Heralds of Valdemar: Difference between revisions

* [[Did Not Do the Research]]: Leslac, about Tarma and Kerowyn, frequently. While he usually gets the overall story right, he tends to be dead wrong about the fine details. The most inaccurate song he ever wrote was actually one where he was ''present'' for the events in question, but he deliberately rewrote the story to be more dramatic (The story as Tarma lived it: She was attacked by a drunk. She hit him with a broomstick. He accidentally cracked his skull on the fireplace and died. The drunk turned out to be an unpopular local noble. The story as Leslac told it: Tarma learned that the people were being oppressed by an evil overlord, so she called him out and slew him in an epic duel).

* [[Dirty Mind Reading]]: Talia's Empathy leads to [[Sex by Proxy]] through both her Companion Rolan and the Herald-Trainee who has the room next to hers. Consequently, when she graduates to a full-fledged Herald, she chooses the topmost room in a tower of the Herald's Collegium as her residence. She remarks to Kris after their tryst that she may have been a virgin, but she wasn't naive.

* [[Divided We Fall]]: The Tayledras and Shin'a'in do this, as they have diametrically opposite ideologies regarding the use of magic. It takes a direct order of their Goddess to get them to start working together. Also, in ''Mage Storms'', Valdemar's nascent alliance is on extremely shaky political grounds and frequently suffers from this problem.

* [[Doctor's Orders]]: Healers call the shots.