Imagine what kind of species may evolve after hundreds of generations of mixing dark elves with magic humans. Not to forget the father in law, holy heck. Nothing against strong women, but I believe that there are not many who could handle her as he does without being fearful of saying a wrong word with potentially fatal consequences. I liked the badass girl/indulgent boy love that grew over the novels, a great example of how to play with character tropes. The magic system evolved in a way that it was first more of a special trait to pimp characters and do worldbuilding and got more and more plot relevant during the series, to become one of the crucial factors for the conclusion. Subjectively I would use mind controlled, brainwashed clone troops out of a pool of the best of the best of each magic fraction, integrate some random mutation by allowing them to mate, diversify a bit, evolve to newer forms, play with new spells and elemental power combinations, while staying draconian, but it´s each ones´ own choice how to build an individualized dark army.
There is still much room to play with the element of the armies in battles in Sci-Fi and fantasy and this is one of the freshest ideas, as it shows the advantages of both „quantity has a quality all its own“ and highly specialized elite forces. Butcher prepared the end fight by creating the different magic abilities and their military equivalents of a mixed army of the good vs the uniform, endless forces of evil.
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