Very nicely subtle glow on Varaxunax’s face in panel 5, and whatever you did in panel 2 draws the eye to the fire and makes it feel like a comfortable centerpiece of the room, like a good fire should be. The shadows outdoors growing long aren’t unnoticed, either 🙂
Wherein Maresh reveals his rather scary core in beautiful surroundings. And natural chocobos! Makes me think of Patagonia for some reason, dry and cold.
From a long-time reader: this wonderful comic has enough characters and background for about 20 normal webcomics, and I find contemplating all the worlds, peoples, gods, and characters as entertaining as the strip itself. Have you ever considered starting a Wiki to contain all this background?
I’ve considered starting a Wiki, but I’ve resisted so far for two reasons. First, it’s a lot of work to write up entries for…20+ characters, a dozen gods, several dozen locations…eep, and each entry would probably take an hour for important stuff, fifteen minutes for incidentals…that’s many days of work. Second, I’m way less smart than I pretend to be, and I struggle to hold an entire story in my head. I can keep everything organized because the story is sequential–I know exactly what happened previously and what’s happening next. But encyclopedia entries are non-temporal and require an entirely different mode of organization, and I fear maintaining a Wiki and a story simultaneously would cause my brain to crash.
Patagonia is flat, Carcosa. I actually felt the building like Mongolia (yurts) but then the drawings are more like Mediterranean (Etruscan or Medieval or something).
Is Varaxunax rolling a joint? XD
Trickier question, even if it’s a plain cigarrette or some exotic herb totally different from our planet’s… who makes the rolling paper? Is it good business or do smokers like V. have to recycle it from old forgotten magic books?
Hadrakah is in fact a combination of Patagonia, Australia, Mongolia, and Montana, with Etruscan-style design. You’ll also see Celtic-inspired clothing as well as government architecture that’s a cross between the Aztecs and the old Soviet bloc countries.
Most sorcerers smoke a variety of mildly hallucinogenic substances so they can get out of their bodies quickly. Vax’s poison of choice is a Yiggish herb resembling salvia, which is a bit of a status symbol since it requires sorcery to light properly. He normally uses Anunan sheaf-paper (shipped up to the inn by the bunnyload every season), but the coarser brown stuff you see in this shot comes from Hadrakahn needle grass–not nearly as good, though plentiful up north.
Very nicely subtle glow on Varaxunax’s face in panel 5, and whatever you did in panel 2 draws the eye to the fire and makes it feel like a comfortable centerpiece of the room, like a good fire should be. The shadows outdoors growing long aren’t unnoticed, either 🙂
Wherein Maresh reveals his rather scary core in beautiful surroundings. And natural chocobos! Makes me think of Patagonia for some reason, dry and cold.
From a long-time reader: this wonderful comic has enough characters and background for about 20 normal webcomics, and I find contemplating all the worlds, peoples, gods, and characters as entertaining as the strip itself. Have you ever considered starting a Wiki to contain all this background?
I’ve considered starting a Wiki, but I’ve resisted so far for two reasons. First, it’s a lot of work to write up entries for…20+ characters, a dozen gods, several dozen locations…eep, and each entry would probably take an hour for important stuff, fifteen minutes for incidentals…that’s many days of work. Second, I’m way less smart than I pretend to be, and I struggle to hold an entire story in my head. I can keep everything organized because the story is sequential–I know exactly what happened previously and what’s happening next. But encyclopedia entries are non-temporal and require an entirely different mode of organization, and I fear maintaining a Wiki and a story simultaneously would cause my brain to crash.
Patagonia is flat, Carcosa. I actually felt the building like Mongolia (yurts) but then the drawings are more like Mediterranean (Etruscan or Medieval or something).
Is Varaxunax rolling a joint? XD
Trickier question, even if it’s a plain cigarrette or some exotic herb totally different from our planet’s… who makes the rolling paper? Is it good business or do smokers like V. have to recycle it from old forgotten magic books?
Hadrakah is in fact a combination of Patagonia, Australia, Mongolia, and Montana, with Etruscan-style design. You’ll also see Celtic-inspired clothing as well as government architecture that’s a cross between the Aztecs and the old Soviet bloc countries.
Most sorcerers smoke a variety of mildly hallucinogenic substances so they can get out of their bodies quickly. Vax’s poison of choice is a Yiggish herb resembling salvia, which is a bit of a status symbol since it requires sorcery to light properly. He normally uses Anunan sheaf-paper (shipped up to the inn by the bunnyload every season), but the coarser brown stuff you see in this shot comes from Hadrakahn needle grass–not nearly as good, though plentiful up north.