Annotated 10-10
TFW you realize for the first time that your beloved has genuine suicidal tendencies. I have been there. It is not fun. Ultimately, both Syr’Nj and Gravedust will have to help Byron wrestle this demon of his even more directly than they face his literal demons.
We pulled a lot of rugs out from under the readers, but I never for a second considered making Byron anything but a victim where the berserker curse was concerned. However he feels, it is externally imposed on him, and only a reflection of his true self in the sense that we all have capacity for violence when made mindless. Minor spoilers: the TV show pictured here lost me by waffling on this point with a similar scenario.
Maybe my memory fails me but for all of GD’s talk of spiritual sacrilege I don’t remember there ever being any real consequences or downsides to the group’s resurrection. If anything Frigg got more powerful (over time).
Frigg’s power could be considered a curse in some quarters. (I mean, having an angry sky-wolf cohabit your cranium is not on my list of stuff I would look forward to, but maybe tjat’s just me).
Cheers,
Côté
Maybe. But on a whole I think she made out like a bandit. After a few months(?) she managed to kick the wolf to the curb (almost literally). Now she’s sporting some shiny green lantern style powers. And, of course, still breathing. So on a whole, she got a winning hand out of this deal.
Not on a spiritual front, no. If anything Gravey eventually realized that there was no real need for the mystics. The dead would would move on in their own time much as they always did even before the mystics.
However there were consequences in the land of the living. The heroes had to hide the truth from friends. And they lost at least one friend over the issue.