In retrospect I should’ve gone with a transparency effect to indicate that Vish was partially hidden, but I didn’t really plan out my layers well enough. Still, I managed to keep Kawunei’s quiver over his RIGHT shoulder in each panel, which is a pretty huge accomplishment for me.
So much going on on this page on so many levels, but keep sticking at one thing:
They took the bulbs out and put tallow candles in the fixtures asdfghjklwtf
I spy some Japanese katakana on the hat-tassels in panel four.
Left tassel, reading down: Chi-Ii-So
Right tassel: To-Hi-No
I don’t think they really mean anything, but I’m not exactly fluent. Studied for only a year-and-a-half, and that was a decade ago. Still, I can recognize katakana and hiragana when I see it. You remember “The Matrix,” and all those scenes of green code lines tracing downwards? They mixed a bunch of left-right-reversed katakana into the glyphs.
The typeface is called Ex Kata Opaque. I actually wanted to avoid real-world syllabaries and writing systems, but unfortunately, unless it’s Latin or Greek, I can’t tell real ones from fake ones!
Within the context of the setting, at least, that’s the Yiggish “extradimensional” language, originally a dialect of Maklak. It’s used for theurgical summonings and stamped on religious artifacts–these hats are analogous to Commander Corva’s.