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>>152000983cute zero morals scientist Nora
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first post in the first red cost thread and the first unsounded thread of the year
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oh yeah, this wrapped up (?)can the first part be read as a complete, self-contained series? the art and dialogue writing seems really good but following webcomics serially gives me penis aids
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>>152001049>complete, self-contained seriesIt ends on a cliffhanger with a lot of unresolved plot points, it's definitely a divided part with a sequel hook
>>152001051sorry had to find a small image to censor that
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>>152001154Alds are canonically smelly
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Don't miss out on the extra prose content below some of the pages. Look for moving elements.
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>>152001307Our brave heroes!
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>>152001353And that's the prologue done
Child murder, suffering, nuditity, problematic sexy men and Sette just gettng palces she shouldn't.It's back.
Hell of a comeback. Great stuff
>>152001307So does this mean Cope isn't going to censor the decorative plats later?
You can really feel how much better a writer Cope is now.
check the scraps of paper at the bottom of some of the pages on the site for extra lore goodies
>>152001307wait what, did murkoph kill Duane?
>>152001353>queens demonstrationI guess now they have to wait to rescue him, getting to one up the Queen and her pymary goons during a demonstration seems a stage fit for Duane's last laugh.
>>152001479Laurent Murkoph? Yeah probably
Huh, that's interesting that Jael is Gefendur, especially considering that the Soud are supposed to be almost entirely Ssaelit.>>152001479>Either that Tree is either one of Murkoph's descendants or they're the same people because of how time works in the khert.
>>152001551You can't prove Laurent Murkoph isn't Murkoph
>>152001563Is he soud?
>>152001595One of them isn’t because he can sense other Aldish through the Dammerkhert.
>>152001353He claws can go through that right? I guess she's deciding to pick her battles.
>"...though lacking the high marks of her graduating class' superstars, one Nora Pris deserves mention for her controversial paper last year: "First Hand Observations of the Etalarche Hysteria: A Student's Field Notes and Suppositions." This paper caused some stir in the spellwright community with its suggestion that the people of Alderode may in fact be only superficially human; creatures of limited free will controlled primarily by a subsuming intelligence, like the agib of ancient Tain. It contended that their government - through its Dammakhert - renders them bereft of true agency. Miss Pris will pursue placement in Royal Engineering, promising to further explore these ideas in her professional work.">from "The Standard's Quarterly Call-Out: Graduates to Watch!"That's probably not right but it is an interesting theory
>>152001609Tree is the one doing the sensing so he isn't soud and Jaer is
>>152001702Tbf I wouldn’t like Alds that much either if I saw a 12ft tall, three hundred year old red man suddenly tweak out and attack me.
>>152000983>Is it true this plod has no mask?Plodman: You, plod, show us your mask.Duane: Indeed?Plodman: Indeed it's time. All plods have masks aside but you.Duane: I wear no mask.Plodman: (Confused, aside to Crescian.) No mask? No mask!Nora (Soulless, smug) : A plod without a pymaric is a scientific impossibility; it's at the back of its neck.
>>152001177>plods just got legalizedpopulation distribution has gotten that bad I see
>>152001563>>152001595Some old asks on the Tumblr lead me to believe that Jaer is a Crescian with a Soud glamour. Ash has previously mentioned a "Jeremy" as being a Crescian working for the Tannery who's a friend of Tree's, Jeremy probably being an Aldish version of Jaer, a name that fits with the Crescian four letter naming scheme. And if a foreigner wanted to disguise themselves as Aldish, being Soud is the only caste they can pass as to Alds since a foreigner can't connect themselves to the Dammakhert. Also, he's Gefendur. Granted, Gefendur Soud have been said to exist, but they're very uncommon.https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/search/jeremy
>>152001307good old rousing round of child murder to start this book off right
>>152001353>>152001368Here's to Sette rescuing her plod out of Cresce's grasp!Thanks for dumping, OP.
WE ARE SO FUCKING BACK. This is a juicy update. I feel like Cope is saying "fuck it" to tiptoeing around censorship and going all in with the weirdness, nudity, and violence.>>152001307Our old condemned murderhobo before going insane?
Anyone else think Tree is really hot? So tall...
>>152000976excited for the higher res pages too, they were a little hard to make out on a big monitor
>>152002183Can't believe she just gives this shit away
>>152002098Mikaila....
>>152001368Finished Unsounded a few weeks ago, really good. I really appreciated how goddamn scarry magic is in the setting, Wizard duels are no joke.
>>152002821hell yeah, the way Quigley got fucked over at the end by the backfiring spell was so brutal and a good payoff for him
>>152002064>going all in with the weirdness, nudity, and violence.Thank god, I haven't had some truly gross Fantasy in a while. Baulder's Gate 3 could get close but never to the level some of the series imitators could get to
Daunes been at ground zero for 2 of this researchers horrific displays. Is there anyone who's flagged for a more horrific death then her at this point?
>>152002927Duane Adelier will never kill a woman
>>152002863>Patron warning: Theres some nudity guys be careful :^) >Actual comic: Child murder, multiple naked plods and creatures. Zombie dicks. Ashley just reminding everyone who runs this asylum I guess!
>>152002979Perhaps not, but will he kill unrepentant monster?>In before he kills her after taking darkest Paul's body to escape.
Is she going to be the main villain?
Bare titties, child murder and torture. Unsounded is back baby
>>152001032Alright man you can't tell me the tall red-haired big titty necromancer gf isn't pandering to the gooners here
>>152001462I thought considering this is a brand new start the necessary explanatory exposition was done pretty well. Longtime reader and you notice it but it's nicely integrated into the intro.
>>152001702It's an interesting perspective. I wonder if she still believes it. We knew Nora had no moral objection to torturing senet beasts earlier, but it's a fun touch here that she's advocated Duane does have a soul and thus 'real' feelings in the same manner as a human but is still 100% on torturing him. Hell even if she does still believe this theory, she would presumably still consider the Soud exempt.So we knew she was like a totally amoral scientist already, but I like that you better see she's a genius here with her working outside normal theory on plods. Duane didn't fit the schema, she didn't just rationalise that away, she's starting to figure out what actually makes him work.
>>152003081Ashley thinks she's going to be a pretty divisive character at least>Mikaila is a much more complex character than either of them, and she has a tendency to not do what you maybe want her to do. She does not sit around pining for her dead dad. She doesn’t even remember him that well. She is dismissive of her mom and grandma. She does not make sound romantic decisions. She does not respect authority very much and often in a way that’s less heckyeah! you’re so cool! and more omfg, you spoiled brat! She’s Lemuel’s daughter and that guilty mofo has let her run wild.
>>152001884Sounds like a solid guess anon.
>>152003081Repeating sub villain/rival. If/when Duane comes back she's gonna be intergal to his reconning to what his country does in it's conquests, especially since all of his flashbacks are INCREDIBLY biased when compared to how they actually conduct war.
>>152002064>How can I make sure the readers know these are bad guys?>I know, I'll have them kill a child.Sasuga Ashley.>>152002098>Tall, dominant, charming masked man who is literally a murderer and has a good singing voiceYes he's total husbando bait.
>>152003081She is a protag of the ald stories apparently
Website comment:>Welcome to “The Red Cost,” Unsounded’s direct sequel. Find the entire 25-page prologue linked above (nudity warning!). If you look around you’ll also find a new glossary, and some tweaked odds and ends here and there. Enjoy!>Single page updates will resume next Monday, 1/12. I’ll also be posting entries for the Fanworks Contest! I’ve had a few people ask for an extension on the deadline, so if you just get your entry to me by next Sunday, I’ll accept it. There is some really beautiful, compelling stuff in my inbox already~~>If you’re looking for comic discussion, check the link box below for access to the awesome reader-run Discord, or consider becoming a direct patron of the comic on Patreon for the high res version of every update, and lots of extra art. Thanks for your patience during the break, and I hope you’ll enjoy where the story goes next. “The Red Cost” is deeply personal to me in a lot of ways :)>~AshleyPatreon comment:>Prologue is up, my lovelies! There is some bare skin, so be mindful.>https://www.casualvillain.com/Unsounded/TheRedCost/>I'll post again later tonight at the normal time, and properly update the front page and post the high-res pages here for patrons then. Thank you SO MUCH for your patience over the break. I have a healthy 30 pages in the buffer, a few chapters of script written, and the entire outline finalized and at a place I'm very happy with.>I hope you enjoy the prologue and the story to come! :)(Sounds like there'll be another Patreon comment later tonight. I'll post it when it goes up, if I'm up)
>>152003108Someone had to replace the priest Ashley blew up
>>152001236Ooh, good eye. I'll try to get all those in the thread here
>>152003184>She does not make sound romantic decisionsI'm telling you she's going to fuck Tree.>glossary mentions he has connections with her troop
>>152003314Good for her.
