Episode 513: "Well, I am a Sage."
 

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WM is god!?!?

I wonder if RM actually had an idea of how to warm them with ice spells or if he's just nuts.

Hmmm... if Red Mage were to freeze layers of water into some sort of "ice raft" they could try and float to another island... or freeze the water forming a bridge to another island... or they could encase themselves in ice, trust themselves into the ocean, and land on another island with vegetation... that's all I can think of with ICE magic.

Maybe he can make a structure out of ice, you know like that ice hotel.

Maybe RM is on the right track. Ice and snow are some of the best natural insulating materials and a wall of ice could stop the windchill. That's what igloos do.

I'm an expert because I'm from Canada, and we all know that Canada is full of igloos and dog sleds.

What I'm wondering is why Sarda was coming to where WM was a few comics back. He's like "Sorry I'm late" or something like that, but what was he going to do when he got there? And where did he come from? Another dimention? Another time? And now he's implying that WM is god...surely he predicted that, or else he'd probably be questioning how WM obtained god-like powers...
I'm confusing myself...

I think that's the best monologue by BM ever. And the Star Wars reference was awesome.

I like the line, "Meanwhile, at the beginning of time..."

That's so clever!

Now how am I supposed to refer to my theory of Sarda, White Mage and Black Mage as an intepretation of the Persian trinity of Zurvan, Ahura Mazda and Angra Mainyu, now that the author has associated Sarda with another Persian religious figure? How?!

Edit: I could always try and fit the characters in a parallel to german philosophy...

It seems likely that Brian was aluding to Neitzsche's work, and not the prophet it was named after. So, I don't think it poses any particular challenge to the philosophical parallel you've been trying to draw. Really, its just a case of two very different comparisons, where the object of one (Thus Spake Zarathustra) just happens to be named after the object of the other (Zoroastrianism).