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edited 18th Sep '17 1:08:08 PM by Fighteer
I would have thought the obvious solution would be to ban him from ever leaving and giving every border crossing his description.
Followed quickly by getting him hooked up so a family and a job that pays OK... but, not quite OK enough to finance trips abroad would happen.
But, no... way too sensible.
" Ye've sent him on a trip! Ye've doomed us all! We should just tell 'im to come back before he reaches the border (of the dwarven lands) and never let 'im leave!"
"He would have left eventually, to get food or to go visit his uncle. It'd never work. If we put him in prison, he'd escape. But I know the Durkon Lad. He's so honorable and Lawful he'll never come back unless I send for him."
"May the gods have mercy on his poor damned soul."
"Wanna beer?"
"Don't mind if I do."
Slightly paraphrased, but you get the gist.
edited 11th Jul '13 12:57:06 PM by ATC
If you want any of my avatars, just Pm me I'd truly appreciate any avatar of a reptile sleeping in a Nice Hat Read Elmer Kelton books@infallibleliar: No, he was tricked to go on a journey away from home, with the dwarf that tricked him (the high priest, if I recall) having had a prophecy that Durkon would bring "death and destruction" when he returned.
Said high priest is now dead, and apparently never told anyone of the prophecy. As a result, Durkon was going to get to go home, but the messenger delivering that news (Miko) was waylaid by Xykon and co., and lost the letter. So...
Expergiscēre cras, medior quam hodie. (Awaken tomorrow, better than today.)![]()
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He's banned from ever coming home because of a prophecy foretelling that when next he returns home, he will bring death and destruction upon his people.
edited 11th Jul '13 1:13:36 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It was a legit prophecy from the highest priest of Thor. Thor, IIRC, corroborates this.
If you want any of my avatars, just Pm me I'd truly appreciate any avatar of a reptile sleeping in a Nice Hat Read Elmer Kelton booksAh. See that changes everything. This entire time I thought a priest sent him away on lies and that when he got the news he could come back as a corpse that was good. He gets his happy ending.
Now it seems like him coming home as a corpse is bad and he really doesn't get his happy ending.
And is his home the same dwarf place where the last gate is?
Does this comic have a map?
edited 11th Jul '13 1:40:29 PM by infalliableliar
Stop caring and embrace nullness.He got to die happy, though. Durkon never knew about the Priest of Odin - not Thor - and his prophecy. When they told him that he was going on a diplomatic mission to study humans, he took them at face value, and he's been convinced ever since that this fake mission is actually his purpose here.
Returning to the Dwarven Homelands as a vampire is certainly going to be gruesome and horrible, and fulfill the prophecy that was told of his return. But he got to die never knowing that.
edited 11th Jul '13 1:50:27 PM by TobiasDrake
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Also I should note that Durkon was never promised a happy ending. That was Elan's prophecy.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"And also the idea that Elan's happy ending has to mean a Golden Ending where everything is perfect for everyone has recently been Jossed, so what Elan's "happy ending" actually constitutes is up in the air right now.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.It's likely to be Nergal, just like Malack. The alignments would be compatible.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Are you referring to the illusion? That had nothing to do with the Oracle's prophecy.
"It's Occam's Shuriken! If the answer is elusive, never rule out ninjas!"Durkon's Oracle prophecy was that he would return home posthumously. He interpreted this to be a good thing, because that meant his body would be returned to his beloved homeland after he passed on rather than being left to wither away in human lands, but at no point was it actually promised to be a happy ending.
My Tumblr. Currently side-by-side liveblogging Digimon Adventure, sub vs dub.Word of God says that Durkula is, at least while under Malack's thrall, a non-theistic cleric
, presumably drawing his spells from the Negative Energy Plane.
Personally, my opinion is that Durkula, when Malack's hold breaks, will be the Durkon we always knew, only conflicted by horrible hunger and possibly rejected by Thor. Durkon's condition, coupled with the tormented-vampire cliché (tragically, even in death, Durkon cannot escape being generic) should be a rich font of comedy and Character Development. We have some hinting that vampires are free-willed but have compulsions from Haley's Imagine Spot, where she imagines Roy as a vampire when she finds his body missing after the siege of Azure City.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

No, but the prophecy could be double subverted for humour, tricking the reader into thinking that the prophecy did not mean what they thought it meant initially.