Seeker of Thrones 2-8
Chapter: 2
“If I say my real name, the horrible curse that torments me will surely come true,” she continued. “For this reason, I cannot allow it pass my lips but a piece at a time. For now, it must suffice to call me ‘stranger’.”
– Codex of the Rising King
HAIL YABALCHOATH!
Any chance we could get a official pronunciation of this? I can’t tell if the ch is pronounced ~kuh~ or ~ch~.
And is the OA a long O sound or is it two syllables??
Both Blue devils that we know now were once Ebon.
How the mighty have fallen!
Do not be deceived. The jar and the label have changed, but the contents are the same.
Oh of that there is not doubt. But if they want to quench seven eternal flames, I think an ocean would prove more useful than a thimble.
All that being said, the best stories do have uneven odds, I’m not complaining!
They are also the only blue devils that are human-sized. Maybe they keep a bit of what they were.
Devils can, more or less, change their appearance at will. The degree of course depends on the strength of their Art, but as those clad in blue are especially skilled in the Art, this is not much issue for them. The specifics of the form are in many ways merely a matter of personal preference, and as such are not as clearly defined by mask and name as the rest of devil’s nature.
Was not Number 1, the miscreant dealer in white sand, also of the cerulean persuasion?
Indeed he was, but unfortunately was never ebon unless his history includes consisting with a certain foul (fowl) human, (which is at least hunted at by no. 1’s name); who must have misidentified him as grey in color if that history is true.
No, he was a Red. Look at his mask.
WHOOOOOOAAA MAMA
Well hel-LO.
Ciocie Cioelle – C-O-C-C-O-L? I wonder if there’s a reason for this.
Well, earlier in the comic someone commented that it seems to be pronounced:
C-O-C-A C-O-L-A
i.e., it spells CocaCola in a phonetic sort of way
Close. Cie is pronounced ‘See-ay”.
You’ll figure out the rest from there.
C-O-C-A C-O-L-A, actually.
If it helps, both parts of her name end with an ‘A’ sound
C-O-C-A-C-O-L-A
It’s pronounced C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
Ah, you are very close to discovering Cio’s terrible secret, but your translation is missing two key characters. You have not pronounced it in the correct intonation yet.
C-O-C-A C-O-L-A
Methinks that it’s an allusion to Madame Butterfly (Ciocio-san), what with the brothel and all
Plus she looks like an insect! A cute, yuri-loving, BAMF insect.
Ciocie is pronounced C-O-C-A
Cioelle is pronounced C-O-L-A
So yeah.
Try “see-oh-see-ay see-oh-ell-ay.”
Cio’s name is actually pronounced, See-oh-see-eh See-oh-el-eh, otherwise, C-O-L-A C-O-C-A.
You have the pronunciation off. The terminal vowels of her use name are voiced: See-oh-see-eh See-oh-el-eh. If you apply the same analysis to a this new information, you will become enlightened, if likely angered.
See, oh-see-a
see, oh-elle-a
a hidden magick will appear.
fucks sake
Ci-o-ci-e ci-o-ell-e: c o c a c o l a
C-O-C-A C-O-L-A. Other unrevealed kin to Cio include Pi-Eepi Essai and Seven Yupi.
Ciocié Cioellé – COCA COLA
Yes. It’s a dumb name probably given to her by someone who, like Allison, comes from a world very much like our own. Not too different from “Jack Jacck Daniels” really.
The pronounciation is more C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
One of the alt texts hinted that it was pronounced C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
The final e’s in each name are not silent. 4 syllables each.
see-oh-see-ay see-oh-ell-ay
It’s actually C-O-C-A C-O-L-A, the ending e’s are pronounced like a’s, haha.
Ciocie Cioelle – C-O-C-A-C-O-L-A Yes there is a reason.
Pronouncing the E’s with more emphasis, it makes Ci-o-ci-e Ci-o-ell-e = C-O-C-A-C-O-L-A
C O C A C O L A
I believe it’s actually pronounced C-O-C-A-C-O-L-A.
It’s pronounced C-O-C-A C-O-L-A
Sorry to ruin the joke.
Got proof of that?
Considering all the drinks in Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels…’s name it might just mean Coca Cola.
It’s supposed to be pronounced C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
Never before have I seen so many parrots squawking the same thing.