Hidden prose segments:>>152000976"Port Mostorben rises again! In no small part thanks to the assistance of Risen Labor! Recycled Workers (Our Good City Council asks that citizens stop using the derogatory term "plods") have worked tirelessly these past weeks to undo the terrible damage left us by the great Silver Menace. As Autumn settles in and you are calling on neighbours for New Moon Visitations, perhaps thank any Labor Handlers you encounter as they continue to toil by day and by night to put our city again to right."Port Morstorben Morning Missive>>152001012"Last evening in the hours after gherkhanchi, Motadwe Duane Adelier and his child were viciously attacked just outside their ghers by vile Crescian terrorists. Ghers constables report both were slain. Duane Adelier was a Soud Rector, Lions Spellmaster, a veteran of the Foi-Hellick Affair, and a rare man of note among his caste. It was rumoured Shadwe Grandvin wished him elevated to the status of Composer, breaking a long drought of Ssaelit representation within the national spellcrafting cabal. As of dawn, Adelier's attackers remain at large, with both constables and paladins on the hunt."DURLYNE DAILY - Morning Dispatch>>152001120"The remains of what were previously two Hethllot men were this morning found at the Emerson foreshore. Each appeared to have been dispatched with shortblades - the same suspected of use aboard the Plodman's vessel - leading constables to suspect they are related to last night's Crescian attack therein. The Hethllot pair remain severely mutilated by waterfolk and unidentifiable. Please see the Axecart Street Constabulary if you wish to attempt identification, and bring a small, waterproof sack if you would claim the bodies."Durlyne Daily(cont)
>>152003184Fem-Lemuel sounds fun after watching him wretch about.
>>152001213"Whether you're in the market for a fine leather jerkin to turn the ladies' eyes of a new quarter matins, an expertly fitted saddle and harness for your deserving hound, or stylish booties for a tender-footed Missus, Midmolil's Leather Shop & Tannery will provide. Our artisans boast decades of domestic experience as well as expertise in Sharteshanian waterproofing and Hanretian lymph dyes. Tour our showroom by appointment and consult our staff today! Midmolil's Tannery: A Cut Above"DURLYNE DAILY - Advertisement>>152001342"...though lacking the high marks of her graduating class' superstars, one Nora Pris deserves mention for her controversial paper last year: "First Hand Observations of the Etalarche Hysteria: A Student's Field Notes and Suppositions." This paper caused some stir in the spellwright community with its suggestion that the people of Alderode may in fact be only superficially human; creatures of limited free will controlled primarily by a subsuming intelligence, like the agib of ancient Tain. It contended that their government - through its Dammakhert - renders them bereft of true agency. Miss Pris will pursue placement in Royal Engineering, promising to further explore these ideas in her professional work."from "The Standard's Quarterly Call-Out: Graduates to Watch!"
>>152003184She's going to demand Will get off his silver ass and onto her's, so long as he's got protection.Since Will belongs to a caste that not only persecutes inter-caste relationships but also even friendships. But Will's been trapped in the military his whole life.
>>152003206Doesn’t Duane basically say that he would join in on the mass rape “if called to do it” in his khert flashback with Lemuel? I assume that at the very least he is aware and understands why Alderode does it.
>>152003454Yeah he does but that was after a loooooooooong chunk of time and a bunch of repeated mind fucks, most of the book he inists he and his men fought with honor especially during the Aldish raid on the Twins Compound. He'll probably also have to reckon with his daughter being whole hog in the atrocities. Wouldn't be surprised if she was always a little monstrous but Duane being a doting dad happy to have a genius daughter to share being a Wizard with never saw the signs Wouldn't be surprised if Duane himself has a shitton of atrocities under his belt I have a feeling the honorable soldier act is just that an act to help him cope hell it's kinda been proven with the first war flashback when his brother burns all the POWs to death and he more or less said he'd do the same
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>>152001105Both of these men had wives and kids btw
>>152001368What's with all the pixels?
>>152001012Honestly this is kinda Duane's kink.
>>152001307Oh no, Jaer slipped and fell on the kid's back with his knife! What a terrible accident!
>>152003108Oh my god she's even a Sharte
>>152003808Madishane is the North Korea one, right?
>>152001307>Tree is MurkophI feel foolish for not realizing this sooner.
>>152003846Yeah. I'm sure this ominous grim reaper looking dude is chill though.
>>152001000I want this bitch dead already why must cope tease us with her continued survival
>>152003861He's a necromancer, that's just how they are
>>152003858Hard to know if he is THE Murkoph or just part of the same family. Gonna be really weird if we have guy and future fucked up zombie version of guy in the same comic. But that comment about the khert is incredibly ironic if it is Murkoph, so I'm leaning on yes.
>>152003808I've noticed that no one does big round bellies like Shartes. Fat Sharte bellies have a peculiar quality to them that makes you want to stick them like a pig.>>152003861>chillHe's chill until he sees a Madishanian peasant stepping out of line.
>>152003879Indeed. All recognised phenotypes of necromancers are represented here:>psychopath>your lazy grandpa>goth>nerd>incredibly sexy bombshell with huge tits
>>152000976Oh wow and it's still in a shitty resolution!
>>152001212Are Alds ants?
Jaer is a dirty fucking Crescian in a mask. He talks exactly like one. And 4 letter name. Fucking Crescian dog, rip that mask off him
>>152001353I know it would probably bad writing for Elka and Toma to try and help Duane but it still stings to know that they put him in this situation and are okay with it.Fucking cops, man.
>>152003928Yeah I get continuity and the patreon thing but she should probably just have put the big pages up for everyone this time.
>>152003961I don't think there is much he could do. Seems letting him walk was all the favor saving her life got.
>>152003961They don't even believe he's really alive.
>>152004028I'm 100% confident Toma does and I'm pretty sure Elka does too
>>152003846>>152003861Rachshane is the North Korea nation, they're assholes who probably wouldn't even bother sending one of their own out of the country. Madishane is pretty chill, just another Crescian ally as far as I can tell
>>152003961I suspect they aren't okay with it, but they've looked down the barrel of whatthefuckisgoingon and got out of the politics and the supernatural while they could. Toma wants no more of this shit in his life, and I can't blame him.
>Save the world from Tittybird and her God Daughter>Immediately get cut up by nutter scientists.well the setting is consistent.
>>152001333No bottom has the sea? That's clearly not true.
>>152004432It might be true in Kasslyne, and if not Kasslynians might believe it to be true.
>>152004451It's clearly not true in Kasslyne either, you can see several in that page alone.
>>152001012Alright. Duane's clearly going to escape. How many of these guys are going to die?I guess we have Duane's motivation for going to Alderode too. No way he hasn't heard of what's happening/being planned being the captive of the scientists here.
>>152004804I don't care how many of them die as long as Nora is among the dead.
>>152003314im so glad im not the only one sure this is going to happen
>>152004804I think none of them die and Duane only gets out from having the pymaric itself yoinked seconds before it's going to be unraveled.At best, Nora blows herself up after having been cornered by an extremely pissed-off Bastion (now with Paul's hairline) who doesn't relish the idea of her running around with his work in her mind.
>>152004901The Will incel, or Willcel as I like to say, arc is going to go so hard.
>>152003184If she was 4 (When my dad died) I could sort of believe that but even then I still have a ton of memories of him. The idea that she just memory holed him is kind of nonsensical to me.
>>152004804I think they're going to be put in a situation where they have to fix him at the threat of death but won't be killed.
>>152001368It sucks that Sette is a perma-loli, this would be the perfect opportunity to see her aging a little. Or at least a costume/hairstyle change.
>>152005110I don't know. Duane got called "best wright in centuries" on the cast page this time, and most of the casters we've seen go head to head with him note how impressed they are with his technique. But Nora didn't mention a thing about it here, and dismissed his Ssaelit career. I wonder if she thinks any plod made aware would cast as well.
Crackpot theory: the fat Sharteshanian guy is Bastion.
>>152005103That stood out to me too, but it could be also some sort of trauma response.
>>152005103She has pretty much replaced him in her mind with Lemuel. If didn't remember him though she wouldn't have freaked out after their magic handshake at the shrine
Well fuck, I haven't even started my reread of Unsounded yet. I thought I had more time, the launch date of the new book kind of snuck up on me.I guess I'll spend this week rereading Unsounded, and then when I'm done I'll just play catchup on Red Coast until I get to the latest page.
>>152001012Sneaky sneaky
>>152005301where's the kickstarter for that? can i still get a copy?
>>152002927I doubt Erm is going to die. She's the shit that refuses to flush.Very much looking forward to Mikaila eventually disembowling Tree and his little bum-buddy though.
>>152005132>It sucks that Sette is a perma-loli, this would be the perfect opportunity to see her aging
>>152004901Lemon knows that Tree was the one who killed Duane. If he lets Mikaila fuck Tree that's just one more reason to hate the little shit, on top of the other thousand reasons.
Gentlemen, it's good to be back
>>152005482>If he lets Mikaila fuck TreeMore like she's sneaking off and fucking Tree while Lemon isn't looking, and now that Lem's captured, there's nobody around to restrain her. Finding out you fucked your dad's murderer would leave a big dose of mental anguish.
>>152005482lemon is stuck in Sonories basement and presumed dead
>>152005449I only say this because I want there to be a change to represent her character development. Again, a change in clothing or hairstyle would suffice.
>>152005132We don't know what changes might occur now that she past the barrier no previous sette by breaking the first soul out of its death loop
>>152005556After that run-in with Sette Classic I pretty seriously doubt she's going to do the ol' haircut character development routine.
>>152005556The claws aren't one?
>>152005132>conspiracy crackheadHonestly I can see the Red Cost reveal actually being pic related, the khert inherently wants things to be balanced so if you were twisting it to make the Dammakhert, it makes sense that to give lifespan you need to proportionally take it away from someone else. The number of children Coppers and Jets are allowed to have being limited makes total sense not just because they live longer and need more gibs, but also because the birth of each Copper/Jet needs to be balanced with the birth of several Plats/Silvers. Alderode's birth problems (which affects Plats the most) spooking the secret Copper cabal ruling the country makes total sense too. Also helps that the caste lifespans are roughly proportional. If we assume the baseline khert-imposed human lifespan to be 80-100 years, Coppers are 4x, Plats are 1/4x, Jets are ~2x, Silvers are 1/2x.
