Quote Originally Posted by Cleretic View Post
Maybe it says something about me that when I hear this, I don't think the interesting story potential is in Zenos getting magic psychic dreams, it's in Varis NOT getting them. I'm a tiny bit more sympathetic towards him knowing that he's the one guy in his family that's left out of the mysterious big picture, and is clearly looked down on for it! And honestly, it makes a lot of the story around him make a lot more sense!
IIRC, they just gave a noncommittal answer of “sometimes things skip a generation”. I don’t know if that was them trying to avoid spoiling future story beats or just them handwaving it away but I’m more inclined to lean to the latter since the whole “subplot” if you can even call it that didn’t exactly have a lot of investment and all the entire royal family is dead now so there’s not really any point in picking it back up again.