I wonder how those birds fare against foolamancy?
If they are good against it, Charlie might really hate them.
I also wonder how a side with one city of level 1 survives. Another bubble kingdom?
Presumably one of the two sides led by Grand Abbies as final point of retreat?
Though with only one city at level 1 the income should not be sufficient to house many escaped casters. Unless they have other sources of income like mines and ways to migitate upkeep like farms. But if they had income, why not upgrade the city for more permanent income? At some point you would make a profit?
As for the art, I really like the jaguars eyes in the background.
And the Word is cron!
I'll bet this is the Grand Abbies' emergency sanctuary Side. There are apparently not that many of them out there, and why bring it up if it isn't going to be relevant at some point?
The simplest explanation is that they have some sort of agreement with a more powerful neighbor, in which they offer protection to the one city-side and get something in return. Being able to use the services of a Grand Abbie Datemancer for example might be more valuable than whatever meager income conquering a level 1 city-state would provide.
Noah caught a see bird! See, bird!
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We also possibly learned about a new type of unit. So far we had non speaking units that hunted other units (dwagons for example) for upkeep while feral. And then we had food animals like the horned sheep, who do not require upkeep.
Though that is to be expected, Erfworlds wildlife is probably under much more survival pressure.
I was hoping we would see a side with a lot of non-people units. Looks like we got one!
Jargon generally only superceeds the lay definition if it is being used by people speaking to people that recognize that jargon. If not being used by people that recognize that Jargon, then one should not insist on the Jargon definition being applied.
I don't quite understand what Rob is trying to explain, the value of using Datemancy and Signmancy on see-birds.
Amazed at the irony of naming a side so small and poor after a wealthy and powerful megacorp.
Not sure about Noah's name. He resembles aged Darwin.
I imagined this as some huge bird and then I see the picture and it's so tiny. Funny how that goes sometimes.
Well yes, being useful to a protector side might explain it.
But, Erfworld being a rather ruthless place, it might have to be very useful to not get gobbled up.
While a level 1 city might not make much money and therefore not worth very much to conquer it also should be relatively easy to conquer. And no one says a level 1 city has to remain level 1.
Also, capital sides are rare and at some point you might want to spin off a colony if you happen to aquire more cities then you can use.
So in your scenario, either they lucked out with a unaggressive trustworthy side or they have some kind of ace in the hole to keep their protector from being greedy. Like political pressure in form of "take us out and piss off many casters".
Anyway, my vote is still bubble kingdom. Or bubble overlordship.
I took Noah to be a reference to the biblical Noah.
And interesting that Daamancers can act as erfworlds version of a druid.
The art here is beautiful. I imagined something more akin to an albatross than ... whatever that is. But, the fire, the sunset, oh my. I think this is the first piece of art in the comic that's actually inspired me to post about it! Bravo!
I wasn't that big of a fan of Generica, but I like this Noah character. I wonder if through these prologues we will keep getting introduced to more caster types.
Noah in the blibical sense huh? Nice! He also has some David Attenborough signmancy and it does fit his animal expert/Grand Abbie nature.
Atari Jaguar, best selling game: alien vs predator - warlord vs Jaguar?
Parson is pretty alien in this world but I don’t think he’s coming by sea, does that mean the invasion in the MK may result in Parson coming to this sanctuary side and maybe take over?