>>152005532If Mikaila has been fucking Tree it didn't happen last week. The fact Tree is still even breathing is just another black mark against Lemon. Letting him fuck Duane's daughter is the angel on top of his christmas tree of fucking arsehole.
>>152005556I understand what you're getting at. For me I don't care about her body, but it's limiting to have her mind remain 10 or whatever forever. It's like when you see a genius 12 year old going to uni, but genius or not, you talk to them and it's evident that they still have the emotional maturity of a 12 year old. tbf though not very long has passed in universe so even if Sette could have development, not much could have happened. >>152005617Not him, but I say the claws count.
>>152001012>the first wright to properly examine Duane and conclude he's actually who he says he is>anyway, we're going to literally unravel his existence for science and the glory of CresceWho else but Nora?
>>152003184>She doesn’t even remember him that well>that thing Duane was afraid of eventually happenedWoof.
>>152003108Cope went and made some tasteful erotica of Bastion boning a silver woman when the readers when ape over her incidental appearance during his circus act in the Black Tongue party.She plays to the audience sometimes.
>>152001295Took me two reads to notice the fucked up Lion moving is representing Jaer getting around behind Nessy to give him the express ticket to Sael.
>>152003961I think Ashley has said Elka is totally on board but Toma would not like it and try to petition the Queen about it, if he knew.
>>152004432It's metaphorical, Ssaelit believe the sea is Hell.
>>152005103It's easier to not remember him and the night of his murder.
>>152005764>If Mikaila has been fucking Tree it didn't happen last week. The fact Tree is still even breathing is just another black mark against LemonThey came to an understanding, probably. It probably helps that Tree consistently comes off as bizarrely righteous despite being an assassin and kid murderer (though it's fucking weird he's been next to a kid getting murked, or almost, twice now but hasn't done the deed himself and seems to let some other asshole do it).Regardless, the fact that he explicitly pushed Lemuel to examine the situation, and made it clear they'd both been played, probably led to a casual alliance of convenience between the two.
>>152003961It's important to remember that they're locked in an existential war with his homeland. One he's repeatedly championed despite his growing opposition to its current activity in Cresce. Duane's not just an enemy national, he's an enemy combatant and true believer. What's being done to him is pretty knarly, but it's probably soothed by the concept that he'd be gunning for them had the cards fallen different (And has, at time).As >>152005835 points out, they likely don't know, but they're worn out and tired by this point anyway. Duane disappeared into the night last they saw and they probably decided to put his weirdness behind them but perhaps wish him well. Toma would object to his being unmade for SCIENCE, since he's a man of principle, and Elka would agree despite her otherwise stronger stance against the Queen because it's clear she's more of a true believer than Toma in The Cause of the nation and sacrificing for it. It's an interesting dynamic between the two. On the face of it, Toma is more the righteous nationalist, something of a contrast to Duane. But as we saw in their last scene, Toma easily avoids tougher questions about his nation since they prick his conscience too much, whereas Elka much more easily accepts the shit and works with it.
>>152001213I like how subtle this is. This page >>152001154 implies he's overstayed his welcome with the local thuggery, but the reveal here is that it's probably more like he refused an "offer" to take part in some scheme of the Tannery and is now being whacked for it.I might be reading too much into it, but it's hard not to feel like this was a Sharte "on the edge." Sailing off to a new market in Alderode to make his own way. To try and escape the criminal grip of the ruling families of Sharte, bringing his kid along with him. Instead he got wrapped up in some other country's criminal underworld and killed anyway.Life's tough for a shartesanian looking to truly make good.
>>152002098So does our Author, so you're in good company.>this image was posted in response to the question "who's the most handsome man in Unsounded" and Cope answered he hadn't shown up yet
>>152003081The preview summary for this entire book basically made her out to be the primary protag of half the story. So maybe. You know how these things go. But really, the summary mentioned her plot being about trying to find true salvation for her people. Which can go wrong, of course, but who can say?
>>152005906Really good read. I googled his last name and it's a river of boiling blood in hell in Dante's Inferno. In the story Dante is helped across it by a centaur named Nessus.....Not sure what it means that these two killed Nessus instead. But symbolically I think it must mean they fucked themselves
>>152004071Not only is Rachshame the North Korea nation, they think Pymary is some mondo sin. So they're spending their time doing real science. I believe this was mentioned in context with an obvious future problem for the setting, which was the limited stock of First Materials for Pymarics eventually getting so low that the teching up of our world becomes more apparent. And that this would put the violently xenophobic country of Rachshane suddenly in a very favorable geopolitical "security" position when that happened.But that's far beyond the scope of our story. What's important here is they certainly would not have a world class Necromancer to send off like this, even if they did send people off like this.
>>152004432Anon, it's a song about the untruth of the spiritual philosophies of the setting. There's no end to hell, there's no heaven waiting for us. Everything we do is just a struggle into the endless void.Goes nicely with some of the themes from the end of the last chapter.
>>152005879>It's important to remember that they're locked in an existential war with his homeland.No cresce-fag ever accepted this when it came to Duane's dislike of the queen.>Duane's not just an enemy national, he's an enemy combatantDuane literally fought side-by-side with Toma, Elka and the other crescians against the silver and all the khert-spawn, and previously against the red berry boys.
>>152005995Cresce are a bunch of fuckers, this has been a running theme of the comic. At minimum, they're just as bad as Alderode, in their own way.
>>152001165I like how casually "brutal" this page is. The physical symbolism of humans rendered into carcasses and machinery. No wonder the Humanist Ssael react so strongly to it. Obviously its hella convenient, but I'm somewhat surprised it's so accepted even with the Gefendur. People treat human life so casually, but it's pretty much always some kind of big sin to treat a corpse wrongly. Of course, people still do it anyway and every culture has its own weird practices. But the nature of plods feels like it should unsettle the average citizen of this world more than it does.
>>152001881Either the rebalancing went through and this is a sign of it, or the Gefendur finally got it pushed through in exchange for not doing rebalancing. Both would be bad, even if the former's obviously more immediately worrisome, because even in the latter it implies a change to the relationship with the Vits Council, where now the Gefendur know they can push things through by threatening to up end the Council's traditional practices.
>>152005995I'm not justifying it, anon, I'm explaining it. People are too used to the, for lack of a better world "anime third path-ism" where the cool guys on all sides form up and be friends. In reality, soldiers from opposite sides can become good friends and then go back to murdering each other cause that's how it works.Toma, of the two, is the most likely to cause a stink, but even then he's not likely to go one man army and forsake his country to save Duane if all else fails.
well now I'm starting to wonder how much of this was just personal memory.
>>152001342>I'm sure you've considered the black tonguesI wonder just how much Bastion published of his work before, and after, Duane. He seems enough of a weirdo to not be contributing too much in the kind of "black market scientific publishing" the Black Tongues at large do. But it's also strange to think his life long goal of overcoming death didn't result in SOME sort of thing getting circulated in the Black Tongue circles. Which is where a lot of advancements come from, even for Cresce. Had he "published" anything, you'd think it would've made some waves enough for Nora to have found it by now, given how much she's dug into Duane's past already.
>>152005861None of that changes what I said one iota.
>>152006015You and I understand this, many do not.
>>152006024>But the nature of plods feels like it should unsettle the average citizen of this world more than it does.Geffies accept their souls will be reincarnated into a new body. Therefore it's not a leap to think of the body as a meat machine that they will shed in time to hop into another, and if no one (important) is using the discarded meat machine, why not allow someone else to use it?
>>152006094Lots of real life cultures believe in reincarnation, and still treat corpses with some reverence. Hell, in pretty much every culture corpses were considered so unclean (and, to be fair, there were medical dangers in handling them) that in several entire underclass would end up forming that was considered Spiritually Impure just to have people who could handle the bodies "properly" even though just handling them was considered something foul enough to fuck up your immortal soul. From Japan to the Middle East, just touching corpses as part of your job ended up becoming something your decedents TODAY can be pushed around for.Now consider what having dead bodies around doing day to day labor in a town or city would do with that cosmology.I'm not personally cinema sins-ing this, to be clear. It's just something that stuck in my mind when reading this prolog that hadn't really occurred to me before. Because, frankly, zombie robots is such a sickass idea I also did some writing on a world wherein that was the gimmick. It's a naturally compelling idea for fantasy and one the modern mind is more capable of considering plausible. But it's also something that is deeply at odds with how humans traditionally consider dead bodies, so I wanted to bring it up.
>>152006083I imagine he tried to before getting collared by birdtits. As much as he probably wanted to it needed to be secret for her plan.
>>152001049The first part can be read as complete and self-contained, in the sense that characters get their arcs complete and major plot points get wrapped up. But it still has a ton of cliffhangers and plot threads waiting to be unraveled in part two. And it’ll probably take you a while to get through it all.But it also took about fifteen years to complete, so you’ll have to wait another ten at least before you can read the second part all in one go.
>>152001307Amazing that Ashley managed to fit a child’s murder into the prologue of her next book. I’m not even mad, I’m just impressed. She’s really earned that childkiller nickname.
>>152006182I love how Mikaila's death was a massive fakeout and now it feels like she's got to kill even more children for real to make up for it.
>>152006189This is the true red cost.
>>152006182It's pretty quick crash course in the comic, in a fascinating to disect way. In a few ways, it feels like we're done bullshitting around with ontological mysteries and just going>yeah, zombies? no big deal in this setting, but also no one thinks you can use it to keep a real person as a lich>which has now also definitely happened>alds? there's some shit up with them>here's some basic Saellit philosophyAnd the like. Geopolitics, magic science, grey underworld characters who seem sympathetic and then pretty casually do horrible shit. Gore! Lots of casual gore!What else could a girl want?
