Seeker of Thrones 4-27
Chapter: 4
“To those who doubt, your wounds will never heal
To those who question my creation – I’m not real.”
-Meshuggah, ‘I am Colossus’
“To those who doubt, your wounds will never heal
To those who question my creation – I’m not real.”
-Meshuggah, ‘I am Colossus’
It is said in the tomes of a certain age that the one called Kill Six Billion Demons once passed by the road where Wu was walking among the crowd. With a voice like shattered silk and flowing glass, Wu told her that she made the right choice, and that it would not turn badly for her. She looked around, confused, but Wu had already passed.
Zaid?Please don’t be Zaid.
He’s too likable to be Zaid
“There is no ladder long enough to reach my domain, I have to yell at the delivery-man ‘just throw it in'”
– Incubus
“Don’t pay attention to the mess”
– Incubus
It is the second delivery-man that throws in the first.
so this is also dark souls as heck
Demiurges sure do like hanging people upside down to steal their blood.
Really the surprising part is how much clothes he’s wearing.
Hide your flaws. Hide your weaknesses. For you live among predators.
So, Incubus is looking more gnarly than he appears in Alison’s dream – and yet nowhere NEAR as decrepit as Hag!Mottom. Curiouser and curiouser.
When you realise butt-fruit might not be the most evil way to stay sexy…
…am I the only one that saw the fruit as “ball-fruit”, not “butt-fruit”?
Like, she was literally eating testicles?
Considering their origin, I would think that the fruits are not butt-like, but rather some other part of anatomy of the nether regions.
This is the second time when the body that the demiurge shows his followers is not the body that he usually inhabits. Mottom was an ancient crone that gorged herself on woe tree fruit to appear healthy and blossiming at her feasts, Incubus is a scarred veteran of many battles and, it seems, an avid ender of existences by physical means who appears in the dreams of fools as a debauched and whole-bodied epicurean tempter.
What kind of wounds and blemishes do the rest of the demiurges hide?
Solomon has no flaws. Smug dog millionnaire!
Don’t forget the lady Mottom told to PERISH who exploded into worms or something…
The wormface lady was an emissary, representing one of the Seven who decided to “phone it in”.
I doubt any of them managed to climb to the top of the heap of 7777… demiurges without getting tagged.
–except for mammon, who just bought his key. Though what he could have had to trade that could have been woth one seventh of the multiverse is still in question.
The greater the power, the longer the road. Long roads leave deep marks upon flesh and soul.
Jagganoth collects tiny, fragile unicorn figurines made from glass thinner than soap bubbles. They are his only friends.
You are not the only one to notice. Gog-Agog is a mound of worms who needs a lot of make up to look presentable, Jaggoth was once a fat man who than hit the gym like you would not believe, and the word is still out on Solomon David, but practising the most complex martial art in the universe might be taxing on the body.
Jagganath is apparently red-green color blind, or so His chosen servants say.
Jagganoth hides his works of poetry and his homebrewed ales.
There was a time when he did not, but that ended when his fellow demiurges came to him to break a tied vote as to which of the two was worse.
His experiments in tattooing, of course, he hid far earlier.
You have seen the facade, the airs and mask within the dreamscape.
Honeyed words and tempting visions.
Now we witness the house in which it dwells, a pit of iron and blood.
His flesh wrapped in scars and cloaked in violence.
Wielder of the key and the word that is fire.
What horrors lurk within the heart?
What brings joy to such a heavy soul?
Is anybody else getting Elric of Melnibone vibes here? Though it would not surprise me to learn that Allison was an incarnation of the Eternal Champion.
We now have two words, nice.
But why is it Flame? Is it the Immortal Flame?
It appears the first man of the four weaklings is being exsanguinated above Incubus’s pit as a means of communicating with Allison through her mind. However, the blood in the pit is identical to the blood in Allison’s dreams, and has a distinct perimeter. The moment Allison stepped into the pit to follow Incubus she had entrapped herself.
All it took was the willing sacrifice of his previous ’emissary’. I wonder if the hanging man slit his own throat before he was hung above Incubus. I also wonder whether the outside of Incubus’s pit looks like an Iron Maiden.
The Sword King, the King of Swords, Mabelrode of Old Kar Koza…
Bet you a feather and a quant of boredom, he has no face under thouse scars.
All real gods demand sacrifice in blood. Our black kings follow their example.
We should not be surprised, if we tell our children that beauty is skin deep, to find them flaying one another.
What a perfectly legitimate and seemingly trustworthy individual to have made a Faustian bargain with.
look at that over patient douchebag just singing yup when young alice fights its gonna be one hell of a match.
🙂 OK !
I wonder, how many lives were taken so that the frog could play prince and lure in a princess?
That Barrow-wight king, fool and foul, false dreams and in dire need of death.
Dang, Incubus can still get it.
Ah, the flower of flame is not as untouched as he appears! Blood-soaked lying thing!
It seems Incubus is FLAMING!
Hmm, Incubus has got his Lord Bloodraven going on
I honestly think my favorite part of this web comic is the comment section. These are some of the best names I’ve seen, and so many people seem to post “in character.”
“Sword King of the Middle Army”, do you think he ever told a beetle that its cannot learn Pankrash Circle Fighting?
Incubus does remove barriers that obstruct “human prosperity and happiness”, like the Vedic deity Indra, who in the post-Vedic Indian literature he is depicted as a powerful hero but one who is getting in trouble with his drunken, hedonistic and adulterous ways, and the god who disturbs Hindu monks as they meditate because he fears self-realized human beings may become more powerful than him.
Never thought of using the blood of sacrifices as a medium for dreamwalking. That seems rather unsanitary, and rather evil.
Well… I didn’t expect this. I am now much less confident in Allison’s ability to overcome this foe. And perhaps that was the point of his little charade.