Man Behind the Man: All seers aspire to become this, but Sageous is the master of this trope.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3ae6199a	comment	Psychopathic Manchild: Jorg, especially at thirteen and fourteen, frequently does horrific things that result in people's deaths just because he wants to do them. He lets Jane die under a rock-fall because he couldn't be bothered saving her, he lets a starved lion loose in a circus fully aware of the consequences and finds an old woman getting a fatal heart attack at the sight of his pet monster hilarious.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3b113b7	comment	Character Development: Jorg's character starts out as an almost 100% pure The Unfettered dedicated only to the goals of becoming Emperor and taking vengeance on Count Renar and his father for not avenging his mother's death. After time passes, and he throws off the control of Count Renar's wizard, he begins to develop a conscience, and he does begin feeling bad as his Brothers die.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3b5fcbb7	comment	Artifact of Doom: The still functional nuclear bomb, which Jorg uses to great effect. The copper box in King Of Thorns.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3dcc914f	type	Took a Level in Kindness
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3dcc914f	comment	Took a Level in Kindness: Jorg starts as a Villain Protagonist, whose Establishing Character Moment has him slaughtering a village and raping two girls. He eventually becomes an Anti-Villain who, while often using murder to get what he wants, cares to some degree for the people working for him and for his wife, and loves his son. He also tends to fight people just as evil as he is.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3eb7c6b7	comment	The Easy Way or the Hard Way: Jorg's father presented him with a very sadistic version of the dilemma when he was just six: Either he breaks his dog's leg for stealing from the treasury, or the dog is burned to death. When he complies, he is asked to break all the other legs before the dog is killed anyway. Since then, Jorg always purposely seeks the hard way in any situation he faces. His advisor, Coddin, has to say "the clever way" instead in order to even get him to consider the alternative.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_3ed17fe0	comment	Wide-Eyed Idealist: Sir Makin considers Orrin of Arrow to be this and doesn't believe he will survive the conflict, which is why he still serves Jorg in spite of him being the worse person. Ultimately, he's right.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_40cbee83	comment	Wretched Hive: The Banlieu of Crath City is as wretched as you would expect from its name.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_424c9a9b	comment	Cold-Blooded Torture: Seeing as how this is a Grimdark, crap sack world with a medieval bent to it, torture is a common fate for anyone who gets taken prisoner by anyone. Jorg joins the Brothers by interrupting the torture of the Nuban. Makin is tortured by Jorg's father after Jorg's apparent death. Jorg casually mentions that he and his Road Brothers have tortured people for entertainment, and he nearly gets to experience this from the other side when he's taken prisoner by the Perros Viciosos (his companion wasn't so lucky).
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_454d9422	comment	Rocks Fall, Everyone Dies: Jorg manages to kill several thousand soldiers in Arrow’s army by initiating a rock fall over them. Twice.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_455f6a91	type	Long-Lost Relative
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_455f6a91	comment	Long-Lost Relative: In Emperor of Thorns, the Dead King turns out to be Jorg's little brother, William.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4604fd4d	comment	Worthy Opponent: Jorg thinks of Prince Orrin as this, knowing that he genuinely cares about his subjects and would make a better Emperor if he won.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4782e60f	type	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4782e60f	comment	Jerk with a Heart of Jerk: Jorg is typically in that territory. Whenever he does something remotely good, he quickly reveals his selfish reasons for it in his thoughts.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_49fb5ccb	comment	Combat Pragmatist: Jorg, Makin and their entire band of Brothers. They keep catching others by surprise by how dirty they're willing to fight. Even Necromancers.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4a4d6f7c	type	Comedic Sociopathy
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4f84cdef	type	Smug Snake
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4f84cdef	comment	Smug Snake: Sageous is very much this.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4ffde1e0	type	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_4ffde1e0	comment	Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: King of Thorns briefly mentions Cennat shield dancers, who wield their man's height shields so well they can practically twirl them.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_51300dbf	type	Fat Bastard
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_51300dbf	comment	Fat Bastard: Burlow.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_524f94d3	type	Rape as Backstory
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_524f94d3	comment	Rape as Backstory: Before getting picked up by the Brothers, Young Sim spent his youth in a brothel, and not as a customer.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_525df529	type	Not Using the "Z" Word
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_525df529	comment	Not Using the "Z" Word: Played with. In universe zombies are simply referred to as the undead, but Fexler Brews, a hologram from the modern world, calls them zombies, surprising Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_52cd5b94	type	Elite Zombie
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_52cd5b94	comment	Elite Zombie: If a person is buried in the ground up to their neck and left to starve, their corpse becomes a fast zombie with glowing eyes. The book also briefly mentions corpses that spent so long in the swamp without rotting due to lack of oxygen, that they became as tough as tanned leather.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5539b84f	type	Corrupt Church