>>152005845>>152005992It's a joke you donuts.
>>152006165It's not that far at odds if serious money can be made. The (supposed) remains of saints, the brain of Einstein, the dong of Rasputin. If there's value in a corpse people can be grizzly and greedy, and zombie labor is the foundation of a happy communist society.
>>152005103I read a bunch of captivity stories from the American frontier days, and one thing that was observed was that a lot of children taken before the age of 8 pretty much forgot their past lives by the time they were adults. They generally didn’t remember their English names, didn’t remember their parents’ names or language, and were just generally fuzzy on the details. So I certainly believe that Mikaila is more Lem than Duane at this point. Lemuel has been there for her most formative years and entry into young womanhood. Mikaila of course knows Duane is her biological father, but as far as she’s concerned, Lemuel is her actual “papa” and she probably barely remembers Duane. She may recall a few flashes here and there, some reinforced by her mother and uncle too, but I don’t think they’d be all that strong.
>>152006165>it's also something that is deeply at odds with how humans traditionally consider dead bodiesWe've encountered plenty of geffies who are disturbed by plods and consider them dirty and dangerous, true, but pymary has removed a lot of the dirty work around corpses. Plods are very clean, dehumanized, and orderly if they aren't eating people. The people handling corpses in Kasslyne aren't shunned; they're making bank.
>>152006353I forgot my language but that's because my dad spoke spanish and his pacing caused issues. It's apparently common with trauma but forgetting a whole ass person feels like a different thing altogether. I guess were she younger I'd believe that but it's kind of weird.
>>152006083He thought the Duane experiment was a total failure until some recent time when the scheme to deliver him into custody started. Can't imagine Bastion of all people writing publicly about how badly he fucked up.Plus it's such an unbelievable advancement it gets regarded as quackery by anybody who hears about it. People that have MET Duane don't believe it, it's not the kind of thing you can toss in a journal and expect to be taken seriously.
>>152006353I forgot my language but that's because my dad spoke spanish and his passing caused issues. It's apparently common with trauma but forgetting a whole ass person feels like a different thing altogether. I guess were she younger I'd believe that but it's kind of weird.
His copy of the Songs of Ssael, his lion pymeric he's used to entertain children, a copy of a newspaper from his time in Sharteshane, a chewed map (the one Sette didn't use at the start of their adventure?), his notebooks, Sette's stolen hat, lots of tins of fish for Sette. I'm not quite sure what the picture of the stick is?It's all so wholesome, and it being spilled out on Erm's desk is a violation.
>>152006165There are cultures where corpses are treated differently. Check out the Toraja of Indonesia.Granted, yes, they are the exception. But remember also that the Fore of Papua New Guinea practice cannibalism as a funerary practice, and considering cannibalism is accepted practice among the Geffendur…I honestly do just buy that they’re more comfortable with corpses, especially since they can easily clean and disinfect them so they don’t cause disease (which was done to the last leader of the Black Tongues). And human bone is used for prosthetic pymarics. It just seems a reasonably different world to me.
>>152006353>as far as she’s concerned, Lemuel is her actual “papa” and she probably barely remembers DuaneI think you're right. With Lemon Miki's having the best time of her life, she gets to play war and enter the military, she gets to throw of the restraints of her sex, she's the Golden Delight, and she's made hundreds of more exciting memories with Lemon compared to her hundreds of mundane memories with Duane holding her hand or teaching her a little pymary sometimes. Duane has been overshadowed completely because under Papa Lem Miki's growth and personality has grown exponentially.
>>152006379It might be an actual twig wrapped in paper. Is it the last sprig of the wandering root?
>>152006367I mean, but she didn’t totally forget him though? She knows who he is, has a few fuzzy memories, and certainly remembers the night he died. But as far as she’s concerned, he’s dead and gone, and simply not relevant to her life anymore.I know that’s not a common attitude in our society, but part of what’s happened here is that Mikaila’s father was explicitly replaced by Lemuel, in terms of his place in her life and society. There was no space for her to develop her identity as a daughter without a father and a widowed mother; the void was just instantly filled, and her society clearly expected her to just accept it, which she did. That doesn’t happen in our society anymore, at least not normally. Children are given time and space to grieve. Widows and widowers are expected to take time to grieve. Neither are expected to suddenly be handed over to the father/husband’s brother and accept him as a de-facto replacement.
>>152006447Yep, it took literal seconds for her memories of Duane to start stirring when she saw him at the shrine. It's why Lemon freaked out and cut his head off.
>>152006379It’s not a picture of a stick! I think… I think it’s a twig taken from the Mamalen Entek they killed.
>>152006430You're probably right.
>>152003260Patreon comment 2:>High-res pages just for you! You'll notice these are a little different from what gets posted on the site. I thought I'd give you the untrimmed versions, without the bleed cut off. There's almost never anything of note in the bleed, that's the point, but sometimes they do make for some prettier panels.>Thanks for all the kind words on the prologue! When you're working on something like this for a few months all alone, you just kind of start assuming no one is going to be interested or that it's all secretly hot garbage. TRC is especially awkward for me because it's the story that has all my weird niche interests, some of my most unlikable characters, some of my most personal philosophy, and some real ick, eventually. But I'll make the same promise I made with Unsounded: It always has a point, and it's always leading to a conclusion that will not make you feel like you wasted your time.>Regular updates will kick off next Monday. A lot happens this first chapter but we do have to build up to it, so strap in for the slow burn :) And as always, let me know if you have any questions! I answer every question on here, even if it's just to say no, I can't answer that yet :3
>>152006459>it took literal seconds for her memories of Duane to start stirring when she saw him at the shrineI don't think that's right, I don't think the encounter really made her remember Duane at all, it was just a weird monster.
I was a bit worried the story would lose momentum with the first arc ending but this is all so fucking good. Ashley is an unjustly overlooked genius imo.
>>152005765I think the reveal that she’s been destroying her memories implies that her lack of maturity is self-inflicted and she’ll start to grow more now also I think she’s millennial coded so she’s gonna have an arc or two about growing up
>>152006903She may mature through experience, but she’ll always have the brain and body of a 12 year old, and that’s always going to impact how she acts and feels.
>>152006911I don't think anybody actually knows this, since she wasn't designed to live this long and probably never has. If you've got word of god to the effect then I'm all ears.
>>152006911And that's the way we likes it.
>>152006479Nora will never die, will she
>>152003181>We knew Nora had no moral objection to torturing senet beasts earlier, but it's a fun touch here that she's advocated Duane does have a soul and thus 'real' feelings in the same manner as a human but is still 100% on torturing him.It's pretty clear that torturing captured soldiers is a standard practice in this world, why would Duane being a real person make her hesitate?
>>152007025if anything him being real makes her want to torture him more
>>152006917I’m fairly certain Ashley has said this on the tumblr multiple times. Basically, she’s not designed to age or grow past twelve, so she simply doesn’t.She hasn’t told us if this means Sette is effectively immortal or what, it’s one of those things where she winks at the reader and says maybe we’ll find out, but she has been pretty clear that because Settes were designed to die at twelve, a Sette simply will not develop past twelve.
>>152007025Sorry yeah I momentarily forgot we were in hellworld.
>sequel starts with absolutely NO answer to the biggest and most important mystery cliffhanger of the previous workWhat happened to Lemuel's dick?
>>152005691Your math isn't quite right.
>>152005794It is quite silly to rush into a disassembly like this, ideally you would study him for years and years, to squeeze every info you can out without destroying him, and only then do a vivisection.
>>152003181This >>152003338 seems to imply she’s less a genius and more just unconcerned with conventional wisdom/morals, which makes her useful to the government.
It's that time of the year again
>>152006226>actually getting aboard a ship in sharteshaneIt's wild that this comic has been running so long and we understand so much about the setting, but only now are we seeing certain parts of it.It might seem hyperbolic to some, but I genuinely put this setting up there with works like Dungeon Meshi or Full Metal Alchemist.The trend of great settings being written by women seems to be tracking.
>>152007910>Dungeon MeshiAnon, I like Delicious in Dungeon, but its setting is not its strength.
been looking forward to the return of Unsounded all these monthsprologue didn't disappoint
>>152007948How can you type?You are a fuckinb baboon. Baboons cannot type.
>>152007910Are you reading Yomi no Tsugai?
Can't wait to see Nessy again!
>>152001463I think those were removed long ago>>152001479Seems like! Or not?? V. confusing timeline wise. Timey wimey fuckery, or do all those filthy brown castes look the same?
>>152007948What is Dungeon Meshi if not its setting? Especially as a vehicle for little character moments. A compelling plot certainly isn't its strength.
>>152008048I get what anon is saying, the Dungeon Meshi setting is very bare except for what's needed. Basically nothing is known about specific countries or political figures except for the ones directly involved in the story. There's a vague "elfs want this" "dwarves want this" political backdrop but it's not really relevant except through the Canaries.
>>152001702Erm's still a bitch but gotta hand it to her, open minded enough to believe Duane might be real(Then again she doesn't believe the Aldish at large are real, but wait, Duane was a Soud, so he'd be one of the few ones she'd consider human)>>152001982gotta stick to the house style>>152004804he made a promise, man of his word>>152005812that was pretty much canon so... >>152006355Helps that you can literally spell away smells and filth in this setting. Simple sterilization on demand means they've got much better sanitation than we have. To be clear, they can sterilize a WOUND directly without debriding, just by chanting something at it.
woah... so this is the power of sharteshanian industry...