I love how many people rushed to correct this.
A proper wielder of names must not take pronunciation and etymology lightly lest they inadvertently cause egg beaters to fall from the sky.
I always pronounced her name the Italian way: so it sounds like (to someone who speaks English) choh-chee-eh cho-el-eh.
I think it sounds much better that way.
I sure am glad 30+ people repeated the same damn comment. Good job guys.
Im glad im not the only one. I thought it was italian too.
Also considered if Abbadon got some inspiration from his other baltic neighbours
Even if a hundred people said it, I still don’t see how CioCie Cioelle could in any way be pronounced Coca Cola. From what language base?
I didn’t know I could love Cio any more than I already did, but here we are.
The worst part of an intruder into the vaults is not the theft or material or the death of guards. Instead it is weeks afterward removing the plates marking the years free of workplace accidents.
Breaking Kayfabe here to say that I am not dissapointed at how fucking excellent Cio’s ebon name/mask is
I enjoy that her hair is also horrortentacles.
I wonder if those number plates are wheeled because the mooks just die that fast?
The thrones of the mighty and powerful sit upon heaps of corpses of their loyal servants. They judge their strength against one another by how many are willing to die in their name.
They may be code wheels. Somebody running a vault this big in a world as utterly over-the-top as this one would have to be pretty security-conscious, and these things may be the equivalent of USB dongles.
No, these are clearly accountants.
NO ONE wants to see their dongles, so is that a security thing?
The worst part of an intruder into the vaults is not the theft of material or death of guards. Instead it is the months removing the gold plates marking years free of accidents.
Any intruding thief worth their weight in spice would steal the gold plates as well. Saves you the hassle!
Ah, but they have no obligation to do so. For this was no accident.
As the humans would say I have the weirdest boner right now.
The true Devils are the hottest, blackest Flame.
Likewise brother. Likewise.
I didn’t even think my body came equipped with such things, but this existence is full of surprises.
The word that you are looking for is fearection,
‘Tis the most blatant physical expression of scarousal.
Batterwitch!
I didn’t know angels possessed the required anatomy.
-I- didn’t know we possessed the required anatomy.
I should have known you’d be the “hot for empress” type.
Also, 2 Michael wants to “discuss” a “possible” leave of absence with you.
Leave my empress out of this! Rest her dark heart she subjugated a thousand worlds under her cruel tyranny an deservers the respect and fear someone of her station deserved. Besides 2 Michael represent everything wrong about the old law and at least i admit i’m cruel and enjoy death but at least I admit. But these things matter little for soon we will have a new royal to bow to.
As much as I want her to have her own name, I’m hoping the new one will make her less… malicious. I mean, she looks hella awesome here, but I’m getting ‘pure evil’ vibes from her.
As an unfortunate priest once said, God never gave devils a reason to kill. They don’t even need to *eat.*
I’d ask why they do such things, but I’ve also been told that “Why?” is a question for the weak.
The real question is: Was that Yabalchoath’s true form, or is this Cio’s Sexy Mary Sue Embellished Version?
Actually, I don’t care, I love her.
Nah, we’ve seen Cio’s Sexy Mary Sue form in its How to Draw Manga state.
If this were being warped by her perspective (i.e. the devil version of CLAMP), they’d all have sparkling shoujo eyes and be 80% leg by volume.
Well, she has the second part covered. Perhaps. Depending on how ones classifies arthropodal limbs.
I’m not sure that there’s a difference for Ebons.
When you’re an Ebon devil, what’s the difference?
Oh my god, I love her.
Wow wow WOW. Our little Cio was a BIG deal indeed! 😀
You imply she no longer is, hmm?
Well, she is somewhat shorter.
It seems she’s stealing from Mammon (but it could be anyone else with a nice treasure horde). It’s also been implied that she’s the one who stole the key now in Alice-Un’s head.
No, its never been implied that Alice’s key is the one Cio stole. Mammon never had the master Key, that’s always been in possession of Zoss.
She stole ‘a’ key. Not ‘the’ key. A minor change, but a great difference. The key in the Rising King’s forehead was bestowed upon her by the conquering king. It has never been held by any other.
Someone get me a daki with kawaii cio on one side and not-giant spiky demon cio on the other side
Such would herald the end of all things and the immanent descent of Hell.
