"I am Richard, chief warlock of the Brothers of Darkness, Lord of The Thirteen Hells, Master of The Bones, Emperor of The Black, Lord of The Undead.......and the Mayor of a little village up the coast. You should visit sometime. Very scenic during Springtime."

I have to wonder: Will a visit to this village ever take place in the comics? It's just that the idea of Richard running a town seems more than a little scary, and I can't help but wonder if said "town" would rather just be a pile of bloated corpses where a town was.

Well I've always thought of is as a joke, but since the Hctib incident (meaning, Hctib actually appearing in the comic a LONG time after he was first mentioned) I'm keeping an open mind.

Me too, especially since the map of Legarion shows a village on the coast called Village of the Damned.

Nice little map there ... I think it's a good chance Richard's the mayor of the Village of the Damned. Heh heh heh.

Road trip, anyone? I'll bring a camera.

does that mean we get to meet Richard?!??! *fangirling*

It would be nice, but somehow I don't think that's very likely to happen. That part about a village was almost certainly just a joke with no plans of actually incorporating the village in the story at a later time.

Well, he could've made himself "mayor" like he made himself the "census bureau" in Bertu...

Hmm, that's right - I don't recall him mentioning there where any people (or any other race) living there. Could be either an empty village where he massacred all the inhabitants or it could be populated with undead.

Yah, like that passing comment about Hctib back in volume one.



....Wait..

the REAL question we need to ask is: does a village have to have a population over 1. If it does i doubt richard is really the mayor...

Unless said population is allowed above one for testing and such.


Just imagine, Richard having an entire population of test subjects for new killing techniques and spells.....
And all those song and dance numbers he enjoys so much, perhaps he's trained them all in such fields and has groups stationed in all the important towns in case he decides to drop by and start a musical without any problems.



But, most importantly, someone has to watch his garden while he's away.

And tend his pony stables.

Preposterous. Great things are afoot yet you busy yourselves with Richard's mayoral duties. Tsk tsk.

Hm, what can I say. May be the village he "visited" in the video (the description says that happened before the group thing)

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Anyway, back on topic. I couldn't help but notice how the map linked earlier resemble the village slaughtered in the music video (the view over the continent at the end of the video).

Judging by this, I don't think Richard's village have a very high population..

population: 2

Maybe it's an village inhabited by bunnies, puppies and other cute rodent
Richard goes there to relax, killing every single creature there except two of every kind, and a couple of years later he comes back and does it again. I think thats very Richardy

But sign me up for that tour XD

Speaking of Hctib returning could someone tell me what that means?

P.S its village of the DAMNED, Richard practiced his spells there like being able to create undead.

What about his summer home in the mountains, then?

It would be quite interesting if it was included like a plot device or something...

Like somehow the characters have to go there or something...

I'm sure they'll get around to it. They've been just about everywhere else...

Is this map canon? Where did it come from?

I'm sure if Richard is mayor, he wasn't nominated. But I bet it's the village from Slaughter Your World.

Yus, it be canon. I believe it was made a while ago and introduced in a thread, but by whom and which thread I don't know. SohLar seemed to like it.

my thoughts exactly.

The music video wasn't clear exactly where the village that was being slaughtered was, but the bird landed south of Nestorep. The Village of the Damned is farther north. Still, that doesn't prove anything.


I like that Benny's staff is used as the compass in the map.

Huh... it is too
didn't notice that good eyesight

It's pretty common for a writer to look back at an embellishment (such as, say, a joking remark about being mayor of a nice town up the coast) only to realize that, rather than purely ornamental, the little idea has merit. On occasion those "happy accident" ideas will even solve major plot knots. That means, however, that whether or not a story goes "exactly as planned" is not just a matter of what the plan was, but whether the plan has changed.

Imho, the mention of Hctib was foreshadowing and not just a gag-turned-plot, but whether other gags will face the same fate... depends on just how much SohLar knew, for certain, about Richard as early as page 3. I say "for certain" because an idea might suffer the opposite fate, and get nixed-- so maybe Richard DID have a coastal town and it WAS going to be important, but then it got written out. I don't think there's any way to know for sure until it happens. Or we may wait forever, and it never will happen. And we'll never know how much, and what sort of, planning went into the idea unless SohLar decide to enlighten us.


...on another topic entirely, why do I find myself writing on this board every time my insomnia kicks in? >< You regulars put something in the water, don't you? Anyway, that's why this might be completely incomprehensible and pointless to boot. ^^;

*coughhctibelttilcough*

I bet if they stop by the village, Richard will say "Oh, hi guys," and they'll be all "Oh my god there's that demon again! Flee!" And he'll say "Yep, they love me here." Kinda like how he did when Hctib returned.

Either that or they're all corpses. Or maybe they're reanimated corpses!

I bet it was a joke at the time, but it may or may not prove actually useful afterwards. The writers very rarely know their entire story in full, and even if they do, they even more rarely create it without changing a thing during the process, like it was said before.

Personally i think Richards village would be an incredibly peaceful place to live, just think: no crime on threat of an inventive form of capitol punishment, no one breaks the sunset cerfeu on threat of an inventive form of capitol punishment, no children in the street being a pain in the arse because Richard ate them all when they were babies... it would be wonderful, and all you'd have to do is conform to Richards every demand on threat of an inventive form of capitol punishment. also the houses would all be really cheap because chances are that the previous owners were murdered. ALL GOOD

Bwa-ha! I could see that XD Watch Richard's village be this bustling, healthy, happy little place

Especialy during springtime

Oh god, why did that song from Bambi just pop into my head?
Drip-drip-drop little April Shower! *ducks thrown rocks*