Zachariah Lewis asked Mark Lawrence:

Hi, Mark, sorry to pepper you with another question, I am sure you have more pressing matters than a complete fanatic of your work asking probably repetitive questions, but this one has been on my mind. I wanted to know where you get your information on the things the road-brothers taught Jorg, such as Sim teaching Jorg about disguise/hiding in plain sight or Row talking about a knife fight?

Mark Lawrence I should really make up some lie about elaborate research in order to add gravitas to the work...

...but ... I just make shit up. It's whatever comes off my fingertips when I write the bit in question. That's a distillation of common sense, things I must have picked up over the years, inspiration and imagination.

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