Wielder of Names 4-68
Chapter: 4
“Take care when ye walk when there’s a dim age about. Many awful lights will spring up a-hungering when men’s hearts darken. When the darkling sky reigns, a man’s eyes grow so adimmed he can scarcely tell the glimmer o’ window light asides from the terrible heat o’ the forest fire.”
– Peregrine Knight Enric
ooooooooh someone’s not grovelingggg
Lacking an instinctive grovel reflex is one of the more noticeable marks of Royalty.
Also one of the most frequently fatal.
I have often thought that to be Royalty means nothing more than to be born without the ability to follow, and to survive the inevitable clashes with others of your quality.
All that power and her composure goes from such a simple thing.
It’s not that simple, Scrub. Who WOULDN’T grovel? Only a fool would fail to do so.
And Mottom has not had a fool in her court for a long time, I wager.
Oh, really?
Isn’t her whole court filled with fools and weaklings?
For she kills the strong and the wise, for she hates them, for their Will may overshadows hers.
Get down. Allison, right naaa-Alli- your head! Bow right- Oh no…..
Cue Allison standing awkwardly off to the side.
What in all conceivable probability could cause the composure of a god empress to falter so?
Lady troubles?
She shouldn’t have trusted that fart.
That is definitely a ‘Someone ripped one’ face.
Completely caught me off guard.
this chair
is an eyesore
I’d say either Allison or Bugs Bunny, and Bugs has better places to be.
Does anyone else think Nadia looks like yellow diamond when she pulls that face in the last scene?
She totally looks like Yellow Diamond.
The Fool speaks truth, as he often does.
I see it!
Heh.
http://i.imgur.com/hVjhOA1.jpg
I am reminded of the following haiku:
Kneel before diamonds:
Starlight made inflexible –
Beauty given teeth.
My thoughts exactly.
Can’t wait for Allison to call Mommy Om a clod.
I also have a saying: If one does not bow down before the gods, shit will go down in your stead.
“It’s either you or shit, I care not for who gets down first.” – Mother Om, in a particularly festive mood.
What a wonderful expression to see on the face of a glorious goddess. This sorry old skull rejoyces with the knowledge that there is one thing it still controls better than any divine out there; though that is not very hard without the physical means for mimics.
Poor Allison … or poor Cio, who will have to get her out of this mess?
Five dollars says she just saw Allison. Not bowing.
Five Dollars Speak The Obvious
Been wondering what my name was. >.> So thanks for that. XD
This was a heartwarming tale. I am so glad my stupidity helped inspire!
someone’s not bowing
Anyone else wanna bet her reaction is to our heroine not bowing down?
Or maybe she just saw something gross.
eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee Get her girl! Be the hero!
Methinks the queen has spotted our Alice-UN.
I, for one, wish to know just why there is a severed head being presented in panel 2. There must surely be a good story behind that.
It’s not a severed head being presented.
It’s a severed head, riding around in a micro-palanquin atop a beast of burden.
There’s an even better story behind that.
Please be a futurama head
That’s not just a beast of burden. It looks like a Kindly One, and some of them take offence to being called ‘Beasts’.
In order to arrive here, it must be a Servant, as all beasts perish in the Void.
I always thought YOU were one of the kind people Tor!
Dorium Maldovar seems to have found his way to Mottom’s court. I must say, riding around on the back of a big reptile thing is a much more dignified way to travel than being stuffed in a box upside-down and being carted off by some cheeky Gallifreyan.
I wonder if the God-Queen’s palace has wifi.
It looks like our noble queen has noticed someone has not followed suit, though maybe more from ignorance than defiance
The Successor King still stands?
Alison is not pressing her forehead to the floor, is she?
Let me guess, why are Queen looks so vexed on the lowest panel.
Could it be that our own Pree Allison refuses to bow?
Nadia is doing the exasperated Yellow Diamond face. Uh-oh.
All she needs is a smug-as-shit little yellow Pearl standing by her side.
She has a golden devil. Perhaps she’s smug?
…Alison.
You really better be kneeling, Alison.
We’ve talked about being stupid, Alison.
Please be kneeling, Alison.
In situations like this, I ask myself, WWAD (What Would Aesma Do)? So in this case, it’s be standing around, scratching her head, followed by ransacking everything in sight.
That look on Nadia’s face O_O
Methinks she’s finally noticed Allison hiding amongst the maidens, or perhaps something far more troubling has occurred?
uh-oh – our heroine didn’t bow, did she…
Lets play: Name that Emotion!
I see in the last panel anger touched with disgust.
Something just seriously broke the social rules of the court, and not something simple and common like attempted regicide.
Oh, it’s only now that something has got her upset after all of this. I can only guess who it might be, but I think it’s a little too early for that yet.
I spy with my yellow eyes….someone who’s not kneeling!
She just noticed Alison. Didn’t she?
Last Panel: “…I DESIRE A TREEHOUSE NOW. MAKE IT SO.” >8O
AUGH WHAT’S SHE MAD AT *NOW*
Wouldn’t be surprised if Allison is standing up against her next panel
Allison, did you stay standing? Because when everyone else is kneeling to the person who just turned two guys into foliage, staying standing is A BAD THING TO DO.
Alice is drinking again isn’t she?
Divinity gazes upon itself.
There will be blood.
I really want to gift her the Oppenhemier’s light.
She already is death the destroyer of worlds.
WANDA, SHE CAN SEE YOU, CHEESE IT.
Has she spotted one who has not appreciation for glory or is it the view is just SOO BORING after millenia of repeating? Up to the tears of weariness.
