Props to Ufal for actually (kind of) calling her out.

>>149051308 (OP)
Cool i didn't expect an update today!

What Black Tongues?

>>149051419
The crows anon...

>>149051426
i think he's saying that they're all fucking dead now

Website comment:
>That crown does look heavy…
Going to skip Friday to make up for that double page update. I’ll see you back here on Monday not only with the next page but… with a pretty huge announcement! o_o The anxiety is giving Boo nerves…

>-Ashley
Patreon comment:
>Chancellor Ufal is so very diplomatic, but even he couldn't help reminding her Majesty that much of this was her own doing. But it was Roger's doing too, and Mallory's. And her predecessor. She's the last woman standing though - the final cistern at the bottom of a cascading cataract of shit. And she's gotta eat it.

>Big announcement on Monday! I think some of you might be able to guess it though. Makes me nervous! Unless it is you, my darlings, I hate to be perceived!

>>149051308 (OP)
It's neat to learn this scheme predates the current Sonorie's own rule. Adds a layer of legacy to her actions, the compulsion to see through a task foisted upon her.

Of course, as Ufal points out, her reign is her own in the end. No shifting responsibility here.

Isn't the queen conflating patience with tolerance?

Maybe its more apt to day she outwright abetted much of this "infection" herself?

>>149051456
>a pretty huge announcement!
Getting spooked myself, what could it be? Books, hopefully? A long ass hiatus, one fears?

im too poor to get the fancy first edition signed copy of the book when it comes out

>>149051477
>>149051456
fuck i posted before I was the author comments

>>149051539
put the wife and the kids on it; put the focuking house one it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6S_Mjypi5p0

>>149051483
Probably the Kickstarter for the next book printings. The only other thing would be the start date of Book Two, but we're probably not close enough to the end of the epilogue yet.

>>149051456
>Unless it is you, my darlings, I hate to be perceived!
Ashley is finally revealing her true, nightmarish form to the world. Is it ready?

>>149051456
>Big announcement on Monday! I think some of you might be able to guess it though. Makes me nervous! Unless it is you, my darlings, I hate to be perceived!
porn spin off

>>149051456
Big announcement

It becomes a youtube series

>>149051419
>>149051438
I'm the fool then, but even if I'm just trying to save face, maybe there's some BT still out there. Bastion is still alive and Ripa for example; if they weren't bothering with the necklace a few more could be out there

>>149051601
Might not be needed. Some time ago she was hinting at being in talks with a publisher. The books could be available on the regular market.

>>149051456
Live action netflix series.

>>149051930
The problem with those ones is they were, almost by definition, not into working with Cresce. Ripa especially, despite joining for the usual selfish reasons, a staunch principles conservative in the group. "The day they start policing us is the day I walk." He believes in the ideals of independent pymaric advancement, and would no doubt be against working under the Queen, despite being Crescian and wanting to help his local Crescians. He accused Bastion of being infected by "nationalism" when questioning his motivations.

Similarly, others who weren't actively involved with the organization probably had similar compunctions, or were otherwise so independent and selfish they wouldn't care to work for her anyway.

>>149051419
>>149051438
At this point, the scale of the silver strangulations may not yet be known across the continent. A lot of the dead Tongues were in the building that got flooded, so Ufal and the Queen may just think that's how the ones involved in this died.

>>149052175
Ripa walked. And Ashley has said the only BTs left are Bastion and Darkest Paul, who are… not in good shape after offsetting together during an apocalyptic khert fire.

I think it’s safe to say the Black Tongues are done.

I also can’t see Sonorie ever working with Ruck again, and I’m surprised Ufal would even suggest it. But I wonder if maybe it’s just a general euphemism for making deals with devils, at this point.

>>149051483
I don’t think she’ll be taking a super long hiatus, in part because I don’t think she can really afford to.

>>149052269
My read is it was specifically about following up on the plots utilizing them. Ufal, though, also does not know the true state of things (neither does Sonorie, frankly), and so is also genuinely asking whether she's going to continue to do insane shit. Since it seems clear Sonorie is probably going to try to finish what she started, I'm thinking the answer is yes. Snake has fucked off, the Black Tongues got choked to death, but she's still going to try to fuck Alderode.

