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| “ | No Drail, I have never believed in the Prophecy. Nor in Herne. I thought I could work with you when I found a deer who wanted to drive out Anlach and the spirit of Herne. But that's the difference between you and me. I wanted to drive Herne away because I do not believe in him. I believe that the Herla must serve intelligence and reason. Serve ME, in fact. Across the Great Land. But you would change the old laws because you believe them and fear them. You are a fool Drail. | „ |
| ~ Sgorr betraying Drail. |
| “ | Herne, if you weren't just a fairy story I'd call you down from the skies to witness this. Those fools in the High Lands worshiped you as The Lord of Violence. But you aren't, are you Herne? Not even man is the Lord of Violence. I, Sgorr, am the Lord of Violence. | „ |
| ~ Sgorr daring Herne's anger. |
Sgorr is the main antagonist of the 1999 British young adult fantasy novel Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies.
What Makes Him Pure Evil?[]
- Even before he commited his first crimes, Sgorr was fascinated with violence as he watched humanity sharpen swords and use other weapons. He never saw or understood that humanity is also capable of kindness.
- Murdering a human baby and eating it's heart under the belief that it would give him humanity's power.
- His loss of his left eye in a wolf attack is portrayed as karma instead of for sympathy.
- Joining Drail and becoming the captain of his secret police/military force, the Draila.
- Influencing Draila to outlawing Anlach so no one can overthrow him.
- Murdering Rannoch's father, Brechin.
- Attempting to mate with Eloin or win her love in spite of her refusal to be with him
- Further more, he threatens to kill two friends of hers when she threatened to poison herself to avoid being with him or Drail and only agreed to spare them when she caved into his threats
- Allowing his followers to mate with does without fighting for them in mating rituals, which in deer society is considered rape.
- Further more, he also takes a harem without fighting for it.
- Torturing and murdering Blindweed when he learned that Blindweed had lied to him about Eloin's faun.
- Using the prophecy to manipulate Drail into becoming paranoid
- Betraying and murdering Drail.
- Lying to the herd that Drail was murdered by traitors.
- Ordering his second in command, Narl, to kill all of Drail's sons.
- Outlawing the worship of Herne.
- Arranging for Colquhar to bring back Rannoch's friends and their mothers.
- Planned to kill Braken for smuggling Rannoch away
- When he learned that Rannoch's grown friends had escaped along with Braken, he ordered all but two of their mothers killed.
- Further more, he threatened to kill the remaining two mothers if Eloin ever tried to escape.
- Conquering other Deer herds and Animals of Scotland.
- Creating a strict species focused caste system with the Sgorrla at the top, the Red Deer next, followed by other species of Deer, then other animals.
- Further more, he oppresses all non-Deer animals.
- Holding "schools" for fauns to be taught to be blindly loyal to him.
- Has his Sgorrla ritually scar themselves in bloody rituals to mark themselves as Sgorrla, which killed several of his own followers.
- Killing his underlings when they become too old or useless, by having their legs broken and being left to be eaten by carnivores.
- Murder of countless deer and other animals of Scotland who refused to bow to him.
- Raped several does in his harem, though he failed to father any fawns.
- Some of his kills were because he was jealous towards those who had horns, unlike himself, which marks him as both cruel and petty.
- Had one guard in each Green Glen garrison killed for failing to kill Rannoch and his allies, which allowed them to escape into the High Lands.
- Killed one of his spies for speaking of the prophecy in his presence and warned the others to never speak of it around anyone else.
- He then had every spy who was present at the above incident killed along with any other deer who saw the above event to make 100% sure that the prophecy would never be mentioned. Including Narl's own brother who was killed in a scarring ritual when a Sgorrla gauged out Rack's eye and even brain with his antlers.
- Planned for the Great Herd to invade and conquer the High Lands after thy had conquered the Low Lands learning that Rannoch had disbanded Herne's Herd, believing that without Herne's Herd, nothing could stop him.
- Tried demonstrating that the prophecy was a lie to his followers by torturing an innocent Ferret, only saying he would stop until the Ferret could speak to him. When the Ferret could not, Sgorr had the poor creature killed.
- Had Colquhar's herd and Outriders killed to prevent them from rebelling and because they had outlived their usefulness.
- Additionally, in an act of cruel mercy, he spared Colquhar, but allowed his Sgorrla to torture him, and forced him to join the Great Herd to live in shame and disgrace.
- Sent an assassin to kill Rannoch, which resulted in the death of Bracken.
- Planned to wipe out all non-deer animals in Scotland after the Highlands had been conquered, possibly even humanity.
- When Bankfoot, one of Rannoch's friends was captured, Sgorr threatened to kill Bankfoot's mother if he ever tried to escape.
- When confronted by Rannoch about his crimes and given a chance to reform, Sgorr rejected it and showed not one drop of regret or remorse for his crimes.
- At the final battle, his attacks on the outriders caused the deaths of Thistle and Peppa, two of Rannoch's closest friends.
- When Rannoch revealed that Sgorr had murdered a human baby, his followers were so horrified that most refused to follow his orders anymore.
- Tried to kill Rannoch by pushing boulder onto him, only to be stopped and killed by the human boy who had rescued Rannoch years ago.