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Chapter 2 - The Lunar Way - "16 – The Harp and the Sword"
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16 – The Harp and the Sword
Chapter 2 - The Lunar Way - "16 – The Harp and the Sword"
First Previous 16Comments Next Last
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16 – The Harp and the Sword

by theprince on November 9, 2014
Chapter: Chapter 2 - The Lunar Way
Characters: Jar-eel the Razoress

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Discussion (16) ¬

  1. Jörg Baumgartner
    November 9, 2014, 9:20 am | # | Login to Reply

    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”.

    • Kalin Kadiev
      November 9, 2014, 10:14 am | # | Login to Reply

      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.

      • Topi Pitkänen
        November 11, 2014, 7:16 am | # | Login to Reply

        From Crimson to White ; like the Moon Herself.

    • Harald
      November 9, 2014, 1:58 pm | # | Login to Reply

      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.

  2. Runeblogger
    November 9, 2014, 11:55 am | # | Login to Reply

    I really like the gorgeous level of detail! Keep it up!

    • Jörg Baumgartner
      November 9, 2014, 12:06 pm | # | Login to Reply

      Indeed. I wonder: is that a mobile altar Jar-eel’s tent is occupying there?

      • Kalin Kadiev
        November 9, 2014, 12:10 pm | # | Login to Reply

        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)

  3. Bruce Turner
    November 9, 2014, 3:39 pm | # | Login to Reply

    I very much enjoy Jar-eel’s crimson halo. Is her harp based upon a historical model?

    • Kalin Kadiev
      November 10, 2014, 5:34 pm | # | Login to Reply

      Yes, it is actually! It’s design is based on the Ur Lyres.

  4. evilmidnightlurker
    November 9, 2014, 4:18 pm | # | Login to Reply

    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.”)

  5. Scott
    November 9, 2014, 10:52 pm | # | Login to Reply

    “Along with 500 heavy cavalry” may be one of the funniest lines in the Gloranthan canon.

    • Kalin Kadiev
      November 10, 2014, 9:35 am | # | Login to Reply

      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? 🙂

  6. Charles Corrigan
    November 11, 2014, 12:27 am | # | Login to Reply

    ‘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’.

    • David Dunham
      November 11, 2014, 1:26 am | # | Login to Reply

      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.

      • Charles Corrigan
        November 11, 2014, 2:53 pm | # | Login to Reply

        cool, I didn’t know that. And likely has the same root as ‘ken’

  7. Terra Incognita
    November 11, 2014, 10:30 am | # | Login to Reply

    What’s the meaning of “To learn that nothing has been learned at all”? Does she talk about Socrates’ humility?

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