I’d never thought that Yelm would bleed Fire/Sky runes when wounded – that’s very, very clever! And totally appropriate, considering that he broke into several parts after dying. Nicely done!
Love it! I get lost in the footnotes but respond to the effort to achieve a mood of cosmic resignation . . . maybe something like the mourning process.
Does it look to anyone else as if the proto-Storm King (Umath?) is tattooed with, not the Storm Rune, but a more primitive one that combines (or rather is the ancestor of) the God Learner Storm and Change runes?
*effortlessly.
I’d never thought that Yelm would bleed Fire/Sky runes when wounded – that’s very, very clever! And totally appropriate, considering that he broke into several parts after dying. Nicely done!
If we’re setting up a bhagavad-gita style “thunder sermon” here I will be extremely happy.
After all, is it difficult to enjoy English literature without understanding Elliot’s poetry?
His poetry is very difficult for me.
Love it! I get lost in the footnotes but respond to the effort to achieve a mood of cosmic resignation . . . maybe something like the mourning process.
Nitpick: Effortless in the last speech bubble should be Effortlessly.
I don’t like the look of those tentacles on the bottom-left side…
Oh, well-spotted! Those don’t look like good eyes peering out of the void…
Very cool!
Pretty much the best, most concise explanation of Godtime and Hero Questing ever. Pictures worth thousands, and all.
In “God Time”, the emperor ‘s death is repeated every day!
I never imagined.
Recently, at the sunset, I feel like hearing a faint voice ‘Aargh!’ From the west.
Does it look to anyone else as if the proto-Storm King (Umath?) is tattooed with, not the Storm Rune, but a more primitive one that combines (or rather is the ancestor of) the God Learner Storm and Change runes?
Is it Vingkot in the middle panel? (or just Orlanth?)
Nah, Vingkot was still blue-skinned like his father. It’s just some Orlanthi Heroquester.
Great stuff, I can’t wait to see where this is going as an explanation of why the Cradle is important to the whole of Glorantha.