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[scifisentai]

In an attempt at generating some discussion here, are there people or places you wish had more focus in the Velgarth books? I mean, I like the Heralds well enough but sometimes I get curious about the Bards and the Healers, for example, the kind of characters that really only get explored through the short story collections and are barely touched on in the novels themselves.

Or places like Hardorn after Tremane becomes King and Karse after Solaris becomes Son of the Sun, as a couple of other examples. Or the Shin'a'in clans aside from Tale'sedrin. So, thoughts? Anything you wish had more focus, no matter how unlikely the possibility of getting said focus is? Or do you think too much focus outside of Valdemar and the Heralds would detract from the series overall?

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[perkyrusalka]

I would love to see more of the healers-I'm really curious about mindhealers, honestly, since they're mentioned occasionally. I always thought the Heralds were the least interesting of the characters, but I've always been biased against main characters. ;)

I'd like to read more of the Shin'a'in, too. I'd like to read more about the Hawkbrothers, back when they were mysterious and didn't interact with Valdemar all the time.

[scifisentai]

*nods* It would definitely be interesting to know more about the healers, especially the mindhealers, whether they'd be like the physical healers and use a mix of their Gift and psychology where regular healers use medicines and so on.

I actually don't mind the Heralds too much - they're not my favourites but I don't mind them - I just get frustrated a little at the focus they get and how everyone wants to be one. :/

Heh, agreed on that re: the Shin'a'in and the Hawkbrothers. There's a lot of history there to touch on, it would be fascinating. :)