#scale ironhand

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"How do you protect a man from himself?"

7 Days Until The Wisdom of the Crowds

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Front: Jonas Clover, Stour Nightfall

Background: Black Dow, The Dogman, Scale Ironhand, Black Calder

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Scale put his big hand on Calder’s shoulder. ‘It’s not easy, is it? Being a great man’s son. You’d have thought it would come with all kinds of advantages – with borrowed admiration, and respect. But it’s only as easy as it is for the seeds of a great tree, trying to grow in its choking shadow. Not many make it to the sunlight for themselves.’

‘Aye.’ Calder didn’t mention that being a great man’s younger son was twice the trial. Then you’ve two trees to take the axe to before you can spread your leaves in the sunshine.

— The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie

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Him and Scale were born to different mothers, and the joke always was that Scale's must've been born a bull. He looked like a bull, and a particularly mean and muscular one at that. He was Calder's opposite in almost every way — blonde where Calder was dark, blunt-featured where Calder was sharp, quick to anger and slow to think. Nothing like their father. Calder was the one who'd taken after Bethod, and everyone knew it. One reason why they hated him. That and he'd spent so much of his life acting like a prick.

The Heroes by Joe Abercrombie