Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-6192846-20140806122913/@comment-6192846-20140921014728

GreekTelepath wrote: In order:
 * Do you think it's worth mentioning Elluka's observation of her own magic weakening as a sign of her decaying body?
 * Why can't Elluka just stay in Toragay indefinitely over the course of the story, instead of going back and forth between there and Aceid?
 * Aren't Calgaround and Toragay the same place?

1) I think we should just let it play out. It seems to be a foreshadowing but I'm concerned by how it uses "soon" so vaguely in the narration. It's not so much a decaying body. As I read it, it comes off as more of a decaying connection between her soul to that body. Eventually, it may simply be her soul can no longer remain in it. But it's all conjecture the narration suggests is going through Elluka's head.

2) The novel's reasons vary. The first time she goes to Toragay. It's because of work. She has a job and she still needs to maintain a normal life as "Hanne Lorre". She leaves again for the same reasons in that two week period between Chapters 3 and 4. Her house is there and she can't afford to infinitely pay for an inn. Hanne then doesn't return to Aceid til she comes back with Gumillia in Chapter 6, and that's so they can wash and change into their mage attire.

3) This was discussed earlier, but no. I confirmed back when we were tranlsating Chapters 1 and 2 that Toragay and Calgaround are different places. Calgarounds a little further north of Toragay. Toragay is directly below Calgaround, north-west of Aceid. We misinterpretted the info the plot synopsis for the novel gave us. Evils Theater's already working on separating them into two articles in her sandbox.

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Either way, I got the potential foreshadow I hoped for with Enbizaka. I don't think we'll get any more info about the swap technique in this novel. Chapter 7 seems to deal largely with the aftermath of Margariata's genocide. It seems to also explain the reason behind Shaw's long life and a bit more about the Sisters of Clarith.

I think Elluka also becomes a literal tree hugger in this chapter......