Whether this would be a reasonable price is left as an exercise for the reader.
I want one too. As long as my new demonic overlords let me keep the pillow, totally worth it.
Yes, a sexy demon with allusions to the name of the real demiurge. I like it
Close. Likely intentionally close. But much like conflating Baphomet for Bahamut, potentionally dangerous to the unwise summoner.
Ask me how I know.
I’ll bite. How DO you know?
Totally worth the darned wait!
OH GODS WHERE’S THE EMERGENCY CIABATTA.
this comment made me fucking cry i’m losing it
Holy fucking shit, Abbadon. You are trying to kill me. You are a devil sent to tempt me to sin, and you are succeeding.
Beata Maria, you know I‘m so much purer than the common, weak, licentious crowd…
BAH! I have heard many tall tale of such a terrible and terrifying YABALCHOATH. A devilish devil, a dastardly demon! Who sends shiver and shudder down the spine of even me, JAWIS-TEL, SINGER OS SINGS, TELLER OF TALES. He, who has looked the devil eater himself in the eye(However, he was not nearly as impressive as legend told) and waltzed through the Valmara Fields, drunk as a fool and in love with the moon
I met a man who claimed to eat devils once. He had no money and was willing to do any ridiculous feat you could imagine for a few coins. Died of unbound devils bursting out of his stomach in a spectacularly violent fashion. We miss him dearly at my favoured watering hole.
BWAHAHAHAHA
A tale to add to the tremendous Atheneum! I have heard many tales of devil-eaters, and investigated a few myself. The Devil-Eater I speak of holds the shape and form of man, but reeks of the chaotic flame. The thick fluid that courses through is veins is putrid and as black as void. His soul has split it twain, his existence a paradox upon itself that vexes him. Despite this, he is rather boring and can hardly hold a conversation, let alone tell a good story. He wears a mask to hide that he has the appearance of but a man, and even this, is boresome.
YEEEEEEESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS… I’ve been waiting for this.
Need a wallpaper please.
KSBD has some weird logic. Going back from black, but how Cio?
It has been implied that, for her hubris, she was struck down to blue by the demiurges themselves. It would seem they agreed that an ebon devil with a Key of Kings was far too dangerous to their balance.
She was quite the looker in her prime, yes.
But did she still write terrible fanfiction back then? That is the real question.
Darker, bloodier fanfiction, that is
The lie YISUN tells the Universe has one great flaw: there is not enough in it about me.
Practitioners of the Art are given leave to correct this error.
Written with the Art upon the world itself!
The true Art admits no criticism.
Make of the universe a self-insert fanfic, and be certain the protagonist is worth writing of.
A devil that powerful lives her dark and bloody fantasies.
What is the universe but a story told by YISUN?
Those with numbers in place of words
are not expected to be heard.
Their lives worth less, ’til names are earned.
Absolutely gorgeous.
Interesting to see what stays constant over different names and masks of a devil.
Princes continues to smoke like a freight train, and now we see that Cio has always been a horny devil.
All devils smoke, and all are horny.
Ah, HAIR! Glorious hair!
Actually, to me Yabalchoath seem easier than Cio (because in my head I can’t decide whether I should read “C” in Ciocie Cioelle as “S” or as “Ch”, as both sound pretty enough).
Look but slightly upthread and you may spy an… extensive… discussion of how one might properly pronounce such a lustrous name.
Which, of course, wasn’t here when I made my comment…
A many-armed figure of thorns and freshly bloodied claws. Standing triumphantly amongst great wealth and the corpses of her hapless victims. Her face a mask of grotesque pleasure at the death she has inflicted and avarice for her reward.
If that’s not the very image of a Goddess of murder-vagrants, I don’t know what is. Praise Yabalchoath!
Alright, take a good long look at that pose in the last panel.
I defy you to not think of this as CioCio’s Bizarre Adventure.
ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ ゴ
waiiiitt.. did she just killed them by using her tongue?
ohh mayyy.. such bad bad evul she is..
Not her tongue.
Her hair.
Not her hair nor her tongue, but her nails did the bloody works.
Realizing the risks involved to a reasonable part of fullness, I still daresay – I’d tap that.
I wonder what those numbers mark. Days of service? Their guild rank? The money on their bank account?
