Intermission 8 Page 34
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“And then, one day, after decades of service, the Emperor called for me by name.”
“One of his Champions had recently aged out of the position.”
“He was looking for a replacement.”
“He’d heard that I’d never failed an assignment.”
“He offered me the job.”
“And just like that, I had everything.”
“Everything I’d ever wanted and worked for.”
…Then, everything changed when the fire nation attacked.
… if anything, then “the Empire” IS the fire nation.
Also, before anyone asks: yes, this is (the outfit and) the sword that was in the Ko-Fi Gallery of Kamau’s prologue.
I really hope the Sentiment (which makes him hold onto the hilt, no matter what) is (more) about him positively remembering being happy with his family/on top of the world and not about him reminiscing slaughtering whatever and whoever was put in front of him.
Then again, to be fair, he still is pretty much slaughtering (or at least keeps us from being slaughtered by them) anyone we put in front of him, so it might be a tad hypocrite to be picky about who he killed in his past.
Yeah, that’s fair. It’s just that the end of this page immediately made me think of that line, so I listened to the intrusive thoughts and posted it, even if it doesn’t make much sense 😛
He doesn’t slaughter just ANYONE we put in front of him, only mindless animals/undead. To alive sentient creatures we kept a “no-kill” policy so far.
Fair enough.
Thanks for reminding me of this, even if it is just in narration, no difference game-mechanics-wise.
Previous champion “aged” out of his position. That implies that nothing can really threaten a champion outside of other champions.
That child didnt age a lot for “decades”
Presumably the decades were mostly before this.
Yeah, this. It took him a few years after goblin camp to get each promotion, and that hadn’t been his first mission. He joined up as soon as he was old enough. He was probably at least a decade in by the time he had a kid.
From the way she looks, I’d say she’s ~4-8 in this picture. So if he had her 12-16 years in that’d be about right.