. âOh,â Alinua says softly.
. âThe Captain thinks sheâs stuck in there,â the white mermaid says. âLike the bodyâs a shell, and the mutation has made it too strong for the Wyrm to break out. She figures, if we kill the body, the Wyrmâs soul is free to make another one whenever she wants.
. âMeanwhile, Caturus thinks we should be trying to figure her out. Since the Wyrm hasnât done anything to change her body back, maybe she wants to keep it that way. I mean, itâs her incarnation. She should be able to fix it herself no problem, right? So she must have a reason.â
. âHas no one tried to heal her?â Alinua asks.
. âWow, you really ARE from the Shallows,â the mermaid remarks. âThe only mages we get down here are Sekrai waveshapers and rare stormcallers like Caturus. No healers. Not the right kind of magic around here, or something. Why do you think Selach is so proud of finding you?â
. âButâ no. Wait, that doesnât make sense,â Alinua says, frowning. âIf there are no Life mages down here â then who did this to the Wyrm?â
. âYea. So thatâs probably why the Captain doesnât like you very much.â
Fantasy squids may of course be different, but for real world squids, there’s no such thing as accompanying your babies. The mother squid watches over her eggs until they hatch, and then dies.
One wonders what would have happened if squids lived long enough to transmit knowledge to their offspring. They are very intelligent creatures, but they always have to start from scratch.
Itâs rather convenient that Alinua has personal experience with healing the vessels of gods. That skillâs totally definitely not going to be relevant (lie)
Also convenient she has experience in draining Life corruption from Chimeras.
Now she just needs to find a way to involve a giant plant in the whole operation, to get a tripple use of her unique skills.
For a moment I was confused as to who the vessel was. Silly me. That being said, Alinua’s never healed any vessels other than Kendal, right? She’s never healed a vessel that had retained its godsoul. Gleicann said that were his incarnation to be mutated, it could be “ripped from his control and run wild”, but there’s nothing about whether his soul would be trapped inside or how it would be affected, if at all.
Of course, the last time Alinua tried to help a chimera she also killed it, so I expect the same thing to happen to the Wyrm. I don’t think we’ll get a glimpse of Alinua trying to “heal” another vessel in this arc, per se.
Yeah, thats about what I thought about the Captain. Seems like she might be right about the Wyrm, though.
I love the colour and shape on the giant shell building. Red’s pulled off the mother-of-pearl sheen really well. It’s on the outside, though, which is unusual and pretty cool. What I want to know is if they made a building in a shell-shape, or if there are actually molluscs that big down here?? I love the black sand (i think it’s sand?), it contrasts really nicely with the ghostly light and pale shell.
These panels have looked really cold to me. It’s probably just because I know how cold the sea is, but the blue colour also contributes. I hope Alinua’s OK, she said she was feeling cold earlier.
I absolutely love those cephalopods in the last panel! (They might be meant as squids, but its a fantasy world and their mantels arent quite normal for a squid and I’m going to be pedantic). The bottom right one has such adorable googly eyes! I also love the eel-thing near the top of the panel!
It was assumed there could be only one, but then documentation is spotty and most afflicted never grow up. So it could just be a really short cycle, with Allinua survival not really stopping it.
it cant be a chimeric plague event because there can only be one chimeric carrion at the time
both the mermaids and argist say the wyrm changed a few months before vash was taken wich means alinua would already have been born when the wyrm was mutated, the collector is the only option
Caturus: Captain, please! Your plan isn’t very paragon.
Captain: Renegade for life.
I’m kinda ashamed to say I’ve only just noticed we left the shell back on Monday; you’d have thought the change in background and a view from outside of the shell would clue me in. Well that means they trust Alinua not to leave, and also opens the possibility of the Wyrm crashing through that shell for a dramatic entrance!
Also, awww baby squid! The ocean here is teeming with life; a shame Alinua can’t appreciate it with N.W. disrupting the aura-sensing.
I think the Captain is right about what the problem is, the Wyrm is trapped in her own mutated incarnation and is unable to leave. However her plan to fix it, while sound in principle, is a fair bit beyond their weight category. While I disagree with Caturus’s reasoning that the Wyrm wants this, his idea of trying to understand the problem, to fight smarter rather than harder, is the way to go.
I get the feeling Alinua is starting to put the pieces together about who’s responsible. Many of us have drawn the Collector conclusion because we’ve had good views of the chimeric Wyrm, it’s jaws, eyes, and how they compare with the Collector’s beasts; Alinua has only seem brief, panic-stricken glimpses.
