The Warrior of Light rejoined

[Iscah]

I wasn't very happy with the "Tales" story that created the "branching timeline" for the G'raha past, either.

The Tales story didn't "create" the branching timeline – that's a logical conclusion of the wider plot. What it does create (and I thoroughly dislike) is that they wrote a happy ending that makes it seem like the entire plot is a waste. The whole point was supposed to be that the other timeline's world had no hope of salvage and all they could do was send G'raha into the past before the aether-killing effects of Black Rose claimed everything.

Now we've got dear Raha mourning lost friends who are actually perfectly fine, and it feels cheap.