1.8.7
on June 29, 2020
at 4:00 am
“I” put a sword through her heart? Is the identity a bit fuzzy when it comes to the traumatic events of your creation? ?
Aurora
A fantasy webcomic. Updates M-W-F.
“I” put a sword through her heart? Is the identity a bit fuzzy when it comes to the traumatic events of your creation? ?
Gleicann’s inner monologue:
another day, another time to talk dramatically!
Time to free that village, I guess?
Yay! Another settlement! Which means more worldbuilding and more character interactions
Uff, Collector sure has some nifty tricks … also “I” though Vash did the stabbing there?
spoopy times.
Ooh, the Collector finally came up again!
Also I drew baby Alinua and Erin.
https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_hkIjDG7F/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
https://www.instagram.com/p/CB_iQIdjUIc/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link
They’re really cute guys, you should see them
Interesting deific vision problem there. Explains why they don’t just go ask the villagers why they’re suddenly afraid of their local nature-god. If you can barely see humans understanding them to communicate must be hard. You would think chimerae would stand out like sore thumbs and be targets for cleanup, though.
more exposition?
Weird… Vash had no trouble talking to or recognizing the citizens who summoned him. Is that just because they were HIS people, the way I can tell my own cats apart but mostly just register other peoples’ as “cat”?
That’s a good point! It may also be because Vash is the god of a city, while Gleicann is a nature god who is really more focused on wildlife than humans, and so doesn’t concern himself with them too much. The perception of the humans might give him his aesthetic, but he’s wild- he has no obligation to provide for them, understand them, or communicate with them.
Could be. He was a city diety not a nature diety.
I suppose he was a different type of god. Just look at their vessels. Kendal appears pretty human, which is good for communicating with them. Gleicann looks like a mossy tree that decided to get and walk around.
“TREE? I am no tree! I am an ent.”
Indeed! One of the trifling inconsistencies that the LotR movie had was making Ents look very much like trees- they’re rather visually distinct.
Yeah, for me, Tolkien is Serious Business. Never watch Lord of the Rings with me unless you want a muffled soundtrack of “That’s NOT what HAPPENED at the Disaster of the Gladden Fields! Isildur got two or three leagues down the river before he got shot!” and lots of snickers whenever the Eye of Sauron shows up: I guess they didn’t have a lot of Black Speech available, but I caught him IN THE ACT of menacingly whispering verses from an Elvish hymn. It makes Sauron very hard to take seriously.
That’s a big part of movie/book discourse: an author can call something “incomprehensible, terrible, grating on the ears, and not something any sensible Free Person would willingly hear, speak, or write”, but a movie director has to. And when the author of the book didn’t provide the material you need, you have to make it up yourself or trust that your audience is either ignorant enough or tolerant enough for it to not make a difference. Out of curiosity, what hymn was he menacingly whispering.
When I first started reading your reply, I thought of Lovecraft :/
The Hymn was A Elbereth Gilthoniel (officially titled ‘Aerlinn in Edhil o Imladris’: ‘Hymn to Elbereth in Imladris’ or something along those lines, Imladris being Rivendell.) The specific line was ‘silivren penna miriel’: ‘glittering like a jewel’. (This is what happens when you love languages and LOTR and will memorize anything you can get your hands on. I had to restrain myself from typing out the whole hymn.)
tl;dr: I heard Sauron menacingly go “Glittering like a jewel… GLITTERING LIKE A JEWEL!” in Sindarin. *snicker*
I agree with your first thought. The only thing that made it Tolkien was the “Free Person” part. lol
I guess “Glittering like a jewel” is a fitting line for Sauron to be menacingly saying, especially if he’s looking at Frodo with the ring on. The fact that he’s corrupting something pure and beautiful just puts it squarely in his (and Morgoth’s) M.O.
I believe it was when Pippin gets hold of the Palantir, but I approve of your neat thought. Though it will never stop me from snickering when Sauron starts reciting a hymn to one of his worst enemies. 😀
Since no one is obligated (or likely) to read this anyway, I’ll just let myself finish my thorough coverage of the hymn:
Aerlinn in Edhil o Imladris
A Elbereth Gilthoniel!
