So welcome to page 3. As you see there is a return slave daul there and I have decided his name is Boomer. This is based on a very dedicated fan who uses him as his avatar and never once gave up on the comic and always posts in the forum!
Now about this page. There is a ton of old stuff here. Interior shot of the foyer of the castle-only de-Contessa'd. An iguacha. A cart...If I could just draw boxes of people with no background all day I would. But I was nice and gave you a background to look at. With light and everything.
For those who don't recall the two dauls talking to Whisp are Sollas and Esalia. Two merchant dauls, one of which owned Poppett. They helped them sneak back into the palace before. Sollas was always Poppett's friend and never saw him as property. Esalia never took on a slave, she sells clothes, but is not what is called a seamstress. On Avernyght a seamstress or tailor is a doctor. She would be called a dressmaker or something along those lines, since she mainly makes clothes for females she's probably known in Nox as a dressmaker.
On the note of clothes the article Esalia gave to Whisp is more of a cloak than a dress or so because the slaves are made of rags they do not wear clothes, their clothes are part of their "design". So Whisp does not have legs, she is her skirt. Just thought it was neat trivia.
In defense of the "Under our noses" I think I will expand on something mentioned in the catalog-btw the catalog needs some new edits, I might get to that this week- The dauls have certain bits of knowledge that is collective. It was mentioned in the Brief History of Avernyght that humans have visited Avernyght before. The humans that came through on expedition were German and it was roughly during the 1890's. When the dauls learn a language there is a chance that will spread to the collective. Whether or not a daul can access the collective is up to the individual daul. Yes the dauls clearly have their own language, the easiest example is their names for night and day are Ranu and Kanu. These mark the difference between when Tersana(the eclipsed sun) and Norsana(the three moons) are in the sky. The daul's own language is based on the Aminosh language because the dauls were born of the Sisters, who were animinosh. The language they use at whatever time is present in the story is based solely on what they like using at the time. Because of the connection to the Sisters they know English, why is for a future story. The languages the dauls know are Aminosh, German, English, and Merish. They currently speak English because it is the favorite of Arista, one of the Four Sisters who has been missing for a long time.
This also leads to the question of Uber's speech. The dauls from the region Uber is from have a different connection to the collective. They are largely visual individuals. Uber is a painter, one of the things he used to do is paint rooms of the palace to resemble Earth's seasons and sunlight. He can visualize Earth because of the collective, but his ability to translate his thoughts into words is disjointed. Dauls from the same region are largely visual, they work as artists, seamstresses/tailors, architects, mapmakers and so on.
Oh mapmakers...know what that makes me think of?
You know who is gonna be on the next page?
Raaweh. yay.
Point of fact, Raaweh is not from the same region as Uber, not ALL dauls in visual professions are, just as not all dauls from this region become these things, it's just sort of a general thing.
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