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5539b84f	comment	He utterly despises the fanatical, intolerant and hypocritical Church of Roma.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_55bf1a48	type	At Least I Admit It
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_55bf1a48	comment	At Least I Admit It: Jorg is an evil bastard and doesn't try to delude himself into thinking otherwise. He knows that he's an evil bastard, knows that people like Orrin are better than him, and he admits that the world would have been a better place if someone killed him when he was still a child.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_57d43e40	type	Fantasy Counterpart Culture
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_57d43e40	comment	Fantasy Counterpart Culture: Subverted. Many kingdoms have obvious medieval counterparts, like Arrow in medieval England or Maladon in Viking Scandinavia. However, these cultures aren't fantasy: They're the same medieval cultures reborn (quite possibly intentionally) after the collapse of the modern world a thousand years earlier.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5ac34441	type	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp"
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5ac34441	comment	Call a Rabbit a "Smeerp": Happens with many modern things throughout the book, as their true names have been forgotten after the technological collapse. The nuclear bomb Jorg uses in the first book's climax is known as a Builder's Sun in the book's world. Things like concrete, asphalt and transparent plastic are also known as builder-stone and builder-glass. This also happens with natural things that got renamed after the collapse. For instance, the so-called clove-spice is strongly implied to be raw heroin. Significantly downplayed with DNA. Genetically engineered creatures like Gorgoth refer to it as dena.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5e7eb915	type	Clarke's Third Law
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5e7eb915	comment	Clarke's Third Law: Discussed by a hologram, who says that the current era's magic stems from botched quantum experiments.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5f4097ba	type	Not Distracted by the Sexy
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_5f4097ba	comment	Not Distracted by the Sexy: Jorg barely manages to move his gaze away from Chella's naked form, which somehow manages to be seductive in spite of her being dead.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_60fa92ac	type	Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_60fa92ac	comment	Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Jorg the Red sounds bad enough before you learn that he earned it by single-handedly slaughtering a fourteen-men-strong fort garrison.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_63d861f8	type	Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_63d861f8	comment	Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Jorg ends up caring to some degree for his friends, his family and his wife. He also loves his son.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_64713b04	type	Pedophile Priest
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_64713b04	comment	Pedophile Priest: It turns out that Jorg had a very good reason for murdering Bishop Murillo.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_688afa6a	type	Evil Uncle
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_688afa6a	comment	Evil Uncle: Count Renar.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_6b2b3b59	type	The Reveal
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_6b2b3b59	comment	The Reveal: In Emperor of Thorns - though the reader knows it before Jorg does - the Dead King is his dead little brother, William.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_6bcfbc7e	type	Fantasy Gun Control
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_6bcfbc7e	comment	Fantasy Gun Control: True to form, the cool, twin-firing crossbow Nuban has and which is eventually taken by Jorg for himself is about as advanced as functional ranged weapons (as opposed to rusting, millennia-old rifles nobody has any idea how to use) get in this world. The only exception is the Colt revolver that the hologram of Fexler Brews killed himself with and which is taken by Jorg. At one point, Jorg specifically asks the Fexler Brews hologram to teach him how to create guns. He firmly refuses, believing that the people of Jorg's world are not advanced enough to handle the power. Although he does let him take the single Colt revolver for himself.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_6dac7d2e	type	Lust Object
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_6dac7d2e	comment	Lust Object: Katherine becomes this for Jorg after their first meeting. Although he acknowledges that she probably hates him, he spends the following years frequently fantasizing about her.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7241785e	type	You Can't Fight Fate
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7241785e	comment	You Can't Fight Fate: Every mystic is sure that Jorg's rival will end up as the Emperor. However, also defied, because Jorg fights fate mainly because others say he can't.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7286e96d	type	Idiot Ball
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7286e96d	comment	Idiot Ball: For all of his usual cleverness, it takes quite a while for Jorg to realise that a deathly pale family living inside a village in the middle of a swamp with no roads leading to them isn't alive.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7426582d	type	Token Minority
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7426582d	comment	Token Minority: The Nuban, again, being practically the only non-white person after Sageous (who is Arabic) and the only black person in the first book. The second adds a 'Mathmagician' Qalasadi. However the third book subverts the trope by Jorg travelling through Africa.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa	type	Psychic Link
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7c897aaa	comment	Psychic Link: Gorgoth, being a genetically engineered creature, can communicate with other such creatures, like trolls, through mind link alone.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7e6c0522	type	Off with His Head!
