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
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.
IƤ, 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.