As much as this is Coriolanus's origin story, it is an origin story for the Games themselves, an answer to the questions about their history posed by Katniss in Mockingjay, the final volume of the trilogy: "Did a group of people sit around and cast their votes on initiating the Hunger Games? Was there dissent? Did someone make a case for mercy?" People who love finding out the back stories in fictional universes—why Sherlock Holmes wears a deerstalker hat; where Indiana Jones got his scar—will relish the chance to learn these details.