For once, I’m with the audience. I’m questioning why she’s letting him be a knight now.

"I am the Lorax, I speak for the Trees.
Stop disrespecting Luna, or a break your knees."

p.s. Truth is, I get it. But we gotta have faith. If we could see their potential, we might choose them too. Especially since everyone else she's chosen has ended up dead so far. Let the degenerates try to save the world.

Heh. Sounds good.

Faith has gotten a large part of their world covered in evil- I'm fairly certain I'd rather Results.

Considering the leader of the chaos has lost his faith and kills the faith others have? I question the validity of your statement. Anyway...
One way, they fail and the realm is down a few troublemakers.
Another way, they succeed and the chaos is gone.
Results both ways.
You lack faith. :3

Because thats how the story was planned out,

And i am curious for their struggles.

Not seeing what she sees me knows this feelies of sorts.

determination?

That thing with having a vision and having to rely on their faith due to them not sharing the vision

YES! THAT'S IT!!!!
Finally someone with a brain and comprehension of storytelling

thank you ^^

Because Luna sees the potential Nigel has, and believes that the one-two punch of blindness and becoming a Knight will be such a shock that it will lead him to break free from his grudges, and allow him to become what he could be. And, in the process, help the others to save them all from Chaos.

"I suspect she is high on narcotics"

Warp dust. Not even once.

Because she needs every meat shield she can throw against the grinder that is the chaos invasion.

A magical, talking, talking tree with vast powers simply works in mysterious ways.

Luna be like Speedruning The Lost Of Faith In Me any% Current World Record.

Truly, i curious how this all plays out

I kinda expected this to happen and I'm still equally as confused and wondering wtf she doing lol

How does the crowd already know about Nigel's attempts at stealing one of the scarves from the temple? That was less than a day ago. News like that can't possible fly around that fast.

I mean it's a relatively small village, and what he did amouted to something like blasphemy, these sort of things become gossip very fast.

The guards that captured him would've been the first ones to chat about it during break or after their work period ended.

And given that The Tree seems to not favour long working hours for her servents, I'd imagine there would've been plenty of time passing since the guards shifts ende for rumours and news to spread.

Bad gas travels fast in a small town

Biiig Mic drop

Hehehe everyone's loosing their shit. xD This is going to be so awesome to see how these newly knighted knights deal with the great responsibility of saving their world. ^^ Especially given their initial "shortcomings" like lack of sight, size, shyness and so on. I think the whole idea here is that chaos cannot be beaten with violence and strength because that's where the chaos is the strongest but in other attributes it might be lacking quite a bit which is where these "unusual" knights come in with their unique characteristics to attack those exact weakspots. ^^ I look forward to see where this is going. =)

I see this, it's an adventuring party. They all have their strong sides, working together they will win.

Leader, fighter, alchemist, thief, assassin. And most of all, they all have a heart of gold, some a bit stained and they all need to learn a lot. But the original guardians were all similar to these guys just further in their personal progress.

I bet all the previous guardians all had these kinds of personal struggles, but due to it being relatively quiet in those times, they had the time to work on them uninterrupted.
Now, they need to do this, they have to learn on the way.

I KNEW it! he's already been taken down several pegs by being disenfranchised, and robbing him of his sight knocked a few more off. whatever the evil is that Ra'Jhan's pulling is must need commoner power to conk him on the skullface a good one.

Well, the peoples reaction was SO predictable...

But i TOTALLY wanna see Nigels reaction now!

Although I have some doubts about whether blinding him would be helpful as a knight, I am certain there is some meaning behind the decision, cause sending a blind person on a quest like this isn't the most logical of decisions. He may be able to regain his sight later on thanks to Luna, or some other factor that comes into play later on. Regardless I am very interested to see what happens next.

The neat part is that it is neither a punishment nor a reward, as the person asking asked. It says so much about the state of things that the public believes that this is an honorific position and not one that is essentially sacrificial, considering what they are supposed to be up against. Also find it quite funny Nigel finally got what he wanted, but it's clear the position doesn't exactly seem to be on his mind now, also glad to see Toby to, clearly he's not exactly all smiles when it comes to Nigel's condition. As for Tristan, you'll see your worth soon buddy, just give it some time.

