Re-reading the Hand of Thrawn duology - written by Thrawn’s creator Timothy Zahn - brought me to a passage where everyone is panicking about the possibility of Grand Admiral Thrawn being back, only for the main cast to point out how those tales are over-exaggerated and while Thrawn was good, he wasn’t that good. Since this was apparently meant to be commentary on Zahn’s part regarding how other creators handled Thrawn between the original Thrawn trilogy and the publication of Hand of Thrawn, it made me wonder: there’s no doubt that Thrawn is a master tactician, but do fans and other creators tend to over-exaggerate just how skilled he was?