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I dun care how many times they say the name of King Arthur, because the characters have no connection to it either by emotion, curiosity, or research. It is white noise. CSLewis did something similar in Chronicles of Narnia, and that was shit too because of this. This is not worldbuilding, this is loredump, and even badly written loredump because the lore has no connection to the rest of the world. Like you try to make a puzzle, no idea of the big picture, you don't even have the border, or even the size of the thing, and the small spots tells you nothing, and are uninterresting.
For a bad writer this can seem worldbuilding on paper but it is at best lexicon-writing, and who reads lexicons for fun?

Anyway, now they are chased by humans, specificaly Children. How they passed the ravens is anyone's guess.
The Children get to them, and after a brief fight capture Team B, but not the werewolf.
This group also head for Town #2, aka. Caemlyn. Later they want to go to Amador, their ~capital. Though the Children is more of an international agency than a country.

A quick note: Caemlyn is like, Camelot? And this Arthur wanned to move his capital to this anti-magic area. Great. How much pengdragon-legend is ripped off to this thing?

The leader of these Children has some common sense. Not sure why I care, but at least after all the unconnected useless stuff, Children are kinda an integral part of this world, so I can work with this.
That Byar is an asshole though. And the whole Childran-group seems like trouble.
Come to thinkn of it, there isn't a single gorup we could trust, and isn't presented as trouble, meaning again we lack firm ground, we lack a fix starting point to build our interrest on for the whole Wheel of Time thingy.

Again the description of trolls. They are not even beastmen. More like animal-human hybrid. Still can't point to where this is familiar from.


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