Base-Breaking Character: Evvy, sort of.note From conversations with Briar, it's implied they can magically treat mental disorders. As soon as Sandry hires her as a maid, Gudruny turns into a motherly mentor with no apparent ill effects from her mistreatment, with no mention of her having ever visited a mind-healer. She's described then as looking permanently worn-out and disheveled, naturally, and one would expect that suffering many years of Domestic Abuse would leave her with many emotional issues - nope. She spent decades married to a physically and verbally abusive husband (whom she never wanted to marry in the first place), was callously refused help by Sandry's mother twice, and finally snuck into Sandry's house in hiding in a desperate attempt to have her marriage annulled. In Cold Fire, exactly how much of Bennat Ladradun's interactions with Daja are deliberate manipulations, as opposed to genuinely wanting her to understand and sympathize with him? This applies especially to his offering a "guess" to the arsonist's motives that makes Daja think he's defending them.Did the Trader Council make Daja a trangshi because they actually saw the future and knew it would be much better for the world? After all, without her there the other three would have died in the earthquake and not been there to stop any of the disasters that followed, all so that Daja could live what she quickly comes to realize would have been a far less fulfilling life.It could also be that you need to know when to swallow your pride before a great disaster happens. Accidental Aesop: The story of Yarrun in Daja's Book can be taken for an Objectivist message: there are certain people who are just better than others who deserve all the world's fame, and anyone who doesn't like it is just a jealous asshole.
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