Date: April 01 2017 12:20 AM Title: New Priorities
I'm curious to see whether Elia will be more successful at ending slavery in Essos than Daenerys was in the actual timeline of the series. It will be quite a challenge. Can she walk the fine line of instilling fear and respect without becoming a monster?
Author's Response:
Thanks for the review.
I wanted to show how much smaller the world would be to a ten mile tall Giantess in that she could walk through continents in moments and to deal with foreign cultures that she had no access to before her growth. I also wanted to show someone being presented almost countless possibilities and thus Elia is trying to do everything at once.
Daenerys has never been a top 10 character for me but I think in the books she did the best a 16 year old was ever going to do to attempt to end an institution that lasted thousands of years and was so utterly engrained into a culture that was never her own to begin with. Daenerys has her dragons and Elia has her huge size, both have magic and neither wishes to be cruel for the sake of it.
No spoilers but somewhere in the next few chapters Elia will make even more radical reforms closer to home that will affect her popularity and her son's rule.