I like this very much. I had just re-read this chapter yesterday.



Renfri is certainly a tragic character. Her whole life turned upside down by Aridea and Stregobor over a curse that may or may not have been true (I personally think the Curse of the Black Sun to be a lie spouted by a madman). In my opinion Stregobor was a fool who, if he had an ounce of humanity (spoiler, he doesn't, as he would not have cared if the good folk of Blaviken were slaughtered by Renfri and her thugs), should have simply had Renfri closely watched to see if she was truly 'cursed'. As for Aridea, well she was clearly a jealous woman who saw a convenient way to remove the 'obstacle' that prevented her own children inheriting what was rightfully Renfri's.