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Everything I know about King Arthur and Merlin… I know from the movie Excalibur… and Wikipedia.
I’m just saying…
🙂
Here’s where I got Broceliande, France from…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broc%C3%A9liande
I believe I mentioned it before in the story too.
By the way… does it really make a difference if you don’t have the little ‘ over the e? Does that change the meaning of the word or anything?
Or is it kind of like adding a cherry on top of a Banana Split? It just makes it a bit… FANCIER.
The é and è have two different sounds in French. é sounds like “et” while the è would sound like the e of “excalibur” (in English). Both do not sound like the normal e. 😉
Loving the way the story arc is going. Great work! 😀
where are they right now? is Merlin being kept in a off shoot of the thone room? it just feels like they transitioned really quick to be here.
Hi, the accent (´) above the e changes the pronounciation in French and that can change the meaning. A regular e is often silent in French. é sounds similar to the ay in say while è sounds similar to the ai in fair.
WOW~~!!! What a twist! Didn’t expect that. Ever, really. Maybe I should have….>_>
Oh, Scott, try pressing the “alt” key and typing 130 or 138 on the numpad, then releasing “alt”. Should give you the é and è.
It will not change the meaning of Brocéliande to not have the é. It will change the sound though.
Also,Scott, the ` is the difference between handing you my resume and handing you my resumé. I’ve never given out a resume before, not sure how people would take it.
In english there are no accent, while in french there are above few letters to modify pronunciation. Do you want to bother with them, that’s all.
Also usually you don’t put accents above capitals, ad the whole text is written in capitals (which can be weird , when I think now about it).
Thousand years asleep…. He’s gonna wake up with an awful crick.
Just a nit-picky grammar point: I believe there should be a comma following the name “Niviene.” I had a bit of trouble following the sentence the first go-round.
Love the comic!
Actually this is a bit funny: you do put accents on capital letters, there is no reason not to put them.
BUT then came the typing machines, and it was not feasible (as accents would collide with the upper part of the capital letter) to have accents on the capital. So the use established to ignore them.
AND finally came the computer, which can (and does) scale the font of the capital letter to leave room for the accent. So know we are back at putting accents on capital letters, even if many people (me inclusive) still do not do it regularly in a first capital letter. However in a text in all caps, it is normal to put accents.
Found that a funny story on the impact of technology on the language, but really it is not that important…
And quite a case of morning breath… lol
No! Freakin’! Way!
It’s old man winter… I mean Rip Van Winkle… I mean Merlin. So the stories are true.
How was he able to enter Dreamland? Is he still looking for Arthur? I thought that Arthur would have been released by now, with the sword having finally been passed on to a successor. These silly plot twists make me have to go back and re-read the WHOLE story again.
*Sigh* If I must, I must. *Smiles*
I think Merlin needs feet!
The Egyptian-like queen looks a bit like a transvestite, isn’t she ? 🙂
I like the comic a lot, keep up !
What an interesting development!
I really like how patient the queen is with Nastajia and not judging her strong emotions.
Indeed, very understanding lady! ^_^
I didn’t think Merlin was that short though, but judging by the fact his cloak covers his legs entirely he must be.
But isn’t Arthur dead after all? I mean, his physical self disappeared from the tomb, right? And if so, just where is Merlin’s spirit right now? Does he intend to bring him back from the brink? And if so, who’s body is he supposed to possess, or is his corporeal self somehow lost in the spirit world as well now!?! O_o
Man, Scott knows how to keep things interesting that’s for sure. ^_^
Never mind the grammar, this is a cracking story development. A certain elf has been very firmly put in her place. Let’s hope she’s learned a little humility!
Well, this certainly opens up a whole range of possibilities. I’d imagine Nivienne doesn’t know about this, nor anyone else outside of Seraphopolis.
So now we can wonder – when Alexander took the sword, did he release Arthur’s spirit – or had Merlin already extricated him, and they’re both now trapped in the void between worlds with no place to come back to? Will Excalibur’s return to our world make it possible for Arthur to return? What would happen if Alexander brought the sword of the kings of Dreamland to where Merlin lies?
So many questions! And one more – should the Dreamland sword be given a name, like so many other swords of legend? Maybe we could have a contest.
Huh?
*scrolls back up*
He’s got no feet!
Greek used a different route. The accents and breath marks are important, so when they would come on a capitalized letter, they were put before the letter. On a dipthong, of course, they came over the second vowel, which was no problem.
So we get Ὤρα or Εἴμαι, and so on.
You know, very old people shrink little by little and now the feet are under his cot.
It’s somewhat important for the French, yes. For an English speaker it’s probably acceptable to ignore it, but the proper accent changes certain verbs, for example. Kinda like the difference between saying someone will do something compared to saying someone has done something.
(I can’t remember if “to do” is actually one of those verbs. Possibly. It’s been over six years since I used any French, and I was never really that good at it anyway.)
