KING OF SWORDS 174-177 (FINALE)
Chapter: 10
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These are the final pages of King of Swords. We’ll take a 1 week break to prepare and return Friday 10/2 Tues 10/6 with the final book of Kill Six Billion Demons, Breaker of Infinities.
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Oh my goodness….
On the plus side for Solomon, the mass can’t remember if the mass is all mincemeat.
Unfortunately for Dave, I believe this particular revolution was televised.
I seriously doubt anyone, at all, is going to be concerned about that at this point. Solley is the biggest back behind which to rally, at this point.
I understand Jagganoth’s goal here, though. He just turns up and Divisions a nuke with two-three demiurges present just after the most reliable one has gotten pummeled… there is no point in resisting this kind of threat.
He is the end. Of everything.
Four demi-urges, Gog-agog too.
Gog is probably toast at the moment. She’ll need to hurry up some fresh wormbatches from outside the arena.
Dang, Jagganoth! You just fried the pacifism vote. –How ya gonna win election now?
I was definitely not counting Allison.
Cause, come on, give her a bit of a rest, would ya.
Allison is not a demiurge, she’s a full urge.
That is not what demiurge means.
That is not what Name means.
I mean, like, the “demi” in “demiurge” isn’t the same as “demi-“. It’s “demos”. As in “democracy”.
Even discounting the previous three days, Allison wouldn’t normally be much of a threat.
With time, she would be able to reign in each of the Seven, as Zoss did before her. However, after a year of training, she’s only begun to mantle her Key properly. Jagannoth, meanwhile, has been doing this for centuries.
Now, I added a disclaimer, because yes, she’s a protagonist. In light of the fact that only a single book remains, I think we can expect her to receive plot armor. Still, if narrative concerns weren’t a consideration, she’d have little place in this fight.
Sidenote: This page has a fascinating look into goblin anatomy. Judging by the skeletons, the protrusions on their heads are comprised of soft tissue.
Interesting that in the middle panel, while everyone else is looking up at Jagganoth, she is looking at her hands as if to say “What did I just do?”
What most creatures, even Kings, do when faced with a sudden threat to their very survival: act on instinct.
The Blade of Want can’t be wielded by most hands, but the Hands of The Fuck Was That are an exception.
This is hilarious, and true.
Easily carrying eight weapons, Jagganoth has obviously been built using Pathfinder 1st Ed rules.
One wonders if the war Jagganoth seems to be proposing is mayhap not a threat he is issuing in the here and now – for him it could just be being said by way of a greeting, or his idea of smalltalk. And can we take anything from the fact he has planted his sword (one without quillons interestingly) and released it.
And for Jagganoth fighting, well any other demiurge really, let alone several together, but especially Allison and the clan – that has surely got to be fairly close / much closer to dénouement. There’s too much to do yet.
One thinks the big friendly red god may have wiped out the arena and its contents just for an entrance, just because he can, just to see the look on Solomon’s face, and just for fun.
Oh absolutely, I’m betting he saw mottoms invasion of mamons house as a green light, and has just been waiting for a good opportunity to make an entrance, namely this entrance.
The end of everything lays ground for the beginning of something.
You people are way too hung up on his Pride element. He dropped that the moment he realized his people were about to die. It’s clearly not his only thing. He’s at least a more complex character than that.
People are more willing to root for characters that are insidious and plan devious pitfalls than to even accept a powerful and fairly reasonable autocrat, who is not meek with the crown he built after earning its ores with his bare hands.
I think some people are not ready for Royalty in this community.
Indeed. Jagganoth just saved Solomon’s people from the disgrace of democracy.
I wonder why people wouldn’t like unbearably smug authoritarians who “””earned””” their power by having more psychosis than the last bloodthirsty moron with a key in their skull
You aren’t wrong about Solomon being a three-dimensional character but holy shit, imagine reading this whole-ass comic and come away believing that “Royalty” is a good thing that cool strong people have because they deserve it
Some sneering asshole in a gleaming bathrobe told you that he was super smart and benevolent and correct, and you *believed* him?
When faced with a nominally nice diseased autocrat and a nakedly evil diseased autocrat, you want us to “accept” the former instead of just killing both of them, and you’re *smug* about it?
