King of Swords 1-10
Chapter: 1
“During the last years of the Gods, when Un-Medam died, his mighty staff weighing four hundred million tons lay inert in the great House of Law. Demons and beggar gods crawled out from the stones of the red city and ran amok. Aesma was called upon to drag the staff up from its resting place and bring things back to order, but she had already torn herself apart in a rage. There was nothing to be done. Nobody could lift the staff.”
– The Song of Maybe
Al-Yis-Un isn’t a devil, simply speaking her name aloud will not cause her to appear.
Instead, you should speak to your benefactor of one Ciocie Cioelle Estrella Von Maximus the third. For then, surely, she will come pouring through the nearest available window with her human ward in tow.
Beware, though, for moments later you may have to suffer a parade of fools.
It’s the wrong name, say the right one and the king will come to prevent undue wear and tear to its blessed syllables
Their group is a veritable clown car of foolishness, it might seem like at some point fools will stop parading through your window but you would be wrong, existing fools will entrap more fools slightly faster than they can parade.
New Developments
Outskirts of the city, Zaid. Seems like you’re not keeping up with the story very well, you small-beard child.
Give him a break, he has no Internet connection.
So dearly does the Father love his Children.
So dearly do the Children love their Father.
Bitterly the father resents his children’s weakness.
Bitterly the children resent their father’s mockery.
This ends well.
In the void I sense…. sarcasm.
And I am pleased.
An Object Lesson: I too am a Citizen. Do not aggrandize me, for I too shall pass in time, and my successor may not be worthy.
If this be the case, Solomon is wiser than my brother Medam, and yet he too will not see his law outlive him.
One who believes thus should not claim that they are the state and the whole of the law.
The water is gorgeous in this one. Kudos.
UN-Medam enforced the law with fear of the staff, and the presence of the staff was itself enough deterrent to prevent any transgression.
And yet without UN-Medam, there is no Law at all. Can it even be said that the law exists at all if it is only as ephemeral as its enforcer?
Law and punishment. One appears to cause the other and they are separated by time. This is illusion. They cannot exist apart and are actually one thing.
As for it’s ephemeral nature, I pose a question:
Do only eternal things exist?
Err, how does he know Allison is looking for him?
He probably doesn’t. He wants to be with her, out of this insane situation.
Maybe the rumours flying as fast as the fugitive shekels from the fall of the Tower might give him a hint?
He’s probably just assuming that since he ended up there, and Allison isn’t there, then she might have ended up somewhere else. He’s just wondering where that is. Or uh, maybe Solomon has told him some news about her, I’m really just guessing here.
He doesn’t. But that doesn’t mean he isn’t looking for her.
No one said he did? If he’s like any other person on earth he’s probably really worried about her. And on top of that there’s a nonzero chance that he actually has feelings for her. It’s been established that he acts like a total dudebro but I feel like everyone just wrote off the possibility of him having human emotions as a result.
A Demiurge that cuts away his own subservients. A King of Swords, indeed.
It’s true, it is! He can levitate. He’s not sinking in the mud. Maybe he’s faking it by levitating the chunk of stone too?
At the point which one’s might allows for such feats, can they truly be said to be faking?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo0KhRCsLYA
I should probably save this for the next update, in which we will most likely discover the whereabouts of Allison, but to be honest patience has never been one of my virtues.
Huh.
HUH.
So he knows Allison is out there, and has reason to believe she’d be involved in this. I really want to know what he knows, and what she’s been up to!
Aww… he remembers her.
Probably won’t recognize her when she shows up, what with the hair color change, the probable crown of flames, and the facial scarring, but still.
I’m curious about what does Zaid know about Allison.
–Or what he has known from the beginning…
How would he have a clue that Allison is relevant? As far as he knows she is a powerless girl stuck on earth. Expecting her to somehow show up in another universe to save him is downright absurd, even in a world full of absurdities.
He might have been informed of what she’s been up to through the “news” – she’s not been entirely inconspicuous in her actions, and her wielding the key is probably an open secret among those circles in which he is kept prisoner.
This sounds more like somebody resigned longing for someone familiar than anyone specifically hoping for rescue. In any case, one or two schemers surely said Things(tm) to him.
In cases where something seems absurd, one ought to think of what might be true but isn’t yet revealed. For example, Solomon David might have mentioned Allison earlier: he would have found out because Mottom went to war while looking for Allison.
He knows she has a sick key, doesn’t he? Since the bedroom scene. He probably knows what’s a key by now.
Indeed. Are there rumours of her? Certainly.
Do those rumours carry her name? Less likely.
He could have heard a little bird sing, someone with interests in events that can visit unseen. Incubus?
…The last time he saw her was during their abduction? He’s a human being with human emotions and he’s worried about her being alone out there??
“Most impressive, O Paternum,” said Zaid, choosing his words carefully. “But could not the same effect been achieved, if less spectacularly, if you had allowed the men the use of rollers, levers, and pulleys?” What he left unsaid was: But allowing even that simple technology would undermine your pretense at diving right, wouldn’t it, you fascist bastard?
I’m also curious as to how Zaid knows Allison is looking for him, as opposed to just left behind in her bedroom.
Allison knows Zaid is out there as she’s been told multiple times that she’s supposed to give him the key. I’m sure someone’s told Zaid that he was supposed to get the key and that Allison should be the one delivering it.
Huh. Maybe he’s had his own advisors during his stay, and they told him that she’s on their plane of existence? Heck, he may think she’s lost and that his mission is to rescue her. It would be interesting if Alison and Zaid both start out as dweebs in this story, and turn into bonafide Heroes by the end!
Oh come on Zaid just figure this shit out yourself. Jump out a window or something. Be more like Royalty.
Welp, when your gods can’t restore themselves, call one in to do it for them. Thankfully, we don’t have to rely on everyone else to be gods for us, right?
Too bad this comic’s multiverse zone appears to have a bit of a no-restorer problem, but I’m guessing these gods’ deaths are something more esoteric, to be honest.
Not that it’s provable by anyone except the original YIS-UN… until someone takes up the proper mantle.
In the meantime, the realms are fallen and the fate of the gods is the fate of everyone. Breakdown and decay, entropy and recycling.
Fortunate that new kings have risen, eh? Eh??
Oh, Zaid, you poor kid.
Smashcut to Alison training montage?
Al-YIS-UN fares better than thee, excepting perhaps the quality of available scenery.
And also whatever perdition Chain assembled as a training program.
GODDAMNIT, JIM. HE HAS A FAMILY.
On a more serious note, does Solomon David have like a family complex or something. lots of daddy and father and son’s and families. And Solomon only became a powerful Demiurge king because of like his family being threatened right?
So Solomon probs has a wife and some daughters, a Demiurge tries to fuck em up. Solomon has to Ki Raya the dude and BAM HE’S IN THE THICK OF THE WAR NOW. CAN’T TURN BACK CAUSE NOW HE’S A THREAT TO ALL HES GOTTA TAKE THE POWER OR ELSE.
now his family means little to him ;( or maybe something less than that
I don’t know it that is a design style, but the top half top of the guards faces are odd looking.
Me thinks it be a fine chain draped cross one’s nose and tucked yonder the ears.
Looks like ritual scarring over the cheek bones and across the bridge of the nose.
Allison is currently busy maybe lesing it up with a demon and possibly angel too… at the same time.
As for that Song of Maybe excerpt, you know you are screwed if you consider calling on Aesma to bring order.
Would he know that Allison was coming to save him? Would he know that she had the key? Maybe he’s just falling in love with big daddy diamond and is trying to comfort himself with thoughts of his last girlfriend.