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7e6c0522	comment	Off with His Head!: Sageous gets his head literally torn off his neck.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7febc23b	type	Establishing Character Moment
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_7febc23b	comment	Establishing Character Moment: Jorg is introduced letting his band of bandits massacre a village, and having just raped the daughters of a farmer, who he has killed in cold blood. He's thirteen. Later, he kills one of his fellow companions out of annoyance.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_80621707	type	Arranged Marriage
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_80621707	comment	Arranged Marriage: The marriage of Jorg and Miana. Before the wedding day, they only saw each other once at Castle Morrow (he was fourteen and she was eight). Jorg put this memory into Luntar's box and thus forgot the encounter entirely as well as the fact that she is six years younger than he is.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_81c72ad5	type	Vestigial Empire
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_81c72ad5	comment	Vestigial Empire: The "Hundred" are the kingdoms that remained after the Empire they once formed broke apart; they have been fighting each other ever since. Jorg's ultimate goal is to reunify the Empire.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8387bb18	type	Good Girls Avoid Abortion
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8387bb18	comment	Good Girls Avoid Abortion: Averted with Katherine Ap Scorron, who is one of the most positive characters in the books. Eventually subverted as it turns out she never really was pregnant in the first place, and the "abortion" was an application of poisons that made her sterile.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_863fa679	type	What Happened to the Mouse?
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_863fa679	comment	What Happened to the Mouse?: The fates of many secondary characters are left unresolved after the final battle against the Dead King's forces. The story doesn't reveal if many of Jorg's allies survived the onslaught, most notably his grandfather and his uncle. The fates of Chella and Count Renar are left unresolved, although in the case of the first it's a pretty safe bet to assume death ( since she killed Jorg while surrounded by his allies, and magic stopped working just after), and one would hope the same for the second. The story also never truly confirms if Jorg's uncle and grandfather survived the final battle against the undead forces of the Dead King.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_871cff0c	type	Create Your Own Hero
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_871cff0c	comment	Create Your Own Hero: Depending on whether you see Jorg as the hero or villain, but either way Sageous shouldn't have killed William or Jorg's mother.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb	type	Mind Rape
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8a4988bb	comment	Mind Rape: A favorite tactic of several sorcerers, including Sageous, Corion and Katherine.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8a817c2a	type	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8a817c2a	comment	Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil: Averted. Jorg himself is a rapist and doesn't consider it much more evil than his other actions. Similarly, Katherine hates him more for killing her elderly servant than for molesting her though he's Mis-blamed for the last one.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8ed5c6e4	type	Asshole Victim
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8ed5c6e4	comment	Asshole Victim: Any sympathy you might have felt for Brother Row should disappear once you find out that he was into girls younger than twelve whilst alive. We learn in the third book that Bishop Murillo was a child-molester and actually raped Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8f529433	type	Token Good Teammate
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8f529433	comment	Token Good Team Mate: The Nuban seems to be this and then he gets shot with his own crossbow.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8ff8d545	type	Kissing Cousins
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_8ff8d545	comment	Kissing Cousins: Mianna is Jorg's wife and mother of his son. She's also blood related to him, she's his first cousin on his mother's side (their mothers are sisters). Justified as this wasn't too uncommon of a practice among medieval nobility and it is an opportunity for Jorg to shore up support from his relatives for the Imperial election.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_91672d3e	type	Children Are Innocent
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_91672d3e	comment	Children Are Innocent: Averted with Jorg, who is already rather selfish and cold at six years old. Similarly, Miana, his twelve-year-old bride, if fully aware of how dire their situation is and even recites their armies' body count as a kill-to-death ratio, something which even creeps Jorg out.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_9203bf6	type	Arc Number
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_9203bf6	comment	Arc Number: 2 for Jorg in Emperor of Thorns. As Qalasadi puts it:
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_92760069	type	Child Mage
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_92760069	comment	Child Mage: Gog, who is capable of channelling torrents of flame in spite of being only eight.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_94680696	type	Shaped Like Itself
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_94680696	comment	Shaped Like Itself: At one point, Jorg mentions a fish with red fins called … redfin.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_95b875b1	type	Not Me This Time
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_95b875b1	comment	Not Me This Time: Jorg might not be exceptionally evil when compared to his fellow kings and princes, but he's still a very evil character by today's standards. However, he didn't rape Katherine Ap Scorron: that was Friar Glen, who found her unconscious. When in disguise at the castle of his grandfather, Jorg is accused of poisoning the guards' food. This was actually Qalasadi, their Moor advisor.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_984ef9ef	type	"Not So Different" Remark
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_984ef9ef	comment	"Not So Different" Remark: Prince Egan literally says this to Jorg before their final fight:
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_9d67ad5c	type	Nuclear Mutant
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_9d67ad5c	comment	Nuclear Mutant: Many of the fantastic creatures encountered were originally created by the fallout from the Builders' Suns (e. g. a nuclear war).