Watching how the characters' expressions and responses change through this entire scene is also very enjoyable to watch.

I would guess even Leo and Lynus starts to have some doubt at this point... Gotta bet the firsts knights doesn't seem anymore so unfitting as candidates... The only one sincerelly worried about the beggard seem to be his little brother, who may had deserved a spot in the team too, seem like knight material to me...

Man I love your storytelling :D now I really wanna see the next page!
Then again I have been saying that yo myself for every page

Its pretty clear to me that the Tree gave him a gift, not a curse. That him seeing with his eyes was not the point, that there's either some kind of magical talent, or innate tendency for him to be able to see differently, through magic somehow that would let him be a valuable key to what goes into it. Blindness is often stated to amplify other senses, even though there's little scientific evidence for that claim, its often very played with in fiction. Daredevil is a great example of this, the accident that made him lose his eyesight gave him hearing so great he could hear heartbeats from hundreds of feet away. I'd bet that this is going to lead to him getting some valuable trait that will make him eventually figure out that normal eyesight wasn't necessary for him to become worthy.

As for what form that would take, that I'm at a loss on.

I saw this coming and I know that it will work out in the story, but the audience is sounding much like the public on social media when enraged by rich people.

I had a thought; I don't think we should 100% trust Luna. Yes she has been portrayed as this angelic figure but she is the "Tree of Life." And while life itself can be good for some it can also be cruel.


We have phrases like "life is unfair" and "life's a bitch" for a reason. Also life is in itself a chaotic thing so she might be somehow linked to the chaos. Obviously its not all bad as we do have 'life is good" as a counter.


While I don't think Luna is secretly evil, I also don't think she is entirely good either.


I'm probably wrong on this but I'd still view Luna with some caution.

I kinda want Luna to give the audience a kind of…look to shut them up instantly. Kinda like ‘You do remember who you’re shouting at, right?’

Is is a punishment. As a knight, you're gonna be sent on suicide missions over and over.
You either vastly improve yourself, or you die.

is this even wise at this point?

I foresee all hell breaking loose soon.

Two children of the Goddess who received the status "by pull" and not by talent, two criminals straight from prison, besides, one of them is a cabbage dwarf, and another one is generally blind. In principle, I can understand why the inhabitants of this world are "a little annoyed" ^3^. They looks like heralds of the end times. :3

Considering Alexander maybe in a critical state, and Luna is likely the last of the Gods, that maybe the point.

It IS the end times... As Luna is Next on Rah'Jan's list.

At least from the perspective of the crowd, this is almost certainly accurate.

It is very much the end times, and they are indeed its heralds, but I will dissent: Mira and Chili definitely have inherent talent and are not Knights by mere status or proximity to Luna. What they lack is skill and discipline and experience, having had things relatively easy. I expect many failures and near-misses before they get it right.

Leo is Leo. He likes to hit things. Really hard. Not exactly Knight material from the crowd's perspective, but his heart is in the right place at least.

Tristan is one thousand percent the Heart of the group, or prospectively will be. I see him as a meeker variation on a Robin Hood archetype.

Nigel is a complex mess. A prospective Seer (the blindness, temporary or otherwise, is delicious irony in so many ways) whose abilities will be essential if he can get his head out of his own arse and learn a touch of humility and compassion.

Thats true, just I meant how it looks from other people ^3^

Oooo the lighting~

Anyone get the feeling Nigel is going to tell them to "Shut the Hell up and actually Do something" to the audience? I mean, they basically are throwing double-sided comments that both Insult and Pity Nigel, and are basically throwing Slurs at Luna.

Remember, Nigel hates the cards he was given, yet also hates being Pitied, it is why he acts so abrasive... Yes, He is a bloody paradox, but what else has he got?

That being said, I feel he is going to mouth off at Luna immediately afterwards... And do so while pointing the wrong way because he is blind.

Well this is logical, since any other traditional approach failed. But, no offence, it's kinda vanilla trope to me, like any other typical team of goofballs on their way to defeat unstoppable forces of evil because all pros were wiped out effortlessly... yeah.
Honestly, I humbly hoping that all of this is a secret plan of Mr.Chaos - break your counterpart's morale, then trick them to make the final mistake by their own hands. Would be way more interesting to watch how they gonna reverse that kind of disaster.

