(S)Elf Destruction

Amelius on Nov. 30, 2024

WOW it is been way too long since an update and there's 100 reasons but here I am with a page that took entirely too long to work on.

All that destruction wasn't the Archfiend's work, the Archfiend was just giving everyone plague simply by walking through. The Elves treated it like a Godzilla and it was just as impervious to their attacks. The Archfiend was only defeated by Hiram's sacrifice, it was diminished by the spell significantly and fled wounded from the scene. It disappears from record not too long after…

King Hiram also didn't die in an epic magic explosion defeating it either. Giving up his Blessing to power the Orb was more like losing all the life force that makes Elves near-immortal. So he was around for a little bit after defeating the Archfiend, but mortal as a human. Malachai blames Samrick for the loss of his father, even though it was the Orb of Winter's power that saved Eldenlon from entirely succumbing to the plagues of the Archfiend. He's convinced that Samrick could have restored the Blessings his father sacrificed, and he would have lived, he thinks the Demon King betrayed his best friend. However he doesn't know that Samrick had tried, and it was Hiram who didn't wish to have it restored.

The Deathbane is a half-Skzzldrix whom we've seen tending to Quixoto after the party, and LaBelle more recently. Samrick's healers are the best in the land, and the Deathbane has earned her title well.

Here we have the first sight in-comic of the Queen, Hazelle, mother to both Sadick and Fay; and second appearance of Ozmir, Sadick's replacement body-double. There's nothing more that Ozmir would like than to go back to his small village home and be with mother and siblings, but he had the misfortune of looking enough like Sadick and the deceased Melalon. Well, before the excessive pampering of the court put a bit more meat on his bones than the actual Prince, he did.