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So, those are all transformed trainers? And noone is stopping for battle? I know, this could just be a callback to that, and I think there were a few time after that when Justin still had thoughts about Elliot. You mean there were a few times it was being shown ; because I suspect Justin is crushing on Elliot since he met him and didn't finished yet.

Susan seems almost too serious for "fully embracing the mental effect" ... but hey, it's Susan, points for trying.

Because while it LOOKS like fish's tail, the shape and mobility seem to be more similar to nagas. You know, the ones with serpent bottom half. Presumably "to be a very best like no one ever was, to catch them is his real test to train them is his cause". Seriously, this is still first generation, he won't be unbeatable before third.

... compared to this, the shrinking made sense. Ok, riding on back of small water pokemon WOULD be problematic due to waves, but still, why the technique you taught to Grace is transforming YOU? And regarding commentary: I though the reason Justin had always-on abs was, well, magic. I think that was just Misty's one who had that problem. As another exception it can't swim.

Did Tedd do that? I don't recall the WoM stating that no one will be notified, Voltaire was notified and I think the same mechanic was used, yes Immortals are probably more sensitive to magic changing. Although judging by Pandora's recalled memoirs, it was just a feeling that something happened and didn't know why, Seers seemed like they'd be more sensitive to it. Technically, Tedd talked out WoM from doing reset, which would include telling everyone as mandatory sideefect. Not-a-reset doesn't include any requirements of notifications and it's likely WoM didn't WANTED to warn anyone it didn't NEEDED to. However, Voltaire wasn't notified. He was WAITING FOR IT and paid attention. While possible that others would notice something happened (especially immortals), I find unlikely seers who don't know about magic would realize what it was. ... something probably did caused the Uryuom to check the wand. I mean, it's unlikely he was testing it just to be sure every day for centuries. But it might've been some artifact suddenly activating.

Hmmmmm .... Most things are more comfortable than flying coach. I include the bench seats on a C-130 transport in that. I'm not sure how a bench seat on C-130 looks like, but I suspect there are few methods of torture actually used in middle ages more comfortable than flying coach. I don't think this is decidable. There were lot of shrinking without scale provided. For example, what is the scale here? Those "Wind Waker's rules" apparently involve shapeshifting, but that would be easy to explain even with pokemons, not speaking about Graces. However, why not try to just put fingers on wings where they SHOULD be? I mean ... ... unlike bat, who is using most of fingers to keep the wing shape, bird (or pterodactyl) could easily have several normal-shaped usable-for-plaing-games fingers somewhere in middle of wing. I think I even saw some anthropomorphic bird characters like that, but this kind of stuff is hard to search for ...

https://egscomics.com/comic/sister3-309 So, Plan CM went much better than expected. On the other hand, I suspect plan A would also get much better than expected if the goal was to convince others laws need to be changed ... thousand seers would make sure about that. They would also make sure Voltaire would regret plan A but technically it would work. ... aaand, we finally see Helena and Demetrius, although still no answer to what they were doing during the attack on Adrian. We also see Hanma and two other immortals which certainly wouldn't be important later And I hope those are not supposed to be all immortals. Hmmm ... Pandora realized Susan and Diane are her descendants the moment she realized it's possible. Could other immortals also find their forgotten descendants or it's usually not so obvious?

That reminds me of one of my favourite Peanuts strips ever. Isn't it part of the same test where the Physics question was "Describe universe ; give three examples"? EDIT: Wait, it clearly says "History test", as in "standalone history test". Sorry, my bad.

