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[ILOVEVHS]

Both. With just a smidgen of quantity.

[Uncle Ben]

Quality

If it takes awhile to get a good quality page out i dont mind

[Aizen90]

Quality, I love the sepia it works great for the flashback and the mood for what's about to occur.

[Uncle Ben]

How come it has been a month since the new page??

[chief]

Stephen says it is because of you.

Orr...Its cause of school. End of the college year for him so he is trying to wrap up a bunch of school projects.

Also..last I heard the next page is almost done, he is just tweaking a few final bits.

[Uncle Ben]

Stephen says it is because of you.

Very Funny..... I'll remember that next time we play the Adventure Map in MineCraft when he's surrounded by Blazes and other random Mobs

Orr...Its cause of school. End of the college year for him so he is trying to wrap up a bunch of school projects.

Also..last I heard the next page is almost done, he is just tweaking a few final bits.

That would explain a lot.

I was just wondering cause i just thought it was a bit unusual that there hasnt been an update in so long

[Captain Sorzo]

Stephen says it is because of you.

*Grabs torch and pitchfork and leads angry mob against Ben*

[Uncle Ben]

Stephen says it is because of you.

*Grabs torch and pitchfork and leads angry mob against Ben*

Or Take your pick

[ILOVEVHS]

Do I have to punish him again?

[Uncle Ben]

Do I have to punish him again?

Good luck...

[Lito290]

Punishment: 30 lashings with a wet noodle and neglect for 24 hours.
OR
You appologize.

[Uncle Ben]

Im sorry (i dunno how i cause a delay)

[Lito290]

I think you're good now

[Uncle Ben]

for now..

[Aizen90]

So, about today's page, (spoilers ahead of course if you haven't read it yet) It's an amazing page, one of the most interesting in terms of the story and one of the best looking pages, but there's a few things it confuses me on:

 

In the the third panel, if those are supposed to be the chaos emeralds why are there only five?

 

And in the 4th panel we have the time stones, deep power stones, the wind crystal. Lazars computer, and then...what are those two last rock looking things meant to be? I don't remember any other artifacts ever talked about in SatAM so far except for the chaos emeralds, but they don't look anything like the emeralds, so what are they supposed to be? Something new we can't be told about yet? Also, I count six objects there (if the power stones count as one together, same for the time stones), are these supposed to be the 'seven wonders of mobius', if so where's the seventh one?

[Alextendo]

It look like Nicole is in a drug trip...

[Captain Sorzo]

While we're speculating, it's important to consider the message on the scroll Knuckles gave Sally:

 

Chaos is Power.

Power Enriched by the Heart.

Power forged by the Fires of Time, shapeless as Wind and shifting as Water.

Power to enlighten. Power to be feared.

Power beyond Judgment.

Chaos is Power.

 

Sally notes at the start of Chapter 4 that the scroll refers to seven different kinds of power stemming from Chaos. The capitalization of the scroll's text presumably indicates what these kinds are. Heart, Time, Wind, Water, and Judgment are clearly among the seven. That leaves Power, Fires, and Enriched, one of which is not among the seven.

 

Power fits the syntactical format of the clear five, but the list refers to different kinds of power, so including power in general as part of the list makes little sense.

 

Fires is directly associated with Time, while Enriched is linked to Heart. Enriched is odd in that it is a verb, while the others are all nouns. Enrichment is also a more abstract concept than the others mentioned; it is difficult to conceive how it might be embodied.

 

Of the three in question, Fires seems the most likely to be one of the seven, leaving it down to Enrichment and Power.

 

When these eight things are compared to the items seen in today's page, a number of connections are obvious. Time corresponds to the Time Stones. Wind refers to the Wind Crystal. The Deep Power Stones could fit with Power, of course, but I can also see Heart working, given that they were largely a metaphor for inner strength.

 

Lazaar's computer doesn't have an obvious correlation with any of the eight. I can see Judgment arguably fitting, however, given that it was associated with evil and forbidden knowledge.

 

I suppose it's also possible that Chaos is one of the seven, with its representation being a conventional Chaos Emerald. The green object in today's page could be a roughly hewn one.

 

Yet another possibility is that the Deep Power Stones could embody two of the seven types, as they are drawn separately on today's page, while the Time Stones are drawn together. That could mean Power and Heart, but I'm starting to think that Power is not one of the seven. If the Deep Power Stones do represent two concepts, their opposing natures are likely the key. They are capable of incredible destruction, which would tie in strongest with Fires, though Judgment is arguably another possibility.

 

My current speculation is ultimately:

 

Chaos - Chaos Emerald

Judgment - Lazaar's Computer

Wind - Wind Crystal

Time - Time Stones

Fires - Deep Power Stones (Jagged configuration)

Heart - Deep Power Stones (Smooth configuration)

Water - Unknown greyed out object at the bottom center of the third panel

[scififry]

Water - Unknown greyed out object at the bottom center of the third panel

Isn't this object Queen Nicole? I'd say the shape fits and it kinda would make sense to have her standing at the center of it, hence "One myth, a thousand truths".

That's a pretty good observation, though.

[Captain Sorzo]

I was referring to the object below her, the one that roughly looks like an inverted triangle.

[Uncle Ben]

I was referring to the object below her, the one that roughly looks like an inverted triangle.

 

Its a piece of the Triforce