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Annotations Every Day - Written by T Campbell & Flo Kahn - Illustrated by John & Jason Waltrip

'I mean, BEFORE it was, like... whatever... y'know?'

Chapter 41 – Page 2

on March 2, 2016
Chapter: Chapter 41
└ Tags: Cliff Rockslide, Ember Skycleaver, Gravedust, Snowpeak Icegrip, Stonecutter Moonchild
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  1. wolfpax
    wolfpax
    March 2, 2016, 12:07 am | # | Reply

    Cheer up, Gravedust! You have the perfect chance to rebuild your religion and get it right this time!

    • Simo
      Simo
      May 4, 2016, 10:41 am | # | Reply

      Aye. I’m surprised he doesn’t go that way.

  2. brasca1
    brasca1
    March 2, 2016, 12:26 am | # | Reply

    I’m curious as to why the Savasi is stabbing that corpse.

    • LockeZ
      LockeZ
      March 2, 2016, 1:34 am | # | Reply

      To take his water canteen, it looks like.

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      March 2, 2016, 2:42 am | # | Reply

      Sometimes you have to hit the corpses in order for loot to come out.

    • Ganurath
      Ganurath
      March 2, 2016, 3:05 am | # | Reply

      Why not?

    • Devlerbat
      Devlerbat
      March 2, 2016, 3:15 am | # | Reply

      Because its human?

    • SpWondrous
      SpWondrous
      March 2, 2016, 10:29 am | # | Reply

      I’d say it’s part of Gravedust’s development.

      Panel 3 shows a Savasi warrior angrily stabbing a human corpse to vent his anger – not because of who the human had once been or what he had done, but for having been a human. Meanwhile, another Savasi is either encouraging the desecration of the body or laughing at the display. Gravedust, who literally turns his back on both of the Savasi, is quite deep and thoughtful and probably disagreed with the disrespect shown by essentially venting racial hatred.
      Panel 4 has Gravedust sitting with the mystics who share his views about life and death – every soul is deserving of peace. Due to the dead is their calling, even former enemies.

      The Savasi warriors in panel 3 are driven by their hatred and anger. The Savasi mystics are driven by their duties and purpose in life, coupled with their higher calling. Panel 3 is the contrast to panel 4 – misguided anger over past injustices versus contentment in companionship. Or, if you will, two Savasi united in their hatred of humans contrasted by five mystics united by common ideals and a duty to heal the ills of the world, or those Savasi that cannot let go contrasted by those who did and do.

    • Lingo
      Lingo
      March 2, 2016, 1:55 pm | # | Reply

      Are all dwarves “Savasi”? I thought only the ones who talked to spirits are called that.

      • Beroli
        Beroli
        March 2, 2016, 5:31 pm | # | Reply

        “Dwarf” is a Gastonian term for the Savasi people, I believe. The ones who talked to spirits were called mystics.

      • Seggs
        Seggs
        March 3, 2016, 12:15 am | # | Reply

        dwarves are the race. savasi is the culture/nation.

        • insomniac
          insomniac
          March 3, 2016, 10:23 am | # | Reply

          Or Savasi is the race, dwarves is what the humans call them (on account of they’re short).

        • biggmac
          biggmac
          March 3, 2016, 12:43 pm | # | Reply

          Dwarforensis Savasii

    • Kennerly
      Kennerly
      March 3, 2016, 11:51 pm | # | Reply

      He’s checking for a pulse, Pacific Rim style.

  3. Jean-Luc
    Jean-Luc
    March 2, 2016, 12:31 am | # | Reply

    Gravedust in the wind…
    https://youtu.be/g0zSB2WEtwU

    • Frigg_Fanboi
      Frigg_Fanboi
      March 2, 2016, 7:46 am | # | Reply

      Bye Bye Mr Gravedust.