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a0774be0	type	Forgotten First Meeting
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a0774be0	comment	Forgotten First Meeting: Luntar, the mage who trapped Jorg's memories in the copper box. They meet again in Emperor of Thorns, and when Jorg questions his ability to really see the future, Luntar allows Jorg to remember their first meeting where he predicted what would happen in the interim, then sealed those memories away. Jorg has to admit he's correct, and can really see the future.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a1a1491e	type	Homage
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a1a1491e	comment	Homage: Jorg was partially inspired by Alex from A Clockwork Orange; however, he is far from being a Captain Ersatz or an Expy.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a2b38d3b	type	Eye Scream
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a2b38d3b	comment	Eye Scream: A fortman in King of Thorns gets an arrow stuck through his eye.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a8a04f6f	type	And I Must Scream
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a8a04f6f	comment	And I Must Scream: Jorg being stuck in the thorns of a hook briar patch and forced to witness the slaughter of his family counts as one of the most mundane examples of this trope.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a8a5e4ed	type	Christianity Is Catholic
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a8a5e4ed	comment	Christianity is Catholic: The only Christianity mentioned in the series is the Roma church, which is a direct descendant of the Catholic Church, and maintains many of its traditions, like having a Pope in Vatican and burning people for witchcraft. The latter is justified sometimes, but usually it's the heretics and those attempting to rebuild technology who get burnt.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a8adc5a0	type	Like a Son to Me
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_a8adc5a0	comment	Like a Son to Me: On what seems to be his deathbed, Coddin tells Jorg that he loves him like a son, even though Jorg is a sadistic bastard.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_acf33d00	type	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_acf33d00	comment	Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: If Friar Glen's ghost didn't stab a zombie in his path, or if a ghostly dog's skull didn't bite Jorg, he wouldn't have realised that ghosts are unable to hurt the living but can kill the undead.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ad1db87c	type	Oh, Crap!
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ad1db87c	comment	Oh, Crap!: The look on Sageous’s face when he finally realizes that Katherine has countered his dream-walking powers and he’s now standing in person in front of Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_afebbd7	type	And Man Grew Proud
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_afebbd7	comment	And Man Grew Proud: What has led to the modern culture's downfall and the creation of the neo-medieval world in which the novel is set.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b11ac9f5	type	Abusive Parents
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b11ac9f5	comment	Abusive Parents: Jorg's father is a cold, cruel, callous, calculating bastard, who uses his son for his own ends. After you've read about Justice in King Of Thorns, you will lose what little sympathy you may or may not have had for him. Justice was Jorg and William's pet dog. As a punishment to Jorg for breaking a snowglobe, his father made Jorg take a hammer and break three of his dog's legs. When Jorg refused to break the fourth, his father had the dog burned alive. Jorg was six years old.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b14836af	type	JustAFleshWound
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b14836af	comment	Just a Flesh Wound: Averted, as all wounds will get infected and kill the person without prompt treatment. When Coddin is shot in the stomach, Jorg knows he won't make it and will die sooner or later.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b1dde8fd	type	Loophole Abuse
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b1dde8fd	comment	Loophole Abuse: Jorg constantly combines this with Refuge in Audacity to do things everyone thought were impossible, usually with a high body count involved.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b58b4e3c	type	Too Dumb to Live
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b58b4e3c	comment	Too Dumb to Live: The fourteen fortmen in King of Thorns. Letting a guy into the fort to return an arrow they shot at him and after having killed his companion?