Aftertaste?
A new lie has been written:
http://killsixbilliondemons.wikia.com/wiki/Royalty
This humble skull would bow in reference to your effort. As it lacks the necessary bones to do so, please accept its sincere thanks.
Are you capable of movement at all, Pree Skull?
I have seen other-torsoless individuals roll onto their sides in order to convey the same general sentiment. Perhaps you could do that?
That is an interesting motion. It feels somehow wrong to the customs I’m used to, though. I could use the Art to lift myself into the air and bow. Unfortunately that has been mistaken as some sort of attack before. I also think it might look ridiculous. … and my last servant dropped me by the roadside some time ago after a bottle of that green stuff with skull bubbles. I think I should consider your suggestion. You have my thanks, Pree Tor Avesh.
Rulers who don drape-adorned tables upon their pates are often destined to a terrible end.
Your turn, Allison.
I have a feeling someone isn’t prostrating themselves properly.
Looks like Allison hasn’t supplicated herself, has she?
Allison didn’t bow, did she.
This alternate text seems a little unreasonable.
Allison’s visage does not seem all that monstrous to my sight.
Ah, but then I do not possess the same measure of sight that Queen Nadia Om, The Blood Flower Imperiatrix of the Gates of Fire, et al. has.
Nor would I want to.
I am pleased to see that we are in accordance (See below). Perhaps Allison’s visage is only terrible before those who have shown their true faces to her, though. We certainly have not done so.
where they offering the queen head??
Well, next page is definitely going to be pretty fun.
Ooooooh, no bets on what Queen Om is reacting to.
Found a fly in her ointment, has she?
The Queen is displeased. Has ALL-YIS-UN brought for a challenge?
I do believe our lady has seen Allison in the crowd.
Anger shows weather beauty is true or not.
Either that or else it’s that there’s one pesky person still standing bolt upright.
I like to imagine that the title text advises Mottom, not Allison, and that the Blood Flower truly sees a terrible visage returning her gaze.
Please Allison, remain standing. That would be great.
Someone is not awed by divinity’s powers, and we all know the name of this person.
Alison bears a Key, and is a Wielder of Names. Might she be about to provide Nadia with some more Names?
Something seems to have perturbed our esteemed queen.
Never trust a fart, even when masking it.
If this one had hands, he would applaud you.
I hope to see the successor standing tall, bathed in the light of her brow and full of a righteous rage against the demon queen. She doesn’t strike me as the reasonable one, so i dont see her kneeling.
It is not reasonable for Royalty to prostrate itself before a pretender.
I really want this to be someone quietly having a wank at the back.
It won’t be that, but between now and the next update, I can dream.
A God-King do not prostrate.
I don’t see anger or digust in the eyes of the queen. I see FEAR
I don’t see anger or disgust in the eyes of the queen. I see FEAR
Most likely she can see ALLYISUN’s key, which until now nobody in this entire castle has noticed.
I would suppose the Pursuers have arrived. (WoN 2-39)
That would be most wonderful to behold; a bunch of greedy, unwashed, travel-dusted, swearing headhunters rampaging through Mottom’s court in search of one among the many who kneel before her.
Allison glaring back at her would indeed be the best way to start the next page off.
She does have a //marvellous// glare, doesn’t she?
That moment when you turn a dude into cherry blossoms and then remember you’re allergic to pollen.
Indeed, nothing ruins a good imperious sniff quite like the pollen of folly.
She does look like someone that’s about to sneeze… 8D
It has been much speculated that it is Allison who does not bow. After discussing it with my colleagues however, we broached the possibility that it may be something else entirely.
The Pursuers, or the Thorns, may well be crashing the party.
Zoss certainly can attest that the thorns knights at least are most unwelcome guests at any sort of Royal tribute or coronation.
Insert record scratching noise.
I’m guessing it’s something in the chest(might be alsewhere, too), something not so easily dealt with as the tree-monk-king and his petal-berserker-ninja. They might have prepared some nasty surprise for her, knowing full well they would die, but doing it anyway out of hatred. That expression of hers is a mix of surprise, fear, disgust, and anger. I also see recognition in there, as if she just saw something she has some bad memories about. And look at those curtains on her table-hat, she’s actually taken aback so much she jerked away from it. If it indeed were a non-kneeling Allison, or some other mundane show of disrespect, Mottom would have kept her cool and turned the offender into a stump or something with yet another art-enhanced sarcastic remark. Nah-uh, this it some yet-unseen twist.
That’s a possibility. But she knows that the Heir is going to kill her, that prophecy was made in her presence. If she saw Allison’s Key and recognizes it for what it is, that’s a valid reason suddenly be very frightened. Zoss’s key is substantially more powerful than hers and she’s have to assume that Alison knows how to use it (otherwise she’s be a complete idiot to come there) in which case it is very likely that she’d soon be the one turned into tastefully arranged flora.
What’s got her panties in a twist?
Who is the head on the platter, do they have a cool name?
I believe it is Karadan Fror, who showed disrespect to this Kindle One.
Who put a twist in her panties?
Looks like someone’s put her panties in a twist.
Open the door
Drop on the flo’
Everybody grovel to Om some mo’~
Well you have to start killing if you want to build that demon corpse pile anytime soon…
A question about the shadows in the second panel: they are cast from a light behind the figures, to the right of the panel, perhaps where Nadia’s throne was. What was that?
This posturing is pointless in a world of blades and power.
If one is a god, what is the purpose of a facade?
Kill Six Billion Demons stands to face her.
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