User blog comment:SaynaSLuke/Four Warriors Cometh/@comment-2142396-20150116140355

I’ve finished chapter 15, and considering how fast you write and how slowly I read, I decided to comment. Truly, there are more unexpected events than in ‘The Warrior's Beginning’! I like how you take minor characters like Whegg and Sandingomm and make them more important, even if I hadn’t had time to get attached to them (yet) :)

Rose is steadily rising in my list of favorite characters! I like what you’ve done there, keeping her separated from Martin and Sayna instead of simply letting her go to Mossflower with them, because that gives massive character development to her, Martin, Sayna and even Brome. And I really got to love Midnight! Also, I have some thoughts… Midnight is a black horse that used to be slave, and she lost her mother. Luna’s mother was black, and had scars from lashes, so she had probably been a slave as well. Somehow, I don’t think it’s a coincidence. ;)

Now, I’d like to talk with Urran Voh. *grabs Urran by shoulders and shakes him* ‘Peaceful’ and ‘allowing your family to be enslaved’ are two completely different things! If you don’t want to fight, you can at least evacuate the villagers and hide from the pirates!

I want to finish with a note/observation about Verdauga. In the book, his personality is more reserved and just and even more tolerable toward woodlanders, and I thought him to be a good father when he intervened in a fight between Tsarmina and Gingivere. I actually consider him to be a grey character, but of course that’s just my interpretation. And in your story Verdauga is a notably more cruel beast with makings of a tyrant. I thought about it for some time, and then it hit me. It stands logical that Verdauga was much more cruel in his younger days right after he conquered Mossflower and became softer with age. In your story, Verdauga isn’t described as old and weak at all, and since there is Redfarl present and Veil is going to be introduced in the next book, so the timeline was ‘shrunk’ in a way… so it’s perfectly logical that Verdauga is younger there and hadn’t reached the moment when he ‘settled down’ yet. And Ashleg’s recollections of Verdauga gave him more ‘humane’ traits, what’s ironical because Ashleg was trying to persuade Gingivere in the exact opposite. Sorry for my rambling, just trying to built a theory to explain some things.

I’ll continue on reading and comment when I catch up with your writing, or maybe earlier. :)