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the reason i'm not showing a lot of these flashbacks in detail is because most don't make a lot of sense, don't tell us things we don't already know or are pointless, on top of being a shit ton of dialogue
one consistent theme across all of them is that zain, the leader of the council, isn't as much of a dick as you would imagine him to be, though he still does have some glowy hypnosis device