The Knot
The place Orren left behind, believing he could make a difference without profiting from another's death.
Story so far
In his moment of self-reckoning, Orren tells Carl that when he left the Knot he said it was because he wanted to make a difference — but that the real reason was that he wanted to be an actor.
He adds that he wanted to remain pure, not relying on someone else's death to make his mark, and that he never imagined he would find himself at the forefront of a potential apocalypse. The Knot is the life he traded away for a career that has now made him, by his own reckoning, the one history will remember for letting The AI loose.
Appearance
Not described; referenced only as the origin Orren departed from.
Role
Orren's abandoned home, invoked as the measure of how far his ambitions have gone wrong.
Relationships
Sources — 1 recorded facts, by chapter
- The place Orren left behind, believing he could make a difference without profiting from another's death.