Talk:Druella/@comment-46040649-20200922210229/@comment-10429980-20200925223653

As for Lescatie and Druella, I would have agreed to some degree with Dreamer's assessment were it not for the things we've learned in subsequent books that so just how much hyperbole World Guide 1 used. We've since seen Tourist Wilmarina acting like a fairly normal person, learned she is still a responsible leader (though her motivations are not quite the same), that her parents did eventually come out of their room and proved to interesting characters (showcasing how the short term observations of the scholar can lead to biased interpretations), that there is more to current Lescatie than sex, etc. World Guide Gaiden 2 really put a lot of things in a new light. I like to think that World Guide 1 was so extreme in part because KC didn't anticipate so many would take the hyperbolic language literally/negatively. Everything since then seems like its written more carefully in that regard.