but it still feels like Douglass only put it in to have "maybe Hagen's ghost is tormenting me!".
And ghosts as a concept never come up again, of course. Unless you count the Skraelings being called "ghostmen", but they're clearly living beings and not the souls of the dead.
Looking ahead, Barsarbe does set his ankle and gets him a splint, but it should indeed affect him until he explodes.
Yeah, if you've got bone actually sticking out it's not enough just to put it in a splint. That requires surgery and pinning the bone back together. Roald Dahl's father suffered a fracture like it back in the early 1900s and had to his arm removed.
Yes, he really does sound like one, not to mention that trapping Raum like this is also a typical villain move.
It would be nice of the Avar did have additional powers... Maybe healing could be one of them? That would resolve the above plot hole, at least.
Plus it would fit with Faraday getting healing powers when she too is connected to the trees.
Of course not...
I don't think he ever apologises to any of the people he hurts, come to that. He just instantly gets forgiven for free, most notably at the end of book two, shudder.
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And ghosts as a concept never come up again, of course. Unless you count the Skraelings being called "ghostmen", but they're clearly living beings and not the souls of the dead.
Yeah, if you've got bone actually sticking out it's not enough just to put it in a splint. That requires surgery and pinning the bone back together. Roald Dahl's father suffered a fracture like it back in the early 1900s and had to his arm removed.
Yeah, having someone at swordpoint and casually talking about how you're gonna kill them is such a cliché villain move.
Plus it would fit with Faraday getting healing powers when she too is connected to the trees.
I don't think he ever apologises to any of the people he hurts, come to that. He just instantly gets forgiven for free, most notably at the end of book two, shudder.