To ‘a idiot’ (I could not directly reply to your post for some reason):
In the same way Angels are reincarnated, and get the positive number from the number of reincarnations they have undergone, a negative number indicates how many reincarnations their source must experience before they may exist- beyond being a dream anyway.
Either that, or time may not work the same for all angels. Either one may be correct.
Same here.
And I’m a generic cis guy.
[In case it appears otherwise, I swear I’m not trolling. But for everyone’s sake, criticize me if it’s warranted]
To be quite honest with you, friend, I was much more attracted to White Chain in her old rocky body. Her fleshly appearance is much too familiar and mundane to have the same appeal.
No, no, you misunderstand. It is good that Pree White Chain can express her gender — the flesh is what I’m talking about. I suppose angel bodies leave little room for expression.
I don’t want to tell anyone that they’re doing their gender wrong, but I didn’t think cis guys *had* lesbian parts of their brain? So if it makes you happy or makes sense to call parts of yourself “lesbian”, go for it… but honestly, you can just be a lesbian!
Sorry. Wasn’t trying to be an ass or anything. My intention was not to belittle in any regard. It was more to humourously quip about White Chain’s transcendent hotness, as Edimmu put it (and brilliantly at that).
Since this page of comments show White Chain – at least momentarily – activates the hotness-sensitive part of the brain in lesbians, straight men, gay men, and even ace men (in the comments thus far ALONE)…. I dare say Edimmu is right.
And to you Edimmu, I think it’s totally fair to have that fleeting recognition outside your normal orientation. I may be cis, but even I have a fleeting recognition of the fact that Hugh Jackman is a *very* good looking man.
We both have our orientation, but we’re not blind. 😛
“Often, as I gaze upon it,
treat upon the ice upon it,
I can feel the water shiver
as the Lady, with a slither,
comes to tap the ice — to tear it.
Yes I swear that I can hear it
tapped and tickled by her fingers,
where a floe in splinter lingers
where I cannot come.”
— Stevie Smith, “The Frozen Lake”
Any minute now the skeletons are all gonna start singing “This is Halloween, this is Halloween – Pumpkins scream in the dead of night – This is Halloween, everybody make a scene – Trick or treat ’til the neighbors gonna die of fright…”
Observe! Observe the idols in the shrine. Observe them most keenly, for they are as one the figure of Guardian Death, He Who Was Diamond. Behold! He resides yet upon this world, this far-flung outpost of dominion.
Aw see I thought you were riffing on Disco Dave, and was excited to read the silly roleplay comment going along with someone. Less exciting to see the silly roleplay comment dismissing a fun question.
Like the Mountain Bandits who had the misfortune of running into Shanks at the beginning of One Piece, imagine you set out to be a big fish in a little pond just to run into the biggest Leviathan in the ocean that just happens to be taking a vacation into your little backwater pond. Must of sucked to be an upstart in these mountains just to become Sol’s short-lived punching bag.
O’ Broken King, O’ Man of the Diamond Cage, you cannot resist your deeply ingrained habits? Can you not see your mistakes as they were? Your hand is not Justice, it is the silk hiding the ugly truth.
The way I see it, Solomon’s only real arrogance and mistake was the belief that he was forever unless he personally chose to ascend. It can be forgiven, however, because it was almost true.
But he left no backup for his empire. Because of the belief he would always be there to hold the sky up for them. People here always give him a bad rap, but Solomon was quite good as god-kings go. Easily the best out of Throne’s lot.
He’s right tho, do you not understand anything about solomons character? Like seriously now, it’s really obvious that he desperately needed the honest and genuine approval of his people, that that was the lock on his cage. He bent his knee to the rules he himself made in his fight against white chain, because the bruse he got was not enough to count as drawing blood, but all the people watching thought it was. And got even comments on the nature of the masses ominously.
When they demanded he retire as ruler, he never actually objected, and we never got to see his full reply due to jaggy party crashing.
Hell the moment before he went all out and used the sealing move on jag, his reaction to the loss of trust of his people, did you not see all that??
Is it really that hard for people to understand such a concept?
It was nicer *looking*, but I think this version of order is probably better for the people he’s protecting. He’s leaving them to govern themselves rather than imposing a harsh social structure on them that they might not want.
okay, i’m prob’ just stupid, but why ARE the trees dotted with bodies? are thouse the folks that tried to approch ol’ sam until now? he doesn’t seem to me like the kind of person that would do that-but on the other hand, i’m probobly wrong.
and yes, i do remember the part where he turned people into soup, but thouse were guys came to the tornoment of power knowing that the’ll probably die, not randos that stambled on to him.
p.s: there are cat people?? i didn’t know there were cat people! how nice! also, yes, i’m awere that my englise is very bad, not my first lenguage and so on.
