71 – The master of this house
After three weeks of unfortunate delays and waiting, we are finally back with the new page!
And hey, we get to also see a familiar face again!
Prince of Sartar
How one man became a god
After three weeks of unfortunate delays and waiting, we are finally back with the new page!
And hey, we get to also see a familiar face again!
About that second frame…
Truer words were never said
Actually, not the master of this house, but his spokesman, is either mad (UK version, only) or holy.
The master may be Vito Corleone, but the spokesman is a more loquacious Luca Brazzi, or a member of that one Family whose members were so stupid that they couldn’t even make money in garbage collection but would avenge any attack to ridiculous limits, which the film version reduced to “the insurance guys” with no further comment.
We don’t know this yet. For all we know Mr. Spokesman might be combining his bluff roll and his intimidate roll together for a special effect. Or he might be uttering the sort of pro forma words you have to say in recruiting newbies in from out of a tavern in order to impress them with the seriousness of the situation. It’s not as though anything good is going to happen from his point of view if the newbies think being unreliable or slackers or treasonous is going to be a good safe thing to do. For the moment I’d think of him as the Klingon Drill Sargent instead of as Luca Bruzzi until we have more evidence one way or another. But I think this is where the newbies get their second interview and I don’t think it will be comfortable for those who wash out.
So is this modified eternal battle rune (on the door in the previous strip, and on the characters on the back bench in the big top pane, the sign of the White Bull society?
Yup, it is. If you look at Jan’s picture of the Nomads of Prax from the Guide to Glorantha, you can see this symbol pop up in there as well.
I will not say our Dark Trader’s observation is not wise. But based on that final panel I would say that he might have been wiser to have made his observation in silence and to have waited until later to communicate it to his friends. ^_^;
Mind you, my second thought is a bit more simplistic and goes along the lines of “Dude, you knew Jarang Bladesong was a wanted political criminal at the time you hooked up with him and only *now* does it occur to you that this deal might be a little bit dodgy??? o_O”.
I think it would be the very strange, and peculiar, shadows of the two whisperers (in top panel) that would worry me….
But is it one shadow or two? To me it looks like the shadow of a bat, with bat-eared head, in center and folded wing closer to Garrath.
This house is full of traitors, I am going to call the Marble Phalanx right away, consider all of you dead, sacrilegous orlanthis!
We are all Us!
The fact that a Yelmalio worshipper and a fellow carrying a lightning spear are sitting side-by-side demonstrates just what a crazy patchwork quilt of allies “Garrath” is building up.
Once again, remarkable work. Thank you for this series.