By all accounts, his father should have been proud of the brutal son he was raising - and, to the public perception, he was. However, within the palatial Los Angeles mansion that his men jokingly called Nott Castle, Thoros Nott was a violent man to his only son. He kept bruises and scars off his face, but was inclined to quench cigars on his son’s back, or lash him with a horsewhip that had belonged to his father.