Exiern

Swords, Sorcery, and Self Discovery
'Evil' Is Just 'Good' Spelled Very Wrong
'Evil' Is Just 'Good' Spelled Very Wrong
15th May 2023, 12:00 AM in 34 - Split Decisions
Average Rating: 5 (1 vote)
Permalink: https://exiern.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1816540
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Guest (Guest)
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Now that Typh is separated from the curse, the spellsinger sex-change attempted early on in the comic (the one Theresa resisted to keep her female form) should work on him? Much of the church may be anti-Typh, but surely Theresa would give him a male form if he ever runs into her.

I'd suspect this is something the church only offered because Typh was born male. I would guess they haven't done so for the Captain on those grounds (unless she has actually has had a magic sex-change, and just never mentioned it).
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I think that's supposed to be "symbiotically" (as in needs to live together) not "symbolically" (as in a metaphor).
Calaron (Guest)
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Huh, that makes so much more sense!
RBZ (Guest)
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I think symbolically is the correct word, here.
If "you" separated from "me", then "we" would cease to exist.
Legendary Kroc (Guest)
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Okay I knew they weren't about to kill off the main character, but for things to resolve with THIS little consequence is a bit lame.
Some Ed
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It's my guess that over time we will learn how poor our grasp of the author's and artist's imaginations is. This only feels like "little consequence" right now because we don't understand all the shenanigans that will happen as consequence to this. To be clear, I don't know where they're taking this. But that's part of why we keep following the comic isn't it?
Exiern
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I'm no more privy to what happens next than everyone else but from what I noticed given I only discovered Exiern in late 2015 (and then read 10 years of archives at that point over 2 days) was queries, questions and criticisms in the comments for a given page as it was just published and then come across a later page which was clearly the payoff for an earlier setup. One of the pitfalls of only having to read the story at the rate of a page a week when you're up to date with the latest published pages, I guess.

TL;DR - I'm confident this is all going somewhere worthwhlle, the story hasn't let me down yet (and have I now been reading Exiern for almost 8 years now?!?!).
Scott T. Hicken (Guest)
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Just, as an example, I did tell everyone that Peonie didn't have royal blood in her 7 years ago...

https://exiern.thecomicseries.com/comics/pl/1645633

...which was absolutely a long foundational set up for the reveal shown in the flashback.
RBZ (Guest)
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Eye of the storm, probably.
Especially given that the Captain had been apparently absently rejoining the sitcks, and is now surprised by the emergent result.
Scott T. Hicken (Guest)
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There are some consequences worse than death. ;)
Meps98 (Guest)
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The tiny image in the Captain's hand looks like a naked Pcups.
Guesticules (Guest)
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Mini-Her
Guesticules (Guest)
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Peggy:- Faden was out of his usual mind at that time and attempting to sacrifice P-Cups, but the spell he cast <i>was</i> a good one (he picked up the wrong book)

Speaking of miss-cast spells: what happened to Unicorn?
RGD (Guest)
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Its running around doing unicorn things.
Calaron (Guest)
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Frolicking in the meadow while accidentally skewering rabbits with its horn, that sort of thing?