(EW Spoilers) Tales from the Dawn #5 - Days Gone By, Days Yet to Come

[Cleretic]

Can we agree that it is an editor's duty to avoid the clashing of meanings, unless it is intended?

Do you know it's not intended? To me, both potential meanings can be relevant and meaningful in this case.

1. 'Soul' as in basically 'person'. as others mentioned, Hyth is reading this guy as being in a pretty dark and dour mood. (The fact he actually does have a dark color palette even for black-robed Ancients thanks to his hair might factor, too.)
2. 'Soul' as in 'soul', which is a thing Hyth can see. As I've mentioned, this actually also tracks for Hermes; he's doing bad, and it's visible on more levels than usual.

Essentially, the exact same meaning, just speaking on different layers.

I think you're demanding 'the curtains are blue' to have literal meaning when it's only ever clearly intended to have metaphorical. I have been an editor at times, and I can tell you, this sentence is A-OK.

Most are good people. Hermes and Venat were very much outliers prior to the extreme trauma that led to the Rejoining plan.

But what about all those things you said an Azem had to be to disprove my headcanon?

The four traits every Azem shares because they must to get the job: A love of traveling; the ability to translate the desires of Amaurot into a form the people outside of it could understand and vice verse; knowledge of the human mind enough to give counseling to *all the people of the star* both inside and outside of the city; and the intelligence, resourcefulness, and decency to know how to serve the needs of both the city and the people outside of it.

Anyone who does not have all four traits does not qualify for the seat[...]

Venat was an Azem, and by all reports a good one. So she must have all of these too, right?