So Erin gets himself imprisoned by the paladins and meets Crucible in the mage cell and everyone else has to bust them out. Great plan Icarus great plan.
It will be interesting to have a character that wasn’t directly brought into the group by Kendal, and with Erin’s investment in personal autonomy and Crucibles belief in his own lack of personal autonomy there should be some interesting conversations.
So… who here thinks “Michael”‘s (paladin dude from the Chapter 7 interlude) arrival just got accelerated?
Also, why would the Paladins archive their records in Zuurith of all places? I know they have to store them SOMEWHERE, but why there?
I don’t think the size of the city correlates to the strength of its god; the city of Vash was pretty small as far as cities go, yet Vash himself was an absolute tank; meanwhile, the city of Asera sounds pretty enormous, while Asera themself is looking to be lacking in battle prowess.
Based on what we know, the strength of gods seems to be directly influenced by perceptions of people. Gleicann got scary because people thought his forest was scary, Vash seems to be powerful and tanky because people see his city as naturally defensible, and he protects everyone because his city protects everyone, or at least until the chimeras came.
This “cult” is sounding a lot like a religion, and that’s making me a bit nervous. I hope Red plays this well.
Also, I love the detail that in this world, people believing in something will eventually be enough to actually bring that thing to life in the form of a god. I guess it basically means that gods are embodiments of collectively-imagined personifications humans have attached to concepts? Wait, hmm, but what about the original six gods and the Void Dragon and stuff? Okay, now I’m confused, does anyone know how creation of gods works in this world?
The Primordials and the Void Dragon are distinct from the gods in Aurora in that ALL gods (nature spirits, city/ethnic gods, and conceptual gods) are all vast self-sustaining soul lattices bound to some domain (See: “Gods and Sentinels” and “Vash’s Sword” in the Extra Lore).
The Primordials on the other hand are physical embodiments of some concept, whose bodies are the physical building blocks of everything on the planet. (See: “The Six Primordials”, “The Seventh Element” and “Magic” in the Extra Lore) Moreover, the Primordials and Voidy all predate the gods of Aurora.
Addendum: And yes, the gods (barring the Twins, they’re a special case) all sprung up from collective anthropomorphization of concepts, societies and nature.
I share your uneasiness Architect, having the smart guy imply religions are “delusions” (if their god doesn’t have an incarnation in this universe) sounds a bit uncomfortable, even if the audience knows the smart guy is probably wrong.
I wouldn’t say a dick, but yeah, c’mon Erin. Do better. (Although, tbf, there’s probably a ways to go for this comic. There’s plenty of room for character development.)
On a separate note, I would love to see how Erin and Glowy Paladin Guy will interact when they meet.
Basically, Erin’s implying that people shouldn’t follow religions because religions aren’t grounded in scientific fact. My opinion is that as long as they hurt no one else in service of their beliefs, let people follow whatever religions (or lack thereof) they want.
Ahhhhhh. See, THAT I can get on board with. Erin even says that this cult does genuinely good work, so there’s no problem. In fact, I’d love to see Red expand on any sort of religious persecution or lack thereof for this cult. But it is Erin’s nature to seek out facts and separate them from superstition and speculation—I mean, just look at his expedition into the Storm—so I understand his mild contempt for the cult from a perspective of the character.
The interesting thing is that in this world, there are gods that clearly exist and are worshipped. Believing in a god that doesn’t have evidence when there are gods that clearly exist is different than believing in a god or gods in our world.
It’s less an atheist getting mad at a religious person than a temple era Jew getting mad at an early Christian. From their perspective god clearly exists, but the deification of Jesus is ludicrous. (That is not not to say that Christianity or any religion lacks legitimacy, it’s just an analogy.)
No, I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. This cult is rooted in an Ancient belief system, not just a belief system that is ancient, but a belief system of the Ancients. No-one worships the Primordials or Voidragon or ‘The Other’ in this world anymore; they’re just mythology to most people, not real gods. It’s more like a modern-day Christian getting mad at a group who worship the Mesopotamian gods, which may be viewed as being less real than the Christian God since the religion itself has died out and fossilised into mythology. Despite this, it’s just as legitimate and valid as any religion.