>>149052298
> but she's still going to try to fuck Alderode.
The one action of hers I can't fault, given Alderode's own shall way say, enthusiasm for fucking Cresce.

>>149052071
Cast me duane and sette

>>149052269
> Ashley has said the only BTs left are Bastion and Darkest Paul

When did she say this? Any Black Tongue not wearing their torc at that moment would have survived. I imagine there were at least a few across Kasslyne.

>>149052298
>>149052359
I dont think the original plan is on the table anymore. The BTs are dead and it really seemed like they needed a living rage curse recipient to pull off the exploit.

>>149052480
What about Rahm?

>>149052592
Rahm survived, but they got rid of that torc first thing in the morning. He’s done.

>>149052480
In a couple of asks. It was a while back, please don’t ask me to dig through that archive nonsense to try and find it.

>>149052459
Ralph Fiennes and Ralph Fiennes.

>>149052459
Duane would need to be someone with a voice like Anthony Quayle. English and proper, constantly talks with perfect diction like he's narrating a story, with a deep warm timbre.

Harry Lloyd who played Viserys Targaryen could probably pull it off. Too many english actors talk like yobs instead of gentlemen these days. He's also suitably handsome, because after all, Duane must always look too cool.

Sette's voice is Cope. The kid they cast as Hermione in the new Hary Potter series would look the part if they somehow got green eyes in her head. Need to dub Cope's voice onto her.

>>149052233
>At this point, the scale of the silver strangulations may not yet be known across the continent.
It's been several weeks. By now the great black tongue die-off is known.

>>149051308 (OP)
I hate that the dammakhert plan ended up like this. I hate that it is unsalvageable.

>>149053505
Now we get to see Alderode in all its hellish splendor.

>>149053613
I for one am excited for hellish fantasy Russia.

>>149053505
It's unsalvageable for Cresce, but Ruck still has Roger's soul, and after eating Cutter he has a treasure trove of information on how the Khert works. He'll have to rebuild his power base from scratch, but he might yet pursue his dream of enslaving Alderode.

>>149051456
Weird that it's still trying to be presented as a negative thing when the story has already directly mentioned the fact that it killed off all of her political opponents and gave her carte blanche to dictate her dictatorship.
You can write a tragic story about a well-meaning ruler who is feels forced to become a despot, but this isn't that story. She's been on screen for like 10 minutes. So what matters to the reader is what it means to the overall picture, and in the overall picture it looks like Cresce got ridiculously lucky to the point of author intervention.

>>149053658
Oh, it's you again.

>>149053505
>>149053651
Do we know that it failed? I'm wondering if whatever they were trying to do with the black tongues and the dammakhert was able to fire off before all the deaths - though I guess thinking back it's probable they hadn't even got to that point. It seems crazy that this huge plot thread that stretches back so long in-universe will just end in nothing. I mean, it's not that Roger's sacrifice HAS to work, but surely we should see it at least attempted in full after all this bullshit

>>149053690
There's more than one of me, but yes. I think the other people care more about Sonorie than I do. I just don't like the feeling of plot armor.
I've been here but it doesn't really need to be talked about because it's so apparent at this point.

>>149053706
>this huge plot thread that stretches back so long in-universe will just end in nothing
In the end I suspect Ruck fiddling with the dammakhert will being the entire system down. Ruck with Cutter+Roger is too big of a Chekhov's gun.

>>149053613
The horror...

>>149053721
waaa the black woman who represents some of the themes of the comic and learned a lesson about her actions survived in a fantasy story while everyone who stood against her who did NOT learn any lessons or try to better themselves died
it must be PLOT ARMOUR

>>149054835
>black woman who represents some of the themes of the comic and learned a lesson about her actions
>learned a lesson
citiation needed

She's calling Roger a monster for this shit, and the plan for Ruck to suck out Roger's soul was NOT Roger's.

>>149054835
I don't care who she is, it's not about her. Although her getting attacked by Ruck at the only moment she could have possibly gotten away intact is one of the biggest instances of plot armor in the comic.
That would still have been stupid if it happened to anyone else, but it happening to an important person in her faction is just another instance among many in a row, which is what really annoys me. The one that annoys me the most is the engineer from the shrine getting away alive.
>learned a lesson
Did she though? And even if she did, does it matter?