Some people just have a hang-up for Ayn Rand…
“When faced with a nominally nice diseased autocrat and a nakedly evil diseased autocrat, you want us to “accept” the former instead of just killing both of them, and you’re *smug* about it?”
This hits a bit too close to home in the US election this year. 🙁
I dunno, I kinda miss the days when my diseased autocrats had the common courtesy to do their corrupt deeds in secret, instead of rubbing them in my face.
That doesn’t seem like too much to ask.
They should fear us at least that much.
Damn straight.
Something tells me that this Jagganoth fellow isn’t interested in a pleasant discourse on the nature of kingship.
Get fucked, mate.
Ugh really sorry, this reply went to the wrong comment 🙁 was trying to reply to one of the monarchist crowd.
I frankly thought you were just roleplaying a Jagganoth supporter. 😛
LMAO no, I’d never. SD might be a douchebag but Jagganoth is everything I despise incarnate, and of all the Demiurges he’s the only one I really hope gets murdered.
Wait, so you despise him because he wants to murder everything, and therefore you wish to murder him?
Probably he wants him to die for championing a genocide based on his religion.
Everyone’s so quick to denounce murder. Ug
*she wants him to die
But yeah, there’s the genocide thing, the rage thing, the physical invincibility thing, the machismo thing, and also just generally have the same vibe as your Juggernaut/Doomsday/Gregor Clegane types. I don’t like him because I’ve met too many little clones of him in my life in too many contexts.
I sincerely doubt you have ever met a “little clone” of Jagganoth.
Methinks you may just be hastily ascribing negative qualities to those you dislike.
It would be *very* surprising if you had met multiple genocidal god kings, even little ones.
@21 Indigo Cloud
You lack imagination.
I’m talking about abusers. You can see the patterns in most of the Demiurges. Mottom and Solomon David are controlling types (the latter the kind who thinks his abuse is a gift and his victims should be grateful). Incubus is your jealous type, the pretty boy who beats up his GF for talking to other boys. And Jagganoth is the man who gets violently drunk and beats the shit out of his whole family – but thinks he’s not a brute, oh no, he’s a very brilliant man who has an engineering degree.
See it now?
@birds You’re projecting hard. Don’t.
re: murdering the murderer is also murder.
this is why violence spreads so easy: when someone comes at you with violence, a violent response is being courted and required. unless you have an overwhelming advantage, you will not be able to defend yourself without also choosing violence. because genociders set the terms of peace as only the peace of the grave – only the peace of everyone but the chosen group being dead – it creates a dynamic where even the targets are warped into a violent shape. its a problem the comic wrestles with as well the 21st century reality.
but like, again there is little choice between letting genociders kill us all (in this case with a giant nuclear sword and in our case by poisoning the sky) or resisting with violence. i am not a pacifist, i always choose to fight for my life, so its a dilemma.
Vote Jagganoth! “Make the Multiverse a Steaming Pile of Ash Again! ” or MMASPAA… Doesn’t quite roll off the tongue, but when your a steaming pile of ash, that won’t matter.
This dude looks like the final boss of old arcade game, knights of the round
And now begins the Infinite War
Yes, but can we go back to talking about how Solomon David’s totally the bad guy here?
He really is totally the bad guy. Yup.
Really really bad. SD is the worstestest.
I think everyone’s problem with Solomon is that he wants everyone to think he’s the good guy. It’s the lies that haunt us much more than the monster that’s just trying to destroy the universe for religious reasons.
This. At least Jagg seems honest in his intent and aspirations. Good going, Jagg.
Also, please get a hobby.
Some beings need no hobby, because they enjoy their work.
I mean, nobody is paying him for this. Dot dot dot.
Is this Jagganoth being One Punch Man in the “I’m a hero for fun” phase?
One can hope so.
(Regards the other topic of the threadlet, any reader who thinks Solomon David is “totally the bad guy” hasn’t been paying any attention at all over the course of this strip. The way the last three pages have gone, I’d put money down that David and Chain end up a couple.)
One needs not reap enjoyment or benefit from their work, so long as they believe the work to be necessary.
I get that that’s most people’s problem with him – its a legitimate problem and I’d argue it’s one of the main focuses of the work. The guy is fatally flawed and, as we saw, his flaws led to his prized city turning to ash in front of him.
