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kuroya-ken [2018-09-25 10:02:20 +0000 UTC]
I finally have the time to sit down and read this asdlfksdl
I really, really love the lore and world building you have going! I never knew there was such an extensive, rich world in this comic, you've kept it all under wraps for so long xD
I am very fascinated by the different races you've mentioned so far, especially the cambions and the difference between them and real demons; I really like how the different realms aren't all readily accessible by everyone and some seems to be more 'believed to exist' than being physically, visually 'there' (kinda reminds me of our real world, in a way lol with the different belief systems and the saying that there is an 'afterlife' even if there's no scientific proof of it).
Are the cambions able to use magic if their blood is red? Or are they limited to grey magic IF they do magic at all? And being immune to all magic sounds like such a cool trait; I imagine a group of well-trained cambion soldiers would be the best defense against a hoard of magical monsters! Too bad the Trues can't put aside their discrimination for this though :'D
When demons inpregnate humans, do they have to take on a host, or is it just in the dream itself and the human becomes with child? Are there defenses that humans can elect against this? What's stopping the demons from, in a bout of hatred/spite/jealousy, going on a spree of creating a whole slew of cambion children just to wreck havoc and chaos in the middle realm? Can a demon inpregnate a cambion? Also, can a succubus and human male also produce a cambion? If a cambion and a human have a child, would the child still be a cambion? (I'm so sorry for the barrage of questions, I find all these world settings fascinating :'D)
I really like Maude's characterization! She's so believable and 'alive'! She sounds like she has had a tough childhood growing up, and could really use some companionship lol I would love to see her interactions with the rest of the cast when they finally do meet x3
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Fruffers In reply to kuroya-ken [2018-09-25 17:32:05 +0000 UTC]
sdajdaosaofs thanks for reading it, this was such a crap dump. XD I'm so embarrassed.
Thank you, I'm sooo lazy doing this all so slow. I actually got the cambions from wikipedia, I really just use a lot of ideas I read since the comic is a fantasy medieval world and Elbion is basically just fantasy England with different culture. Yeah I do think about the death theme because I want it to be uncertain, characters would question where they were going on death. But Elbion would also be religious in a pseudo-christian way which would lay out a moral system and Paganish for people who don't live in big cities. Though the higher-ups also make their own religion or manipulate one to control people to do what they want (Aka, King Odiar alters religion and makes his own by saying he's literally a God so people go to shrines to worship him, then he starts to really believe that he is a God) thus there is the belief that Royals are related to Gods. But no one has ever seen a God so it can't be disproven. And the actual Gods want nothing to do with the human rabble anyway. Although I really don't want to touch all the Gods and religion and stuff because that's not what the story is about, but given that England in history was so christian I feel like there needs to be something there so I go for the heaven/hell type of dealy. Plus that lets me add demons in which I can use for a dark magic trope. Cliche, I have no imagination.
Cambions don't use any magic at all. They can't even learn (cast) grey magic like a True human could. They're directly immune to it, but you could still use magic indirectly on them (like topple a tree onto them).
The impregnation is just in a dream. And demons can't do anything without permission from the human, they'd have to ask to enter the dream as well. The human would also probably have to create a link with the Under-Realm somehow, which might be accidental(cursed by someone else) or purposeful(curse themselves or do something 'evil'). And O_o I never thought of a demon impregnating a cambion, I think cambions would be immune to letting a demon enter their dream in the first place because they use dark magic to do that. And a succubus and a human male wouldn't create a cambion, or they could but it would die immediately because if it managed to be born then that would be into the Under-Realm where its soul and body would get shredded by the fires, normally it would just die after conception though as soon as the succubus left the male human's headspace went back to the Under-Realm. And if a cambion and a human had a child.. then I don't know. Maybe it would be a hybrid and it would be sterile... Though most demons are technically human and cambions are more human than demons, so it might just make a weird human baby.. Or a cambion. O_o I don't know about that one.
Aww thanks for the questions, you make me think. I'm really lazy I need to get on the story again, I put it aside for so long. Bluh, I just have other stuff going on.
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kuroya-ken In reply to Fruffers [2018-09-26 09:08:27 +0000 UTC]
Ohhh I didn't know cambions were a thing! I need to look it up xD
King Odiar alters religion and makes his own by saying he's literally a God so people go to shrines to worship him, then he starts to really believe that he is a GodLOL I can see exactly how this works; wasn't there that country that I shouldn't name that still does this even nowadays? XD Ahhh so relateable; I love it when stories have situations that you can see playing out IRL. It makes it very believable.
And the actual Gods want nothing to do with the human rabble anyway^gods so done with all the human BS LOL
OOoo so does that mean cambions have better physical prowess (claws, fangs, night vision, etc), but aren't in a sense actually more powerful than humans due to their innate inability to learn grey magic? Still having magic cast on things around you but not on you directly would mean you can still get hurt, but healing magic would probably be useless on you, yes?
And that actually surprised me, about the demon needing permission from the humans; I kept thinking along the idea of those night-visitations in most folklore of demons raping sleeping victims, so the idea of them actually needing permission before they can do anything actually caught me off guard. But why would humans actively want to allow this though? (besides the accidental occurances) Are cambion children useful for evil purposes perhaps?
