Another character I designed for Green Ronin’s Game of Thrones – A Song of ice and Fire Campaign Guide.
Mord is a minor character in the Game of Thrones series, but he has an interesting personality.

He is the jailer at the Eyrie, he is brutal, half witted and at his best quite unpleasant.
By the description given in the books he is quite obese, with stained teeth and a lopsided skull, this as a result of an axe blow that just accentuated his god-given ugliness.
His favourite past time is teasing and torturing his prisoners, who are held in cells open on the side of the impossibly tall cliff the Eyrie is built on.
Most times detainees jumped in the void out of desperation, in equal measure due to the incessant winds, the tempting heights and Mord’s mistreatments.

What I meant to convey were his viciousness and dimness, only partially mitigated by his avidity.
Which, now that I think of it, are recurring traits of most secondary Game of Thrones characters.

As a side note, halfway through the process I realised my Mord looked like someone I knew, but I couldn’t point my finger on it.
Then it eventually dawned on me that he looked pretty much like the evil twin of what people considered the Fool in my old home town, back in Italy.
I remember I was pretty much one of the few who liked to talk to the guy. He wasn’t a fool at all, but he didn’t mind others to believe him such.
It lowered expectations and eased the pressure, he said. Also, he could afford to insult people in the middle of the street and yell swearwords every time he pleased, which is undoubtedly fun, cathartic and not at all frowned upon when you’re considered the Town Fool.

Awesome person, but yes, he was as ugly as a night on the toilet.
Once I realised where I was heading to, I just decided to go with the flow, and tried my best to stick to the face I had in mind. Minus the scar and the missing ear of course.
I don’t think he’s ever seen giving his back to the void in the Game of Thrones books (lest he got happily pushed over by his prisoners). But I chose to take this liberty to make who he was clearer.
As if keys and chains weren’t enough.

by Paolo Puggioni

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1. Vale says:

   July 18, 2012 at 19:07

   Clever husband 🙂

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