I always thought of “bemused” as giving someone that “one raised eyebrow” look. Not so much confused as “Oh, really?”

They are creatures of story’s, the fact that story’s can be forgotten seems to insult them so it wouldn’t surprise me if they expect every half elf to know the story of the elfs

Could Garia be the offspring of lakin and dureen??

I could see there being a form of magical ‘color’ blindness that could make everything appear to be the same brightness. Particularly if it made everything appear quite dull. Colors would start to blend together due to the lack of brightness difference, and white might appear more gray. It would be similar to having heavily-tinted sunglasses on all the time.

While there would likely be some difference still, if the color of snow started blending with the color that shaded areas, rocks, walls, etc appeared, it could indeed get disorienting.

what ??! Is Erin the main character? I don’t even remember that character anymore.

At this rate Erin should be demoted as a side character, I think it’s almost 20 chapters since she had her solo chapter. Looking at the table of contents in Vol 3 and 4, I think she’ll hardly have POVs. While these side characters are interesting, can we have at least main character’s chapter from time to time.

“Ceria Springwalker was not a half-Elf for whom socializing came to naturally.”

Got an extra preposition in there (or too few “o”s in “too naturally.”) I find it helps to always think of the prepositional phrase as just that: A multi-word phrase, each of whose words you know, so you need only put them in the right places. It just gets tricky with multiple prepositions involving a single object, hence Sir Winstons “This is the sort of thing up with which I will not put.” Technically the sole correct phrasing, but… yuck. Fortunately, it is an idiom, so there are many better ways to say it. The funny thing is it is also reverse-engineered: The “never end a sentence with a preposition” rule was a quick and dirty way to keep prepositions with their objects, until people eventually stopped remembering why and splitting them, at which point others invoked the rule that can only be satisfied by putting the phrase back together. In this case,

“… for whom socializing came naturally.”
“… to whom… .”
“… for whom socializing came too naturally.”

“To” is a fun one because it functions as both a preposition AND part of the English infinitive, so the informal rule is “do not split” but WHY depends on how “to” is being used in the particular context. Oh, but if you add another “o” it becomes an adverb, or if you put a “w” in the middle it becomes a number instead. It is a very annoying word, most infamously when Star Trek managed to both split the infinitive “to go” with the adverb “boldly” AND dangling the modifier AS a terminal preposition by aborting the object of “before” (e.g. “now.”)

“But this is the most obvious way for me” is the educational equivalent of “But this is the only way I know how to make money! So keep putting it in the bag, no false moves and no one gets hurt… .” For everyone who has ever wondered why the most brilliant people are frequently the worst teachers: Because this. How does one teach intuition anyway…?

“It’s a strange thing. If I were in the United States and I walked around with a dangerous creature like a Frost Faerie, I’d probably be tossed in jail in a heartbeat. But in this world, I’m just treated like a high-level [Mage], or any Gold-rank adventurer, really. If Ivolethe causes trouble I’ll be held accountable. Aside from that, I’m free to do whatever I want, and people give me a wide berth as an added bonus.”

That, as so many things, is a function of numbers: Many people DID habitually walk around like that in the US for most of its history, for a number of important reasons, and, while far from perfect, it generally worked well enough that they did not bury themselves beneath a pile of corpses. But nothing exceeds like excess, and we grew up among TWICE as many Americans as our parents did, so the steadily dropping murder rates counterintuitively raised the TOTALS just as steadily — and now there are half again as many Americans as THAT. Some things do not scale, some scale harmfully and still others only develop in the first place because something else accumulated to a critical degree and passed a tipping point. Many laws and customs that worked great for the two million original US citizens within thirteen states function far less smoothly for 160 times as many across 50 states.

in this chapter, you once mixed up Esthelm (destroyed) and Celum (where the girls are staying)
Pisces is written Pieces once.

On the other claw, in the previous Ryoka chapter it looked to me as if she were banned from Celum, and she and Ivolethe promised each other not to let the faerie in a building again.
What is presented in this chapter also sound reasonable (stay in the pouch, Ryoka gets scotfree), but it invalidates the biiiig consequences of the last chapter. Although there were bigger consequences still.

Also, Ceria and Ryoka have seen each other when Erin+friends rescued Ceria from the crypt. They had time to talk to each other, but here they male it sound like they barely spoke after Ryoka picked the fight with Yvlon. Sure enough, they didn’t spoke in private!