When I used 'twitching', I meant it more like he was just sort of flailing weakly in death. 'Twitching' obviously isn't the strongest word there, but you could 'twitch' in shock from having such a wound. It wouldn't really be the more medical term of 'twitch', but eh.
I have nothing, in particular, wrong with you criticizing the combat, just as long as you know I had absolutely
zero
intention of it being realistic in any way. It was more of a just 'read it' and not over-think too much. To answer one of you questions about why the demons didn't just swarm Torva, it was sort of because they were all afraid of the sword, and didn't want to go anywhere near him. Practically speaking, if it were a real situation, he'd probably just be swarmed. Torva also wore armor, but nothing full-body. I realize I didn't exactly explain what kind of armor he had. It was just a beaten up, old chest plate and helmet. Most of his head/neck and arms and legs would have been armorless. The village would have only had to arm themselves, too. All the different men in the entire 'army' all came from different villages, so it wasn't like Torva's village had to steam roll out a ton of gear for everyone. I should have mentioned something along the lines of all the men being armored differently in rag-tag equipment, versus the uniformly and heavily armored demons or something. I suppose I never did explain that the defenders were all in crappy, heavily used and reused armor.
Also, the mages were able to see above the demons, because they were up on hills, over-seeing the whole battle.
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