van and dara still make a great team. i like them, and i'm glad you included dara
i'm glad lake evendim is cited as a site of magical attack! it's a huge crater, and i've always thought it got bombed during the mage wars.
more discussions of ethics! i love how rolan mentions to randale about van's 'the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few' morality--it would definitely run counter to the companions' prerogative to save valdemar at all costs.
and stef hanging with the frelennyes--so sad, but i'm not at all surprised he'd be interested. stef's adventures in general are pretty cool!
parallels between van and savil and ma'ar and urtho were so intense! and i'm loving the practical discussion between van and leareth about how to make a god they'd want (still kiiinda shipping the two of them lmao--i'm having a fondness for traitor van who defects to leareth's side). however it seems wayyyy too easy for leareth to accidentally build an ultron or something.
van's problems with his Gift are interesting, and make a lot of sense. in a lot of ways vanyel has always been similar to trisana chandler, from tamora pierce's emelan books--they both have extremely powerful magical gifts that are really, really hard to fine-tune and control.
and i was so glad to see withen and van reconcile! that was one of my favorite parts of the original series as well. i was so happy to see their improved relationship, especially during the scene with sandra's alchemy accident.
aaaaand van sees stef and is immediately like '...hot,' accurate lmao
i'm so happy to see van and stef! stef's huge crush, van's panicking over having a crush in return, making out on the balcony...i love it it's so good! these two are complete dorks and it feels very true to canon--i loved stef bursting into the healers to help van.
and stef and van dreamsharing! such a fun development, and the way more people noticed the lifebond was nice too. they are so cute and such a mess
and of course, van decided to yell at a god--a very van thing to do :D
":Sorry, my life is really weird and I keep forgetting you don't know any of it.:" is now my favorite vanyel quote and it is so accurate
and jisa decides to pull an uncle van and damn near get herself killed--it must run in the ashkevron bloodline or something XD
this was such a wild ride, i loved it! can't wait for the next installment!
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Date: 2019-04-17 04:58 am (UTC)van and dara still make a great team. i like them, and i'm glad you included dara
i'm glad lake evendim is cited as a site of magical attack! it's a huge crater, and i've always thought it got bombed during the mage wars.
more discussions of ethics! i love how rolan mentions to randale about van's 'the needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few' morality--it would definitely run counter to the companions' prerogative to save valdemar at all costs.
and stef hanging with the frelennyes--so sad, but i'm not at all surprised he'd be interested. stef's adventures in general are pretty cool!
parallels between van and savil and ma'ar and urtho were so intense! and i'm loving the practical discussion between van and leareth about how to make a god they'd want (still kiiinda shipping the two of them lmao--i'm having a fondness for traitor van who defects to leareth's side). however it seems wayyyy too easy for leareth to accidentally build an ultron or something.
van's problems with his Gift are interesting, and make a lot of sense. in a lot of ways vanyel has always been similar to trisana chandler, from tamora pierce's emelan books--they both have extremely powerful magical gifts that are really, really hard to fine-tune and control.
and i was so glad to see withen and van reconcile! that was one of my favorite parts of the original series as well. i was so happy to see their improved relationship, especially during the scene with sandra's alchemy accident.
aaaaand van sees stef and is immediately like '...hot,' accurate lmao
i'm so happy to see van and stef! stef's huge crush, van's panicking over having a crush in return, making out on the balcony...i love it it's so good! these two are complete dorks and it feels very true to canon--i loved stef bursting into the healers to help van.
and stef and van dreamsharing! such a fun development, and the way more people noticed the lifebond was nice too. they are so cute and such a mess
and of course, van decided to yell at a god--a very van thing to do :D
":Sorry, my life is really weird and I keep forgetting you don't know any of it.:" is now my favorite vanyel quote and it is so accurate
and jisa decides to pull an uncle van and damn near get herself killed--it must run in the ashkevron bloodline or something XD
this was such a wild ride, i loved it! can't wait for the next installment!