YMMV / Book of a Thousand Days

• Alternative Character Interpretation: While most of Lady Saren's actions are explained by her trauma, it occasionally crosses the line into emotional abuse, especially when it looks like Dashti might push back against her. When Dashti gets My Lord the cat back and refuses to give him to her, Saren threatens to kill herself and only stops crying when Dashti gives her My Lord. When Dashti decides to leave her, she guilt trips her by reminding her she promised to never abandon her, then when it doesn't work, switches to screaming orders and even slapping Dashti. She does seem shocked by it, but it nonetheless leaves Dashti with the impression that Saren could be as bad as her father if someone doesn't stop her now.
• Complete Monster: Lord Khasar is a brutal conqueror who, after giving his soul away to the desert shamans, became a bloodthirsty werewolf. Khasar, to fuel his ambition, starts a bloody war across the Eight Realms and terrorizes the teenage Lady Saren, trying to turn her into his bride. Khasar takes over cities by killing the inhabitants in killing sprees to drive the hysteria up before he later sweeps in. After Saren rejects him, he has her entire kingdom burnt to the ground, killing hundreds, to flush her out. Finally, he threatens to execute over two hundred weak hostages should she not become his bride, showing his cruelty as endless.
• Damsel Scrappy: Lady Saren is mostly sympathetic due to suffering from some unspecified mental illness, her father's abuse, and being pursued by Lord Khasar, so her reliance on Dashti is explicable. However, she often crosses from simply needing help into actively making things worse for the both of them, like eating up all their food, refusing to come clean to Tegus, and ordering Dashti to impersonate her (a crime punishable by death) because she's scared that he'll kill her and evidentially doesn't mind using Dashti as bait. While she does eventually grow a spine, it's only to save Dashti from being executed, a problem that she caused.