Teres

God that title is stupid.

SCSF: It will never not be, unfortunately.

This just makes the whole "grr, Farming Bad" crap even worse because WE NEED IT TO SURVIVE. Destroying all that farmland should have caused mass starvation!

Indeed... Looking at the map of Wayfarer Redemption, it looks like Minstrelsea only covers the eastern third of Arcness and Skarabost, which seems like it is more on the fringes of the respective provinces, and presumably has less impact, but it should be a large consideration!

Which she never does! The Avar will NEVER be re-integrated into society and instead will remain a separate community which is generally off limits to outsiders.

That does undermine the message of the Prophecy, does it not? (Not that I mind all that much, outside of there apparently being no Avar left after Tencendor falls; I will always be bothered by that.)

Now I'm picturing her as an actress from an old black and white movie where women must always show fear by putting their hands over their mouths or on their cheeks, bugging out their eyes and screaming a lot while shaking their heads from side to side.

That about fits with my mental image!

Our first clue as to what a horrible cold-hearted person she is. At least Selena had the excuse of not rescuing her elder son because she was DEAD.

Either it is that, or this is some spell going on here (as Anya went with in Discordant); there are certainly enough of the latter to make that plausible.

After this, of course, everyone becomes extremely blase about being controlled by that fucking thing.

Aside from some token protests which only serve to highlight just how bad the Prophecy is, that is, which is a quite bad way to indicate that it is good news.

Of course, Saint Axis is in no way "hard and humourless" and most at home when he's killing things. Nuh-uh!

Does he find it "better than love", too?

And not the least bit traumatised, naturally.

She is nothing but a My First Toddler doll at this point.

And this will never be addressed. There's a half Icarii present right now, yet nobody picks up on it here for the same reason?

I think she does not look like that, since we have heard nothing about it, but I have no idea why not.

"Going insane" or "going mad" isn't even a thing

Exactly!

Exactly! And no, it WASN'T murder. Murder requires intent. It was literally an accident which was mostly self-inflicted. No court of law would ever have convicted her.

And I am quite sure the Yuletide Meet will not do so, either. I suppose Douglass just wanted more Drama for Azhure?

How the fuck was she putting this thing on in the morning all by herself if it fastens up the BACK?

Thank you for catching that! I already had the idea that something was off here.

Speaking of insensitive and ignorant, this is a horrible way to describe scars as "ruining" you. Also, surprise surprise, she is not in fact "marked for life". Douglass mishandles the scars almost as badly as Paolini would.

It absolutely is (and from how much I talked about this, it is easy to see how much it bothered me). For the scars... do I remember it right if they are gone after the end of Enchanter...?

But she's quite happy to literally bare it all to a bunch of strangers. Right.

I could see it if she actually thought she would be sent back to Smyrton if she did not, but there is no reason she cannot explain that Hagen tried to kill Shra, so it is indeed weird.

If Shra had been an Icarii, I would understand it, but there is no indication that Avar children grow up so quickly, and she is not giving speeches yet... so, as you say, she probably just copied what she saw Raum do.