My issue is with the commenters who seem to believe that Solomon doesn’t care about his people, that he doesn’t act in a way that he *thinks* is best for them, and that he is, in short, 100% evil without a single redeeming quality.
Now make no mistake: he is definitely far south of being a good guy, just like every single demiurge is.
But I feel like, with Solomon, so many people are also missing something else that has been a theme with this comic: that even the demiurges are human, and that there’s elements of them that makes them understandable, relatable, and even pitiable (and in Solomon’s case, I’d argue, even noble — in intent at least, if not in action).
Even Mottom, whose evil has destroyed thousands of worlds, has this. She fell into her position out of a rage at her husband’s own evils, and she was too scared to take the drastic actions needed to break the status quo and suffer the wrath of her courtiers.
Even Mammon, who got to his position through pure evil greed and ambition, has shown that his reign can be a source of refuge, comfort, and even some aspect of redemption in that those who seek out his vault through greed and violence end up staying for the vault’s peace and separation from the world. It’s selfish, yes, but it also keeps those evil people out of Throne where they’d do even more damage to those around them.
You may argue how some of the other Demiurges are pure evil – Incubus, Gog Agog, or Jagganoth for instance – but keep in mind that we don’t know their stories yet. I have no doubt that Abbadon has backstories that explain (but don’t entirely excuse) their behaviors as well.
They are all flawed, and even arguably evil. They all need to be deposed and the wheel broken. But I feel like none of them should be treated like pure unredeemable blackness – least of all Solomon, tyrannical, prideful and short-sighted though he may be.
He believes himself a hero even though he’s not one. But he’s genuinely *trying* to be a hero. He’s genuinely trying to help. And that, to me, counts for something.
Gog Agog’s explanation of how her worms works is as good as a backstory for me. She’s a bunch of people who didn’t want to be themselves anymore, so they became worms.
Solomon is a metaphor implying that even the most benevolent dictator is bad, which I personally find to be hilarious after observing the shit show called democracy.
Pretty sure the point was that Solomon WASN’T entirely benevolent, and actively weakened his empire’s potential by stifling it. In the end, he isn’t too much different from his former masters.
But it’s a moot point regardless; anything is preferable to complete obliteration.
a few million people trained in ki rata suddenly sounds like a really good idea
it probably never occurred to our man solomon here
He thought about it, no doubt. He also must have realized he could not count on them all being loyal to his master. I mean, he wasn’t.
And thus his folly in obsessively having to be the master dooms Rayuba.
You know, this is probably the best anti-Solomon argument I’ve seen. And it fits very nicely with White Chain’s argument that he’s afraid to let the kingdom grow beyond him.
Well done, I’m legitimately impressed.
i think there would have been some pushback until, well, just a moment ago really
A good idea, but ultimately irrelevant. If you are to face an enemy that is utterly invincible, whether you punch them one time or a million times does not a vast difference make.
Power is hardly a linear measure.
Then let us punch our enemy an infinite number of times.
BREAKER OF INFINITIES
You are uncountably punchy.
they could also be countably infinite punches
i think the one using the infinities might be jagganoth though.
and then we get some sort of triple fusion of our favourite incredibly scary women into Al-YS-UN and she hits him over the head with the wheel and then breaks it.
i may not be even be entirely wrong. exciting times in the sevenfold world indeed.
Jaggy is infinitely durable, the title given to Alison by Zoss next book will be BREAKER OF INFINITIES. You can do the math.
A million times?
I think Allison is going for six billion times.
Get out of here nazi
history class doesn’t teach very well if that’s what you call a nazi.
Gosh yeah a real mystery why someone who declares democracy a “shit show” and laughs at the idea of dictatorships being bed might be called “a Nazi” based on someone knowing any amount of history
Like, maybe they’re not a Nazi, but it’s really not that big of a stretch
Being a nazist – that is, supporting an ideology of national superiority, – has nothing, literally nothing at all in common with recognizing the strong points of authoritarian governments.
If anything, the world’s biggest power bent on national superiority, claiming to be the City on the Hill fit to spread its way of life worldwide to the primitive natives whether they want it or not, is nominally a democracy.
