Except sourcebooks are, well, sources. The blurb is written by advertising people in an attempt to sell the book by using hyperbolic language to make it sound exciting.
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You say that as if you haven't read the SWTORE or any SWTOR sources lmao.
Hyperbole is not something exclusive to publishing summaries, and if liberal language is the criteria for dismissing a source then most TOR secondary material is null and void.
More to the point, those statements are easily identifiable as such, but they are all grounded in some measure of truth. "Never before" is both a hyperbolic and vague phrase in of itself, but is reflected by sources that describe Bane as the strongest Sith Lord in centuries, "the very first Sith" if interpreted as the teach of ancient Sith Lords is loosely accurate, and finally as far as I'm aware Bane was the last surviving Sith after they all died on Ruusan. Certainly roundabouts.
There is much room of hyperbole regarding "the most powerful Sith Lord who ever lived" however, and its not contradicted by the source material, rather the opposite.
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Can someone make a thread titled "Vote! Moving On Down Edition" in the Star Wars: Literature & Expanded Universe with the poll options being as follows.
Vong Krayt
Karness Muur
Galen Marek
Count Dooku
Arcann
Darth Vader
Thanks.
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SWTORE is written in-universe. So I do dismiss a lot of the more hyperbolic statements.
As for the rest, Bane learned from Revan’s teachings not the “very first sith”. He was not “the last surviving Sith” as a few pop up for Bane to kill in the very novel that quote originates on the back off. Nor is Bane anywhere near as powerful as the “entire Brotherhood of Darkness”.
Oct 25th, 2016 08:10 PM
