Always a risk to go back to heroic fantasy novels I read when I was a teenager. It’s not exactly subtle, but I very much enjoyed it. It moves at a fast pace, has a large cast of quite interesting characters and has something more to say than “the heroic goodies beat the baddies”.
Think I might go read the Drenai novels again at some point, I remember liking Legend and Waylander.
It is the nature of men to build walls around themselves. They think it will protect them from hurt. It does the opposite. The hurt still gets in, but now it rattles around in the walls unable to get out.