The issue lies more with Erin saying it’s silly for that god to exist when it’s reasonable in the context of all these other gods that they regularly interact with.
It doesn’t really have any direct real-world analogue since gods ARE a part of this world’s science, but this feels more like the divine equivalent of a doctor who subscribes to the miasma school of disease theory suddenly being confronted with compelling evidence that maybe germs really do exist, when up until this point he’d been dismissing it as some pseudoscienctific crackpot theory.
Imagine finding out bigfoot was real, only invisible and giving everyone cholera. That’s how it would feel to realize the germ theory of disease was correct, and probably how it feels to learn the twin dragon cult was correct.
I may have to ask this on the Tumblr, but now I am curious if gods exist because people believe in them, or the can exist just because and also can be created by people’s believes.
It seems that The Six Primordials, Voidragon, and seemingly The Paladins’ Dragon, were always in existence. Then the latter two created the Twins, Gods of Creation, who, as concepts of Creation, might exist necessarily. Then, all the races the Twins made started inventing gods the same way any real-world religion invents a god; by getting enough people to agree on who and what that god is. In Aurora, this collective thought system becomes inhabited by a certain mass of ‘soul energy’ (see Extra Lore pages) and the god becomes truly, tangibly real.
If this trip to Zuurith does go south I think the party are well within their rights to tell the academy about this, and Erin’s other goofs.
That’s some Discworld and/or Warhammer 40k Ork logic right there. Though thinking about it this method of creating a god is in line with what we know about how gods function in this universe and does seem to be a potential consequence of that.
Why keep their records in Zuurith though? I guess if the paladin’s don’t break the laws and keep their interference to just monster hunting there’s no reason for them not to. Maybe with Zuurith’s reputation and their cult behaviour it ties into a “he who fights monsters” metaphor or something similar.
Maybe the solution, or at least a countermeasure, is for Erin to get a white dragon tattoo so when V.D. tries to gain control W.D. can fight him from the inside (and watching Erin during this would probably look super funny for an outside observer).
… Wait a moment, the paladin’s dragon is white, and is show here to have blue eyes … is it too late to change the nickname of the champion paladin to Kaiba?
On the records question: it was answered on Tumblr. Boils down to the Paladins providing additional manpower to Zuurith’s law enforcement (though not under his direct supervision), and in exchange he lets them store the archives in the city.
Getting a tattoo for The Light Dragon, and therefore giving them as much control over Erin as The Void Dragon, would be really interesting, with Erin being a dual avatar and technically the first wielder of eight elements.
“They could have been wrong for so long and so fervently that they created evidence of being right!”
Or they could have, ya know, possibly, maybe, been right the whole time and you just didn’t want to believe it? And, naturally, if evidence shows up that the light dragon actually has been there the whole time, you could just conveniently claim that evidence was just spontaneously created, and nobody would be able to prove you wrong? So convenient to have your own counter argument ready and prepared before evidence arrives.
Funny how people can cling to contrarian beliefs in the face of irrefutable proof.
And considering the fact that The Void Dragon mentioned an “Other” who awoke the wills of mortals, before any of those mortals even had an idea to form a religion; plus the fact that the voice from the chapter 7 interlude told their champion, “Our battle has raged since the birth of your species,” that makes for some pretty compelling evidence that The Light Dragon has been there the whole time, and some of that evidence was even directly told to Erin, albeit in a cryptic manner.
I’ll do you one better: in the very second page of this comic (here: https://comicaurora.com/aurora/0-0-2/ ), what seems to be the first Elemental Magus is created, and Voidragon takes control, as indicated by the black-and-gold eyes. Immediately, a white light appears, and the Magus’ glow white, forcing Voidragon out. We might have seen The Other right from the start.
Honestly, it really does appear like whatever Voidy’s opposite was, it was every bit as out of the picture as Voidy himself was.
