

Leo has a very close circle of boisterous male companions: Jurand, Antaup, Whitewater Jin, Glaward, Barniva.

In his youth, he was foster for a time in Uffrith with The Dogman, where he got to know Rikke, and began to hero-worship men like the Bloody-Nine. According to his mother, he was conceived at the Battle of Osrung. Leo dan Brock was born in Angland, the only son of Finree dan Brock and Harod dan Brock, Lord Governor of Angland. Add to that the fact he’s very obviously confused about his own sexuality (bisexual or perhaps gay), and suppresses his attraction to men through rampant homophobia.

Charming as he can be, he is bigoted towards anyone who isn't from The Union or The North, at one point calling Prince Orso as a " half- Styrian mongrel". He displays a reckless attitude in battle and fondness for carnage that wouldn't be out of place in a Northman. Leo is a man confused by romantic assumptions about reality, especially, the reality of war. But, despite his mother’s best efforts, he can be strangely childlike too naïve, vain, idealistic, easily manipulated. The Young Lion has some fine qualities honesty, loyalty, courage, passion. He wears his sandy hair long, his sandy beard cropped short. Even worse, it will force them into alliance with Nicomo Cosca, infamous soldier of fortune, and his feckless lawyer Temple, two men no one should ever have to trust.Leo dan Brock is an extremely handsome man, with a square-jaw, a magnificently manly physique, and great strength. Their journey will take them across the barren plains to a frontier town gripped by gold fever, through feud, duel and massacre, high into the unmapped mountains to a reckoning with the Ghosts. But it turns out Lamb's buried a bloody past of his own, and out in the lawless Far Country, the past never stays buried. She sets off in pursuit with only a pair of oxen and her cowardly old stepfather Lamb for company. Shy South hoped to bury her bloody past and ride away smiling, but she'll have to sharpen up some bad old ways to get her family back, and she's not a woman to flinch from what needs doing.