Prediction for next week: the ivory merfolk of exposition will reveal it was a shallows/land life mage who did this, and they reveal a few physical details that make Alinua realise it was the Collector’s doing. What she does with this revelation, tells them or keeps it to herself, I’m not sure; either way, she’ll be more determined than ever to set things right.
Maybe the pale mermaid mentions that there is an openning to the singing caves nearby? That might clue Alinua into whatâs happening. We also need to remember that (as far as I know) Alinua hasnât ever seen one of the Collectorâs other chimeras. The only times weâve seen them are when Vash got abducted, where Alinua arrived after the Collector and her chimeras left, and when Zuurith got attacked, way after the floof squad left. So she might not even know what the Collectorâs work looks like. In Falstâs introduction, Kendal is the only one to note that the chimera wasnât made by the Collector.
I can’t recall, has Kendal explained to the rest of the party about what the Collector has been doing, that he learned from Vash, or has he kept that to himself?
At the end of chapter 1.11, Kendal tells the others what he learned.
But I don’t think he has had a chance to inform anyone of his “She’s coming” warning from Vash (in chapter 2.2)
Anyone else wondering what the mermaids are eating? Those look like non-descript balls, of seaweed? Are mermaids vegan or do they get land food from rescuing sailors?
Those are actually very well-reasoned arguments. Also a very good reason for the Captain doesn’t like the first Life mage she sees after the transmutation, especially given Alinua’s demonstrated the ability to do something similar to what happened to the Wyrm.
Random theory, but what if the wyrms soul was actually taken by the collector. From 1.7.6 we know that the collector damages the physical domain of a god if their spirit is too strongly anchored. This coincides with the wyrm supposedly going mad in midwinter which is the time the light pink merfolk mentioned that she was weaker during. It would also explain why the deep-speaker was unable to feel the wyrmâs will since her soul wouldn’t be physically present within her incarnation. It’s also not unprecedented for a god’s unoccupied incarnation to start having a mind of its own because we’ve seen that with Kendal.
I think a better proof would be Rakhan (I hope I’m getting the name right- the forest god where they met falst.) He says that he can’t touch the lacrima, because it might mutate his incarnation and rip it out of his control, causing it to rampage. So, yeah. Life magic can affect incarnations, but presumably leaves the soul alone, just ripping the body out of control instead of mutating the soul alone with it.
Loving how alinuaâs been looking for the past few pages, she gets like 1 panel of being spooky and ominous per page then sheâs just normal again.
sheâs pretty :3
“I mean, it’s her incarnation. She should be able to fix it herself no problem, right?” Well… *looks at Kendall the literal war incarnation of a god who now can’t be altered or healed by him because of Life magic influence* Not quite.
Selach doesn’t know how fortunate a find Alunia is. No Life mage would know how to adapt to a foreign environment as effortlessly as Alunia does. No life mage is so intimately connected to Primordial Life as her. She is likely the only Life shaper who has the power and knowledge fix the problem. Alunia just needs figure how to approach the problem. I wonder if Alinua will randomly heal folks or come up with some more fantastic solution?
Well, we know that Caturus is wrong, because Vash said he couldn’t remake Kendal’s body. So once it’s been mutated the god doesn’t know how the body works anymore. Plus the incarnation is likely using to much of her power for her to make a new one. So the body might be a prison for the Wyrm, just not quite how the Captain thinks.
Hey I had a weird thought about healing magic. So right now Alinua wouldn’t be able to regrow that guy’s arm because it has healed over and is thus protected by a soul barrier. But what if someone cut another inch past his stump and then Alinua started her healing magic. If Assuming he was born with two arms she would be able to retrace his natural growth patterns, and the soul barrier would be disturbed enough for her to get her healing magic in there.
Someone in Auroran history probably already tried something like that with a similarly Phyrric resultâŠew. I imagine that it was either Erin being hubristic or that Erin knows about whoever did it and berated them in his writings at some point, hypocritically.
My take is that while he is hubristic, he is just as likely to notice (and point out) others foolish decisions. Trouble is, the Curse of Erin means that they would be right a completely unjust proportion of the time.
