Bloodline 226
Bloodline’s 5th year anniversary is coming up, and it’s getting a printed book! Preorders will be available at the first of next month at a discounted price, and will close on the 31st (Bloodline’s anniversary). The book will also have some bonus content that isn’t online ^^
Keep an eye on that navigation bar along the top for a store page if you’re interested!
Edit: New incentive! [Link]
The ‘Light’ emanating from his fingertips was just about as blue as her flames, exactly how many types of magic have a ‘blue’ aura?
Tell me about it! Ember’s reaction to it makes me think that curses might be a “bad magic” type of thing that “good” magic can’t produce, thus shedding doubt upon the bounty-hunter’s affiliations. Then again it might be that curses are all over the place, this was a perfectly mundane water-derived “exhausted as though you had been struggling through water” or a simple “drowning” curse and she is just identifying the nature of the thing that made her fall.
We don’t really know much about magic outside of Dark and Death, so it leaves some context missing…
It IS interesting to see that Ember was affected. I can’t think of any other magic hitting her other than the demon-blood-curse. So we know that whatever her magic weirdness is, it doesn’t stop other people’s magic from working. It is also interesting that there was no visible path to the magic. Just think how bad Veera would be if she didn’t need to aim. Oh, wait, that might be what she did to Bernin at the start of the fight and Sil’s hands. Those were actually two of her scariest moves… Now I am wondering if Ember has ever tried indirect magic like that or if she has only ever tried to generate an effect from her person.
Strange I was expecting the reader to be really mad or more sinister. Instead he seems to be more mildly annoyed that Ken a soldier who probably has years of combat experience, was bested by Ember who isn’t really proficient in combat at all. From the looks of it on the third panel Ember looks tired so it must be some energy/stamina drain spell.
It does seem that the reader is annoyed that Ember is causing them more trouble then she should be, it seems odd that at least for now the reader lost his menacing attitude. Was all this an act to try and get some specific reaction from Ember? Perhaps a test to see how dangerous Ember might be which is what I assume they have her isolated from bystanders? Well aside from keeping their cruel act out of the eyes of the public.
What the guard did with his hand kinda reminded me of one of Geralts Signs from the Witcher games.