Thread:Sakaros/@comment-29301-20180903145046/@comment-29301-20190726051059

You know, I got to thinking while I was at work (even when it's not slow there, I'm almost always puzzling something out in my head). You'd think sooner or later the Jedi Order would start telling Masters something like, "If you find yourself sensing the Force swirling around your apprentice and whispering of some grand destiny in store for him or her, consider keeping it to yourself." Because these kind of start piling up along the EU timeline...

To your first foreshadowing question, I think the Sith ghost thing worked pretty well. From the start there was a solid sense of intrigue with this story - I didn't really have any idea what to expect to be going on with the whole "Jedi queen" thing. To what little degree I had any expectations, they didn't include Sith involvement. If you had stopped and interrogated me at, say, chapter 11, I would have guessed that Tirien would eventually find that there was something wrong with these renegade Jedi, and it might come to blows, maybe somebody'd die. And to be honest, I was a little afraid it was actually going to be something like that; I was afraid the conflict might turn out to be something like, "merely interesting but underwhelming." So, Tirien's freaky experience during his trance in chapter 12 - you couldn't possibly have timed it any better, far as I'm concerned. Even as the story plodded along afterward, with almost everything our heroes encounter giving the appearance of the threat just being a couple of misguided Jedi runaways, I still had that in the back of my head to remind me that some balls-out, serious shit was going to go down.

As to the second, I've little to say other than that it worked. To be honest, I kind of missed the details in the very last chapter (I read it too fast, because I thought I knew what they were going to be), so after a little time had passed I said to myself, "Wait a minute, the Crescentia got blown up too? Was that at the end of The Liberator?" My confusion is the fault of my own haste, however... As for Darshkere, I hadn't remembered that he even existed, let alone any details about him, but I'm so used to forgetting about your side-villains that it doesn't seem to bother me anymore.