King of Swords 6-51
Chapter: 6
“Everyone could feel war coming. The famine washed over the land first. The dogs disappeared. The sky grew dark as the sun turned away, as if it knew what was going to happen.”
– Account from the Yellow City, circa second conquest
I got to get the name of her hairdresser.
What a charming little neighborhood! All those market stalls – ripe soil for the seed of commerce to flourish in. But where are the customers? If I were still a wealthy man, I would go shopping there right away, and buy whatever it is they’re selling, and adorn it upon my mantle as a trophy of my generosity!
Alas, I no longer have a single Guilder to my name. While I’ve earned the trust of this tower’s inhabitants by not stealing for a while, there is no demand for a banker here. They already have accounts with more august institutions, such as my own former employer the Bank of the Grand Dragon, and even though I have a steel-trap memory and the ability to calculate complex financial transactions in my head, I don’t have a vault. I can only hide coins and bills under my disgusting invertebrate flesh.
Maybe if I still had a skeleton, I’d be able to leave this elevator and set up shop elsewhere. So that’s why I’m selling stock in my new company, the Bank of the Degraded Thief. The stock ticker is BDT on the Throne Stock Exchange.
Alas, the Yellow City is no more, what once orbited Throne as a moon of artifice was shattered and cast into the void in the Universal War. Last I heard, Preem Jagganoth has strip mined the fragments for ghost ore.
I take back my promise to buy a skeleton with my money. Before that, I will buy an effigy of the esteemed Preem Jagganoth to place in a shrine, so that I may spit on it and then light the shrine on fire.
Curse that red abomination, whose oversized butt cheeks fill one of the seats that should be claimed by Lord Mammon! If I become wealthy again, I shall erect an entire new neighborhood in memorial of the Yellow City, so that it may be a living shrine to capitalism, and to Mammon, whose justice is strong and gentle!
In the outskirts of broken Yre, the begging dead could provide you with a suit of bones suitable to your flesh.
Furthermore, with the glut of gold that has afflicted that region, they’re quite willing to accept alternate forms of payment.
Excellent idea, individual of redacted identity! I shall send out feelers to the community of the mendicant deceased, and I shall walk from this elevator at the bottom floor! But it shall not be the final time, for I will one day return as this building’s owner!
I just looked back at Meti’s previous appearance. (Seeker 3-17) The market used to be much more crowded and vibrant. What fate is coming here?
War is coming
this is axiomatic
Oh shiz. Meti said not to come back until her head was shaved by that sword but, I think Maya is about to shave right in front of her.
The female-by-defaultness of this comic didn’t strike me until I saw you do this trope. Just wanted to let you know how much I appreciate it. Gives me life.
You know, I’d been thinking about it between spans of pants-shitting terror… Speaking of students. Where’s young Zaid in all of this? Protected on Rayuba I imagine, but doing What?
A couple of thoughts here, and stop me if I sound mad… but perhaps his plan has a few facets. We know he may or may not be seeking an heir to his power, but we also see the concern for him being the chosen of Zoss. Perhaps he intends to have Both? Maybe Zaid has become the first student of Ki Rata in a very very very long time. So that regardless of what happens with Zoss’ key, if Zaid gets it, the King of Kings would be HIS. Seems pretty prideful. Train your own successor then make him the God of Gods.
Or I’m reading too much into this, who knows. I never claimed to be smart of wise.
Solomon, I mean. Solomon teaching him, etc etc.
Has there been a Solomon, Son of David, in any universe of the wheel who was not concerned with his legacy?
Even the most humble among them choose to be the Wisest Man in History, and yet others have made darker requests when offered the Boon of Divinity.
Also, Maya’s interest in Alice suggests that there will be two students of Ki Rata in this generation.
Her status as a (former?) demiurge raises questions as to whether she might survive the cataclysm.
The Beast has seven heads, so perhaps she will outlive the Seven Black Emperors.
100 PUSH UPS
100 SIT UPS
100 SQUATS
AND A 10 KM RUN
EVERY
SINGLE
DAY
Are we really to believe that Mother Meti would smoke anything with a filter on it?
“Legends were born regarding mysterious lights
seen in the sky
I just lit a fag and then took my leave
in the blink of an eye”
Also, one wonders if smoked fags are particularly PC at the moment?
I think it’s more likely she DIDN’T cut her hair and is coming back now that the Yellow City is about to be besieged.
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