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Howdy, New Readers! Thanks for reading Exiern!
Written by Scott T. Hicken with art by Antipus, the comic updates Mondays. Please check out the Archive to enjoy the earlier adventures of Typh and Peonie!
Exiern contains mature themes and is best for readers 18+.
hmmm, this page and the other “article” make me much more… I’m looking for the right word here… appreciative? Respectiful? towards Osir.
If he gets a final narration as they return from the world’s edge to the Barbarian camp, then I would feel very comfortable with him uttering “DOOM” at the end. I feel he has earned his place as something more than a narrator now. A true Doomsayer.
I can even see a panel after with a comforting hand upon his shoulder and a look of sympathy or slight pride from Old Mac, passing on the flame.
I searched for reference to all this in the Ode I commented previously (mainly due to the Snozberry quoted title of a page). But now I’m seeing much more of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Narrators/Doomsayers are the prisoner who has been taken away to see the truth of the world and then returned to the chained wall to try and explain to the fellow prisoners that what they see upon the wall and afford so much value to are nothing but shadows of carvings of the real creatures.
He is chastizing us readers for wanting to see characters end up in humiliating situations, just for our pleasure. I do hope he slips and falls on his a!s.
@Matt: No, the narrator sees through the 4th wall, yet may never pass and take his existence beyond it. He knows when we are watching and delivers his speeches as are scripted, in the most dramatic of areas, but no matter what. He and his world are all scripted, right down the the fact he knows he’s scripted.
There is an alternative to the waking dreamer being the author. They could be characters in a computer simulation. (Think of the holodeck episodes on the Star Trek Next Generation or the Reboot series.) He communicates with beings that think they control the situation, but who are themselves puppets of the author. This would explain the idea of multiple waking dreamers.
Channeling some Mass Effect there?
Did he just use a lot of words to say, “DOOOOOM!!”?
hmmm, this page and the other “article” make me much more… I’m looking for the right word here… appreciative? Respectiful? towards Osir.
If he gets a final narration as they return from the world’s edge to the Barbarian camp, then I would feel very comfortable with him uttering “DOOM” at the end. I feel he has earned his place as something more than a narrator now. A true Doomsayer.
I can even see a panel after with a comforting hand upon his shoulder and a look of sympathy or slight pride from Old Mac, passing on the flame.
I searched for reference to all this in the Ode I commented previously (mainly due to the Snozberry quoted title of a page). But now I’m seeing much more of Plato’s Allegory of the Cave and the Narrators/Doomsayers are the prisoner who has been taken away to see the truth of the world and then returned to the chained wall to try and explain to the fellow prisoners that what they see upon the wall and afford so much value to are nothing but shadows of carvings of the real creatures.
He is chastizing us readers for wanting to see characters end up in humiliating situations, just for our pleasure. I do hope he slips and falls on his a!s.
The narrator is the embodiment of the fourth wall.
@Matt: No, the narrator sees through the 4th wall, yet may never pass and take his existence beyond it. He knows when we are watching and delivers his speeches as are scripted, in the most dramatic of areas, but no matter what. He and his world are all scripted, right down the the fact he knows he’s scripted.
Wait, is the waking dreamer the author or us?
@SirVimes: the Waking Dreamer appears to be the Author, but the author is creating and telling this take to US. sharing it with us, if you will.
We have little or no control over the dream. The Author controls it while we merely observe.
Damn dude, that is deep (probably deeper and truthfuller than you can imagine)
Evil grows in the dark
Where the sun, it never shines.
Evil grows in cracks and holes
And lives in people’s minds.
That was dangerously close to breaking the 4th wall…
There is an alternative to the waking dreamer being the author. They could be characters in a computer simulation. (Think of the holodeck episodes on the Star Trek Next Generation or the Reboot series.) He communicates with beings that think they control the situation, but who are themselves puppets of the author. This would explain the idea of multiple waking dreamers.
“You have learned too much.” (puts on sunglasses)
And now before you go, please look at this thing I’m holding for a short vision test.
@Naidru: So, you’re suggesting that Exiern is just some sort of Warcraft mod?
No! Not that crappy wannabe game, WAR not Whorecraft
He know’s what you are, ScottHicken
This is some Lovecraftian s!!t if I’ve ever seen it.