Line #6 YMMV/DiePilgerin


1	* AdaptationInducedPlotHole: In the film, due to the added romance between Damian and Tilla, Tilla's subsequent [[spoiler:love for Sebastian]] seems too sudden and hardly believable, especially since it begins when she doesn't know of [[spoiler:Damian's death]].
2	* AlternateCharacterInterpretation: Was Aymer de Saltilieu an AffablyEvil but strictly honest guy who considered Tilla a random one-time affair and then conveniently [[spoiler:saw a chance to marry her off to Sebastian]]? Or was he in love with Tilla, motivated by IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy and settling [[spoiler:with Felicia]] for the sake of politics?
3	** Felicia, for that matter. We don't see how she was treated as Hugues de Saltilieu's charge before her flight – but knowing Baron Hugues, probably, to put it mildly, not well. It is possible she was DrivenToVillainy, seeing that in [[SocietyIsToBlame the misogynistic world]] there was no way for her to get out of an upcoming abusive marriage except through the less honorable means.
4	** Ilga, while surely an ItsAllAboutMe villainess, can be interpreted differently with regards to her motives in pursuing Otfried. Did she [[LoveMakesYouEvil love him]] or was she [[GoldDigger only after money and status]]?
5	* BadassDecay: Subverted as Ambros never really was a badass, people just thought so because he was so large and strong. But [[spoiler:after he runs away in fright during the robbers' attack]], he sinks into depression and doesn't even bother to pretend he is one anymore.
6	* CompleteMonster: [[CainAndAbel Otfried Willinger]] is Tilla's cruel, greedy brother. He [[{{Patricide}} kills his own father]] to [[InheritanceMurder inherit his money]], and then marries Tilla off to an abusive husband to cement his political alliance with the latter. Otfried eventually succeeds in [[TakingOverTheTown seizing the power in the town]] and sells its trading rights to the Duke of Bavaria in exchange for privileges for himself. The thugs that support Otfried and the Bavarian mercenaries under his command terrorize the populace, with rapes, robberies, and beatings becoming a common occurrence in the streets. [[LackOfEmpathy Indifferent]] even to the suffering of his closest family, let alone the rest of the townsfolk, Otfried only cares about constantly accumulating power and wealth.
7	* DeliberateValuesDissonance (as it is a historical novel): Radegund and Blanche get married at fourteen – both to men of twenty-odd. While the former doesn't exactly have a say in the matter and [[spoiler:her marriage ends tragically]], the latter's marriage is a happy one (and her [[UnresolvedSexualTension UST]] with her future spouse begins when she's ''thirteen''). Probably to avoid at least some squickiness, it's said in the epilogue that [[spoiler:Starrheim]] "was gentle" with Blanche for about three years and rarely slept with her.
8	* KarmaHoudini:
9	** Felicia de Lacaune, a selfish plotter and indirectly a murderess, doesn't get even a single reproof, and what she does get is [[spoiler:a marriage with Aymer and a title of Baroness]]. However, it's hinted in the epilogue about how her life had changed since [[spoiler:the wedding]], so perhaps there was a case of BreakTheHaughty... It's possible, because KarmaHoudini isn't usually what villains get in Iny Lorentz's novels.
10	** Sepp in the movie undoubtedly, and to a lesser extent in the book. He treats his wife horribly, behaves like a complete jerk during the pilgrimage, abandons his fellow pilgrims for the hope of a high position, and [[spoiler:murders Hugues de Saltilieu for a one-night stand with Felicia]]. What does he get? An important place in Count Starrheim's service. Justified, though, [[spoiler:because of his sincere repentance both for his behavior and especially the killing, and he does act heroically in battle with the Englishmen]].
11	** Aymer. He did force Tilla to sleep with him, and no one even remembers it – frankly, because no one ever finds out. [[spoiler:By the end Aymer is a war hero and beloved by the royalty and the commons]].
12	* MoralEventHorizon: Otfried crosses his when he helps Gürtler murder his father.

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