Here's why I don't have a problem with Raine's Truesight.
1) She has two magically-powerful parents - we don't know how powerful Euchre is in general, but he has Perfect Transformation which is a rare and high-power ability; and of course her mother was Grand Templar.
2) She has very little training in magic. However, "very little" is not "none".
3) She's stretching the truth. When she first saw Carver, she didn't have the glowy yellow eyes we're thinking indicates Truesight is active. Only when she had time to match up what he was claiming against her own observations and knowledge, and realized he was lying, did she get the glow on. In other words, when she recognized cause for suspicion. In the earlier incident, she saw Maren and Red - who often don't get along - standing side by side with bare weapons against Sythe, whom Raine and Maren both like and trust - it didn't add up, so again she had cause for suspicion.
4) Trace not being suspicious of an illusory city, when he's suffering from amnesia and doesn't know where the real city is or what it looks like, is quite understandable. So he wouldn't have had cause to activate Truesight - if he even remembers that he has that power. (Has Trace, in the comic, faced anything that he had reason at the time to suspect was an illusion, that wasn't done by a Mask?)
Comic for July 19, 2017: Carver's True Nature
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Re: Comic for July 19, 2017: Carver's True Nature
Just something to add to this - hope its ok with you - this time she used this abillity active, knowing she can do it - the first time i think it was more out of the stress of the situation that she unintentionally used it (she just transformed, didnt know how to explain it because nobody knew it and her shackle was broken - she stood under a lot of stress - so everything was on high alert in her body - i think over the course of their travel she slowly tried out to get more control over her magic and is now able to use some of it).Warrl wrote: ↑Sat Jul 22, 2017 2:21 am 3) She's stretching the truth. When she first saw Carver, she didn't have the glowy yellow eyes we're thinking indicates Truesight is active. Only when she had time to match up what he was claiming against her own observations and knowledge, and realized he was lying, did she get the glow on. In other words, when she recognized cause for suspicion. In the earlier incident, she saw Maren and Red - who often don't get along - standing side by side with bare weapons against Sythe, whom Raine and Maren both like and trust - it didn't add up, so again she had cause for suspicion.
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Re: Comic for July 14, 2017: Carver's True Nature
Spoiler!
Spoiler!
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I see no real foreshadowing yet, just some unusual behaviors for a normal squirrel.As for Nibbly being a spy... I mean... Maybe? There was plenty of foreshadowing early on in her arrival, but after all this time, I think it would just be a bit silly. If she is though, does that mean we're going to have to sit through a squirrel redemption arc where Sythe learns to forgive her after she's released from the Templar's grasp?
Seriously though, I'm holding out hope that she just stays as an adorable sidekick, I just don't think she needs complicating.
If the barrier generator is inside, it would have to have some start delay for Carver to have set it and gotten out, or it would need some kind of remote activator/deactivator. Also, being inside would make it accessible to tampering by its prisoners (giving Carver one reason to distract them). Nibs' absence may may merely be her curiously following him out before delayed activation, or investigating the noise of setting up an external generator (Maren, held down by sleeping Raine and with her mere human ears wouldn't hear it, assuming she even stayed awake on watch).
I see no reason for Raine's sight to be unique, just perhaps a bit rare. She does have latent talent as well as loads of power, evidenced by accidentally teleporting the group (a short distance) while wearing the suppressing shackle. Since she manifests this apparent innate true-sight ability in keidran form while not possessing mana stones (both now and when Zen attacked), can we assume that Euchre's shape-shift also does not require mana stones to change to human?amenon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:54 pmNot spoilers for TDM:If Raine's ability is somehow unique, and not just very unusual / a manifestation of having absolute assloads of latent talent, then it's massively too convenient, both now, and earlier with Zen, and will require some kind of justification beyond 'the plot demanded it.' (Much like her's/Euchre's transformation ability. I guess if they are unique, they could at least be part of the same package.)
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Re: Comic for July 14, 2017: Carver's True Nature
I don't recall Euchre having a mana stone the one time we saw him use True Transformation in Raine's flashback...AmigaDragon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 26, 2017 6:01 amI see no reason for Raine's sight to be unique, just perhaps a bit rare. She does have latent talent as well as loads of power, evidenced by accidentally teleporting the group (a short distance) while wearing the suppressing shackle. Since she manifests this apparent innate true-sight ability in keidran form while not possessing mana stones (both now and when Zen attacked), can we assume that Euchre's shape-shift also does not require mana stones to change to human?amenon wrote: ↑Wed Jul 19, 2017 6:54 pmNot spoilers for TDM:If Raine's ability is somehow unique, and not just very unusual / a manifestation of having absolute assloads of latent talent, then it's massively too convenient, both now, and earlier with Zen, and will require some kind of justification beyond 'the plot demanded it.' (Much like her's/Euchre's transformation ability. I guess if they are unique, they could at least be part of the same package.)
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Re: Comic for July 19, 2017: Carver's True Nature
ok... but was that ever really expanded upon?Lordadmiral Drake wrote: ↑Thu Jul 20, 2017 9:38 pmWhy, the assassins guild of course. Zen and Natani were their most famous operatives, until Natani joined Group A and Zen was captured by Group B
cause again, i am trying my best to remember, and i don't remember much about that.
i suppose there is another comic out there that i somehow missed that explains the guild more?
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Re: Comic for July 19, 2017: Carver's True Nature
In the comic, not so much.
I think The Dragon Masquerade has more on that, but I haven't read that
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Re: Comic for July 19, 2017: Carver's True Nature
IIRC the "most famous" bit is mostly Zen and Natani blowing their own trumpets — look back to the time Natani was explaining to Keith the link he has with Zen. We've no idea what the rest of the guild really thought about the situation, but apparently it made a great pulling line in taverns...
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