Pretty sure the soul barrier isn’t like, shell shaped, it’s a metaphysical barrier that pervades the whole body. That said, physical injury does probably damage the soul barrier (after all, that’s what dying is in this universe: when your body is so damaged that it can’t hold your soul together). So I think in theory, you could do some kind of elaborate surgical operation where by injuring a person you give Life magic a way in to regrow limbs. But. Limbs are very complex, and I’m not sure Alinua’s intuition for not filling bone fractures with stomach lining (which is a point Erin made one time about the dangers of self-taught Life magic) extends to reconstructing entire limbs (of a species that she’s unfamiliar with). So I think, is it a hypothetical strategy that would work in some future surgical operating theatre? Yes. Could Alinua do it right now? …Iunno, she’s got Primordial Life at her back, who can even say what she can pull off by sheer ‘intuition’??
It should be possible and plausible, that with Life magic one can regrow an arm.
The problem that I think, would arise would be the soul and the soul barrier.
The soul is already accustomed to having a missing arm so the soul barrier would only go to the stump of the arm and not to the hole arm, at least not for sometime.
In that time the arm would be liable to elemental corruption and prehaps the hole body would be liable to this aswell, considering that the soulbarrier will most likely be weaker while the soul expands.
But that ist purly speculation that could very well be wrong.
When people go to the soulshaper monks to aquire a prosthetic that acts as a normal, feeling apendige. They expand their soul into the prosthetic and nothing has yet been mentioned about needing to isolate the prosthetic or anything like that.
There ist also the question If healing only relies on the genetic material and the mages abilities or if it also has anything to do with the soul ?
Because if it does have anything to do with the soul
this could mean that the way the soul is “weaved” and the complexity of the soul aswell as it’s absence would influence the healing.
So to answer your question BibblyBio, by the established lore and rules of the world as I understand them it should be possible to regrow an arm. And if the arm ist shielded from the elemental energies until the soul barrier is in place it should be a functioning apendige.
I know this is a few pages late, but I just had a thought. Adaptation is one of the higher properties of Life as an element, right? So… Alinua adapting to the ocean could be ascribed to Life as an entity, or it could just be ascribed to Life, the element, which is part of her body (probably way more than most people given her unusual nature as a ‘Chimeric Plague’ carrier), doing what it does best and adapting to the environment at hand? Then again, Life-the-substance and Life-the-Primordial are kind of the same thing, so admittedly the line gets blurry between what Life does with intention and what Life does as a facet of its nature. Call it instinct, maybe, or at least analogous to such.
Iâm noticing a similarity between the effects of chimerical mutations on a godâs incarnation and the effects Alina had while trying to heal Kendal. I bet this is an unprecedented concept, as why would anyone bother trying to heal an incarnation? The god can destroy, repair, and reform it at will, and its death has no impact on the godâs ability to be alive.
But when Alinua healed Kendal, he became self-sustaining but also unable to be healed by Vash. Now, itâs unclear if Alinua just healed him and this is a normal side effect of healing incarnations or if she accidentally introduced mutations, but Iâm starting to think that any external influence of Life changes the incarnation into a state that grows and sustains itself on its own. In a sense, it has a life of its own. Which is why the god can no longer modify or destroy it. In Kendalâs case, thatâs a good thing. In the Wyrmâs case, thatâs a bad thing.
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. âOh,â Alinua says softly.
. âThe Captain thinks sheâs stuck in there,â the white mermaid says. âLike the bodyâs a shell, and the mutation has made it too strong for the Wyrm to break out. She figures, if we kill the body, the Wyrmâs soul is free to make another one whenever she wants.
. âMeanwhile, Caturus thinks we should be trying to figure her out. Since the Wyrm hasnât done anything to change her body back, maybe she wants to keep it that way. I mean, itâs her incarnation. She should be able to fix it herself no problem, right? So she must have a reason.â
. âHas no one tried to heal her?â Alinua asks.
. âWow, you really ARE from the Shallows,â the mermaid remarks. âThe only mages we get down here are Sekrai waveshapers and rare stormcallers like Caturus. No healers. Not the right kind of magic around here, or something. Why do you think Selach is so proud of finding you?â
. âButâ no. Wait, that doesnât make sense,â Alinua says, frowning. âIf there are no Life mages down here â then who did this to the Wyrm?â
. âYea. So thatâs probably why the Captain doesnât like you very much.â
Is that big squid accompanied by two baby squids?
They could also be males, sexual dimorphism and all that
But the squid is called a She by red
Fantasy squids may of course be different, but for real world squids, there’s no such thing as accompanying your babies. The mother squid watches over her eggs until they hatch, and then dies.
