Ceaseless Fables of Beyonding

NOTES

• 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
  

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• 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