Comments on: A Children’s Guide to Arkerra 4 (Annotated)

By: Andreas

Andreas — Tue, 15 Jan 2019 07:46:41 +0000

In a way, the change means that the trolls are take the place of orcs in the Standard Fantasy Humanoids scheme, with the land sharks taking the troll spot.

By: Andreas

Andreas — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 12:21:23 +0000

Unrelated, but similar : http://existentialcomics.com/comic/175

Once Fanon starts, it finally makes sense.

By: Gorcq

Gorcq — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 11:41:40 +0000

What a useless spy. He should be fired.

By: T

Mon, 14 Jan 2019 03:55:50 +0000

I wouldn’t be surprised if Phil worried about this: he’s very thoughtful about both fantasy races and real-life social issues. Me, I don’t have many regrets about it. From fairly early on, we were working with the idea that some of Guilded Age‘s races would have mental abilities beyond the human race’s (gnomes, winter and sky elves, goblins to a degree) and some would have more limited mental capacity (land sharks, many avians, orcs). We could’ve introduced Orc Frederick Douglass in the last few chapters and put him on Penk’s council– “We could always talk, you just couldn’t listen,” he’d say in sign language– but that would strike me as pretty deus ex, and it would diminish the idea of “non-human races” to make orcs just green, tusked Africans. I’m more interested in the message that civil rights aren’t just for people who can pass a Mensa test.

However, I did regret that the story drifted away from the issue of orc rights for as long as it did, which was one reason it got so much emphasis in Chapter 50.

By: ArvoKatsuya

ArvoKatsuya — Mon, 14 Jan 2019 01:10:12 +0000

Kinda bummed by the lack of notable orc characters in this story.

Feel like this needs to be addressed if there is ever a sequel or spin-off.