• Sticking a landing will royally fuck up your joints and possibly shatter your ankles, depending on how high you’re jumping/falling from. There’s a very good reason free-runners dive and roll. 
• Hand-to-hand fights usually only last a matter of seconds, sometimes a few minutes. It’s exhausting work and unless you have a lot of training and history with hand-to-hand combat, you’re going to tire out really fast. 
• Arrows are very effective and you can’t just yank them out without doing a lot of damage. Most of the time the head of the arrow will break off inside the body if you try pulling it out, and arrows are built to pierce deep. An arrow wound demands medical attention. 
• Throwing your opponent across the room is really not all that smart. You’re giving them the chance to get up and run away. Unless you’re trying to put distance between you so you can shoot them or something, don’t throw them. 
• Everyone has something called a “flinch response” when they fight. This is pretty much the brain’s way of telling you “get the fuck out of here or we’re gonna die.” Experienced fighters have trained to suppress this. Think about how long your character has been fighting. A character in a fist fight for the first time is going to take a few hits before their survival instinct kicks in and they start hitting back. A character in a fist fight for the eighth time that week is going to respond a little differently. 
• ADRENALINE WORKS AGAINST YOU WHEN YOU FIGHT. THIS IS IMPORTANT. A lot of times people think that adrenaline will kick in and give you some badass fighting skills, but it’s actually the opposite. Adrenaline is what tires you out in a battle and it also affects the fighter’s efficacy - meaning it makes them shaky and inaccurate, and overall they lose about 60% of their fighting skill because their brain is focusing on not dying. Adrenaline keeps you alive, it doesn’t give you the skill to pull off a perfect roundhouse kick to the opponent’s face. 
• Swords WILL bend or break if you hit something hard enough. They also dull easily and take a lot of maintenance. In reality, someone who fights with a sword would have to have to repair or replace it constantly.
• Fights get messy. There’s blood and sweat everywhere, and that will make it hard to hold your weapon or get a good grip on someone. 
• A serious battle also smells horrible. There’s lots of sweat, but also the smell of urine and feces. After someone dies, their bowels and bladder empty. There might also be some questionable things on the ground which can be very psychologically traumatizing. Remember to think about all of the character’s senses when they’re in a fight. Everything WILL affect them in some way. 
• If your sword is sharpened down to a fine edge, the rest of the blade can’t go through the cut you make. You’ll just end up putting a tiny, shallow scratch in the surface of whatever you strike, and you could probably break your sword. 
• ARCHERS ARE STRONG TOO. Have you ever drawn a bow? It takes a lot of strength, especially when you’re shooting a bow with a higher draw weight. Draw weight basically means “the amount of force you have to use to pull this sucker back enough to fire it.” To give you an idea of how that works, here’s a helpful link to tell you about finding bow sizes and draw weights for your characters.  (CLICK ME)
• If an archer has to use a bow they’re not used to, it will probably throw them off a little until they’ve done a few practice shots with it and figured out its draw weight and stability. 
• People bleed. If they get punched in the face, they’ll probably get a bloody nose. If they get stabbed or cut somehow, they’ll bleed accordingly. And if they’ve been fighting for a while, they’ve got a LOT of blood rushing around to provide them with oxygen. They’re going to bleed a lot. 
• Here’s a link to a chart to show you how much blood a person can lose without dying. (CLICK ME) 
• If you want a more in-depth medical chart, try this one. (CLICK ME)

• You will always fall in love, and it will always be like having your throat cut, just that fast.
• You are going to break your promise. I understand.
• You’re lonely too.
• It will stop your breath, how cruel I can be.
• I am a demanding creature. I am selfish and cruel and extremely unreasonable.
• I am your servant.
• I crawl at your feet; for before your love, your kisses, I am debased.
• For you alone I will be weak.
• I belong here, and you will not deny me.
• I say these things, and the world listens.
• I do not tolerate a world emptied of you. I have tried.
• In the dark, I have pored over the loss of you like pale gold.
• I will not let her speak because I love her, and when you love someone, you do not make them tell war stories.
• I moved the earth and the water for you.
• You will always run away with her.
• You will always lose her.
• You will always be a fool.
• You will always be dead, in a city of ice, snow falling into your ear.
• You have already done all of this and will do it again.
• No one should be judged for loving more than they ought, only for loving not enough.
• We look terrible to you, and severe, and you see our blood flying.
• What we carry between us is hard-won, and we made it just as we wished it to be, just the color, just the shape.
• There need never be any rules between us.
• Let us be greedy together; let us hoard.
• Do not leave me, swear that you will never leave me.
• I am selfish. I am cruel. My mate cannot be less than I.
• Sleep with fists closed and shoot straight.
• I can’t abide a poor liar.
• You look like a winter’s night. I could sleep inside the cold of you.
• Oh, quit that. Blushing is for virgins and Christians.
• Scold me; deny me. Tell me you want what you want and damn me forever. But don’t leave me.
• Bad luck relies on absolutely perfect timing.
• In his own country, Death can be kind.
• What is the world but a boxing ring where fools and devils put up their fists?
• Men die. It’s practically what they’re for.
• I am no one; I am nothing.
• Nothing in me was not made by you.
• A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.
• Just tell yourself a story that’ll satisfy you and pretend he told it.
• Forever isn’t bright; it isn’t like that. Forever is cold and hard and final.
• I savor bitterness - it is born of experience. It is the privilege of one who has truly lived.
• If you want to kill yourself, do not use us as your knife.
• What did I do wrong? Was I boring? Did I ignore you?
• Don’t you dare speak to me like that.
• I have worn nothing but blood and death for years.
• I have fought all your battles for you, just as you asked me.
• I have learned not to cry when I strangle a man.
• I have learned to watch everything die.
• I am not a little girl anymore, dazzled by your magic. It is my magic, now, too.
• Are we not devils?
• No one is now what they were before the war.
• I have not seen you without your skin on.
• Close up your head; your brain is getting loose.
• We obsess. It’s in our nature.
• I’ve a devil of a habit for being right.
• In war you must always choose sides.
• If you try to be a bridge laid down between them, they will tear you in half.
• We are all dead. All equal. Broken and aimless and believing we are alive.
• My old bones will follow yours soon enough.
• It is better to be strong and cruel than to be fair.
• I will see him with his skin off before I agree to fall in love.
• After love, no one is what they were before.
• I have survived, but I have not been spared.
• In the space of one heartbeat to another I loved you and I was lost to you.
• Frighten me, make me cry, only come back.
• It’s not so bad, my darling. Being dead. It’s like being alive, only colder.
• You’ll think it’s love, while he dines on your heart.
• You will be so beautiful when you are old.
• I cannot keep you and I cannot let you go.
• You will live as you live in any world…with difficulty, and grief.
• I look at you and it is like my throat being cut.
• She said you’d come and I swore to eat your heart.
• I still want to kiss you.
• My heart is being cut in two. I cannot bear it.
• What happens to anything beautiful?
• I have to know, I have to or else you will just rule me until the end of everything because you know and I do not.

It is unknown whether one or all of the Abyss Watchers linked the fire. Perhaps they worked as a team to push back the darkness.