So in a world where belief can legitimately affect the world, them basically inadvertently building themselves a replacement goldfish for the Other that is gone would seem very plausible.
I’d say that the idea of god’s deriving themselves from the belief’s of mortals isn’t very far fetched, as we have already seen how Tynan got strength from fear, and how that one forest deity (how the frick did I forget his name and why is it so hard to find…) changed appearance by people’s perception of the forest. It also implies a somewhat weird symbiosis: Though gods have much power over mortals, mortals have some power over gods (very very slightly).
I’m going to skip past the religion commentary and instead focus on the fact that, why does Erin in panel 3 look like a Hamilton animatic? Seriously, take away the color and add slightly different hair and it looks straight out of Szin or something
Not that I support Erin’s disrespect, but the creator did functionally confirm Erin’s stance on Tumblr a month or so ago (so sorry I cant find the link, if I do, I’ll comment it here
Hmm not quite, this dragon is slightly blue and seemed to be possessed when he spoke. I would think the white dragon is the voice talking to the young monster-slayer? https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-7-33/
I think Cesium was referring to the voice coming from the dragon. It used the same font as the voice talking to Mike, so that could be the messenger mentioned.
This really makes me want to see some religion or other massive social engineering project designed to create a god based around the beliefs and concepts of said religion or a god seeking to change by changing it’s perception among the mortal population.
That.. actually sounds like a really cool idea for a more urban fantasy setting. Like, having someone propaganda their way into making a god that serves them/their cause, and then it backfiring spectacularly somehow.
I believe there is at least one Greek myth where a dude pretended to be Zeus and ordered sacrifices be made to him, before Zeus himself came down from the clouds to personally kill him (and demolish the city I think)
It wasn’t so much about immortality as it was about praise, sacrifices, worship, et cetera. Honestly, it was more than a bit dumb to pretend to be an extremely powerful and volatile god and expect no repercussions.
Judging by the name, he could’ve also been turned into a fish instead of killed. It’s a fairly common theme in Greek mythology for plants or animals to be named after people who got turned into them, like Minthe, Narcissus, Hyacinthus, and Arachne.
And you’re just gonna walk into their house with a big ass tattoo of their greatest nemesis on your chest, let alone the fact that it’s actually THE REAL THING?
You know, thinking about it, I wonder if the Black Dragon is manipulating him and he doesn’t even know it. We’re used to seeing gods as literal voices in heads, but this might be more subtle.
So, was I the only one that figured out that the young monster slayer with white hair and those cool eyes that KINDA look like Erin’s eyes when he was under the black dragon’s control KINDA looks like the person in the 0.1.2 comic??? Like…… this is not just me right???
I’m officially convinced now that no one’s happy to be here. Erin probably could’ve discussed this with the others earlier though, it doesn’t seem fair to do otherwise under the circumstances.
Hi Red! Just here to do another little proofreader thingy—Erin says the word “idealogical” in panel 5, but the precise spelling is slightly different! It’s “ideological”. Just one letter difference.
this part reminded me that I care enough about this story to actually read the Cool Lore Dump baked into the site, which (I think?) Erin wrote? very cool stuff
Red’s comment got me visualizing about an evil fanon version of Erin, and what his AmethystDragonSatan cult might actually look like. It’d be very well-laid out and organized, and would probably be extremely hard to get people out of, seeing as how the cult would actually value them as individuals.
erin… ERIN… what are you TALKING ABOUT… YOU ARE CURRENTLY POSSESSED BY VOIDY RIGHT THIS SECOND AND KNOW IT’S REAL… IT TALKS THROUGH YOUR MOUTH… IS IT SO MUCH OF A LEAP TO PRESUME IT HAS A SIBLING… voidy is LITERALLY real erin CANNOT play denialism about this LMAOO maybe he’s only denying it in front of falst because he still hasn’t explained his whole warlock business.
Is this a jab at something in our world? ?
Ikr? I feel like this entire concept is just Red’s distilled bitterness over unreliable historical records.
