Category: Notations

NOTES

• Faddlegas can smell falsehood; however, the Questioneer continues to communicate only in questions, as is their wont
• “You come from the mountains”
• Structural integrity is different in the Beyonding; note how the exterior wall of the train crumbles, now that it isn’t believably intact
• Faddlegas has the (forbidden) knowledge to shrink books for easy transport

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• Brikbat calls Faddlegas “old one”
• Faddlegas deploys the Nardmasher (panel 4), causing Brikbat to shoot the wall of the train, and fall out
  

NOTES

• Brikbat and the Questioneer are transporting Cornelius via train to Cape of Purity, to be flown to Quondry
• Faddlegas (a Nard) barely fits in the aisle of the train

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• The sailor’s boat is based on an old Fisher-Price toy tugboat
• The sailor’s hat bears the sigil of the Fisherwit Briguild
• The Gargrudgen have emerged from the ocean, after walking across the bottom atop each other’s shoulders; each is well over a hundred feet tall
• In panel 9, what’s in the Gargrudgen’s hand? Have we seen this hand before?

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• The final rounds of the Tournament of Greatest are commencing
• General Dedurum was the only survivor of Shiraadh’s assault on the Imperial Advance Guard
• Dedurum can sense that the Gargrudgen have reached the Regatian Coast

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• Insanus reminisces about his old island, compared to his customized walloper 
• Panel 4 references a “forced” Pokemon meme that originated on the 4chan messageboard 
• Is Insanus looking at the Gargrudgen as he crosses the ocean?

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• First appearance of Xober and Rebox, representatives of Bordorea and New Bordorea; they seem almost like a negative (inverted) image of something…
• “Every participant [of the Tournament] gets a trophy”
• “We are all stronger together” (note original publishing date)
• What is that shadow in panel 7?

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• “Don’t touch me, I’m an archivist” is a rather obvious Ghostbusters reference
• Ylana Underaja is the formal name of the Empress of Midiria
• We’ve seen the Empress before… why does she look like Yla?
• Essul laughed in the presence of the Midirian Empress, which is considered high treason

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• “My teeth unclenched hours ago”; Zaz and Essul survived the astronomically stressful ride on top of the train track, thousands of feet above the ground
• “KNOWLEDGE FOR ALL WHO WISH” is the Central Archives motto
• Is the archivist in panel 4 somehow familiar?

NOTES

• Castle Creepwood (panel 1)
• Count Feudd invokes Xandinculus (panel 3)
• Bogstanders are pictured in panel 4
• Tremenz formed his tongue into the shape of an infant’s head, to trick the occupants of Castle Creepwood into listening
• “Gargrudgen”?