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== Vaarsuvius will take Qarr's offer because of the black dragon's threat, and there will be at least one Anakin Skywalker joke made as a result. ==
[[Exactly What It Says
* Everything except the Anakin Skywalker joke confirmed.
** Anakin Skywalker joke (well, "Duel of the Fates," close enough) confirmed.
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* That's not even remotely what "directly related" means, ''especially'' in this context. Directly related means being a relative of the family ''by blood''. Penelope was ''indirectly'' related, as she didn't share any DNA with the actual Draketooth clan. Her daughter ''did'' since her father was a Draketooth, but Penelope wasn't and would have been ignored by the spell. If it worked the way you're interpreting it, ''every'' black dragon would be dead, not just a quarter of them.
** Yes, it is "remotely" what directly related means. Your mother is directly related to you, right? Remember how V describes the spell: Everyone who's directly related to the Black Dragon (i.e., the Draketooth clan including Penelope's daughter), and everyone directly related to ''them'' (i.e., Penelope, as she's directly related to her daughter). ''Nowhere'' in the spell's description does it mention that they have to be blood to the original Black Dragon. The description of the spell easily allows for that one level of removal.
*** A person's mother is, of course, directly related to you, but a person's wife is not. Think of it this way: let's say that a woman marries a man with a rare (in this case, meaning that the chances of an outside person having the trait is pretty much zero) genetic trait. Their offspring can carry an allele for that trait, but the mother will never have it, because she's not directly related to the family, only by marriage. V specifically says "Every living creature that ''directly'' shares your ''bloodline''." That's pretty clear that it only affects descendants of the black dragon.
*** Yes, it's pretty clear. If you stop there and ignore [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0640.html the very next sentence]: "Every living creature that directly shares your bloodline is dead. Every living creature directly related to '''those''' creatures is also dead." Two degrees of separation. It's right there, explicit, crystal clear in the description of the spell that V gives. [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0843.html And the next comic confirms it].
*** So does this mean that if Penelope and Tarquin would have had a child together... not only would he be dead, but Elan and Nale as well?
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== [[The Plan]] of the archfiends involves manipulating Vaarsuvius ==
They have already admitted to Qarr that they had been watching V for a while, and they are clearly the fiends that Sabine reported her findings about the Snarl to. They watched and determined that V would be the easiest to corrupt, and when the time was right, offered the soul splice. They plan on V confronting Xykon, thinking him easy pickings. Vaarsuvius currently has no way of knowing that Xykon is an Epic-level spellcaster, and V's extreme arrogance will not acknowledge the possibility (which will greatly piss Xykon off). Between his power and his well known tendency to find unconventional solutions to high level problems, Xykon will defeat V, who will have revealed that the souls of two Epic-level casters are also present. Xykon will then use an Epic-level necromancy spell to take control of the soul splice, becoming ''far'' more powerful, which will make it much easier for him to take control of one of the gates. Which was exactly what the fiends were planning all along (notice how they care that V lost Haerta, saying that she was the most powerful by a fair bit. They were hoping that power would go to Xykon, who it would mesh well with, since he is also an Epic-level necromancer).
* Wow... all confirmed up to line 5. The only problem so far is, Xykon doesn't seem to want to take over the soul splice, and it's probably too late anyway. Oh, and V seemed to know full well Xykon was an epic caster, s/he just assumed s/he could beat him anyway.
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== The three evil bureaucrats' suicide plan wouldn't have worked anyway. ==
It would have taken a (relatively) long time to play out, especially minus the Time Stop effect, and the dragon had a head start and can work quickly. Besides, the prophecy specified the right words to the right being - only the reasons were wrong (i.e. pride).
* The IFCC later admitted that this plan was ridiculous.
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== Sabine is a Succubus. ==
Based on two pieces of D&D rules and a line from Sabine.
# Succubi have a polymorph spell like ability and erinyes don't. Sabine does have a polymorph ability, as we've seen several times. This isn't really conclusive though, because Sabine is obviously not a standard monster or the heroes could just run over her.
# Sabine once said she is [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0394.html "literally an evil incarnation of illicit sex"]. Erinyes have nothing to do with sex.
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** I dunno, selling your soul to save your children seems like the wrong four words, to the right being at the right time for all the right reasons.
* "[[Deus Ex Nukina|Press the red button]]."
*** But it's very likely that saving hir family wasn't the main motivation for hir agreement there. It was implied that the reason she accepted was that she couldnt 'bear the thought of the accepting failure.
* [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0252.html Out of fudge ripple.]
* Wow, nobody thought of "[[Exact Words|the right four words]]."
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* Aaayund, both this and the above are confirmed [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0758.html here].
== General Tarquin knows Roy and Elan know each other. ==
It seems awfully convenient that Tarquin happened to assigning Roy and Belkar to protect his son. It's probably simpler to just go with what they say, and it gives him an advantage if they don't know he knows.
* In this sentence he's telling Roy he better not lead Elan into danger when he sends him to protect Elan on his quest.
** Confirmed as of strip #818. Malack seems to have picked up on it as well, but Tarquin is like a smart, evil version of Elan, he is [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]].
== The Linear Guild's new Durkon counterpart is Malack. ==
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** Answer: Tarquin made him. Confirmed, although it didn't happen until after the Order left.
== V casting Familicide on the dragon will come back to bite
V uses magic, and perhaps has a bit of draconic blood in hir? I know its a sorcerer trait, but its worth a shot.
* Alternatively, one of the souls s/he's spliced with was related to the dragon.
* Or hir mate could be related to the dragon, and also hir kids.
* Or it comes back to bite hir in a more literal sense, when black dragonkind decides that s/he is now an unacceptable threat to the species and...well, shows up and bites hir, en masse.
** The theory running around the forums suggests Tiamat herself will do the biting.
* Perhaps some crazy imbalance of power with the shiny scaled dragons * ^4s things up?
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** It's a death effect, LTIC, Finger of Death is necromancy.
** 62, including four eggs and the one zapped in front of the adventuring party.
* Fusing this with the Haley's History WMG: Haley has black dragon blood, and could have taken levels in sorcerer if she'd wanted. While a cleric in Greysky will resurrect her so she can pay the guild back, Elan will find out about the death somehow and kill V before discovering Haley has been brought [[Back
* It's also been discussed on the forums that the Familicide might have been what killed Girard Draketooth's family, with the supporting evidence being the lack of an apparent cause of death, the length of time they appear to have been dead for, the appeareance of all of them having died at the same time, and the name '''Drake'''tooth.
** Confirmed in comic 842.
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