Silivren penna miriel,
o menel aglar elenath!
Na chaered pelen-diriel,
o galadhremmin ennorath!
Fanuilos, le linnathon,
nef aer, si nef aeron!
I THINK I got the punctuation right…
And OMG you mentioned Morgoth that’s amazing I’m so deprived of people who actually read the Silmarillion so just squeeeee!
I read that entire thing
Sword through the heart
And you’re to blame
Darling’ you give love a bad name
Relevant:
https://youtu.be/5xqGnQn5QWY
Judging from the open space near that town, it looks like they have some farmland going. Makes me wonder whether the people on Aurora use animals like horses and cows to help with the labor, or if they use creatures unfamiliar to us Earthlings (the only species we’ve seen on Aurora that’s near identical to an Earth species, at least partially, are humans), or if they just use magic to speed things along (stone magic to plow the fields, water magic to hydrate the plants, life magic to boost growth rate).
Except for all the monsters.
Gosh darn it. That was supposed to be to the bellow comment
Based on those horse creatures we saw Kendal and Alinua riding, i think its safe to say that while there are a metric butt ton of creatures they use for practical use or have domesticated, they also have a lot of smaller, more regular creatures (like birds or squirrels). I doubt they use magic in everything either, seeing as a lot of mages in this universe have a higher social standing, or are considered to just be in a different league than other people, likely those who’d make a living with farming and producing resources.
I forgot, we’re know two species Earth and Aurora have in common: humans and squirrels.
That town must look so pretty, surrounded by enormous trees… if I lived on Aurora, I might want to live there
I wonder if Kendal is going to have an arc centered around an identity/existential crisis? Figuring out who he is, what he is, what he wants from his life… he’s been so single-minded in rescuing Vash that he’s never really stopped to question other things.
He already kinda started. Remember back when he was talking to Alinua about not knowing everything about her?
Ah, that’s true
That would make a lot of sense considering how Red has already provided some neat character arcs already, with Alinua changing her entire outlook on life from a focus on death, to making her life mean something more than just isolating herself until she dies.
Kendal in the eyes of his friends is just… well Kendal. The paragon we all know and love. Other gods identify him as this kind of nebulous rumour of a damn near miracle wrapped in a tragedy that was Vash’s fall. They see him as Vash’s vessel, a tool much like his sword i think. Based on how VD sees him too, i don’t think the primordials really have him on their radar either, seeing as they’re already too focused on their own personal squabble with the world in the balance.
I think, if there is an identity crisis subplot it’s going to be more about Kendal learning about himself and what his life means to him beyond just rescuing Vash. And if anyone is going to draw this emotional struggle into the open, it’s going to be the Collector. She and her view on gods being a higher class of being is going to be problematic because Kendal doesn’t fit cleanly into it. Just like he doesn’t fit cleanly into really anyone’s views on how the world works.
Ima just keep calling her Chimera Mom
“Kim” for short.
Kendal’s face in the third panel lol
Who is the “we” that Gleicann is talking about? Like other gods who can’t really perceive where The Collector is?
Gleicann is my favourite character now, it’s official.
So the Collector is definitely human and Kendal definitely isn’t. Good to know.
I don’t think she is causing this town to be besieged, she already has Vash and numerous other nature gods, why would she meddle with the affairs of this forest? Especially since Gleicann doesn’t represent the humans but the forest itself, if she wanted his soul she would attack the forest itself.
TL;DR: Chimera mum’s babies are making the people afraid of weed god. Corpse floof isn’t human while Chimera mum is.
Chimera mum? is that your work?
Alt text: I mean, have you seen her? She’s, like, really short. Way below my eye-line. It’s like, can you say hi to the grass for me? anyway what were we talking about
Image source: troubling
I do not know why, but i read zhe forest god with the same accent as hin from ducktales (very spevific, ik)
I think the human nature-thingy, or at least part of it, is the fancy void element. In 1.18.2, VD says to Kendal, “There’s no ME in you” which is why I say this.
It seems here’s even one chimera
Is it made by the threat of the era?
Ding Ding Ding! Side quest acquired!