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The Third Age 013
└ posted on Wednesday, 22 October 2025, by Novil
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It’s a cute scene, and nice to see Sandril alive and getting back to life.
I’m kind of surprised there’s no commentary for this page, though. Between all the too-small-to-read text from Raya, and the significance of Sandril being with someone who isn’t Lilth.
In any case, she does seem very talented.
All the new characters being introduced, as well as once-Eldor-possessed Sandril acting odd would have all been story hooks for Gaia 2. We don’t hear about Novil’s feelings about Gaia in the Author’s Notes, but I hope he wasn’t feeling too constrained or Writer’s Blocked. (He went and started Scarlet instead, after all.)
Novil said that the plot of Gaia stems from an RPG campaign. It has a beginning and the end; we have reached the end. The new characters are audience surrogates and/or bit characters, and Sandril isn’t acting odd at all.
It is sad to say goodbye to the characters, but with Lilith powerful enough to alter significant parts of the cosmos, a hypothetical Gaia 2 would be either some kind of low stakes slice-of-life stuff where she would consider it beneath her to just snap her fingers and solve everything, a more dramatic sequel where she would turn evil somehow and would need to be defeated in a similar manner as Eldor has been just now (only more so, with even harder-to-comprehend plotlines), or a distant future about the beginning of the Fourth Age with completely new characters, the present cast being long dead. Or maybe a prequel.
All things considered, I don’t mind leaving this universe to see a new one.
I wouldn’t have minded that slice of life continuation.
The world is in upheaval. There’s a worldwide queen in peacetime: never a stable situation. A lot of the world’s common enemies (Bhaal, red magic, even the void as a concept) are no longer. The world itself is different. How will everyone adapt? How will the inherent instability of a new world settle down?
I would’ve loved to read through that. But the audience for it is probably much smaller, and it would’ve definitely been a shorter comic.
@ Icarus:
There’s another option. One where someone (from outside the Gaia “universe”) comes along and widens the scope of their entire world. AFAIK, the current scope of the Gaia universe is that there’s only the one planet, and a certain small amount of air filled void surrounding it, which makes that universe astonishingly small in overall scope. We could have a twist beginning where we find out that the entirety of the Gaia world is a pocket dimension inside a larger one, and when someone breaks through the “pocket”, it plunges Gaia in the middle of a huge galaxy, or universe, with all the ramifications that brings for the inhabitants of the planet.
Icarus wrote:
I thought it was the plot from a proposed computer game, not an RPG campaign.
Icarus wrote:
She has raw power, but not the finesse. There are all kind of problems she wouldn’t be able to solve so easily.