A warning he knew full well that the majority would not take, and that the majority, in fact, had no proper way of conceptualizing. Solomon David, from before the start of his reign, was a man who killed to reach all ends. There is no peaceful king.
About that, I’m pretty sure the the anual fights were always a bracketed tournament, and that he only ever fought the winner of each tournament.
The whole mass blending thing we saw was explicitly because agog had suddenly altered the format to a battle royal, and he knew something was up, and decided to solve it using a brutal, but honestly impartial way that would keep things consistent.
No, it wasn’t like that. Gog Agog was going to rig fights for Allison, Solomon probably saw that or at least suspected as much and changed the format to Battle Royale to thwart Gog’s plans.
You are right, I think it was after cio got involved and white chain defeated the alicio fusion, along with other outside interventions, that he decided it was unsalvageable, and stepped into the ring to engage the voluntary blender.
It is a reference to the monster called the Shrike in the Hyperion Cantos books by Dan Simmons. Like Solomon it could manipulate time. Like the bird it would impale its victims on a tree.
The thing about shrikes (the birds, not the Hyperion one) is that impaling their prey is their method of storing food. Given the cold mountain climate, could this scene be an advanced form of freeze-drying?
Yes but the book’s name is a reference to an actual bird that does this as a hunting technique.
Therefore it can also be a reference to that bird, without having to be a reference to the Sci-fi story, because it is a *real thing*.
Allison was unconscious for 3 years, 8 and bit months until Zaid showed up and then had a training montage for a few months. Going by her hair growth and Zaid’s spectacular moustache, it looks like it was another 6-8 months. So 4-5 years since Jaggonoth got orbed. Not that long, but long enough to get described as years without any time shenanigans.
Whaaat?
No, of course not. Most of the Monarchical societies have some form of Aristocracy, or Nobility, or upper Mandarin Class or something that has their own privileged courts and laws. It can be quite stratified, as in India (and the Spanish Empire) with the Caste System. No, everyone can and has privileges according to tradition, the kinship to the King or some other form of “being special”.
“Listen — glowing forehead “keys” taken from slain enemies is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some ravaging and plundering other magical warlords.”
White chain never ceases to activate the lesbian part of my brain
you and me both
Agreed
Always
Adding my agreement!
Reporting that my male brain is unintentional collateral damage.
My gay male brain also. White Chain transcends both sexuality and gender.
Transcendentally angelic, really.
The goal of all angels.
To make people question their preference, and hear the lamentation of their foes as: “Oh no, they’re hot!”
not relevant, but how would an angel have a negative number in their name?
To ‘a idiot’ (I could not directly reply to your post for some reason):
In the same way Angels are reincarnated, and get the positive number from the number of reincarnations they have undergone, a negative number indicates how many reincarnations their source must experience before they may exist- beyond being a dream anyway.
Either that, or time may not work the same for all angels. Either one may be correct.
correct
And the lesbian part of my heart…
Same here.
And I’m a generic cis guy.
[In case it appears otherwise, I swear I’m not trolling. But for everyone’s sake, criticize me if it’s warranted]
Check back in about that in a couple months, I’ll be waiting
as an ace man, she has the same effect on me
To be quite honest with you, friend, I was much more attracted to White Chain in her old rocky body. Her fleshly appearance is much too familiar and mundane to have the same appeal.
Damn I didn’t know chasers went after angels as well
Androgyny hot, I get it — sometimes it ain’t what they want for themselves tho
No, no, you misunderstand. It is good that Pree White Chain can express her gender — the flesh is what I’m talking about. I suppose angel bodies leave little room for expression.
real and true
Whole brain activation.
The Mountain God really goes all-out for Halloween.
oh shit solomon went full shrike.
… summoning Yis-un through time and space through the suffering of man seems unnecessary.
I came here to say the same thing. What is it with time controllers and impalement?
I don’t want to tell anyone that they’re doing their gender wrong, but I didn’t think cis guys *had* lesbian parts of their brain? So if it makes you happy or makes sense to call parts of yourself “lesbian”, go for it… but honestly, you can just be a lesbian!
My kingdom and Key for an edit button. 😔
I bear witness to your sorrow, friend
Nah nah. This isn’t like a full time thing, it’s a fleeting moment.
Sorry. Wasn’t trying to be an ass or anything. My intention was not to belittle in any regard. It was more to humourously quip about White Chain’s transcendent hotness, as Edimmu put it (and brilliantly at that).
Since this page of comments show White Chain – at least momentarily – activates the hotness-sensitive part of the brain in lesbians, straight men, gay men, and even ace men (in the comments thus far ALONE)…. I dare say Edimmu is right.
And to you Edimmu, I think it’s totally fair to have that fleeting recognition outside your normal orientation. I may be cis, but even I have a fleeting recognition of the fact that Hugh Jackman is a *very* good looking man.