Sorry extremely not sorry that someone who was merely “recognizing the strong points of authoritarian governments” was called a “Nazi” when clearly they’re not specifically “supporting an ideology of national superiority”
Perhaps they only wanted an isolationist fascist government? Gosh, I’d feel so bad if that were the mistake made
Seriously why is this a thing that people feel the need to defend here
Why is the person who used “Nazi” *slightly* overbroadly somehow the worse person here than the dude who cheered for authoritarianism over democracy and, now, all the people defending that as “well it’s not this Arbitrarily Specific Thing so you’re not allowed to be mean about it”
Sorry you’ve got terrible priorities, I guess. Good luck dealing with that.
“Nazi” being watered down as a phrase when the president of my country says “many of them are good people” is a big deal.
I might prefer a strong monarchy over a weak direct democracy. Luckily, we are a republic.
If I’m your head you can compare monarchy and nazism, you must not know what either of them are.
I will say – depends on the monarch.
Like others have stated. You shouldn’t Talk about stuff you don‘t understand. Your view on this is narrow minded and foolish at best and more likely completely ignorant.
You are being more fascistic than the comment you are criticising and that‘s really ironic and funny.
Red Ettin, You have failed your teachers. Go back and apologize to them for being such an incredibly poor example of their students.
Dear teachers,
I’m real sorry I don’t split hairs about pro-authoritarians, and while I don’t think every pro-dictatorship authoritarian is a Nazi, I deeply apologize that I care a lot less about the misidentification of authoritarians as Nazis than I do that people think that’s an absurd thing to do because, I guess, they believe that “recognizing the strong points of authoritarian governments” is somehow not an extremely pro-fascist thing to do.
I promise in the future to do better by you by normalizing support for violent dictatorships because that’s somehow magically less harmful than mistakenly identifying a pro-violent-dictatorship creep as a Nazi.
My bad,
Red Ettin
Dear Red Ettin,
I hope this missive finds you well. I am not one of your teachers, but if you and they will permit me, I can perhaps guide you towards self-correction. As a philosopher I often find that my calling.
“Recognizing the strong points of authoritarianism” is not synonymous with “being extremely pro-fascist”. It may be synonymous with “pro-authoritarianism”, however it might also be inline with anti-authoritarianism. After all, if one cannot recognize or understand the strengths of an enemy, how can one ever hope to strike at their weaknesses or resist those strengths?
Smarminess when someone is trying to point out your failings only further underlines those failings, however if your goal was to have pro-authoritarians underestimate your intellect, I will congratulate you on a job well done. I’m sure they consider you beneath notice at this point.
Lastly, pro-monarchists are not necessarily, pro-violence. While I am remiss at the moment for examples of monarchs in the past that ruled with a firm, but non-violent hand, I will not also note the absolute lack of non-authoritarian governments.
Consider this and please try to be better in the future.
evileeyore, Cynic
Smarminess is 100% a reasonable response to
“Red Ettin, You have failed your teachers. Go back and apologize to them for being such an incredibly poor example of their students”
If you wanted a worthwhile and helpful discussion you’d have been less of dick at the outset. No apologies for responding in kind.
Dictatorship is bad. Authoritarianism is bad. Monarchy is bullshit. I will not how people who try and establish non-authoritarian governments end up in war-torn regions intentionally destabilized by outside forces, something that’s extensively documented.
Find more worthwhile uses of being of “philosopher” that aren’t excusing dictators. Consider this and please try to be less awful in the future. We’ll work on “better” when you get beyond “uniformly bad”.
Red Ettin,
No one has attempted to create a non-authoritarian government in a non-war-torn place in a very long time. And “intentionally destabilized by outside forces”? That’s a joke. They are over-run by outside forces because they have no stability and offer no resistance at all. There is a reason societies of humans evolved away from non-authoritarianism, because it is weak and inefficient for groups larger than roughly 100 people. Our best methods are to aim or authoritarian governments towards being democratic in nature, to give the people that are governed a voice in their governance.
You are smart.
Let the facistic fool think of himself as a warrior against fascism. He‘ll never get the irony.
You know simple people like you that try to pick dumb fights constantly are half the reason dictators get into power in the first place.
