Comments on: Chapter Three – Page Two

By: JW

JW — Sat, 12 Jun 2010 02:31:01 +0000

I don’t think this is a flashback but a dream sequence. It’s not showing what actually happened in the past but rather is Sepia’s subconscious interpretation of the encounter with the rune in the abbey that transformed her and her sisters. It wouldn’t surprise me if the next frame is Sepia waking up.

By: replacement sparrow

replacement sparrow — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:43:25 +0000

Hmm. Being the altar, that also indicates that some /pretty freaky/ stuff went down in the sanctuary at some point. Goodness that’s a creepy image. I certainly wouldn’t want to have been anywhere near the place say four or five hundred years ago.

By: replacement sparrow

replacement sparrow — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 06:29:50 +0000

In keeping with the whole dream thing, now Sepia should turn around and her eight sisters are just treading water very serenely. Maybe even playing with a beach ball or something. She looks at them agog. “What?” Hrae asks. XD

By: Demosthenes

Demosthenes — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 03:18:10 +0000

I can see that it could be a dream because the sisters are either an apparition, levitating, or treading water. All of which are very dream like.

By: replacement sparrow

replacement sparrow — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:51:45 +0000

I agree with most of the identities of the shilhouettes. Second from right very definitely has Hrae’s forelocks. But I am a little bit unsure as to the identity of Brind. Her hair is wild, yes, but neither that pointy nor that short. If anything, I would guess that she is one of the two on the far ends?

By: replacement sparrow

replacement sparrow — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 02:48:15 +0000

Ooh, good catch indeed on that being the altar from the sanctuary that Sepia’s grabbed on to. (You know, it just looked cracked to me when it first appeared it in 1-5.)

As to the situation as a whole, my guess is that Sepia’s having a dream. The strange, distorted sense of scale, the way that the abbey door is just sort of conveniently flung open, the way that her sisters only appear behind her in the final frame…

Either that or the flood was also caused by a rune (ha ha, “a rune did it” could totally become The Abbey’s version of “a wizard did it”), and Sepia has summoned her sisters with the first wild flailings of her newly-manifesting power? And they are thus caught in their own rune-bindings. (So it really could all be Sepia’s fault? Huh.)

And, wow, Michael, the artwork on this page is great! It has improved a lot since 1-1~

By: Demosthenes

Demosthenes — Tue, 08 Jun 2010 00:00:23 +0000

Hey nice catch I didn’t notice that. I am excited to see what all this means.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:20:04 +0000

I take it back. We’ve seen that rune before. Chapter 1, page 5, on an altar in the sanctuary of the abbey. So I guess it must have happened there anyway, despite it not quite looking like it should be possible.

By: Wanderer

Wanderer — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 23:08:03 +0000

I don’t know… From what we’ve seen of the countryside immediately surrounding the abbey, it doesn’t look like it’s likely to end up in the path of a river or a flash-flood. That’s not to say it couldn’t get flooded, but it doesn’t seem like it would end up directly in the path of the sort of torrent we see here.

Now I could be wrong. After all we haven’t really had any great views of the landscape around the place, but we have seen some of it, and a flood like this doesn’t seem to fit.

By: Demosthenes

Demosthenes — Mon, 07 Jun 2010 17:04:35 +0000

So did she float into the abbey? And if so what did they do with the Rune?