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two things:
Julia going to be lonely in the afterlife, what with her entire family (including little brother everyone thought would be a bard, thogh he might be too young to qualify for an alignment) being Lawful Good, and her being True Neutral.
Sabine has finnaly been confirmed as a Devil
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BlackestOfMages
Aside from the fact that that poster, if that's what you're talking about, says "demon," the IFCC identified her as a succubus well before that.
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Also she looks exactly like a succubus and not at all like an erinys and uses abilities succubi have and erinyes don't so I don't know why this was ever in question.
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I think it was just because Haley didn't know, and the fact that it remained a mystery in-comic (to her) led a lot of people to believe it was supposed to be as ambiguous a subject as Vaarsuvius' gender.
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In strip 513, OoTS makes reference to X-men, the bampf noise is the exact same noise that Nightcrawler makes when he teleports.
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Claudius Maximus
Also she looks exactly like a succubus and not at all like an erinys and uses abilities succubi have and erinyes don't
Succubi are supposed to energy drain via a kiss or an "act of passion," not by touching someone with their hands. They can't Plane Shift. They're described as trying to avoid combat.
None of those fits Sabine.
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DStP clarifies that Lee is yellow (devil), Nero purple (daemon), and Cedrik orange (demon) but does emphasise that they blur the lines a bit.
Yeah - I have always assumed that they are named according to their attitude to their Evil: L, N, C...
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Succubi are supposed to energy drain via a kiss or an "act of passion," not by touching someone with their hands. They can't Plane Shift. They're described as trying to avoid combat.
None of those fits Sabine.
And an Erinyes can't Plane Shift either, or Shapeshift. But a Succubus is a lot closer to an "evil incarnation of illicit sex", and Sabine most likely has some sort of character advancement that gives her more abilities.
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In comic 755, the reporters' microphones have little drops of blood drawn on them.
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BlackestOfMages
Julia going to be lonely in the afterlife, what with her entire family (including little brother everyone thought would be a bard, thogh he might be too young to qualify for an alignment) being Lawful Good, and her being True Neutral.
Meh. Julia's a schoolgirl. When you have zero responsibility and zero dependencies, it takes an act of will to be anything other than TN.
But even in the very limited screen time she has, I think Julia shows distinctly LG tendencies (she instinctively co-operates with/appeals to authority at every point, listens meekly to Durkon's telling off, tells her brother she loves him). I think, once she grows up, Juia will drift quickly towards the top-left corner of the alignment chart.
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In #234, we see that Elan is curious about experimenting as the opposite sex himself.
In #365, we see that Nale has experimented with his partner as the opposite sex (well, same sex as him).
(EDIT: Another way to look at it as opposites: Nale and Haley have latent bisexuality; Elan and Sabine have latent transsexuality. (Well, probably not-so-latent for Sabine.))
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In #252a, Nale wants Sabine to be the innocent virgin next time they play "Evil Conqueror and the Innocent Virgin." Perhaps that's
another reason for the schoolgirl outfit.
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Leeky Windstaff is a member of the Linear Guild. Until now, I thought he was just a shocking coincidence... he is a member of the Guild Mk2, right?
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Yes, Leeky Windstaff was Durkon's mirror in the second version of the Linear Guild.
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In #474, O-Chul is holding a scone.
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Ha. Looks like Roy got one too, although he's having trouble holding on to it.
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In #514, the crates say "Greysky City" and "Cliffport". Foreshadowing!
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Poppy Appletree
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#514, the crates say "Greysky City" and "Cliffport". Foreshadowing!
They are revealed well before than this strip.
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though they did hide in the greysky city crate, and end up at greysky
but they had been introduced, though Greysky was in OotPCs, so it's not so well known for people who hadn't read the book (though this shouldn't count as a spoiler, as Hank is seen reading said book and commenting about how they'd been in it here)
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Well, I just noticed for the first time that the Southerners (I mean, all the guys in Azure City) have all a different tan than the Northerners.
You will say "duh", but in fact I never noticed before. It's subtle.
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When they first came out, I thought #710 and #711 were silly little "filler" strips that just showed us what the Order was up to. But I just noticed that #710 establishes how Gannji and Enor were able to find Elan, and #711 allows for Belkar to track the ylang-ylang scent.
EDIT: And I just realized that's the "Aton" logo in the background of #711. I always thought it was a window or some kind of clockwork thing to grind stuff for their products.
