I’m pretty sure none of them are team players. More to the point: I’m sure most of them were “recruited” by the church of Astraleos in the same way Maga was.
Nice to the the dragon soldiers have a probematic rep, so it’s not just the plot monkeys who think she’s been probably been fooling herself about her cause. Being an evil god’s minion is little if any safer than openly opposing. These aren’t the naive first Worlders’ or readers’ contempt she thinks easy to dismiss. These people are more part of this cosmos’ gestalt. She looks the uneasy-wary of someone whose assumptions are being challenged HARD.
The rest of the team has gone through this over and over. I think she’s going have to dig deep and decide what’s better and if her striving has any meaning, if what she thinks anything is worth dying for. (she’s fallen into the belly of the beast after kinda making friends and losing mentors for her journey) The original first world team have all undergone profound transformations, but she hadn’t really…
The First World team was the rawest of neophytes, and needed massive amounts of growth to be worth anything off their particular pebble. Much of their troubles seem to stem from the fact they generally have no idea what they’re doing at any given moment.
Maga is not only a trained warrior and battle tested veteran but also (based on a few conversations) a former child soldier. She’s been doing this her whole life and is likely past the point of character growth. She already had something worth dying for, and watched it die at the hands of these idiots. She had something worth fighting for (and with), and one of these idiots got it destroyed. Her growth point is ‘can she get past that?’, with signs pointing towards “No”.
“I hunted a few”
Not a good way to build team-work with the new gal?
^_^
Pecking order.
I’m pretty sure none of them are team players. More to the point: I’m sure most of them were “recruited” by the church of Astraleos in the same way Maga was.
Nice to the the dragon soldiers have a probematic rep, so it’s not just the plot monkeys who think she’s been probably been fooling herself about her cause. Being an evil god’s minion is little if any safer than openly opposing. These aren’t the naive first Worlders’ or readers’ contempt she thinks easy to dismiss. These people are more part of this cosmos’ gestalt. She looks the uneasy-wary of someone whose assumptions are being challenged
HARD.The rest of the team has gone through this over and over. I think she’s going have to dig deep and decide what’s better and if her striving has any meaning, if what she thinks anything is worth dying for. (she’s fallen into the belly of the beast after kinda making friends and losing mentors for her journey) The original first world team have all undergone profound transformations, but she hadn’t really…
The First World team was the rawest of neophytes, and needed massive amounts of growth to be worth anything off their particular pebble. Much of their troubles seem to stem from the fact they generally have no idea what they’re doing at any given moment.
Maga is not only a trained warrior and battle tested veteran but also (based on a few conversations) a former child soldier. She’s been doing this her whole life and is likely past the point of character growth. She already had something worth dying for, and watched it die at the hands of these idiots. She had something worth fighting for (and with), and one of these idiots got it destroyed. Her growth point is ‘can she get past that?’, with signs pointing towards “No”.
Oh look it’s Fen’Haral. . .
So, he brings the -four- people in the room a fourth? Interesting.
A fourth guardian, forced into the role by circumstance. The guy meditating is there to watch the watchers, I’d say.