WHEEL SMASHING LORD 3-60 to 3-61 (TEMPLE OF YS-HET)
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“The temple of YS-HET, the god of thresholds, is open to visitors at all hours of the day, and though any are allowed to linger, they may not stay for a period longer than a night and a day over a period of a quarter turn of the Wheel, as mandated by the Old Law. This is to make sure the temple is clear and functioning well for the constant flow of pilgrims and the needy, and does not become overwhelmed in its services.
The temple sits close to the West Dragon Gate at the lowest ring of throne (in Ashton), and is a point of entry for many coming to Throne for the first time. In old times it was guarded by seven angelic Root Knights of an esoteric order although now five of their number lay dormant and reincarnating. The priests of the temple chiefly concern themselves with keeping the temple clean and orderly, and offering succor to travelers. Central among these duties is the giving of temple alms to pilgrims, including the famous Six Color temple stew, a perpetual stew based on the six flavor elements of traditional Goblin cooking that is kept fed from a mother pot in the central sanctum and is said to have many health benefits.
Having tried the Six Color stew myself it was, disappointingly, only one color, although its fortifying effects on my constitution were hard to dispute as it kept me awake for hours.”
-Payapop Pritram
Wait. What.
Where big fish?
We’re gonna have to need a bit more for the KSBD fishing minigame
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Oh, don’t worry, there is need for food and two fishermen about to take it and eat it.
ENJOY THE TWO-PAGE UPDATE NOW
“It’s called *suspense*, Susan. Dramatic suspense!” – some bird, 2021
I see the previous page as suspenseful, and the current page as a typo that was misuploaded since we all know this city and have seen it numerous times. Also it doesn’t remotely look like it’s holding its breath. It looks like business as usual, since we’ve seen it like this before. It’s like we’re being told the demiurges aren’t doing anything meaningful or worthy of mortal attention.
Kind-of? In a way, they aren’t. I mean, sure, Big Red is trying to destroy the wheel, but I’m not sure how many people even know that—as opposed to assuming this is just another war in heaven, which would be business as usual—and even if they knew, it’s not like they can do anything about it. The only thing they really can do, and the one thing they have to do, is continue living their lives.
I seriously doubt it’s a misupload/typo. People who are psychologically “holding their breath” often go through the motions of day to day life, and a number of people seem to be worried and/or milling about.
Abaddon explained sometime before uploading this that he was working on a big two-page spread for the next update and that it was part of the reason it came two weeks late. He even posted a colorless preview of the middle left portion of this page in this site. It’s absolutely not a misupload.
Easy question with the fish .. did you not read the part about the Goblin Stew ?
no wonder it’s so much time between panels
Beauty takes time otherwise we wouldn’t be spending so much time lingering on every page’ attention to detail, especially the incredible amount of 2 page spreads we’ve gotten on the series thus far
Magnificent.
Oh nice! The depth perception must have been tough! Did you use any aids in getting the horizon line and depth right? This is one of your best crowd scenes!
Supposed to be a stand alone post! Sorry!
So beautiful!! I never really imagined the possibility of a snowy Throne (if that even is snow), it’s like a whole different vibe… makes you feel like things have changed, a lot
Ho there Jfish, I’m door-knocker-headed woman!
Whitechain got fished to death offscreen, the poor bastard
They cooked the fish into the stew, obviously.
Yes…Eat the fish, take its power for yourself…
the temple of cishet
can’t wait to see the temple of yrans-gay
Looking at the regalia hanging from the statue of Het, maybe Het is a misnomer…
the way the POV is slightly tilted has a profound effect on the energy of he scene, feels voyeuristic but the scale is so grand, i love it
Jellyfish ballin’
Honestly this would make for a baller wallpaper
hell yeah it would! in fact, i think i WILL make it into a wallpaper…asuming it would be legal, of course.
I had no idea that Throne even had seasons.
Not shown is the master swordsman atop the temple slicing a great block of ice to innumerable miniature fragments. The block must be replaced once every quarter-turn to retain the illusion of snowfall. It is a surprising percentage of the temple’s budget.
*Shrugs* It’s a living.
What a chill reply.
Agreed. It’s utterly weird, considering that Throne doesn’t even have day-night rotation – it’s sun being broken and everything. Nevertheless, “weird” was always a part of this comic’s charm, thus so be it.
