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Yeah well, she can keep her light up in *natural* darkness, but this one here is *magical* darkness. It's darkness that defies the laws of physics, and persists in being dark in spite of whatever light source you may attempt to bring into it.
One can only shudder at the thought of who might have deliberately created this magical darkness, and for what purpose. What are they trying to hide?
Looking at the swirly edge of the darkness in panel 1, for example, I'm inclined to think you're right. :-P It's a particularly dark variant of peanut butter -- maybe it has a high concentration of chocolate, and ramen in black soup, probably black bean soup. :-D
My personal theory is that Marblegate, i.e., the gate itself, is a portal to some other plane where the dungeon actually exists. When the portal disappears, it could just have been moved back to its home plane... or to a different world to lure different people in.
Good question! I can't say, but what I can say is Lurker is mostly correct.
It's known to the mages who study the Gate that the "inside" of Marblegate isn't underground; it's in its own dimensional space. More on that in some unspecified future chapter!
Colleen said she can keep up the magical light without any strain on her - but does that qualify as training when she keeps it up all night as well?
And seriously I wouldn't call that a bad decision to keep it on in a lightless basement while she is resting. In case of emergencies she doesn't have to search for her weapons and stuff in the darkness.
Aside from that it is much safer than a candle - seeing that the entire cellar is furnished with wood.
Yup! In this world, mortals aren't meant to channel the powers of gods through them; so the ones that can have to slowly get used to it.
The more comfortable with channeling the powers of an immortal god through their mortal body they get, the less likely clerics are to be overwhelmed by the divine power and explode into featureless piles of gore.
Melting from tapping into too much power...
I was thinking of a comparison other than the ark.
Here's a hint:
"No... No!
Not yet!
I won't die!
NGAHHHHHHHH!!!
I WON'T DIE!
I WON'T DIE!
I WON'T DIE!
I WON'T-"
I hope someone gets this.
... isn't it amazingly careless and stupid NOT to be afraid and careful of the dark in extremely hostile territory, where there are both enemies, traps and dangerous terrain and environment?
One way to look at it? Isn't it the "maybe succeed and avoid dying horribly" way to look at it? But of course, Randulf seems to not really care, so... he might want to start caring and stop whining :).
Also, Yai Aniversary
Im Sorry My Little Girl, but: Here, There be Dragons...
-And a lot of Actual tangible Evil Stuff-
Reading back, she did say she can keep the lighting up without problem.
One can only shudder at the thought of who might have deliberately created this magical darkness, and for what purpose. What are they trying to hide?
And yes, she can keep her light going more or less indefinitely, even when she's not paying attention.
It's known to the mages who study the Gate that the "inside" of Marblegate isn't underground; it's in its own dimensional space. More on that in some unspecified future chapter!
And seriously I wouldn't call that a bad decision to keep it on in a lightless basement while she is resting. In case of emergencies she doesn't have to search for her weapons and stuff in the darkness.
Aside from that it is much safer than a candle - seeing that the entire cellar is furnished with wood.
The more comfortable with channeling the powers of an immortal god through their mortal body they get, the less likely clerics are to be overwhelmed by the divine power and explode into featureless piles of gore.
I was thinking of a comparison other than the ark.
Here's a hint:
"No... No!
Not yet!
I won't die!
NGAHHHHHHHH!!!
I WON'T DIE!
I WON'T DIE!
I WON'T DIE!
I WON'T-"
I hope someone gets this.
Forever.
and Ever.
And Ever.
Ever
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