Wow, Wuk Lamat is really single-handedly ruining the DT story...

[SirShady]

To be fair,

Zoraal does know the Golden City holds immense power to shape reality, as Seraal tells him much earlier. He's also certainly just aware of the potential given the lengths his father went to to seal off the Golden City, and the stories from the giants. So it's not exactly coincidental. Sphene also did say the tech was adapted to war after their agreement, so it's not like the death army was sitting there entirely. We're told many times there was a huge shift in production of war machines, and the 8-man raid was closed off to fuel Zoraal's war efforts. Plus it's been 30 years, that's a long time in a technologically advanced society. As for him doing it because he's evil, we're shown he's got major daddy issues and a severe inferiority complex, which is only exacerbated when our team succeeds after he fails. Plus he has an... admittedly very stupid "peace for everyone by making everyone suffer" view on global politics. I do wish they went into where he got that idea beyond "well Tural was suffering from war, and then Dad stopped it, and now people are happy.. so 'War -> not war -> happiness'!" It's very dumb. They could have spent some time going into it but... they didn't. They might in the future but that doesn't solve the issue now. Then yeah at the end his motivation, probably after 30 years of stewing in his own emotions, shifted to feeling like his father screwed him out of inheritance. Which is a pretty major shift to happen off-screen.

Good point!

This just raises more questions on why Zoraal of all people would know that! Why does he know about the key? What gave them the idea that there was a spare set of keystones laying around? Why did Zoraal know about shaping reality or what that entailed? If "shaping reality" didn't involve the power to summon a massive sci-fi army from out of nowhere, the villain would have been screwed and the MSQ would be over.

See, but I was hoping they would explain WHY he has daddy issues and an inferiority complex. In the same way I was expecting them to explain why he thinks causing war will lead to greater peace. They never explain why. He's just evil for the sake of it, and he's not anywhere close to being compelling about it like Zenos was.

I respect your points, but I still can't fathom the reasoning behind these writing choices.