Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-24032889-20190105161936/@comment-24032889-20190109063235

BlizzardDragon wrote:

With Raven being Neutral in all this, and Cinder being a villainous Maiden, the Heroes are at a disadvantage. Remember, they only won Haven because Raven beat Cinder and Yang guilt tripped her into leaving without Knowledge. So the Heroes having a Maiden would actually help keep things even. Yes it would. If Winter ended up becoming a Maiden, she would be thrust into the responsibility and may follow the heroes around instead of staying with the military. That being said, I think that might make things too easy thus not as interesting. If the heroes aren't at a disadvantage on paper, it's not as interesting.

What made Haven interesting on paper was that we couldn't form a calculation in the first place as to how the numbers going into it would match up. If we go into a "Battle of Atlas" or something with a clear numerical balance of skill/power, then that's not as suspenseful to me. It'd sure help the heroes, but I think the show would need to find another way to make the odds seem "ever stacked against the heroes" as they've been since Volume 3.