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2012-06-30, 11:12 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-30, 11:17 AM (ISO 8601)
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Or she's an idiot?
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2012-06-30, 12:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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Or you know... Getting close to the cheifs of other clans is a good idea.
She's already shown remorse for her son guys, remember? Just because she isn't crying her eyes out right now doesn't mean she's a moron.Avy by Thormag
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2012-06-30, 12:12 PM (ISO 8601)
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A father taken by time, a brother dead by my own hand.
With this work behold my grief, in Stone and shifting sand.
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2012-06-30, 12:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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possible. Or maybe she realizes she's wasted too much time already with a missing wing and wants to get started on her little takeover project as soon as possible. Her very god has given her this responsibility, and now that she has the means to achive it, she doesn't have time to greive anymore.
She wept for her kin. Now its time to put the past behind her and get to work.Avy by Thormag
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2012-06-30, 01:15 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins IX: For that, you shall DIE!
Why put destiny in quotations? Every teller's prophecy has come true. Dies DID die horribly. Saves a Fox DID save a fox. Complains DID complain about names.
Perfect track record, there's absolutely no reason to think that her destiny won't come true either, nor that it will come true in a way we think it will.Black text is for sarcasm, also sincerity. You'll just have to read between the lines and infer from context like an animal
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2012-06-30, 06:13 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-30, 06:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-06-30, 07:38 PM (ISO 8601)
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A lot of these names strike me as self fulfilling prophecy. I mean if you say he's gonna complain and give him a dumb name then obviously he's gonna complain after all. As well, most of the other situations are kind of loaded so the result and events leading up to it technically happen either way(nothing Saves did wouldn't not save the fox in some way, and if Dies is a goblin warrior dying badly is a certainty).
The thing about prophecies is you can never read too much into them, since they tend to twist according to exact wording and be highly situational. Duv's plans could go to hell a million and one ways and she could die in the next three panels and there'd probably still be a way for things to come true.
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2012-06-30, 08:23 PM (ISO 8601)
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Last edited by Giggling Ghast; 2012-06-30 at 08:25 PM.
A father taken by time, a brother dead by my own hand.
With this work behold my grief, in Stone and shifting sand.
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2012-06-30, 11:30 PM (ISO 8601)
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Re: Goblins IX: For that, you shall DIE!
And if Saves had never encountered that fox? Or had chosen to ignore it entirely?
What if Dies had died a quick death? Or lived long and died of natural causes? Just because he's a warrior (not much of one, but he was in the warband) doesn't guarantee a terrible death. Let's say he takes an arrow through the heart and dies instantly. It's a death, but it's not what I'd consider a horrible one. Tortured to death by an unstoppable Dwarven paladin. Having your soul taken and being torn to pieces by a demon. Those are horrible deaths.
There were other possibilities. For both of them. And both of them ended up going down the path that their prophecy said they would.
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2012-07-01, 01:23 AM (ISO 8601)
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I mean -- with Saves, the prediction was 'on your fifth birthday, you will meet the fox you're meant to save'. While "save" can be interpreted multiple ways, the rest of it could not. A fox showed up on her fifth birthday. Unless her fellow clansgoblins went out and found a fox, and had a way to give it sunset fever...
Prophecy is most definitely a real, tangible thing in this universe. It's easy to say 'you will save a fox' will happen someday in some form, but 'you will meet a fox on your fifth birthday' isn't up for interpretation.
Also, some neat details I never noticed before:
I never noticed how Klik wraps around Saves' arm in the last two panels here. It never really made much sense how she could hold on to a pole like that with that sudden weight.
Chief's screams as he's being tortured... are in Kore's IME. That's kind of chilling.My PMV's! Youtube Channel
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2012-07-01, 01:27 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 01:36 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 11:26 AM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 12:52 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 06:42 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-01, 09:29 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-02, 04:21 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-02, 04:31 PM (ISO 8601)
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"Tales and dreams are the shadow-truths that will endure when mere facts are dust and ashes, and forgot" - N.Gaiman, The Sandman
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2012-07-02, 07:43 PM (ISO 8601)
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Saves would have encountered a fox eventually. She's a forrest dwelling goblin after all. As well, there's no real generally excepted way to die that doesn't scare SOMEONE. If you live to old age your body breaks down, if you get killed in battle your life gets cut short, if you get worked to death your body breaks down FASTER ect.
The thing is you need to be very careful about that definition. I mean heck, if Saves met that fox then just left it'd have been as if she "saved" it by allowing it to live. Prophecies work by using weird definitions and wording pretty much by default. That's how pretty much every story about prophecy gets to be the way it is, simply because inevitably a bunch of people who've heard the prophecy, even word for word, get thrown a curveball they don't like.
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2012-07-02, 09:08 PM (ISO 8601)
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OK, again, she was told the exact date she would meet the fox, two years ahead of time.
The 'saves' part, sure, can be interpreted many ways, but not 'you will meet the fox on your fifth birthday'. This was not a completely vague prophecy that would have just come true eventually. The chances of a fox showing up on that day and having the rare disease that makes any action of hers up for interpretation as 'saving' are extremely low.
I just want to point that out. Tellers in this world most certainly do have mystical powers of clairvoyance. These are not all generic self-fulfilling prophecies. They may have more than one way to come true, but not, like, billions of ways.Last edited by The Linker; 2012-07-02 at 09:10 PM.
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2012-07-02, 09:39 PM (ISO 8601)
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Not a fox, that fox. A fox that she would do something that could be interpretted as saving it. If she's just walking along in the forest and sees one before continuing on her way, then she isn't saving it.
As for Dies, neither death of old age or a quick but more or less clean death in battle sound particularly horrible to me. There are tons of ways to die, but only a small fraction of those are horrible ways to die.
Oh, I disagree. You don't save something by ignoring it. To save something, you have to actively do something to it. To prevent harm from coming to it. To prevent it from suffering. To do something to prevent something unpleasant from happening. I couldn't, for example, pull a gun on someone, point it at their face for a second, then put it away and claim that I just saved that person's life.
I'm not arguing that prophecies don't thrive on uncommon interpretations of their phrasing, but there are plenty of things that could've happened but didn't that would've voided both prohpecies, yet the way things played out, both were fulfilled. Coincidence? Possibly, but so far, all evidence points to prophecies being a real thing in-universe.
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2012-07-03, 05:16 PM (ISO 8601)
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I was just going through the archives, when I stumbled upon this:
"That's no moon, that's a mace, Tayshun."
Did anyone else spot the reference there?
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2012-07-03, 05:59 PM (ISO 8601)
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More on the subject of goblin prophecies, it was indeed true that only K'seliss and Dies Horribly will perish in that terrible place.
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2012-07-03, 06:00 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-03, 06:07 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-03, 08:02 PM (ISO 8601)
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2012-07-03, 09:09 PM (ISO 8601)
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1. Duv uses the full extent of her powers granted to her by the renewing of her wing to utterly pwn the switchbeast.
or 2. The switchbeast ruins Duv's plans, much to the dismay of people such as myself.Avy by Thormag
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2012-07-03, 09:41 PM (ISO 8601)
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