You’re almost right. What Beat-Pot is looking at and looking back (and why he is fainting) is the Ultimate. This is his mystical awakening (or will be in the next panel?).
There’s one important note about Beat Pot – note that he always wears Moon Runes. He was always a faithful follower of the Lunar Way. This slave revolt is an internal Lunar dispute – so of course Jar-Eel’s victoryis inevitable.
Well..not really. He wears moon runes on his sash mostly because he took that from a Lunar after he killed him. 🙂 In fact, if you look through the slave army you will find a lot of equipment (mostly shields) with Moon runes on them, since the slaves use whatever they could take from the Lunar soldiers.
Yeah, but runes are serious business in Glorantha. I’m sure that if he hated the Red Goddess, he wouldn’t be wearing her runes. Further, wearble runic symbols are foci for magic. It’s plain that from his dialogue that Beat Pot’s problem isn’t with the Red Goddess, it’s with the Red Emperor (“I need to make my feelings known to the Red Emperor.”) This is, amongst other things, an internal Lunar political discussion. This is a war of Lunars vs Lunars.
Certainly the Moon runes on the gear are because it was captured. Perhaps the fact that Beat-Pot and his fellow rebels haven’t disfigured them is a sign that they aren’t really rebelling, they just don’t understand that they’re not. And all it will take is Jar-eel and a mountain of corpses to awaken them to the True Way. Or, at least, to awaken the survivors.
The lunar way offers a third kind of magic, the magic of turning. Eternal, but changing etc. Still, I can’t help rooting for the becoming kind of magic. I mean, Jar-Eel was destined for this. It’s not like she earned it. Seems like the being kind of magic to me with respect to whom I’m rooting for. 🙂
So, how exactly do you get a pile-up of bodies like that? I mean, does the first few get killed, and then the next few climb on top of their bodies to get killed… and so on an so forth? And the one’s at the top.. which if they do it this way, would be the last to die… instead of saying “holy crap, I’m not going up there… and I’m not sure I’d pass the athletics test anyway:”
Or – have the Lunars all decided to just pile the bodies into that pile – just for her to have something to stand on – right in the middle of a battle…
Or is it some sort of Rune/Divine magic spell? Create Mountain of Bodies – 2pt, Reuseable.
Not to mention (which obviously I am :p – Why is Beat Pot hiding away at the back of his army? Shouldn’t he have been one of the first to fight her??
So what stands out to you is that the bodies of the dead are gathered into giant piles, and not – 1. that there appear to be more than three times the dead on this page than there were even people in the rebel army; or 2. that the Red Moon now appears to be just a couple of kilometres above the ground.
No there isn’t some kind of divine spell or anything – We are no longer in the Mortal World at this point. Why is Jar-eel/The Red Goddess standing on top of a mount of corpses? Because that is how she wants to be seen. If she wanted him to, Beat Pot would have seen her standing on top of the Sky Bear, or maybe sitting in a Green Age garden of divine flowers.
Well… people above had already commented on the moon, and I didn’t presume that you had drawn in ALL of the rebel army (and, I should have posted this on the previous page. :p)
Given we’re talking about the world of myth, and changing between planes (rather quickly), I find it confusing knowing what is ‘artistic license’ and what is integral (or at least, significant) to the plot. I often miss things that others notice…
A gorgeous halo.
Also note that she displays the six arms after doing the entire combat two-armed, as if those extra extremities would not have mattered.
And with the full glory (horror) of the Red Moon behind her back, just in case there was any doubt as to who she is.
Not just the moon; the sky is looking at him too!
You’re almost right. What Beat-Pot is looking at and looking back (and why he is fainting) is the Ultimate. This is his mystical awakening (or will be in the next panel?).
Du mußt dein Leben ändern!
Do you see those two eyes on either side of the red moon that look like Moon runes? Terrifying!
I didn’t see those at first — those are great!
There’s one important note about Beat Pot – note that he always wears Moon Runes. He was always a faithful follower of the Lunar Way. This slave revolt is an internal Lunar dispute – so of course Jar-Eel’s victoryis inevitable.
Well..not really. He wears moon runes on his sash mostly because he took that from a Lunar after he killed him. 🙂 In fact, if you look through the slave army you will find a lot of equipment (mostly shields) with Moon runes on them, since the slaves use whatever they could take from the Lunar soldiers.
Yeah, but runes are serious business in Glorantha. I’m sure that if he hated the Red Goddess, he wouldn’t be wearing her runes. Further, wearble runic symbols are foci for magic. It’s plain that from his dialogue that Beat Pot’s problem isn’t with the Red Goddess, it’s with the Red Emperor (“I need to make my feelings known to the Red Emperor.”) This is, amongst other things, an internal Lunar political discussion. This is a war of Lunars vs Lunars.
Certainly the Moon runes on the gear are because it was captured. Perhaps the fact that Beat-Pot and his fellow rebels haven’t disfigured them is a sign that they aren’t really rebelling, they just don’t understand that they’re not. And all it will take is Jar-eel and a mountain of corpses to awaken them to the True Way. Or, at least, to awaken the survivors.
At least, that’s my take, you are the author, sir!
On being and becoming,
The lunar way offers a third kind of magic, the magic of turning. Eternal, but changing etc. Still, I can’t help rooting for the becoming kind of magic. I mean, Jar-Eel was destined for this. It’s not like she earned it. Seems like the being kind of magic to me with respect to whom I’m rooting for. 🙂
So, how exactly do you get a pile-up of bodies like that? I mean, does the first few get killed, and then the next few climb on top of their bodies to get killed… and so on an so forth? And the one’s at the top.. which if they do it this way, would be the last to die… instead of saying “holy crap, I’m not going up there… and I’m not sure I’d pass the athletics test anyway:”
Or – have the Lunars all decided to just pile the bodies into that pile – just for her to have something to stand on – right in the middle of a battle…
Or is it some sort of Rune/Divine magic spell? Create Mountain of Bodies – 2pt, Reuseable.
Not to mention (which obviously I am :p – Why is Beat Pot hiding away at the back of his army? Shouldn’t he have been one of the first to fight her??
So what stands out to you is that the bodies of the dead are gathered into giant piles, and not – 1. that there appear to be more than three times the dead on this page than there were even people in the rebel army; or 2. that the Red Moon now appears to be just a couple of kilometres above the ground.
No there isn’t some kind of divine spell or anything – We are no longer in the Mortal World at this point. Why is Jar-eel/The Red Goddess standing on top of a mount of corpses? Because that is how she wants to be seen. If she wanted him to, Beat Pot would have seen her standing on top of the Sky Bear, or maybe sitting in a Green Age garden of divine flowers.
Well… people above had already commented on the moon, and I didn’t presume that you had drawn in ALL of the rebel army (and, I should have posted this on the previous page. :p)
Given we’re talking about the world of myth, and changing between planes (rather quickly), I find it confusing knowing what is ‘artistic license’ and what is integral (or at least, significant) to the plot. I often miss things that others notice…
Oh, and it looks like my username has changed to this one…