Act like a King, Think like a King

Personally, I thought the character development of Arthur in Whites Queen of Air and Darkness was... interesting to say the least. I throughly enjoyed how Merlyn was portrayed more as an advisor in this and we actually get to see him counsel and teach Arthur throughout the book. Over time Arthur appeared to make more and more decisions instead of always relying on Merlyn to make them or push him in the right direction. Merlyn pushes Arthur to realize "Its not so much what you are doing... its how you are thinking"(222) which honestly I feel is good advice for anyone, but specifically in Arthurs case it helps him realize, it's not enough to act like a King, he has to think like a King too. However, I don't know how I feel about Arthur ignoring the riles of knightly combat towards the end of the story. On one hand, Arthur did have a much smaller army then the Gaels, but on the other, once his allies showed up his army swelled. I did think it was interesting because I felt it showed Arthur as being a little bloodthirsty, which tied into earlier in the story when Arthur was holding the stone and was almost marveling at the fact he could drop it and kill someone, and no one would do a thing about it.