It feels encouraging to me,. She’s learning to see things from the view of primordial life herself. More than that, she’s taking in the beauty of the world which Alunia hasn’t done in a good while. Seems more like the deep breath she and the gang needs.
I wonder if that’s the red moon or the white one. I’m used to two-mooned fantasy worlds where they mostly stay fairly close together, which highlights the fact that there are two moons, but I only see one here. That’s probably more accurate with the laws of physics, but it does make me wonder where the other one is. Not risen yet? Or elsewhere in the sky? About to cause a solar eclipse?
The Calendar section mentions that Sword, the large red moon, take 14 days to complete one orbit around Aurora, while Shield the small white one whips around every five days to complete one orbit. Which leaves me wondering if the other moon is reflecting the light from other moon on the other side of the planet Aurora to be seen with the Sun so close to it? I don’t recall our moon reflecting so closely to our Sun. Just being picky. Since this is a fantasy it can look like what ever the artist wants it to be. I wonder what Professor Neil DeGrasse Tyson might say. Most likely something witty.
The chances of two moons reflecting sunlight at each other are literally astronomically low. It must be reflecting light directly from the Sun, even if the angle looks a bit weird.
RED BLESS YOU FOR YOUR ACCURATE MOON PHASE REPRESENTATION ever since i was cursed with knowledge two years ago by taking celestial navigation, i’ve been constantly suffering from having my immersion shattered every time i see a moon. BUT NOT YOUR MOON!! YOUR MOON IS A CRESCENT AND IT’S NEAR THE SUN AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY THANK YOU
If there’s one thing you can count on from Red, it’s obsessively well-researched and meticulously calculated astronomical charts and tables for her fantasy setting!
(I mean, you can count on her for a lot of other things too, but this one strikes me as pretty unique and funny)
A few caveats. 1: Any other character with that connection to life would alter everything severely. 2: The point at which they “make contact” and actually talk to life will be where even more of the change comes. 3: Aluina won’t be the Avatar of life, but may still be a life mage or emissary of life. 4: the other characters retain existing powers, connections to magic, resistance to magic, but can learn different things or develop in different ways as a consequence of the changes.
I would say that Kendal dies of his wounds at the hands of the collector or otherwise takes longer/doesn’t fully recover from them.
Erin is a life mage, but him being the chosen vessel for life would change things (like his outlook) drastically. Honestly Erin rocking with one no longer dead primordial being well before making contact with Walter would be a blast. Sadly we would not have Kendal or the group we know, but it would be fun all it’s own.
If Danix who didn’t naturally have a connection to the element winds (or whos’ connections were cut off[?]). Then he may have a completely different method of going about how he lives and fights. Probably breaking out of Zurrith himself or having never been near the place.
If Falst is the vessel for life, He may well end up being the most durable thing we have yet encountered. Don’t know much about his past apart from being hunted and his mother’s fate. IF he were a life mage and had similar experiences to Alunia, then Falst may have a more mixed outlook on people in general. He would still be ran out of towns being a Ferin and carrier of the chimeric plague, but would also have that aura of bounty at all times. A Falst who heals even faster and has a different persecution complex may prove an interesting read or character to explore.
Then we have Tess, stormbreaker, Runnaster. TLDR She is by far the most different.
Tess is one that is a bit harder to pin down. She already seems to have a broad outlook on the world over all with a habit for wandering. With a gift for life as a child, her pre enslavement days (which we know nothing about) may be altered drastically. If she were still unsparked and sold into slavery, she would be in significantly higher demand, being a life mage. This would alter the circumstances under which she was bought, even by whom. She still gets chosen by the sky, new lightning magical abffinity, free will, and a need to wander. but now the memories that inform her decisions are drastically altered.
I haven’t seen anyone else mention that the fact that those sunbeams/sun scatter is DRAWN, in 2D, not rendered or modeled, is really impressive! Way to go, Red!
I was taking Red’s artist’s vision for granted! Thank you for reminding me/us of how much effort she puts forth in making this gem, @Vinemaple (and @Mturtle7).
