History Headscratchers / ErfWorld

** Can I get a CompletelyMissingThePoint? The fact that the Arkenpliers allow her to do that ''is precisely why everyone is so worried.'' It goes against every rule in Erfworld.

* Parson spends a significant amount of time in the first book wondering just how much free will anyone has in Erfworld. Then comes the second book: Wanda has a cool new tool that lets her resurrect a croaked unit. The unit is 100% loyal to her, even if it was formerly an enemy warlord. Can I get a BrokenAesop?

** [[http://www.erfworld.com/2011/03/book-2-%E2%80%93-text-updates-043/ Here]] Jillian discovers some of them as part of the garrison in one of the citys Gobwin Knob captured in the timeskip.

* In TBFGK page 5, Wanda mentions that Gobwin Knob only has less than two hundred living men remaining among their forces to advance as warlord. And yet... not only are none of these ever seen, but apart from Stanley, Maggie, Sizemore, Wanda, Jack and Misty, ''no'' humans are ever seen among Gobwin Knob's forces. Even Stanley's personal knights are exclusively hobgobwins. And Stanley's later suggestion of demoting and replacing Parson doesn't lead to any indication of where any other warlord would have actually come from. So [[WhatHappenedToTheMouse what happened to their other human forces]]?

** It may be that the garrison can be relocated to different city zones.

*** Since part of Haggar's plan was to have their column operate under the pretense of being just too far enough away to help, it could be that some of the column didn't have the move to engage the Gobwin Knob column was their hand was forced.

* During the LastStand in Gobwins Knob "everything but the dungeon" was wrecked and the whole surface part of the fortress was taken over. Shouldn't that have counted as the garrison falling?

* During the LastStand in Gobwins Know "everything but the dungeon" was wrecked and the whole surface part of the fortress was taken over. Shouldn't that have counted as the garrison falling?

* During the LAstStand in Gobwins Know "everything but the dungeon" was wrecked and the whole surface part of the fortress was taken over. Shouldn't that have counted as the garrison falling?

** Because he's the best they've got, and willing to notice other paths than combat to boot, as all of Slately's other sons seemed to have done. He(Slately) was actually surprised, on reflection, to realize that Tramennis had been more effective than all of his previous heirs. Also, nobody not on Gobwin Knob's side (and even a few who were - see Ossomer's expression during, um, "Phase Number Two") saw the "food fight" coming except for Charlie, so that's a little unfair. Furthermore, it wouldn't be possible for them to "pull the same trickery that got Ansom", as Tram put it, and in their situation it would be very difficult to mount any sort of counter-attack (Jack's plan only consisted of "fight until opportunity arises, then cut losses and escape").

* Why does Slately come to see Tramennis as his most worthy son after the Atrium disaster? I mean, Tramennis is a great guy, but the only reason Jetstone's in their now-hopeless situation is because the Prince insisted on a parley, against the objections of the King, even knowing full well that Parson is willing to violate a truce. That colossal military blunder doesn't really recommend Tramennis as a leader.

* Why does Slately come to see Tramennis as his most worthy son after the Atrium disaster? I mean, Tramennis is a great guy, but the only reason Jetstone's in their now-hopeless is because the Prince insisted on a parley, against the objections of the King, even knowing full well that Parson is willing to violate a truce. That colossal military blunder doesn't really recommend Tramennis as a leader.

** He doesn't care about the name. He's focused on the stats. It's kind of like how in real life, a lot of gamers, particularly strategy gamers or ones focused on numbers won't even both looking at the name, but will instead look right at the stats first. I know I've done this while playing a lot of RPG games - first thing I look at is stats. Stanley just simply doesn't bother looking at names, because he ''doesn't care'' about their names.

* Why does Stanley have such a hard time remembering names? Isn't it stated that leaders (and parson with the glasses) can see unit stats, including the name? When Parson looks [[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F108.jpg at Jack ]] with the glasses (through a thinkagram no less) he can clearly see the name.

* Why does Stanley have such a hard time remembering names? Isn't it stated that leaders (and parson with the glasses) can see unit stats, including the name? When Parson looks[[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F108.jpg at Jack ]] with the glasses (through a thinkagram no less) he can clearly see the name.

* Why does Stanley have such a hard time remembering names? Isn't it stated that leaders (and parson with the glasses) can see unit stats, including the name? When Parson looks[[http://www.erfworld.com/book-1-archive/?px=%2F108.jpg at Jack]] with the glasses (through a thinkagram no less) he can clearly see the name.

** A recent text update has King Slately musing that if one good thing has come of Unaroyal, its that Don King has once again seen the importance of royalty. So he was definitely aware that they didn't really take it seriously.

** Probably. At least Amson, whose (best?) friend is a Transylvito's chief who is very unformal and openly criticized him after the Prince ranted about the Royalty superiority.

* Were Jetstone and the other coalition members ever aware of the fact that Transylvito was in the process of essentially throwing out its own Royalty system?

*** I actually prefer the text updates, because they can show things in a manner than the comic itself cannot, i.e. characters' internal thoughts and impressions, background information, alternate viewpoints, etc. The comic provides one view of the story and the setting, while the text updates provide a different perspective that would be missing without them.

* Wasn't Haggar supposed to have a "massive column of heavies and infantry" strong enough to [[spoiler:capture Jetstone's capital once Gobwin Knob and Jetstone finished beating the hell out of each other?]] And all of a sudden Haggar's forces "can't expect to beat" the dregs of Gobwin Knob's strike force?

*** I disagree entirely. You can't skip things in this story. Almost every detail given is important to the setting. Just as one couldn't just skip the Parson's Klog pages (Which bugged me a lot less for some reason, possibly because at least there it was in-character) in the first book, one can't really skip these and still have a full understanding of what's going on... The plot would likely rely on them, turning it into an [[AllThereInTheManual All There In The Manual]] moment. I just wish that this information was being put forth more organically in the style of the story.

*** I disagree entirely. You can't skip things in this story. Almost every detail given is important to the setting. Just as one couldn't just skip the Parson's Klog pages (Which bugged me a lot less for some reason, possibly because at least there it was in-character) in the first book, one can't really skip these and still have a full understanding of what's going on... The plot would likely rely on them, turning it into an [[AllThereInTheManual]] moment. I just wish that this information was being put forth more organically in the style of the story.

** You could always...not read the text updates. Its not like they're that critical to the story.

* I know this is going to sound overly cruel, but it bothers me anyway. Does anyone remember when this was a COMIC, rather than a novel with occasional comic pages? I'd be fine with it if it chose either style, but it seems schizophrenic when it tries to keep two sides of the plotline going in different writing styles. It almost feels like one isn't reading a single work anymore.

**The actual wording used was that it would ''literally'' empty the treasury. However, the spell is also ''technically'' 350,000. They didn't pay for the support plan. That gives them 150,000 smuckers to work with. Even the upkeep of the Archons are stated to be around 200-500 smuckers. Parson's upkeep, which is [[MemeticMutation over one-thousaaaaaand]] was considered to be quite high. Decrypted units (and possibly uncroaked and/or low-level units) have a zero smucker upkeep. Consuming provisions also reduces upkeep (as you then do not need to pay for food for that unit. So, it's reasonable that they could afford everything with the remainder of the treasury. [[spoiler: And after Book 1, Gobwin Knob doesn't have to worry about smuckers as much.]]