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- Caption: Crystalgate, Golnar
- Birone: Today’s the day!
- Mother: Are you really sure you want to do that?
- Birone: Mom, I’ve never been so sure about anything in my life!
- Mini-Lilith: Ha, I’ve hit you!
- Mini-Viviana: Nuh-uh!
- Mark: Hey, Moatil!
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Hm, a new character? I don’t recognize him at least, and the tags arn’t showing anything. Are we seeing the epilogue from the view point of the general public?
Also the kids playing pretend as Lilith and Ilias is adorable. As is the cute little fox/dog creature they have with them!
I think they’re Lilith and Viviana – isn’t that a little rainbow knife? 😍
@ pink.penguin:
On closer inspection that is indeed a rainbow knife. Thanks for catching that for me.
Definitely digging the Lili/Viviana costume play!
Just wanted to say that this is my favorite webcomic and I’ve been getting all my friends to read it now that it’s wrapping up.
I love that the story defies many of the traditional fantasy tropes and tries to realistically depict powerful strategic characters trying to outmatch each other (I agree with previous comments that long battle scenes don’t make sense–with such powerful spells one side or the other should win almost instantly).
I’m also a big fan of the high quality artwork and some of the indirect references to cool math / computer science :).
The magic crystal over the bed is a very… I can’t find a proper word xD Or, I can’t choose one from a lot.
It would be a blasphemous detail in many countries not very long ago. Perhaps it still is in some. I find it funny because actually is neutral (it’s a Gaia’s analog compared to our real word), but it’s a trap for the observer, and his/her sense of humour (if there is such a thing). In general, the comic has an central-european environment (I mean, the design), with a lot of exceptions, but this detail is so universal… (except in cultures where protective objects are under the bed or in unusual positions, I don’t even know if there are such cultures -under the bed usually illic sunt dracones).
I know you don’t care for stretch goals on Kickstarter, but I don’t think anyone would be sad if you managed to produce a plush version of that little canine…
I could speculate that this blond young man might be Ryn’s brother, but so far Novil has been too good at keeping me guessing!
@ Tim:
I’m guessing that it’s a bit over eighteen years later, and those unnamed two are Rynn and Malva, now a bit older.
Mr.Pointer wrote:
I figured it was a lamp or nightlight, this is a magic world, you won’t be seeing a TÄRNABY or a SKOTTORP.
@ Betonhaus:
Then the unknown writer is very traditional, since he/she is using a couple of candles:
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/2021/02/25/the-bipartite-mind-043-044/
Here there is an artificial light, it’s not easy to discern if it is some kind of chemical lamp (burning something) or merely a magic light, here it seems to be an oil lamp or similar
http://www.sandraandwoo.com/gaia/2013/10/22/the-tower-in-the-sky-047/
But in the next page is a clean light, no “flames”, so maybe is a magic device. When Lilith studies in Oakdale under Eldor’s vigilance, she has a magical light floating over her. In all these cases what the lights aren’t are crystals, in despite crystals do illuminate indeed. Moatil has another crystal in his nightstand (or it seems to be), we know that some crystals are expensive and they are worth money, that one over the bed I suppose is not cheap, the general aspect of the house is not very luxurious, so I thought is was more a religious object than a practical device.
But you can perfectly be right.
Raven wrote:
@ Raven:
Don’t feel too bad. Ilias usually wears green, so that is a perfectly reasonable assumption.
Hmm, moatil is excited about something but does not want to tell his friends. He’s going somewhere. . . to the academy maybe?
@ Mad Marie:
I’ve done that before with my players at my gaming table. They ended up saving the town that the campaign started in, and I described how the children of the town dressed up like them and would run around pretending to be heroes. They really liked that. 😁
I love the happy animals on this page.
Ahh, a page full of completely new characters!
And yea, kid’s definitely playing with a toy rainbow knife, ha.
Well, 80000€, 27 days to go. Not bad.
Mr.Pointer wrote:
Lilith is wizard, she can make her own light. These people can’t. I think those crystals are indeed magic lights, and relatively cheap ones – cheaper than anything we saw before, possibly even cheaper than the candles in long term.
@ HKMaly:
Maybe. All in all, the village is named Crystalgate. But, I still think it has not very much sense to put a nightlight where the supposed one is. I mean, the one in the nightstand is fine, but the wall’s one is a bit absurd, too high, isn’t it? On the other hand, crystals are shining all time, day and night, I don’t think you can sleep very well that way (note: just over your head, a worderful placing if you sleep face up). Or you can. In fact, I don’t know. Maybe crystals can be switched off. No idea. I simply thought it was somewhat a magical/religious artifact because I would never place a nightlamp there (a worldmap maybe, a light no).
Mr.Pointer wrote:
There are pyramids in my head
There‘s one underneath my bed
And my lady‘s getting cranky
-doclbn
Blonde? It is Ryn’s son! Sure!
That rooster made me remember Misfile’s undead skull rooster.Mr.Pointer wrote:
I think you’re intending to say that it’s some sort of idol. Because it’s an unnatural light over the head rather than by the nightstand.
Urgh, the feels. So I’ve mentioned that I wrote a book and all. So in one spot, the evil wizard tells about his backstory, and how he was trying to invent an alchemical light crystal called Glow Crystals. The crystal was the wrong shape and wouldn’t hold a charge correctly. His girlfriend realized this, and pushed him out of the way, getting herself electrocuted. So when I see glowing crystals like this, I legit get messed up from my own book.
Mr.Pointer wrote:
Yeah, it’s a good way to get smacked in the head.
Follow up question from the QA:
You stated that this was correct and later explicitly said that she used blue stream, but what motivation did Lilith have to lie about which stream she used to alter his mind to write 12 by that point? She already had him in her endgame trap.
Also we know that the shadowkeep was originally mined out manually so why did they find no exit tunnel and how were they supplied with oxygen if it was really sealed off.
Wyzwon wrote:
Well, there is also Bhaal. So Lilith fed Eldor and Bhaal a small lie about Lilith’s own backstory which made Lilith’s konwledge of Nico’s Strict Order accidental. The goal is to avoid Bhaal understanding that by Eldor’s arrival Lilith had a coherent plan beyond destroying the tower. A last-stand attack of every Bhaal’s beast on Dalelands would be annoying even if futile.
@ Wyzwon: Did Lilith use Nico’s Strict Order to make Eldor write the wrong number? I don’t recall actually hearing her give an order. I guess the order can be silent?
pink.penguin wrote:
No. Novil has confirmed that Lilith had used a bluestream spell to manipulate Eldor’s mind. Also confirmed that Lilith learned Nico’s Strict Order in the Spirit Source room by reading the stolen pages from a book (and had never known any other redstream spells).
Nico’s Strict Order seems to require an aware and non-resisting target, and does not hide the orders from the victim either, making it a bad fit for manipulating Eldor in Oakdale.
@ Raven:
The little fox/dog critter looks like it dropped in from The Abominable Charles Christopher.
Before the two most powerful, he took his chances.