Hey, Vio,
Thank you for your post, those are some interesting (and funny) questions.
I´m gonna try to answer them all, but bear in mind that this story is made up as I go, so not everything was fully thought through. ;D
Also... I hate to admit this... I try to justify every detail that appears on the pages, but I´ve been doing this for for so long (2 years, can´t believe
) that sometimes I just
forget the reason why I drew this detail or that.
In my original plan, there are more covenant members than the ones you see. Uncles, cousins of the 1st, 2nd, nth degree.... they tried to put some human blood into the mix but there was a lotta inbreeding going on in there.
My other ideas (none were fully explored) were:
- Human females can carry covenant babies but it´s a death sentence for them. We´re talking about women who devote their whole lives to the covenant houses, knowing that they will die giving birth to the potential new leader which they consider an honor.
- Sethos is heavy into human experimenting. Maybe some of the women he surrounds himself with (those zombies) are only the latest advance on centuries of experimentations designed to bring about special "elite" women who can carry covenant babies.
All the other houses could be doing the same, using women as "guinea pigs"..
Either one doesn´t paint the covenant houses on a very good light in terms of human/women´s rights, but we already knew these aren´t very good people.
OTOH, Aeron
did display profound sadness for his daughter´s death, so those human genes may have started to kick in.
Maybe he was naked when he died?
J/K
Well, these latests ones, Nadra is ressurrecting exactly as they were whereas with Buster Kegan (naked guy), she took some "creative licensing" ;D.
She played a lot with him, he was supposed to be a dying 62 years old but she rebuilt him as a young man (with beefy muscles to boot).
Im my original plan, he´s as strong as 10 men and fast as a cheetah.
That´s because I planned for him to be a
protector for someone later on.
I´ve given this much thought (in fact, the two little girls are gonna talk about it 3-4-5 pages from now).
The reason why regular humans go catatonic when they see an echo is because the human mind was not built to process them.
Remember, these anomalies (kids with powers) are an answer/counter-reaction from the "tree" to the tampering that the five Ancestors did to it.
In a way, the echoes they create are an attempt to recreate/restore Reality - a different/alternative Reality, the "original" one which their minds cannot process - .
It´s like if suddenly, hell demons or aliens from parallel dimension#4536 suddenly materialised in our world, coming from a sphere of existence where the laws of creation are completely different from ours.
We´d totally freak out.
Sethos, OTOH, is pretty much the same person down to the molecular level, so nobody freaks out when they see him. His body obeys to the laws of creation from this reality.
Nadra even used the orignal body for this ressurrection, like she used the original bones from the guy who she just ressurrected in this last page.
The only noticeable difference between him and the original is that Nadra planted in him a memory of her dying 10 years ago to throw the covenant off her scent.
Not even
Narkissa could tell.
Nadra
is that good. ;D
Remember her primary power. Before her ability to create echoes or ressurrect the dead (or talk in rhymes and walk in the middle of the street on barefeet ^_^):
she Listens.
So, she would make sure his song would be exactly identical to the original.
That´s a ood point, I guess it depends on how invasive Sethos´ressurrection was.
I want to believe that Nadra simply replenished the blood Narkissa drank from him, closed the torture wounds and gave him a "spark".
Not much "foreign/echo tissue" in his body.
He´s not an echo in the true sense of the word, he wasn´t built from scratch like the others.
But since Nadra "peeked under the hood" and did everything but play the banjo witrh his neurons, he´s almost as good as if he was one. ;D
LOL
That´s me trying to reach across the aisle.
There is like a bazilion ladies in this story.
Between Lady Radamant, Narkissa, Nadra and all her echoes, I think the boys have more than enough to feast their eyes.
The shirtless Pendargraves bros are my sad attempt to give something to the girls as well. ;D
LOL
Okay, you got me on that one.
Maybe he lit it up in mid fight to dis Nadra´s echoes. ;D