More like Erin’s insensitivity at something that doesn’t fit his worldview, as people have discussed down below.
Anyone else remembering the time-travelling-goat-fish?
the what
CONTEXT PLEASE
Watch Red’s video on the Zodiac.
Erin’s faces, are once again, a giant mood
Oh, white dragon cute X3
This is hilarous: “Your faith needs more facts!” ^^’
In a world where gods are an objective reality, it’s commonsense
Erin’s like- okay I kinda jumped over this
Erin’s big Uh-oh moment
Not what I was expecting, but still a cool plot point!
So Erin gets himself imprisoned by the paladins and meets Crucible in the mage cell and everyone else has to bust them out. Great plan Icarus great plan.
It will be interesting to have a character that wasn’t directly brought into the group by Kendal, and with Erin’s investment in personal autonomy and Crucibles belief in his own lack of personal autonomy there should be some interesting conversations.
So… who here thinks “Michael”‘s (paladin dude from the Chapter 7 interlude) arrival just got accelerated?
Also, why would the Paladins archive their records in Zuurith of all places? I know they have to store them SOMEWHERE, but why there?
Maybe Zuurith is the safest place from external threats? Zuurith as a city seems huge, so the god must be at least as strong as Vash.
I don’t think the size of the city correlates to the strength of its god; the city of Vash was pretty small as far as cities go, yet Vash himself was an absolute tank; meanwhile, the city of Asera sounds pretty enormous, while Asera themself is looking to be lacking in battle prowess.
Based on what we know, the strength of gods seems to be directly influenced by perceptions of people. Gleicann got scary because people thought his forest was scary, Vash seems to be powerful and tanky because people see his city as naturally defensible, and he protects everyone because his city protects everyone, or at least until the chimeras came.
Well, a ruthless tyrant like Zuurith is probably pretty strong then.
Erin’s Face in the first panel.
Need I say more?
My favorite was actually the third panel
A white dragon and paladins? Do I sense a forshadow for the moment the gang will finally meet that winged paladin dude from 1.7.31?
This “cult” is sounding a lot like a religion, and that’s making me a bit nervous. I hope Red plays this well.
Also, I love the detail that in this world, people believing in something will eventually be enough to actually bring that thing to life in the form of a god. I guess it basically means that gods are embodiments of collectively-imagined personifications humans have attached to concepts? Wait, hmm, but what about the original six gods and the Void Dragon and stuff? Okay, now I’m confused, does anyone know how creation of gods works in this world?
The Primordials and the Void Dragon are distinct from the gods in Aurora in that ALL gods (nature spirits, city/ethnic gods, and conceptual gods) are all vast self-sustaining soul lattices bound to some domain (See: “Gods and Sentinels” and “Vash’s Sword” in the Extra Lore).
The Primordials on the other hand are physical embodiments of some concept, whose bodies are the physical building blocks of everything on the planet. (See: “The Six Primordials”, “The Seventh Element” and “Magic” in the Extra Lore) Moreover, the Primordials and Voidy all predate the gods of Aurora.
Addendum: And yes, the gods (barring the Twins, they’re a special case) all sprung up from collective anthropomorphization of concepts, societies and nature.
I share your uneasiness Architect, having the smart guy imply religions are “delusions” (if their god doesn’t have an incarnation in this universe) sounds a bit uncomfortable, even if the audience knows the smart guy is probably wrong.
*a bit insensitive
Maybe it’s the ‘angry atheist’ in me, but I don’t see the problem. Would you care to elaborate?
I mean, I’m also an atheist and I still think Erin’s being a dick.
I wouldn’t say a dick, but yeah, c’mon Erin. Do better. (Although, tbf, there’s probably a ways to go for this comic. There’s plenty of room for character development.)
On a separate note, I would love to see how Erin and Glowy Paladin Guy will interact when they meet.
Basically, Erin’s implying that people shouldn’t follow religions because religions aren’t grounded in scientific fact. My opinion is that as long as they hurt no one else in service of their beliefs, let people follow whatever religions (or lack thereof) they want.
