>>11539573
>It seems this Preternia is sticking close to the original Mattel pitches versus adding in the Classics bio nonsense.
Thank goodness.

>We’re probably stuck with Blackskull who has the Power Sword and his sorceress type wife Osiris but maybe it’s not that bad.

King Grayskull is a mess conceptually. As I said at >>11539704 , the original blond version only makes sense after He-Ro is dead and dinosaurs extinct.
There's nothing inherently wrong with He-Man having a black ancestor 2,000 years ago who wielded the Power Sword. But because he's the original design blackwashed, he's exactly as much a pure Sword & Sorcery barbarian. The only thing Preternian about him is having him ride a Bionatops.
It also bugs me how unclear the timeline is. The order of events in "The Ultimate Battleground" was:
Elders sink the Three Towers
They banish King Hiss and most of the Snake Men to a timeless dimension
And last they died creating Castle Grayskull/merged into the Spirit of Grayskull (as seen in sources referencing a passage of the Halperin bible)

So they shouldn't say he and his queen lived in Castle Grayskull. Grayskull Tower would make sense (it has to be named after somebody, right?).