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Just noticed the goblin with the confused look in panel 2 of page 1 is a copy/paste of the one in panel 1 with legs altered.
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martianmister
They are revealed well before than this strip.
Sure, but the crate they're hiding in says "imported from Greysky City", which in Haley's case is true. If you didn't read Origin, you didn't know at that point that Greysky is her hometown.
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Herald Alberich
Sure, but the crate they're hiding in says "imported from Greysky City", which in Haley's case is true. If you didn't read Origin, you didn't know at that point that Greysky is her hometown.
Are you disagreeing with my post? They can't be "foreshadowing" if they are not really foreshadow anything...
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I always thought the joke about the "imported from Greysky City" was that Haley and Isamu are both rogues, which seem to be in fact the most exported good from Greysky City.
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The weird scry-eye from 698 has the same color as Zz'dtri's magic. I wonder...
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The weird scry-eye from
698 has the same color as Zz'dtri's magic. I wonder...
Speaking about wondering about spells. I noticed some strange things
No. #1 (the disintegrate spell) In strip 480 when Hinjo leaps off to kill redcloak, redcloak fires a disintegrate spell at him, but Hinjo is not killed, he just gets knocked back on the boat. Also, normally, the yellow stuff around the disintegrated skeleton is the fleshy and not bone parts of the reciever of the spell. But when Vaarsuvius does disintegrate on the death knight Xykon's horse, the yellow stuff just surrounds his horse, and there is no ash.:smallconfused:
No. #2 (dimensional anchor) We know that dimensional anchor is to stop things from teleporting, but what about the color changes? In strip 624, the dimensional anchor turns Quarr green. What's that about?:smallconfused:
No. #3 (giant pink hands) What's the difference between Bigby's (the one that V uses to try to squeeze Xykon to "death" with in their epic battle) and Bugsby's (the one that V uses to grab and flick Quarr into the ocean) hands, and the mages hand Vaarsuvius uses strip 678:smalltongue::smallconfused:
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Blue hearts form when Azurites kiss.
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The hat
No. #3 (giant pink hands) What's the difference between Bigby's (the one that V uses to try to squeeze Xykon to "death" with in their epic battle) and Bugsby's (the one that V uses to grab and flick Quarr into the ocean) hands, and the mages hand Vaarsuvius uses strip 678:smalltongue::smallconfused:
The difference between Bixby's and Bugsby's Hand spells is just that they're different copyright-avoiding almost-but-not-quite forms of the word Bigby, whom the spells are named for in D&D.
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In #209, when Miko gets angry, Windstriker also gets "annoyed" eyebrows.
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The hat
Speaking about wondering about spells. I noticed some strange things
No. #1 (the disintegrate spell) In strip 480 when Hinjo leaps off to kill redcloak, redcloak fires a disintegrate spell at him, but Hinjo is not killed, he just gets knocked back on the boat. Also, normally, the yellow stuff around the disintegrated skeleton is the fleshy and not bone parts of the reciever of the spell. But when Vaarsuvius does disintegrate on the death knight Xykon's horse, the yellow stuff just surrounds his horse, and there is no ash.:smallconfused:
Disintegrate only turns the target to ash if it removes all of its hitpoints. O-Chul and Qarr, not to mention both of the black dragons, have also survived attempted disintegration. It's likely that they all made their Fortitude saves. The knockback seen with Hinjo is not actually part of the spell; more artistic license and narrative convenience (so that the boat wouldn't leave without him).
As for the "X-ray" effect of the already-skeletonized horse, more artistic license, really. No flesh to outline, so it just outlines the bones. The ash was off panel because the death knight kept moving forward.
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A visual effect to show that the spell is active. In the actual game it's a "shimmering emerald field".
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No. #3 (giant pink hands) What's the difference between Bigby's (the one that V uses to try to squeeze Xykon to "death" with in their epic battle) and Bugsby's (the one that V uses to grab and flick Quarr into the ocean) hands, and the mages hand Vaarsuvius uses strip 678:smalltongue::smallconfused:
Nothing. As I understand it, the name of the mage the spells are named after is copyrighted by Wizards of the Coast, and the Giant isn't consistent in which name he changes it to when he uses the spells.
Edit: Yeah, what Kish said.
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In the first battle against the Linear Guild, Elan suggests to use some spell like "Hold Half-Orc" on Thog.
In the second battle against the Linear Guild, this is precisely how Durkon takes down Thog.