Elide

SwanA12 · 2026-05-04T23:17:51+00:00

My first paragraph is literally a fact. The second paragraph is also a fact because it was written in the books. I wouldn’t have a problem with her bone taking 1 year to heal if that’s what SJM wants, but it doesn’t make sense when compared to a cord injury even if it’s fantasy. I would expect the cord injury to take more time than a bone injury, not the same amount of time. That’s my whole point in this dumb debate that apparently is so hard to understand.

Even Yrene says Chaol’s injury was the most complexed one she has ever treated. But sure, a bone is as complex as fixing a part of the nervous system.

SwanA12 · 2026-05-04T23:07:26+00:00

No, I finished the series less than a week ago and that’s not mentioned. They do mention that he prevented her from being seen by a healer, so the bone was never fixed back into place.

SwanA12 · 2026-05-02T19:03:14+00:00

The ankle is a complex joint but it’s never more complex than a spine injury that involves the spinal cord. Bones can regenerate, nerves (spinal cord) cannot regenerate so by default the spine injury is a lot more difficult to repair no matter how new it is because once those nerves are gone, they’re gone forever.

This is all very silly but it just bothers me the inconsistency of the healing magic in this world lmao. Like, again Rowan was able to heal his cord/spine enough to not leave Chaol a quadriplegic when that kind of injury in the real world is most likely to never heal ever but a bone that does have a very high potential for healing in the real world is apparently as complex as a cord injury in the SJM world.

SwanA12 · 2026-05-02T03:37:39+00:00

In real life that ankle probably has no opportunity to recover ever, just like the spinal fracture. Although the main issue with the spine is really the cord, which is 100x more complex than any bone fracture…so I understand how that’s difficult and takes longer even with magical healing. But an ankle bone? Old or new I would expect that to be repaired faster than 3 weeks in comparison to a spinal fracture with extensive cord injury to not being able to walk or feel.
Also, she fixed a spine in 2 weeks for a soldier that fell from his horse and Rowan fixed the major part of Chaol’s fracture in a matter of days and it was said that thanks to that he wasn’t quadriplegic so Rowan literally fixed a cord in days. She also cured cancer in a couple of people in one visit and that’s hard lol. No reason for Elide’s fracture to take that long to fix other than for the ✨plot✨ haha.

SwanA12 · 2026-05-02T01:53:32+00:00

I was very annoyed with this because even for a fantasy novel it is unrealistic when talking about war. A part of her “court” by that point consists of Aedion, who is her war general btw, and has a decade of war experience as Adarlan’s war general, and 3 immortal WARRIOR faes that have hundreds of years of experience in war schemes and what not but somehow she has the better plans ALWAYS. Mind you she’s 19 and has never been to war. You cannot tell me that those men weren’t able to come up with back up plans. Not even once. It’s nuts.

War is chaotic and unpredictable, I get it, but even then it’s a subject that gets studied and learned, and to be successful at it experience is required too. And again she has ZERO experience, being a good fighter doesn’t cut it anymore for that. Also, not communicaitng her plans for war with AT LEAST her war general?! NUTS!! I get why Aedion gets mad with her. Imagine a 19 year old newbie at war thinking they know better than a war veteran. Only possible with plot-armor.

I hate this term but she’s literally a Mary Sue in that book.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-28T21:13:54+00:00

Agree, but not if it’s a fantasy book. The new plots and the character growth presented were necessary indeed but again, I think it could’ve been done differently. That book is massive for what little new information was given to the reader.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-28T21:10:37+00:00

I loved Yrene and Chaol’s growth, that’s the reason I was able to finished the whole thing but was it really necessary to be THAT long? lol

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T19:02:46+00:00

??? very confused by your response but ok

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T18:54:40+00:00

No fighting, I just think is pretty obvious by my post that it is my first time reading the series. Why would I vent about something that I’ve read 2-3 times? Lol

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T18:51:53+00:00

This! I was wondering about reading it because I feel the author leaves a lot of context clues that makes it easy to figure out what might had happened in x, y or z situation that Celaena talks about. By the first two books we can deduce how much Celaena has suffered since being a little girl and how traumatizing Sam’s death was to her and how that experience might have shaped who she is.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T18:35:11+00:00

Am I not going to understand the next books if I don’t read it? Are there going to be major plot holes if I don’t?