This must be a joke, didn't the Tree of Life told him he can't be a knight? I am confused what is going on now?

From what I understood, she always wanted him to be a guardian. He seems to have some real powers (maybe clayorance) because of how Luna was talking about how his nightmares weren't just nightnames. Problem is that she screwed him over by not doing anything to mediate his situation with his parents and simply allowed him to live on the streets as a little kid, despite the fact that she did play favorites and picked someone to raise as a daughter on her own.

She simply ran out of time expecting Nigel to because altruist on his own and is forcing the role on him regardless of his current mentality

“The tasks you will undertake are perilous, suicidal. You will die. The council will have their corpse.”

-Prophet of Mercy: Halo 2

And I’m sensing she will either snap to silence the crowd or simply walk away from the disdain.

Tree… what are you doing??

Ahh the exotic chaotic breakfast Club.

Miracle - The Prep/spoiled kid
Leo - The Jock
Chilli - The Nerd
Tristan - The Socially awkward kid
Nigel - The Delinquent

Lmao


This will be one hell of an adventure and coming of age story for sure. Because for the good of the people this rag tag group of mismatched and opposing personalities will need to come together the vanquish chaos and their forces.

I'm not going to claim to know the Luna's intentions not outright agree with them. But an effort is better than silent abstinence and letting chaos roll offer everything. The outcry right now will be large but I'm sure the end goal will be a blessing.

And Now I can't help image a Mentor Character coming in, Humbling Nigel with a fist to the gut and then Telling him that he's "a Gutless Turd!" Fun times are ahead Folks :D

Nigel maybe what he is now, But I think Luna knows what she is doing. And seeing Nigel's backstory and now, all I see is pain in him.

Regardless of whether the Tree's choices will eventually be proven to be justified, she needs to be able to offer at least some explanation for them now. From the in-universe people's perspective, these choices are insane.

Well, theres the expected reaction. I still hold my bet chaos will be attracted to the crowds anger and attack this place like a homing beacon was placed. Whether or not luna will have planned the deaths to force piety, while i dont doubt it could be, i still hope is not rajhans secret truth about her.

Am I the only one who feels like the people have forgotten something VERY important? Or is it just me cause calling him a heretic sounds very... Fanatical and Cultish as fuck!

I know she's all sweet and caring, but sometimes ya just gotta smite a mother fucker.

Well, all this was expected.

Personally, my bet for the next:
After a particularly virulent diatribe, Luna slaps Nigel (the kind of thing that only happens once by century) and replicate:
"Shut the fuck up! You already blind enough before I did it. You had everything you needed to become a Guardian, but you couldn't see it and your miss it. So if you want to see again, you'll have to do it like a true one: you'll have to see with your heart. Now, get in the line with the others Knight!"
*and after that, Luna come back to a sweety voice in front of a very quiet audience*

The irony of calling someone a heretic while openly questioning the decision of THE Goddess.

Yeah, it was obvious that the public was going to react that way after Nigel's knighting, I mean, who wouldn't? I'm already very curious to see how the rest of the team will take it; this is very interesting.

Why do I have the feeling that Nigel is going to reject his role as a knight out of spite against Luna?

The Tree of Life has already stated that she has foreseen who would become Knights. She knows and has known the internal strength each of the new Knights possess. What she sees is not something that others can easily see. She tried to guide Nigel from a very small age, she knew then his potential. He was unwilling/unable to see it himself so she had to 'speed up' that process.

Now all that is left is to see if the Tree of Life's visions and decision are correct. The die has been cased and rolled.

Totally looking forward to the next few pages!

Will she pull out a big convincing argument?
Will she face the warth of the crowd?
Will this wrath of the crown be showed unto the backburner while our ragtag of misfits are showed into the next part of the adventure?

Regardless, I am looking forward to see where stuff goes.

A trait of good character writing is making characters beleiveable, and oh boy is The Tree scoring on the unpopularity points in the story and in the audience.

I love her, and I love how you have written the characters so far!!!

You are doing a great job!

