I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. The quotation marks were meant to signal it's not my opinion. Rather, it was meant to show how someone else may argue. Looking back on it, my message was badly worded and didn't express the intention well. I'm sorry. The question I was meaning to express was: What arc would you have written/liked to see for Eir that has nothing or little to do with Braham?
Oh hey… I appreciate you coming back :o I get tired of being challenged on things like this so I come out the gate on the defensive, but alright, let’s take a step back and I’ll give you a more level answer.
First of all I have zero issue with Braham being a prominent part of Eir’s story. Making Eir a mom was sort of shoe-horned into the narrative to begin with, the least they could have done was actually do the concept justice instead of just using it to make a new character coveniently and automatically relevant, and then to feed him some extra man-pain. Eir struggled to find common ground with him, they were awkward and uncomfortable with each other, but they were JUST learning to see themselves in each other and how to communicate before HoT. They could have expanded on that, they could have had Braham actually LEARN from her instead of just mourning her. Hell, he could have even still become a dragonhunter. What’s better than mother/son bonding over weapons training during a life or death struggle in the wilderness? I have no problem whatsoever with Braham or with Eir The Mom, but it would have been nice if it seemed like Anet cared about that dynamic at all.
But again, Braham aside, Eir could have done so much. Here is a woman who feels like she’s moving past her prime, but she’s still determined to fight the elder dragon threat and save the damn world. She probably still carries some of that blame for the time that Destiny’s Edge lost, and then Rytlock disappears, and they choose to move without him. A familiar move, did she struggle with that? Did she blame herself for losing the others in the jungle? For failing once again to keep her only friends together and safe? I would have liked to see her surviving, struggling, not a passive captured plot device. What if she had been heading another camp of survivors, bound and determined not to lose anyone else, not to let anyone else die? What if people in her charge had been captured, and she had personally taken it upon herself to save them? We could have still reunited with her at the point we did, but she would have been on her feet, still fighting with all that righteous fury and determination. She could have been another ally, a source of experience and wisdom. She could have done ANYTHING other than just get trampled into the dirt, literally and figuratively.
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