Teres

For a "creative writer", Douglass really wasn't all that creative, and especially not when it came to this sort of thing. It doesn't even sound grand or dramatic.

SCSF: That is just what makes it sound so bad... As for being creative, I have to grant that she will get creative in finding new ways to make this trilogy unbearable.

Never mind undermining it; it actively means the Prophecy failed to come true! There is no "bridge to understanding" forged between the Avar and the humans. We never see either side reconciling their differences or anything like that.

Hmm, I am not wholly sure if that means the Prophecy did not come true... It says they need to find that understanding to defeat Gorgrael, after all, and given what I have read of Douglass so far, it might as well mean that they are no longer hostile to the Acharites, or that they give gifts to our "heroes". (And, in any case, once Drago was born, the Prophecy was fulfilled, not that anyone would know that now, because no one bothers to investigate anything.)

In other words the "heroes" of that trilogy are so fucking useless that not only does Tencendor get destroyed but the Avar are wiped out forever. Bra-VO. slow clap

Given that there are six thousand Icarii still out there after the fall of Tencendor, I might expect some Avar to exist out there, but I guess Douglass did not want to write them any more. Well done, indeed.

As he is not capable of love, the answer is presumably yes by default.

I meant to reference Roran with it, and his talk about how battle is better than sex.

Probably because Douglass didn't decide to make it a thing until book two, when said character became her new favourite doll.

That is probably the case, though I doubt that Douglass would have wanted to give a hint this early in any case.

I've worn plenty of dresses and not one of them fastened "up the back". That sort of thing is for Victorian ladies who have personal maids to help them dress.

And she would not be having anything that fancy... This bit is a prime example of Douglass putting Drama (Azhure needing to be helped out and so delaying the reveal) before sense.

Correct. They get magically removed for no reason just so Azhure can be Perfect(tm)

Yikes. At least Douglass did not have Azhure magically make her abusive childhood undone, but she certainly does come close to that.