Author: Matty Boy

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• Who is actually telling the truth? (Narrative versus Perceptive)
• Refusaleth shows Quiatas the Temporal Cycle

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• Who would Quiatas be speaking with?
• Shadist “connective darkness” theory; the belief that all dark places are connected, and can be used to go anyplace else that’s dark, by those who know how (Darkana is one example)
• Quiatas evidently doesn’t ascribe to Shadist theory (panel 6)

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• Feve, Cornelius’s assigned sycophant, is inspired by Vitsie, the “videositter”
• Cornelius is again pushed by someone to make him go
• Hold up a mirror to “Jausiv” in panel 7
• Cornelius wants to unshrink the Lost Book, but Feve thinks it’s to something else 

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• Tournament death toll: 130,000+
• Zardoza and Subliminus change course for Ponymus, to appeal for aid

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• The Shoadomites are recalling the wallopers to defend their homeland
• The zeppeloyers are wiped out by a sky sliggan (panel 6)
• Refusaleth crumbles the Gargrudgen, causing falling rocks for miles around
• In panel 9, you can see one of the walloper deployment canisters crashed into the audience

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• Insanus arrives at the island of Shoadom, and explains their connection to the current conflict
• Shoadom is encircled by a “safety wall”, as seen in panel 9

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• The zeppeloyer pilot is a direct reference to Colette Hiller as Corporal Ferro from the movie Aliens (1986)
• The wallopers pop out of deployment canisters, which sail to the ground and often cause additional damage
• “Field-tested” recalls the wallopers encountered previously in the story

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• Essul and Daemir Daggerbite have crashed on the Midirian coast, where the towering Gargrudgen are slowly walking toward the Tournament

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• #319, originally posted on 3/19
• This summit of Midirian Briguild representatives is an homage to a scene from Star Wars Episode II: Attack of the Clones (2002)
• Briguilds represented, counterclockwise from lower left in panel 9: Currancer, Cursivere, Estimen, Fisherwit, Geareater, Minery, Panegandee, Resinati, Sortlec, Totsuvosto, Uluwestern
• Is the Estimen rep Riv’s father?
• Tiscinivel mentions “The Debt”; if you need or desire something strongly enough, the Midirian Empire will grant it to you, at the cost of your identity and freedom
• The Geareater rep is a clockwork automaton, much like Waywardo
• The Sortlec rep is a Similarian 
• All Briguilds are represented… except, of course, the Hatmender Briguild, which is clandestine

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• Graver propaganda appears in panel 2
• The Four Colleges of Fargon are notated on Cornelius’s scholarship; Jausiv, Dejavecho, D’Bocklewith, and Nodde-Gamra