1.12.25
on May 21, 2021
at 3:00 am
yes, zuurith absolutely waited for kendal to arrive before incarnating so he could make sure he was tall enough to Loom
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yes, zuurith absolutely waited for kendal to arrive before incarnating so he could make sure he was tall enough to Loom
Oh damn, he’s tall!
Zuurith Lawbringer, Master of Looming
Zuurith Loomaster, Bringer of Law.
At this point, I almost wouldn’t be surprised if Zuurith started T-posing over Kendal.
Looks like purple guy is angry.
and it doesn’t help he’s the man behind the slaughter
I love the alt text.
Oh hey, look, we just uncovered Zuurith’s other purview besides law: unveiled contempt.
Wow, Zuurith. I knew you were a dick, but you keep surpassing my expectations for dickery.
Also, you’re ignoring what Kendal is telling you. Such as how he usually wouldn’t be acting beyond Vash’s explicit control. You’re asking questions and ignoring the answers.
Also, excuse us if we ignore your every opinion on the matter. You’re an idiot.
I think Zuurith was referring to Vash making his body able to heal on its own. The implication being that if you, say, cut Zuurith’s hand off, the stump wouldn’t stop bleeding until he wills it to.
wow, he really IS a dickhead. also Zuurith’s voice in my head sounds deep and arrogant
Kendall just dissecting himself over here
immagine if zuurith had underestimated kendal’s size, and tried to loom over him while being like a foot shorter
Well aren’t YOU a barrel of sunshine. Let’s see you gloat when she imprisons you. (because why should she only go for Vash, especially when she feels she needs a lot of energy?)
You might be onto something. I did a theory a while back that the Collector specifically targeted Vash in order to lure Tynan onto land in order to harvest his soul, him being a rather unique storm god after all.
But maybe instead she’d use Tynan’s rampage to gather other god’s souls. Tynan comes in and causes havoc to a god’s territory; the destruction he causes to their territory weakens said god; after he leaves the Collector comes to take advantage of the god’s state and steals their soul. Repeat.
Vash even, indirectly, gave her the idea to target Zuurith and those suspicious clouds have been hanging around the city a while.
Ah, Zuurith is a pace-back-and-forth-with-arms-behind-back kind of guy. A sure sign of this person is in charge, but discontented.
I’m about 60-70% sure Big Z is trying to goad Kendal into doing something illegal, e.g. get him angry enough to attack his incarnation, so he can imprison him out of spite for Vash.
Interesting point Kendal made, while his body can repair itself like a normal one he needed Alinua’s Chimera Plague fuelled healing to become fully independent. Is this now a permanent change or does he continue to need Alinua’s brand of magic to keep him sustained?
I hate to say it but Zuurith may not be far off the mark. Vash is a city god without a city, even if they rescue him with limited soul degradation and set the souls of the former city free, what then? He can’t get his city god status back, at least not immediately, so he’d have to adapt. Start a new town? Become a god of the hill his city was enveloped in?
I get it we all hate Zuurith. But can we talk about his hair? IT’S. SO. FLOOFY.
It’s how he will get you. With the mighty power of L’Oreal.
*Sometime in the future after Vash is freed and walks up to Zuurith*
Vash: So, I’m dead, huh?!
*cracks knuckles*
Everyone: Wow Zurith sucks.
Me: *sweating* p-please loom over me
TL;DR: I hate that guy so I will criticize him behind his back because I can. Deal with it, freak.
My Zurith seem to really enjoy making himself punchable.
I agree with the alt text, there’s nothing more annoying than someone asking questions and ignoring the answers.
So yeah **** Zurith
Zurith radiates asshole energy.
Zurith…
F you
Zuurith: Vash is too stubborn to admit he’s dead.
XD
Also. Zuurith has FLOOFy hair!!! I know at this point it’s just necessary for a new character to have puffy hair, but still cute
Wow, salt people. Yes, Zurith is displaying Vulcan levels of unsympathetic logic, but so far he isn’t wrong. Vash the city is gone, and a god without his source of power shouldn’t last. He is listening to what Kendal is saying. While he is an extreme version of law, the anti-VD paladins wouldn’t be working with him if he was actually Bad. The story so far is set from the perspective of people who dislike his policies, but as an audience, we should more than character biases.
