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Agema said:
I like them also for the sense that for all that's going on, the characters seem very small, flawed cogs in a huge machine, rather than the world-striding, magic-sword-wielding, square-jawed, dragon-slaying, dark-lord-vanquishing, naive, over-righteous pricks that normally populate fantasy.
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100% agree. I do have a problem though keeping track of who is who in terms of visualizing the characters and recalling their backgrounds, especially when it comes to keeping all the grunts straight like the Bonehunter squads.
I do wish the magic was a little more subtle - it does feel that magic is so powerful that any Erikson character has the means to survive any situation, no matter how dire. Whether Erikson lets them survive is another matter, but he is far more generous than George Martin.