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Grrl Power #1364 - Dungeon rules

Added 2025-06-12 10:00:08 +0000 UTC

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Ah, the most visually stunning comic page in the medium's storied history. You're welcome.

I'd say it's about even odds that Sciona is writing in Alar instead of English. I feel like I may have put some Alar writing on a wall panel or something on some page, but I don't recall what it looks like, so I can't say if it would be easier with a sharpie duct taped to a finger on your non-dominant hand. My alien writing tends to look suspiciously like whatever the last alien/fantasy script I saw, so if Alar text does appear in the comic, there's no telling what it looks like.

In Gnosticism, the demiurge is a flawed or even malevolent creator responsible for the material world. In this context, Scion (which will become the golem's fairly obvious alias) is using "demiurge" to mean a creator that creates a thing then steps away to let it run its course. Fire and forget, if you will. It's a theistic concept that attempts to explain creation, but also the perceived absenteeism of any divine force afterwards, and doesn't have to answer questions like "why is there evil," or "why aren't my prayers answered?" It's cause god fucked off to mess with his next project. Or maybe he died. Maybe the act of creation killed him and the universe as we know it is his corpse and we're all dancing in his rotting meats. Or maybe he ascended to the next tier. Maybe he descended. Doesn't matter. It seemed appropriate for Scion to label Sciona as his own personal Demiurge.