I think Nastajia has swallowed a flashlight or something. Her mouth looks quite odd in the last panel, with a demonly light emitting from inside.
Can’t wait to see Niviene’s reaction to this…!
ha, that reminds me of a Futurama bit when Fry takes a cryogenic job
Terry: now when they wake up say–
Fry: hey, *I* was frozen for a thousand years, I know what people want to hear when they wake up.
(cryogenic tube opens and man stumbles out)
Fry: bathroom’s that way
WHUT.
Not cool, dude.
just a suggestion, since the last word balloon basically covers up the whole foreground, you may want to make the queen just say “Merlin” and then carry over the next balloon to the next page. Or move the balloon to a quote box to the lower left corner. The way it is now doesn’t quite look right…
or even better, move Stas’s line to the middle panel, and then position the queen’s bubble between her and Stas in the third panel, above Merlin.
thinking…
could asleeping one visite his body in physical world?
could both change theyr place in dream- and physical world?
what are if oth life in the same world could be the burnout syndrome a happend mor faster because a person could work 24 h a day?
Did they take a while to get up there? It looks like the princess Nastajia there has a case of sunburn with how dark her skin seem in this panel.
Holy poopsticks Batman!
*has nothing intelligent to say as her mind has been well and truly blown*
A dream to some…
A NIGHTMARE TO OTHERS!!!!
Sorry— channeling Nicol Williamson for a moment.
I wonder, since we’re dealing with ancient Egyptians in Dreamland, would Merlin’s dream corpse have his organs stashed away in earthen jars someplace?
Just to clarify…
Merlin has an Earth body, currently trapped in that tree in France. Merlin has a Dreamland body, which we see here. Merlin has a third ‘body’ located somewhere between Earth and Dreamland, which is currently looking for King Arthur. This third body is the only one of the three that is ‘awake’, since we’ve seen that neither of the other two are.
By extension: King Arthur has an Earth body, presumably carried off to Avalon as per the legend. Arthur had a Dreamland body, currently entombed in the cave where Alex found the sword (? not sure…). Finally, he has a third body trapped somewhere between Earth and Dreamland, also the only one of the three that is awake. It is this trapped third body that Merlin is searching for.
Is this accurate?
*snarf* 😀
MINDF*CK!
Not exactly. Arthur’s Dreamland body has disappeared, as Nic found out when – after learning the Sword regarded Alex as King – he went to the tomb and tore it open to find… nothing.
http://thedreamlandchronicles.com/the-dreamland-chronicles/chapter-15/page-1145/
Where Arthur’s body went – if it dissipated, rose, was stolen, or transitioned to another dimension – is unknown. Yet.
Well. THIS is getting involved!
And the Pharaoh and Queen seem to know an awful lot about what’s going on pretty much everywhere…
These exiled Egyptians speak English with all the verbal tics of Americans. “Broceliande, France” instead of “Broceliande in France” or (more likely) just “Broceliande”. 😉
Thank you all!
Here’s a recap of how it works.
You have your BODY which is on Earth.
When you Dream (like Alexander is) you get a “projection” of your body in Dreamland (Dream-Self).
When Arthur wanted to MERGE the two pieces of the amulet/bracelet thing. He held half on Earth… and half in Dreamland.
Then… as the magic was working to merge them… he had to sleep in DREAMLAND to make it work (don’t ask me how…it just sounded cool).
But Nicodemus and the Wraiths interrupted the process. Thus leaving Arthur’s “Soul” trapped somewhere in between worlds.
Merlin did everything he could to bring him back. And eventually… he decided to “go after him.”
Now… coincidentally… something SIMILAR came out AFTER I did this… INCEPTION.
For those of you who HAVEN’T seen this movie yet…
SPOILER ALERT!
Leonardo DiCaprio goes after Ken Watanabe after he dies in the dream.
It’s kind of like this.
The thing is…
Arthur’s Dream Self (once Alexander took the sword) disappeared. And we have to assume that his body, wherever it’s being stored, died as well.
Scott, I took years and years of French, so here’s the answer regarding the accent.
The accent over the é in Brocéliande is an accent aigu. It is necessary for pronunciation as it tells the reader that the e is pronounced as eh vs. euh. Usually you can use the “insert symbol” function in MS-Word to find the correct accented é or copy it as I’ve typed i here.
I love how the Egyptians are watching over Merlin’s dream body. It makes the story even more special.
-Maria
Ok, that makes sense. Thank you to you and Scott (below) for helping me understand that.
It would be funny if he was all dusty though.
“We signed on to protect his Dream-self, but could not find anyone willing to clean an old white guy daily… *shudder.*”
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Wait… Dreamself? Is Merlin a Homestuck? …Dang. Now I want to write a Dreamland Chronicles/Homestuck fanfiction.
Am i the only one thats noticed? Nastajia seems to have switched bras between the first and last panels… O_o
Why not?
She kinda does.
Are you suggesting trannies aren’t cool?
Or Ctrl+Alt+e