Children of the World III-p17 first draft

Um, you do know that for 600 years he was the Sun Folk's ONLY hunter?  And that there were periods when the entire village (40-something people, according to Elfmom) depended on his hunting to survive?  I think you're not giving enough credit to his knife skills.  ("Teaching Leetah the way of blade was a satisfying task, swiftly accomplished" because her old boyfriend had taught her how a couple of centuries before Cutter had been born, I'd bet.  She just went along with his "lessons" for the sake of his ego and just a nice way to spend time together.)

I really do enjoy your story and I'm sorry if it's coming across that I only come by here to nit-pick your treatment of Rayek.  I personally don't feel his actions are in character but I think they're not so out of character that it it's not just the difference in the way we perceive him.  But I do feel that making him incompetent with a knife is inaccurate and for me it breaks the story flow.  He was hunting before he had his magic and he didn't use his magic for everything (at no time has Rayek's use of weapons had Wendy's "magic-in-use" glow about them).  I really think for the sake of your story, this needs to go differently.