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I was listening to blackflame when I suddenly realized that something said doesn’t add up with the information given about the sword sage. In chapter three, Yerin says
“Master wouldn’t let me draw my sword on a wooden man, if it didn’t bleed, it wasn’t good enough for training.”
But in the prologue of wintersteel we see that this isn’t true.
“When he walked inside and down to the basement, he found Yerin sparring against the training dummy he’d left for her.”
Clearly the sword sage had Yerin fight opponents that were not alive and did not bleed. I forgot to mention that this is my 5th reread of the series.