9/23/2024
Due to family medical issues, Requiem is on indefinite hiatus.
An elderly family member of ours took a bad fall on Labor Day night, and we’ve been dealing with the aftermath ever since. Hopefully, things will get sorted out, but as of right now, doing a daily comic is not something my schedule can allow.
Sorry to have this happen, but as everyone knows, real life comes first….and at least we don’t have too many running storylines on the backburner.
Thorondor “Ian” Caladharas is the 18 year old heir to one of the first of the Merchant Houses. An intelligent, independent teenager; Ian has a tendency towards irreverence and and frustration. In all honesty, he doesn’t care what his grandfather says he is heir to, he just wants to have a normal life. Or at least as normal a one as possible. (As my skills improved I made some revamps to this characters appearance to reflect aging and such as well. The top picture is how he is currently modeled. )
I know it’s a bit cheating to be speculating after having read to where we left off, but I just had a nasty thought. What if this was the work of Marcus Vale? The guy knows more than he ever let on. Maybe he was trying to eliminate Bellisarius by starting the war early. I admit that I have no proof, just a hunch. The House Accords essentially set things up for a second House war. Maybe to finish what he wasn’t able to get finished in the first. After all, assassinating Bellisarius would’ve started the House war that was already brewing. Kicking it off and blaming it on House Bellisarius would give everyone a nice, tidy, morally justified reason to kill him. With what goes on with House Vale in Silence, it makes a weird sort of sense that Marcus Vale knows things that the rest of the cast doesn’t and that he’s willing to take unilateral action without consulting anyone else.
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