Cocooned Cow
I have to thank the author for taking the time to actually flesh out a few of the supporting characters. As far as I am concerned, anything that adds to your world and that helps define it is a good thing. It can only strengthen our feelings to the MC and explain the "why" of what's going on. All too often critics turn what could be a good story into a godawful repetative series of brainless battles because some ignorant child doesn't like "filler". Unfortunately, all too often those same people complain that the story is repetetive as well. They ***** about it going too slow because of filler (IE content that does not single-mindedly progress the MC in the shortest manner possible at the exclusion of all else), or that the author is bad because he just sticks with a single style of progress and it gets repetive (IE like watching DBZ reruns).