Fragment is probably bound to the source. Your will is tied to the will of the wielder of the bigger whole. Not much chances to rebel probably, and if you try I’m sure that power can be sucked back in an instant.
Clarity and brightness I would guess, based on the comments of the magisters earlier. That said, you could also look to see if the bearer has any hallmarks of Royalty.
Given what we’ve seen thus far in the story…you can’t. That’s where the confusion came from until now, when we have characters who know full well what Allison’s key represents.
I believe we have met one that made the mistake before. She stirs the ship. The answer as all in Throne is a display of power. But mainly everyone in Throne knows the seven they need to stay clear of by the very simple nature of their domains. If you reached one without being told, you are most likely a corpse.
Not easily. The magicians who were at the drinking contest mistook Alison for a mere representative.
Perhaps only when the key’s power is unleashed does it become apparent.
I believe Abaddon has told us previously that all of the rest of the Seven earned their keys through skill (Mottom’s magic, Solomon’s martial arts, Jagganoth’s peerless capacity for violence). Mammon fought and triumphed in the Universal War through his sheer size and strength.
No it doesn’t. The Demiurges didn’t fight until there were only 7 left. There wasn’t any agreement the war would be over when they’re down to 7 – infact the war isn’t over at all. They just were unable to do away with either of the 6. Cio at this point has just said Mammon BOUGHT his key, by the way, so we can assume he might not have fought that much in the war and rather used his fortune to fund an army, or even to fund the other 7’s armies. It would be give him a pretty good reason not to be killed.
Oh wow, so she didn’t just steal a key, she stole one of seven keys? What happened to it, I wonder? How does Mammon still manage his empire without it?
Well, I imagine the theft was temporary. By her own admission, she didn’t survive to make off with the key. I’d draw the conclusion that shortly after managing to somehow draw the key out of Mammon, he demonstrated the level of power that was necessary to be one of the Seven and retrieved the key from whatever remained.
Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like he could be. In all the previous shots he was human-ish sized, but I think that was just to get him in the picture, otherwise it would have just been 6 humanoids clustered around Mammon’s foot.
Of course it could be something else entirely, like he’s gotten bigger with age or he has shapeshifting powers.
Gods of Thieves, Gods of Wealth, fall on thy sword, kill thyself.
Eat a thousand needles quick, burn thy eyes with candlestick.
Chain thy arms, throw the key, before they do much worse to thee.
Return the gold to sacred horde, bow before that holy lord.
Pray that you’ll be sliced to bits, or turned into a reddy mist.
Gods of Thieves, Gods of Wealth, fall on thy sword, kill thyself!
– Children’s Rhyme
Hah, piteous penny pincher! We should thank the Divine Corpse that thee shall not pollute the Wheel with thy gilded, stunted kind! Anyway, I would have expected thee to have sold thy mating parts for a second-hand abacus! Get back to thy coffers fecal seller! Piss collector! Taxer of farts!
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little pauper? I’ll have you know that I graduated at the top of my class at Mammon University, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret transactions with the Knights Belligerent, and I have over 300 million guilders in my account. I am trained in dragon warfare, and I’m the Employee of the Decaturn at the Bank of the Grand Dragon. You are nothing to me but just another statistic. I will liquidate the fuck out of you with meticulousness the likes of which have never been seen before in the multiverse, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying shit to me over the Glyphosphere? Think again, peon. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of accountants across Throne and your account number is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, peasant. The storm that wipes out your pathetic finances. You’re fucking poor, illiterate scum. I can be in any vault, at any time during work hours, and I can rob you blind in over 700 different ways, and that’s just with my abacus. Not only am I extensively trained in finances, but I have access to the entire hoard of the Bank of the Grand Dragon and I will use it to its fullest extent to bankrupt your ass off the face of Throne, you little vagrant. If you only could have known what holy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have cut off your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, and you didn’t, and now you’re paying the fee, you Mammon-damned street rat. I will shit red tape all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking bankrupt, peasant.
And thus the Fragments of the VOICE, once seperated, recreated into the resonance of the WORD, bearing the power to RULE, but not the RIGHT.
– Last words of the unwanted, shortly after its execution.
AND thus the fragments of the VOICE, once seperated, recreated into the WORD, bearing the power to RULE, but not the RIGHT.
– Last words of the Unwanted, shortly after its execution.
And thus, the fragments of the VOICE, once seperated, recreated into the WORD, bearing the power to RULE, but not the RIGHT…
– Last words of the Unwanted, shortly after its execution.
So was she forcibly turned into a blue demon somehow? Is that a thing that people can do?
Judging from the arm colour, it can’t be the same process that Allison performed, so what happened?
