Seeker of Thrones 5-53
Chapter: 5
“A curious fact – the Institute of Fractal Archivists insisted to me today they had found a peculiar period of history prior to the Second Conquest that according to their ontoscopes does not exist. Nearly two centuries to which a huge host of historical inaccuracies and inconsistencies have been attributed – I am familiar with the period myself. They theorize that this is because the period only existed for some people; that is to say the flow of time itself, the turning of the great wheel, was tampered with.
It is, of course, a preposterous explanation, though so very convenient I am inclined to believe it.”
-Payapop Pritram, personal notes S.C. 2420
I AM AND I ARE ALL WE
BUT I AM STILL I
I am he as you are he as you are me
And we are all together…
AND I AM ALPHARIUS
GOO GOO G’JOOB
Would be only half-surprised if the King of All Devils was actually Twice-Vehk.
And we are all together.
Curious humor, this one.
Were it not for the damage it would do, I would love to speak a while with such a being.
re: caption/comment
So, essentially, a Dragon Break then.
If you look very, very carefully in the bottom right hand panel, you can see an eye peering through the grate of the cage.
But now I must wonder… where does the room end, and Himself begin? A being whose name is I echoes the entire Wheel, for the Wheel seen from the right angle is the Tower called I. This Aeon doubts that Himself is trapped in that iron sarcophagus at all, regardless of the copious amounts of binding needles.
They are not chains that bind him but the strings he pulls. On the very pillars of reality he tugs ever so subtly.
Whoa!
Do I need to reread every page and turn up my screen brightness?
He’s not ‘I’ he’s ‘myself’. This is because he’s a demon, and not Yis-Un.
ehyeh ašer ehyeh, eh, Abbadon?
I quite enjoy this ʞing.
Every once in a while, a devil petitions the Guild for entry. I won’t say they’re never admitted- talent can rise from the most unexpected of places- but the Traders in Signs and Portents demand a certain artistry. Any fool can say what she knows to be true; an artist speaks the shape of what should be, and permits the universe to fill in the details, and most devils are sorely lacking in imagination beyond “consume.”
He that Is has flair, certainly, but true art arises from limitations. What fun is there in playing God when you already are one?
There’s a Jello song with DOA
named Power is Boring.
It’s astute.
Pretty much everything Jello’s done has been astute.
Under those circumstances, wouldn’t lack of limitations be, itself, a limitation?
If you know the future that will come to pass, you are not a soothsayer. You are a narrator.
Entirely different skillset involved.
Myself is surely a very handsome devil! I can see why all the other devils lock Myself up, because Myself is simply too glamorous to be allowed out in the world. What fools. Next opportunity I have, I’ll let Myself out of the cage myself!
Anyone so imprisoned who deigns to wear the name “Himself” as a guise is surely roleplaying their captivity, but with fervor.
Got to be good looking ’cause he’s so hard to see!
He will stretch out His hand, AL-YIS-UN.
And You will work His wonders.
Is that an eye I spy?
Aye!
Bha ha ha ha ha! The worst devil of them all is an honest conversation with yourself!! Ha! I love it!
“And that’s what I am.”
In my experience anomalous records are to be ignored. Either they’re wrong or someone has changed history. If it’s the latter you’d best not draw the ire of a being powerful enough to do so by looking too closely at its handiwork.
If it didn’t want its handiwork examined, it should have done a better job of hiding it. Everything has happened and is going to happen; examination is inescapable.
It doesn’t care if you examine it, so long as your examination poses no threat. The instant you have a fraction of a chance of becoming a threat, it will murder until that changes. Unfortunately, you have no way of knowing what knowledge is dangerous to them, and through them, you.
But observation changes the observed. It was fine until you looked at it.
I like how she’s already emoting by manifesting her diadem.
P.S. The old boy styling his “I”s as “王”s is downright endearing.
In the language of my homeland, that is the symbol referring to the number “seven”. It’s downright bad luck to see this, it is.
But much better than “four” or “five”, though much worse than “fifty-four”
In the language it is written in, it means “King”. Very fitting, and yet so incomplete.
This is one of those AI-boxing things, isn’t it? You’re supposed to be very careful about what you let the superintelligence in the box know, or say, or even affect, because otherwise it might convince you to let it out and then you’ve got a real problem.
Whatever you do, don’t think about Roko’s basilisk.
My absolute favorite parts of this comic are when Allison doesn’t realize how afraid she should be of some incredibly powerful being so she just starts talking shit right to them. I hope she survives to do it again!
How would we have a comic about a girl making Bad Decisions if the girl croaked just when things got going?
Sit tight, friendo.
The King won’t live forever, but she’ll live long.
> The King won’t live forever, but she’ll live long.
long _enough_.
I wonder what his voice sounds like. Deep and mellow, or small and timid?
Pree Ashma forgive me. These are unclean thoughts.
Gilbert Gottfried.
I will admit to going back and re-reading all of it, with his lines in Gilbert’s voice, and I’d recommend it, as well.
Well, thanks. With a single name you caused the sound of the text to crack into focus, and now that voice is all I hear Himself speak in.
And the terrible thing is, it works.
Sean Connery.
I hear the voice of Lucien Lachance.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smfP0_S4VwY
I’ve never come across a sweeter voice, nor a tongue I’d more like to pull out. Who better to silence than the one who knows everything?
Oh man, it’s the Black Flame itself.
Makes sense to let himself be caged by his captors.
Since going out of cage and all primal will consume the universe again.
If they’re at a crossroads, will there be music?
How delightful it is, when one claims to be God to Her Face.
And is absolutely correct in doing so. For such is a paradox and paradoxes are most Holy.
And know from a clash of heads we pass to a clash of wits
King of Devils confirmed for Biblical GOD
אֶהְיֶה אֲשֶׁר אֶהְיֶה
Not necessarily.
Names have power.
No sane Sorcerer, Devil King or Godlet would let a mere mortal have power over them by revealing their true name.
“I am who I am” is a synonym for “Mind your own fucking business”
Jewish god’s name is Elohim.
Myself and I are names for Christian god, as they forgot their Jewish roots.
I am that I am, YHVH says to Moses in the Torah.