swan_tower: myself in costume as the Norse goddess Hel (Hel)
swan_tower ([personal profile] swan_tower) wrote 2020-03-02 06:45 am (UTC)

Yeah, if they got inserted after the fact -- or even if this was Rothfuss making a conscious effort as he went along to put women on the page -- it's not much of a success. Fundamentally, he's telling a story that has room for only one important woman in it, and that woman's importance is mostly contained in her beauty.

I'm not quite at the point where I use a random table for characters

I don't go that far . . . but I have been known to choose the gender of minor characters based on what will make the scene grammatically easiest to parse. :-)

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