Ooooh. The perspective of the goddess. So much has happened, frankly, I’d forgotten her overwhelm.
We’re being set up to like Argist, they’re pretty, close to Vash, planning to take on the Collector, and showing signs of godly “don’t worry, mortal, we’ve can deal with some souped up mage.” Oh dear. Argist is not reading like a god who’ll survive.
For mobile readers.
Alt-text: it’s not easy being green
Image source: lonely
Tumblr text: no don’t look straight at the sun aaaa
Twitter text: that’s a lot of sky
Also Tumblr text: do you love the color of the sky?
such a simple and yet such a beautiful first panel
Yeah, it looks great!
ooh, pretty sky!
She enjoys the view, as she lays in the green
But suspects loneliness might tarnish the sheen
“It’s a beautiful view,” Alinua says,
Lying like Life on the grass, only
Gazing at the far-off sky, “But I
Can see how it could get lonely.”
Watching birds go by
Ali muses about Life
And on perspective
Always nice when something reminds me of Your Name (Kimi no Na wa). Thanks. 🙂
“Nothing more, nothing less than a beautiful view.”
Oh my gosh. First?
Beautiful sky
Ooooh
Thats kinda cute, but also really depressing
It feels encouraging to me,. She’s learning to see things from the view of primordial life herself. More than that, she’s taking in the beauty of the world which Alunia hasn’t done in a good while. Seems more like the deep breath she and the gang needs.
pretty skyyyy
This is lovely in a quiet, slightly melancholy way.
This has prompted me to look outside my window and enjoy how lovely and sunny it is today . . . Thank you Red!
Oh imagine … The weather’s been awful for weeks here 🙁
ooh, is she gonna do that thing where the plant mage leaves a grassy area covered in flowers subconsciously?
probably 🙂
Must wait until Monday to find out. I am looking forward to whatever Red shows that day too. Time to enjoy sky and open space now!
That sky looks SO GOOD
That first panel is absolutely beautiful.
I wonder if that’s the red moon or the white one. I’m used to two-mooned fantasy worlds where they mostly stay fairly close together, which highlights the fact that there are two moons, but I only see one here. That’s probably more accurate with the laws of physics, but it does make me wonder where the other one is. Not risen yet? Or elsewhere in the sky? About to cause a solar eclipse?
I think it’s the red moon.
The Calendar section mentions that Sword, the large red moon, take 14 days to complete one orbit around Aurora, while Shield the small white one whips around every five days to complete one orbit. Which leaves me wondering if the other moon is reflecting the light from other moon on the other side of the planet Aurora to be seen with the Sun so close to it? I don’t recall our moon reflecting so closely to our Sun. Just being picky. Since this is a fantasy it can look like what ever the artist wants it to be. I wonder what Professor Neil DeGrasse Tyson might say. Most likely something witty.
The chances of two moons reflecting sunlight at each other are literally astronomically low. It must be reflecting light directly from the Sun, even if the angle looks a bit weird.
Thanks, @Veggiesnake, from across the ‘pond’ (all the way from California). (smile)
Mmmm… the sliver of moon in a sunlit sky. Not sure what she means about it being lonely. Curious.
She’s talking to life, who has been alone for she only knows how long
This comment section is a massive change from the last one
Makes sense tho
Aaah, the ground curves under her because she’s on a small hill, but it looks like the planet’s curve as it would look for Life, aaaah!
(sorry, I get really excited when I feel like I understand what artists are trying to do)
That is a gorgeous first panel… makes me feel sleepy & calm.
RED BLESS YOU FOR YOUR ACCURATE MOON PHASE REPRESENTATION ever since i was cursed with knowledge two years ago by taking celestial navigation, i’ve been constantly suffering from having my immersion shattered every time i see a moon. BUT NOT YOUR MOON!! YOUR MOON IS A CRESCENT AND IT’S NEAR THE SUN AND IT MAKES ME SO HAPPY THANK YOU
If there’s one thing you can count on from Red, it’s obsessively well-researched and meticulously calculated astronomical charts and tables for her fantasy setting!
