Latest Page Discussions/Comic Update Chitchat

[Miriam]

Nooooo this will be my first chapter break! I won't be able to handle it! I need help from expert chapter break survivors!

(On the other hand, I might earn my first chapter break ribbon... if I manage to survive)

[mapmad]

Good, I need a CB, so I don't feel compelled to check if when wake up in the middle of the night.

[Talimee]

Nooooo this will be my first chapter break! I won't be able to handle it! I need help from expert chapter break survivors!

(On the other hand, I might earn my first chapter break ribbon... if I manage to survive)

Getting your first ribbon is a special occasion. =)
And not much will change, believe me. Okay, one might still check the comic-page for an update once or twice every hour and there is a nagging hollow feeling somewhere in one's guts - but apart from that everything is juuuust fiiiiine. People tend to be more creative during chapter breaks and one gets more non-SSSS-related stuff done. =)

Good, I need a CB, so I don't feel compelled to check if when wake up in the middle of the night.

Well, yeah. That is a good reason! Undisturbed nightly sleep is to be treasured. ALTHOUGH, if I didn't have that exact compelling feeling as well I wouldn't own a copy of aRTD now, since I only managed to snatch one because I woke up two hours early one day and decided to check on the comic's site. ^^;

[BlueSkyVail]

Nooooo this will be my first chapter break! I won't be able to handle it! I need help from expert chapter break survivors!

(On the other hand, I might earn my first chapter break ribbon... if I manage to survive)

This will be my first chapter break too!! I'm dreading it, I always look forward to checking for a new page. But I'm happy I jumped into the forum beforehand- I'm hoping that will make it more bearable? _{Right, CB survivors? please...?}

[Miriam]

This will be my first chapter break too!! I'm dreading it, I always look forward to checking for a new page. But I'm happy I jumped into the forum beforehand- I'm hoping that will make it more bearable? _{Right, CB survivors? please...?}

When I realised the comic was approaching a chapter break, the first thing I thought about was your signature.

[Tr]

Chapter break? Chapter break!!!

This will be my first chapter break too!! I'm dreading it, I always look forward to checking for a new page. But I'm happy I jumped into the forum beforehand- I'm hoping that will make it more bearable? _{Right, CB survivors? please...?}

*hugs you, Miriam, and any others who have not yet survived a chapter break*
We'll be okay, I think chapter breaks are a lot nicer when you have the forum. You can look at all the cool fanart and things people make.

[Tr]

You guys. Page 557.
At first I thought Reynir's fylgja couldn't enter Christian spaces, but then I remembered that earlier mage vision scene (here) where both of them were perfectly fine with hanging out in a church.
Any theories?

[Juniper]

You guys. Page 557.
At first I thought Reynir's fylgja couldn't enter Christian spaces, but then I remembered that earlier mage vision scene (here) where both of them were perfectly fine with hanging out in a church.
Any theories?

Yeahh I was thinking the same thing, but maybe his fylgja is just being fussy ? Or maybe this is something that Reynir has to see on his own for some reason ?

Orrr this could be someone else's dream space that he keeps wandering into, both now and on page 506. I don't think we've seen Reynir's fylgja with him when he goes into other's dream spaces, only when he's in his own.

[Tr]

Yeahh I was thinking the same thing, but maybe his fylgja is just being fussy ? Or maybe this is something that Reynir has to see on his own for some reason ?

Orrr this could be someone else's dream space that he keeps wandering into, both now and on page 506. I don't think we've seen Reynir's fylgja with him when he goes into other's dream spaces, only when he's in his own.

Hmmm. *nodnods*
Or perhaps there is a more powerful Christian... being? Presence? Thing? that his fylgja doesn't want to tangle with.
Or you're right, and it's the dreamspace of a kade. One that's trying to talk to/attack Reynir.
That's actually pretty unlikely... Just out of curiosity, what would be the Christian equivalent of a mage?

[ChazHoosier]

One supposes a Christian mage would be a priest or a monk or nun.  In ages past it was part of the parish priest's duties to distribute holy water and blessed candles to help the faithful combat the wiles of local devils.  Pilgrims flocked to the isolated hermitage of a particularly pious monk to ask him to pray for them.  Priests led periodic processions through the parish to bless the fields and banish malign influences.