Adrian was trying subdue Abraham, killing was a last resort, his yelling and then just tapping Abraham's shield was meant purely as a distraction tactic as was evident by Abraham forgetting that there were crows flying at him at that moment. Exactly. If you don't want to kill your opponent, you are not giving everything into the fight. Prepared? In what way? It's not like he'd have to meditate for a few hours to make sure his spells are ready at a moments notice. Susan has had a chest in her room for over 2 years, she didn't know she'd be fighting vampires when she went to meet with Diane and yet she had no problem summoning anything. Adrian had MSHS set up with wards well before Abraham showed up, if anything Adrian should be ready of anything at any time. It in general strikes me as odd that we've only seen his use illusions, crows and barriers despite him being a centuries old wizard. ... true. The wards definitely needed more maintenance than sword in chest. (Obviously HIS weapon summoning spell might work differently, but it's unlikely to need more maintenance.) Yes. He should have more magic. Considering Seers would be made aware of a system changes before, and told of the risk of letting magic be known, I understand how they might have tried to keep their identities secret. Semi-secret. I would assume every seer seek small trustworthy group of people he taught magic to. Oh yes THAT changed. Any seer who realize the secrecy around magic is going to end soon might consider ending it little sooner on his terms acceptable risk. Luckily, Tedd convinced magic to not tell them, so there are only two candidates for that (assuming Van won't decide for such career). If, however, all thousand seers will be activated and shortly after another reset happened with WoM giving up the secrecy ... I think Dan failed horribly in that "deliberately leaving open if the magic reset wouldn't be better alternative". Are you sure? It sure doesn't seem like he could have missed this, and he's not objecting, either. In my headcannon, until proven otherwise, they got together during the six month timeskip, after a lot of flirting/shiptease. ;-) With the commentary below the comics (ANYWAY, panel one of this comic is what ultimately made me decide to officially declare this storyline canon. For reasons.), this is either suggesting she's mind-controlling him or that the progress of their relationship is something Dan wanted to show.

While learning the spell is likely, I'm not really sure Adrian would have taught her. Sure, the ability to summon weapons is an innate ability for anyone in Pandora's bloodline, but have we actually seen Adrian summon anything besides a flock of birds*? His fight with Abraham had him using a physical sword that was made to be concealed as a cane which Adrian probably bought from a legitimate shop at some point in his life. And when the vampires attacked the mall, he borrowed Susan's sword. If Adrian could summon weapons, why didn't he do so? I don't believe for a moment that he wouldn't have his own chest of various weapons and tools just in case if he was capable of summoning them. Adrian was raised to be as powerful as he could possibly be. However, he is also limited by being elf. Also, look as this attack with sword. He's not giving everything into his fight with Abraham and possibly even can't due to Abraham being human. It is possible that due to limited opportunity to use such spell he doesn't have it prepared. Or he may be borrowing Susan's sword to keep her from harm. Seems he has experience with such kind of swords. I must admit I would expect better fighting abilities from him, including more spells. But lack of training might explain that. Or, well, there is the meta explanation. It's also possible Adrian taught Noriko some basic spell and then she got upgrades by using it. Actually, even Susan already got upgrade to her sword. Adrian likely don't because of limited training opportunities, which makes sword he can summon weaker than Susans. At least Wizards can learn spells modified by Seers, that might make Seers even more dangerous, and a hot commodity if people learned about that aspect. might make -> makes ; if -> when Seers being hot commodity when they actually teach spells to wizard is nothing new. It's USUALLY happening just for limited time after reset - and possibly BEFORE reset as well, assuming at least one reset was caused by seer exploiting his abilities. However, being hot commodity is not exactly compatible with secrecy, and most seers are not aware they can do that.

Having a mix of Immortal ancestry (due to wizards mating with wizards over generations) it's possible that there's a big roulette wheel of innate talents that Nanase would have spun when she was conceived, genetic traits can be random, innate talents could be as well. Also Nanase's spells have been based on the type of person she is, she may still get the ability to summon weapons at some point, but the magic she got was first base on what her martial arts training gave her, and everything since was a mix of her desire to hide certain aspects of her life (which she doesn't do as much anymore) and protecting people, it's possible that Nanase either hasn't tapped into her innate talent yet, or her talent is other summoning like the Fairy Doll and Fox and possibly the Guardian Form. Hmmmm ... I would say it's possible to have multiple innate talents, but you have point that you can only have ONE first spell. It's entirely possible Nanase has weapon summoning talent and it just isn't strong enough to actually give her some spell because the other stuff had priority. Also, yes, it IS possible that Noriko has the talent and just Nanase doesn't. It is however also possible - and even likely - that she learned that spell as a wizard FROM ADRIAN WHO WAS TEACHING HER. Remember that seers are a rare type of wizard that don't get inmate spells. Conversely, most wizards should have inmate spells. Yes. ... well, ok, innate spells. Susan's acquisition of fairy spell was mixup of her own spell with Nanase's. Noone mentioned is supposed to be wizard and their spells look quite different. Even if there would be some subconscious element of copying, it would be something else than wizards who are able to learn spell exactly and deliberately. In fact, we still don't know if wizards CAN modify spell. We know that SEERS can, but that can be part of their dangerous rarity. Maybe ordinary wizards are LIMITED to copying spell exactly.

