Halagad_Ventor posted: Sometimes people are surprised when I make something up, and will tell me they're positive they've seen something like the Azurite Society of Lords ... before.
TalonCard posted:>I remember thinking Halla from Splinter of the Mind's Eye would've been a perfect substitute for an elderly woman character that appears in one of the Hand of Thrawn books.< Oooh, which one?
Halagad posted:I'm just being difficult. Honestly, I don't remember if the identification of Adalric as a former Jedi was my idea or part of the sometimes haphazard editing that was done by the Gamer staff on The Emperor's Pawns (other examples include a reference to Lumiya and Flint fighting *against* the Nagai, a big chunk cut out of the Maarek Stele bio, and of course, the complete substitution of the Blackhole entry).
Halagad posted:I'm pretty sure Palp learned it from either Ashka Boda or the holocron he carried, a.k.a. the Bodo Baas holocron. But the coincidence with Set Harth is pretty great.
Halagad posted:Again, dog pile those facts and it isn't unlikely that Xendor was once one of the Kashi Mer Dynasty's elite protectors before his banishment and war against the Jedi.
TalonCard posted:Is that the way you usually come up with those awesome throwaway references, think of something you need and then pick a preestablished element to fit the bill?
Eyrezer posted:Lol, anyone in particular?
Ris_jSarek posted:I'd guess it almost has to be Moranda Savich. Both are elderly, both are con artists, and both have an eccentric joie de vivre about them.
Cull_Tremayne posted:On a somewhat related note, can we assume that Everen Ettene subscribed to Djinn Altis' train of thought by taking an older Padawan in Ventor?
Cull_Tremayne posted:So body transference could possibly be a Jedi technique? Cooool.
Cull_Tremayne posted:I think I got lost here...is this saying that the leader of the exiles in the First Great Schism was...never even trained by the Jedi? I never would have imagined a non-Jedi leading other Jedi, but now that I think about it, that's pretty cool. The character of Xendor is slowly shaping methinks... That charismatic devil.
Cull_Tremayne posted:On a related note, for the term, "Legions of Lettow", does the word "Lettow" have any significance? I know it's a reference to an earlier Star Wars script, but is it anything now? Is it a place? A person? An idea?
Cull_Tremayne posted:Additionally, I just have to ask about the reference to Flint in The Emperor's Pawns. According to the article, Flint was sent by Lumiya to kill Luke Skywalker, correct?
Cull_Tremayne posted:I'm wondering if Lumiya may or may not have really believed Flint was capable of doing the job. From the comic, we can see that Flint eventually has Skywalker at his mercy (thanks to a precisely placed stormtrooper blaster shot, who would've thought? ), and it seems the only thing that stops him from destroying Luke is the arrival of Barney. So he may have had the ability to upend Luke. Obviously as revenge for her disfigurement, Lumiya wanted a showdown with Luke; however, in No Zeltrons Lumiya only asks about the location of Leia. So what are your thoughts on this, did Lumiya have faith in Flint to come through or was she always planning to take Luke down herself?
Halagad_Ventor posted:Well, the truth is Everen actually lost a bar bet to Obi-Wan, and wound up having to take Halagad as an apprentice. That sneaky Obi-Wan thought it was pretty funny until Everen died and he ended up picking up the slack. Slapstick ensues!
Halagad_Ventor posted:Not actually. However, Evil Never Dies does say that explicitly.
Halagad_Ventor posted:Of course Barney was there to save Luke, because it's Luke's character and goodness that creates the conditions for him not to have to rely solely on himself to win the day; in this case, he pivotally drew Barney to his side in a critical circumstance, as he did (again) similarly his sister in Dark Empire.
Jedi Merkurian posted:-"So body transference could possibly be a Jedi technique? Cooool." -"Certainly a Jedi discovered (or re-discovered) technique, but forbidden, like mortichro." Actually, according to Ultimate Adversaries, Harth learned the technique from a Sith artifact...
Cull_Tremayne posted:Wow, good point. Though I think I'd like to point out that Barney probably intervened more for his friend Flint than he did on Luke's behalf. It seemed from the comic that Barney was to Flint as Biggs was to Luke. So while Barney obviously looked up to Luke as a great commander/hero, he was obviously more distraught over how far his friend had fallen. He put his own life on the line to help redeem Flint, not necessarily just to save Luke.
Cull_Tremayne posted:Though I like the thought of Luke creating a "Karmic shield", as it is only though his kindness and good example that he shows towards Kiro in the comic that saves him from Lumiya's clutches at the end.