This might be One of the best chapters of the book, and I think the best so far.
You could even play devil's advocate here and think that Roran only said those last sentences as an hyperbole, and there is pretty much nothing wrong with the chapter left.
(And now that I think of it, ¿It is well know un the Varden that the Imperials are supposed to be mindslaved? I remember a comment at the end of the book, but it was about the civilians. I don't remember anything about the soldiers un Roran's chapters)
One question: you say that killing lotes of enemies is not badass but disturbing, and yet in en older post I saw you saying that it WAS badass, but the people un this series are not badass characters and it dotes not work, por something.
By modern standards it's common sense. By medieval standards she probably wouldn't be there in the first place, and if she were, she would not leave even because of the child
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Actually no medieval army moved without a contingent of washerwomen, whether freelance or official. Even Crusading armies couldn't do without them but tried to specify that they should all be old or ugly, so as not to tempt the troops into sin.
15th-century Swiss mercenary troops routinely had a number of young women 'on the strength' (i.e. getting paid) as support troops - washing, foraging, nursing, managing baggage animals, etcetera; when cantons and cities raised citizen levies, they did the same. It was normal.
Also, the idea 'medieval women health professionals often got accused of witchcraft' is a myth. Their trade was so normal that they'd have had to do something seriously dodgy, or make a dangerous enemy, for such a thing to be suggested. And witchcraft accusations in large numbers really belong to the early modern period, not the Middle Ages at all.
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You could even play devil's advocate here and think that Roran only said those last sentences as an hyperbole, and there is pretty much nothing wrong with the chapter left.
(And now that I think of it, ¿It is well know un the Varden that the Imperials are supposed to be mindslaved?
I remember a comment at the end of the book, but it was about the civilians. I don't remember anything about the soldiers un Roran's chapters)
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Can you please explain it a bit more clearly?
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15th-century Swiss mercenary troops routinely had a number of young women 'on the strength' (i.e. getting paid) as support troops - washing, foraging, nursing, managing baggage animals, etcetera; when cantons and cities raised citizen levies, they did the same. It was normal.
Also, the idea 'medieval women health professionals often got accused of witchcraft' is a myth. Their trade was so normal that they'd have had to do something seriously dodgy, or make a dangerous enemy, for such a thing to be suggested. And witchcraft accusations in large numbers really belong to the early modern period, not the Middle Ages at all.
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