Comic for Monday, June 28th, 2021
It’s not that Mium wanted to step on him. He was just in the way of Mium’s foot, you see.
Eliana isn’t quite correct, though not entirely incorrect. Red constructs cannot be concealed to Eidos, as they are “too real”. Even Kally cannot hide dragon in Eidos directly, she has to write it directly into reality, though how quickly she can summon it is generally unnatural for a complicated red construct like that. Even for people that can conceal other kinds of constructs (Malsan’s tend to call constructs spirits… if there’s a different between the two… I cannot answer that here…) cannot conceal red constructs though. Eliana was likely only taught to summon red constructs (generally massive ones somewhat beyond her power) somewhat on purpose – a weapon that is most effective on external foes in large battlefields. But the art of manipulating spirits in Eidos is something mostly master by Saldur’s family, though there are other people that can do it.
However, I just said red constructs cannot be hidden in Eidos, but Eliana hide this one… that has something to do with the thing she’s holding. Eliana takes awhile to summon a spirit like this one, but this one was already summoned, and why Mium was ensuring she didn’t use her power until now to keep it hidden.
More about what they are doing and what that spirit is will become clear next page though, so I won’t talk about it too much here… They have a reason for wanting to limit the amount of time Saldur and his keen eyes can study the spirit.
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I am sure Daelia will be fine, mage family heads and their equivalents are insanely durable. She only got thrown through a wall or two and possibly thrown out of a tall building. The problem is that it gives her the chance to break contact and escape. If she realizes that and dose not try to renter the fight.
Mium has two prisoners so that should not be a problem. Salder is totally screwed he might have had a chance against Eliana or Ila but certainly not bouth. We probably wont know if Daelia escaped or even lived for many more pages because Past has a tendency to skip the clean up phase of battles.
Eliana used an autocaster to store some of the variables use in the summoning.I wonder if she obtained it and learned how to use it on her own or if Mium supplied it and/or instruction on how to use it.
In panels 4-5-6, the person beneath Mium’s foot might be the white haired mage. It is not Shemoki as pointed out earlier. This white haired guy has a beard and Shemoki did not. Anyone have a clue who the white haired guy is?
Someone help me out here. Camilla is a family heir, right? Arkady is attractive at least in past because he is a main family mage, but not a family heir and so is allowed to marry outside of the family. But Camilla and Arkady are engaged?
Am I missing something here?
I suspect Naomi misspoke a bit. This stuff is not her forte, after all …
I expect the reality is that not being a family heir means he doesn’t need to marry whom his family arranges for him to marry – which would typically be someone from a family his own family seeks to establish or strengthen an alliance with, and not usually someone within the same family, as Naomi seems to say. Particularly since even the families don’t do that sibling marriage stuff.
Or maybe the Ardunni and Canth families are just two branches of the same family. 😉
… afterthought … or maybe Camilla can marry more freely because she’s no longer the family *heir*, but rather the family *head*? No one to tell her she can’t marry Arkady …
Pretty sure what it means is that Arkady can “leave” his family and join Camilla’s family. If he was the heir to his family, he couldn’t do that. They are like old time nobles.
Basically Arkady would get Camilla’s last name if they married, and join her family, leaving his own (thus out of his family). They are sort of like clans.
I think you’re right. I went back to look, and Naomi speaks of marrying “out of his family”, not “outside of the family”, presumably with exactly the distinction you present here.
Naomi’s wording hereby considered redeemed. Thanks.
Camilla isn’t marrying out of her family. Arkady is marrying into hers. Marrying out of a family doesn’t just mean marrying someone not in your family, it would mean leaving your family and going to the new family. It’s a very old fashioned sort of thing, but the families are sort of like old fashioned nobles (sorry if this is a double reply, lost a comment somehow).
Panel 1 needs another “e” — “breathe more”
Tefzarin got one thing wrong, and it was something they made clear from the start. This team came for Saldur, and was ready for him. And its hilarious for him to keep failing to notice the fact until beats his skull in.
