EQ Readthrough: Issue 2, Raid at Sorrow's End

[elf]

LINK: Issue 2: Raid at Sorrow's End
Questions for this issue:

• What did you find most interesting about the trip through the desert?
• How could the raid have been prevented? What would have changed?
• What did you think of the display of healing powers?

Main OQR post with prompt questions
Note: These aren't mandatory questions; they're meta prompts. If you don't care for any of them, or want to tangent from them to some other topic, that's fine too.

Comments

[elf]

I expect Rayek is surprised by his possessiveness because nobody's challenged his "right" to Leetah's attentions before.

I suppose the raid could've been avoided, or done differently, if they'd encountered Rayek hunting alone outside the village, or if they'd been doing enough sending to catch Savah's attention. With a different chief, one with more patience, they might've decided to wait until nightfall to raid silently, instead of with open violence, and that would've been a very different story.

"love recognition at first sight and bonus damsel kidnapping!"

Umm, yeah. It occurred to me, that although I haven't finished the whole set yet (haven't read most of the 2nd quest series, and haven't touched the future-stuff), I can't recall any *males* trapped in recognition against their will--except Tyldak, in a situation in which he was presented as extremely unlikable so nobody much cared what he wanted at the time.

Several women stuck with "I have to mate with WHO? NO!!" and very few parallel complaints from the men. (I think this is a problem that should be fixed with fanfic. Lots of fanfic. Someone should host an "EQ Men Fighting Recognition" fest.)

[dancing_serpent]

Someone should host an "EQ Men Fighting Recognition" fest.
I like the idea. *g* Maybe some time in the future, when we have encountered enough examples of recognition in the comics. I'm definitely filing that away for later. *g*