>>152008096Yeah honestly if Ballenstern invented the instant complete wound sterilization then regardless of being a horrible old man and all the grim shit the Blacktongues got up to he's probably well in the clear as far as lives saved and overall human good goes.
>>152008168was it that recent? All I know is they have the name for microorganisms from Tainish and they know they can core leech or otherwise remove them with pymary but they don't know what it is they're removing, they think it's tiny ghosts. Since "dead human flesh" is also distinct they don't need maggots to clean a wound either.God this captcha is tiresome
Sette is a Barbie doll
>>152008208No, she has a vulva, just with only one hole
>>152008287So like a bird
>>152007996nta but that shit is fucking great. Then again I am a huge FMA fan so Arakawa's stuff probably just resonates with me.I am very excited about the red cost. Cope, you're a goddamn beast.
>>152006447There's a Whumptober short story starring Mikaila on the Q&A blog that gives a glimpse into her feelings around Duane. Simply, complicated and she tries not to think about it too much.https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/764994160978755584/whumptober-2024-15-childhood-trauma-will
>>152008168Nah, that spell is much older than Bastion
>>152008007Nope, there are new ones for The Red Cost. There's a scrap of paper at the bottom of each comic page, and if it's moving there's an extra little scrap of writing. About a paragraph, usually from an in-world publication. First one is on page 4, a short snippet of an article about the attack on Duane and Mikaila.
I think Mikaila should only be allowed to fuck Tree if Tree has a daughter and Mikaila kills her.
>>152008727kinky
>>152008208>he doesnt Know about the pie incidentah, poor, innocent anon, bless you.
>>152008478>“You remember him better than I do, Will. Don’t think me wicked, but I’m happy to forget. Papa says memories are heavy, but we’re the only ones stopping ourselves from setting them down.”
>>152009037it's a nice story and it reveals mikaila is also a bit emotionally aware- her bit about Will having it worse means she probably knows and understands how shitty his family situation is
>>152009444Argenti senior seems like a swell guy. He gets on with Lemon just fine.
How do I find a Sette wife
>>152008208Sette has bits. Otherwise she wouldn't have been pissed at Khette for showing them for free.
>>152009503I wouldn't say swell since he was the one who sent 5 year old Will off to die in the Foi-Hellick Affair to spite his wife
>>152009549Maybe she's embarrassed to show her anus.
>>152009604Doubtful
>>152007745and that time is : CHILD MURDER
>>152009712The only thing worse than a murderer
>>152001105>No bottom has the sea>Sea's bottom on the very previous page
>>152006369I more meant the mundane details he would've had to work out before even getting something like his little phylactery device ready.We know it involves the Weeping Plague as a medium and Bastion's actual work is mostly tied up with that. One wonders if he disseminated any work about how the Weeping Plague affects souls or death. There's also any work he did involving the Tacit Caster port (something that IS mentioned by one of the researchers here and that Bastion already admitted was the bait that drew him into the Duane assassination affair.Stuff like that is what I meant. Unsounded is the kind of story that has events like this happen. The Black Tongues come off as seedy black magic sorcerors (and they are), but the truth is they're also mundane magic scientists, releasing information on their research for wider use. It's the kind of story where a lot of work is involved leading up to something like Duane's zombification, so my mind wondered if any of it left a trail to Bastion, even under a pseudonym.
>>152006411I'm more focused on the mundanification of the corpses and how much their use would involve being around normal spaces all the time.It's one thing to eat people. It's one thing to do weird shit to the bodies. But what I'm concerned with is that these all still involve some sort of "reverence" or "sacredness." Consuming people still tends to carry an aspect of "doing this gives me power" or that there IS some power there. But usually one is not treating the corpse as some interchangeable beast of burden. That industrialization of the human form has always tended to creep people out.Again, not saying this is some big problem. Just that it's something that would've had to be overcome in the wider populace for this to happen.
>>152008478Will keeps getting the shit end of the stick, as usual. Something about Silvers.
>>152010470It's probably just something that came about as a consequence of pymary. IRL corpses have much less potential for practical use, but they've been used, mostly as bioweapons.
What's the main source of plods, anyway? Is there some kind of pre-mortem contract or are they just repurposing enemy soldiers and corpses that aren't important enough to be missed?
>>152007185I'm fairly certain she hasn't. The answers I can recall off the top of my head left it pretty intentionally vague.
>>152005617No, you can't really see them. I'm not saying that Sette has gained nothing, I'm just hoping that this new beginning for the Unsounded story has Sette adopt something fitting of the change.
>>152001702It's obviously untrue to someone of her intelligence, but she's decided to promulgate such nonsense because she hates Alds. Bell didn't even think that, and Bell was an idiot.
>>152002979Duane has no problems with the idea of killing women.
>>152003314That's pretty obvious. Dubious choice on her part, despicable on his, all things considered.
>>152010852Your family can sell your corpse, I think. Otherwise, criminals and such I guess.
>>152007688Useful to the Queen specifically. And I'm sure her apparent lack of personal ethics plays a part in her utility. She has demonstrated considerable skill so far, though she seems less singularly brilliant herself than someone who knows how to team-build and how to elaborate/expand upon foundational work. Frankly, we've seen very little of what she's done that doesn't get an asterisk.Her principle work with water women was a failure, and only tangentially useful, and only useful in that way due to the unethical experiments provoking water women.She did successfully copy Vienne Quigley's work, but that's not exactly impressive, she had all the documentation, she just copied it and put guns on it.The cannon hidden in Yerta worked, but that was just a gun, the only novel thing about it seems to have been blasphemously hiding it in a statue of the goddess.And she's managing to study Duane without ending up in his stomach, which shows that she can't be a complete idiot, since we've seen what happens when complete idiots try to fence him.
>>152000976Damn wait we already back? thought was gonna be a longer break
>>152005556Japanese hands type this post.
>>152011049you're a retard
>>152011049Pretty sure Ashley has said somewhere that everyone's getting a warmer change of clothes for when they arrive in Alderode. Myabe that'll suffice.
>>152008096>open minded enough to believe Duane might be realAnyone who spends more than a few days with Duane eventually starts giving ground on the question of him being real. Once they've discarded the 'ai chatbot' and 'remote control zombie' theories.
>>152011108I mean if he ends up being THE Murkoph he definitely pays for it.
>>152011560I'd like to know how real that plod researcher's titties are.
IDK how many people ITT would ever have played Vagrant Story but it's nuts what might be the GOAT webcomic seems to have started with fanfiction over a bit character in that game. I wonder what other aspects of the game influenced Unsounded the most. I would guess the ruined undead city of Old Tawhoque in Ashley's RP universe took some inspiration from Lea Monde.
>>152011262Mid riff booty shorts sette soon
>>152011888Until he gets to gloat to Duane how he banged Mikaela.
>>152012222Look there are probably a number of women with a kink for fucking the guy who killed their dad. Don't kinkshame our golden delight.
>>152007652No point trying to reverse-engineer the guy by prodding him with scientific sticks for months when you could just crack open the pymaric and see what the code is actually doing.Even whatever info you could get from his khert jaunts, if you believed him, and if he told you about them in the first place, is colored by the problem of him not wanting to cooperate at all. Better to just figure out what makes him tick and recreate it on some particularly insane Crescian royal scientist who happens to be a tacit caster.
>>152012255I wonder if Duane could infect them all with the weeping plague somehow.
>>152012278I think the man's traumatized enough as it is without adding the creation of a new quarantine zone to his plate. He saw what Fachlyne was like firsthand, he'd probably be scrambling to kill himself.
>>152012331I'm just saying, maybe cracking open the plaguebearing nut isn't a great idea.
>>152012278He can't infect people he doesn't have eyes
>>152003314That's too fucking weird even for cope.
>>152012164I never have, but I’d love your analysis on what inspiration you recognize from it if you have!
>>152010470Hmm. What about those skeleton/skull assemblies we sometimes find in South/Central America? The ones where they’re just racks and racks of skulls used for ornamentation.
>>152006911>>152006917>>152007185The closes I've seen is Nary saying her brain hasn't came either. Seemingly the only confirmation that she also mentally 12. It's easy to imagine stunted physical growth but staying mentally kid probably stood out to him. Of course this before the all that shit with bird and the first soul doing new shit so it could and probably will change.
>>152012278If they were able to give him simulacra eyes that were good enough… or if they temporarily hooked him up to real eyes… oh boy!
>>152013716It's worth playing if you can bear with what may now seem like tedious mechanics (such as the weapon affinity and crafting system). I think it is Matsuno's most interesting story. The dialogue is off the chain.This is Father Duane. He is a minor boss you fight in the game. He is a warrior-mage-cleric guy for a fanatical order of templars called the Crimson Blades. Now his brother, Father Grissom, is the same. You encounter them both in a cursed city known as Lea Monde. The dead don't rest in Lea Monde, and anyone killed there wanders as a lost soul, usually until they find a corpse to inhabit.Grissom dies too but against all odds, the dead body his soul finds to inhabit is his own. He possesses his own corpse and at the conclusion of the game finds he cannot control himself and begins to attack his own allies against his will.It seems obvious to me in story and in appearance Grissom and Duane in VS formed part of the seed for Ashley's character Duane Adelier.
>>152013524The anon looks at you with a troubled, uncomfortable glare, like that of a man who must explain to his hethlott daughter that her dreams of becoming a Vits council composer will never come true.