Are you retarded?
Be real cool if we could read a fun bad-ass comic without literal slurs in the comments. That’d be great. A real dream.
Be real cool if we could read a fun bad-ass comic without literal morons in the comments. That’d be great. A real dream.
What democracy? The overturn of power wasn’t completed, being interrupted by Jagganoth.
Oh, you mean in the real world? Sadly, there are no democracies in the real world. It’s all just representative republics. Learn the difference before you spout nonsense.
A country being set up as a republic does not preclude it being a democracy, the two terms refer to different parts of the government’s structure. Similarly, a representative government can be a form of democracy as not all democracies are direct democracies.
i think among the lessons of history is that this accepted wisdom is false: creating a class of rulers through elections also results in an oligarchy. its not even a mystery how it works: if you are american you’ve watched your congress people vote a high quality socialized healthcare for themselves and a patchwork failure for the rest of us. a representative democracy, especially one designed by human slavers who feared the underclasses would overthrow them, has not in fact evolved into a democracy. and i say this as a member of a wildly unpopular minority – we have yet to see white chain’s demand enacted and i for one would like to.
Sadly there are no democracies? Either the world is roughly half democracies, or you want actual direct democracy, where every person votes on every issue. Consider how difficult that is to implement on the scale of a country. It never has and never will be possible.
Returning to the comic, does anyone really think what was proposed was direct democracy across 1/7 of the universes? Assuming a competent citizenry representative government would have been an improvement over the one-man autocracy in place. But 51% support doesn’t change the way things work any more than it makes something moral.
“or you want actual direct democracy, where every person votes on every issue. Consider how difficult that is to implement on the scale of a country. It never has and never will be possible.” It’s been done quite a few times in various ways. Some european countries have polling stations open every weekend for the public to vote on various bills. Additionally, worker cooperatives are a democratic alternative to corporations and have a much smaller failure rate than normal enterprises. Anarchist parts of Kurdistan are also using something similar. Not every country is a large federation, and even the one’s that are could 1) use worker cooperatives or 2) impliment it on the state level at least.
I never viewed Solomon David as a bad guy, i.e., evil is as evil does. No, not an enlightened ruler, of course, but not bad/evil. He tried for some balance, but he kept trying to “win.” And now, the game is done…
This page proves that Solomon was never able to actually defend his people in the first place. The premise on which he built his authority was a lie and a sham, he couldn’t protect anyone. He’s useless and a charlatan.
Who COULD protect his people from a Demiurge who’s literally invincible?
Allison did so.
Right there. Solomon didn’t.
Precisely
Allison protected only a small group of people – to her own great surprise.
Allison didn’t even move, he’ll nobody had a chance to even take cover.
Worse, he’s drawn Jagganoth here, and killed ~100,000 of his people needlessly. I think that Jagganoth is here to fight Solomon, not to sieze Rayuba (note lack of conquering horde). If they fight, the city, and possibly the planet, will die. Run away Solomon, it’s the only decent thing you can do now! Go and fight outside, in the Void.
The point of the parable of Intra, surely, is that a demiurge protector should not be the ruler of a world, or even a permanent resident.
Is it that difficult to comprehend the story making a point that all the dread emperors are bad, and their destructive conflict isn’t the fault of any single one of them – but them all? Seriously, just read the latest parable of Intra a couple of times, maybe it’ll get through eventually.
Oy-vey, the Seven are bad for having a conflict, let’s wiggle our hands really hard as if removing the particular demiurges will not simply lead to more like them appearing from among the vatras or others of the powerful.
“The Celestial sovereign has a great need of many satrapies, vassals, and governors, far more than his (admittedly extensive) bloodline could ever handle on its own. So far out of the province of familial bonds he has turned to the only other bond he seems to find reliable: that of violent bloodshed.”
-Payapop Pritram
Harken back to the parable of Intra. People can be taught how to depose tyrants. It’s fatalistic and childish to assume things cannot change and the outcome will remain the same even if the conditions change.
I mean, Jagganoth just killed thousands of innocent spectators, he’s worse than David
in the words of the might ancients: oh shit
WAR WERE DECLARED
and the battle come down
This ham gum is all bones
The High Priest of Spilt Blood comes to worship at his altar, built from the bones of innocents on the ashes of incinerated worlds.