(I mean, you can count on her for a lot of other things too, but this one strikes me as pretty unique and funny)
Anonymous Aurora Question #45: What would have happened, if Alinua hadn’t been life’s avatar, and someone else from the floof squad had been?
A few caveats. 1: Any other character with that connection to life would alter everything severely. 2: The point at which they “make contact” and actually talk to life will be where even more of the change comes. 3: Aluina won’t be the Avatar of life, but may still be a life mage or emissary of life. 4: the other characters retain existing powers, connections to magic, resistance to magic, but can learn different things or develop in different ways as a consequence of the changes.
I would say that Kendal dies of his wounds at the hands of the collector or otherwise takes longer/doesn’t fully recover from them.
Erin is a life mage, but him being the chosen vessel for life would change things (like his outlook) drastically. Honestly Erin rocking with one no longer dead primordial being well before making contact with Walter would be a blast. Sadly we would not have Kendal or the group we know, but it would be fun all it’s own.
If Danix who didn’t naturally have a connection to the element winds (or whos’ connections were cut off[?]). Then he may have a completely different method of going about how he lives and fights. Probably breaking out of Zurrith himself or having never been near the place.
If Falst is the vessel for life, He may well end up being the most durable thing we have yet encountered. Don’t know much about his past apart from being hunted and his mother’s fate. IF he were a life mage and had similar experiences to Alunia, then Falst may have a more mixed outlook on people in general. He would still be ran out of towns being a Ferin and carrier of the chimeric plague, but would also have that aura of bounty at all times. A Falst who heals even faster and has a different persecution complex may prove an interesting read or character to explore.
Then we have Tess, stormbreaker, Runnaster. TLDR She is by far the most different.
Tess is one that is a bit harder to pin down. She already seems to have a broad outlook on the world over all with a habit for wandering. With a gift for life as a child, her pre enslavement days (which we know nothing about) may be altered drastically. If she were still unsparked and sold into slavery, she would be in significantly higher demand, being a life mage. This would alter the circumstances under which she was bought, even by whom. She still gets chosen by the sky, new lightning magical abffinity, free will, and a need to wander. but now the memories that inform her decisions are drastically altered.
I don’t mess with Red’s story that way. Though I have in the past (smile)
That’s really cute. Also, are we getting an eclipse arc soon? That sun and moon are awful close
oughhhhhhh mama life holding alinua’s hand,,,,
That first panel is beautiful, it’s the kind of thing I’d have as a wallpaper.
“I can see how it could get lonely.”
-the woman who lived alone for most of her life
There’s gonna be a tree there by the time Ali leaves that hill, isn’t there.
Why does the sun look so real?????
See Vinemaple’s comment below, haha
Seeing tings from the grass’s perspective. The first step to leading a grassroots movement.
Alinua “The Floof” Ross: Now, let’s make another tree, because everyone needs a friend.
Moon in the sky, nefarious birds flying beneath.
OHHHHH THATS GORGEOUS!!!!!!
Love that sky. simple yet gorgeous
oh my gosh!! that first panel is so simple but so pretty!!!! I really like it!!
I haven’t seen anyone else mention that the fact that those sunbeams/sun scatter is DRAWN, in 2D, not rendered or modeled, is really impressive! Way to go, Red!
I was taking Red’s artist’s vision for granted! Thank you for reminding me/us of how much effort she puts forth in making this gem, @Vinemaple (and @Mturtle7).
Alinua and Life holding hands is so cute
TL;DR: A god’s eye view…
Ooooh. The perspective of the goddess. So much has happened, frankly, I’d forgotten her overwhelm.
We’re being set up to like Argist, they’re pretty, close to Vash, planning to take on the Collector, and showing signs of godly “don’t worry, mortal, we’ve can deal with some souped up mage.” Oh dear. Argist is not reading like a god who’ll survive.
*”…we’ve got this” hubris.
the flower thing is so cute it’s like she and life are holding hands <3