Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding

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• First page of 2017, on the first day of 2017
• Dedurum notes that Refusaleth cannot fly, despite his immense power
• Panel 5 is a direct reference to a famous photograph of this incident

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• Christmas, 2016
• In panel 1, more of Quondry’s optical-illusion architecture is just visible
• Trysteum is the purest form of resinate crystal
• What force could be pulling it?

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• This messenjerk delivers a “flipper” message (flip book) to Candlewary, remarking that it’s “non-fatal”, referring to the typical method of self-destructive communication
• Because Candlewary still has faith in Aga, he can hear Jellyback’s voice as he flips the pages of the message
• Jellyback reports that the Sideland of Ystyr is ravaged by the Dark Unmentionable Obsolesmus

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• St. Madinis, capitol of Quondry, is where the old Midirians exiled those whom they judged “impossible”; Shoadomites run it
• St. Madinis is based upon optical illusions, such as the Impossible Trident, or MAD “poiuyt”

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• Tournament staff is greatly reduced by this point; also the janitor’s broom has blood on it (panel 1)
• Eldlyfe claims to be an “Agratian Ascendant” 
• Eldlyfe’s weirdly-angled privilege is fully visible in panel 10

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• “The Troubles” is a social euphemism for the massacre of the peoples of the Frontlands
• Allied Kingdom councilor Pael Natricarus objects to fellow councilor Yakimastu Obeisan’s desperate gambit with Refusaleth (panel 7)

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• Someone is holding a “GRAVER THAN YOU” sign in panel 5
• In panel 9, the Dark Unmentionable Holocough is obliterating Castle Inway

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• The crowd at the right edge of panel 2 references the back cover of Frank Zappa’s The Man From Utopia (1983)
• The Tournament of Greatest (and its announcer) are obvious references to Dragonball Z (“Tournament X”)

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• 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