One wonders what would have happened if squids lived long enough to transmit knowledge to their offspring. They are very intelligent creatures, but they always have to start from scratch.
Sneaking food scraps from Mama
Itâs rather convenient that Alinua has personal experience with healing the vessels of gods. That skillâs totally definitely not going to be relevant (lie)
Also convenient she has experience in draining Life corruption from Chimeras.
Now she just needs to find a way to involve a giant plant in the whole operation, to get a tripple use of her unique skills.
For a moment I was confused as to who the vessel was. Silly me. That being said, Alinua’s never healed any vessels other than Kendal, right? She’s never healed a vessel that had retained its godsoul. Gleicann said that were his incarnation to be mutated, it could be “ripped from his control and run wild”, but there’s nothing about whether his soul would be trapped inside or how it would be affected, if at all.
Of course, the last time Alinua tried to help a chimera she also killed it, so I expect the same thing to happen to the Wyrm. I don’t think we’ll get a glimpse of Alinua trying to “heal” another vessel in this arc, per se.
So the body is strong, can the Wyrm be saved from there?
And Alinua is suspect ’cause Life mages are so rare
“Look how they massacred my boy” – Captain, 2025
…oh right, she doesn’t know about the collector’s penchant for three-point mouths
I definitely smell the Collector’s handiwork here.
Yeah, thats about what I thought about the Captain. Seems like she might be right about the Wyrm, though.
I love the colour and shape on the giant shell building. Red’s pulled off the mother-of-pearl sheen really well. It’s on the outside, though, which is unusual and pretty cool. What I want to know is if they made a building in a shell-shape, or if there are actually molluscs that big down here?? I love the black sand (i think it’s sand?), it contrasts really nicely with the ghostly light and pale shell.
These panels have looked really cold to me. It’s probably just because I know how cold the sea is, but the blue colour also contributes. I hope Alinua’s OK, she said she was feeling cold earlier.
I absolutely love those cephalopods in the last panel! (They might be meant as squids, but its a fantasy world and their mantels arent quite normal for a squid and I’m going to be pedantic). The bottom right one has such adorable googly eyes! I also love the eel-thing near the top of the panel!
it’s like a murder mystery, but with a zombie god. so not very much like a murder mystery at all
SQUID!!!
Squid with googly eyes! So cute!
Also, no healers? Oh no!
I wonder how long the one without the arm has been without the arm.
The scar looks pretty healed, so id guess its been a while. Most healers (maybe all) wouldn’t be able to grow back a lost arm anyway, though.
Technically all giant squid have googly eyes. The size of basketballs.
Hm, good point in favor of the collector. What other life mage could get down here?
It could just have been a Chimeric Plague event.
It was assumed there could be only one, but then documentation is spotty and most afflicted never grow up. So it could just be a really short cycle, with Allinua survival not really stopping it.
Life controls who has the plague and once she found Alinua there was no need for another carrier.
it cant be a chimeric plague event because there can only be one chimeric carrion at the time
both the mermaids and argist say the wyrm changed a few months before vash was taken wich means alinua would already have been born when the wyrm was mutated, the collector is the only option
Caturus: Captain, please! Your plan isn’t very paragon.
Captain: Renegade for life.
I’m kinda ashamed to say I’ve only just noticed we left the shell back on Monday; you’d have thought the change in background and a view from outside of the shell would clue me in. Well that means they trust Alinua not to leave, and also opens the possibility of the Wyrm crashing through that shell for a dramatic entrance!
Also, awww baby squid! The ocean here is teeming with life; a shame Alinua can’t appreciate it with N.W. disrupting the aura-sensing.
I think the Captain is right about what the problem is, the Wyrm is trapped in her own mutated incarnation and is unable to leave. However her plan to fix it, while sound in principle, is a fair bit beyond their weight category. While I disagree with Caturus’s reasoning that the Wyrm wants this, his idea of trying to understand the problem, to fight smarter rather than harder, is the way to go.
I get the feeling Alinua is starting to put the pieces together about who’s responsible. Many of us have drawn the Collector conclusion because we’ve had good views of the chimeric Wyrm, it’s jaws, eyes, and how they compare with the Collector’s beasts; Alinua has only seem brief, panic-stricken glimpses.
Prediction for next week: the ivory merfolk of exposition will reveal it was a shallows/land life mage who did this, and they reveal a few physical details that make Alinua realise it was the Collector’s doing. What she does with this revelation, tells them or keeps it to herself, I’m not sure; either way, she’ll be more determined than ever to set things right.
