The Tower In The Sky 009
└ posted on Tuesday, 7 May 2013, by Novil
- Viviana: Shadowdancers, at long last we have back what Cania’s henchmen took from us!
- Viviana: This wouldn’t have been possible without Ilias’ and Alissa’s help. They deserve the gratitude of us all!
- Viviana: But this doesn’t mean the end of our struggle. Because Ileasaar is still not free!
- Viviana: We mustn’t let Ileasaar get dragged into a war between Cania and Midgard! We mustn’t let our homeland become a battleground!
- Viviana: A thousand years before Midgard was founded, humans and avariel celebrated midsummer under the Great Tree of Greendew!
- Viviana: And a thousand years after Aracona has turned to dust, the children of our children will admire the exhibition pieces in Heyselfall’s national museum!
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I will repeat… She is not as rightful as she tries to seem.
Well nobody is rightful in the end, everybody has his own motives.
Viviana is sure being awfully presumptuous with the most important royal Ileasaaran crown jewel. If she keeps wearing it, Salacea Torval is not going to be very pleased.
It matters not if she is of royal blood or not. Either way, she’s setting herself as a claimant of the crown.
Trimutius wrote:
Yup, She definitely has her own agenda.
For some reason, the audience makes me think of the audience for rock concerts. Not sure why, though.
I have to say… Viviana is quite beautiful when she’s composed and confident… hope things work out for her in the end!
When I started reading this one, I suddenly got wondering if perhaps the Shadowdancers were the ones really responsible for the attack on the school and it was all one big twist in the story. 😉
Very nice.
this is getting more complex and therefore more interesting.
You’ll might be interested to know that over the last few months I have trimmed the web comics I follow from 300+ to about 30 and you made the cut at position nine.
Thank you for the entertainment.
@ PMark:
Is that a problem? She’s leading the group restoring the crown, it’s highly likely the people would rally behind her *anyway*…
It’s perhaps worth mentioning that the map indicates one of the factors influencing their struggle for (re-)independence: Ileaasar is situated between the historical boundaries of Cania and Midgard, so any impending war between the two territories is likely to see extensive conflict within Ileaasar.
Perhaps at least part of Viviana’s pipe dream is that if Ileassar could re-assert its independence (and presumably set itself up as neutral), then Cania and Midgard could take their war elsewhere and leave Ileassar alone…
Having said that, if two countries are at war with a small independent country in between, unless both sides in the war play by the same set of rules and an independent Ileasaar could potentially encourage further conflict over who gets to control the territory if they can’t achieve their primary objective of annihilating the official opposition…
What happened with the link to the other website that was hosting Gaia? Last week and earlier there were links at the top taking you to further-along comics…all the way to a scene in the prison.
What was the deal with that? These are all repeats for me now…guess I don’t get any new Gaia for a few weeks 🙁
Steph wrote:
Novil updates this comic at the rate of 15 pages every two months. Why? Because he has found that if he updates any faster than that, the quality suffers.
He updates MangaMagazine on a two month cycle. The first month he posts 15 pages. The next month he posts none. He does that so that he can meet the fifteen-page-a-month minimum required to be a premium comic over at MM. When he does that, he gets a nice chunk of money to help defray the $100-a-page it costs him to produce Gaia.
Here at S&W, he posts three pages every two weeks. If you do the math, that works out to 13 pages every two months, so he usually throws in a extra posting here and there to keep up with the overall update rate of 15 pages every two months.
S&W will always lag MM. That is a requirement of being a MM premium comic. On March 31st, S&W was two pages behind MM. It will be interesting to see where it will be May 31st.
Does anyone else think the banner behind her makes it look like Vivianna has wings? I wonder if this is intentional.
Kamica wrote:
You may be right. It could have been intentional. I didn’t notice it, but I don’t claim to be highly observant.
And the mystery behind Viviana deepens, and the chances od her being royalty increase.
