Ooookay…
Seriously, I have no idea.
Because of COURSE Durkon knows exactly who that is from that description and knows he’s fallen behind on some relationship status.
This is a man who takes family very seriously.
Me neither. I really wonder if this is Loki, and there’d better be a good reason why one of the Gods is choosing to violate their rules and attempt to settle things in person on the Prime.
Yeah, I don’t care for the update schedule either, but as you said, at least it’s consistent.
You suppose the mystery dwarf talks like that all the time? Or just while his eyes are glowing and he’s wielding his celestial light saber?
“YeS I wOuLd LiKe MoRe WafFlEs, PlEaSe!!”
Close enough approximation without getting obnoxious with board colors and fonts
I don’t think Durkan really knows who the guy is. Just that he’s NOT Thad.
Just be pleased that you weren’t a fan of Tales of Wyre. Updates degenerated to about once or twice a year. And people are still hoping for an update four years after the last one.
He doesn’t know who that is - he knows his cousin’s brother-in-law’s niece was dating a guy named Thad, and now she’s engaged to the mysterious super-dwarf.
An appearance by “Loki? Who’s Loki? No, I’m, um, Bob! Bob the Dwarf!” seems the most likely without a whole new character being created, plus we’ve got the wonky “chaotic” font and horned helmet. The question is, if it’s Loki, whether anybeing who matters would be fooled by such a transparent subterfuge. Mind you, Hel’s already gotten directly involved in this fight so who knows what the rules are…
ETA: Although the other dwarves seem to know who this is…
Pretty sure thats just a one off joke character.
Loki’s already meddling by steering Hilgya to the Order. I really doubt he’s going to send some literal avatar to directly oppose Hel.
That’s the feeling I got. Burlew is lampshading the way he’s introduced similar characters at other points in the story.
Agreed. Plus it’s another way to show how family centric most dwarves are.
Sure, but that’s what they said about Bugsby’s Cat-Retrieving Hand too.
How does Durkon know that’s not Thad? He’s been keeping up with the family via Sending spells, which only give words, and not very many of them.
Oh, and kudos to the Giant for a relationship-chain that doesn’t trivially simplify. Usually, people end up saying things like “cousin’s brother” or “brother’s uncle”.
And I don’t see how an ally with a weird glowy sword who can one-shot greater elementals can be just a one-off joke character. But on the other hand, he’s tough to figure out as a D&D character: Someone wielding a sword made out of magic is probably either a soulknife or an incarnate, and I can’t see him bringing either of those classes into the main strip as anything but a punchline about how weak they are.
If it was a normal speech balloon, ok, just another weird family member. The speech balloon, and the power of the character (though note, he’s running away from the LDW, after shaking Durkon’s hand) makes me wonder what else is going on. The letters in the balloon look similar to, but obviously aren’t, the runes in the lobster thing’ balloon that Greg summoned in the pyramid.
LOL, if it was a shape changed Celia, after a few levels of adventuring.
Presumably because he’s met Thad before his exile.
The guy actually didn’t one-shot the elemental; more like just finished it off. That elemental had already taken hits from three or four dwarves plus the Flamestrike from Hilgya.
Obviously a Force Awakens reference, with the helmet and crossed ‘lightsaber’. But I don’t get it at all.
ETA: his look kind of says “paladin” to me: blue accents theme, cape.
Isn’t it more that he’s running to the second elemental?
He reminds me a bit of the two powerful characters Durkon brought to the party, to be rejected sight unseen by Roy in favor of the other members of the Order-to-be, in* On the Origin of PCs.*
In other words, a generic high-level character. There are plenty of them in the Stickworld, all busy with their own adventures.