Tales Under the New Moon Story #2: Bringer of Shadow, Bringer of Light

[Cleretic]

Pretty cool tale this time. Still wish it was something new to wonder about, rather than some scant details about something old. Like these past two Tales are more or less lore trivia, rather than lore that matters. Very cool. Just not very impactful.

So far these have felt a bit more like 'lore cleanup' than anything, using current events as framework for writing about characters that didn't get much story when they were relevant, and right now are a bit too 'cold' to be worthy of a full in-game story now. Like, it'd feel weird to get an in-game Haldrath story now, and it's gonna feel even weirder come Dawntrail when we're on a whole new central story focus. So this sorta feels like 'last call for the loose ends', covering this stuff before the door closes.

Like, I feel like Ascian/Ancient stuff is gonna be inevitable here just as it has been with nearly every single short story batch since Shadowbringers, but with this pattern it's more likely to be about Igeyorhm or Nabriales than being us just continuing to beat the dead Emet-Selch. And personally, that's way more welcome for me than a lot of the 'more relevant lore', because I've gotten enough lore about Garlemald, I don't have any more questions about Thavnair, the Voidsent storyline doesn't yet need errata, and if I see The Three Stooges of Elpis one more time I'm gonna puke. But I do know where a bunch of gaps are, and frankly, Ran'jit was a big one.