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Most ASOIAF characters are subsonic via this feat where Qotho does afterimages with his raw speed:
But there are two problems with this feat:
1- Jorah Mormont is not blitzed by Qotho's blows, given that he parried some of them, which would therefore mean that Jorah also made afterimages, by scaling logic. But this is absolutely not the case in Dany's point of view, only Qotho can do it.It doesn't make sense I think.
2- All other characters with speed comparable to or greater than Jorah Mormont's and Qotho's have never done afterimages during combat. Qotho is the only character in the entire saga to have accomplished such a feat.
I honestly think he's an outlier, and that the characters should be downgraded to Peak Human and Superhuman in combat/reactions speed.
Qotho danced backward, arakh whirling around his head in a shining blur, flickering out like lightning as the knight came on in a rush. Ser Jorah parried as best he could, but the slashes came so fast that it seemed to Dany that Qotho had four arakhs and as many arms. She heard the crunch of sword on mail, saw sparks fly as the long curved blade glanced off a gauntlet. Suddenly it was Mormont stumbling backward, and Qotho leaping to the attack. The left side of the knight's face ran red with blood, and a cut to the hip opened a gash in his mail and left him limping. Qotho screamed taunts at him, calling him a craven, a milk man, a eunuch in an iron suit. "You die now!" he promised, arakh shivering through the red twilight.
A Game of Thrones - Daenerys VIII
But there are two problems with this feat:
1- Jorah Mormont is not blitzed by Qotho's blows, given that he parried some of them, which would therefore mean that Jorah also made afterimages, by scaling logic. But this is absolutely not the case in Dany's point of view, only Qotho can do it.It doesn't make sense I think.
2- All other characters with speed comparable to or greater than Jorah Mormont's and Qotho's have never done afterimages during combat. Qotho is the only character in the entire saga to have accomplished such a feat.
I honestly think he's an outlier, and that the characters should be downgraded to Peak Human and Superhuman in combat/reactions speed.