THE BIG HOG APPEARED ALL HAIL THE RED GOD LETS FUCKING GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
Oh what a day! What a lovely day!
“…Who Killed the World ? !”
– The Splendid Angharad
~ Mad Max Fury Road
Pretty sure it was either Jotaro or Grand amor Tarkin.
Was kinda wondering how everyone “knew” Jagganoth was gonna show up from just the last page but now ig I’m a dummy lol
canisbelli is too self-critical, surely.
Jagganoth ( He who Lands like an Atom Bomb ! ) has been lurking at the periphery for a long time. Mottom explained the precarious balance of power now existing between the Seven Black Kings. We witnessed the machinations of Incubus and knew that Jagganoth longed for a return to war. I too thought that there would be more exposition happening post-arena challenge, but it looks like Abbadon rolled the dice and found this the perfect moment for ‘The Lord of Rage’ to interrupt. Incubus is an intriguer, Jadis is a paralyzed oracle, Gog-Agog loves to watch, Mammon was sequestered until recently, and Mottom did not want to take initiative.
How did I guess ? Red is Jagganoth’s colour. Red IS Juggernaut Star’s colour too (!) – but we just saw her get toasted by Vigilant Gaze. Who or What’s left that could make Solomon David break into a sudden sweat of fear ?
“He’s not a Who – He’s more of a WHAT.”
~ Blazing Saddles
It seems its time to address the big elephant in the room
And the big mound of worms — Gog was also present in the arena, and they are reckoned to be the most powerful of the seven demiurges after Jaganoth.
[citation needed]
There’s a semi-official tier list. Solomon David is #2.
I’ve never been able to figure out why, ’cause how is going to put down an interdimensional hive of parasites?
I suppose he’s number 2 in that good old Goggy isn’t actually all that interested in fighting but is more akin to a temperamental child with nuclear codes. Powerful if she’d focus sure but where’s the fun in that?
Yeah, where were our wormy friends?
Even he could never beat her if she weren’t mad.
The mass is forever!
The mass never looses.
Anyone else feel like that ending should immediately followed by “roundabout”?
the words will make you out and out
Start Pink Floyd – Dogs of war then start reading the pages slowly taking in all the detail, hitting the last panel around 45 seconds into the song and then the lyrics start as the credits roll.
Probably crushed a lot of Gogs with that…
there is a little emergency Gog up Salamis butt, the worms are just playing safe
I hope we see a surviving off to the side, manning a food stall selling deep-fried Gog as multiversal war kicks off.
Does deep frying the worm make it safe? Does Gog ever eat herself if she gets hungry? Does Gog taste good?
Only one way to find out.
*proffers worm*
Cry Havoc And Let Slip The Dogs Of War.
Mark Anthony was talking about a milder war than the one just declared.
Cry heck and slip on the charred remains of the dogs of war…
ah yes! now, witness that most unsanctioned of actions:
to open old wounds.
Yo, Big J, you got enough swords there, bud?
Hey! He has a bow, as well. Jagganoth is an equal opportunity killer when it comes to range.
Also, it might just be the angle of the thing, but the middlemost hilt looks like it’s sheathed IN Jagg’s flesh. It’s certainly going through his furry cape.
You can see the tips of the sheaths just barely poking out past the edge of his cape, near his left leg.
Is nobody going to mention his war hammer?
Cause he does have one.
It’s a realistic warhammer too.
I mean, barring the fact that it is fit for an genocidal giant of multiversal devastation, it is realistically proportioned.
I like it.
We’re all dead.
:_D
He has six swords, ther are six demiurge that he needs to kill. I wouldn’t be surprised if he specially made one for each of them.
I like this thought.
Enough swords?
There’s no such thing.
Kaboom!
“I have long suspected the Belligerent Knights’ single minded devotion to Jagganoth as a natural outgrowth of the core tenets of their order. When a core tenet of your knightly creed includes ‘If it has a pulse – remove its skull!’, what can you do about a thirty foot invincible monstrosity impervious to physical harm and with complete mastery over space-time?
Worship it, of course!”
-Payapop Pritrum
A fell omen, indeed.
god i love the lore of this story
A brighter alternate: Those eyesockets will make excellent balconies, won’t they?
