Things You Never Noticed VI: The Undiscovered Detail

[Rogar Demonblud]

I'm not sure. It seems to only be around the top of its head and back, and not around the rest of it. Like some sort of ethereal mane or something.

You're right. Maybe the desecrate aura?

[Resileaf]

That doesn't make sense, Likeable Deathworm does not have yellow eyes, couldn't fit in the box and none of his powers could explain the escape scene.

I understood that reference.

[Squire Doodad]

I understood that reference.

What if Likable Deathworm is secretly a Protean, and a Ha-Naga, and a Slaadi, with a Half-Green Dragon template, and has magical yellow eyes painted on?

Ohmygerbils there are so many more candidates once we start introducing paint! Amazing!

[Grey_Wolf_c]

I've just noticed that the traditional dwarven blessing requires a beard but, unfortunately, female dwarves in OotS don't sport one. I wonder if there is a different blessing when you know the High Priest to be female? Maybe the pigtails?

Grey Wolf

[Squire Doodad]

I've just noticed that the traditional dwarven blessing requires a beard but, unfortunately, female dwarves in OotS don't sport one. I wonder if there is a different blessing when you know the High Priest to be female? Maybe the pigtails?

Grey Wolf

Turns out "beard" is actually a trinket that is ritually given to dwarves upon coming of age, and has nothing to do with any sort of body part.

[Lexible]

I've just noticed that the traditional dwarven blessing requires a beard but, unfortunately, female dwarves in OotS don't sport one. I wonder if there is a different blessing when you know the High Priest to be female? Maybe the pigtails?

The article in the strip is "a" traditional dwarven blessing, not "the" traditional dwarven blessing, so your surmise about female high priestesses is almost certainly correct.

[danielxcutter]

The article in the strip is "a" traditional dwarven blessing, not "the" traditional dwarven blessing, so your surmise about female high priestesses is almost certainly correct.

Well, maybe, but Rubyrock wears her hair short.

[Ron Miel]

I always thought it was referring to Thor's beard.

[Rodin]

From that strip, I've just noticed that one of the reasons Durkon wants to come home is to meet his mother and grandfather since they're surely wondering what's been happening to him for all these years. We later find out from the return letter Miko fails to deliver that both the High Priest and Durkon's grandfather have been dead for some time.

However, we've recently found out that Durkon has been in contact with his mother - daily - for the past 18 years. Now, 25-100 words isn't exactly room for a newsletter, but he was clearly able to keep his mother abreast of what's going on with the Order and something as important as "your grandfather passed away last night" is surely something his mother would have told him in return.

[Quebbster]

Sigdi says Durkon has been Sending every week since he learned the spell. We don't know exactly when that happened. It might not have been immediately when the spell became available.
If I were to guess I would say he probably learned it after the fall of Azure City. Before then the team was mostly in the same place so the use of Sending would be limited. Can't recall him using the spell on page before Bleedingham at least.

[CriticalFailure]

He got access to it at 8th level, which I believe covers if not the whole comic most of it.

[Squire Doodad]

For some reason I always thought that Fenrir's representative was an Orc.

Actually, what is he?

[Peelee]

For some reason I always thought that Fenrir's representative was an Orc.

Actually, what is he?

I'd say Catfolk, like Jacinda.

[CriticalFailure]

Southerners play Go, Northerners play Go Fish?

[Kelenius]

In 895, Malack looks at the order of the stick because he used True Seeing in the previous comic and can see through the illusion.

[danielxcutter]

I'd say Catfolk, like Jacinda.

Huh. Yeah, that makes sense.

[ella ventic]

Thanks to you linking to that comic just now, I noticed that Odin's representative says "I see worlds within worlds and yarn winding yarn." Hmm. HMMM. Especially since Odin looks puzzled when Durkon mentions the planet in the rifts in #1150. Lots to think about there.

[Squire Doodad]

Thanks to you linking to that comic just now, I noticed that Odin's representative says "I see worlds within worlds and yarn winding yarn." Hmm. HMMM. Especially since Odin looks puzzled when Durkon mentions the planet in the rifts in #1150. Lots to think about there.

Odin doesn't seem to remember all the things at all times, though he is probably alluding to using TDO to fix the rifts. "Yarn winding yarn" -> a prophecy (Durkon) whose goal is to prepare another scenario (Redcloak).
Or maybe it just sounds clever and mystical.

[CriticalFailure]

I always assumed it was an explicit snarl related prophesy.

[ella ventic]

It could be all of that! Or none! Or most! Or a little! Or... you know what, I think you get the idea.

For me personally, I'm inclined to read "worlds within worlds" as a direct reference to the planet in the rifts, and "yarn winding yarn" as a Snarl reference specifically; the Snarl is... doing something? Creating something? So interesting to think about.

And it's true, Thor told us that Odin is not quite lucid at all times, so maybe his not-remembering is just that. But what if it isn't?

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: Dun, dun, DUN!

[CriticalFailure]

For me personally, I'm inclined to read "worlds within worlds" as a direct reference to the planet in the rifts, and "yarn winding yarn" as a Snarl reference specifically; the Snarl is... doing something? Creating something?

That was my assumption but who really knows

[Vinyadan]

I've just noticed that the traditional dwarven blessing requires a beard but, unfortunately, female dwarves in OotS don't sport one. I wonder if there is a different blessing when you know the High Priest to be female? Maybe the pigtails?

Grey Wolf

Saying "chin" instead of "beard" should do the trick.

[Squire Doodad]

Saying "chin" instead of "beard" should do the trick.

I like that "trinket named a beard" theory myself.
I mean it'll never be justified, but eh.

[Fyraltari]

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Alternatively:

The axe beard is a state of mind.

[Rogar Demonblud]

He got access to it at 8th level, which I believe covers if not the whole comic most of it.

It's a 4th for clerics, so Durkon has had it since he reached 7th level. That would've happened at some point in OOPCs.

[Cicciograna]

After all this time I just noticed that, in panel two, when the chimera Trigak dies, he utters three "Gak".

[Cicciograna]

Oh wow, in the end Tsukiko was wrong (first panel): apparently wanting it WAS enough to make it happen!

[Kelenius]

Elan stabs Felix in the chest with Banjo's scalpel in panel 9 and there's a mark on his chest in the next panel.

[Grey Watcher]

One of Hoder's blindfolded priests wields a bow. That seems... impractical.

[danielxcutter]

One of Hoder's blindfolded priests wields a bow. That seems... impractical.

Well, there is a blindfold that grants Blindsight up to 30 ft. in the MIC... but yeah.