Quote Originally Posted by gbaji View Post
To be fair to Redcloak though, isn't that why he has Xykon with him in the first place? Anyone who shows up to stop them, get's blasted into pudding by Xykon, and they continue the ritual. It's not a terrible idea, even if from a trope perspective, it is just begging for some last minute heroics to come and stop them.
In the OOTS-verse, tropes can be quite potent. That's, like, 5/6ths of what makes Tarquin effective.