This story about immortality, grief, and the importance of emotional connections is interrupted by the presence of blunt, strawman villains who exist not as characters but as plot devices to show the “humanity” of the protagonists.
The ‘this race is inherently evil’ in fiction is always a device to enable the heroes to be able to take lives while still being moral. It’s a little lazy.
The ‘this race is inherently evil’ in fiction is always a device to enable the heroes to be able to take lives while still being moral. It’s a little lazy.