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For the past few weeks, the artist/gamer/porn star behind the Playing D&D with Porn Stars blog has been writing a fantastic series of articles on the history of fantastic art, which I cannot recommend strongly enough.
(The website is frequently NSFW; the art content really is not unless your boss has a problem with Renaissance boob.)
1. Art History For D&D People, Course Overview
2. Ancient Art Is Basically Monsters
3. Medieval Art: 1000 Years Of Bad Ideas
4. The Other Renaissance, or There Is No Ninja Turtle Named Claus Sluter
5. Secrets of an Eminently D&Dable Subcontinent
6. The World That Fit In Scheherezade’s Head
7. The Art of Europe in the Piratey Era
8. Eight Persimmons Beneath A Severed Arm
9. The Known Unknowns
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What is Vish holding in the last panel?
His staff, seen head-on.
Huh, well I would like to say that I have enjoyed your comic for a while now and mention that isn’t Barabbon refering to Corrino and not Commito? I think you mentioned in a previous comic about getting those two mixed up.
Then again they have really similar names and are both dead.
garrrrrrrrr
Fixed.
Barabbon, I think Vish has more than one errant human. He has, like, two with him at the moment.
Actually, that brings up a question that I’ve been meaning to ask – isn’t Anthem technically a Pleroma by this point, given that she’s literally being emulated by a god?
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You know, I never connected “Yamra’s greatest general” and Barabbon in my head.
Yeah, they are pretty screwed at the moment.
Though, then again, his “parent” god has been dead. He’s pretty much all that’s left. A fossil, left over from an unnecessary system that Okidesha will wipe away once she’s gotten back her ???.
“Actually, that brings up a question that I’ve been meaning to ask – isn’t Anthem technically a Pleroma by this point, given that she’s literally being emulated by a god?”
I don’t know if there is a technical term for what Anthem is. Her metaphysical state would appear to be unique. She is not really a pleroma, though. Pleromas–angels, lesser gods, whatever people call them–are aspects of a god. Anthem doesn’t represent some aspect of Okidesha in the way Vish represents an aspect of Ailari; her personality is manifestly her own.