>>152010470I think it’s interesting to compare the treatment of plods to the treatment of twins, who the gefendur do kill and eat. There’s something about them being twins, a very unique thing in Kasslyne, that makes their bodies/flesh differently sacred. I feel like there would be a riot if a twin got turned into a plod. But then it’s also interesting to compare how gefendur treat corpses normally- we saw Quigley’s funeral- he’s dressed in a shroud and the casket is ‘open’. In the q&a Ashley says they let the bodies rot and decay into the earth and often reuse the same space for multiple burials (if I am remembering correctly) Eventually there’s no grave to go to for most people. Your body isn’t entombed, it fades away and the idea of it still being “there” isn’t really a thing. That sort of attitude meshes with plods for me- they are just another way a corpse can decay/be used up.
>>152013868Cool breakdown- Ashley’s mentioned this connection on the q&a blog. I think she roleplayed as father Duane with a friend and, to do it well, had to build out the character and it became our Duane
>>152013868We should be friends, Anon.
>>152013921There are some other aspects, like the Crimson Blades and their leader seem like they were probably the seed of what became the Sharte Gefendur paladins in her Sharteshane RP. There's a kind of, uh, cursed redeemer ultimately in the game's story that I wonder if it fed into any of the Ssaelit theology in Unsounded. The main character is tormented by the memory of a lost wife and child, but not all is as it seems there. There's an evil(?) shirtless twink with a fucked up noble backstory who I would say definitely is NOT Bastion but y'know, maybe there was a little bit of aesthetics bleeding over there.This is not to say I think Ashley ripped anything off or solely took inspo from VS. It's just really interesting to see what has become an at best cult classic JRPG influence something completely different in another medium. I think Unsounded's author was also pretty into LoK and there are some obvious commonalities there in a tortured undeath and brother against brother, and obv she makes no secret of her love for Herman Melville and you can see that in Unsounded too with at minimum its terrifying and profane seas.>>152014009I am not on any social media and would be wayyy too starstruck, but I'm an adoring fan. Your comics are amazing.
Also you know having played some of the same stuff, we're probably of vaguely similar ages, and it's great to see someone creative incorporate those influences and explore what was interesting to them in their own work in this era of endlessly regurgitated corporate properties.
>>152014109Oh yeah, I’m no Ashley but I know what it means to start role playing one character and have them turn into their own thing through happenstance and hard work, it’s really inspiring and fun
>>152013895>they let the bodies rot and decay into the earth and often reuse the same space for multiple burialsThis was and is done in real life, mind you, especially in places where space is at a premium. You keep the grave for a while, then later cremate what's left or move the bones to an ossuary.I've been to an ossuary once, for the victims of one of the worst massacres of the Rwandan genocide. It's fucking eerie, just shelves upon shelves of bones. They even sorted them by bone types - hips here, legs there, etc...
>>152014345It's interesting how a lot of cultures feel the need to keep these bones around. I'm not sure what the point is other than superstition.
>>152014474Well, in that case it was literally a genocide memorial, and for a fairly recent one at that (1994).In general though, ossuaries are usually parts of churches and temples, and it definitely adds a lot of oomph to the atmosphere. Even if you don't think it's a factor in the afterlife, even if it's just an anonymous pile of bones, there's a lot of weight to the idea that your bones will be laid to rest with the bones of your ancestors. It's sentimentality, and for the churches themselves, it's one more thing to keep people loyal to them.
>>152001000>>152001012The cute little jacket and patches make her seem so much more psycho.
>>152009549>she has bits Where?
>>152011163I was going to say that she's an engineer, not a scientist, but I didn't want to imply that engineers are generally dumber than scientists (though they probably are). Engineers usually work within the bounds of cutting edge, they don't push those bounds themselves. Hence why she's summoned a bunch of actual researchers to study her subject, whereas a scientist would be more likely to do their research alone a la the Black Tongues
>>152014109didn't Unsounded Duane get the "God is stronger" line from VS Duane?
>>152015515Maybe? My pull would be Northsongs is named for a Vagrant Story quote.
>>152005812Duane railed a Silver as well.
>>152008287>she has a vulvaLooks like a Barbie to me
>>152015802There's something about those Silvers...
>>152015929Silvers are at the perfect point on the caste fuckability scaleCoppers? Yuck. Only good for hardcore giant fetishists. Jets? Yes, just below silver in ratings. Gold? Too special, too stuck up. Bronze? Too unremarkable, nobody wants a C-tier fuck.Silver? Perfection, perfectly exotic. Plat? Fetish tier, might as well be fucking wet toilet tissue with how delicate they look.
>>152016076>Only good for hardcore giant fetishists.Mini-giantess is not hardcore. Also they only get big in old age so it'd be some hag. Some may be into that but for me if it isn't a sexy teenager then what's the point?
>>152016198>he's not hagsmaxxing
Ahh, I've missed this.Good to be back, strong start, wish we'd seen Duane.
>>152016381Cope has to edge us
>>152005803Most of his time in the final chapter/s was already about coming to terms with this and accepting it, at most he can hope for is that Leysa keeps good memories of him, right now I don't think he'd even dare approach her even if whatever body he's apparently working on isn't a fucking horrorshow
>>152003081If this is duane daughter, she'd def go a bit rogue since her uncle and dad were both killed. Also cute brat with happy family and rich and good life who suffers only once or twice and goes full evil brat would parellel bad girl gone good with nothing good in her life just a good father figure.Basically what no daddy does to a bitch.
>>152008208>>152015890I'll miss khertte
>>152016381I don't think I'm ready for what we're gonna see. He'll probably look "better" than he did, or at least less mealy and gross, but mentally it sounds like he's gonna be in a bad fucking place
Anyone else wants Sette to flip the table, crash the khert, and rewind everything back to primordial soup?
>>152017047Well seems like the primordial soup was worse, just khert is imperfect. Think she'll do inverse, notice sette has fundamental perfect reincarnation just flawed because then humans considered her a boon to be tortured and eaten to be one with their gods.So think sette will somehow use the flawed code of her existence and the imperfect khert code. To make basically a perfect reincarnation cycle, instead of dying and becoming just fragments of your bad and good memories. You'll die and be reincarnated as someone else, maybe this will be her final gift to duane he finally dies and gets to reincarnate in the new khert.I mean think about the name of series "unsounded" she will sounded it. and fix what her "true" parents fucked up. But remember before the khert was just a fucked up fog
>>152013868So that's where Duane got that shitty haircut.
>>152006328I can understand why plods all have their faces reduced to masked eyeless skulls. It's a lot easier to make peace with the zombie laborer if you can't recognize that it's grandma.
>>152012168I wish, but Alderode is frigid. Expect to see very little skin shown compared to what anyone was wearing for their trek across the south.Except for Duane who does not need warmth and can frolic about in a bright green speedo
>>152017237Oh well someone said warmer clothes, but cute winter clothes ain't bad either. Still heart broken I missed rare chance to comm ashley for some cute sette stuff. If she ever does it again I'll get us the slutty sette fit boyos.Also sette and duane should be matching, especially since she doesn't need a top.>Joke, jivi covering matty eyes in bg
>>152016076>>152016198Something tells me /co/ is gonna come around on Coppers reeeeal quick the second Cope shows us Elarosny's massive red bazonkers
>>152017324>someone gives Sette a package with a winter outfit>she opens it>it's a blue parka with white fur trim>Duane's face when
>>152013868Interesting. I always enjoy these kinds of insights into behind the scenes craft and inspiration. The smallest seeds can become huge works with their own life.
>>152017408Hehe now I feel it has to happen, sette gets stabbed probably by his real daughter and she in similar parka and so small he thinks he's reliving it so bad he flips out on his real daughter and almost merc's her ass
>>152017047Okay, Gendo.
Oh FUCK It’s that time again already?!Ach, I can’t do the disservice of reading the kino on a phone screen. Hopefully the thread lives into tomorrow
>>152001012What if Nora 1.fucking around with duanes pymaric and 2. legitimately believing he's a real human being leads to her somehow catching the weeping plague from him.
>>152018483I think Duane's having a bad enough day as it is.
I wonder if it's a very red herring or if Tree actually is Murkorph in some way. Both bronze and ssaelit, Tree led Lemuel to Mikaila and in the same chapter Murkorph led Duane to Sette. Also Tree with the guitar and there is the old drawing on the site of Murkoph with a guitarWe'll need to see more of both, but it would be interesting and ironic, if Tree ends up a zombie the same way Duane did after he killed him
>>152017078>sette has fundamental perfect reincarnationThe first soul is mindless, every reincarnation cycle just creates another sette ghost in the Khert.
>>152016966I'll miss her being naked
>>152012255>who happens to be a tacit casterFrom what Ashley has said on the tumblr, including Duane, there are like 3-5 tacit casters on the entire continent. It's not quite as simple to replicate as you're implying, that's why Bastion was unable to resist the opportunity to try it on Duane.
>>152018636t. Starfish
>>152016076>Too special, too stuck up.Coppers and Jets are way more stuck up, what are you talking about.
>>152018732Our only copper references are Roger and Mallory, and an argument could be made they're less stuck up than Duane, who probably doesn't represent the pissmop average very well but is the most prominent one in story by far.
>>152018592>Tree led Lemuel to Mikaila and in the same chapter Murkorph led Duane to Setteanother reason i am 99.99999999% sure they are the same person that parallel is too good
>>152001154UNFFFFF
>>152008208If you squint hard at a panel or two here and there, you can see an indentation.
>>152001154It's gotta suck to be a senet kid and be Claudia-mode 5 years old forever.
>>152018636Isn't she always naked? I want her to be happy though>>152018599Thought sette's are just generically feral idiots?
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>>152021481To be fair her death was very funny.
>>152021504Wasn't it off-screen?