Ahhhhhh. See, THAT I can get on board with. Erin even says that this cult does genuinely good work, so there’s no problem. In fact, I’d love to see Red expand on any sort of religious persecution or lack thereof for this cult. But it is Erin’s nature to seek out facts and separate them from superstition and speculation—I mean, just look at his expedition into the Storm—so I understand his mild contempt for the cult from a perspective of the character.
The interesting thing is that in this world, there are gods that clearly exist and are worshipped. Believing in a god that doesn’t have evidence when there are gods that clearly exist is different than believing in a god or gods in our world.
It’s less an atheist getting mad at a religious person than a temple era Jew getting mad at an early Christian. From their perspective god clearly exists, but the deification of Jesus is ludicrous. (That is not not to say that Christianity or any religion lacks legitimacy, it’s just an analogy.)
No, I think it’s a bit more nuanced than that. This cult is rooted in an Ancient belief system, not just a belief system that is ancient, but a belief system of the Ancients. No-one worships the Primordials or Voidragon or ‘The Other’ in this world anymore; they’re just mythology to most people, not real gods. It’s more like a modern-day Christian getting mad at a group who worship the Mesopotamian gods, which may be viewed as being less real than the Christian God since the religion itself has died out and fossilised into mythology. Despite this, it’s just as legitimate and valid as any religion.
The issue lies more with Erin saying it’s silly for that god to exist when it’s reasonable in the context of all these other gods that they regularly interact with.
It doesn’t really have any direct real-world analogue since gods ARE a part of this world’s science, but this feels more like the divine equivalent of a doctor who subscribes to the miasma school of disease theory suddenly being confronted with compelling evidence that maybe germs really do exist, when up until this point he’d been dismissing it as some pseudoscienctific crackpot theory.
Imagine finding out bigfoot was real, only invisible and giving everyone cholera. That’s how it would feel to realize the germ theory of disease was correct, and probably how it feels to learn the twin dragon cult was correct.
I may have to ask this on the Tumblr, but now I am curious if gods exist because people believe in them, or the can exist just because and also can be created by people’s believes.
It seems that The Six Primordials, Voidragon, and seemingly The Paladins’ Dragon, were always in existence. Then the latter two created the Twins, Gods of Creation, who, as concepts of Creation, might exist necessarily. Then, all the races the Twins made started inventing gods the same way any real-world religion invents a god; by getting enough people to agree on who and what that god is. In Aurora, this collective thought system becomes inhabited by a certain mass of ‘soul energy’ (see Extra Lore pages) and the god becomes truly, tangibly real.
If this trip to Zuurith does go south I think the party are well within their rights to tell the academy about this, and Erin’s other goofs.
That’s some Discworld and/or Warhammer 40k Ork logic right there. Though thinking about it this method of creating a god is in line with what we know about how gods function in this universe and does seem to be a potential consequence of that.
Why keep their records in Zuurith though? I guess if the paladin’s don’t break the laws and keep their interference to just monster hunting there’s no reason for them not to. Maybe with Zuurith’s reputation and their cult behaviour it ties into a “he who fights monsters” metaphor or something similar.
Maybe the solution, or at least a countermeasure, is for Erin to get a white dragon tattoo so when V.D. tries to gain control W.D. can fight him from the inside (and watching Erin during this would probably look super funny for an outside observer).
… Wait a moment, the paladin’s dragon is white, and is show here to have blue eyes … is it too late to change the nickname of the champion paladin to Kaiba?
On the records question: it was answered on Tumblr. Boils down to the Paladins providing additional manpower to Zuurith’s law enforcement (though not under his direct supervision), and in exchange he lets them store the archives in the city.
And I think “Michael” stuck way quicker. 😛
I call him The Champion, which unfortunately now causes some confusion thanks to Caliban also having a champion.
It’s Archangel Floof for me. But hey: they can have as many names as they like, right?
Michael is an archangel, and also a reference to that time someone decided Red should curse all of us with that Stranger in a Strange Land video.
Nice! Still sticking with Archangel Floof tho.