Half expecting the stage paring open with plenty of smoke and lights as our main villain rises up on a platform like, "DO I SMELL CHAOS!? "

Things are getting intense!

Everyone has a role to play in the final part of the story whether it be a big part or small. She has chosen them for a reason and it must be because they have a big part to play yet in this story. There is no way to know what she has seen in them all yet but she made the choices with what she had seen. I'm anxious to see what happens next and how all of their fates will play a part in what is to come. I'm excited to see what happens next.

I do know when Tristan got his place I knew deep down why as there is no more pure and honorable heart than his. He has a heart of gold and a lot of strength in that heart to turn out as wonderful as he has with how hard his life has been.

But much like Tristan there is a reason why each of them were chosen and maybe we do not know all of the reasons fully just yet. But that's what makes for a compelling story is you do not know what is going to happen or fully why yet....but you want to keep reading as you feel compelled to find out. That is great writing when you can achieve that.

Rowdy bunch aren't they?

Okay iether he going to refuse now for she did or he going to be the first to join chaos.

Luna ma lady I’m sure you have a game plan but you really gotta work on your PR skills

And Finally we're here! And its clear everyone is Pissed! Rightfully so. But you can tell that this might be necessary. I mean who doesn't want to see food being thrown by this point! :D

I CAN'T BELIEVE I'm saying this; but This is 1 decision of hers I DO QUESTION!!!

The story must be good, if so many discuss the intention and logic behind this knighthood. Where as others might simply think, yep this is pretty much a dope DnD adventure group!

I don't have nearly enough popcorn for this.

I feel like those present have no idea what it really means to be a knight of life >:U

I'm assuming that the tree's response to the crowd would be something along the lines of "these are the only ones we have left"

[Everyone hated that]

Here it comes...

oh the anteci... ....pation.. on whatever the tree will say next that may or may not bring light to those choices.

maybe it is a great potential others can not see... maybe it is potential without direction, and thus direction was given....

..or maybe the tree saw a glimpse of the future, with them working as one, yet the path to get there is more faith then far sight.

Maybe the world wouldn't be in as much danger if the people had a bit more faith in their dieties.

Poor Luna is keeping a brave face despite how much this must be tearing her up on the inside.

Still waiting for the chaos guy to pop up Hades style, leaning against something and saying "how sentimental...." lol

Sounds more like a humiliation, granting a rank of knight to Nigel like this, after all what happened to him

I find it awful that they never seemed to have blamed Nigel’s parents for turning Nigel into a homeless troublemaker.

I still hope Nigel has the best ending, and his parents end up suffering for what happened to him. And I hope Toby has a chance to talk to Nigel, even if Nigel doesn’t want to talk to him.

How to spur others into action, make all of your actions so questionable they have to do something.

Not sure if Nigel will stay in shock or go on a tirade against the Tree or the crowd. Any of the three seem likely.

It just might be a punishment. It just might be!

If you genuinely think this, you haven't been paying attention to the story.

I don't XD But she is clearly gathering up her crack team to go on a dangerous quest.

Heh, Indeed! A Quest to Save the World! "By the way, everyone will hate you and doubt you and I probably won't be around to help you after today. Also, Nigel, your 'nightmare' was far more prophetic than you realize and you should all probably start running."

"And while your at it here's this ring, go drop it in a volcano while your at it!*

Gotta love how these random a-holes think they know better than the actual embodiment of nature.

It's said that gods work in mysterious ways.
But I assume they mostly have no clue what they do either. XD

Probably the most undeserving out of all the chosen few.

Imagine being one of the other guardians, training your whole life and devoting yourself to the service, and then when the call for this extra special role goes out, you watch Luna promote the ones she personally cared for and then two criminals completely uninvolved in the organization.

I'm enjoying the story and curious where it's going, but there were probably better ways to get the main characters involved with each other besides "fate says so."

Oh dear let the riot commence I guess

Well... since he's blind, he's hearing... everything.

If there was an actual god in front of me I'm not sure I'd be so quick to second guess her decisions.

I haven't had a chance to read your comic, but I see your work around and I love all the different animals in your designs. It's always fun to see a new page.

Hmmmmmmmm.

Hmmm something tells me she is playing 4D chesses and this is a highly strategic move...at least I hope so

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