| I like the series but I have several significant problems with the series:
2000 pages in, and the author still refuses to make some key distinctions about
1) ascendant
OMG This guy has almost ascended!!!! But not quite!!!!
2) Ascendant
He's an Ascendant!!!!!!! But so are most of the other characters!!!!
3) Deck of Dragons
*snicker snicker* the man who made the deck is longdead but we will explain nothing else of value about it
4) Gods
5) Why Elder Peoples can access other Warrens but Humans can't,
6) What it takes to make a House, since people seem to be able to do it willy nilly
House of Chains, House of Shadow lewl the deck will resist us
7) Why certain people are for no apparent reason significantly better than everyone else, just because they can use an Elder Warren
OMG the Imass are so good...yeah but its clear that mortal bladesmen can be as good as the First Sword, so really its just good swordsmen who can turn into a pile of dust and move about the world and use a warren that is totally undescribed but "so powerful"
8) Why the author insists upon using apostrophes to name races
Enough with that already.
9) Spell battles consist of "[someone] was hit by a sorcerous onslaught. [That person] cries out in pain!"
I like the series. But 2000 pages in is a bit too long to be still hedging about random questions but at the same time giving us way too much information about geography and introducing yet more characters who we can wonder about.
I'm sure someone will respond with answers--or the ever-clever "the answers are in this thread" but again, I stand by the statement that 2000 pages is too long to be wondering about the core lore of the world.
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