Setup for Inciting Incident #3 (The End Begins)

When Manaia dies, there’s a camera shake and small magical explosion that knocks Kō from the top of the shrine, back to ground level (several levels below), into the small pool right in front of the shrine. (Camera zooms in during the fall, restored to normal distance when she reaches the pool).

Mōhio enters the scene (he’s been looking for Kō since she didn’t show for her celebration), and trots over to the pool.

Sparkling feathers wisp from Manaia above, to the shrine below, swirling until the statue reappears where it should have been.

Manaia speaks: “You are the one chosen. A foe far greater than I awaits. Behold: the end.” (statue stiffly moves its arm to point toward the horizon.