Maybe the pale mermaid mentions that there is an openning to the singing caves nearby? That might clue Alinua into whatâs happening. We also need to remember that (as far as I know) Alinua hasnât ever seen one of the Collectorâs other chimeras. The only times weâve seen them are when Vash got abducted, where Alinua arrived after the Collector and her chimeras left, and when Zuurith got attacked, way after the floof squad left. So she might not even know what the Collectorâs work looks like. In Falstâs introduction, Kendal is the only one to note that the chimera wasnât made by the Collector.
I can’t recall, has Kendal explained to the rest of the party about what the Collector has been doing, that he learned from Vash, or has he kept that to himself?
I think that he has!
At the end of chapter 1.11, Kendal tells the others what he learned.
But I don’t think he has had a chance to inform anyone of his “She’s coming” warning from Vash (in chapter 2.2)
Anyone else wondering what the mermaids are eating? Those look like non-descript balls, of seaweed? Are mermaids vegan or do they get land food from rescuing sailors?
There’s also a lot of fish. Sushi, anyone?
Cannibalism, any one?
Why would eating fish be cannibalism? That’s liek calling humans cannibals for eating cows and chickens.
They called it jelly last page
Looking at their pointy teeth, I doubt that they’re herbivores, although they could be vegan by choice! Theyre eating a kind of jelly snack
Could be an algal gel of some sort. Or scooped from jellyfish.
Those are actually very well-reasoned arguments. Also a very good reason for the Captain doesn’t like the first Life mage she sees after the transmutation, especially given Alinua’s demonstrated the ability to do something similar to what happened to the Wyrm.
but then WHO WAS WYRM?!??!?
the northern wyrm, major oceanic current and big nature god, also the mutated danger noodle that wrecked the floof squad’s boat a chapter ago
Random theory, but what if the wyrms soul was actually taken by the collector. From 1.7.6 we know that the collector damages the physical domain of a god if their spirit is too strongly anchored. This coincides with the wyrm supposedly going mad in midwinter which is the time the light pink merfolk mentioned that she was weaker during. It would also explain why the deep-speaker was unable to feel the wyrmâs will since her soul wouldn’t be physically present within her incarnation. It’s also not unprecedented for a god’s unoccupied incarnation to start having a mind of its own because we’ve seen that with Kendal.
I think a better proof would be Rakhan (I hope I’m getting the name right- the forest god where they met falst.) He says that he can’t touch the lacrima, because it might mutate his incarnation and rip it out of his control, causing it to rampage. So, yeah. Life magic can affect incarnations, but presumably leaves the soul alone, just ripping the body out of control instead of mutating the soul alone with it.
That’s Gleicann, btw
Loving how alinuaâs been looking for the past few pages, she gets like 1 panel of being spooky and ominous per page then sheâs just normal again.
sheâs pretty :3
I will take a wild guess and say its the collector.
my hot take: no life mage was involved. some jackass dumped a life lacrima in the ocean and the wyrm accidentally ate it
ð there are problems in our own world from sea creatures eating pollution, after all!
“I mean, it’s her incarnation. She should be able to fix it herself no problem, right?” Well… *looks at Kendall the literal war incarnation of a god who now can’t be altered or healed by him because of Life magic influence* Not quite.
So, how about that new Trope Talk?
Oh, sh*t i’m 3 days late but Festivals aren’t necessarily limited to a single day, so:
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Still good! (smile!)
Alinua is my favorite character. I love over-powered all-loving Heart characters
Sounds like the Wyrm body is another Kendal and the Wyrm got Collected.
Selach doesn’t know how fortunate a find Alunia is. No Life mage would know how to adapt to a foreign environment as effortlessly as Alunia does. No life mage is so intimately connected to Primordial Life as her. She is likely the only Life shaper who has the power and knowledge fix the problem. Alunia just needs figure how to approach the problem. I wonder if Alinua will randomly heal folks or come up with some more fantastic solution?
Well, we know that Caturus is wrong, because Vash said he couldn’t remake Kendal’s body. So once it’s been mutated the god doesn’t know how the body works anymore. Plus the incarnation is likely using to much of her power for her to make a new one. So the body might be a prison for the Wyrm, just not quite how the Captain thinks.
