Talk:Ma/@comment-98.255.102.42-20140115034231/@comment-6192846-20140115035756

It's played down because this is an article so reading the actual material would make it obvious. To cite only the article though, these are the main points:

"After staring intently at the image, she whispered that his wife would return the next day, prompting Gallerian to ask if she was threatening him. Before he finished warning her, Ma laughed and told him she had no intention to harm his family, claiming it wasn't her style."

Gallerian clearly believed she was threatening him while staring at his family's picture, then just laughs it off as not the way she does things. Sounds suspicious from the get-go.

"At the door, Ma gave him another chance to change his mind about the film and searching for the vessels of sin but was ignored by the judge."

This sounds less forceful than in the chapter but the idea was her persistence to get him to change his mind as a sort of subtle ultimatum.

Then there's all the dialogue and events before and after. Ma is so persistent about Gallerian helping her find the vessels and, after he tells her he doesn't need them, he suddenly loses his family in an unbelievable accident. It's exremely convenient how one character is the one really pushing for this collecting the Sins quest and every roadblock miraculously disappear (especially when the accident is an octopus that only a powerful mage can grow to such large sizes).

There are a lot of other little bits and tidbits involved but the above is the gist of why just the last chapter of Praefatio alone leads people to believe Ma is responsible for their deaths.