That would no longer be just fratricide. More like genocide. ... World War I,II and several other wars explained.

What if there's something special about Noriko specifically? It's a pretty big coincidence that she was able to give birth to two Seers with different fathers, what if her genetics are such that she really only needed someone with any amount of Immortal ancestry to produce a Seer? Edward, Susan's father, heck even Sarah's father (purely hypothetical of course) But that ties in to there being more to her ancestry than we know. Even if that's true, it could still be pure chance. (Yes, it is possible that Noriko alone has like 90% of necessary genes ... would explain while genetics is so reliable in her family.) It's not likely THIS would be what Will of Magic was explaining to Van. Adrian Raven fathered his first kid a long time ago, so it is quite possible that our Grace got some of her DNA from that same kid (like Susan) through the original Grace. ... not just possible, the chance is quite big IMHO. "Blessed", right. I think Noriko's family is old enough for the legend to actually mention the ancestor BEING a god or rather 神, Kami. Possibly also having a form of nine-tailed fox. Looking at mythology, the idea of someone being child of god seems much older that the idea that gods might help someone just because they like them without any sex being involved. However, monster hunters notwithstanding, Nanase doesn't show any signs of weapon summoning talent, which would suggest the immortal who founded that family wasn't Pandora. Unless Nanase is exception and Noriko totally have that talent.

Let's ask an expert: Kitti Ping Yung, what do you think about that?

Come to think of it, given the rarity of Seers, could this be the first time ever that one mother has birthed two Seers? After all, the WoM had said that having even three active at once for a meeting was unprecedented (implying that the other thousand or so potential Seers were still dormant). Maybe not. Remember, Seers are GENETIC. It's not really that much random. On the other hand, even if siblings would have 100% chance of being all Seers if one is (and that's likely NOT true) the chance that the reset will happen in time multiple siblings would be alive and knowing about magic may not be that big. So, just because three seers on meeting never happened before doesn't mean one mother didn't birthed two Seers before. Even not counting the possibility two siblings met on meeting (WoM didn't said THAT didn't happen), it could easily happen in way that either reset didn't happen at that time OR one of them didn't know about magic yet. Also, that other thousand are Seers, not potential Seers. They are not awaken but WoM still counts them as Seers. But that's just terminology.

https://egscomics.com/egsnp/gam-19 To be fair, those trees are totally blocking useful paths so cutting them down is community service. Also, wouldn't they regrow quickly anyway? It's totally some sort of "cut with the air" martial arts move, and with special properties too. I mean, it's somehow only way how to get rid of those bushes: it's not possible to cut them with other cutting move, like Guillotine, X-Scissor or Fury Cutter ... or Air Cutter or Psycho Cut. It's not possible to burn them with Flamethrower or Fire Spin. It's not possible to Dig them out. It's not possible to uproot them telekinetically with Kinesis or Psychic. They are immune to Selfdestruct, Explosion and Erruption. Acid don't work on them. Very resistant bushes. Speaking about which, yes, Gracemander wouldn't be able to get rid of them without the HM. Wait. Dan totally didn't mentioned that. Will that be point of next strip? Uhhh ... sorry for spoiler?

Me too, but I think you may have meant 'descendants'? ... yes. At least I can blame the fact English is my second language. There MIGHT be some of his descendants in Asia as well ... which could make the number of kingdoms be billion. And the Asian ones might actually have some subjects.

