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Now that would be a pretty problem.

But somehow I doubt it. If Zoe Prime was haunting anyone, it'd be Jean-Louis Girot at his nice mansion, or possibly the church of Ezra where she 'died', not a shack off the beaten track.

I think it is safe to say that whatever else, I was not expecting Fred to jump over an eight foot iron fence in order to follow Marie. HOW can he jump that? WHY is he doing it?

Girot has the right idea.

Fred called Girot ''signore'' in the scene where he jumped the fence. Hmmmm... I'm probably reading too much into this, but that might be a clue as to his domain of origin. Signore suggests, to me at least, something quasi-Italian. Maybe Borca?

NeoTiamat wrote:If Zoe Prime was haunting anyone, it'd be Jean-Louis Girot at his nice mansion, or possibly the church of Ezra where she 'died', not a shack off the beaten track.

We don't know for sure that she really died at the church; the other priest only knew she'd disappeared from her sickbed, so he assumed she had died and the Lord of the Dead had 'claimed his due'. Girot might have abducted her from the church, hoping to save her by alchemical means, then buried her under the floor of that shack when she expired.

If that's so, Zoe's spirit could be haunting the place where her bones are hidden, unable to rest until they're properly entombed. Sensing that her unsuspecting parents are right outside, working the fields, in the company of an imposter would only make her more miserable.

ewancummins wrote:Fred called Girot ''signore'' in the scene where he jumped the fence. Hmmmm... I'm probably reading too much into this, but that might be a clue as to his domain of origin. Signore suggests, to me at least, something quasi-Italian. Maybe Borca?

Correct! Fred is Borcan.

I will now put him on the cast page.

Goody! More full-color artwork from Isabella.

Interesting trivia tidbit: violet eyes are specifically mentioned in the culture section for Borca. So I am not just someone that likes weird eye colors for the hell of it. I have precedent!

I is a serious author, promize!

Clever.

But how you be a serious author trapped in this pit of nihilistic cobras?

Aiee! They're slightly more frightening than regular cobras!

I've always considered cynical cobras the worst. They kill you, then make sarcastic comments while you die.

That said, does anyone want to open up a betting pool on what Fred is? Because something tells me he isn't a plain vanilla human.

I can see that too, but on the other hand...

...this is a D&D comic. Fighters, rogues, and other athletic types can do stuff like that. While it would be a mild departure from the realistic style of the comic so far, it'd also fit Isabella's technique of subtly bringing fantastic elements in by presenting them as everyday.

In other words, maybe playa just trained up his Athletics/Jump skill, and the author's having some fun with us. A skilled fighter or rogue should be just as strange and eerie as a skilled wizard or priest, because these are heroes from mythological stories walking into town.

That said, since it's brought up twice in as many comics, I could be wrong. He could be a sorcorer using an intuitive spellcasting style, a psion skilled in biokinesis, or a dozen other things. But considering the fact that we've got a cleric, at least one wizard, and a rogue-ish gunwoman, my gut says 'fighteresque' for the next main character. Call me a classicist, I guess.

"Toothless" - another Borcan turn of phrase.

Just letting the Gazetteer authors know they were appreciated.

Great research, Isabella. The devil is in the details.

But ... p 72 - it's "nouveau riche"

Joël

Oh, now you tell me.

Should be fixed

No need, it's creole-like