NIce entry. And quite a bit of explanatory notes about Jar-eel’s career to follow, I suppose.
I do wonder about her speech bubbles. They do convey the fact that her very language is magicall, but why the black color scheme? Legibility? Crimson text or text on crimson would have fit my expectations better, especially in the context of “We all are us”.
Original plan was for her to have crimson text on black background, but that proved to be rather hard to read, especially with the font I use for her speech. So we switched to white.
As for the black background – it’s mostly a reference to Argrath’s Initiation. All of the text (mostly narration, but also the tiny speech bubble where Argrath negotiates with the strange gods) was white on black with loose borders, to indicate the otherworldliness of the situation (since the normal, real world, text was black on white with proper bordering).
Mind you, this might change later on, as I’m debating on going away with speech bubble borders altogether, and seeing how that would work.
Personally, I like the color/font scheme for Jar-eel. Reminds me of the speech bubbles for Dream in the Sandman comic and gives it a feel of someone immortal/eternal vs. mortals.
Some say she once bungee-jumped from the Red Moon. Some say she shut down a walktapus’s regeneration by insulting its mother. Some say she knows two facts about durulz, and both of them are wrong. All we know is, she’s called the Razoress.
I thought of a submarine’s conning tower, which lets you do reconnaissance.
con 4 |kän|
verb (cons, conning, conned) [ with obj. ] archaic
study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing): the girls conned their pages with a great show of industry.
NIce entry. And quite a bit of explanatory notes about Jar-eel’s career to follow, I suppose.
I do wonder about her speech bubbles. They do convey the fact that her very language is magicall, but why the black color scheme? Legibility? Crimson text or text on crimson would have fit my expectations better, especially in the context of “We all are us”.
Original plan was for her to have crimson text on black background, but that proved to be rather hard to read, especially with the font I use for her speech. So we switched to white.
As for the black background – it’s mostly a reference to Argrath’s Initiation. All of the text (mostly narration, but also the tiny speech bubble where Argrath negotiates with the strange gods) was white on black with loose borders, to indicate the otherworldliness of the situation (since the normal, real world, text was black on white with proper bordering).
Mind you, this might change later on, as I’m debating on going away with speech bubble borders altogether, and seeing how that would work.
From Crimson to White ; like the Moon Herself.
Personally, I like the color/font scheme for Jar-eel. Reminds me of the speech bubbles for Dream in the Sandman comic and gives it a feel of someone immortal/eternal vs. mortals.
I really like the gorgeous level of detail! Keep it up!
Indeed. I wonder: is that a mobile altar Jar-eel’s tent is occupying there?
Not really – her tent is just set up on a platform so she won’t have to be on the ground (in case it rains, you know)
I very much enjoy Jar-eel’s crimson halo. Is her harp based upon a historical model?
Yes, it is actually! It’s design is based on the Ur Lyres.
Some say she once bungee-jumped from the Red Moon. Some say she shut down a walktapus’s regeneration by insulting its mother. Some say she knows two facts about durulz, and both of them are wrong. All we know is, she’s called the Razoress.
(Alternately: “I heard she was a giant chicken.”)
“Along with 500 heavy cavalry” may be one of the funniest lines in the Gloranthan canon.
It is a very legitimate question though. You’d think at least someone would have noticed.
Shows you why Beat-Pot was so successful, doesn’t it? 🙂
‘Few mysteries remain “unconned”‘ – I can’t work out the meaning of unconned. The closest I can think I of is unkenned, Scottish for ‘unknown’.
I thought of a submarine’s conning tower, which lets you do reconnaissance.
con 4 |kän|
verb (cons, conning, conned) [ with obj. ] archaic
study attentively or learn by heart (a piece of writing): the girls conned their pages with a great show of industry.
cool, I didn’t know that. And likely has the same root as ‘ken’
What’s the meaning of “To learn that nothing has been learned at all”? Does she talk about Socrates’ humility?