Thread:Sakaros/@comment-29301-20180903145046/@comment-104549-20190726000018

Hey, a week and a half might be your record for holding out so far, so kudos.

I phrased Coshal Cuyvalsa's prophecy very carefully: "Your actions will bring about the downfall of a great and terrible Sith blight..." The way I see it, the end result was one of those visions of what will be, but how Maia got there was another matter. Had she opposed Brokkodd from the moment she started to suspect what he was—and probably, out of necessity, killed Bras along the way—she might have been able to defeat him in a manner similar to what Zaella and Jirdo did. Without Bras's sacrificial ritual (and consent), it would've been much harder for Brokkodd to possess anyone directly, so she wouldn't have had to deal with that. For that matter, Maia could've gone back to Coruscant when she realized what was going on and gotten reinforcements. Her great tragedy, as I see it, is that her pride and overconfidence in her destiny conquered her commitment to the Jedi way. As a result, she wound up "bringing about" Brokkodd's downfall by her actions drawing Tirien, Narasi, and Zaella (and Jirdo); the end was the same, but the path to that destination was very different. It's also an indictment of Coshal Cuyvalsa to some degree; she was such a powerful Jedi Prophet, and had gotten so used to being both right and specific, that she was unwise and uncautious about her prophecy about Maia.

My biggest questions for you are about foreshadowing and its sufficiency—specifically, whether the reveals are surprising without suspending disbelief or seeming like diaboli ex machina.
 * Confined to Moments of Truth, the reveal about the Sith ghost behind it all.
 * Stretching from Sins of the Father through Moments of Truth, the reveal that Gasald and Darshkére had joined forces to crush the Seventy-Second and destroy the Crescentia.

I was thinking of you when I wrote some of the shrine bits—since you mentioned it in your review of Desperate Times, it got me thinking and made me want to explore the subject further. And yeah, the series has finally stopped overlapping with The Liberator, though that timing was quite deliberate, as was Circumtore being in a bad beacon zone; I'm sure Mali tried to call Tirien when Aldayr's ship went down, and if Tirien had known what happened, he probably would've gone to Mali's aid and let Guudria wait for another day (or Narasi would've badgered him into it), so it was vital that he not know.

I ordered Into the Void! Still looking forward to Torchbearer.