Bree: learns her own power, regains her agency, saves the Rootcrafter girls from her fate at the beginning of Bloodmarked, learns from past mistakes, that it is okay to put yourself first
Nick: Defends Bree while finessing the system that both subjugated him and gave him privilege, then uses his privilege to support Bree to the point where he's set ut up to sacrifice himself at the end.
Sel: Survives demonia, regains his own agency and desires outside of someone's weapon. Steps into his true legacy and heritage.
William: learns to put himself first, and that he is only human, he makes mistakes and has the grace to learn from them, truly learns what it means to be an ally
Mariah: learning how to step into her own power and not to hold herself to a higher standard, that she is enough and that she is powerful in her own right, readjusts her relationship with root and familial connections.
Natasia: a peek in on her and Faye's relationship, the complexity of her relatiinship with her son, the yearning and heartbreak can be translated to that of Sel's for Bree as they are Kingsmages not bout to their rightful charge.
Some of y'all, somehow: "Oathbound was just a bunch of filler."
Y'all must have been reading Oathbound from Alice's perspective.