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b5914444	type	Noodle Implements
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b5914444	comment	Noodle Implements: There are quite a few uses for a dead rat, which is a matter I will go into some other time.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b7c53a22	type	Blood Knight
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b7c53a22	comment	Blood Knight: Jorg himself at times and several of the Brothers from his band. However, Egan of Arrow outdoes them both.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b807624a	type	And Show It to You
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b807624a	comment	Sunny, Jorg's traveling companion in the Emperor of Thorns flashback sections is brutally tortured to death at the hands of raiders, which involves having his ribs stripped of meat and his organs exposed while he's still alive.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b901ef97	type	Forgotten Fallen Friend
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_b901ef97	comment	Forgotten Fallen Friend: Averted with Hanna. Katherine grieves for her and frequently mentions her in her diaries after she's strangled by Jorg when attempting to protect her. While many of the Brothers are not mentioned again after their deaths, some, such as Young Sim are referred to with frequency.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ba6cf869	type	Rape, Pillage, and Burn
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ba6cf869	comment	Rape, Pillage, and Burn: Jorg's band's favorite pastime in Prince of Thorns. Much of his King of Thorns arc involves him letting go of these habits.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_babc974	type	Sadistic Choice
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_babc974	comment	Sadistic Choice: Jorg is confronted with one when he's just six. Either he breaks his dog Justice's leg, or it gets burnt to death. Ultimately, the choice doesn't matter.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_bb5126ec	type	Prophecy Twist
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_bb5126ec	comment	Prophecy Twist: A prophecy a lot of the major power-players believe states that the Prince of Arrow will win the throne, and that two Ancraths will destroy the power of the mages. Jorg forces the Prince of Arrow to adopt him as a brother before his death, which Jorg jokes satisfies the conditions of the first prophecy. For the second, Coddin and others had assumed Jorg would have to work with his father to overcome the mages. It's actually William/The Dead King who is the second Ancrath, and the two of them don't fight the mages, they end all magic in the world.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_bcd27e37	type	Improbable Aiming Skills
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_bcd27e37	comment	Improbable Aiming Skills: The Nuban is the best marksman the Brothers have, able to make shots that seem impossible. While much of this is no doubt due to his own skill, some of it might have to do with the spell Corion put on his crossbow.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_beb9a361	type	Anti-Hero
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_beb9a361	comment	Anti-Hero: Jorg and his band are Nominal Heroes at best and Villain Protagonists at their worst.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c0d598fe	type	Evil Gloating
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c0d598fe	comment	Evil Gloating: Sageous seemingly can’t get enough of this in King of Thorns. Jorg takes this as good sign, though, because it means more subtle manipulation has failed.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c2299d6e	type	Cutting the Knot
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c2299d6e	comment	Cutting the Knot: In order to become Emperor, any member of the Hundred needs to have a majority vote, either because they've conquered enough kingdoms, or because they've made enough alliances to guarantee that people vote for them. Or, if you're Jorg, you can secure up 41 votes, then murder enough of the other delegates until that 41 becomes the majority.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c2fc1ae	type	Neck Snap
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c2fc1ae	comment	Neck Snap: What Chella does to Young Sim after she catches him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c3c18143	type	Hope Spot
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c3c18143	comment	Hope Spot: There are plenty of these in the books, often when Jorg decides to do something evil, considers against it, then does it anyway. For instance, in King of Thorns, he returns to the circus that helped his band earlier. Before leaving, he notices a starved lion in the cage, and is eventually left alone with it. He considers the livelihoods of the circusfolk and the carnage a starved lion will wreak, then opens the cage anyway.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c420a553	type	We Can Rule Together
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c420a553	comment	We Can Rule Together: What the Dead King offers Jorg when they finally meet, and Jorg turns out to be a Worthy Opponent.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c75df49a	type	Shout-Out
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_c75df49a	comment	Shout-Out: When Jorg locks Costco and his fifteen supporters with him so he can beat them to death, one of them shouts that he simply trapped himself with them. Jorg's retort? He thinks they're trapped there with him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_cadbe2b3	type	She Is the King
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_cadbe2b3	comment	She Is The Pope: Yup. What, you were expecting a man?
