Prediction, by the way: The fourth Arkentool is the Arken-shaving-basin
Reasoning:Two of the Tools we’ve seen thus far (Hammer and Pliers) can be wielded as weapons, and very effective ones, even by those not attuned to them. So I’m guessing they’re all equippable. The Dish would make a very clumsy weapon, but could plausibly be a shield. So what kind of armament would that leave? Armor? It’s hard to make something that could function as armor, without actually being armor. But a helmet, now… Yeah, that could work. Like, the Golden Helmet of Mambrino.
If they go this route, of course, I expect that it’ll end up being Don King who attunes to it, which would make the whole (perceived) angle of Tools vs. Royals a bit more interesting.
Frankly, I think it quite astounding that Parson hasn’t yet asked on-panel what the fourth Arkentool is, and who’s known to have it. Were I a master tactician in a war where three of the four greatest artifacts were known to be involved, I’d think that’d be one of the first things I’d ask. Nor does it seem likely that Parson knows but it’s being kept from us, since he’s the identification character.
Apparently, the new format is going to be an “issue” of 25 pages in the standard webcomic format, followed by a few mostly-text pages in the Summer Update format, lather-rinse-repeat. That should combine the best of both approaches.
It’s a recap strip, unsurprisingly. However, Xin’s art is really pretty good. Some of the perspectives look maybe a little off to me – that wienerammer, and the Arkenpliers seem to have shrunk. But good.
I don’t see why not. Remember, this is a world that follows game logic, not Stupid-world logic. Croaked units can be decroaked. Cloth golems are units. Ergo, cloth golems can be decroaked. I mean, I’m pretty sure it’s possible for a Death Knight to reanimate golems in Warcraft III, and Animate Dead works on golems in Magic: the Gathering, and this would be no more weird than those.
I was thinking that golems don’t “pop”, and that all the unit types we’ve observed Wanda decrypting were types that would have popped. Golems are made, by whatever type of magic they are – as we’ve seen when Sizemore was making crap golems.
Ah, that would make sense, actually, consistent with the fact that decrypted, once killed, can’t be decrypted again. I was thinking more of the inorganic angle. But now I’m wondering about decrypted doombats, since apparently, those can be found in the wild and tamed.
Yeah, I’d think that doombats pop the same way that wienerammers or dwagons would pop in the wild, and should be valid targets for Wanda to decrypt.
I’m not sure if anyone but a Transylvitan would get any use out of a doombat, though – depends on if the remote viewing for scouting thing is a doombat special, or a Transylvito special ability.