      We’ll Really miss you, although you never said much

      Bye Bye Mr Gravedust

      You’re 5000 candles in the wind

    • The Facts Say
      The Facts Say
      March 3, 2016, 2:50 am | # | Reply

      > Nothing lasts forever but the earth and sky

      Well, at least for another 7.6 billion years until the sun reaches the tip of the Red Giant Branch boiling off the atmosphere of the planet and then through tidal forces causing Earth to spiral into its approaching photosphere dissolving the planet into its constituent atoms destroying all evidence of the existence of every species that has, does, or will live.

      But don’t worry because the sun will die only 130 million years after that having expelled the last of its fusion shells into a planetary nebula leaving a cooling fading testament to the solar system’s existence. In doing so, heavy elements will combine into dust which will be carried by the solar wind out into the galaxy and eventually to another giant molecular cloud where it will combine with remnants of countless fellow dead stars and planets and be used to create the next generation.

      So, hey, Gravedust, while your own life and the life of everyone you know is pointless and will end in oblivion, at least you can cling to the cold, intellectual fact that life in the abstract will go on. Glad to help, buddy.

  4. Alice Macher
    Alice Macher
    March 2, 2016, 12:41 am | # | Reply

    “Old men ought to be explorers
    Here or there does not matter
    We must be still and still moving
    Into another intensity
    For a further union, a deeper communion
    Through the dark cold and the empty desolation,
    The wave cry, the wind cry, the vast waters
    Of the petrel and the porpoise. In my end is my beginning.”

    –T.S. Eliot, “East Coker”

  5. biggmac
    biggmac
    March 2, 2016, 12:59 am | # | Reply

    Hmmm … not “Sepia World” …
    TAUPE world!

  6. Fairportfan
    Fairportfan
    March 2, 2016, 1:02 am | # | Reply

    “From the Womb to the Tomb”

    https://youtu.be/TTyCawE10Tk

  7. SteelRaven
    SteelRaven
    March 2, 2016, 3:20 am | # | Reply

    “I could be happy and stab people but noooo, I had to be a mystic.”

  8. Insufferable Nerd
    Insufferable Nerd
    March 2, 2016, 3:45 am | # | Reply

    So he was Dwarf Byron in his youth, and then Dwarf Ardaic? Glad he finally found the class he wanted to main.

  9. Dana Son-of-Bear
    Dana Son-of-Bear
    March 2, 2016, 8:00 am | # | Reply

    Awwwwwwwwwww baby Gravedust x3

    • Jean-Luc
      Jean-Luc
      March 2, 2016, 10:04 am | # | Reply

      If old Dust is Grave is young Dust Cradle? Cradledust? Cribpowderedmilk?

      • Dana Son-of-Bear
        Dana Son-of-Bear
        March 2, 2016, 6:25 pm | # | Reply

        Grave-talcum-powder.

    • Lirazel
      Lirazel
      March 2, 2016, 11:24 pm | # | Reply

      Inorite?

      I love the way his liddle hand is stroking his chin.

  10. Chris
    Chris
    March 2, 2016, 10:13 am | # | Reply

    Welp, only one thing left to do… flood every single “shelf” with copies of my memoirs to start a underground resurgence of my belief system so to become a martyr and transcend to godhood.

  11. Psolo Ghoti
    Psolo Ghoti
    March 2, 2016, 4:48 pm | # | Reply

    Oh, this is the part where he’s played by Ewan McGregor.

  12. Titlebreaker
    Titlebreaker
    March 2, 2016, 5:54 pm | # | Reply

    I was puzzled as to why the dwarf woman in the last panel looked angry… then I realized that they were eating broiled desert moss! She’s annoyed that her’s just wasn’t as good! CONTINUITYYYY!

  13. Armagrodden
    Armagrodden
    March 2, 2016, 6:32 pm | # | Reply

    Young Gravedust bears a resemblance to Byron.

    • Psolo Ghoti
      Psolo Ghoti
      March 3, 2016, 3:44 pm | # | Reply

      Plot twist: Sepia!Gravedust is Sepia!Byron’s father.

      I’m half joking, but if it turns out to be true, I will take full credit. ^_^

  14. Cubanpep
    Cubanpep
    March 3, 2016, 6:02 am | # | Reply

    Deep. Very deep.

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