@Riot. The Skarner story was awesome! But...

I really liked the read, high praise for the writing!

But...I couldn't help but feel the Brackern's history was very disconnected from the history of Valoran.. Are you confident that you can use them in stories in a way that makes them feel like they are part of and relevant to the world?

Seems to me they were distancing themselves or inactive for ALL of Valoran's relevant history. Like, they're more alien to the world and the setting than actual space-aliens would've been. Because.. they barely even interacted with any of it in any tangible way?

I feel like there were many other ways you could have used the Brackern race without compromising their core themes, like making them a dormant army from ancient-ancient-ancient Shuriman, or something. (After Azir's Shurima event I was pretty confident this would be the actual direction you'd go in, but was obviously wrong)

Why didn't you go for something more easily made relevant to the contemporary world of Valoran? I always felt Skarner's biggest problem was that he and his race always felt VERY out of place in a world-building sense; the new story didn't amend that, if anything it made them even more distant from the world around them.