- «I merely suggested the pirates were from that family.»
«Why do you think so? There's no time for a game of Riddle Me. Just tell us.» - ―Mid Commander Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Senior Aide Stybla'ppin'cykok
Riddle Me was a verbal game in which one of at least two players would present a riddle to another player, who would guess the answer.[1] By 19 BBY,[2] within the Stybla stronghold on the Unknown Regions planet Naporar of the Chiss Ascendancy nation, Chiss Mid Commander Mitth'raw'nuru "Thrawn" suggested that the pirates who had hijacked a Chiss Stybla family cargo starship were members of the Chiss Clarr family, prompting Stybla Senior Aide Stybla'ppin'cykok "Lappincyk" and Stybla Patriarch Stybla'mi'ovodo "Lamiov" to ask the Mid Commander why he thought so. Thrawn attempted to compel both Stybla to discover why he thought so on their own, but Lappincyk refused, remarking that there was no time to play Riddle Me.[1]
Behind the scenes
Riddle Me was mentioned in a flashbacks segment of Timothy Zahn's final installment in the Ascendancy Trilogy, the 2021 novel Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil.[1]
Appearances
- Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil (and audiobook) (First mentioned) (In flashback(s))
Notes and references
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 1.6 Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil
- ↑ The flashbacks of Thrawn Ascendancy: Lesser Evil, which include the mention of Riddle Me, occur prior to the main events of Thrawn Ascendancy: Chaos Rising, which take place in 19 BBY per Star Wars: Timelines.