YMMV / The Redemption of Althalus

• Anticlimax Boss: Yakhag, who's built up as a total monster, and killed in less than ten minutes by Bheid, who is shown to be an incredible incompetent swordsman and was, in fact, the weakest of the Heroes, with exception of Andine, who is a 15 year old princess.
• Designated Love Interest: With the exception of Althalus-Emmy, all the romantic unions are handwaved or done off-screen in the span of two paragraphs. The most ludicrous was Andine and Elial, who passed from being obsessed with killing him (he slaughtered her father in blood frenzy) to love him desperately in the span of two weeks, after being chewed once by Althalus and Gher, because he wasn't really at fault but the person who contracted him as a soldier. The rest are not better.
• Genius Bonus: Appropriately enough, the Old Tongue is (translated as?) Proto-Indo-European, the ur-ancestor of modern European languages.