Hey I had a weird thought about healing magic. So right now Alinua wouldn’t be able to regrow that guy’s arm because it has healed over and is thus protected by a soul barrier. But what if someone cut another inch past his stump and then Alinua started her healing magic. If Assuming he was born with two arms she would be able to retrace his natural growth patterns, and the soul barrier would be disturbed enough for her to get her healing magic in there.
I think that, if there isn’t soul there, it could be rejected and die?
Someone in Auroran history probably already tried something like that with a similarly Phyrric resultâŠew. I imagine that it was either Erin being hubristic or that Erin knows about whoever did it and berated them in his writings at some point, hypocritically.
I think Erin’s “hubris” thing is really too focused on by most commenters.
My take is that while he is hubristic, he is just as likely to notice (and point out) others foolish decisions. Trouble is, the Curse of Erin means that they would be right a completely unjust proportion of the time.
Pretty sure the soul barrier isn’t like, shell shaped, it’s a metaphysical barrier that pervades the whole body. That said, physical injury does probably damage the soul barrier (after all, that’s what dying is in this universe: when your body is so damaged that it can’t hold your soul together). So I think in theory, you could do some kind of elaborate surgical operation where by injuring a person you give Life magic a way in to regrow limbs. But. Limbs are very complex, and I’m not sure Alinua’s intuition for not filling bone fractures with stomach lining (which is a point Erin made one time about the dangers of self-taught Life magic) extends to reconstructing entire limbs (of a species that she’s unfamiliar with). So I think, is it a hypothetical strategy that would work in some future surgical operating theatre? Yes. Could Alinua do it right now? …Iunno, she’s got Primordial Life at her back, who can even say what she can pull off by sheer ‘intuition’??
It should be possible and plausible, that with Life magic one can regrow an arm.
The problem that I think, would arise would be the soul and the soul barrier.
The soul is already accustomed to having a missing arm so the soul barrier would only go to the stump of the arm and not to the hole arm, at least not for sometime.
In that time the arm would be liable to elemental corruption and prehaps the hole body would be liable to this aswell, considering that the soulbarrier will most likely be weaker while the soul expands.
But that ist purly speculation that could very well be wrong.
When people go to the soulshaper monks to aquire a prosthetic that acts as a normal, feeling apendige. They expand their soul into the prosthetic and nothing has yet been mentioned about needing to isolate the prosthetic or anything like that.
There ist also the question If healing only relies on the genetic material and the mages abilities or if it also has anything to do with the soul ?
Because if it does have anything to do with the soul
this could mean that the way the soul is “weaved” and the complexity of the soul aswell as it’s absence would influence the healing.
So to answer your question BibblyBio, by the established lore and rules of the world as I understand them it should be possible to regrow an arm. And if the arm ist shielded from the elemental energies until the soul barrier is in place it should be a functioning apendige.
I know this is a few pages late, but I just had a thought. Adaptation is one of the higher properties of Life as an element, right? So… Alinua adapting to the ocean could be ascribed to Life as an entity, or it could just be ascribed to Life, the element, which is part of her body (probably way more than most people given her unusual nature as a ‘Chimeric Plague’ carrier), doing what it does best and adapting to the environment at hand? Then again, Life-the-substance and Life-the-Primordial are kind of the same thing, so admittedly the line gets blurry between what Life does with intention and what Life does as a facet of its nature. Call it instinct, maybe, or at least analogous to such.
Oh wow, they really are living inside Nespirah, aren’t they?
Nespirah? Whatâs that?
TL;DR: Prime suspect or secret weapon?
Storm callers… that sounds very cool.
“Then who did this to the Wyrm?”
Uh, Alinua, at this point I’m pretty sure-
nice callback lol
Iâm noticing a similarity between the effects of chimerical mutations on a godâs incarnation and the effects Alina had while trying to heal Kendal. I bet this is an unprecedented concept, as why would anyone bother trying to heal an incarnation? The god can destroy, repair, and reform it at will, and its death has no impact on the godâs ability to be alive.
But when Alinua healed Kendal, he became self-sustaining but also unable to be healed by Vash. Now, itâs unclear if Alinua just healed him and this is a normal side effect of healing incarnations or if she accidentally introduced mutations, but Iâm starting to think that any external influence of Life changes the incarnation into a state that grows and sustains itself on its own. In a sense, it has a life of its own. Which is why the god can no longer modify or destroy it. In Kendalâs case, thatâs a good thing. In the Wyrmâs case, thatâs a bad thing.
Dude, you need to channel your inner Laios Touden and eat the wyrm!