>>152021527yeah but it was silly scenario of iirc bastion deflecting a bomb and it just happen to fly into a room she was in
>>152021527I guess technically? But we saw the high chancellor Crescian guy try to safely throw away a grenade and accidentally blow the priestesses the fuck up.
Too bad Nora wasn't in that room.
>>152021551oh yeah that's right it was ufal saving himself and Chea
>the geffies want the ssaelit to mald so much they are literally fucking corpses
>>152021555Sorry she had to survive so that she can eventually realize that lemon is duane's brother and have an erotic torture scene with him in order to figure out how duane works.
>>152021569Yeah, sorry, I forgot Ufal's name. No hate, he's a charming Disneyesque character.
>>152021590I'm fine with that as long as she explodes in the end.
>>152021397No, Settes aren't generically feral; they just aren't raised to their full potential since they usually live in isolation with their Jacs.
OK anons give me a live-or-die prediction on all of the characters we got this chapter. I'm betting Nora lives but most of the scientists introduced here die. I'm betting Jaer eventually dies, but Tree is gonna survive the whole thing.
>>152022386Nora lives, Ashley likes her. Jaer is kinda young Lem lite, so I'm not feeling much staying power, he might turn out more interesting if he's a secret crescian or w/e as has been mentioned. Murk gotta be murked so we'll see how that goes, but he's obvs. gonna play a big role for a good while.
>>152022386Nora won't die. Like I already said, she's like a turd that won't flush. She's already survived a few situations where most people around her died. At least Quigley punched her right in her stupid face.I doubt anyone is going to die here at all. Either Sette is going to bust Duane out or the Queen is going to somehow convince him to go on a quest. Perhaps using Lemon as an "incentive". We see in the prologue she wants a demonstration of him after all.
>>152022386Tree dies by the end of the series.Nora lives. Unfortunately.Jaer dies but probably in the same chapter as Tree.Big potbelly Sharte lives for sure.
>>152022386>Nora dies as an informal apology for all the people that wanted Sonorie dead. >Jaer might live>treeHe is definitely dying if Jaer dies. Probably makes the mistake of running into his forefather. He seems to be protective of his town going by the flashback and Glossary entry. That's a big self sacrifice flag.
I predict that Duane will live.
>>152023453That which is dead may never die even if they want to.
Rank these endings by the order of how good or bad they are>Sonorie wins>Elarosny wins>Murkoph wins>Tittybird wins>Khette wins>Rukh wins>Lemonwins
>>152024113None of these are good, it's just a sliding scale from 'the death of thousands to millions of people' to 'humanity's existence itself is threatened'. From the perspective of some kind of continuity for the lives and society of people in Alderode I would guess Elarosny winning would be the least harmful.
>>152024113>GoodElarosny, Giant red titties can't be badLemon, he just wants to beat up Ssael, the problem is those above himTittybird, I'm gonna be honest besides killing sette her plan seemed fine. She apparently wants undo the bullshit afterlife she created. I don't really have reason to believe she take down humanity if she got her bones back. She still seems sweet on them in her weird senet way>BadMurkoph, Even with his return to sanity Ashley confirmed he still going to be a serial killer, no clue if that is on Bird's order, being a zombie, or his own natural impulses. But he is only one manSonorie, Alds really suck her her solution seems to be "The Final Solution"Rukh, Doesn't understand humanity and would instantly go full tyrant and not even realize what he is doing wrong
I mean I guess technically if 'winning' means the character's ambitions are fulfilled and none of the other candidates' ambitions are, Murkoph winning is the least harmful because yeah he would rape and murder a bunch of people but even if it he did it for a thousand years it's still going to less dead than an Aldish genocide or Ruckmearkha going Caligula.
>>152024113is this meant to be like if they won? if so>Khette wins- best ending cause she's best daughter and just needs a hug and maybe like a jacket for the flayed side. Also she mostly accepted her lost and trauma again, so she's basically neutered>Sonorie wins-she's doing her best for her people but she's very underhanded and low down. She's much more status quo and more the "evil you know">Lemon wins-odds are low right now, but nothing wrong with betting on a old horse. He definitely seems to have some plan and machinations but honestly feels a bit to childish and petty to be anything more than ending the war and slight changes to his country>Murkoph wins-too much of a wildcard to know what his true goals and nature is, if he is who some theorize maybe he will try and fix things but we don't know. Plus how he treated khette odds are he's not the friendliest>Tittybird wins- She seems just like a old soul or a aged wised mother, she thinks she knows best and has very little care for most but her kin and her own schemes. Even when she's loved and worshipped she will abandon anyone even her children. So probably the worst plus we don't know her true goal other than being free maybe to play god.>Rukh wins- definitely worst but probably tied with tittybird as she too is just a old beast, he basically just seems to want to live to continue to feast on different aspects of humanity and have a sadistic feast. He seems to care for no one and nothing, at best he seems a little interested in controlling the khert or learning more about it but probably just to stay at the top. He really has no true win unless he survives to the end
>>152024327Lemuel's plan was retarded and he was played for a chump. Literally a dude holding uno cards sitting at a table of world champion bridge players.
>>152024327I forgot khette, she is mostly just a danger to ghost and didn't even know how to return to life.
>>152024327Bro you are insane if you think Ilganyag incarnating into the world would have been a good thing for humans. At best she regards a few clever humans as charming pets. She killed thousands and deeply betrayed people supposedly treasured by her just to get a shot at it, and she's also keeping thousands and thousands of baby human souls on tap so I wouldn't put her out of having something to do with the weeping plague either.I'm no Crescian, we don't need to be exterminating the senet beasts, but we shouldn't be giving them power and authority over humanity. They do not have human best interests at heart. Ilganyag and Ruckmearkha are two sides of the same coin.
>>152024327I assumed Lemon winning would entail him getting to the Khert and getting to sound the unsounded, and have an anime final boss battle with Ssael if anything like him actually exists there.
>>152024327>Sonorie, Alds really suck her her solution seems to be "The Final Solution"isn't one of sonorie's main character traits "im not going to genocide people"?
Honestly Unsounded is too cynically and realistically written for any of these endings to work out. The religious situation on the continent is super fucked: one dominant and aggressive faith with some variations, and one alternative religion in direct opposition to the first which is also highly aggressive. Even where we had religions coexisting with largely or at least interpretably peaceable sentiments IRL we had centuries of bloodshed and religious conflict. Ssaelism and Gefendurism are directly opposed and highly authorative in their societies. Shit's fucked. Take down the dammakhert and you'll have Plats suicide bombing crowds because you took what made them special away from their kids. Somehow take down the dammakhert and also stabilise the resulting caste situation and you'll have wholesale genocide of the Ssaelit because their enclave and setup in Alderode is the only thing keeping them alive.
>>152001000Timofey spotted!
>>152024532What would that do for anyone earthside?
>>152024590Where? I was half convinced one of these scientists was gonna be Bastion in disguise.
>>152024605We saw what the Man did, can Lemuel be expected to do better or worse if he gives it his best shot?
>>152024543I can't think of a peaceful application of unpacking the "murderous rage" spell.
>>152024623Drawing in Duane’s journal.
>>152024636I would guess drastically worse given Ssael at least seemed to have some brains.
>>152024640is that timofey? i dont think Duane ever met/saw timofey, so why would he draw the kid?
>>152024657Bruh weren't they all staying together at Iori's?
>>152024638Change it to make alds super horny so they'll be too busy fucking while Creche marches in to occupy the place.
>>152024689Alright anon, go for it. Post your sex pollen fanfic.
>>152024677Duane stayed at the shed, Timofey only revealed himself to Sette (And the boys but I think he let them think he was another of Rahm's pymarics)
>>152024677but duane and timofey never interacted and bastion didn't want duane to know anything about him, so why would he let timofey fuck around with duane directly? timofey only ever talked to jivi, matty, and sette
>>152024657I’m retarded that’s Bastion. Yeah I don’t think Duane ever met him.
The idea of sorting a Crescian into the Gold Caste is weird and might hint at the motives of the Tains who set it up.The definition of the Gold Caste is the Tains who were there before, unaltered and still very normal, unlike their occupiers would be.But if the Dammerkhert sorts other normal people into phenotypical Tains.I wonder if the ultimate goal wasn’t to force the people to all become Tains in the end. Subject to a lack of understanding about genetics.
>>152024638I don't think it necessarily has to be murderous rage. Mass brainwashing would technically be peaceful.
>>152025331>Mass brainwashing would technically be peaceful.It's still wrong.
>>152025138What do you mean? Jaer is probably just glamoured.
>>152018693Didn’t Ashley state that Tacit Casting only manifests in 3 different family lines in the entire World, and even then only rarely?
>>152024638The murderous rage part wasn't what was interesting to the queen. The interesting part of the curse is that it's a backdoor into the brain of every Ald connected to the Dammakhert.
>>152025688I think it was 3 different family lines in Alderode but yeah it’s very very rare in general.She did mention a pair of Sharteshanian tacit casting siblings who worked as assassins (and who were tortured to death).
>>152025378You can only do warcrimes against people. If you slip in a bit of code that shuts the Aldish off, and it works, they're not people. They're plods that breath.
>>152025331I don't know anon, even the Aldish don't really know how it works and we are operating on the second hand info of a salt lizard that doesn't like humans.
I've never read Unsounded; is there an easy way to download the series? I am not super into the webcomic format and I'd like to read it in Cover, is that snobby?