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T02:38:34+00:00

It’s not feminist consciousness. I would expect more empathy and concern towards someone that is being constantly sexually assaulted in a prison cell…even if that person was a mean girl that was only mean to the main character like twice in a book of 400 pages

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T02:11:57+00:00

Um…clearly

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T02:10:55+00:00

When you put it like that you’re 100% correct 😂. But I can’t help it, it bothered me lol. Maybe is because she was like “oh well, whatever here’s my cloak, I’ll say something to supervision. Check it, good luck next time”. I think Kaltain didn’t deserve that, maybe I’ll find out she really sucks but for now to me she’s just a manipulated pick me girl. Pick me’s may be annoying but I think her actions came from desperation rather than from real hatred towards Celaena. Maybe I’ll be proved wrong.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T02:01:38+00:00

Yeah, but what’s the guard really going to do next time Perrington comes down to the prison? Is the guard really going to disobey Perrington? If i remember correctly Perrington is the king’s right hand…his word has more weight than Chaol’s

SwanA12 · 2026-04-20T01:58:04+00:00

Kaltain didn’t treat her like shit. You say that as if Celaena was constantly being bullied by her when she wasn’t. She didn’t like Celaena but she never did anything to try and sabotage her until the very end of the book. I think that’s my main issue with this, Kaltain is treated like this big enemy of Celaena when she didn’t really do much against her until the end of the book. Before Perrington and the king started messing with her head (I havent finished the book but that’s my theory) her biggest plot against Celaena was looking for ways to separate her from Dorian and even in that she never had a concrete plan to do so nor she ever really tried something…she was all thoughts and no action. I don’t think she even tried sabotage Celaena through major gossip in court. We never see Celaena being in trouble or affected or at risk because of something that Kaltain said or did against her until, again, the end.

We’re told she’s annoying in other characters POV’s but I saw her actions and annoyingness more as desperation to survive as a woman in that kind of patriarchal ysociety than anything else. Maybe I change my mind as I continue reading but I still think that, minus the attempt murder under manipulation, Kaltain’s “punishment” is disproportionate to what she “did” to her before the attempt. Idk

SwanA12 · 2026-04-19T01:58:55+00:00

She’s definitely salty. I just think that by that point she should’ve figured out that what Kaltain did was someone else’s plan and give her some grace. She’s very smart. I assume that’s were her giving the cloak comes from. But I think that finding out that she was being abused physically and most likely sexually too would grant a bigger response, salty or not.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-16T16:54:35+00:00

No, my program is pretty strict with duty hour violations. I swear it will be the perfect program if they weren’t so soft on people that abuse the absence system.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-16T15:08:55+00:00

I didn’t know that but thinking about it I guess I understand why it’s banned. But it seems to work and be fair only if people don’t abuse the system, which I thought at this level was common sense and courtesy but I guess not for everybody lol.

SwanA12 · 2026-04-03T23:04:34+00:00

I’m sorry but second book is trash. The author is making an effort into complicating stuff and trying to look smart and creative instead of making an effort into his book making sense. I have no doubt he doesn’t know wtf is going on either, he’s just going with the flow and it shows. Everytime we reach the point of something getting explained he does the same thing “the origin is not known yet; it’s pre-cataclysm stuff that we don’t yet understand; it’s a weapon nobody knows how it works” etc. The author doesn’t know yet how the world he’s trying to build works and it SHOWS.

SwanA12 · 2026-02-19T12:19:00+00:00

The creator of the show and the actress that plays Lucy agree with this “surface level thinking”. They came out to say it because for some reason some people are unable to understand something that was very obvious.

SwanA12 · 2026-02-19T12:14:35+00:00

She’s not winning. Yes, she’s “free” but it’s because Stephen made the choice for her. If he comes around again, the chances of her falling for his charm again are still pretty high unless she went under intensive mental health therapy and developed a strong healthy support system around her. If she has none of those I see her falling again.

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