OBJECTION! That has nothing to do with what I was saying. It's entirely irrelevant whether members of an active resistance movement were killed, only that they prove resistance to Garlean brainwashing techniques is plausible. Thus, someone in Ala Mhigo could potentially be free willed but not actively resisting the Garleans. Perhaps out of fear, maybe from being incredibly deep undercover, or perhaps even from a genuine belief in Garlemald's motives.
And just to rain on your parade, like you said, there's room for a new resistance to be formed. Or even remnants of the resistance who weren't there (even if it was claimed they all were, given that resistance movements tend to keep their true numbers secret even from their own). Heck, there might even be a separate resistance movement that existed alongside the one that got wiped out, but never interacted with them due to mistrust, and survived due to that trait.
Any of these could be played with without breaking the setting. Remember, NPCs can only say what they know that they want you to know. Anything there's no physical proof against and never can be is where we make our stories. The existence of resistance fighters so secretive that the Garleans don't know about them is one such possibility. Just keep in mind that in order to be so secret, they'd have to take only the most subtle actions against the Empire, and it's fine. No worries about contradicting anything in the future.
And just to rain on your parade, like you said, there's room for a new resistance to be formed. Or even remnants of the resistance who weren't there (even if it was claimed they all were, given that resistance movements tend to keep their true numbers secret even from their own). Heck, there might even be a separate resistance movement that existed alongside the one that got wiped out, but never interacted with them due to mistrust, and survived due to that trait.
Any of these could be played with without breaking the setting. Remember, NPCs can only say what they know that they want you to know. Anything there's no physical proof against and never can be is where we make our stories. The existence of resistance fighters so secretive that the Garleans don't know about them is one such possibility. Just keep in mind that in order to be so secret, they'd have to take only the most subtle actions against the Empire, and it's fine. No worries about contradicting anything in the future.
