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. )
Julia Wells, significant other of Ian Caladharas. Julia co runs the Wells Hotel in Erech’s Clocktower District. For those people who have rpg’d in this world: The Wells Hotel is now known as Cytheron’s. Julia and Ian tied the knot in the City of Greyrest in the Crossing Territories.
Did Thorongil Caladharas make it away from Starfall? Probably. Did he make it through the Mist? No one knows. I don’t think anyone will ever know.
It’s known that the Mist tears apart any iron structure. I gotta wonder, what does the Mist do to hemoglobin? A human body contains about 4 grams of iron in the blood and in other tissues.
Never saw the movie, but that scene is on YouTube, so I watched it. It stretched my willing-disbelief beyond breaking. Magneto was cool, he’s got a magnetic superpower, I can believe that. But he extracted enough iron from that guard’s blood to make three 1-inch iron balls which he used as projectiles. A 1-inch iron ball weighs 68 grams; three of them is 204 grams, 50 times what a man normally carries. Even if somebody pumped iron into the guard beforehand, that much iron would kill him. Even if the iron was in the form of hemoglobin, it would make his blood as thick as peanut butter; he’d die immediately.
Nobody wants to go to movies with me, maybe this is why…
If I remember my chemistry, both hemoglobin and chlorophyll have a single iron atom at their core, so I think the mist will consider it already torn apart.
Hemoglobin has iron, chlorophyll has magnesium. The metal atom is bound at the center of a structure called a porphyrin ring, which is nearly identical in hemoglobin and chlorophyll. The ring basically holds the metal atom in place but leaves it free to interact with other things.
Of course, that opens a question: is it just iron that the Mist messes with, or any metal?
It’s known that the Mist tears apart any iron structure. I gotta wonder, what does the Mist do to hemoglobin? A human body contains about 4 grams of iron in the blood and in other tissues.
Nobody wants to go to movies with me, maybe this is why…
Of course, that opens a question: is it just iron that the Mist messes with, or any metal?