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Dun dunDuuuuun! Dramatic reveal.
What a twist!
So i guess its kinda like Excalibur then, a magic sword with a subtle but important effect (it was Excalibur’s scabbard that made the wielder invincible).
So i guess Typhan-Knee is gonna have to get used to the Curse.
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BTW: While there are back sheathes that will let you draw a sword over your shoulder, that ain’t one. Her arm would have to be able to stretch about six feet long to draw it.
“BTW: While there are back sheathes that will let you draw a sword over your shoulder, that ain’t one. Her arm would have to be able to stretch about six feet long to draw it.”
The sheath (Scabbard) doesn’t need to be special, if the sword couldn’t be drawn it would be failing its wielder which is not allowed according to the Narator.
That isn’t where she normally carries the sword, the sword, in it’s sheath, is in her backpack (for some unknown reason).
“In plain sight” is actually one of the BEST places to hide something. That’s because if it’s in plain sight, no one will bother searching for it.
What A Twist … So Cool and so very True … Hiding In Plain Sight
Ahh … but now, to learn of it’s real power.
I’m not sure I buy this – hasn’t Tiff lost her sword at some point? Is this the same sword she attacked Faden with?
Maybe I’m confusing my weaponry (I read a few sword-and-sorcery comics), but I could swear that she got this sword from Urtica. I hope I don’t have to go through the archives again…
Remember that Gilligan’s Island thing where, each week, the castaways would find some new way to get home but, by the end of the episode, it doesn’t work out for one reason or another? Is that a trope?
I love this comic and I have a guess about what’s going on with Tiffany (in her original for, he always felt like a woman in a man’s body but could never come to terms with it because of his cultural views of women as inferior… and the core of the reason the “curse” is not reversible is because, despite the intent – if that was even the intent – for Tiffany, it isn’t a curse at all… its a correction). I can handle being wrong but I never feel like we’re making progress toward finding out one way or the other.
Its like “The answer is out there.” but the producers are afraid to let us get too close to it because the show will change…
What’s going on with Tiffany is something we absolutely know, and we don’t intend to draw out the reveal forever. Chemiclord wants to give Tiffany’s story and her realization of what is going on its proper due.
Honestly, I have no problem giving EXIERN and end point. But if there’s good story to tell I do want to make sure everyone has the chance to read it. But how EXIERN may end is something I do think about…
That’s the best kind of magical weapon: one that does what it appears to do
aRJay: that is not what Fairportfan meant, back scabbards/sheaths are typically either made from less rigid materials or are more open (ie, have a top to catch/hold the crossguard and a bottom to hold the tip, with a strip {sometimes a front and back strip} holding them together), the less rigid material type allows the sheath/scabbard to bend, and the open type pretty much just holds the sword on your back without slicing your buttcheeks off
It is possible for tiff to have drawn the sword from her back, but not in one single fluid motion
Good news: Your big sword is really cool.
Bad news: That’s the only “big sword” you’re getting out of this quest.
Their hoods, at least, should be off by now. Otherwise they’ll be sweating like stuck pigs & no sword could stop that. I did used to live in the arctic, believe me when I say you want to strip off the cold weather gear ASAP when coming into a warm area.
This note is to the artist.
Lots of details don*t match with the prophesy, so so Tiff better put all the datails on the table. The worst mistake with prophesies (according to legend) is to misinterpret the details and act accordingly. They might be missing some relevant things.
Unlesss the whole thing was irrelevant, only the journey itself was relevant (to find herself).
“But…but the ad showed it glowing and shooting power blasts and enabling flight and…”
Not effective against mingalows.
Not effective against mingalows.
Well the mingallow is probbably simply highly resistant to (all) bladed weapons. And it survived the “acid blood”.
> he always felt like a woman in a man’s body but could never come to terms with it
Did he? I don’t remember reading that.
Now we know why it cut off the captain’s armor but not his skin or his heart boxers. And why it cut off Teresa’s clothing but didn’t injure her at all.
The Swords longer than the pack. Me thinks it chooses to hide its real power.
Well, THAT was a giant waste of time then. (methinks a certain old person back at the village is gonna die when they get back)
Also cut only the clothing of Denver’s sister. Maybe that’s how it doesn’t lead the holder astray. It won’t kill or harm what you shouldn’t harm.
Also, was this the sword he possibly used on his father? Never fails?
Prophesy said that with him she would find the blade. Although it did show a different looking blade. He only stated that legend had it that the blade would break any binding magic.
But he did specify that Tiff would find the means to break the curse… Didn’t necessarily specify the curse was the one which had caused the gender change….
Yeah, see, I find kooky-old-shaman guy more trustworthy than slick-new-narrator-DOOOOOM guy. He’s hiding something. Trying to convince them that ‘there’s nothing to see here, move along’.
Great points Charles81, almost as impressive as Princess P-cup’s. ^_~
As for the curse, even Faden was surprised by the change his spell made in Tiff. Not up to an archive dive right now, but wasn’t it a Transformation spell instead of a Curse? It could be the sword blunted the spell so she didn’t become what Faden intended, but couldn’t stop it entirely.
Interesting I think, very interesting.
The problem with prophecy is the bias of the person interpreting them. The star wars Anakin prophecy if read right would be be clear that no good would come form training him in fact he was a destroyer not a savior.
