Think that’s the fruit from the tree she grew earlier in the throne chamber. The fruit of late King, from the sacrifice he made to feed the people, and now her Majesty.
Plums are YISUN’s favorite fruit. Getting someone to realize that they are a plum or plum tree is amateur. They’re basically freebies for practitioners of the Art.
You don’t think those gold demons work as handmaids for love of serving fruit do you. They live for the odd piece of treasure “Misplaced” only to be found on the “other” set of books.
Are those supposed to be plums or peaches? I thought they were veiny testicles when I first saw them. I don’t mean that in a bad way. Rocky mountain oysters are a thing.
I think they are peaches: As the favorite fruit of Yisun is the plum, and peaches are similar but not the same, I expect the eternal life offered by these fruit is of lesser assurance than that given by the fruit of the great liar’s garden.
Yisun committed divine suicide at the instant of their birth. Their divine children also allowed themselves to die after an aeon. It is interesting then that the less wise the inheritor of the Immortal Flame the longer they seek to cling to it.
Gorinich, Professional Buffon and Cloaked Observer
Tradeoffs, tradeoffs, prices and consequences. One can’t have everything, death may be a sword’s edge away but that also means that death is only sword’s swing away.
Or perhaps it is truly eternal, regardless of the condition of one’s flesh. Live on, though you be mere rotting carrion upon bones; live on, though your brain be filled with worms and your guts burst from torpid gasses; live, though you cannot move or speak or sate any one of the thousand needs of your immortal soul.
If there be a definition of hell, it would almost certainly be that.
Gorinich, Professional Buffon and Cloaked Observer
Peaches of immortality. Originally spoken of (at least in the mortal realm) in The Journey to the West, where Sun Wu Kong becomes custodian of the orchard in which they are grown, and subsequently consumes enough to be left in a happy stupor (apparently, on top of giving eternal life, they are just really tasty).
Nadia, sweetie, I’d have expected something more personal and less generic from one of the demiurges. Are you so beholden to aimless gluttony that it is all you understand anymore?
She represents gluttony, all of the demiurges represent one of the seven deadly sins. Her color is orange. Gluttony also means that she cant give up anything, even if she wanted.
Eternal life comes with a cost. Because it is not immortality, it is not never aging, it is a fear of dying, eating away at you as your age catches at your body leaving nicks and scars, but the mind staying bright and shiny new to realize you should have thought your wish through better, and lament your folly of not living the life you’ve had to its fullest.
Have you not noticed that you can simply wait on a disagreeable person to die? Living until you are slain grants benefits to both parties.
Allison is allowed to play politics with angels and demons. Many are stuck in their ways, and change takes time.
Allison will be able to go into hiding, and wait until the demiurges and Thorn Knights are at a low point.
Mottom can train Allison over a MUCH greater period of time.
Mottom is allowed to continue to rule for potentially much longer–the prophecy requires that KSBD slays all seven rulers. Should Allison die, this is impossible, so extending the life of Allison allows Mottom more time before the prophecy must come to pass.
What is eternal life but the doubting of a lie?
That there is such a thing as death, and all things must die?
Once I spoke these words to a mendicant sage
They made him immortal, but still did he age
And for many a kalpa, did he hoped yet to find
That aeon which dared to plant doubt in his mind
He found him at last, and the lie that he sought
For though truth burns brightly, an angel burns hot
Eternal life while seeming a sweet fruit could just as easily be a bitter or sour thing in which a being finds no escape. We know not the context of this condition yet and it may well be a golden cage in which the witch seeks to place her.
What leash may bind him?
What power compels him?
Devoted is he to his goddess, but alas he is fickle in his faith
For Hastet-Om hungers not for royalty, nor has he need for unending life
A great god-king who now knows no want
Indeed, the dead know very few things as it were…
Don’t do it! There are like a dozen ways to get eternal semi-life and a cool skull face is the bare minimum that one should accept!
I, for one, am very fond of an eternal continuum of short, to the point, finite lives myself.
I think those plums are where the maidens went. Our poor, succulent daughters.
Think that’s the fruit from the tree she grew earlier in the throne chamber. The fruit of late King, from the sacrifice he made to feed the people, and now her Majesty.
So is the eternal life as a tree or is it as a god?
Well that explains why they look to have blood vessels.
This. I am also thinking that.
If so then Nadia Om has taken a rather Mistborn route to immortality.
Feasting on congealed youth.
Hey, I like that theory: it’s evil and horrifying and just plausible enough 😀
“To serve” was far more literal than we had ever expected, or wanted
I was expecting it from the first, actually…
Considering the inspirations of this comic, there is exactly zero chance those are not peaches.
Plums are YISUN’s favorite fruit. Getting someone to realize that they are a plum or plum tree is amateur. They’re basically freebies for practitioners of the Art.
I only count seven fruit. There were eight when Alison made her stand.
The eighth fruit well could be behind and beneath the two topmost.
You don’t think those gold demons work as handmaids for love of serving fruit do you. They live for the odd piece of treasure “Misplaced” only to be found on the “other” set of books.
Are those supposed to be plums or peaches? I thought they were veiny testicles when I first saw them. I don’t mean that in a bad way. Rocky mountain oysters are a thing.
I think they are peaches: As the favorite fruit of Yisun is the plum, and peaches are similar but not the same, I expect the eternal life offered by these fruit is of lesser assurance than that given by the fruit of the great liar’s garden.
Perhaps the bird detected… its own mortality?
If Mottom is so afraid of death it’s less eternal and more “indefinite”
“Eternal until otherwise specified”
Indefinitely long life is truly a great gift.
All the joys of living forever, without the horrors of living forever. Death’s just a sword’s edge away.
