Now there's a fascinating AU: one in which she does find the palace, all those eons ago. What could Winnowill have become then?
Edit: you know, the more I think about it . . . there's room for ambiguity in that backstory. She didn't start torturing Two-Edge until after his father tried to kidnap a rockshaper and take him back to Greymung. The text presents her relationship with the troll (the wiki calls him Smelt; I don't know where the name comes from) purely as the product of Winnowill's manipulation, but I can see an interpretation where that's how she justifies it to herself afterward. Her abuse of Two-Edge is presumably the result of feeling betrayed, which would cut deeper if she'd actually had some genuine affection toward Smelt, rather than it being purely a case of "my toy stopped doing what I wanted it to." The two angles aren't mutually incompatible -- by that point in time, Winnowill's notion of love might not be too healthy -- but the notion that she actually did have feelings for Smelt works for me.
(b) May I hope that you did a better job than the Pinis with finally taking that Chekhov's gun off the wall?
They managed to heal her, yes. The details have slipped my memory, but it involved them going directly into the dreamspace of her mind and (I think) managing to re-create the spirit of the man she loved, which she had destroyed back in the Elizabethan period, so the two of them could reconcile.
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Now there's a fascinating AU: one in which she does find the palace, all those eons ago. What could Winnowill have become then?
Edit: you know, the more I think about it . . . there's room for ambiguity in that backstory. She didn't start torturing Two-Edge until after his father tried to kidnap a rockshaper and take him back to Greymung. The text presents her relationship with the troll (the wiki calls him Smelt; I don't know where the name comes from) purely as the product of Winnowill's manipulation, but I can see an interpretation where that's how she justifies it to herself afterward. Her abuse of Two-Edge is presumably the result of feeling betrayed, which would cut deeper if she'd actually had some genuine affection toward Smelt, rather than it being purely a case of "my toy stopped doing what I wanted it to." The two angles aren't mutually incompatible -- by that point in time, Winnowill's notion of love might not be too healthy -- but the notion that she actually did have feelings for Smelt works for me.
(b) May I hope that you did a better job than the Pinis with finally taking that Chekhov's gun off the wall?
They managed to heal her, yes. The details have slipped my memory, but it involved them going directly into the dreamspace of her mind and (I think) managing to re-create the spirit of the man she loved, which she had destroyed back in the Elizabethan period, so the two of them could reconcile.