Oh, I am 100% calling him Kaiba now
Getting a tattoo for The Light Dragon, and therefore giving them as much control over Erin as The Void Dragon, would be really interesting, with Erin being a dual avatar and technically the first wielder of eight elements.
I am a slight disappoint with Erin. His arrogance *can* be cute, but right now it’s just annoying and makes him sound like a dick.
“They could have been wrong for so long and so fervently that they created evidence of being right!”
Or they could have, ya know, possibly, maybe, been right the whole time and you just didn’t want to believe it? And, naturally, if evidence shows up that the light dragon actually has been there the whole time, you could just conveniently claim that evidence was just spontaneously created, and nobody would be able to prove you wrong? So convenient to have your own counter argument ready and prepared before evidence arrives.
Funny how people can cling to contrarian beliefs in the face of irrefutable proof.
And considering the fact that The Void Dragon mentioned an “Other” who awoke the wills of mortals, before any of those mortals even had an idea to form a religion; plus the fact that the voice from the chapter 7 interlude told their champion, “Our battle has raged since the birth of your species,” that makes for some pretty compelling evidence that The Light Dragon has been there the whole time, and some of that evidence was even directly told to Erin, albeit in a cryptic manner.
I’ll do you one better: in the very second page of this comic (here: https://comicaurora.com/aurora/0-0-2/ ), what seems to be the first Elemental Magus is created, and Voidragon takes control, as indicated by the black-and-gold eyes. Immediately, a white light appears, and the Magus’ glow white, forcing Voidragon out. We might have seen The Other right from the start.
Sorry, here: https://comicaurora.com/aurora/0-1-2/
Honestly, it really does appear like whatever Voidy’s opposite was, it was every bit as out of the picture as Voidy himself was.
So in a world where belief can legitimately affect the world, them basically inadvertently building themselves a replacement goldfish for the Other that is gone would seem very plausible.
I’d say that the idea of god’s deriving themselves from the belief’s of mortals isn’t very far fetched, as we have already seen how Tynan got strength from fear, and how that one forest deity (how the frick did I forget his name and why is it so hard to find…) changed appearance by people’s perception of the forest. It also implies a somewhat weird symbiosis: Though gods have much power over mortals, mortals have some power over gods (very very slightly).
Gleicann is who you’re thinking of.
I love how this universe works like the Warhammer 40K orcs. Red ‘uns go fastah!
I’m going to skip past the religion commentary and instead focus on the fact that, why does Erin in panel 3 look like a Hamilton animatic? Seriously, take away the color and add slightly different hair and it looks straight out of Szin or something
Oh, that’s why that expression looked weirdly familiar! Also, hello fellow szin fan
I see it too!
Not that I support Erin’s disrespect, but the creator did functionally confirm Erin’s stance on Tumblr a month or so ago (so sorry I cant find the link, if I do, I’ll comment it here
Erin: Day one, I have accidently joined a cult, keep posted for further notice
Erin day two: I may be accidentally said leader of the cult
Day three: they found out about the possession thing. Now enemy #1 of the cult
Day four: Turns out I’m both Enemy #1 and the leader of said cult simultaneously, still trying to figure out exactly how that happened
Day five: Okay now I’m just Enemy #1 without the leader part
Day 6: cult accidentally set off the Void Dragon, who destroyed the city.
…Dad’s going to be mad :0
TL;DR: Mr. Hubris: I’m desperate, okay?
Mr. Hubris, cont.: And it’s not an emotion I’m used to feeling, all right? Cut me some slack.
Everyone else: It’s fine. Just don’t go running off and joining cults.
https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-6-27/
white dragon?
Hmm not quite, this dragon is slightly blue and seemed to be possessed when he spoke. I would think the white dragon is the voice talking to the young monster-slayer? https://comicaurora.com/aurora/1-7-33/
I think Cesium was referring to the voice coming from the dragon. It used the same font as the voice talking to Mike, so that could be the messenger mentioned.
Ah, I see. Many thanks.