Reminder that the settes come from Rortide and Ssael is either a fraud or Rortide after he reset himself
>>152026026It's coming to print this year so you could buy it, but I doubt anyone is going to take the time to scan a webcomic. You should read it on the site anyway, there is animation and fourth-wall breaking that doesn't translate any other way. It's a really unique experience
>>152026090Interesting, alright I will give it a shot, ty
>>152026026I can’t think of any easy way to do it, and you’d be missing some detail and interest around the pages, especially on later sections of the comic. Give it a try on the site, it really is worth it.
>>152013868bruh, look at this d00d
>>152013524It's been very heavily implied that Tree and Miki are going to be an item. Cope mentioned in an ask there's a controversial age difference relationship in the second book.I'd like to know what the hell Tree's thinking.
So chances Sette will bust Lemon out of prison to wreck havoc on FRED ala Maul on the Venator?
>>152026479His bro got to look a little more anime.
I'm going full in on the theory that Tree is Murkoph, or rather Murkoph is Tree from sometime in the distant future. We know the Khert doesn't obey conventional laws of time, and adding to that Murkoph's zombification always struck me as a more refined process than what happened to Duane.
>>152026519Surprise it's actually between Lemuel and Elarosny.
>>152020927Need hi-res for clarification
>>152026574I guess we've never seen daytime physically incarnate Murkoph so we don't know if he has the same day and night cycle as Duane. But yeah, for one his flesh still hands together and for two he is constantly 'himself' but it looks like that constant suffering and urge to do harm wasn't avoided, it just got incorporated into the personality which went psycho. That's assuming he wasn't a serial killer to begin with (in the impulsive, rather than for hire, sense).
>>152021469Have you seen what cope draws? >>152015890
>>152026090where do i buy it
>>152026519If I had guts, I'd ask her for detailed model sheets of Khette
>>152026574Khert time is a fickle thing but Ashley has said the Murkoph is older than duane. Plus Sessine said he once warned her about how humans are.
OK let's actually theorise. It seems like Tree has a little bit more khert sensitivity than your average person. He can pick up the two bronze much further than I think a regular bronze would normally be able to sense, more like a plat. If we follow the panel sequencing it looks like he might sense pymary BEFORE he sees the guy creeping round in the mirror.Now because the mask is lit up on-panel when he senses the bronze I assumed the mask is a pymaric that expands his senses. We see he's willing to use pymarics and anti-wright tools so I think that would make sense for him. But it could be something else: he may have some khert mutation which makes him more sensitivity and also makes him a candidate for zombification. I had to check if all tacit casters are born innate or if some need to be rited, and it seems like the latter because it's mentioned only that in the Adelier family all tacits are also born innate.So Tree could be an unrited tacit caster or other 'extra port' khert mutant which makes him a candidate for zombification, and ends up the result of a repeat experiment at making Duane. Now if you had to ask me who ends up trying that experiment right now, I wouldn't say it would be Bastion taking another shot I'd say it would be Nora trying to work from the principles she's seeing in Duane.>cont
>>152026714Now if we took that as a legit theory, there's also a way more crackpot option I think needs to be discussed. If Nora is open to experimenting to make 'another' Duane, who is the current soud she has access to that is actually the closest living relative of Duane Adelier?Lemuel is not an innate nor a tacit caster, but it is possible the tacit casting is only a manifestation of some quality that makes someone suitable for zombification. Would Lemuel even know if he had an extra port, if it didn't also come with the tacit+innate casting it usually does? Not everyone born to a tacit lineage is a tacit caster, and it exists in Alderode and without. So if we're talking genetics there are probably partial manifestations as well as the full thing.I do think there's a loaded gun with Duane here that in his current state there's absolutely no way to tell he's a positive for the weeping plague, so I genuinely don't know how messily his captivity is going to end.
>>152026617>I guess we've never seen daytime physically incarnate Murkoph so we don't know if he has the same day and night cycle as DuaneI’m really curious about this too. One of the whumptober stories Ashley wrote was about Murkoph and iirc he mentions hiding himself underwater during the day. Might be coherent at night and zombied during the day?
>>152026677Yeah the discussions about Murkoph in the latter parts of Unsounded really made me feel he was more like some senet bound into human form. If we're talking older he could have been a compatriot of the actual Sael, I suppose. But his body is clearly an Aldish Semon.
>>152026677>Tree gets zombified during the story (assume he's about 30)>Spends several decades as a serial killer>Spends even longer trapped inside the khert, perhaps centuries in perceived time, perhaps intentionally pulled to current year via tittybird>Loops back around to current year>Murkoph is now technically much older than Duane despite being zombified laterTime travel mechanics are really hard.
>>152026827Titty bird can shuffle memories from the future but physical beings seem to be something else. Speaking of time travel in the back of my head I feel it was hinted duane might pull that off because he is a memory.
>>152024588Counterpoint: the cynicism of the setting will make a happy end all the more meaningful.There are two ways to look at a setting like Unsounded. The first is materialistically, like GoT, where the political complexities of the Human world mean it's going to be shit forever and nothing that happens in the story actually matters. The alternative is to view it as a religious story, one of apocalypse and salvation. I think the latter is what is being set up, with the ending "healing" the Khert and thus fixing the situation in the material world.
>>152026805It makes sense with how we know Duane works. And Nora seems especially interested in what happens with Duane at night. So maybe it's like, OK we figured out a way to keep the soul rooted at night rather than wandering off. But that's probably worse because instead of Duane getting to nope out into the khert and chill while his body goes feral, suddenly all these nightmarish smoke eel impulses to rend and devour flesh get channeled through and occupy the actual soul. We saw what it was like for Sette and the Quigleys and Cutter to be in the middle of that in the Unsounded finale, and in this process there would be no way to escape or look away and nobody else who could provide any remedy. Hell we saw how Ana ended up. You'd be getting that every night, forever. Of course you'd end up letting it taking over.It might even be you can't control your night body even if your soul is alive and waking for it. Plods also get worse at night IIRC. So it might be a case of not just it's impossible to resist forever, it might actually just literally be impossible to resist from the start.
>>152026574Yeah, and how does that mesh with Ilganyang being so into him? Can't imagine a godlike being caring so much about a literally who knife for hire. It's more likely someone just was edgy enough to name themself after some folktale supernatural murderhobo (maybe his parents were sharts?).
>>152026879>The first is materialistically, like GoT, where the political complexities of the Human world mean it's going to be shit forever and nothing that happens in the story actually matters.We fundamentally disagree that a story doesn't matter if it doesn't have a happy ending.
>>152026922I'm not saying it "doesn't matter if it doesn't have a happy ending", I'm saying that cynical stories with political complexities like GoT tend to not matter because the ending boils down to "and so the ending of the old regime gives birth to the new regime that will be much like the old".
>>152026934OK I also don't think that makes the story not matter.
>>152026714>So Tree could be an unrited tacit casterCan't you just cast by default if you're a tacit caster? So it's impossible for him to not have known that. Unless there's some way to activate that port even in normies
>>152026993'Innate' is casting by default, so I mentioned that in the post. Unclear answer from Ashley on whether innate always goes hand in hand with tacit:https://unsoundedcomic.tumblr.com/post/673394032444162048/are-all-tacit-casters-like-duane-and-mikalia-born
>>152026934>>152026960i feel like the world is cynical but i think cope isn’t- at least not entirely i don’t think it’s gonna be a traditional ‘happy ending’ and I don’t think it’s gonna be ‘the cycle begins anew’, even tho the complexity of human nature is a big part of the story. we see so many people who want to help, to fix, to heal, i am sure that will be a big and focused part of the ending
>>152025964Secret Keepers presumably know more about how the Dammakhert works and Ashley has said that there are things worse than stings or the etalarche curse which VITS can pull off.>>152026714The lifespan and pymary ability of the Bronze caste can vary greatly, Tree might just be on the side of the spectrum closer to Silvers/Plats.
>>152026879>>152026934My guess for what GOT, or more specifically GRRM was going for, was that Westeros' founding myth gets rebooted from one of conquest and war to one of healing. A broken king for a broken kingdom, Bran basically becomes the fisher king.Now it's not politically realistic or even a view I agree with in how Westeros could be improved but I think that's what the books are leading to (essentially what makes a good king is a smart wise king, not a warrior or overtly cruel king).
>>152027217My guess is GRRM much like Scott Bakker just didn't actually know how to finish his series once it really picked up speed.
>>152027217>>152027254Like I think thinking he has this idea for a transformational mythos of healing is just ignoring the fact ever since he got too caught up in GOT to progress he's been pushing out tons of prehistory novels and series which is just the exact same medieval sex and violence but he doesn't have to worry about fucking up the main series with it. I mean his other major novel project was that edgy superhero thing.He just likes to write the edgy shit. And I'm not a GOThead or anything but that's actually fine. The moral arc of a fictional world does not have to bend towards justice.
>>152015890>>152008287>>152008208
>>152024407She ironically could have just used some of the silver to return. Or use a random recently dead girlThe irony is knowing sette if khette just didn't kill her or just asked, she'd definitely have gotten her a body. She always wanted a sibling, imagine it khette joins her crew honestly irony now is that it's already a kid crew>Sette>Jivi>MattyAll the adults are either dead captured or retired, wild thought. so Khette could have joined the kid squad
>>152028117>use a random recently dead girlA recently dead man, you mean. Sette can self actualize all she wants, but Khette should have some fun.
>>152026901That's what Duane deals with during the day. He's constantly infected with the ghosts, the only thing keeping him from tearing people apart is his soul and mind being present during the day. The ghosts don't come out at night, Duane leaves at night, that's why he goes zombie. Duane has ridiculous willpower.
>>152027043I can't find the exact Ask but she has 100% said they are two different mutations, the Adeliers are double freaks.
