#not to pivot to the locked tomb outta nowhere but:

[kvothes]

unfortunately one of my main storytelling tenets is that i hate it when people come back from the dead. it has to be done really well to work for me, and make sense in the narrative, and across the grisha books it just…isn’t.

nina is having this whole incredible grieving arc but the unfairness of death is made much, much more unfair when other characters are suddenly revived sometimes. also, a villain coming back can so easily have “somehow palpatine returned” energy unless the groundwork for that return is well-laid, and it definitely was not in this case.

#king of scars spoilers #not to pivot to the locked tomb outta nowhere but: #resurrection makes more sense in that series bc it’s baked into the worldmaking #and even still i’m gonna be squinting hard at how muir closes up that series #there’s gotta be STAKES there’s gotta be SACRIFICE