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d1d1f420	type	Connected All Along
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d1d1f420	comment	Connected All Along: A flashback in Emperor of Thorns, has Lundist mentioning in a passing line that his brother is Luntar, and that the two if them were princes in Ling. Luntar is the sorcerer who trapped Jorg's memories in the copper box.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d243518d	type	In Spite of a Nail
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d243518d	comment	In Spite of a Nail: Jorg plans to deal with some of Arrow’s army assaulting them by having an avalanche triggered over them, but he gives the signal to start it several minutes too late and the army catches up with them. However, it (barely) works anyway because one of the fires was flawed and burnt out too soon.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d45c0b86	type	Refuge in Audacity
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d45c0b86	comment	Refuge in Audacity: Jorg, constantly. Examples include murdering some of the Gilden Guards sent to protect him and the other members of the Hundred in order to get them to do what he wants, murdering the Pope in broad daylight, and killing off enough delegates during the election that the 40 or so votes he has gives him a majority.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d5a84e45	type	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit"
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d5a84e45	comment	Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit": Many castles in the book are not true medieval structures but abandoned modern-day ones restructured to fit the purpose. The Tall Castle in particular is actually a derelict skyscraper.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d7c059b2	type	Formulaic Magic
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d7c059b2	comment	Formulaic Magic: Mathmagic is Exactly What It Says on the Tin, a branch of magic which uses mathematical formulae as its base with its most common application being to calculate a projection of the future. A relatively more subtle branch of magic compared to Necromancy or Pyromancy, though it seemingly has fewer risks too.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d839c530	type	The Unfettered
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_d839c530	comment	The Unfettered: There is no lengths to which Jorg will not go to attain his goals, especially in the beginning. As the story goes on, he begins to become a little less this, as his past actions begin to catch up with him and he throws off the control that a wizard secretly had over him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_dac3d8cf	type	Assimilation Backfire
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_dac3d8cf	comment	Assimilation Backfire: Jorg and his band come to Fire-sworn Ferrakind in the hope he can cure Gog of his condition or help him master his powers. Ferrakind attempts to assimilate him instead. Jorg, prepared for this, gets Gog to channel Ferrakind's flames to the frozen lake above them until it melts and extinguishes Terrakind. However, Gog dies as well. As Jorg gets tainted with both necromancy and pyromancy, Ferrakind and the Dead King attempt to claim him for themselves, fighting against each other within his body. In the end, they end up neutralising each other's presence and cleansing Jorg from all magic.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_dd082289	type	A Million Is a Statistic
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_dd082289	comment	A Million is a Statistic: Frequently averted throughout the trilogy, as Jorg and other characters are fully aware of the lives they take. At one point, Jorg describes an unnamed soldier's corpse as "something that lived and laughed only hours ago."
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e2e69f43	type	Tainted Veins
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e2e69f43	comment	Tainted Veins: Jorg gets these after his father stabs him, and they signify the awakening of his necromancy powers. They disappear once he gets rid of necromancy at the end of King of Thorns.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e2ef7c20	type	No Man of Woman Born
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e2ef7c20	comment	No Man of Woman Born: All of the seers believe that the Prince of Arrow will win the battle for the throne and become Emperor, and so advise Jorg to surrender. Ultimately, he himself becomes the Prince of Arrow.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e35ab565	type	Indy Ploy
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e35ab565	comment	Indy Ploy: Many of Jorg's themes are this, conjured in the last moment. Sometimes, they're created beforehand, but hidden away in a memory box until needed, to protect from telepathic witches in the enemy's employ.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e3b0cd87	type	Morality Pet
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e3b0cd87	comment	Morality Pet: The Nuban, Gog, and (to some extent) Makin are this to Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e3d06d0c	type	Bash Brothers
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e3d06d0c	comment	Bash Brothers: Jorg's band of 'Road Brothers', of which Price and Rike are actual biological brothers.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e45ce099	type	The Wise Prince
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e45ce099	comment	The Wise Prince: Prince Orrin. It does not end well for him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e4900915	type	Ridiculously Human Robots
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e4900915	comment	Ridiculously Human Robots: Fexler Brews, the hologram. Justified, since he was deliberately copied by the real Fexler Brews, monitoring every moment of his life.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e567510d	type	Determinator
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e567510d	comment	Determinator: Besides his savage cunning and amorality, this is the other key feature of Jorg. The guy will not quit, starting from childhood when he survived impalement on the hook briar patch and the surgeries that removed the thorns from his body and later surviving a long trek through a radioactive desert that no else has ever survived. Jorg's younger brother William makes even Jorg looks soft: His will is so strong that after death he breaks the control that the necromancers had on him and makes them his puppets, when he is seven. Only a little later, he becomes king of the dead.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e662a850	type	Villainous Parental Instinct
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e662a850	comment	Villainous Parental Instinct: Jorg is shocked to find that he would do anything for his son, and that him having this love for his son is what ultimately sets him apart from Olidan. Because this is a Grimdark series, this is presented as a weakness.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e9327f58	type	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_e9327f58	comment	Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Nearly at the start of the story, a ghost tries to haunt Jorg; instead of fleeing, Jorg allows the spectre to see into his mind ... and the ghost runs away, since our protagonist can offer worse thoughts than the ghost itself. Later subverted when it is discovered that the ghost wasn't running from Jorg, but the wizard that had its hands in him.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ea39d156	type	Who Wants to Live Forever?
