Category: Notations

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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

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• Pethetigo’s plea of “think of the children” is of course a reference to Helen Lovejoy 
• Demandice gets the drop on Tremenz and bisects him with her fan

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• The Midirian Empire calls back their Pendulords and aerosoldiers (panel 1), weakening Castle Creepwood’s defenses
• Tremenz and his army (including Harangutang, panel 6) move to occupy Castle Creepwood
• Pethetigo (7) was last seen in #244 

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• Codefathers Subliminus and Zardoza have taken refuge in what has turned out to be some form of ship
• Zardoza’s equipment displays the following images: Gargrudgen towering over the shore of Midiria (2); Refusaleth at the Tournament (3); Holocough obliterating Inway (5); Imperial Pendulords in Creepwood (8)

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• The Questioneer speaks a Dread Conundrum to his doppelgänger, revealed to be Daemir Daggerbite
• Dread Conundrums are questions or revelations that break the integrity of the Narrative; Daemir was able to see and breathe in the Questioneer mask until questioned about it, like a cartoon character that runs off a cliff and only falls after realizing they’re in mid-air
• The real Quondrian Questioneer jumps out of the airship with the fourth Prime Resinate fragment in panel 5
• Essul recognizes Daemir, and Daemir can see the Gargrudgen on the Midirian shore from the airship, because they are insanely big 

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• First appearance of Nefaria the Red Queen; visually, she is inspired by Xayide (Clarissa Burt), the evil sorceress from The NeverEnding Story II: The Next Chapter (1990)
• First appearance of Crybdeth, commander of Bonehenge, and Marrowort, his subordinate, panel 2 (right to left, respectively)
• Crybdeth refers to Nefaria as “prisoner number one”, to avoid giving her power by speaking her name aloud
• Nefaria is probably the only prisoner in Bonehenge
• Can she see them?

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• Shiraadh is stinking up the interior of the mountain grinder with foul language
• What are those ten lights moving up from the abyss?

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• Fortress Refusaleth: Mogrum is “reclaimed” by Darkana, who emerges from his shadow
• Darkana reveals herself as the one who blinded Mogrum (when he was Mog-Rifect), after occupying one of Nefaria’s old monstrances
• Everything Mogrum knows, Darkana now knows