We both have our orientation, but we’re not blind. 😛
Aah yes, the dreaded ki rata technique : “Ultimate Edge Xmas Decorations”
Halloween, actually.
Best not invoke Her song, just yet.
Sadly Halloween isn’t a big thing in that tiny portion of the multiverse I occupy, had to mention the next best option 🙁
Mariah, the Witch In Ice
“Often, as I gaze upon it,
treat upon the ice upon it,
I can feel the water shiver
as the Lady, with a slither,
comes to tap the ice — to tear it.
Yes I swear that I can hear it
tapped and tickled by her fingers,
where a floe in splinter lingers
where I cannot come.”
— Stevie Smith, “The Frozen Lake”
“tread” not “treat”
I am so sorry but this poem reads perfectly to the theme of the aforementioned witch’s song..
A truly unholy thing, it is. The Song of Definitely, as it is inevitable.
Any minute now the skeletons are all gonna start singing “This is Halloween, this is Halloween – Pumpkins scream in the dead of night – This is Halloween, everybody make a scene – Trick or treat ’til the neighbors gonna die of fright…”
Time to predict Sol’s hair: full shave or full grizzly?
Enormous, immacutely groomed afro.
Disco Dave
I support the afro
Proven correct.
Observe! Observe the idols in the shrine. Observe them most keenly, for they are as one the figure of Guardian Death, He Who Was Diamond. Behold! He resides yet upon this world, this far-flung outpost of dominion.
The beard shall be fulsome, the head bald.
Aw see I thought you were riffing on Disco Dave, and was excited to read the silly roleplay comment going along with someone. Less exciting to see the silly roleplay comment dismissing a fun question.
I would expect a mushroom bowl cut and a short but pointed beard. Similar to the little wooden man our feline friend has carved
the twist: the “body” IS his beard. he has become a beard
“Lo! For I have become beard… 😄
Captain CAAVEMAAANNNNN! – Obviously, it’s been done before, but I still like it.
naw thats just karl marx
The one in the statues
My guess is dreads and a beard. Like the first of his masters to be killed.
I’m gonna second ‘like the statues’ which appears to be bald on top, and much hair and beard sticking out
Harry Du Bois muttonchops and beard.
Balder than Shakespeare with fuller beard
Like the Mountain Bandits who had the misfortune of running into Shanks at the beginning of One Piece, imagine you set out to be a big fish in a little pond just to run into the biggest Leviathan in the ocean that just happens to be taking a vacation into your little backwater pond. Must of sucked to be an upstart in these mountains just to become Sol’s short-lived punching bag.
I love getting to see into smaller individual worlds like this.
The skeleton grove is coming along nicely.
Well. I see someone’s taking after Vlad’s method of keeping things under control.
O’ Broken King, O’ Man of the Diamond Cage, you cannot resist your deeply ingrained habits? Can you not see your mistakes as they were? Your hand is not Justice, it is the silk hiding the ugly truth.
Just as in the Diamond Cage you made of yourself.
The way I see it, Solomon’s only real arrogance and mistake was the belief that he was forever unless he personally chose to ascend. It can be forgiven, however, because it was almost true.
But he left no backup for his empire. Because of the belief he would always be there to hold the sky up for them. People here always give him a bad rap, but Solomon was quite good as god-kings go. Easily the best out of Throne’s lot.
This Shit Again. When will you people learn that divine kings are Not Gonna Suck Your Dick.
He’s right tho, do you not understand anything about solomons character? Like seriously now, it’s really obvious that he desperately needed the honest and genuine approval of his people, that that was the lock on his cage. He bent his knee to the rules he himself made in his fight against white chain, because the bruse he got was not enough to count as drawing blood, but all the people watching thought it was. And got even comments on the nature of the masses ominously.
When they demanded he retire as ruler, he never actually objected, and we never got to see his full reply due to jaggy party crashing.
Hell the moment before he went all out and used the sealing move on jag, his reaction to the loss of trust of his people, did you not see all that??
Is it really that hard for people to understand such a concept?
The fantasy elected council ain’t gonna suck yours either
“What is a branch, if not a spear in the making”
Truly a waste of perfectly good wood. The tree didn’t lose its limb for such violence…
So he’s still trying to maintain his version of order
His version of order was much nicer than this. I think he’s just being a hobo that killed off bandits and violent scum for now.
It was nicer *looking*, but I think this version of order is probably better for the people he’s protecting. He’s leaving them to govern themselves rather than imposing a harsh social structure on them that they might not want.
If they didn’t want it, they were free to leave.
Is that a Carl Marx shrine?
No, that’s comrade Kras Mazov
0.000% of Communism has been built.
oh my god I love home deco
Salami Dave still got it
A visible deterrent for the easily deterred, a last resting place for the more foolhardy.
okay, i’m prob’ just stupid, but why ARE the trees dotted with bodies? are thouse the folks that tried to approch ol’ sam until now? he doesn’t seem to me like the kind of person that would do that-but on the other hand, i’m probobly wrong.