Indeed, many of these practices continue still.  My parish distributes blessed candles and chalk on Epiphany, and on Rogation Sunday we go on a procession to bless the boundaries of the parish with holy water as we pray for the protection of the saints—a ritual called "beating the bounds."

[Róisín]

For the ones who aren't Jesuits, just a mage. Like the Elizabethan John Dee. Or the person who wrote the Book of Lambspring, whoever Barnaud plagiarised it from. Sometimes also 'wizard', 'magician' 'wiseman or wisewoman', 'hedgewitch' or other terms. And of course some regular priestly practices are innately magical in nature.

[Tr]

One supposes a Christian mage would be a priest or a monk or nun.  In ages past it was part of the parish priest's duties to distribute holy water and blessed candles to help the faithful combat the wiles of local devils.  Pilgrims flocked to the isolated hermitage of a particularly pious monk to ask him to pray for them.  Priests led periodic processions through the parish to bless the fields and banish malign influences.

Indeed, many of these practices continue still.  My parish distributes blessed candles and chalk on Epiphany, and on Rogation Sunday we go on a procession to bless the boundaries of the parish with holy water as we pray for the protection of the saints—a ritual called "beating the bounds."

For the ones who aren't Jesuits, just a mage. Like the Elizabethan John Dee. Or the person who wrote the Book of Lambspring, whoever Barnaud plagiarised it from. Sometimes also 'wizard', 'magician' 'wiseman or wisewoman', 'hedgewitch' or other terms. And of course some regular priestly practices are innately magical in nature.

Hmmm... interesting. Thanks!

[Laufey]

One supposes a Christian mage would be a priest or a monk or nun.

There's a precedent of a magic-using Icelandic Christian! Sæmundur fróði Sigfússon, a priest and a scholar who reputedly went to the Dark University to study magic under the devil's tutelage. He should have lost his soul in bargain but managed to fool his teacher and escaped, and after that he spent his whole life fooling the devil again and again until he died peacefully of old age, the devil never getting his part of the deal.

There are numerous legends of Sæmundur, who actually was a real person and made such an impression on people that he turned into a bit of a legend. Despite him being a Christian priest there was never any attempt at hiding the fact that he used magic a lot, for various purposes, and that he had sold a deal on his soul to the devil on several accounts (or promised him that if he does thing X without failing he can finally get what was due to him, and then making the devil fail at it). He's also portrayed as rather mild-mannered, forgiving and gentle person... I remember only one story where he gets annoyed and that too only for a moment.

Sæmundur was literally a Bible-thumper; he heard there was a good position open in Iceland and made another deal with the devil so he'd bring him there fast enough so he'd be the first to apply for it. The catch was that he wouldn't get wet during the trip, which the devil accepted and started carrying him to Iceland on his back. Sæmundur spent the trip reading the Bible and when Iceland was close enough he smacked the devil on the head with said Bible, making him faint and sink into sea. Sæmundur himself had to swim for the shore but falling in water made the devil fail the deal details. There's a statue of this in front of the university of Iceland.

He was notorious for all kinds of mischief and didn't even blink if what he did was f.ex. against the law, and was always ready to help servant women who got in danger because the devil never went far away from him. He once saved a servant girl who had unwittingly promised her unborn baby to the devil, when the story makes it sort of obvious the baby was conceived out of wedlock, without even mentioning to her that she should be ashamed of either the baby or the deal she struck out of pure laziness. He also appreciated other magic users and was even outperformed by one elderly lady once when they were all making hay and had to hurry getting the dry hay indoors: she sent it from the field by magical means and he was supposed to move it in but even with all his knowledge he failed to keep up with her.

[Purple Wyrm]

Sæmundur fróði Sigfússon, a priest and a scholar who reputedly went to the Dark University to study magic under the devil's tutelage.

Ah, would that be the legendary Scholomance of Transylvania, as attended by Count Dracula?

On the comic front, perhaps Reynir's fylgja only gets smart when he needs guidance or protection? The rest of the time it's just a flooffy dog. If Reynir's not in danger and/or capable of dealing with the current situation it just scratches its ear and bounces off to look for interesting smells.

[Yuuago]

On the comic front, perhaps Reynir's fylgja only gets smart when he needs guidance or protection? The rest of the time it's just a flooffy dog. If Reynir's not in danger and/or capable of dealing with the current situation it just scratches its ear and bounces off to look for interesting smells.

Judging by what we've seen so far, it does look like that's the case. :Va