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At minimum, Tedd was at the Dunkel house on the evening during "Sister" where he (she) wanted to hide from Grace while repairing the TF Gun and ended up zapping Elliot with it. Is it just a wild fan guess, or have we been given any evidence that Sybil is Arthur's daughter? We know that he has a daughter, but I have not seen anything indicating that the daughter is Sybil.

Ashley hasn't met Grace or Justin yet, has she?

These guys remind me of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.

Nice save by Elliot in the last panel. It shows that the two of them are growing accustomed to each other's quirks.

Hmm, I wonder what Susan would say about the JJ movies or about Discovery . . .

Turning them into women isn't empowering?

For Not-Tengu's flock's case, pregnancy would likely not be an issue between two flock members, given that Not-Tengu wants them all to be female.

Yeah, we are not evolved to understand quantum stuff. What use would understanding quantum be to a caveman? The closest he would ever get to quantum anything is a crude grasp of chemistry. It's Newtonian mechanics that describe the environment of everyday low-tech experience, which is why that was the first mathematically-consistent system that we figured out.

The "chill" spell also reminds me of Jerry's forced serenity spell seen in http://egscomics.com/comic/2010-07-07 While the morality of mind-control for de-escalating a confrontation may be a bit dubious, it is still the lesser evil compared to forcing them unconscious (or worse, incapacitating them through physical violence). Also note that Grace (and Jeremy) did not use the mind control as a means of compelling their targets to act, but rather as a means of stopping aggression before anybody got hurt even worse.

I did not know that the cathedral's structure contained so much combustible material--I thought it was mainly stone, ceramic, and glass, with minimal wood in it.

A trillion and some smooth talking might buy you a hamburger.

The "given name must synergize with the surname" aspect is interesting, because in modern societies there is often no choice in a child's surname--assuming that the child is not an orphan, many governments mandate that the child take the surname of one of the parents (at least for what would count as the original naming of the child). Also, in societies where clan membership (not just nuclear family membership) is a legal thing, an adult can not simply change their surname arbitrarily--they must first dissolve any legal ties to their clan before renouncing their surname. Some take it even further, requiring adoption into a new clan (and taking that clan's surname) or else being clanless, which can be tantamount to being stateless (i.e. being deprived of certain rights that only clan membership grants). This means that a parent often could not change their surname in order to create an affinity-attracting name for their child. If your name happens to be Smith, then don't count on attracting an affinity that doesn't involve metal-working or something metaphorically similar.

Projecting the Gregorian date backwards, anyway.

Try lead. I heard they make zeppelins out of it.

According to the Gregorian calendar, April 11th, 1241 was a Thursday. Coincidentally, since the difference between Gregorian and Julian dates in 1241 was 7 days, the date April 11th, 1241 was also a Thursday on the Julian calendar.