A short analysis on the peak and decline of the Empire. Please leave comments if you believe this is improbable and/or have a different hypothesis implied by the books.
I didn't know it—I didn't know him—but he would soon become my whole world. Who could blame me? I was young. And young girls cannot control their feelings for boys. Something I intended to teach him. Oh yes, I would teach him. I comforted myself with that thought as he lit the fire and barred the door.
Thomas is a simple man. All he wants to do is take all the Builder items he can get his hands on and take them with him on a boat out of the empire. Is that so hard? Apparently, it is. -A one-off story taken place in The Broken Empire Trilogy (specifically at the end of King of Thorns.)-