Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Okay, so essentially your view is that whatever the story becomes by altering it, it will warp in such a way that the WoL will win.
No, you have wildly misunderstood what I was saying, because that is not my view. I'm simply saying that we need to be consistent. It is not consistent to tie ourselves to the unnatural contrivances of the writers in one context, but to depart from them in another. For any single conversation, we should flip the switch on or off.

To frame that to the current conversation: if we are going to depart from the contrived inevitability of the Warrior of Light's inevitable success, then we should also depart from the contrived notion that the Warrior of Light doesn't pick up the McGuffin of Power and instead lets the big bad slowly walk up to it and pick it up. These two things are part of the same package.

Zoraal Ja gets killed by the Warrior of Light, so the WoL is right next to him when he dies and drops the McGuffin of Power, ergo we pick it up because this isn't our first rodeo. Sphene's welcome to try to take it from us, but considering that her body is limited to the capabilities of robots that even a chump like Bakool Ja Ja can casually kill by the dozen, I don't see her being able to contend with us.