Quote Originally Posted by MikkoAkure View Post
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.
Oh, yeah, no angle of that's going to get explored in the story going forward, and frankly none of the relevant characters are people I want to look back to for an exploration. I'm more just ruminating on the notion that if you did dredge up that bit for a story, I think the best angle is in focusing on Varis.

His entire family is in varying ways part of a massive secret truth about an ancient world that they either came from or have visions of, and created, propagated and benefited from a 'rule of the strongest' worldview basically designed only to serve them... and by random draw of the genetic lottery, he wasn't invited to any of it while still being expected to uphold it. If we were to get more story about any of the Galvuses, I want that, not 'I only get joy through fighting but I'm too good a fighter to enjoy any of it, also I have weird dreams I ignore sometimes'.