Teres

SCSF: Oh yes, I remember the Icarii children being mini-adults... That will be great.

It reminds of those weird medieval depictions of Baby Jesus looking like a tiny adult because he was born perfect and therefore didn't change his appearance as he grew up or some such weird justification.

There certainly are... I can only think of Mirbolt as another relatively important Avar character, so that is not exactly encouraging. (I also hate that they are not even there after Tencendor blows up. In forty years, has not a single Avar left Tencendor, then?)

I have no memory of Mirbolt at all except that she becomes a tree later. And I guess the author just lost the little interest she had in the Avar after book three.

To be fair, I am quite certain Faraday does think about her later, for example in Pilgrim.

I'm only counting this trilogy.

If I were to hazard a guess, I would say that she wants the "joy" that she was promised if she were Tree Friend so badly that she is willing to trust him.

Because she's kind of a gullible idiot that way. Too bad she doesn't stop to think "wait a minute" when doing what the Sentinels tell her ends up landing her in an unhappy marriage in a miserable shithole of a castle. Then trudging around the countryside shredding her hands by planting thousands of trees WITHOUT A SHOVEL, while pregnant. And then getting ripped in half by Gorge. Where's the "joy" and happiness they promised in any of that? Faraday's the only character who actually SUFFERS in this crap.

It certainly comes across as quite superficial, like she just does not like the aesthetic of the Way of the Plough.

Whatever the hell that is.

Especially after he said that the hare "honoured" them... It certainly is dismissive.

It's incredibly callous. What, when one of your friends dies you just dump his carcass in the bushes and leave it to rot? You're not going to honour the hare's sacrifice by burying or even eating the remains?

I get why Timozel would want to do so... but it certainly is a bit rash.

Plus we're getting the old "if he looks scary/ugly he must be evil!" nonsense again.

Also I've just noticed that Douglass really seems to dislike big muscular dudes. Borneheld is one, Gorge just got described as stacked, and in the second trilogy we get Qeteb or whatever his name is who's also build like the Hulk. Meanwhile Axis and other "good" male characters are lean. Like come on, mix it up a bit.