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.
I wholey disagree. Royalty isnt a mark of leadership, it is a mark of privilege. To be royal means to have grown fat on such privilege, to be exalted upon the backs of those who have less, all for the arbitrary reason that your predecessors were simply clever enough to amass wealth quicker than than their peers.
One who is considered nobility has not seen true hardship a day in their life. They only see the gilded spoon in their mouth.
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.
Cowards, weaklings, and the oppressed, but no fools. Our dear king-turned-plum-tree over here was a right and proper fool, and look what happened. Nadia does not suffer fools, and for that she will suffer much more.
Clearly, it is Catherine Foundling and Amadeus, the Squire and the Black Knight, who do not kneel.
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?