I think it will be shown that it was the shaman that sent the assassin as a way to get Tiff to return home. I follows barbarian logic. I also think he has the best intent for Tiff and his tribe.
Point of order, DocSavage.
When Faden cursed Tiff….way back at the beginning, Tiff wasn’t weilding the sword at that moment. He had just put it down, presumably to beat the living tar out of apparently powerless Faden. So unless the blade confers a lingering enchantment, it couldn’t do squat to the curse.
See http://www.exiern.com/2005/10/04/mistakes-were-made/
It could be the sword finding out its owner a no real word for it, worse than woman hater . Typhan-Knee would not be mad at a lying cheating slutting thieving woman bc he thought that was what a girl was.
He did worse than hate women he forgave women, bc it was not there fault girls will be girls.They have no honor so pity them.No better than Animals. But you can OWN and Love Animal and Love them.
He in short was a total DICK.
He did not see his mother as a Woman that never broke and fought her abuser(I think it will turn out it was she that really killed him)
No he saw her as a Rebellious woman a wild Animal that would gone crazed no matter how she been obtained.
The sword seems to have a firm Moral Compass(a king maker, a hero Maker) that being the case why in Ashes Name Would it Break this curse even if it could? No I think it warped it , and I would not be half shocked if it can alter Ink in a Printed Book! You know like Faden’s snarky book!
There been a higher Power all this time messing with Tiff’s Life and I think we might know what that power is!
It might also Explain if it can alter Ink how Faden summons a Unicorn by mistake! At last we would know who was messing with his books!
No Northwind would not break the Gender changing curse that it HAD FADEN CAST! The Spell that always seems to dispel the Dispellers? Or NorthWind Protecting its wielder? By Keeping him a her!
It didn’t change the words in the book, Faden just picked up the wrong book (fairly sure he even said something to that effect, just before Tiff punched his lights out)
On the very 2nd page, and look, Typh is still holding the sword
But on page 4 Typh does toss his sword aside to punch Fad through a bookcase (just before Fad *SKOOM!*’s Typh into Tiff)
And again on page 8 he mentions people messing with his books (but, considering he had just been punched through/into his bookcase, he probably just picked up the wrong book, evil wizards really need to label their books properly to avoid this problem)
“It could be the sword finding out its owner a no real word for it, worse than woman hater.”
Believe the word you might be looking for is ‘mysogynist’ (or however you spell it)
Actually… my comments were never intended to imply that the end should come any time soon. I hope the reveal isn’t the end! I’m not the storyteller here but I think I like the characters enough that I’m interested in them and their stories far beyond the current story arc involving Tiffany’s transformation.
>Did he? I don’t remember reading that.
You didn’t unless you count the post you’re responding to… where you would have also read that it is what *I THINK* is going on.
Misogynist not not realy the word, they hate Women it was like Typh Agreed with them that women were inferior but he liked them, He honestly treated and thought of them as Animals. But Animals he liked like a dog. He loved women and aproved of them and like the old joke goes thought every Man Should “OWN” at least 2!
He saw them Literally as Valuable Objects . Really is a worse Attitude than “I hate Woman” to think “I Pity Women it is my Duty to by a Kind OWNER, Its not there fault there CURSED to be Born honorless Women! My Mother Was a Woman After all! ”
His dad was a real Misogynist, but Typh was actually the more dangerous type of Hate,more insidious.
Weighing in on the sheathe thing, a standard longsword seems easiest to draw from the hip; either one, cross and same-side work fine, though cross has some issues if you want to use a shield, might help someone hoping to cut something with the drawing movement. While there are apparently sheathes to carry huge swords on the back, they are only for travel – you cannot draw a sword from one without taking the sheathe off your back first, any more than you can dig something out of the bottom of a backpack without taking the thing off.
All this speculation about the curse is truly fun, but there is a possibility that I don’t think that anyone has raised yet. Has anyone given any thought that the curse as always been broken? That it was in fact broken by Faden unintentionally?. Think about the attitude towards woman Tiffany learned. She would have learned that primarily from her father. And with an attitude like that dear ol’ dad may not have been that thrilled to have sired a girl. Could it be that the curse that was placed on her was just a means to create a son where nature had dictated otherwise?. That her male existence was in fact the artificial existence all along? Just a thought, so what do you think?
And if that was the case, then some other events may be better understood then. Like when the priests attempted to reverse the curse, they instead trigger a backlash that renders them female. But if this was not a curse but instead a cure. A cure that was using powerful magic to restore a natural state then the power of that backlash can be better understood. Or I could just be dead wrong.
JW: believe that that has been mentioned a few times (about how Typh was born Tiff, but was changed into Typh, and when Faden accidentally cast the White Magic actually broke the initial curse)
JZ: as described earlier (be me), you can get back sheaths designed to allow swords to be drawn while still on the back, but you are correct that most are simply ‘normal’ sheaths placed on the back for ease of travel
That kind of explains why during the fight with now-female Thomas, in the town square why the sword only seemed to disrobe whoever Tiff attacked. It would not allow her to take innocent blood.
I think Tiff even said something to the effect, “What’s wrong with you today?” Addressing the sword itself.
http://www.exiern.com/2010/07/29/exiern-2010-07-07-web/
Found it.
It’s sentimental value has increased over 9000!