M'naago was clearly the better choice, but nepotism and Lyse's father having that power of the name working for her.
My main problem was her entitlement, yes. "Why wont you fight for meeeeee" from a person who has gone through 0 amount of hardship IN ALA MHIGO like the rest of the citizens.
What pushed me over the edge was the fact that whenever she had a monologue on how she learned something, she literally went against that supposedly learned lesson in the next cutscene. She never learned anything and got rewarded for it, but thats nepotism for you I guess. M'naagos name wasnt big enough to rouse the people *shrugs* which is fine for me storywise. Annoying, but believable.
Wuk Lamat? Just doesn't make any sense. She is equally a fish out of water but at least Lyse had an excuse of being out of Ala Mhigo.
We are SUPPPOSED TO BELIEVE, that a person of her country, having lived her whole life in the country, interacted her whole life with the people, even worse OLD PEOPLE, who she claims to be SUPER CLOSE TO. Old people love nothing more than to talk and gossip. AND we are supposed to just put fingers in our ears, cover our eyes and go "lalalala" and believe that those old people didnt tell her ANYTHING ABOUT THE STATE OF THE COUNTRY or ITS PEOPLE, OR THE PAST.
How can she claim to love the country and its people when she doesnt know jack squat about them, nor interacted with them. Surface level writing, protect papas peace.
Worse crime of the story was that it was NEVER unclear who the new Dawnservant was gonna be. The cooking contest shouldve been the last punch in the face hint. Pair up the obvious bad guys with the good guys, or pair up the bad guys together and the good guys together? lol. And Koana sisconning his way out of the contest losing his entire character and motivation to become a cheerleader and further murdered character in 7.2 with the Rroneek Saga, I guess his goal wasnt strong enough to withstand the wuk no jutsu. But again Wukkie isnt the main issue, the writing and pacing is.
Please dont let these writers touch the MSQ ever again, relegate them to "Further Hildibrand" or something.