As was mentioned above, its likely a code for entry to the vault. My Dad had something similar for his job – a small device with a code that changes every 60 seconds, synchronised with the work server.
Finally, the moment I was waiting for: to witness the passed glory of Cio.
Now I shall complete my work! Soon this Concordance will understand the reason of my presence here.
To flirt?
…this will result in injury.
Ah! In murder, what a goddess!
this suddenly became 2-8 and the previous is 1-7! what devil’ry lay betwixt now and past?!
How is Ciocie Cioelle pronounced? I’m having trouble breaking up the syllables and deciding if the ‘C’s are spoken with ‘S’s or ‘K’s. Yabalchoath is easy by comparison.
above are a few who spell the name:
a beverage of quite some fame
(I confess to being caught, the same)
Lots of people will try and claim its pronounced like Coca Cola. So either devils pronounce “elle” as “la” rather than “el” or “l~l” (Jokull) or “ya” like humans tend to or those people are crazy.
It’s possible a language exists that I dont know about where “elle” makes a “la” sound however. Maybe Welsh?
Gaulish, in point of fact. The ‘cie’ is the giveaway.
Adding an “a” sound at the end of a consonant coda is quite believable. Japanese always has a vowel at the end unless the last consonant is a nasal.
And ignore any preconceptions about spelling; this is after all a transliteration of demon-speech (or whatever other decidedly non-English tongue Cio was named in), and even in writing systems that use the Roman alphabet natively there’s rarely a one-to-one correlation between symbol and sound.
Also they’re saying that it’s pronounced like the constituent letters of Coca Cola, not like the word itself. “Ciocie” C-O-C (and the end-coda ‘a’), “Cioelle” C-O-L (and the end-coda ‘a’).
“EL·LE” like “ehl laye” or “El Lé Noiché,” not “EL·LA” like “Ehl·LAh” or “Ella.”
à à à
àà~
Ö~~ àà~!
Not like Coca Cola– like C-O-C-A C-O-L-A. Ci-o-ci-e Ci-o-ell-e.
The Welsh version can be easily simulated by trying to pronounce it after receiving local anesthetic for a dental operation.
I believe it is pronounced:
See-oh-see-ay See-oh-ell-ay
Okay, I think I got it. It’s more like “Kyo-Kye Kyo-el-leh”.
This side of talk amuses me
more than some others’ lechery.
I cannot grin, but I’ll bow to thee.
AH. So it is See-oh-see-ay Cee-oh-el-aye. THIS is truly a demonic name if its attempted pronunciation from its written form give so much consternation!
It is pronounced: See-oh-see-aye See-oh-el-aye.
Or in single letters: C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
She got a kik?
That is undoubtedly the best update ever. Cio (or should I say Yabalchoath?) is absolutely delicious, a horrifying delight!
Ducking batterwitch! Bygone you foul demon!
Batterwitch!
GUUUUUURL!
The chitinous shell and the joints of a crab, the eyes and hooves of a goat, (the same as Oscar) The mammarys of… what now?
Cio truly is the gift that keeps on giving.
Not exactly what I was expecting, but I am very glad to have spiky carapace leg Cio back. I forgive the artist of this interpretation of the Rising King’s story for giving Cio sexy hips…though the whole of me did not protest to that either…On another note, I like the Kali influenced tongue there.
Cio is horrifying, yet somehow… enticing.
All hail Yaldaboath the demiurge!
Oh no she’s hot.
I don’t know what I was expecting Ebon Cio to look like, but I do know it wasn’t this.
Aw man, look at hose joints! So wonderfully insectoid.
24 sharp fingers and two cloven hooves. Impressive.
It is in looking up this glorious form that I understand the true tragedy of her transformation into a lowly blue devil. Much has been lost, no?
Somebody’s a Bayonetta fan.
Truly an Ebon is a frightful thing indeed. ‘Tis a good thing so few exist, and there number is one less.
RIP Abacus Guild. Can’t say I am too said to see them go though. I wonder if she went to them about debts too.
I know EXACTLY why i have this boner.
i know right
such resplendence
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gugkjEfIB8s
Though the languages of the multiverse are so many and varied that the wise and foolish alike simply call them infinite, having a giant pile of gold does seem to translate fairly universally to “please break in here”.
That’s the sexiest cricket demon I’ve ever seen.
