After living so rough a life when you find you circumstances change it may feel like you are betraying how you grew up. It is important to realize that it was your life that brought you here.
I see a distinctive lack of combat training. I guess this will need another flashback. Maybe from another character perspective? But that's for the future.
I loved the page. It illustrated well how Colleen passed her day and how it helped define the character. Maybe now she will have the time to read some books that are not holy scriptures in the down time between a dungeon dive. Beside training and restocking I mean, because I am also curious about the town at the entrance of the Marblegates so I hope she will have the time to visit and meet new people. Would help to flesh out the world and it's inhabitants too.
While I agree that she shouldn't feel guilty, I can also say that it shows how much she loves her family and is dedicated to helping her village that she feels that way. She is exactly the kind of person you want to have her gift. :)
Also great job on the box with the friend handing the apple down from a top bunk. That is exactly how girls communicate in bunk-bed societies.
I imagine her saying something cheesy about how she found red-topped apple and by sharing it they are now officially red-head-besty-buddie forever.
i believe greenhorn as a synonym for newcomers has a few roots i belive that in old jewlrysmithing that they used horn as a material in the process of setting silver jewelry and in the process it was heated up a overheated project turn summarily green. another example being hunters and trappers would when available have powder horns. and someone new to the work would have one that was relatively fresh. although im fairly certain thats a newer use of the same bit of language. the silversmith example would be more widespread in the language department oweing to silversmithing being not just stuck in one region
It seems like she found a good fit for herself. I appreciate this, because too many fictional stories fall into the habit of portraying monastic societies as "unnatural" or "restrictive" instead of as communities that foster personal growth while helping society at large.
I agree! That's probably because most portrayals of religious characters/communities are written by people who aren't at all religious and who most have never even been in a church before. They don't seem to understand how religious communities actually work.
So it doesn't surprise me that their view of cloisters and monasticism is nothing but disturbed confusion.
I loved the page. It illustrated well how Colleen passed her day and how it helped define the character. Maybe now she will have the time to read some books that are not holy scriptures in the down time between a dungeon dive. Beside training and restocking I mean, because I am also curious about the town at the entrance of the Marblegates so I hope she will have the time to visit and meet new people. Would help to flesh out the world and it's inhabitants too.
More on that in a future chapter :)
...in german 'grün hinter den Ohren' (green behind his/her ears)means that this person is inexperienced and still has much to learn...!
I imagine her saying something cheesy about how she found red-topped apple and by sharing it they are now officially red-head-besty-buddie forever.
...green seems to be the color for beginners and newcomers worldwide...? ;-)
So it doesn't surprise me that their view of cloisters and monasticism is nothing but disturbed confusion.