Wielder of Names 3-50
“The first to go was our ignorance. For even our greatest and wisest could not have foreseen that ours was a story told a hundred thousand times or more. None could have seen that terrible red corpse city, and its inhuman masters, whose exhalation was death. The next to go were our laws. The tablets of our old prophets were ground to dust and the law of the Bright Queen was raised in their place. It was a molten law, an absolute law, and touching it brought swift and painful death.
In the end, creation itself was stripped from us. Wolves in the shape of men and things more awful belched forth from the fiery wound in the sky. They had iron boots and smooth fingers made for rubbing gold, and their bellies were always empty, and full of cruel and inhuman laughter. They ate up all the Ardenwood, and stripped it bare, and then they slurped all the rivers up, and the hills were scorched with acrid smoke. The valley dells where the beasts of the wood gathered were ripped asunder, and the beasts were ripped into a million parts and sold piecemeal to make women’s trinkets.
As for our kings, they were gelded and flayed. They were treated no better than the beasts in the end.”
– Excerpt from Age of Fire, attributed to the sage-poet Avsa Galman. Said to be an early account of the conquering of his world by the god-queen Mother Om.
I’ll wager my fingernails that this arc will impress upon Allison the idea that seizing the power of the key is in her best interests, in more ways than one. I for one would hate to see my home reduced to cinders, even if those blue plants look singularly odd.
Nevertheless, the inclusion of a runaway slave into our merry menagerie will be interesting. Hopefully not in the Chinese sense. Or hopefully. I cannot decide.
4th panel was so anime
Should be “its”, not “it’s”.
Oh Nadia, you never did know when to say “when”… but neither do I with regards to Incubus, who I’m looking forward to seeing screw things up in some way before this trip to see the queen is over.
These throne kings are contemptable, their acts rob themselves of their own future.
Do they have the power to soar across stars to plants among the sea of entropy? Or do they only rule the universes “earth”.
Ah, Mother Om, have you ever known when to say stop? Of course, your power means that you shall have ever more, so long as you do not…but, really, the price is going to be rather more, and less, than you bargained for.
I wonder if she knows that she’s her own bill collector in this…she’s rather good at putting herself off, after all.
You know with the slave girl talking about the star of the masters and almost everyone knowing there are only 7 keys in existence. It makes this fool wonder if the so called star of the masters are lower quality keys given to the emperors most trusted to enforce their powers where they cannot be. After all even a being who can warp reality can’t be everywhere and its always important to have powerful people who won’t betray you and are trusted to hold down your territories.
There were 777,777 keys given out to the demiurges by the Ruling King. 111,111 each claimed by the seven victors. Perhaps they give them out to their chief enforcers. I know not.
Consider that it is clear that a single key can open many gates, from our heroine’s example. Hers is the sum of all keys, so the star on each Demiurges’ brow is likely the sum of their seventh of creation.
Your point stands, however- governors or similar likely have more singular and less powerful keys.
Recall that nearly everyone in Throne has a mark on their forehad that is similar to the one Allison has, I believe it was referred to as a “ley-stone” by the magisters that we met previously. This slave seems not to have one of these marks.
The slave refers to the mark as a “star of the masters” not a ley-stone OR a key. The fact that she said “masters” plural instead of “master” singular.
My theory is that the “star of the masters” is the same as a “ley-stone”, and that in this particular world nearly everyone FROM Throne is upper-class, probably by virtue of the fact that most people in Throne seem to know far more about the multiverse and the truth of it all than the denizens of any of the 777,777 worlds that comprise all of creation.
Huh. The woman’s bracelets are actually manacles.
That can’t be good.
She appears to be a slave of some variety. Though if she has crossed paths with Allison, it is possible that her shackles shall not hold her any longer- though whether that is by coming to accompany this nascent King, or by being slain, we cannot be yet certain.
the new character ..!!! i love her!!!
I bet you Ten pounds of heavenly pig fat that she will be bleeding out next comic.
I’ll bet you fifty pounds we never see her again once Allison leaves.
This is an interesting turn of events…
Even if you claim the power if the multiverse, they only thing you truly own is your mind.
So easy to empathize and connect, such big expressive eyes, the better to see your soul flame.
Trust not the downtrodden. Every hunter needs proper bait.
I fear for what her service might entail, in the City of Mottom.
The lesson presented here: Do not mess with Alice-un. She will mess you up six ways to Sunday and won’t remember doing any of it.
Allison appears to have stumbled upon an alternate dimension version of herself.
Now that you mention it, they DO have quite similar facial features.
I may see a solution to both their problems.
Isn’t Allison supposed to be growing horns again? Didn’t she drink a bunch more liquor?
That was specifically Blue Devil liquor that gave her horns, if I remember correctly. She didn’t drink any to my knowledge during the contest.
She already threw up the little demons from drinking, though I’m not sure what she did with them. That probably limits the affects, much as how her hrons were lost when she regurgitated up the devil of the previous liquor.
It occurs to this one that Allison may come from one of the few worlds where slavery has been abolished (as a systemtic endeavor, in any event, if not in all specific cases). How many worlds will she spread her gospel of liberation to, merely by carrying that philosophy with her as she comes to live in her name?
I assume this is basically what would happen to Allison’s Earth if the gate was ever opened. Whelp, not like Allison didn’t have enough reasons on her plate to become a goddamn hero.
The slave trade requires a means of replacement before it can be removed. Without available industrialization, no world is spared it’s necessity — and make no mistake, whether caste, iron, or debt act as shackles it has appeared everywhere there is great need of labor.
It would honestly surprise me if the masters of creation who have seized at least some of the secrets of the cosmos do not have the means to move beyond slavery.
The thing is, they don’t want to. A society that frowns on slavery is a society founded on moral philosophies inimical to singular eternal rulers.
Second step, you eat all the creation
Swallow the trees, the lakes and all the valleys
Crush the moon, and drink the river flowing
Deep rolling ocean blue
she looks a lot like allison … same nose and eyes … perhaps it means something?
to forgive is to understand, to forget is to not.
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MOTHER OM WILL NOT BE KIND TO THOSE WHOSE CONVICTIONS WAVER.
NOTE THIS AS WELL, MOTHER OM WILL NOT BE KIND.
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Ever think about how Ally walking around with, basically, the presidential nuke launchin football taped to a flamethrower on her forehead, and (at this point) still expects people to treat her like Jo Schlub? When she even remembers she has it, I mean.
Just a bit funny I think.