While good idea, it would require to always have at least one active Grace. I suspect next comics is involving some situation which requires NO active Grace for some reason related to travelling.

Now that would be an interesting puzzle to sort out, trying to divide his kingdom up between his current heirs. *scratches head* I find very unlikely there was EVER system of inheritance which required dividing between ALL ancestors. On the other hand, just finding out the oldest would be quite a challenge.

Clearly nobody else. So far it is only her who is interested in him. Once she finds out what Edward's specific tastes are, it's magical swords time. Oh, she already knows. It's just that until the not-a-reset, she wasn't able to learn any magical swords spell due to being Uryuomn.

We don't know how much Van was told about Tedd beyond being a half brother. The WoM stated that it was going to tell Van the truth about his family, does that mean Van now knows that his Mom basically abandoned Tedd when she believed that Tedd wasn't capable of using magic? Or is there more to it than even we know? Something that goes back in Noriko's ancestry? I actually find more likely that WoM told him something about Noriko's or Edward ancestry and totally skipped the part of Mom abandoning Tedd or at least her reasons for that.

Wait ... if not with pokeballs, HOW will trainers catch more Graces? Will he even need to actually DO anything or they will just follow him? And yes, if you already store huge and heavy monsters inside small light balls, it sort of makes sense to be also able to transfer them to computers. They apparently convert to some sort of energy ... and they likely aren't from real matter to start with, considering damaged pokeballs don't tend to make huge fluorescent glass craters. But avoiding the idea of storing them in balls in first place makes even more sense. Also, it's already firmly established that Graces do whatever they wants, so them hanging out in pocket dimension when trainer doesn't have time for them makes as much sense as the rest.

My only guess is maybe it's aware of Voltaire's machinations and feels that Tedd's the most capable of stopping him? Maybe not telling him now is because the chance of success is too low, and revealing that Van is his half brother might weaken things further. Right now Tedd has a couple things to focus on, learning how Magic has differed and strengthening bonds with his friends, he doesn't need to be searching for his mom and half brother. That doesn't really explain why to tell Van - and in any case, it means Will of Magic is sheming. Well, there's the hope that one day it'd be a specific Uryuom Personal Assistant. Technically, we can't be sure it didn't already happened.

Seers like Tedd, Van and Arthur would very likely have multiple Immortal ancestors. It makes sense, yes, however it wasn't said DIRECTLY, so it's still just "very likely" and not "totally certain".

I think Dan wouldn't WANT to break it. He just will. Yes, time travel is impossible in EGS because Dan, unlike authors of all mentioned, doesn't want to force selective amnesia on his characters which makes them forget that time travel exist unless it's one of few episodes about it (seriously: in Star Trek, time travel is SO reliable and common only reason characters wouldn't need to fight with fleet of D'Deridexes all around the time is because everyone would be already assimilated for four billion years). Meanwhile, comics showing out of order DID happened often, including most of "The Other Dunkel" happening AFTER the following storyline. We (and Tedd) have Word of WoM that Pandora was successful in her attempt to retain emotional attachment to the people she cared about. I don't think the WoM is capable of lying, though it would be odd if it did, since lying would imply that it wanted Tedd to have the best chance to convince it not to chance, which would also imply that the WoM didn't want to change the system anymore but needed to follow protocol. This kind of deception would mean that Will of Magic understand humans MUCH more that it claims to. However ... But why continue to hide it from Tedd after the fact? What would be gained by only telling Van about their relation to each other, unless the WoM knows that there's something else that Tedd is destined to do. ... so does this. Both "telling both" and "telling noone" would be easily explainable, but why telling JUST Van? Given Van's age, it IS possible that she had told him enough ; she might skipped the name, he might forgot, or she was just postponing it because he never asked any related question so she though he's still too young for details ... ...who just happens to be a monster hunter who uses magical bladed weapons. And is completely unrelated to Noriko's other child who also exist. And then there's the bit about Dan specifically asking about Van's father in commentary. If Van's mother isn't Noriko, this would be quite big misdirection.