The Runelords/YMMV

• Narm: The author's habit of referring to testicles almost exclusively as "walnuts" makes it difficult to take some scenes as seriously as they're intended.
• Villain Decay: Several books after Raj Ahten became a flameweaver only to end up dying horribly, it is revealed that he had been possessed by a locus, and wasn't responsible for his actions.
  • Reavers might as well be ninjas. Loci are worse about it.
  • Fire, as a power. The first quadrilogy presents it as an unrelenting enemy of mankind, unresistable, corrupting, dehumanizing, and altogether alien. The second quadrilogy has Fallion almost effortlessly resisting Fire's calls to surrender himself to it, while at the same time wielding its power with magnificent results. Somewhat mitigated by everyone eyeing Fallion like a loaded gun for a while, and Fallion himself being an old soul well-used to the power, but when, right in the first book, Binnesman insists that Fire is not and will not be mankind's ally in the age to come...