If I understand the cryptic hints about her past revealed thus far, Ciocie was once an ebon devil of impressive power that managed to steal a key(perhaps actually removing it from its’ bearer). Sometime after that and before we first met her, she made the descent from ebon to blue. I may be wrong about this but some of the comments Ciocie has made indicate that that descent was at least partially voluntary. If so, that begs the question, why would an ebon devil of such skill and power choose to lower herself, perhaps it was the only way to escape pursuit, or maybe there are benefits of being a lower ranked devil.
Out names and faces wear out over time, eventually, they will shrink down and weaken into other colors if not replaced. This is true even of the ebon devils.
I don’t know if I’m more impressed with how monstrous she looked, or by how many people are getting boners from her in the comments.
Gigantic spindly limbs, insectoid/crustacean-like carapaces full of bumps and thorns, long sharp claws, et cetera. Very far from what I would call sexually attractive. To each their own, I guess.
If anything, a cricket is just some food for me.
She might as well be a horribly deformed taco, for all I care.
Look at this vanilla motherfucker.
I see now why Cio owns a Coat of Arms. She misses her surplus of limbs.
So many who see Yabalchoath as the greater form. So taken in by appearances. But appearances are, like all things, lies – and one of the most ephemeral at that. Yabalchoath is like a razor: sharp, deadly, but easily dulled and one-dimensional. Ciocie-that-she-became is, in comparison, a potato: plain, often funny, but well-rounded, substantial, and enduring.
Potatoes and razorblades are not exactly what I imagined people would liken these forms to, but strangely it is very fitting.
Good point. It would also be important to remember that if she had never fallen from ebon to blue, White Chain would not have gone to her for advice and she wouldn’t have met Allison. While her ebon form had more power, I do believe her blue one will have far more imfluence on the history of Throne than she could ever have dreamt.
We note the possession of four arms, presumably granted naturally (or as naturally as such Devils possess such forms). Perhaps this is a reason for her affinity to the Coat of Arms? We shall continue observations with renewed interest.
I SHALL NOT FIND A STRANGER FACT IN THE MANY WORLDS I TRAVEL
THAT THE ARMOR FOR THE KNIGHTS OF THORN WAS INSPIRED BY A DEVIL
CAW
Someone queue a Takei “Oh Myyy” already.
Christmas must have come early this year…
Happily for Minstrels Probationary, The Assessing of the Hoard of Yabalchoath is a short piece, allowing plenty of time for a nimble exit before the house has caught on.
Ebon devils have no need of trousers.
Beauty is a deadly expediency voluntarily turned evil.
Iä, Yabalchoath.
i love her
But is this version masked still?
She wears the mask of dreaded ebon.
Of course. A devil without a mask is no devil at all, in much the same way that a puddle of molten glass cannot rightly be said to be a glass sculpture.
It is only through restriction and definition that the primordial chaos becomes devils, at all. An Ebon is as close to that primordial chaos as one can become while still having will and consciousness.
Hair Goals
Anyone else suspect those guys she just offed were warlord accountants?
Oh damn, is the Codex of the Rising King what Cio’s writing right now? It seems like it, considering this quote can be seen on the book last page….
The dreaded Coca Cola in her true/original form.
And most likely, in relation to her name, quite bad for one’s diet, let alone teeth.
I would like to address the vine gentlemen and gentlewomen and othergendered servants in the audience. YAAAAAAAAAAAASSS GURL YAAAAS, YOU LOOK SO GOOD, SLAYYYYYYY YAAAAAAAAAAAAAASSSSSSSS!!!
This ends the aderess.
SHE’S BEAUTIFUL!
SHE’S BEAUTIFUL!
SHE’S BEAUTIFUL!
Yalbachoath has six fingers, like the reluctant Demiurge Stanford Demonslayer
Well put me down for scared and aroused.
She is Beauty. She is Grace. She is a killer Ebon Devil form space.
Oh yeah, And I could really go for a -Pepsi- right now.
The blurb on this page is a snippet from Cio’s book, on the last page.
I guess that tells us the title. Codex of the Rising King.
Who hasn’t been an asshole at some point in their life?
This is my favorite redemption arc.
On an unrelated note, Yabalchoath reminds me another demon, a purple Andariel, minus Andariel’s Vegeta-hair.