Bishop Thomas Thorman

Bishop Attire
We’ll give the army the full cope and mitre. (Chapter 10)
People in his life
wife is the Muta (The Committee for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice)
works at temple at Merrick College
there is:
Acolyte Acton 
Acton would see him dead; he was in no doubt of that. The acolyte would happily light the fire that burnt him, he’d roast Thorman on the altar itself if he could. The reditus has bought out the best in some people and the worst in others and it didn’t take much to get yourself killed these days 
Shadwell - a Sin eater 
‘I was a singer,’ a fact that Bishop Thorman was very well aware of as Shadwell had told him many times. ‘Who would have thought it, eh? My family had a sin eater in it from two hundred years ago, or so my grannie told me. It was crusts of bread and ale back in those days of course…’ 
Archbishop Sinclair - Archbishop in Strake - gammon headed. 
His Character 
Was a zealot before the reditus. Then became 'sane' after it. 
Chapter 9: Thorman had been a different man back then. He had beaten them, tormented them, and played them off against each other. One of his greatest regrets was that he had consciously and deliberately broken their fraternal bond. It was Erica that had taken the picture, Thorman had been elsewhere that day and she had taken her sons out a walk along the Ramblas. She had been different then too, protective of her boys when Thomas was at his worst. 
Wife Erica
He raised his eyes up to look at her as he bit into the bread. Here she was, five feet two in her stocking-feet, a slim and still attractive woman in her late forties. You would not think it to look at her, the number of people she had sent to their death. How he wished she would die. Or someone would kill her. Someone out for revenge for a relative killed by the Committee, it was not unheard of.
His Sons
save the fate of his sons for later:
'Before the reditus he had been driven, the power and purity of his faith driving his eldest son to suicide and his younger son to drugs'
It can be revealed in conversation
son Mathew, lost in the splinter
Luke, his eldest boy, killed himself before the reditus
- he lost two sons - a bit like Aaron (Moses brother) see lev 10:1
His greatest guilt was that his former zealotry had driven his eldest son Luke first away from their family home and then a year later from life itself. He felt guilt over the loss of Mathew, his younger son, still alive he hoped, but gone since the Splintering, and he felt constant gnawing guilt for what he had turned his wife into, a twisted reflection of himself, of what he used to be.
Now Mathew, who would have turned eighteen, was lost to them, perhaps on a splinter of the world so small it had not 
been mapped yet, or perhaps was dead, caught up in one of the early pogroms, or from one of the countless viruses that scourged the world. 
He felt guilt over the death of Luke, his eldest boy
Chapter 9:
The largest was one of the boys together, in their early teens, in shorts and T-shirts, sat on a bench in a small park in Barcelona. It was a random picture of nowhere particularly special, but it was a rare in the fact that they were both smiling. After he had dressed, he looked at the picture for a few moments. It always gave him a mixed feeling of pain, regret and yet comfort. There was Luke, the older brother, happy in the Spanish sunshine, his arm around his younger brother, Mathew. The boys had not been friends, but in this picture, they appeared to be. Just a normal couple of boys, enjoying a happy holiday.
HIS HOUSE
It was a large six bedroomed sandstone house in Evermarch’s suburbs. 
Now their west facing upper windows looked out on recently planted park land that lay on the other side of the Zone.
Their current home was an old and elegant house, with a wide staircase to the left of the door leading up to the first floor. He skirted past her and headed upstairs, aiming for the bathroom.
‘You stink!’ she cried as he wafted past, and although she followed him upstairs, she did not follow him into the bathroom. He took his time, running a hot bath and simply lay back for a while. He let his mind wander and drew doodles on the steamed-up tiles. This room was probably still original he mused, the ancient bathtub had lost some of its enamel at the tap end, as had the sink. There was a stone above the doorway of the house that had the numbers 1868 carved into it and he assumed that was the date the building had been constructed. He suspected the bath he was in was about the same age, it would have not surprised him.
Notes
Charles Jett - man that TT saves
Becoming a Judge 
Chapter 11:
‘Well Thomas. Well. Well, word has come down from above. A little meeting with Him and the archbishops of the Divided Kingdom. We were given the names of who is to be the Judge for our region.’
‘Oh,’ said Thorman through a forced smile. ‘May I offer my most heartfelt congratulations, Your Excellency.’
‘It’s not me.’
Thorman leaned back, lost for words for a moment. ‘But then who? Archbishop Flag?’
Sinclair looked Thorman up and down, grunted and flicked his cigarette butt out over the parapet where it was whipped away by the wind.
The archbishop then straightened himself up. ‘It’s you Thomas. You are to be the Judge for the Divided Kingdom.’
His plans moving on from Chapter 11
She was distracted too much by whatever she was typing so he left it at that and went to bed. It took him a while to get to sleep, which did not surprise him. He worried at his nails and pulled stray hairs out of his cheeks. He wondered how far his power went. Could he defy the archbishop? Could he make things better in Evermarch? Could he even use his new powers to stop some of the excesses carried out by Sinclair in Strake? That city was ruled by fascism in all but name. Could he help everyone in the Divided Kingdom? In the whole world? He realised he didn’t even know how many other Judges there were, and how he would even contact them if he did know.
Eventually, in the small hours of the morning he came to a decision. There was only one thing for it, he needed to talk directly to God. He picked up the landline handset by his bed and called Ray Lorric.
CHARACTER GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT:
This is a redemption arc. Key points
# TT goes slowly mad with the power of being a judge
# Tangles with Bacon / Muta - sees the madness there, the killing etc and wants to stop it.
# Acton does something to anger Randy
# Acton does something to anger TT (see notes below)
# TT has Randy (with Nathan's help) bump off Acton
# TT then has them bump off Erica
# Mathew returns!
# TT returns to sanity. Mathew mad at him
... that should get us quite far, see how we get on!
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Have some early mentions of how his sons really loved their mum before the reditus.
TT slowly goes mental. Goes back to the 'way he was before the reditus'
Totally needs to go slowly mad with power of Judge. Succumbs to madness and pride
Tangles with Bacon
Tangles with Elder Peter Richie - head of the muta in Evermarch
I think TT has to slay AB or something. Then slay his wife. (We need a chapter portion for Erica - a sympathetic one.)
Son (dead one?) appears etc. where's mum? haha (his son is in a bunch of slaves coming from the camps up north or something)
Ultimately though we want salvation for him
He comes back to reality when Mathew comes back. He talks to Lorric who talks some sense into him. Lorric - I wouldn't talk to God about it tbh. etc
Mathew realises his dad has done something bad to his mum
Mathew joins the army. Hangs with Randy
He's nearly taken down by Acton, but has him killed in a grizzly way. ????
I think Acton has to have killed someone close to Randy - his wife or something. We can build up how close they are etc.
Yeah yeah, Acton gets wind of TTs wife murder. Is away to tell Sinclair etc. Randy wastes him. Something like that.
Nah - it should be Acton they slay first and for good reason. But NJ thinks about what his dad would have said.
His dad was not religious but he knew morally you should never kill. It should always be justice, not retribution
But there was no justice to be had any longer when the Judge was mad etc, that kinda thing
But the first one makes the second one easier. NJ does it so that Randy doesnt have to coz of his PTSD etc
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