King of Swords 1-2
Chapter: 1
“YNEM E YNNU
YNNU E AP
I am he who protects himself,
Nothing can harm me.”
– Ya’at slave incantation
Kill Six Billion Demons
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
“YNEM E YNNU
YNNU E AP
I am he who protects himself,
Nothing can harm me.”
– Ya’at slave incantation
I feel like insinuating that Solomon-David might lose in any capacity is pretty much asking to be beheaded.
That being said, his confidence is pretty sexy.
is it truly attractive to be arrogant?
=//=
WILL HIS ARMY BE BEARDED TOO?
A death flag to be sure. Such a waste of a magnificent beard, but these matters were foretold, and then believed.
Behold the King! He kills without intent or volition! Great is He, the destroyer of thought, the annihilator of reason, the murderer of the self! Cut the world! Break the heavens! Defeat the enemy called I!
Hrmm… Getting a bit of a “Beware the Ides of March” / “Et tu, Brute?” vibe here. Never be the guy who asks about the chain of succession. If you have to ask then you aren’t the successor, and by bringing it up it also raises questions about why you are so concerned about the succession.
Not surprising. Solomon David is so confident in his abilities, he thinks there is no need to consider succession. As far as he’s concerned, he is invincible.
No, this won’t end badly whatsoever. [/s]
Solomon David is one arrogant prick, it looks like.
Also, Nadia starts consolidating her power. Looks like she followed Allison’s advice, such as it was. You know that you have to consider your ruling credentials when a barista comes up with a better way of running your transuniversal empire.
I don’t think Mottom is trying to run her empire anymore. I think she’s trying to claw up as many forces she can before death finally catches up to her.
If she’s to die anyway, she’ll turn her entire empire into her own personal pyre.
The war always starts with Malkuth burning and the death of the placental tree. But wait, is that not birth seen from the other side? Mottom better figure out which way is up.
To be fair, very few people in any event were ever in a position to give Nadia Om advice. Counsel in matters political, yes, but even they must be careful with their tongue, lest they offend their Demiurge (as Solomon David demonstrates here with his elders). And Nadia’s various generals and governors had their own interests and ambitions, making it inadvisable for Nadia to be candid with them.
Allison is likely the first person in thousands of years who not only had a chance to really understand Nadia’s situation, while at the same time having the unmitigated gall to try giving Nadia advice.
Lest we forget, that moment ended with Mother Om’s palace on fire. So, take the matter of giving Nadia advice with a mountain of salt.
Solomon David is the literal Demiurge of Pride, so no surprise 😀
Certainly one with as much power as he would have nothing beyond his influence. But to truly control those selfsame things, ah, takes far more than reaching them.
Sayeth the Gnawing One:
Perfection is the conceit of fools
Rejoice in the shattered mirror
And if no flaws are to be found
Create them thyself
Them’s six words he is not going to find tasty when he has to eat thrm.
Fuck BBC, I’d rather have BBB
(Big Black Beard)
Yup, smug as Hell.
Well, he is the Pride guy after all.
If the war were to be determined simply by whoever could eat the most ham, I suspect Jagganoth would still be the most likely to win. I mean, Mammon is pretty big, but he’s also kind of an old coot. Unless Jagganoth is allergic to ham. Then maybe Gog-Agog.
I am in full support of a Transuniversal Ham-Eating Contest to decide the fate of existence
As a blood god, his goes directly against my interests.
As cool as it sounds, there’s no way enough mortals will choke to death to make this into a win for me.
To deal with those of true and overpowering faith is a rare treat.
There is nothing they will sell, but given the proper pitch, there is nothing they will not buy.
In reality, the councilors were actually playing the popular board game “Dungeons and Demiurges” when their boss showed up. Now they’re trying to BS that they were actually strategizing.
Successor.
Hmm. I wonder what his will is in this case.
Now I see the shape of the the Paternum’s demise, and the silhouette of what will come to his empire.
“Your beards are indeed powerful, gentlemen, but let us not forget who possesses the Ur-beard. The font of follicular wisdom protects us all.”
Ah yes, pride before the fall…
So easy to bask in the praise & the glory of being the key to all that is good & all that is holy…
So easy not to think of who is going to clean up this mess…
When one forgets the sad sad fact, that when one becomes as essential, instrumental, & necessary as someone can come to be…
And decides to take great personal risk, not giving others some other option or form of redress…
For having everyone rely on you completely, & then dying recklessly instead of protecting what you’ve built, truly just quickens the grim reaper’s pace, as Death comes for us all…
Choose they croon the Ancient Ones
the time has come again
choose now, they croon
beneath the moon
beside an ancient lake
Pride goeth before the fall…
“There is nothing beyond my control.”
Never, in all the multiplicities of of space and time, have more arrogant words been pronounced.
Oh please, it *will* become a roaring fire and Mammon *will* win, no question about it. If I weren’t recovering from heart surgery to remove the gold nuggets from my cyber-aorta, I would be counted among the number of the mercenary army raised to defend the Dragon and grant Him triumph.
Seems like it’s time for a solid black page with white text reading ‘Allison is beyond his control’.
The fact that they dare to raise the question of succession in his presence is a surprise. I really wonder what is his dark side that makes his subjects suffer. There is surely something. My best guess for now that he purposefully keep the population a “simple” life (ignorant and underdeveloped) because it is “better for them” and possibly have such draconic laws that are barring impossibility to keep for normal people.
Of course I am surely wrong. I did not read any of the background materials and I am rather bad at mind reading authors.
Per the last page’s author notes, his laws are draconian enough to prevent his citizens from living well. However, other than divinely-enforced authoritarianism, their standard of living is high; certainly higher than the subjects of any demiurge except maybe Mammon.
It’s pretty obvious.
Go way back when we first saw the council with the seven. Back when they discussed the successor in the first book. The meeting where incubus did not even send a representative, but his “first consort”. The meeting Jagganoth called.
Compare the meeting as it first appeared with what we now know.
Mottom rightly sees the entire meeting for the sham it is.
Solomon takes everything completely serious. He makes a huge number of errors in judging the situation.
Now imagine someone has authority over you. Your boss. A judge at your trial. A moderator on a forum. Your immortal god-king. And he keeps getting things wrong. And he thinks he’s right. And he blames you for things due to those inaccurate, flawed judgements. That’s Solomon.
He’s delusional, and self righteous.
IA!
All praise Paternum!
May his nipples ever wander!
IA!
We have witnessed the nipples of 4 of the Seven Black Emperors…
SD is associated with Ya’at slaves, Mottom could be argued to be a scarred woman, Mammnon is a dragon, Allison is a thundering dumbass.
One recalls a tale of Intra and ponders the parallels.
YISUN is an inveterate liar, and like all of that exalted sorority, is wont to repeat his favorites from time to time.