>This raises the question that first popped into my head when I read
>this last night: When Garnet showed Azana the True Fire, did she give
>her some sort of gift that unlocked her potential, and it wasn't until
>she was at the edge of defeat that she found it, or did she just show
>Azana the True Fire, but seeing it allowed Azana to have an epiphany
>that jumped her up to GrandMaster level (or something like that)?

More the latter. If one may belabor a metaphor slightly, Garnet didn't patch Azana's operating system, just showed her how you get to a command prompt.

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