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2018-03-27, 07:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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Remembering the Three Archfiends
While they haven't appeared in many strips so far, I never now who is who.
Director Lee is the only I remember because he's Yellow (EL = Evil and Lawful)
Any tips on how to rember who is Nero and who is Cedrik?
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2018-03-27, 07:19 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
According to Tv Tropes, Cedrik is the brown/orange one and Nero is the purple one.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.ph...ckDivineBeings
The best tip I can offer is that purple is sometimes considered the evil'est colour and Neutral Evil is sometimes considered the most pure evil alignment.
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2018-03-27, 07:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
Speaking of which, if Lee is the Lawful one, how come he is the boss of Sabine and the one who provides Jephton's soul when both of them are chaotic?
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2018-03-27, 07:57 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
A mnemonic device i use to remember Nero is purple is by relating Emperor Nero with the association the color has with royalty. I realize Emperor Nero himself may not have worn purple but the connection to royalty in general helps me remember.
I used the same association for Lee that you note.
Cedrik is orange by process of elimination.
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
The point is to ally them to fight a common goal, not merge them. They are still emodiment of their respective alignments. Yes they pool their resources together but I still find it odd that Sabine would work specifically for Lee or that he'd have custody of Jephton instead of Cedrik.
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2018-03-27, 08:05 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
I always imagined that the IFCC as a cross-alignment organization could use any resources from the Lower Planes. And maybe Director Lee used Sabine to entice the CE Jephton with promises of satisfying his self-indulgent nature. Yes, I’m making a leap from the selfish nature of Chaotics in D&D to self-indulgent but it’s not a far leap.
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2018-03-27, 08:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
I use the punchline to this strip to remember that Cedric is the orange one - Rich commented that part of the joke was that a demon went to college with a couple of devils.
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2018-03-27, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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2018-03-27, 09:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
Why do you say that? The purple toga was pretty much the equivalent of the crown of the Emperor of Rome. I cannot imagine that Nero would have managed to avoid wearing the purple toga. Heck, he passed a law punishing with the death penalty anyone other than him wearing purple (don't ask what Caligula did to a king that dared wear a better purple tunic than his).
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2018-03-27, 09:26 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
According to Suetonius, Ptolemy of Mauretania (probably the richest of the vassal kingdoms of Rome at the time) visited Rome to swear fealty to Caligula, and while on a diplomatic tour, they went to the theater, were the public were more impressed with his purple tunic than Caligula's. So of course the little psycho had him murdered.
(Other less fun historians disagree on the reasons - but everyone pretty much agrees that Little Booties had him murdered)
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
Suetonius was a bit of a gossip. And plenty of the senators wanted to demonize Gaius as much as possible.
But the general principle that Nero can be remembered by the Purple is probably the easiest way to go about it.
I can't really come up with any association between "Cedric" and "Orange", so unless someone's read Ivanhoe and knows something I don't, process of elimination is the best way to go about it.
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
Are you thus saying that the three archfiends are from our earth and that, back when they were alive, Cedric was welsh, Nero was roman and Lee was chinese?
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Our battles don’t hit theheadlines or shake the earth
But they are few, can’t be everywhere, and we, many
So, when the world or universe needs saving, they come
But when people needs saving, we are the ones to appear
We're underdogs, but we rise up to the challenge to be heroes.
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Re: Remembering the Three Archfiends
Lee = LE = Stereotypically least evil = Brightest colour = Yellow
Nero = NE = Sterotypically most evil = Darkest colour = Purple
Cedrik = CE = Sterotypically angriest one = Reddish colour = OrangeSpoiler