As for how to sneak a red construct into a place, how flexible/compressable are they?
Seems like a trick Kally will need to learn so she destroys less buildings (last time she just summoned Fluffy on the floor below and had him burst up through the roof it seems).
Ironically, this spirit beast looks fluffier than Fluffy…
It looks kind of like a red pit bull. Will it tell Fluffy what gold constructs taste like?
Crunchy, need ketchup?
Fluffy tried a crunchy gold and said it tasted like chicken. Fluffy has a more refined taste than the red pit bull and thinks golds would be best served with a lemon pepper garlic rub coating.
PS- Yes, I’m bored. Please everyone stay safe and don’t lose any fingers to fireworks this weekend.
There is missing dialogue in three places.
Panel 1: “WHO-WHAT-! URK! ARE YOU!” Creepy child’s voice replies: “For he is the Kwisatz Haderach!” Oops! Sorry, wrong universe. Just shows again these Rogue Families idiots are clueless, especially about Mium the Mighty. Mium de-rezzes Tefzarin’s gold construct and stands there relaxed with hand in pocket while holding Tefzarin by the throat.
Panels 2 & 3 We miss seeing ILA’s punch that sends Daelia into or through a wall. Yup, ILA went full Naomi. Missing dialogue: ILA: “Take your stinking paws off me you damn dirty ape!” Oops! Wrong universe yet again.
Last 2 panels where Aliana’s red construct devours Saldur’s gold construct: “I think you’re going to need a bigger boat” Oops! Wrong universe again. The student has surpassed the teacher.
In all three conflicts, ILA’s June 14 strip prediction “I think we found stupid ones again” turns out to be true. Arrogance, ignorance and stupidity seems to be the standard for the Rogue Families. Two Rogue Family heads killed or soon to be killed and zero good guys killed.
Credits for imaginary dialogue to Dune, Planet of the Apes and Jaws.
Last two panels where Eliana’s red consruct devours Saldur’s gold construct: “You’re gonna need a bigger boat”. Oops! Wrong universe again!
Okay, who slipped drugs into my coffee? LOL!
Panel 4 Says you, as you stand on one of their corpses.
Is this a three headed snake?
Or three one headed snakes?
Either way, looks like they lost.. .even with the element of surprise.
I perceived it to be the heads of a hydra, but I don’t have a compelling logic for it.
My first thoughts were that it is was one snake trying to decide who to eat first.
But that was silly.
Poor snakey. Alas, we have only known you for like two scenes.
So the red construct gets the ability to use poison magic if it eats the hydra? 😀
That makes sense to me!
I see it as a hydra also, with one of each of its heads first shown as it appears to attack and then as each head is defeated.
Do rather wish we had seen Ila’s riposte to Daelia.
Wish we had seen the Daelia vs ILA battle also. Consulted a Ouija board and here’s the result:
In another universe, Grande Archivist UtopiaPast illustrates the battle between ILA and Daelia. ILA’s retort to Daelia is “Don’t bring a fist to a scarf fight”. Daelia grabbed ILA’s scarf then ILA’s scarf wraps around Daelia’s arm and flings Daelia through a wall with extreme speed and force. Panel 2 shows Daelia’s body impacting the wall at a very high speed. Panel 3 shows a pile of rubble with pieces of Delia’s lifeless body. Mium’s dialogue in panel 3 is the same as in this universe.
> even with the element of surprise.
Mium knew what was coming. There was no element of surprise. I think that’s what he meant by “Surely you can see them”.
For Mium, “element of surprise” is something that only happens to other people…
Isn’t “the element of surprise” pink[y pie] constructs?
There is only allowed to be one at a time now, after… “the incident”
Typo in panel 4. Should be “Says you as you stand ON one of their corpses.” (Correction in all-caps.)
Optional for flow, add a comma after the first “you.”
Fixed, thanks 🙂