iztarshi:

violettamondarev:

lyreofsheliak:

Well, I guess that explains the sketch thing—Albia can apparently control more than just her size! And after her brief mourning for Luheia, she looks terribly Skifandrian. 

So far her eyes seem to stay the same—not sure if that’s meant to be important or if she just hasn’t bothered to change them yet. 

Seems like Zeetha’s speech bubbles in panel 6 might’ve gotten swapped around—they make more sense in reversed order, I think. 

The “grey witch” that Luheia protected Skifander from sounds awfully geister-y, to me. Their own goddess-queen, perhaps? (Who may or may not be Lucrezia, or perhaps it’s more accurate to say that Lucrezia may or may not be the original goddess…)

And I do wonder what Albia is alarmed about in that last panel. A mirror existing, a mirror functioning, a mirror in Mechanicsburg, a Heterodyne going through a mirror…

I think Albia dressed as a Skifandrian queen in honor of her guest and / or her lost sister queen.

I agree that grey witch sounds awfully suspicious.

Albia’s surprise is probably at a functioning mirror. It sounds like it was a huge loss of a super useful technology when they “went dark” for whatever reason, and not even Albia, with all her resources, could repair them or make new ones. So a working one is a big deal.

I wonder who did get that working?

If the Dyne goddess was an eternal god-queen then Albia presumably knew what happened to her (and will hopefully tell the rest of us) because Mechanicsburg isn’t that far away. But then she’d know about the mirror and presumably try to use it to get in touch with any god-queens they couldn’t find other ways. So, it went dark like the rest of them.

H’trok’din was using some kind of space warping to move around, which may have involved the portal, but he overlapped with the Dyne goddess and may have predated the mirrors going dark.

Actually, if he did predate the mirrors going dark, I’m thinking it might be the Heterodynes’ fault. Especially when the Dyne might have powered the portals – something absorbs its energy even when the Castle isn’t working and they never figure out what.