Either he did and the narrator just isn’t saying so, or he didn’t,
I'd go with the first option, as that's what has happened quite often already.

The Urgals and dwarves, oh, Roran understands them, of course. Not sure how, but he just does.
That's why he's so fucking racist with respect to the Urgals, because he "understands" them. Uh-huh.

but the safety and lives of their families and descendants and the future of the land itself.
Indeed that is it play. If the Varden win (which they do) everyone will be subjected to a far worse tyranny than before. They are destroying the entire land and they don't even realise it.

What sacrifices?
Yeah. They have sacrificed nothing. Everyone else has

At least until someone writes a spitefic (or some kind of continuation) with what happens after Nasuada’s fully ruling.
Heheh. I mean, what would you expect when there's been a hostile takeover of power? The only way no one will fight anymore is when a certain puppetmaster steps in and takes over control.

one led by his old commander Martland Redbeard
So... there's a batallion led by someone who cannot lead it? Seems like a recipe for disaster. I can only think this has happened to get more Varden troops slaughtered.

It would, he hoped, stiffen their spines and keep them from breaking rank at the first sign of serious opposition.
We never see Varden troops desert. It quite seems they're the ones who have sworn unbreakable magical vows. That, or someone is messing with their heads.

She glowers at him but Roran ignores the look.
I want to rap the main characters's knuckles every time they touch someone without consent. Like here: Othíara (that's her name) evidently doesn't like it, but he goes ahead regardless, while he could just have said it without touching her.

as do the rest of the Borg - I mean - elves.
They certainly look a lot like the Borg, what with most of them being nearly identical in everything. I mean, the only ones who have a really distinct personality are Oromis, Arya, Izzy, Rhunön and Furry Rape Elf. I have to ask, who would be the Borg Queen?

Either injury ought to have incapacitated the soldiers, but as the Urgal bulled past them, the two men picked themselves off the stone as if nothing had happened and proceeded to stab the Urgal in the back.
My idea is that most of those soldiers were supported by Shruikan. Those two soldiers got free healing, for example.

So Roran goes damn, now I can’t murder with impunity.
How utterly sad.

Fan-shaped jets of water sprayed into the air, and then with a great noise, the wall over the gate shuddered and began to crumble inward.
What is happening here? It sounds like they drew up water from the ground and forced it into the wall, after which it collapsed, because it was completely soaked. It would have been nice to have some explanation, though.


He smiles, tastes blood, and decides this isn’t such a bad way to start the day.
Like we need this reminder. We already know he's a complete sociopath.