>>149054907
oh he didn't consent yeah
sonorie is saying on this page that this plan started 40 years ago with her grandma- it wasn't HER plan either

> citiation needed
did you not read her final confrontation with Ruck? Where she has to face the results of her own actions and, because she is the type of person who is able to recognize and use her own regrets, is able to succeed in the moment and survive???

>>149054936
Sonorie continues to blame everyone except herself for everything. She's learned fucking nothing.

>>149054907
>She's calling Roger a monster for this shit, and the plan for Ruck to suck out Roger's soul was NOT Roger's.
Anon, that's very obviously the narrative she's going to spin for the public (or at least the nobles), not what she actually believes. I'm not sure how the comic could communicate this any more clearly without having her suddenly shout "BUT SECRETLY I FEEL VERY GUILTY ABOUT THE PART I PLAYED IN HAVING MY FRIEND'S BODY AND SOUL RAPED BY A RAPESNAKE!"

>>149054959
She literally references ghosts on this page- ghosts in this comic being painful memories, regrets, agony, etc. She has felt the bite of the ghosts- of pain and regret- and it has changed her.

I don't know how to tell you that everything in the comic is indicating that Sonorie has indeed learned a lesson, has grappled with her actions and their consequences, and has come out the other side of it wiser than before.

>>149054538
I dread knowing that the Adeliers will be brutalized by their countrymen as soon as tensions boil over.

>>149054959
genuine question, did you actually read anything she's said over the last hundred pages or so? or did you just kinda skim over a few words per page and make some assumptions?

>>149055588
are YOU ready for ethnic cleansing: the comic?

>>149051308 (OP)
>Props to Ufal for actually (kind of) calling her out.

He's not her butler, he's the chancellor of the government.

>>149054959
This is like the reverse of when people refused to believe that Duane had any flaws

>>149057159
It doesn't have anything to do with the character for me. I don't like when it feels like I can see the author's hand in the story.
Like, apparently Cresce was supposed to get out of this intact and with Uaid's plans, so making it seem like they would actually pay for their actions was just cheap drama now.

>>149057518
Did... Did you think Cresce was going to... collapse? Like, Queen dead, Bell dead, Cresce breaks into civil war? Perhaps invaded by Alderode? Like, is that really where you thought the story was going

>>149056636
NO!

>>149053706
>>149053651

Ruck is still alive, and the plans for the damakhert will be much more compelling to see in action from a POV that is actually *inside* Alderode, which is where the next book takes places. This is going to be a plot thread that carries itself forward, even if it will possibly be years before we see it resurface.

>>149057596
Since Alderode is about to go into civil war of their own(?) doing, I don't think a civil war would be that crazy. It would keep the "balance" so to speak.
But, no, I didn't expect that. I just thought the narrative was setting up Cresce's ruling party to take SOME kind of payback for their risks, after the engineer got away scot free. Even Ufal survived.
If history tells us anything, it doesn't take long for someone to take the crown. You're probably overestimating how much her death would hurt them. She's going to die of old age soon enough, anyway, so I'm sure they're prepared.

>>149057785
>t. the ghost of Karl

>>149057785
>Even Ufal survived.
He genuinely did nothing wrong, why would he be punished?

>>149057987
He didn't, but his allies wouldn't want him to die at least, so it would have been a negative for them. And his scene in the disaster was presented in a way that there were people who were surprised he was still alive.

>>149057785
>>149058169

>You're probably overestimating how much her death would hurt them. She's going to die of old age soon enough, anyway, so I'm sure they're prepared.

yeah you just forget the comic or haven't read it in forever, that's okay you stupid fuck

>>149057785
> You're probably overestimating how much her death would hurt them. She's going to die of old age soon enough, anyway, so I'm sure they're prepared.
If the queen had died last chapter there would have been a complete power vacuum. All prior "preparations" would be irrelevant. The most likely scenarios seem like a civil war, a military junta, or an invasion by Alderode.

>>149052629
> Ashley has said the only BTs left are Bastion and Darkest Paul
As I recall, Ashley said that any Black Tongues asleep in their beds would have likely removed their torcs and so would have survived (Like Rahm). It's mostly the ones that were working with Cresce that night who were killed.