Not to mention that Kendal showed up wearing the face of a hated enemy and admitted to being in that enemy’s service. Gods smite for a lot less than that. He’s having an in-person conversation with someone he barely considered a person in the first place. I think it’s actually fairly respectful in that way. Absolutely dick move if he was human, or if he was talking to another god, but all things considered I think this is a very tempered response to Kendal existing.
I actually think that, of all the varius city gods, Vash is the one least likely to fade, due to his shear willingness to accept the weird rejects into his domain. I mean, he’s basically starting from square 1, but if I remember the lore right, he built up fairly quickly in the first place (on a godly timescale that is), so he could probably do it again. I mean, once the questing is over, start with Alinua, Falst, and Kendal, gather up other Ferin/not evil godless and start rebuilding. Also, while unlikely, it is possible that some of the citizens of Vash (the city) are still alive trapped in that mound. I mean, 99% of them are probably totally dead, but a lucky few may have survived. Also, Vash’s fame for stopping Tynan is probably enough to keep him existing, even if he becomes a more conceptual god of valor type individual, rather than a city god.
Nah, they’re all dead. And even if they didn’t die immediately, they’re dead now. Most, if not all, were crushed, but any survivors will have bled, dehydrated, suffocated, or starved to death by now (or over the next few in-universe days).
Oooh, that was morbid. Sorry.
True, though I wonder if Vash had any emissaries or citizens abroad at the time of the city’s destruction, having one of them meet up with Kendal could be interesting.
Perhaps it is the soul energy remaining from such individuals that contributed to Kendal’s existence?
I’ve been wondering if bash could become the God of a small godless town like Windcrest. Just because they haven’t formed their own god yet doesn’t mean they won’t be able to support one.
*Vash not bash damn auto correct
I don’t think there’s any proof that the Paladins wouldn’t work with Zuurith if he was bad, remember we don’t know much about them either. They might see him as a necessary evil that allows them to keep their records safe in exchange for helping him enforce his idea of justice. Hell, they might not think it’s any of there business how a city God treats his people so long as he’s not working with an apocalyptic Dark dragon that wants to consume everything in the universe. In short, I get what you mean about waiting to judge, but I think you’ve made a few assumptions of your own as well.
He is being kinda a jerk, but to be fair, one of his greatest rivals just got sucked underground, and now he realizes they were frenemies the whole time
Zuurith: What is a man? A miserable little grotesque parody of mortality!
petition to name Zuurith, Zuurith the Lawful Stupid?
Seconded!
I think what really cements Zuurith as the douche here is the fact that he’s not the first god we’ve seen interact with Kendal. Ilia and Gleicann both treated him with civility, and while Kendal hasn’t met Tahraim yet, we have seen Tahraim talk about him. Frustratingly cryptic, yes, but still clearly assigning a personhood to Kendal that Zuurith seems to be struggling with. It makes Zuurith stand out as the outlier asshole.
Very interested to see the inevitable clash with Tynan, because I have a feeling Tynan’s going to make Zuurith look like a care bear.
Hey it’s ok Kendal, I was an accident too!
You just reminded me of one of my favorite moments in The Dragon Prince; in a flashback, King Harrow explains to his wife that he wanted to create a society that gave everyone the ability to lead a good life. To paraphrase, he wanted to be sure that, no matter if he had been born a prince or a peasant, able-bodied or permanently injured, “no matter the accident of my birth”, he could be happy with the hand he’d been dealt in life.
Kendal may be an accident, but he deserves a good life all the same. Something that Big Z here doesn’t seem to fully grasp.
God, I love the Dragon Prince.
Meee too!!!!!! Callum’s my favorite, it’s kinda how much I can relate to him.
Amaya is my favourite. My sister once noted that my favourite characters seem to be “badass women who could definitely beat me up”. She raised me to be feminist like that I guess.
knvjkdsfjkfadsj Dragon Prince yes!!!!! Amaya is also my fave!
Eyyy me too!
*Virtual high-five
*Virtual high-five*
Well, that seems to be just a little pessimistic.
Zuurith just casually calls Kendal an accident.
