You're right. At least in the horse training scene and probably a couple others.Egg has been pov
I think the helmet was holding his brains in.That head wound was a little fake I thought. There should have been blood gushing out of that. It's not something you would walk around and no one would notice.
Maybe it does not work like that in their world. You know, the world that has Dragons that weight 140+ tons that are capable of flight and breathing Fire. A world that uses a person's face as a way of disguising with perfection.Your occipital lobe is in the back of your head, he wouldn't be able to see if his head was caved in like that, and would no longer be conscious, and his helmet would be so deformed it wouldn't be removable. I understand the artistic choice to show damage versus the internal destruction that blunt force trauma causes in order to register on screen but that was extreme.
It's why you blackjack people to the back of their head, lights out.