Anyone in line for rulership has a bullseye on them. Plus many more if there is any reason to suspect their loyalty, fealty to key interests, etc. Decisions by rulers are often life and death. The same is true re: decisions about rulers.
Crab fishing in Alaska is a safer job. That’s just the way it is.
There’s a difference between dynastic power plays to gain an advantage for a particular realm or dynasty, and a mob lynching an 11-year-old girl just because of who one of her parents is.
On teh previous strip I had almost commented to the effect … I wonder if the girls will make an appearance due to wifts & eddies of Raise Dead dust blowing about the city. The opportunity for Princess Harek to show up seem to have just increased dramatically.
Also. I never forget that Jone is still nearby. No telling when & where she travels these days.
Not defending what happened, but he did say the Orc raids continued, and she did little to stop those. Sadly the queen is likely not the first mother that lost her underage kid due to bad Orc/human relations because of that. Soft healers leave infected wounds and all that. If only she had been less naive…
No matter my feelings on the politician and their policies, I never wish harm on their spouses and offspring. Innocent blood is innocent blood, regardless of how close to the throne it stands.
Even as I mourn for Princess Harek, and for Queen Glamor, and for the pain and hardship surely ahead…I cannot help but also note that Leland and Trevor are in historian-chronicler’s heaven, here. A firsthand account!
Give up on them, no. But if they become a tyrant, you also don’t side with them or enable them. The loyal servant of a tyrant is a villain in their own right, and so far, the good Captain doesn’t seem to fit that role.
Queen lost a child which is terrible. But I wonder if she realizes she contributed to that fact. Like all revolutionary s she wanted change and she wanted it now. But it seem to me looking at the available info, she did no do the appropriate the ground work to prepare here nation. As a ruler even a second choice ruler she did not prepare her subjects who would have suffered at the hands of the orcs for the possibility of peace. let alone peace with a wildly unstable faction know for a propensity of violence. Her uneducated subjects would have just seen an orc and orcs must die. Change takes time. Especially for this pseudo medieval fantasy setting where life is quite cheap.
so all I see is a spoilt self indulged child who didn’t get her way the way she wanted it in her idealized world and now everyone pays the price.
Personal responsibility people.
Also why the hell did the child have such a light guard contingent? That is a fail on many peoples accounts.
Your trying to say Queen Glamor was an idealist whose only tragedy was that people did not live up to her dream, but that doesn’t hold up. Her dream seemed to require leader’s abilities to dictate what their people would do to the finest detail.
Nice fantasy that, and not how you would have handled it in your early writings where you were fond of the sly way things seem to work. Having some of the members at these peace talks start drinking together and then argue about whose booze was best would be more in order. Their arguments reaching the point of “give me 3 months and I’ll come back with some of our good stuff!” and it then growing into a drunk burning man would be more like it. If it stayed focused on drinking and judging the drinks, it would do more for living together than any high minded signed deal. Just the visuals of them being sent off staggering home only to sober up 2-3 days in a wildly mixed group makes me wish I could draw.
As for Queen Glamor, she was always a tyrant who seemed to show now interest in the actual condition or wellbeing of her people, or the real consequences of her treaties. When things fail in a completely predictable way she blames her own people for her failure. Real loyalty needs flow in both directions. Where was her loyalty to her “subjects” ever shown in your tale?
So it’s now a contest to see who can wreck Elegrost faster and more complete, Queen Glamor when she’s found or the Raanites. Either way, it probably won’t end well.
"Let me get this straight. You think that our Queen is a crazy person that mates with monsters, and your plan is to *murder her daughter*…?"
Oh, *when* will angry mobs learn to act with reason and foresight…?
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Good job, people, you kicked the dragon.
I would fell more sorry for her if her kingdom wasn’t full of mothers who’ve lost their children to Orcish raids.
And an 11 year old girl was responsible for that… how?
Eric: You watch Game of Thrones, right?
Anyone in line for rulership has a bullseye on them. Plus many more if there is any reason to suspect their loyalty, fealty to key interests, etc. Decisions by rulers are often life and death. The same is true re: decisions about rulers.
Crab fishing in Alaska is a safer job. That’s just the way it is.
There’s a difference between dynastic power plays to gain an advantage for a particular realm or dynasty, and a mob lynching an 11-year-old girl just because of who one of her parents is.
Welp. That went pretty dark.