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ea39d156	comment	Who Wants to Live Forever?: Jorg thinks along these lines when he considers the existence of the Fexler Brews hologram. Subverted in that the hologram itself is fine with its existence and doesn't want to die.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eaf5a1ac	type	Groin Attack
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eaf5a1ac	comment	Groin Attack: Friar Glen is stabbed in the groin before he's left to choke on a gag made from his own bedsheet.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eba6a077	type	Cain and Abel
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eba6a077	comment	Cain and Abel: Egan is Cain and Orrin is Abel, although it's heavily implied that Sageous manipulated Egan and played a big role in his betrayal.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_edd34386	type	Glowing Eyelights of Undeath
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_edd34386	comment	Glowing Eyelights of Undeath: The zombies of people who were left to starve to death possess these, to signify their increased power and ability to move at a normal speed instead of shambling.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ee9877ea	type	Too Good for This Sinful Earth
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ee9877ea	comment	Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Referenced several times with regards to Prince Orrin. The man is an ideal hero, who is every bit as good as they say he is. Even Jorg likes and admires him in a fashion. But while he stood a very real chance of winning the Imperial throne, it was doubtful that Orrin had the iron fist to hold it and he would later be murdered by his own brother, a man who's far more similar to Jorg.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eee57253	type	Befriending the Enemy
The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eee57253	comment	Befriending the Enemy: Though whether it's Jorg or Qalasadi and Yusef who is the enemy being befriended here is open for interpretation. Jorg shows up to Afrique with the intention of seeking revenge for an attempt on the lives of his mother's family, but after kicking around the place, having some adventures, and asking "What would Makin do?" he decides to genuinely accept the mathemagicians' offer of friendship and spares their lives, gaining needed information in the process.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_ef3bf14b	comment	Child Marriage Veto: Averted: Miana consents to marry Jorg in spite of only being twelve. He, on the other hand, is none too happy about it and makes it clear to her it's only a formality.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_eff83d77	comment	Mundane Utility: Gog's flame-based powers are often used by Jorg to light campfires or provide lighting when it's dark.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_f3626b09	comment	Mercy Kill: Jorg does this to a dying infant girl, using sedative drugs to ease her pain. Jorg kills Lesha before a group of torturing bandits can take her. He also kills a little girl living with them and calls it helping her, because now she won't be able to grow up like he did. Averted with Coddin, whom Jorg refuses to kill in spite of him getting an arrow through the stomach, something that usually results in slow and painful death. He does it because he still needs his advice, and it works: in Emperor of Thorns, Coddin is still alive, though unable to move and has to have his wound regularly washed and bandaged.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_f77aa221	comment	Nice Job Breaking It, Herod: Subverted/averted, depending on the villain. When Jorg infiltrates the Tall Castle in King of Thorns, he considers killing his baby brother Degran, holds him in his arms and decides against it, but he's already killed by the necromancy touch. This leaves him with so much guilt that he has to have the memory removed from him and it takes him four years to look at it again and come to terms with it. However, this was partially engineered by Sageous in an attempt to break Jorg mentally and he almost succeeds at that.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_fc52510	comment	Brain Uploading: Some builders have survived this way. Also happens to Jorg at the end of Emperor of Thorns.
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The Broken Empire Trilogy / int_fd497706	comment	Accidental Murder: For all his flaws, Jorg didn't intend to kill his baby half-brother. Too bad he wasn't able to control his necromantic powers ...
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