If our late queen of thieves managed to snatch the light from Mammon’s brow, does it mean that he is now defenseless? And who could be in possession of such power without raising any suspicion?
Recall the parable of the Ebon Matron to the Vicious Princeling.
Alas, that the foundation of Mammon’s Royalty is gone. He is defenseless!
Aside from his scales. And his talons. And his bulk. And his wealth. And his armies. And his sorceries. And the countless millions across Throne who owe him their lives. Quite literally.
I did not anticipate the dragon’s size, perhaps his greed has to match something. He must be a great coward as well since fear is the root of all greed; sadly, he has yet to reveal his slumbering intentions.
And finally a full explanation of how the Keys work. Been curious about the details for some time. I suppose this made the most sent all along, but it is good to see it confirmed.
How can one tell the difference between the key fragment someone carries, and a true key without being told?
I think it has something to do with the “energy crown” around the head?
Fragment is probably bound to the source. Your will is tied to the will of the wielder of the bigger whole. Not much chances to rebel probably, and if you try I’m sure that power can be sucked back in an instant.
If it was that easy, then Zoss wouldn’t have so much trouble keeping these chumps in line.
Clarity and brightness I would guess, based on the comments of the magisters earlier. That said, you could also look to see if the bearer has any hallmarks of Royalty.
As if the Seven had any mark of Royalty! Ah! I I think you’re mistaken, brothersister.
If the magisters could tell what they were looking at, I doubt Allison would have survived the encounter.
Given what we’ve seen thus far in the story…you can’t. That’s where the confusion came from until now, when we have characters who know full well what Allison’s key represents.
I believe we have met one that made the mistake before. She stirs the ship. The answer as all in Throne is a display of power. But mainly everyone in Throne knows the seven they need to stay clear of by the very simple nature of their domains. If you reached one without being told, you are most likely a corpse.
Not easily. The magicians who were at the drinking contest mistook Alison for a mere representative.
Perhaps only when the key’s power is unleashed does it become apparent.
Yes, the magisters realized she had a king of kings after seeing her re-mask the formerly ebon devil.
Damn how big is Mammon??? Like proper dragon big? damn..
I believe Abaddon has told us previously that all of the rest of the Seven earned their keys through skill (Mottom’s magic, Solomon’s martial arts, Jagganoth’s peerless capacity for violence). Mammon fought and triumphed in the Universal War through his sheer size and strength.
Actually, math allows that Mammon might have beat only ONE opponent.
No it doesn’t. The Demiurges didn’t fight until there were only 7 left. There wasn’t any agreement the war would be over when they’re down to 7 – infact the war isn’t over at all. They just were unable to do away with either of the 6. Cio at this point has just said Mammon BOUGHT his key, by the way, so we can assume he might not have fought that much in the war and rather used his fortune to fund an army, or even to fund the other 7’s armies. It would be give him a pretty good reason not to be killed.
Lord Mammon is not big, nor is he small; rather he is just the right size, and it is we who are too small.
He used to be so small!
Kalpas pass too fast.
Oh wow, so she didn’t just steal a key, she stole one of seven keys? What happened to it, I wonder? How does Mammon still manage his empire without it?
Well, I imagine the theft was temporary. By her own admission, she didn’t survive to make off with the key. I’d draw the conclusion that shortly after managing to somehow draw the key out of Mammon, he demonstrated the level of power that was necessary to be one of the Seven and retrieved the key from whatever remained.
mammon is bigger than jaganoth?
Hard to tell exactly, but it looks like he could be. In all the previous shots he was human-ish sized, but I think that was just to get him in the picture, otherwise it would have just been 6 humanoids clustered around Mammon’s foot.
Of course it could be something else entirely, like he’s gotten bigger with age or he has shapeshifting powers.
In a lot of those shots he was meeting others in the Void, and might have sized his shade for convenience.
Yeah, that’s definitely another possibility that I had not considered.
In fairness to Solomon David, if my cold shell could grow such a luxuriant beard, I would be excessively smug as well.
You know, there are some blacksmiths doing amazing things with fired ash in the eyries of Thurab-UN these days.
Are there now? Perhaps I shall pay them a visit.
Solomon Beard
Gods of Thieves, Gods of Wealth, fall on thy sword, kill thyself.
Eat a thousand needles quick, burn thy eyes with candlestick.
Chain thy arms, throw the key, before they do much worse to thee.
Return the gold to sacred horde, bow before that holy lord.
Pray that you’ll be sliced to bits, or turned into a reddy mist.
Gods of Thieves, Gods of Wealth, fall on thy sword, kill thyself!
– Children’s Rhyme
It’s heathens like you that remind me of why I will never have children.
