YMMV / Morgaine Cycle

• Fanon Discontinuity: the fourth book, written long after the first three, is much wordier. It spells out things which were left implicit (that Vanye sticks with Morgaine out of love), recycles a major plot element ( a gate-possessed human fighting a much older body surfer), and leaves the key conflict unresolved. Many fans of the trilogy prefer to ignore this book.
• Heartwarming Moments: In Gate of Ivrel:
  • The leaving of the harp for the Gray Brothers.
  • When Erij allows Vanye to go in peace and rejoin Morgaine, Erij's mixed motives notwithstanding. The two brothers have a tangled relationship, but there's still brotherly love there. Morgaine herself considers Vanye's following her through the gate to be a Tear Jerker.
• Moment of Awesome: Morgaine and Vanye have them, as do several side characters.
  • The battle of Nehmin in "Fires of Azeroth" is chock full of these for several different characters. It's practically a CMOA Storm.
    • They come so fast and thick for Vanye that the whole battle qualifies for him.
    • Merir has two, in fairly rapid succession: Charging headlong and unarmored into a massive Shiua cavalry charge, taking down most of the first few enemy ranks with a wave of Gate-force and later prying Changeling from Morgaine's paralyzed hand, is clearly tempted but then sheathes and returns it to her.
    • Roh's You Shall Not Pass! moment.
    • The nameless little Arrha girl's Heroic Sacrifice by way of Taking You with Me - she deliberately unveils her Gate jewel while Morgaine is wielding Changeling and sets up a Phlebotinum Overdose causing the null field of Changeling's Gate-force to bridge to her position, sucking herself, a bunch of enemy troops and half of a cliffside into nowhere. This blocks the causeway, preventing the enemy from getting at the heroes anymore. Not to mention her earlier dogged determination to take part in Merir's charge against the Shiua cavalry despite having fallen off of her horse.

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