Things I hoped for but didn’t get…

So having finished all the books up to end of Age Of Madness except for the final short stories book (not released on audiobook yet) there are a couple of things I hoped would be in the later books but didn’t occur. Firstly Ferro Maljinn’s story… after she left to go south at the end of LAOK we never hear from her again, other than some whispers of what she may have done (something about Khalul was killed or had to flee because of a demon came for him!?), I really was hoping to get more of her story at some point and that was sorely missing from the latest trilogy in my opinion. Secondly and linked to the above is Khalul, throughout the books we hear of him often but we never actually meet him and the south is a very unexplored region in the stories, we meet many of his subjects and eaters etc but never him, feels like a missed opportunity, maybe Joe Abercrombie preferred to keep the mystery around this character?

I’m sure Joe had his reasons, I’m kind of hoping it’s reserved for a possible future book release to keep the world going and the writing subject matter available? We’ll see in time I guess