@ mittfh:
It could be also a very lucrative situation if they play their cards right. A neutral country, supplying both contendants in a war…
@ Trimutius:
I don’t think she’s being that shifty. So far everything has been pointing to her being some kind of exiled nobility.
It was made fairly obvious that a lot of her theft was more about a personal vendetta than profit. The place she stores her her treasures is set up more like a shrine than a trophy room. She tends to get get real preachy when discussing the way the new government ran the old out of town. And she got down right homicidal when the fat dude at the party started insulting the original rulers.
@ kyriss12:
What you described is a good definition of the word “patriot”.
Yes, her wearing the Avaril during this speech is a strong indicator of her being of royal blood. For a non-royal to use it to levitate out of a jam while recovering it from those who stole it is one thing. Wearing it at a “state” occasion such as this speech is quite another. It would be considered highly presumptuous on her part to do so. It’s highly unlikely that she does not realize that.
But then again, she IS a thief, and what is a thief if not “highly presumptuous”? 🙂
Half dragons? Winged tieflings?
@ Nick/Tyrong:
I was thinking demons, but now that you mention it, and ESPECIALLY after seeing Faye with the similarly colored dragon…
@ Keiya:
There’s a difference between leading the rebellion and ruling afterwards. One can hardly claim to be restoring the rightful rulers if they keep power for themselves instead.
With Viviana wearing the Avaril in this speech, a very strong suspicion grows that she wants the throne of Ileasaar for herself, despite her protestations of disinterest. (SD-64). She claims support of Salacea Torval (SD-64, TS-8) for the position, but her actions suggest otherwise.
It really doesn’t matters if she is of royal blood or not. The throne is vacant. She has recovered the Avaril and is wearing it in public. Draw your own conclusions.
@ PMark:
The Shadowdancers’ hideout is a public place now?
@ ekimmak:
Definitely the dude in the front. The big guy with the bandolier, chin hair, and grin!
DRAAAAAAAAAAAAGON PEOPLE!?
Does this mean…cute dragon girls? Please tell me there are going to be cute dragon girls.
I wonder if it has magic keyed only to the royal bloodline, thus serving both as a crown jewel, and proof that Vivs is the ‘rightful heir’
@ Trimutius:
Everybody has his (her) own motives. All motives are not equally good, all people are not equally benevolent or evil. So some can be and are more rightful than others. 😛
And f*ck that modern-day, “everyone is the same”, relativism-cr*p.
@ kyriss12:
Homicidial ? She hasn’t killed anybody.
@ Hielario:
And there goes the morals … 🙁
@ illeatyourself:
Somehow I doubg they posses magical capability of necessary extent….
@ Rugby XV:
The money could be used to feed orphins =D.
@ PMark:
“I Thrice presented her a kingly crown,
Which she did thrice refuse. Was this ambition?”
That is what this situation reminds me of: being courteous before the public, but planning on taking over in the long-term.
Trimutius wrote:
She’s not claiming to be, she already said she is not the one to decide who gets to claim the throne. But for now, seeing as she was the one to retrieve the pretty necklace, she is going to wear it
How do we know she isn’t as rightful as she tries to seem? For all we know, she truly is the princess (it’s not the first time a princess has ended up being a rebel leading a ragtag band of misfits and ne’er-do-wells)
Colin wrote:
Why do you say that? You can see it is still underground, we are just seeing more members of the ShadowDancers in one place than we ever thought there were
If League of Legends has taught you anything, don’t let them take the Bluebuff.
Nick/Tyrong wrote:
Half dragons. Tieflings would have more pronounced horns and possibly distorted faces. This world has humans, elves dwarves, and dragons. And dragon crossbreeds. Btw, it says that imps are a dragon race. This implies possibly breeding with animals, that or they are some sort of early genetic variation, before dragons decided to grow big and scaly.
Wait a minute…,”Midgard”…,”Midsummer”…,”Museum”?!
DO YOU KNOW WHAT THIS MEANS!?!
…Because I don’t.