Gaia

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I finally got the chance to show that Viviana's horse Casper is still alive and well.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: This is Viviana's summer palace in Heyselfall. The creature's design was mainly inspired by red pandas, not raccoons. Since spirit is such a limited resource on Gaia, Lilith can't simply create millions of specimens [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Moatl, our most prolific fan, didn't show any reaction regarding the character's name in the comment section of the German version. If I had known this beforehand, I wouldn't have given the most important [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree drew a sketch of Viviana in profile for the cover of The Last Queen of Gaia. I loved the sketch, but thought that it didn't fit the content of the chapter. So I [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is commenting on her statement in The Red Hall #2 when she messed with Ilias' hair. In the third panel, simple rock is shown behind the falling Door. This makes it clear that [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: With a single spell, Lilith destroyed Bhaal, the Void, and the entire Redstream. Since the Redstream didn't exist before the Darkness, there's no reason to assume that its destruction could cause problems.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The crumbling caverns are below the uninhabited Dalelands, so there are no casualties on the surface.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I love the visual effect of the spell in the last panel! Lilith's Ultima spell was strongly influenced by Final Fantasy VII's Ultima spell. It can be seen at youtu.be/a1lQ6kQ93fI It's my favorite magic [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I don't think it's possible for the inhabitants of Gaia to find out the truthTM about the first age, not even with Lilith's help. Only Bhaal could have brought light into the darkness. But [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Sister" is meant in a metaphorical sense of course. Gaia and Bhaal didn't have parents. Lilith gave Bhaal exactly one chance to say something that would dissuade her from carrying out her plan. Bhaal [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I had always planned for Bhaal to have a humanoid true" form. But I don't think she ever appeared in such a concrete form in front of Eldor. In the character sketch, Powree drew [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree did a marvelous job on the crystal cave! As a reference, I linked photographs of the famous Mexican crystal cave that contains the largest known crystals.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: In The Bipartite Mind #34, we learned that Eldor's machine put the Tear of Gaia in a temporal vibration for 1.2 seconds. The questions now are how far back in time each oscillation took [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: In the weeks before the publication of this page, many readers expected the scene shown in The Red Hall #39 to appear soon. However, I don't think many suspected that there's also a direct [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The first panel originally contained a look at the scene from a bird's eye view. But Powree messed up the placement of the characters in the inked version. I also came to the conclusion [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: The first of only two double pages in the whole comic! The problem with double pages is that they must be placed on adjacent pages, and there must be an even number of pages [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is absorbing the magical energy stored in the Tear of Gaia as her soul is reunited with her body. I love the way Powree drew Lilith in the first two panels. The drawing [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: My initial idea for this page was to have Lilith lying horizontally between the bottom of the Tower and the surface of the Void. However, she would have been so small compared to the [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is casting the same spell at Eldor and her friends. I thought this was clear, but some readers thought she cast different spells because the spell is shown at an earlier state in [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Just like the maze depicted in the cover, the one cast by Lilith in the second panel also has a small disjoint section.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Powree had the great idea with the multi-colored swirls in the background to illustrate Lilith's time stop spell. We later added the same effect to the last panels of the previous page. Lilith's smile [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith's soul gets merged with the Tear of Gaia.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I pestered Powree with an overly detailed description of the mechanism because I had a very clear mental idea regarding its design. I was happy to have found a way to put Kali into [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: As a little Easter egg, I included some physical and mathematical constants in the description of the mechanism. On this page, you can find Apery's constant, 1.2020..., and on the next page the first [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: This page is connected with the scenes shown inThe Red Hall #39, The Last Queen of Gaia #40, and The Bipartite Mind #45. Since Ilias is a clever boy, he understands that Lilith covertly [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith must pretend that Eldor's Strict Order spell had the desired effect on her. Therefore, she can't interfere in the execution.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is lying to Eldor since she had learned the spell just a few days earlier. She has never played with open cards since the encounter with Eldor in Monster #56, which chronologically happened [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I was thinking about the exact course of this conversation for years! After going to bed, I often spent some time thinking about what Eldor, Lilith and her friends could say and do in [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is in better shape than her friends. I considered showing her using spells to summon food and water for herself. But I decided against it since there was no good spot for the [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: This looks like one of those faucets that turn off automatically after a few seconds. This confirms again that only three things are eternal: death, taxes, and shitty faucets in public bathrooms.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: I considered showing the friends' struggle for survival in more detail. But I came to the conclusion that Lilith had no reason to let her friends suffer more than necessary and so I let [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is stealing the pages containing the spell Niko's Strict Order, which she'll use later on her friends. The spell's target has to carry out the order given to him to the best of [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: As a thief, Viviana doesn't take being trapped well. Of course, Lilith only pretends to try opening the door.

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Lilith is close to a mental breakdown after she's seen what she must do to her friends in order to save their lives. She must make sure that Eldor doesn't double-check the calculation again [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Finally reconnected with her entrapped soul, Lilith is suddenly able to see the future in a much clearer way. Getting her hands on the Soul Sphere before Eldor was therefore an essential part of [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: Ryn's fall through the Source in the fourth panel would have been a perfect cliffhanger at the end of the page. But that would have required adding unnecessary filler panels before it. Like many [...]

[SPOILER] Click here to see my commentary for this page! My comment for this page from Gaia: sic mundus creatus est: On the previous page, a reader commented that it would have been smarter to enchant Ilias' left hand. So I quickly rewrote this page accordingly, which made the scene feel even more realistic.