I wouldn’t have picked on wellwisher, but he bolded his comment (i assume) to make me take note of it. By emulating/mocking my closing, that also causes me to assume he wants me to take note of it.

The last entry largely explained the Majie entry in general, and was not intended to put anyone down. I don’t see why wellwisher has to resort to calling me names.

I guess I expected better writing? I suppose i shouldn’t expect so much from people. Oh and if you go around life expecting people to understand you, you will be sorely disappointed. I will spend my whole life trying to understand my future wife, and if I manage to understand merely a fraction of her soul, a pittance of the subtleties of her heart, and an ounce of the mysteries of her gender, I will be wholly satisfied.

Anyway, most of wellwisher’s arguments deal with MTG. The only thing I can say is that I did not realize the body of his knowledge came mostly from that game, which borrows heavily from Tolkien, mythology, and other sources.

Also, considering Majie ventured to hell, is a necromancer, and thwarted the cycle of life and death (supposedly put in place by heavenly powers), I consider him fairly evil.

The problem with synonyms is that they have different shades of meanings. A necromancer is one that divines through the dead or practices magic with the dead. It’s very specific. In the story, Majie works the black arts on the dead.

A vindicator is one who vindicates. Vindication is the action of avenging. How is that a knight?

An opinion follows:
You can’t just go around looking up synonyms and plugging them where you want to use words. You have to make sure the shade of meaning matches your intent. Words are weapons–use them wisely.