Jack is a mere baker's boy; he worked most of his life as a lowlife in the kitchens with little known of his mother save she was labeled a "foreign whore," and he had no father. This plays a key role in Jack's journey, as he longs to find out who his parents were, and why they did what they did. Baralis recruited Jack at the age of twelve to be his blind scribe, yet through the years, Jack learned to read what he wrote; thus he became simply a scribe. At the age of eighteen, he preformed a spell of some sort. With Baralis sensing this, he chased Jack out of the castle where he met Melli. With Jack's newfound power, he begins to become afraid, afraid of the power and afraid of being evil. He is muscular, tall, and young throughout the novel, though in the third and final novel Master and Fool, he is constantly described as mature. He has a trait of being naive until he learns of who he is, and destroys Larn. He is nice, and would help anyone who needed it thinking little of himself. He's used to feeling as a mere lowlife. He finds out later that his mother is Aneska of Larn, and his father is King Lesketh of the Four Kingdoms, and once he does, he feels relieved. His true love is Tarissa, who is also of the Four Kingdoms.