It’s not a gift, it’s a condition. Methinks eternal life is not so great.
Yisun committed divine suicide at the instant of their birth. Their divine children also allowed themselves to die after an aeon. It is interesting then that the less wise the inheritor of the Immortal Flame the longer they seek to cling to it.
Tradeoffs, tradeoffs, prices and consequences. One can’t have everything, death may be a sword’s edge away but that also means that death is only sword’s swing away.
Or perhaps it is truly eternal, regardless of the condition of one’s flesh. Live on, though you be mere rotting carrion upon bones; live on, though your brain be filled with worms and your guts burst from torpid gasses; live, though you cannot move or speak or sate any one of the thousand needs of your immortal soul.
If there be a definition of hell, it would almost certainly be that.
Tradeoffs and consequences.
Severed fingertip blood sauce is my favorite dippin’ sauce
It’s finger-lickin’ good!
You meant finger-DIPPIN’ good, didn’t you? 😛
Well, I hope those aren’t what’s left of the maidens.
Whatever the Queen is offering had better be quite impressive to make up for something as miserable as eternity.
“Human power” is an interesting phrase to come from Mottom.
…Husband?!
Lmao Ganurath is distraught.
Are those… are those parboiled hearts she is eating?
No, they’re mini-butts.
I thought so.
Peaches of immortality. Originally spoken of (at least in the mortal realm) in The Journey to the West, where Sun Wu Kong becomes custodian of the orchard in which they are grown, and subsequently consumes enough to be left in a happy stupor (apparently, on top of giving eternal life, they are just really tasty).
Nadia, sweetie, I’d have expected something more personal and less generic from one of the demiurges. Are you so beholden to aimless gluttony that it is all you understand anymore?
She represents gluttony, all of the demiurges represent one of the seven deadly sins. Her color is orange. Gluttony also means that she cant give up anything, even if she wanted.
I recall her recently granting similar favor to a tree.
Wait, Mottom’s married?
Mottom is the wife of the late God-King HASTET-OM, a demiurge of some renown.
Eternal life comes with a cost. Because it is not immortality, it is not never aging, it is a fear of dying, eating away at you as your age catches at your body leaving nicks and scars, but the mind staying bright and shiny new to realize you should have thought your wish through better, and lament your folly of not living the life you’ve had to its fullest.
A folly you know well, I’d wager, as you’ve seen many fall to it, and that thief-king Solomon skip free of, have you not, Oh Djinn?
I will never understand the way these flawed children make such a fuss over this “eternal life” business.
I can think of a number of reasons. Far too much we want to do, but far too little time for any one person to accomplish it.
Or simple stubbornness. Old habits die exceedingly hard, and few habits are more entrenched than the act of living.
Life is, regrettably, a pleasant drug, and thus, habit-forming, for all it’s eventual lethality to its users. Dirty habit, really.
Well, of course not. You Protectors already have it.
Have you not noticed that you can simply wait on a disagreeable person to die? Living until you are slain grants benefits to both parties.
Allison is allowed to play politics with angels and demons. Many are stuck in their ways, and change takes time.
Allison will be able to go into hiding, and wait until the demiurges and Thorn Knights are at a low point.
Mottom can train Allison over a MUCH greater period of time.
Mottom is allowed to continue to rule for potentially much longer–the prophecy requires that KSBD slays all seven rulers. Should Allison die, this is impossible, so extending the life of Allison allows Mottom more time before the prophecy must come to pass.
I wouldn’t expect an eternal angel to understand.
What is eternal life but the doubting of a lie?
That there is such a thing as death, and all things must die?
Once I spoke these words to a mendicant sage
They made him immortal, but still did he age
And for many a kalpa, did he hoped yet to find
That aeon which dared to plant doubt in his mind
He found him at last, and the lie that he sought
For though truth burns brightly, an angel burns hot
Okay… so immortality is a condition, rather than part of the offer? Yikes.
Maybe she means that it’s a medical condition.
Kill them all, Alice-UN. Kill six billion demons.
Slay them, Rising King.
Reach throne through violence.
Up until this moment, I always wondered why they all called her Alice. It wasn’t until I realized… Alice. Allison. Alice-UN. Oh shiiiiiit.
Eternal life while seeming a sweet fruit could just as easily be a bitter or sour thing in which a being finds no escape. We know not the context of this condition yet and it may well be a golden cage in which the witch seeks to place her.
That worked out so well for the tree man
Wait a minute… I had something for this… Soylent Viride Est Homine?
Never had Alice-UN looked so much like Nadia in that first panel.
The resemblance is stunning.
I thought the very same.
I really want to see this husband.
Is he a pet, some pretty boy or manly man that she keeps on metaphoric or literal leash.
A scheming,conniving politico who threw his lot in with the great power he knew.
A devoted follower, a sycophant who gladly worships at the alter of his goddess-empress.
Is he a man who been by her side since Nadia Om was just a middling sorceress who was trying to save her people from famine and drought.
He’s likely a corpse, by now. Or something similar.
Maybe a fruit tree?
What leash may bind him?
What power compels him?
Devoted is he to his goddess, but alas he is fickle in his faith
For Hastet-Om hungers not for royalty, nor has he need for unending life
A great god-king who now knows no want
Indeed, the dead know very few things as it were…
is he a tombstone
He is rather grave…
Death though possible would be too easy.
I fear he is a man who suffered from the same condition this page is about. His fate will be grim.
Those fruits look like cancer. I wonder how they taste…
Ah! So it WAS a glamour, and not simply an empowered body-double. Good to know.
Be careful young maiden for eternal life means an eternity of possible screw ups.