Bloodline 208
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That’s … quite the statement. But who are the demons aiming it at?
Ember? The Tenin? Other rebel youth of Demon blood?
How about we go with “all of the above”.
So they plan on getting Bernin killed by the god scar? It’s a weird thing to do since Veera could’ve just killed Bernin quite easily. Unless there is some kind of code that they can’t out right kill Bernin. However Bernin did kind of attacked Veera first so unless self-defense isn’t a good enough reason to kill off someone you don’t like this seems a bit complicated just to kill off someone.
Of course what Sil is saying could just be a speculation and they really do intend to try and bring out the demon in Bernin as Cole, and Ember has. Though I don’t think Bernin really knows what happen to Ember, but he certainly knows about Cole. Is he going to tell Cormac and the other about his siblings?
So there are no survivors from the god of preservation? Didn’t any of the other gods wanted to help that bloodline stay alive, unless there is some godly politics in play which I can see. With two gods gone the others can split their domains to increase their own influence.
Also on a side note i’m not great with grammar but on the last panel Sil says: “They know how you are…” shouldn’t it be “They know who you are…”?
The preservation bloodlines were probably magical, and Death’s army was all readers and could sense magic… they probably had a bit of a racial purity thing going on too, along with safety in numbers, which would pressure them to not scatter normally. Combine this with preservation not knowing that there was an army of readers to prepare for, they likely didn’t think that there was a pressing need for contingencies… There may have been very very very few survivors from the preservation bloodlines…
I think that “they know how you are” means that they know that he is a good tennin who would never turn into a demon? “Who” he is likely doesn’t change much aside from being of a demonic bloodline, which would actually be in his favour to survive. I think that “how” correctly identifies that his state and properties are in question, rather than his identity.
I think that the importance of killing him by The God Scar is to demonstrate the weakness of his bloodline. Just killing him with Death magic wouldn’t say anything about whether he is good stock to produce more god-scar-derived readers. While killing him is the outcome, it is more about shaming his family than removing him as an individual.
But this is, of course, all Sil’s speculation. She likely got most of her information from books and teachers, if not rumours, and no doubt has a natural distrust of the motives of demons and an inclination to assume they have bad intentions towards her companions. So she probably dismisses the idea that they expect Bernin to join them and form a big happy demon family together… I mean, for all we know, Veera and Bernin are supposed to be in an arranged marriage and Flint just never bothered mentioning it…
Do we know of Gale’s fate? I get that the whole “demons are hunting us” thing is important, but I would have thought that a casualty report would come first…
Also this whole god-scar thing doesn’t explain shades. I guess there is a lot to the whole thing of sacrificing tennin. It is kind of a worry that Team-Evil has at least two paths to super-heroes that Team-geno- uh… Team-Good doesn’t seem to have equivalents of…
Perhaps there are a few survivors. Heck what if the very few survivors from Preservation are readers, and spellcasters with primarily Nature affinity? That would give a good reason for the followers of Death to target them being their primary polar opposite. That might even explain why there are so few Nature casters/readers.
I’m not an expert in grammar; I just never seen “how” used in a sentence like that before and personally to me just seems out of place. However, if everyone else says it is grammatically correct then I’ll take your word for it.
Well the God Scar is a win-win for them then. If Bernin dies then they proved the Memeelis line is weak and “unworthy?” If he survives then chances are the demonic presence that is dormant in Bernin will most likely awaken and take over imposing The Voice’s will. So I think Veera’s clan/bloodline doesn’t truly want to kill Bernin. If they are out to get Bernin and discredit his line I’m pretty sure Flint will not just stand there and let this happen.
Now that you mention it will we see Gales fate? I can see maybe three outcomes for him.
1) Gale is dead.
2) Gale in a coma from his wounds inflicted by Veera.
3) Gale is in a similar situation as Callum where he is conscious, but wounded.
I highly doubt Gale would just about fully recovered like Bernin. Unless he himself or his enchanted equipment has some kind of resistance to death magic that greatly soften the damage he took.
Well the God Scar might explain shades as the last comic said Death himself used necromancy to keep his army up. There are a few different definitions of what a shade is. In mythology shades are ghosts of the dead. However in other sources such as in D&D shades are originally living beings that merged with the essence of shadows. So really it depends on how shades are define here. Perhaps it is none of those two and it is a “gift” from The Voice when you sacrificed X amount of Tennins/lives.
I would have spared the Arctos queen because she has a good sense of style. Bernin would have to learn to stop burning his clothes off before he could compete with her or Veera. And fashion is what the whole war was really about in the first place, right?
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I want to see more of that Sai-Vay map. 😃
Hmm… Purple eyes…