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Kill Six Billion Demons

She did not cut enough.

All know that royalty is a continuous cutting motion.
 
The cover for the new book/arc/whatever we're calling it is up.

And oh boy, is there is a lot going on in it.

Things worth mentioning, Mammon appears to be the Demiurge this one will focus on. White Chain is apparently having issues, probably due to the whole "ripping her face off" thing. Cio's ex-boyfriend is there.

Oh, and Alison has gotten a hair cut and in general looks far more relaxed and confidant in herself. Like seriously, compare it to the other covers where Alison tends to look like she looks like a traumatized and occasionally bloodstained puppy.

Character development!
 
In the void around the world-throne there hangs a sun, what the fuck is it made out of?
 
Biigoh said:
Who knows? It might be one of those things the Artificer God made...
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It explicitly is;

What's up with Throne's sun? How does it work?
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It was forged by the God Koss. It's close enough to Throne that you could actually reach it reasonably in a few days air travel.
The main thing about Throne's sun though is that is doesn't work. It was broken long before mankind ever came to inhabit Throne. This has created one side of the city-disc that is perpetually in light (called sunside) and another that is perpetually in darkness (called shadeside). Both sides are near equally as dangerous, surprisingly, but Throne's most vicious criminals, thugs, and smugglers tend to congregate in an especially dire part of the city called the Shades, near the shadeside base of the main city mound.
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So, apparently there's a Heretical Charm to turn your Infernal into a KSBD Angel:
Emergent Viridian Angel Shintai

Cost: 20 motes, 1 WP;
Mins: Essence 6;
Type: Simple
Keywords: Obvious, Blasphemy, Form-Type, Shaping, Emotion
Duration: One Scene
Prerequisite Charms: Demon Emperor Shintai, Herustic Logos Shintai, Emerald Angel Unfurling
At first, the activation of this Charm appears to be identical to Demon Emperor Shintai. The Shimna cry out as the terrible keening cry of that-which-was-Malfeas resounds throughout the cosmos, the strands of Fate but spider webs to the King. But when the humiliation of what he has become strikes Malfeas, the Green Sun Prince declares that he is not his forebears. He asserts the self-control of the Emerald Angel, and he does not coalesce back into the Demon Emperor. Vast wings of colourless radiance spread out, burning sun-bright, and the terrible empyrean chaos wraps itself around bones of crystal and light. The colour shifts, from purest white, as the anima banner of the Exalt bleeds into it, but the edges and tips of the wing always retain this pure colour. This is the Emergent Viridian Angel; the unforeseen and unexpected product of the Reclamation, and a force of terrible stability and majesty.
The Emergent Viridian Angel is between forty and eighty metres high, warstrider sized, a vast winged giant made of majesty. Its wings reach high above even it, sprouting forth from shoulders and waste and back and ankles, up hundreds of metres. It is almost inconceivable that such a thing came from within a human body, even an Exalted one, yet that is the truth. Creation burns at its prescence, for the world cannot face the Pyrian fires unshielded by crystal, and the former majesty of its King, yet the will of the Angel forces it to face its fragility.
The character counts as a unit with Magnitude equal to the highest of his Charisma, Essence or Intelligence in Mass Combat. Enemies do not benefit from Magnitude, unless they are the same scale as the Angel.
Creation burns from the majesty of the Angel, still too confined for others to be safe. All non-sapient wildlife and plant-life within visual range of the Angel, up to a limit of Essence miles, around it die in the terrible light, burning with a colourless, cold flame to fall to the ground as snow-like ash. All bodies of water in the area shift permanently, as a Shaping effect, to something that is no-longer water; viscous, red, and smelling faintly of blood. The Wyld fares worse; everything that the light of the Angel shines upon is made permanently part of Creation, and counts as something that the character shaped with Creative Convergences of Principles for the purposes of that Charm.
All characters must pass a Valour check after seeing the Angel for the first time, or lose a point of Willpower as an Emotion effect. This roll must be made again, every time the Angel injures the character.
Torrential gales form, a vast hurricane centred on the character. All ranged weapons used within Essence x 100 metres of the Angel suffer an external penalty of the character's Essence.
Emerald Angel Unfurling activates for free upon the activation of this Charm. Moreover, the number of wings increases to the highest of Essence or Integrity, and the character regenerates one wing each time their DV refreshes.
The activation of Counter-Conceptual Interposition does not count as a Charm activation for the character, although they may choose not to. Should they chose to make use of this, though, the defence always manifests in the same way; as a wall of geometrical shapes, cast of the colour of the Infernal's anima.
The character may fly with their wings, as if under the effects of Ascendant Objectivity Stance.
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Abaddon must illustrate 3e Infernals, nothing else would suffice.
 
"Or I will throw you off my fucking ship. Deal?" -Allison, after deciding the ship Cio stole to rescue her was hers by virtue of giving no fucks.
 
Don't lose your way, Ryoko.

I mean Alison.

Don't lose your way, Alison.


Also, lol, "My fucking ship."
 
At last. That's more like it, even if the dramatic haircut of character development is super cliché.
 
A quite hardcore haircutting technique, but not as hardcore as one that may come up later in the comic.

"[…] then there is the one [called] Ghost Maker, a man of great repute and peculiar habit. It is said he is so skilled with an edge, he killed the great iron-skinned Champion of Urash with a scissor blade. None who are present at the duel dispute this account other than to say the scissors also did not survive the conflict." – Histories of the Yellow City, volume 4
 
Another update! In which a misunderstanding continues.

"In some parts they know the master of Throne as the god Zayus Patrom, father of lightning. In others they know him as the great warrior called Angel-Breaker, who fights with a spear dipped in molten silver. Only one name is bestowed upon him in common across all the wretched cosmos: King."
-Sayophraxes, Silent Sister of the Wax Covenant
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Am... am I the only who is looking at the bottom frame and thinking JoJo Bizarre Adventure?
 
WarpVortex said:
Zoss = Zayus = Zaid. Not a misunderstanding, Zaid goes back in time to save, Allison and accidentally is the reason why Allison is in peril.
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Yeah, this is my current theory too. Given the mythology's general tone and emphasis on paradox and contradictions, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case.
 
Xenia said:
Yeah, this is my current theory too. Given the mythology's general tone and emphasis on paradox and contradictions, I wouldn't be surprised if it was the case.
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Also, also: Given that the demiurges don't achieve full Royalty because of their hang-ups(and the whole "Angels can't into Royalty because they don't think they can"), Zaid/Zoss perpetuates the cycle because he believes he should and because he finds the certainty comfortable.
 
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