This man obliterated an entire arena of people simply to make an entrance. What a piece of crap. Like, Jadis explicitly entered without nuking the place. Damn you Jagganoth
Whole worlds burned during the Universal War. Horrible as this was, I imagine it’ll hardly be a footnote in the history of the conflict.
Well at least the spectators saw the greatest tournament ever, so they didn’t have that much to live for. I wonder what the average death toll is among spectators at Solly’s parties.
well it had been zero…
hot stone’s priorities are in the right place
i tell ya, i’m starting to think some of these demiurges are real poops
I’m sure I read somewhere that people die horribly just because Jagganoth walks past them when he’s angry; and he’s always angry. That’s probably why he doesn’t get out much. So the flash-fried audience is collateral damage rather than showiness. Don’t think J. cares much about image.
Red God turns all edges from his flesh, and thereby is the Sovereign Master of this world by the Law.
Are we about to see a fucking 2 (or 3) vs 1 demiurge fight?!
JAGGANOTH! JAGGANOTH! JAGGANOTH!
Well in the arena we have apart from Jagganoth these key wearers:
* Alison.
* Gog-Agog.
* Solomon David.
* Most likely Incubus, as he is allied with Jagganoth.
* Most likely the “cutting” lady (“Maya”/”Meti”), as she has been following Alison.
There are some interesting details here about the last two:
* Most likely “Maya”/”Meti” will oppose Incubus, even if she has “lent” him her seventh of the universe (she was one of the seven).
* Incubus has still got a hook into Alison, as she has accepted it.
Also Jadis, though she’s not expect to do much.
The Gogs recently present may not be key-bearers. We don’t know how the key power is shared between Gogs. We do know that they are not emissaries, because Abbadon said on Tumblr that Gog Agog doesn’t make emissaries.
Unless we’ve been deeply misled, Maya is the student of Meti (who is dead), not Meti herself. There’s also the question of whether Maya still has the use of her key: is Incubus’ key a copy of hers or was her key-power drained when Incubus took over.
It’s a mistake to think of the various Gogs as separate entities in any way, or of the word they bear as something physical or divisible. I would treat each physical Gog as the “real” Gog.
I think it’s been made pretty clear via context and allusion that Auntie Maya is the “rightful” bearer of the word Flame, but that Incubus either stole that from her or she gave it up willingly. The rest of the seven clearly consider him a pretender even if Jagganoth allows an alliance of sorts with him.
I, too, wonder what the implications of Allison being an “Emissary” of Incubus will be. That seems like the kind of thing that will come back to bite her here.
You forget. Cio bore a key once too. Also, Zoss might be present to some degree, depending on whatever lies allow him to continue to exist despite his death.
Nice Dark Souls Reference!
Jagganoth just turned a sparkling example of progress into the Kiln of the First Flame in half a second.
Gives Gwyn conniptions…
Try Fleeing, or No Joy Ahead
Good news everyone! You’re free!
It’s a beautiful day in this neighborhood,
A beautiful day for a neighbor,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
It’s a neighborly day in this beautywood,
A neighborly day for a beauty,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
I have always wanted to have a neighbor just like you,
I’ve always wanted to live in a neighborhood with you.
So let’s make the most of this beautiful day,
Since we’re together, we might as well say,
Would you be mine?
Could you be mine?
Won’t you be my neighbor?
Won’t you please,
Won’t you please,
Please won’t you be my neighbor?
*Jagganoth starts a 5-pages-long tap dancing solo*
CURTAIN FALLS AND HOPES DOTH PLUMMET
DEATH ARRIVES WHEN RED GOD COMETH
DEIFIC ARROGANCE IS PUNISHED
JAGGANOTH
JAGGANOTH
JAGGANOTH
veni veni venias
ne me mori facias
hmm, notice the face that Princess is making in the first panel of page 176
Yeah, and doesn’t she look almost pleased in other panels as well? Well, Princess is a devil, so the idea of massive slaughter to come may appeal to her.
Princess isn’t smiling, at all. The tusks make it look like a smirk, but it’s actually a scowl
Princess is loving this shit.
well darn
I think I met you yesterday, sir.