Hah, piteous penny pincher! We should thank the Divine Corpse that thee shall not pollute the Wheel with thy gilded, stunted kind! Anyway, I would have expected thee to have sold thy mating parts for a second-hand abacus! Get back to thy coffers fecal seller! Piss collector! Taxer of farts!
What the fuck did you just fucking say about me, you little pauper? I’ll have you know that I graduated at the top of my class at Mammon University, and I’ve been involved in numerous secret transactions with the Knights Belligerent, and I have over 300 million guilders in my account. I am trained in dragon warfare, and I’m the Employee of the Decaturn at the Bank of the Grand Dragon. You are nothing to me but just another statistic. I will liquidate the fuck out of you with meticulousness the likes of which have never been seen before in the multiverse, mark my fucking words. You think you can get away with saying shit to me over the Glyphosphere? Think again, peon. As we speak I am contacting my secret network of accountants across Throne and your account number is being traced right now so you better prepare for the storm, peasant. The storm that wipes out your pathetic finances. You’re fucking poor, illiterate scum. I can be in any vault, at any time during work hours, and I can rob you blind in over 700 different ways, and that’s just with my abacus. Not only am I extensively trained in finances, but I have access to the entire hoard of the Bank of the Grand Dragon and I will use it to its fullest extent to bankrupt your ass off the face of Throne, you little vagrant. If you only could have known what holy retribution your little “clever” comment was about to bring down upon you, maybe you would have cut off your fucking tongue. But you couldn’t, and you didn’t, and now you’re paying the fee, you Mammon-damned street rat. I will shit red tape all over you and you will drown in it. You’re fucking bankrupt, peasant.
This is freaking great lol
I love that you can always identify Solomon by, among other things, his ridiculously oversized halo.
Plus he tints his powers purple.
Solomon loves to fashion frame.
And thus the Fragments of the VOICE, once seperated, recreated into the resonance of the WORD, bearing the power to RULE, but not the RIGHT.
– Last words of the unwanted, shortly after its execution.
AND thus the fragments of the VOICE, once seperated, recreated into the WORD, bearing the power to RULE, but not the RIGHT.
– Last words of the Unwanted, shortly after its execution.
And thus, the fragments of the VOICE, once seperated, recreated into the WORD, bearing the power to RULE, but not the RIGHT…
– Last words of the Unwanted, shortly after its execution.
Previous pages had given me a not entirely accurate sense of Mammon’s size.
Maybe size is fluid?
Things are a bit more relative than usual within the recursive depths of the fractal vault.
Ahah, holy YISUN!
Solomon, you wicked bastard, ahah.
So cool.
I’m a great fan, btw.
Theft and rights of property
Lives of wealth and poverty.
I don’t know what makes a person free.
“Anything that’s free is worth its cost.”
-Some guy, I don’t remember.
I bow to thee, Master-Baker.
So was she forcibly turned into a blue demon somehow? Is that a thing that people can do?
Judging from the arm colour, it can’t be the same process that Allison performed, so what happened?
Cio looks great in that last panel. I can feel her sadness for having such short limbs now, and so few.
If our late queen of thieves managed to snatch the light from Mammon’s brow, does it mean that he is now defenseless? And who could be in possession of such power without raising any suspicion?
Recall the parable of the Ebon Matron to the Vicious Princeling.
Alas, that the foundation of Mammon’s Royalty is gone. He is defenseless!
Aside from his scales. And his talons. And his bulk. And his wealth. And his armies. And his sorceries. And the countless millions across Throne who owe him their lives. Quite literally.
I see that she hasn’t got it with her now. I assume that it’s been repossessed.
I’m going to go out on a limb here and make a guess: To steal from a dragon is to become the dragon.
Servants, such as dragons, are not made from the same sort of Flame as Demons.
You would need to wield the voice of YISUN himself to weave such a Lie into the Wheel.
So yeah, that makes sense.
So, has White Chain been violating city ordinance then?
Smaug? That’s merely a worm, not a wyrm.
I did not anticipate the dragon’s size, perhaps his greed has to match something. He must be a great coward as well since fear is the root of all greed; sadly, he has yet to reveal his slumbering intentions.
Yabby here looks very lanky.
Is that regret? Very interesting.
And finally a full explanation of how the Keys work. Been curious about the details for some time. I suppose this made the most sent all along, but it is good to see it confirmed.
Not nearly full friend, but it is good to have a few of our many questions answered.
well that certainly explains why when I killed a few emissaries myself I never received a portion of the divine will itself.
So I’m guessing she got about a thousand names for that
Remove Six Billion Names
Steal ~.777 billion names.
😮 Did Cio die and resurrect as a new demon?
Well we know she died and is still here… was that a rhetorical question?
Did Cio actually die but luckily had her mind uploaded into a USB drive, so someone built an android that had her mind as its AI?