And yeahh I totally get you :'D I'm also lazy lately and been putting off a lot of stuff Orz
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kuroya-ken In reply to Fruffers [2018-09-27 13:21:02 +0000 UTC]
LOLOL I am very fond of the idea of shady dealers selling shady black magic sticks x'DDDD
And gosh, does the child-as-payment come before or after she does your bidding? I love these ideas though! Makes me think of those traditional folklore where you make those deals with your 'first born child', and then some interesting things happen (like some magic battles or verbal riddle battles or even monster slaying) when the person doesn't pay up :'D Poor witches/monsters/goblins, they always get the short end of the stick LOL
Makes me wonder, do humans taste good if they are adults? To the witches I mean LOL I wonder if someone ever promises things like "I will lure unsuspecting humans to you so you can eat them", and then goes to lure the enemy they want to get rid of; in a way it's win/win LOL
I'm still working on IRL stuff in my workshop-
Well, not really, more like waiting on some items to arrive; coz you make something, realize something else is still missing, then you make an order and start waiting, then it arrives and you make something again, and realize you need something else- that's pretty much what's happening atm for me x'D though I think I can start on the next project since my thing JUST arrived today. Though I realllllly should get my computer repaired; I haven't shut it off in almost 3 weeks now I think? LOL
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Fruffers In reply to kuroya-ken [2018-09-27 17:32:00 +0000 UTC]
Depends on the witch I guess, they don't have a set way of dealing. They just deal however they want depending on how they act. Black Annis (Ann/Anna) is the main witch that will appear in the story, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_An… . I'm really inspired by the three Crones in The Witcher, they were so nasty and an awesome threat so I wanted to make my witches horrible like that, plus the Black Annis myth is really interesting and the character design opportunity (a blue face and long arms and talons and iron claws) is very nice. There's a coven of witches that meet up at an abandoned tower on a cliff by the sea, and there they feast and plot the things they want to do to gain more influence (like own a forest section by removing the monsters that are more powerful than them or invading human hunting grounds). Though Ann isn't really fond of the coven because she prefers to do her own thing and doesn't like endangering herself with the big plots (moving into human territory). And omg I love riddle battles, makes me think of the hobbit. And yeah those 'first born child' has been in a deal and he kills stuff to get out of the deal are such fun stories, I love those.
Adults taste good but it's kind of like the eating mutton instead of lamb. And yeah haha that would be a clever idea, though they'd have to convince the witch that she was getting something better than if she just ate them there.
Damn that sucks. What kind of project are you working on? And why have you left your computer on for 3 weeks? O_o That's not good.
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kuroya-ken In reply to Fruffers [2018-09-28 08:56:21 +0000 UTC]
Ooooo the witches in your stories sound so sinister and scary, I love it! xD The witches I'm used to IRL are just normal everyday folk so this is quite a change LOL
I love mutton though LOL also for some odd reason I never paid much attention to the difference between mutton and lamb; I think it might be because it's mostly mutton(curry) over here, and you only get lambchops if you go to fancy restaurants xD I gotta pay more attention next time!
I'm still making rings LOL just lots of experimenting going on really. I made my first test ring the other day and wasn't quite satisfied with it, so I want to make a 2nd one and try new techniques.
I left my computer on for 3 weeks for this reason :'D
If I turned it off it won't come on; so I dare not turn it off. Not until I'm ready to send it in for repairs (which I'm procrastinating to do coz there's always something else I still want to do); I was supposed to send it in a while ago, but then things keep coming up and I want to keep the computer around for a bit more, so it's still running LOL
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Fruffers In reply to kuroya-ken [2018-09-28 10:30:16 +0000 UTC]
Oh right yes of course, you mean like wicca followers? I don't mean to offend anyone by using the term 'witches' I guess I could change it.
Yeahh I honestly don't know the difference very well either. Apparently mutton is stronger tasting.
Ahh that's cool, I'd love to see them.
I missed that journal, too many notes in my inbox. That sucks, computer problems are really stressful. My computer had a problem when I first got it in that it wouldn't turn on after a few days because I didn't properly set the bios and just ignored it. XD Lazy dumb ass. But I called tech and they told me to physically resit the RAM or the bios which I did and put in default bios settings and that fixed it. Your problem is obviously more complicated. It must be such a pain sending your computer in to tech repair.
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kuroya-ken In reply to Fruffers [2018-09-28 10:39:09 +0000 UTC]
I guessssssss you can sort of say that? Though I actually meant just witches x'D (coz not all witches are wiccan, in fact quite a lot of them aren't; Wicca is just a single branch under the wide umbrella of paganism, so I guess the closest example I can think of is like how if someone considers themselves religious, it doesn't mean they are automatically Christian; they can be Buddhist or Muslim or any other religion, if that makes sense?)
Oh, well in that case I think I might actually prefer mutton LOL (maybe there exists witches that like the stronger game-y taste of grown humans LOL)
Unfortunately yeah, this isn't a new problem so I know what is probably causing it :'D Had this happen before; they're going to have to order a brand new part down from their headquarters again so it will take a while to fix.
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kuroya-ken In reply to Fruffers [2018-09-28 12:26:26 +0000 UTC]
Nahhh I don't think anyone would be offended tbh, it's like such a widely used term and witches are so commonly depicted as villains in movies and stories anyway that I doubt anyone would have a problem with it, even witches themselves x'D (and you actually know one without knowing they are one ;D we have one in our circle of friends who is one, who isn't under the wiccan branch; I can tell you over discord since it's not a secret)
And nope! I don't have to pay, still under warranty :>
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Fruffers In reply to kuroya-ken [2018-09-28 16:00:43 +0000 UTC]
Yeah true, though my terms are a bit rough between witches and spellcasters. I only really know 3 people who share relations with both of us and only one of which I know well, I wouldn't be surprised if any of them was a witch. I don't mind, but I don't want to know personal information unless the person themselves permits it.
Ahh that's lucky! Computer repairs are so expensive.
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