This chapter highlight s the power and benefit of charms. The luck charm is working well. Their magic is increasing at each point before it is needed.
The battle with Skoda shows the wisdom of proceeding slowly.
If Lodda is as powerful as claimed, he will be fearsome and they aren't ready.
With their shields they would be harder to drown. Plus the tunnels are higher than the drainage system. They could try a trap, but they are still unaware Jamie can translocate everyone.
The primary reason physical mirrors don't reflect all spectrums of light is due to fine scratched on the optical surface. Presumably, with a magically generated one this wouldn't be an issue.
You have to admire Gorge for his intrepid nature and fortitude. He's canny and shrewd as well. All of the lowland peoples seem nice, except the mages.
Our guys have had the advantage of Porvus being overconfident, reacting too slowly, and without multilayered attacks. It's allowed them time to adapt and prevail. They can't expect this to remain so.
You would think the ancients would have designed these bots to be moved more efficiently on those cars. The only reason they weren't caught by surprise was the scraping.
Originally, when Porvus used the com center term, I thought in terms of communications, but they are command and control centers and Porvus is at the master controls.
"That which does not kill us makes us stronger." Nietzsche seems apt here.
Now we know the bad mages do have battle machines. Porvus must be having a conniption fit.