“…he’s right, you know”
i was like ….oof he went there
Whatever everyone says, I like Zuurith
But that gives him no right to insult Kendal
I am the exact opposite.
I don’t like Zuurith, but I can’t really disagree with anything he says here.
How funny XD
Shall we agree to disagree?
Oh, absolutely.
it pisses me off when people talk about kendal like that >:(( his sense of self worth is bad enough already
I really like how well this explores Kendal’s character, or more how he expresses his anger.
We’ve seen Kendal get angry in the past, Alinua was one to recognise it. Angry Kendal and Desperate Kendal are two very different modes and i think we see it well here and during his fight with the giant Chimera right before we met Falst. Kendal is incredibly good at being reasonable, even when he is angry. He’s angry, but he’s focused, and he doesn’t let it control him he just acknowledges it and focuses on what he needs to do in the moment. In his interactions with Zuurith here, i think it’s clear he doesn’t like him, but he doesn’t really outwardly present hate (no matter how dickish Zuurith is). He doesn’t throw insults, doesn’t really glare or yell or anything really, but he’ss clipped. He’s to the point, and the says only what he needs to and it’s clear that the same warmth he treats his friends and the other gods with is just not there.
It’s like this careful, controlled and mitigated form of anger, the kind of anger that says ‘I don’t like you, but I’m still going to try and be reasonable’ and i just… really appreciate how well Red communicates that. and how well it subtly shows Kendal’s character
or maybe i’m just reading too much into this and completely wrong and Kendal is going to scream at Zuurith on the next page and try to fight him. Night’s still young
God i’m just holding my breath here waiting for the next page.
I wouldn’t call it anger, exactly. There’s no passion, just a deep-seated dislike. Otherwise, I have to agree; Kendal’s attitude is not-so-subtly different here. This conversation is procedural, as if he’s just trying to get through it without being arrested or punching Zuurith. I guess that makes sense for a meeting with a god of law and order.
Grotesque parodies of mortality…. like speaking out your ass regarding topics you aren’t properly informed about to have any worthwhile opinion on huh?
You know, he may have an odd way of expressing it, but I get the impression that Zuurith, Mr. “I am obsessed with law and order,” is concerned about the possibility of something as random and chaotic as his own manifestations suddenly running around the way Kendal is. Seems like the sort of thing that would freak him out, and so he wants to be sure this isn’t something that can happen again (and especially not to his own manifestations!)
I dunno about you guys, but in my head, Zuurith sounds like Imperius from Diablo 3
You know, I think Zuurith Dickbag here might actually have a point. We know that gods in this setting are attached to and dependent on the thing they’re the god of as well as the belief of mortals. Vash the crater and Vash the city no longer exist and all the people that lived in Vash are dead. So, if they did free him from containment…would Vash just fall apart? Die?
Would establishing a New Vash near the hill where his city was work? Or would it create a new god?
Even if it would work and Alinua and Erin used their magic to build up a nice city core out of trees and rocks, could they actually convince a bunch of people to move there?
Lots of questions that I suspect we’ll get a few answers to on Monday.
“I will never understand gods who willingly craft and inhabit bodies that act beyond their direct and implicit control.
The grotesque parody of mortality is entirely unnecessay.”
As much as I hate this guy. In fairness, he could be talking about *other* gods. Instead of not listening to what Kendal is saying.
Still a massive dick though…
Zuurith really be like “Please allow me to be disgusted and immediately dismiss everything and everyone I do not understand, as I have no time for such trivial things as ‘basic empathy’ and ‘open minded consideration and acknowledgment of ideals that may not entirely align with my own'”.
Can’t decide what this can be an allegory for other than all, all is good.
As an ace person, i felt this in relation to how the people close to me reacted to my sexuality (or really just lack thereof), but i can absolutely see how this applies to literally every kind of discrimination out there. It’s largely based on wilful ignorance and a genuine lack of understanding, or a desire to learn more beyond that which supports your philosophies.
what a prick, it might be possible to try and convince him that Kendal is not like Vash and follow all the rules to get out of being imprisoned.
The “Little Vessel” remark makes me think of hollow knight
Hmm. Silver-haired guy with a metal face frame. Kinda reminds me of somebody.
Alt text: okay, but consider: fuck you