By now, it was familiar for Phil and me to haggle over the length of fight scenes, but in retrospect, this was about as packed as we could get it. Auraugu needed some kind of win in this chapter to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“The men at the wall will have to fight on without me… but I’ll have to leave to join them momentarily,” Ardaic says, wedging a chest of drawers in front of the only exit. “But for NOW, I have to […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
This scene was nowhere in the outline, and full props to Phil for including the war-hardened troll general in panels 1-3. An inferior version would’ve had Penk guiding the army’s strategy, but that is neither his true role nor something […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
Oh, Magda… that’s why you’re noble. We weren’t sure how obvious to be in panel 4: other versions had Fr’Nj saying “The grass…” or just gasping silently. Her druidic powers are a bit undefined, so we wanted to make it clear it […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
“Gaffes for Saphs?” This scene’s mostly an incidental palate cleanser after the almost unrelenting grimness of the Sepia sequences. It’s the most carefree bit of business we’re going to get this chapter, so I almost hesitate to point out that […] ↓ Read the rest of this entry…
