While I do agree with you about Rigat's character and your point about how the book begins and ends with Keirith, I saw Geriv differently. I felt his motivation was less about his perception of what had happened at the sacrifice and more about his hatred of the Oak and Holly people. He was also driven by pride--a man who believed he was "better" than Darak and wanted to prove it. Which is why he's so deflated when he reaches the village and finds that Darak is already dead. He has been robbed of the opportunity to see Darak beaten
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I guess I can see where you're coming from with Geriv, though me and my logical mind doesn't want to accept that. It's one thing to hate Darak's people, it's another to desire to punish them for something that didn't happen the way he thought it did. That's what I thought drove his personal vengeance against Darak. If it's just been his hate of the people, he wouldn't have been quite so determined to, say, have Darak's head on a platter. But Darak and his son got away with murder, in his POV, and he wanted to make them pay. But that's me! :)
The complex study of relationships, particularly of those between parents and their children, WAS interesting and essentially what the entire trilogy was based on. There's a part of me that resists the Trickster's downfall, I think for the reasons you mentioned: we never had any idea that something like that could really happen.
Darak's scene surprised me too, and I felt bad for being surprised. :-/
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The complex study of relationships, particularly of those between parents and their children, WAS interesting and essentially what the entire trilogy was based on. There's a part of me that resists the Trickster's downfall, I think for the reasons you mentioned: we never had any idea that something like that could really happen.
Darak's scene surprised me too, and I felt bad for being surprised. :-/
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