There’s a good reason for that. I think I heard it described as the law of narrative causality…
If you take the villains you mention, well, narratively speaking there’s a sense of empathy that comes from being able to blame a character’s descent into evil on an event of some kind. That helps us to relate to the character…
Very long, and deeply analytic. And I don’t mean it as a knock: it’s the way you’ve decided to lay this out, as a story, and a reflection of how your mind works.
But I think you might reframe — perhaps after the series is told — as a more journalistic approach, where you put some grand conclusion first — perhaps…