The version of prim 7 Scarlet Swords Sever Strings rings quite true, though, I could buy it.
I presume this is in a twilight region, where the hot bright and cold dark sides of throne coalesce. Such a thing has not been recorded, to the best of my knowledge, but I would presume the mixing of the different airs may be the cause of such weather.
Or, as others have observed, that is not snow. Solomon already invites the Holy Visage of Preem Sekiro, so perhaps Abbadon is channeling that further. There is ice in the scene, however, so this seems less likely.
Condensation in the air over the stew and in front of faces, heavy clothing, snow in the air, with drifts or ice patches on the ground, all says it’s chillin’ in Throne, not just ash in Ashton.
I wonder if the sphere restraining Jaggy has anything to do with the weather.
Broken Worlds, the KSBD TTRPG, does mention variable weather conditions caused by the unpredictable effects of pollution and different substances dumped into Throne’s waters upon the mists that rise into the city. It doesn’t mention snow in its table of examples, but the table seems to be framed as a brief list of examples that isn’t exclusive of other possibilities. My guess is that this snowfall isn’t so much seasonal as just the weird thing the mists of Throne are doing today.
Alternately, we might be about to learn that this is an aberration somehow caused by the big purple sphere containing Jagganoth.
god the art is gorgeous, really wild to compare this spread to the stuff in the first book. reads much better
No matter the rate of updates, a new one always pleases! Marvellous, filling panel here.
I really can’t staaaaay, the temple is making me leave. I want to get awaaaay, but Jag’s making me grieve. Existence has beeeen kind of a draaag.
so, anyone found Waldo yet?
Is the quiosk on the right selling incense for pilgrims or am I crazy? Love these spreads!
Maybe- it looks like they get a bowl of stew from the counter on the left, then turn around, take a few steps, and kneel to pray before eating.
I take it back- I think the two counters are entirely unrelated.
That being said, I would be at least somewhat surprised if a temple dedicated to pilgrims and the poor was engaging in crass mercantilism. I suspect that more likely the incense is “free”, but there’s a “suggested” “donation” *hint hint wink wink nudge nudge*.
Yeah, the counter on the right looks to me to be a prayer station that provides incense as part of its function. As providing alms to the needy is one of the temple’s functions, I’d imagine all services (including stew and incense) are given freely but that donations by those who can afford to do so are strongly encouraged. The fact that the temple needs to limit how many pilgrims use its service via the one day every quarter-year policy strongly suggests that many pilgrims don’t pay an amount that would fund the resupply of what they use. Most likely provision of temple services on an individual to individual basis operates at a loss, and much of the temple’s funds come in a form of donations from patrons that are a fixed amount per year (or other period of time).
Oh I JUST realized that’s Allison right in the middle there. This panel is so lively and busy, I didn’t notice. She’s so powerful now at this point in the story, but here amongst the people she’s aiming to protect she looks so small.
Hm, is it normal for snow to appear in throne? Not sure if we’ve ever seen clouds, or rain for that matter.
Pages 124-125 of Broken Worlds (the KSBD TTRPG) get into Throne’s weather a bit. It varies from day to day, including rain and mist (which could appear as clouds from the lower level of the city, I’d imagine). It doesn’t mention snow, but I don’t read it as necessarily excluding the possibility either. It is mentioned that Throne “has a warm and humid climate year round” though, so I’d imagine that snow would be quite rare. Abnormal weather is certainly a possibility, as “the adverse effect of pollution and other unknowable
substances dumped into the holy waters of the Red City can have sometimes dangerous and frequently bizarre consequences”.
Where else to find a Legion than in the very heart of a bustling city?
A nice, charitable place in Throne? Now we’ve seen everything
The atmosphere of these panels is awesome. I feel I am there. Even worse, I feel I have been there.
And in the lower left we see Goat-chef, Fish-waiter and Snail-busboy. No lack of diversity at the soup kitchen!
A gate where all pass through one way only. What swallows up the throng on the other side?
I know that goblin in this context does not mean what it usually does in fantasy but I still find the minutia of the cooking of different races very interesting.
Cooking must be very weird for a species that “sees” by smell.
Indeed! Poor Payapop Pritram only saw one colour in the stew when he was looking with his eyes, like a fool. Presumably “colour” here is a metaphorical stand-in for a goblin term/concept that doesn’t directly translate over to sighted and nearly scent-blind creatures like humans.