2014-04-07, 02:51 PM
Grey Wrote:Iona disappeared, and is probably completely out of Darmoa's reach, being in a place only light can reach or some other poetic babble like that.
Darmoa might have the power of two transcendents, but we don't know what that means other than this violation of natural order happens to tear holes between dimensions, at least between Maple World and Grandis. We don't know what Darmoa intends to do, all we know about him is that he survived the genocide of his people, awakened as the transcedent of life and snapped, and began to conquer Grandis (probably in a twisted desire to preserve life). For all we know, he cares little of Maple World. Presumably, he also has big plans, though, otherwise, he probably wouldn't have attacked Chronica.
We know that the Black Mage definitely has plans for both worlds, to merge them and to control the other transcedents of the unified world; he even has a candidate in mind for the new transcedent of life, so either he can manipulate Alice or Darmoa, or he's planning on getting rid of the two of them so he can install someone who's already loyal to him. (Can anyone become a transcedent, or must you be marked with the potential at birth?)
Darmoa's powers seem impressive, but he reeks of being a pawn, even if unwittingly. It's completely insular of me to say this, but: he's powerful, yes, but he isn't currently a direct threat to Maple World.
In regards to similarity, they both awakened as transcendents before possibly turning completely away from their domains, the Black Mage from light to darkness, Darmoa from life to death (this is just me presuming that conquering a dimension causes a lot of collateral damage). They both attacked the transcendents of time of their respective worlds. Both were pretty successful, but Rhinne managed to birth a new transcendent of time that escaped the Black Mage. Chronica wasn't so lucky, I would assume, given that one transcendent actually possessing the power of another is what causes the rip between the two worlds, so I doubt Chronica could pull a Rhinne and pass their power onto a successor to keep the power away from Darmoa.
I agree with everything you said except Darmoa being a pawn. I thik Darmoa began messing with Maple World even BEFORE the Black Mage went bad. Afterall he sent Magnus to steal power from Maple World. If it went like it was said, Guwarus previous life power also belongs to Darmoa.
And does anyone know if every other commander/previous commander will get the web comic treatment? I would love me some Hilla story. Trade it all for beauty seems too bland, would like to see more to it.