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[Minutia_R]

Is ... Onni ... smiling in the second panel?

[Miriam]

Is ... Onni ... smiling in the second panel?

Yaaas he is smiling


Eeeeeeee
Reynir and him get along better and better, he's not even annoyed any more and enjoys talking with Reynir!

[JoB]

Now, anybody willing to guess what is it that he's seen? I'm betting on the broken window from his previous vision of the church.

From the place's layout, Reynir should be looking at the (closed) door in the background of panel five, or maybe the window next to it. I guess that Onni would have noticed if it had suddenly opened, so Reynir should either be genuinely going "I wonder what's behind that door?", or have seen something outside through the window.

(And then there's the well-known relationship between Minna and architectural continuity that would allow for Reynir to walk up to a humongous mural on the next page and start deciphering the scene shown on it.)

[urbicande]

Indeed.  So Reynir really is just that innocent, but Onni knows what a church is.

[ChazHoosier]

For whatever speculation is worth, I think this church is a sort of prophetic vision of what they are going to encounter in Odense.  Lalli has had prophetic dreams as well, hasn't he?

[Juniper]

Is ... Onni ... smiling in the second panel?

But when you go to the main page the preview for today's page is him smiling like I actually let out a small gasp when I saw in the page preview Onni smiling ?!?

[Miriam]

But when you go to the main page the preview for today's page is him smiling like I actually let out a small gasp when I saw in the page preview Onni smiling ?!?

Small???
You should have heard my gasp...

[ChazHoosier]

On a hunch I looked up what churches on Bornholm look like—lots of similarities, but nothing that clinches a theory that we might see something about Mikkel's past.  The ceiling in particular looks similar to the ones in some Bornholm parishes.  Almost all of them have pulpits and elaborate altarpieces, though.

Svaneke Kirke, Bornholm

Christiansø Kirke, Bornholm

[urbicande]

Hey, maybe Mikkel is a closet Christian AND doesn't know he's a mage.

[ChazHoosier]

I dunno that Mikkel has shown himself to be particularly pious or magically inclined, but maybe he's dreaming of a place back home.

[Vafhudr]

Hm. Mikkel might be Christian. After all, one of the features of the danes in the comic is to be stubborn and clinging to history and old ways.

But I don't recall seeing Mikkel asleep before this sequence.

And I don't think you need to be a mage for this. I am pretty sure everyone can dream and that everyone has a homebase/sanctuary. Mages are different insofar that they can willingly move to and fro in the dream.

[Keeper]

I just remembered- when Reynir broke the framed picture with the crosses, Minna said:

"And if you had shown Mikkel the cross he would have been able to tell you, but you had to grab the unrecognisable thing you trashed."

So Mikkel at least knows something about Christianity and its symbols, possibly more that Onni?

[Juniper]

Hm. Mikkel might be Christian. After all, one of the features of the danes in the comic is to be stubborn and clinging to history and old ways.

But I don't recall seeing Mikkel asleep before this sequence.

And I don't think you need to be a mage for this. I am pretty sure everyone can dream and that everyone has a homebase/sanctuary. Mages are different insofar that they can willingly move to and fro in the dream.

Well, we saw that Lalli's haven was still there even when he's awake, just empty. So even if Mikkel was awake when Reynir fell asleep it could still be there.

[Róisín]

Yeah, that was my understanding: that everyone has a dream space, but mostly only the mages can be active and conscious in them while their body sleeps, and can intentionally go outside them into the broader Dreamworld. (Maybe ordinary non-magey people can get out into the broader Dreamworld without intending to, and that is what causes horrific nightmares, or people who die in their sleep for no visible reason......)

[Vafhudr]

I just remembered- when Reynir broke the framed picture with the crosses, Minna said:

"And if you had shown Mikkel the cross he would have been able to tell you, but you had to grab the unrecognisable thing you trashed."

So Mikkel at least knows something about Christianity and its symbols, possibly more that Onni?

But he might also only know about it. Premium and emphasis on history and all that.