Probably the cutthroats and warlords the woodcutter was talking about.
Makes for a powerful incentive to be better neighbours…
oh, okay. thank you. dont know why i didon’t realize it.
and yes, i do remember the part where he turned people into soup, but thouse were guys came to the tornoment of power knowing that the’ll probably die, not randos that stambled on to him.
p.s: there are cat people?? i didn’t know there were cat people! how nice! also, yes, i’m awere that my englise is very bad, not my first lenguage and so on.
I assume he gave them a warning, one that they would obviously ignore, before playing a game of whackamole with them
A warning he knew full well that the majority would not take, and that the majority, in fact, had no proper way of conceptualizing. Solomon David, from before the start of his reign, was a man who killed to reach all ends. There is no peaceful king.
About that, I’m pretty sure the the anual fights were always a bracketed tournament, and that he only ever fought the winner of each tournament.
The whole mass blending thing we saw was explicitly because agog had suddenly altered the format to a battle royal, and he knew something was up, and decided to solve it using a brutal, but honestly impartial way that would keep things consistent.
Did Gog not alter the format on Solomon’s explicit orders?
Yes.
No, she did not. Simon even gave her some shit for it at one point, once he figured she was up to something.
No, it wasn’t like that. Gog Agog was going to rig fights for Allison, Solomon probably saw that or at least suspected as much and changed the format to Battle Royale to thwart Gog’s plans.
You are right, I think it was after cio got involved and white chain defeated the alicio fusion, along with other outside interventions, that he decided it was unsalvageable, and stepped into the ring to engage the voluntary blender.
Some serious Dracula Castlevania business
Solomon: “What is a man? A miserable little pile of secrets.”
Nice to see a new world, hope we stay here for at least a little while
“Shrike”
It’s an older reference sir, but it checks out.
Isn’t it just a reference to reality? Shrikes actually do that to their prey.
Well, I suppose that references to reality are the oldest of them all.
It is a reference to the monster called the Shrike in the Hyperion Cantos books by Dan Simmons. Like Solomon it could manipulate time. Like the bird it would impale its victims on a tree.
The thing about shrikes (the birds, not the Hyperion one) is that impaling their prey is their method of storing food. Given the cold mountain climate, could this scene be an advanced form of freeze-drying?
Oh my God I read the Hyperion Cantos and whoa momma, what a masterwork of science fiction. I’d forgotten all about it.
That Shrike was one bad mother (Shut your mouth!) Damn right.
Like Salami Dave, not one to be trifled with.
Frankly it’s more fantasy than anything else all things considered. I’m not a fan.
Yes but the book’s name is a reference to an actual bird that does this as a hunting technique.
Therefore it can also be a reference to that bird, without having to be a reference to the Sci-fi story, because it is a *real thing*.
This sort of misunderstanding is unfortunately common amongst people nerdy enough to post regularly on comments and discussion threads.
The story in question is honestly more fantasy than anything else.
Kitty!
Years- so Allison’s time away was indeed stretched by a strange force, or simply greater than it appeared while being shown to us.
Allison was unconscious for 3 years, 8 and bit months until Zaid showed up and then had a training montage for a few months. Going by her hair growth and Zaid’s spectacular moustache, it looks like it was another 6-8 months. So 4-5 years since Jaggonoth got orbed. Not that long, but long enough to get described as years without any time shenanigans.
one of the (few) appealing things about kings, historically, has been that everyone *else* is – in theory – equal beneath their rule and power
it sure doesn’t work out that way, but i suppose that’s how “anarcho-monarchists” happen, as batshit as that is
Whaaat?
No, of course not. Most of the Monarchical societies have some form of Aristocracy, or Nobility, or upper Mandarin Class or something that has their own privileged courts and laws. It can be quite stratified, as in India (and the Spanish Empire) with the Caste System. No, everyone can and has privileges according to tradition, the kinship to the King or some other form of “being special”.
Once-king beckons. White Chain bind. Onward, forth: proceed.
I feel like they’re gonna bone
I think the licensed and bonded trail guide is a professional and will refrain from hitting on White Chain.
I think White Chain has a thing for furries
every time i think this fandom has reaced it’s peak, it finds yet another mountion.
I was talking about White Chain & Solomon
Um, comedy, subverting expectations, comprehension and surprise, and all that.
perhaps dave is the only non-furry of this world and that’s why they dubbed him king
Catman One: Look! There goes a king!
Catman Two: How do you know he’s a king?
Catman One: Because he hasn’t got shit all over him.
“Listen — glowing forehead “keys” taken from slain enemies is no basis for a system of government. Supreme executive power derives from a mandate from the masses, not from some ravaging and plundering other magical warlords.”