Zenos: The Big Bad (The Feedback Thread, Part 1)

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He's a plot device.

...Never thought about it like that...
...Never gonna be able to unthink it, either, lol.

If the team can last-minute flesh out the Ascians into something satisfying (including their own high school AU, essentially), there's always hope for Zenos. But at the moment... huh. Yeah.

At this point, Zenos is fully awake, and simply preparing for the final conflict. <...> He's a distant philosopher/poet warrior who believes he has ascended beyond concern for the mortal realm.

Now I'm momentarily confused about whether he's a plot device edgelord or a poet edgelord.

...Part 1!?
Are you planning additional Zenos threads?

Zenos: The Big Bad (The Feedback Thread, Part 2) will be for after the 6.0 MSQ is complete - retrospective big picture.

I think it’s no coincidence that we’re going to Garlemald precisely when the origin, backstory, creation, etc. of Zenos is suddenly important to the MSQ.

This is a solid point; one thing Zenos specifically has over other anyone else as a new character doing the same things is the connection to Emet-Selch as the leader of specifically the nation we're going to. That could be leveraged well to tell more than one story-within-a-story.