On teh previous strip I had almost commented to the effect … I wonder if the girls will make an appearance due to wifts & eddies of Raise Dead dust blowing about the city. The opportunity for Princess Harek to show up seem to have just increased dramatically.
Also. I never forget that Jone is still nearby. No telling when & where she travels these days.
Oh, you suckers laid hands in the babies. GAME. ON. If the Queen leaves anything standing, I’m flattening it. Grr.
Not defending what happened, but he did say the Orc raids continued, and she did little to stop those. Sadly the queen is likely not the first mother that lost her underage kid due to bad Orc/human relations because of that. Soft healers leave infected wounds and all that. If only she had been less naive…
But yeah, poor kid :C
No matter my feelings on the politician and their policies, I never wish harm on their spouses and offspring. Innocent blood is innocent blood, regardless of how close to the throne it stands.
True, my feelings exactly! I just hope she doesn’t go after the peasantry now. I doubt most would have wanted this as well.
How about just the ones responsible for the murder of her daughter?
Well… she does
It was at that moment, the kingdom knew, they f*ed up.
Not the queen we needed, but the queen we deserved(?)
Hell has no fury as a mother’s loss! All she ever wanted was to create peace between the Orcs & Humans.
Even as I mourn for Princess Harek, and for Queen Glamor, and for the pain and hardship surely ahead…I cannot help but also note that Leland and Trevor are in historian-chronicler’s heaven, here. A firsthand account!
True!
… Until the part where he dies, without knowing what happened to her.
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Why does he want to find her though, seeing as she went pretty much downhill?
He is if nothing else, loyal. You dont give up on someone you care about just cause grief over a loss makes them a bit… unpleasant
Give up on them, no. But if they become a tyrant, you also don’t side with them or enable them. The loyal servant of a tyrant is a villain in their own right, and so far, the good Captain doesn’t seem to fit that role.
I do not think he is looking for the Queen, but the daughter sent away.
She’s got that ‘Momma Bloodrage’ Look.
Queen lost a child which is terrible. But I wonder if she realizes she contributed to that fact. Like all revolutionary s she wanted change and she wanted it now. But it seem to me looking at the available info, she did no do the appropriate the ground work to prepare here nation. As a ruler even a second choice ruler she did not prepare her subjects who would have suffered at the hands of the orcs for the possibility of peace. let alone peace with a wildly unstable faction know for a propensity of violence. Her uneducated subjects would have just seen an orc and orcs must die. Change takes time. Especially for this pseudo medieval fantasy setting where life is quite cheap.
so all I see is a spoilt self indulged child who didn’t get her way the way she wanted it in her idealized world and now everyone pays the price.
Personal responsibility people.
Also why the hell did the child have such a light guard contingent? That is a fail on many peoples accounts.
Your trying to say Queen Glamor was an idealist whose only tragedy was that people did not live up to her dream, but that doesn’t hold up. Her dream seemed to require leader’s abilities to dictate what their people would do to the finest detail.
Nice fantasy that, and not how you would have handled it in your early writings where you were fond of the sly way things seem to work. Having some of the members at these peace talks start drinking together and then argue about whose booze was best would be more in order. Their arguments reaching the point of “give me 3 months and I’ll come back with some of our good stuff!” and it then growing into a drunk burning man would be more like it. If it stayed focused on drinking and judging the drinks, it would do more for living together than any high minded signed deal. Just the visuals of them being sent off staggering home only to sober up 2-3 days in a wildly mixed group makes me wish I could draw.
As for Queen Glamor, she was always a tyrant who seemed to show now interest in the actual condition or wellbeing of her people, or the real consequences of her treaties. When things fail in a completely predictable way she blames her own people for her failure. Real loyalty needs flow in both directions. Where was her loyalty to her “subjects” ever shown in your tale?
> Just the visuals of them being sent off staggering home only to sober up 2-3 days in a wildly mixed group makes me wish I could draw.
Oh, we knew that from the first three words of this comment, when you attributed what a narrator was saying to what Rich believes.
If Rich has made any mistake at all so far in this tale of Glamor, it was trusting his audience.
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So it’s now a contest to see who can wreck Elegrost faster and more complete, Queen Glamor when she’s found or the Raanites. Either way, it probably won’t end well.
"Let me get this straight. You think that our Queen is a crazy person that mates with monsters, and your plan is to *murder her daughter*…?"
Oh, *when* will angry mobs learn to act with reason and foresight…?
Where was her lover, the father of her children, during all this?