Do we know it is the tadpole Raphael is interested in and not something else? Like the artifact?
Enjoy these timelines, btw. Helpful to think thru it all.
Yeah, we don't know for sure that the tadpole is what Raphael is interested in. It's just the strongest guess right now, especially because Gale offers it up as a possibility.
True. But I think Gale’s intelligence and confidence can also be his biggest detriments. If you won’t help him, he goes off to find Raphael to make a deal. My hunch is that he fails to make that deal because Raphael does not care about the tadpole(s). It could be something unexpected that he wants…like Mizora or the artifact…or even Shadowheart and her glowy hand powers. Tadpole seems too obvious to me, although such a thing would be good for recruitment via coercion/control…much easier to get bodies for the Blood War that way.
The more I've thought about it, the more I think it's more complicated than Raphael wanting the tadpole.
Moonrise has captured Mizora. What exactly do they want from Mizora? She's a cambion, just like Raphael. I'm guessing there's a connection, and I don't just mean between Raphael and Mizora; rather, I mean a connection between Moonrise and these cambions. Surely the have a reason for wanting Mizora, other than they happened to stumble across her.
