Worldbuilding Ponderings

[aldersprig]

(Ask me about the wool-felt short shorts, I dare you)

Wondering if the Callanthe, or the Bitrani, have a concept of "being humane."

Wondering if the story falls into tropes too often. Here she is rescuing prisoners from harsh conditions... that sort of thing

Comments

[smw]

Chiming in as a person who doesn't know the story and characters in question, with apologies, but:

My questions would be (a) does she see a benefit in freeing the prisoners? [tertiary to which: why?] and (b) is the difficulty of doing so outweighed by this benefit?

[aldersprig]

No worries, sometimes a viewpoint outside the story is awesome.

I ended up changing the whole thing so that it wasn't so cut and dried, which made me feel better about the whole problem - the prisoners aren't in really bad shape anymore, just worried. As prisoners of war probably should be.

[smw]

Sounds like a good change. I often find that I'm most satisfied with the parts of my novels where I've had to back up and rethink my original plan -- they feel like accomplishments.

[aldersprig]

Hee, yes. I had a chance to walk on it, which helped.