#stone forest

Hunters from above!

The stone forest has always been the best training ground for the Lo-nyth riders, Strider knew it. Ye’rauta, his Ar'jans, abnormal in size and powerful steed, needed this playground. hunters from above, linked by respect and trust, will be able to fight and hunt, but also save and protect the people of Lo-nyth.

Strider swore it. --------

“Shhh…”

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*deep sigh* I keep getting asked this. So like. She's a really controversial character in the fandom. My own opinion is that I don't hate her, I want to like her, even, but I don't think she was written well. Especially in the way the movie adapted her. Hilda and Johanna have a rockier relationship in the graphic novels and Hilda has less friends and attachments to Trolberg. Trylla picks up on this, and the changeling spell is sort of a 'what do you mean you don't want what you said you wanted' device for Hilda. There are even a few scenes in the middle where Hilda seems to genuinely enjoy being a troll- for the exact reasons Trylla perceived. We see that the emotions here are complicated. The format of a graphic novel also has a looser pacing and leaves more things up to interpretation (such as tone) so it's easier to read between the lines. In this version, I read Trylla as an interesting character that had good intentions, but that made a huge mistake by meddling and heavily regretted it. The problem is, In the animated version of Stone Forest, Johanna and Hilda pretty much make up by the point they even meet Trylla, and even more-so by the end of the episode. And over the course of Mountain King movie, Hilda repeatedly expresses that she misses home and her friends, interspersed with scenes of everyone looking for her. Which makes the changeling situation extremely sad, and Trylla's observations that lead her to do the spell in the first place (that Hilda doesn't get along with her mother, and doesn't quite fit in in Trolberg) flat-out incorrect. Overall in this version, Trylla's actions seem unreasonable, and her viewpoint becomes hard to sympathize with- Leading lots of people to hate her.

And you may be going Sara what am I looking at? What point are you trying to make? And if you’re an artist you might know.

I’m not sure how well the camera is picking it up but notice that the white when they are in Trolberg is a warm white and then when they get to the Stone Forest it’s switches to a cool white.

I’m not making this up either you can see it when you look at the fore edge of the book!