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The Bipartite Mind 054
└ posted on Monday, 6 October 2025, by Novil
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Sure feels like a virus being deleted in visualisation
Bhall gets destroyed. The monsters get destroyed. But Sandril gets restored? To the point of his clothes getting restored? His brain getting restored? Such is magic, I guess. It’s just a waste of answers.
@ Vicious Sand:
It feels like you are very invested in the story, to the point you feel pain when things don’t go the way you expected them to go.
@ Vicious Sand:
Well the spell has been teased since halfway through the comic, an it’s callwd Ultima! What else did you expect?
@ Erklaerbaer:
It’s a bit fast on the draw. This segment is more of a wrap-up than a solid story conclusion, which it could have been with little effort. A little more information out of Bhaal, instead of speedrunning the death of the story’s second primordial god like she was a passing goblin.
I’ve read the comic three or five times, since I’ve been following the reposting here intermittently. “The problem of going on a fun ride enough times is noticing which robot gophers are damaged.” The real problem is the creation of the threat, the promise of revealing the rest of the story, then skipping the reveal so that there can be more happy walking around with friends, be it Viviana or Lillith’s POV. This leaves a massive plot hole you could drop a castle through, yet fill it by a few pages discussing the matters I’ve already brought up- what was in the TSS, There was nothing to connect Lillith learning the TSS breaking spell to the tower’s TSS-breaking magic gun, etc. And Novil does take the time to wrap up other trifling matters, instead, too. It’s the flavour text getting screen time instead of the plot. Ah, for the timeline where Novil greenlights Gaia 2 instead of Scarlet. Though I like Scarlet too, that’s a matter of writer and artist skill. So far.
Oh, and “the spell has been teased since halfway”etc- We never get to know which one of several magical events is the one that causes the bluestream ripple thing- the tower, the destruction of the tear, Ultima, etc. I think that needed another “wizard with a line graph” with an arrow on it. A sonar that lets you know when a spell that can blow up a kingdom is approaching is the sort of thing that people would want to keep track of.
Bhaal giving more information wouldn’t have been possible from a story standpoint. She said right at the start that everything (that she wants them to know) has been told to them by Eldor. Any additional information – her true motives if different, her account of the creation of the world and the First Age, her favorite color etc. – would’ve had been given by her only if she would’ve taken Lili seriously, i.e. been convinced that Lilith is able to harm and kill her, and her being essentially a goddess, this could be shown only by demonstration. Even if not, the heroes wouldn’t have a reason to trust anything else she says, so Lilith doesn’t give her the chance to manipulate them.
The “plot holes” we’ve already discussed: the shield around the Source (TWBH-175), Lilith’s role in Eldor’s plan (hard to cite a single page, but Eldor went through the trouble to train Lilith in breaking time suspension spells just to extract her soul into the soul sphere that the tower mechanism then uses to break the shield [TBM-34], it’s kind of evident), the spell foretold in the prophecies (we know that Lilith casts the spell [Mon-17] and it’s powerful enough to destroy the world [Mon-18], or at least level Askaroth, a whole province [TWBH-22] – although we can’t be sure of the latter, it’s a fake execution after all –; the Tear of Gaia was not destroyed by Lilith, the tower blowing up was not enough to destroy a province, but Ultima is destructive and affects the whole world).
You know, seeing Bhaal get disposed of as soon as she appears, makes me want to see you make a “prequel” of sorts showcasing Bhaal and Gaia as they were in their initial moments, and their creation of this world. At some point in the future, when you’ve completed Scarlet, it might be nice if you expanded on the world of Gaia.
Didn’t Eldor get killed when his tower exploded? I thoght when it happened, Lilith froze time to get the soul sphere back, and then teleported everybody out? So why do we see Eldor here in his ‘private room’ getting caught by the Ultima spell? This is a comic, not reality, so these things DO have to be explained properly. When the reader has to think up their own explanations for important things, something is wrong with the storytelling (or with the presentation being too ‘complex’)…
Nobody wrote:
Lilith said she had to let Eldor escape into the Void, because otherwise Sandril would have been lost forever.
@ Nobody:
Just like her friends, Lilith shielded Eldor as well because his body is still Sandril’s. She planned to purge Eldor later and bring Sandril back (which the Ultima spell does).
@ Vicious Sand:
Okay, now I get your Points.
Thx for the explanation!