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I’m sorry that updates have been a little scattered the last few weeks. Every other strip has been filler! I guess I just got a little overwhelmed at the end of the year. Right now I’m eager to get into the final act of this season and finish up this flashback. I’m also happy to say that after 4 very long years I finally have a clean plate, and no extra commitments to keep me busy. Which means I’ll be able to focus on Modest medusa, Yeld and Ghost Kiss. I’m hoping to get a lot done this year!
Well that was a lot easier than I had expected. I thought the herald was about to get all tentacley on Marah’s brain.
Panel 3: “Rings” instead of “brings”
I’m sure someone will point this out, but on the off chance nobody notices, there’s a typo: “rings tribrute” should be “brings tribute.”
Then again, if nobody notices, who cares?
How does one get the job as a Herald’s reverse-hat?
Well… that’s disconcerting… :\
So rad to get to see a herald of the deep in action :3
What a strange symbiotic relationship the Herald’s got going on. Almost like ghost possession. Cool that they vouched for the Captain.
It seems like The Deep Mage is also another fellow “King’s people” that had forgotten where she was from due to the after effects of repeated possession, but that’s just a guess.
Well, it’s the onlies real alternative to turnings into a monster if you’s from another world an’ actives in Yeld long enoughs. (For certains values of “not turnings into a monster”)
Ahhhhh good old-fashioned nightmare fuel.
Wait so they had a magic squid who can tell them anything they need to know this whole time and just couldn’t be arsed to use it? Man, mermaids are dicks.
So the host is not only still conscious but has the freedom of their own body, and it looks like they take innocent human children for hosts, but why didn’t the host say “we’re here”? I’m suspecting that the herald is having an adverse affect on the hosts personal mind. While we’re at it, why did the deep design the heralds to beed a host, and why is the herald helping the pirates?
Herald’s are used to capture and enslave individuals that the Deep finds useful. This Deep Mage probably hasn’t been connected to the Herald long, and still thinks of themselves as an individual. Eventually the Herald will take more and more control.
The Deep Mage is likely assigned directly to these corsairs (who are soldiers of the Deep), and they probably have other assets available to them that we aren’t seeing. The Mermaids are shock troops and infiltrators, but the Deep have heavier soldiers, casters and other combatants as well. It may be best to think of the Deep Mage as a combination of the platoon’s translator, mine detector, heavy weapon and medic.
Oh, I just noticed that deep mage was the host and herald was the parasite, I thought that they were both the term for the parasite.
I considered explaining that, or at least alluding to it. But it didn’t seem super important.
Is there a typo in panel 3, balloon 1? “… and Brings tribute …”
Good to get a new update! I always look forward to them!
It’s a Deep One!