Or has to do with it a least…
then someone points out that everybody also thought that the dark dragon was a myth, and he’s currently being possessed by it
That’s what he said.
This really makes me want to see some religion or other massive social engineering project designed to create a god based around the beliefs and concepts of said religion or a god seeking to change by changing it’s perception among the mortal population.
That.. actually sounds like a really cool idea for a more urban fantasy setting. Like, having someone propaganda their way into making a god that serves them/their cause, and then it backfiring spectacularly somehow.
I believe there is at least one Greek myth where a dude pretended to be Zeus and ordered sacrifices be made to him, before Zeus himself came down from the clouds to personally kill him (and demolish the city I think)
[one google search later]
king Salmoneus
Wasn’t he Sisyphus’s brother
It would seem that attempting to find immortality runs in the family
It wasn’t so much about immortality as it was about praise, sacrifices, worship, et cetera. Honestly, it was more than a bit dumb to pretend to be an extremely powerful and volatile god and expect no repercussions.
Judging by the name, he could’ve also been turned into a fish instead of killed. It’s a fairly common theme in Greek mythology for plants or animals to be named after people who got turned into them, like Minthe, Narcissus, Hyacinthus, and Arachne.
Sounds like the Egyptian strategy with Akhenaten and Aten, or the Roman strategy with Sol Invictus.
Whenever Red draws The Void and Light Dragons all noodly like that, I can’t help but think they’re adorable.
FOOL
I AM NO MERE NOODLE
I AM
THE MOST DANGEROUS DANGER NOODLE
And you’re just gonna walk into their house with a big ass tattoo of their greatest nemesis on your chest, let alone the fact that it’s actually THE REAL THING?
You know, thinking about it, I wonder if the Black Dragon is manipulating him and he doesn’t even know it. We’re used to seeing gods as literal voices in heads, but this might be more subtle.
I love Erin’s face and gestures in the first three panels XDDD
Sounds interesting
Hmmmm y’know Erin I think that maybe walking up to a cult with their evil literally stamped on your chest might not be such a good idea
So, was I the only one that figured out that the young monster slayer with white hair and those cool eyes that KINDA look like Erin’s eyes when he was under the black dragon’s control KINDA looks like the person in the 0.1.2 comic??? Like…… this is not just me right???
what if one of the paladins joins the party after erin explains what happened.
I love this entire concept. A world with “scientifically provable gods” and this whole… THING. It’s amazing and hilarious.
Woah, what the hell is up with Erin’s pinky finger in panel 3?
I’m officially convinced now that no one’s happy to be here. Erin probably could’ve discussed this with the others earlier though, it doesn’t seem fair to do otherwise under the circumstances.
Hi Red! Just here to do another little proofreader thingy—Erin says the word “idealogical” in panel 5, but the precise spelling is slightly different! It’s “ideological”. Just one letter difference.
Loving the comic!! 😀
You know it’s gonna be good when there’s a cult!
this part reminded me that I care enough about this story to actually read the Cool Lore Dump baked into the site, which (I think?) Erin wrote? very cool stuff
I love how the letters get smaller when he’s talking fast
Alt text: eh it’s probably nothing
we love fantasy cults
does falst knowwhat a cult is or is he just confused???
Wow. This is the best CrystalDragonJesus I’ve ever seen ♥
Red’s comment got me visualizing about an evil fanon version of Erin, and what his AmethystDragonSatan cult might actually look like. It’d be very well-laid out and organized, and would probably be extremely hard to get people out of, seeing as how the cult would actually value them as individuals.
erin… ERIN… what are you TALKING ABOUT… YOU ARE CURRENTLY POSSESSED BY VOIDY RIGHT THIS SECOND AND KNOW IT’S REAL… IT TALKS THROUGH YOUR MOUTH… IS IT SO MUCH OF A LEAP TO PRESUME IT HAS A SIBLING… voidy is LITERALLY real erin CANNOT play denialism about this LMAOO maybe he’s only denying it in front of falst because he still hasn’t explained his whole warlock business.