I have taken some time to figure out a few things here and there about Richard. While doing this, in an attempt to get into the author's mindset, I was drinking vast quantities of Red Bull while fantasizing about becoming a super hero (who wields a chainsaw).

Richard is assumed by those around him to be evil.
Richard has been known to commit acts of good and kindness, despite his callous manner.
Richard is dead (doy!)
Richard knows vast amounts of Dark Magic

This is enough to start with, I believe, so now to focus less on what he is, and instead on who he is.

I have a few interperetations of who exactly Richard is, spouting mostly from things I have seen before, and others that I wish I had seen before.

The first would be that he has a Kami/Piccolo relationship with the ArchMage.

This would explain why they work together, as if one were destroyed, so would the other. This also explains why they are semi-kind to one another.

I found this theory mostly on what happened to Kami and Piccolo in DragonBall Z.



Although that last bit was completely speculation with absolutely no basis in anything at all (they won't let Dick die).

I have a few more theories, but I want to know if anyone else has a theory that is rather creative. I would like to remind everyone that this topic is not for serious theories, just theories based on things that would be totally awesome even though there is little to no evidence of it at all.

Extra points if you can make it sound like it is sensible despite it not being so.

Hmmmm I have to say... When I first say the Archmage I thought it was Richard before he died seeing how that that part of the comic was in the past... But that is a very interesting speculation. Props for the time put into the thought!

Cale is Richard's mother.

While I find your basic idea possible I am a huge Dragon Ball nerd and must point out flaws in the history you provided.

A Namecian who's name is never told came to earth, he tried to become the guardian of earth but was told he had too much evil in his heart to do so,but he could became the guardian if he split from his evil half. He did this and the good half became Kami, much like you said, and the other half became King Piccolo, he was insane, evil, violent, and wanted to rule the world. Eventuilly goku(as a child) killed him, as he was dieing he spat out an egg that was basicly a clone of him. This egg became the piccolo we all know from DBZ, he is the one who slowly become a good person, mostly becouse of gohan, and eventuilly fused with his good half again, he outright says at this point he forgets his true name but they are allowed to keep calling him Piccolo.

Sorry for that, once again im just a huge Dragon Ball fan, and when i get into the history of things im a fan of i tend to want people to get things correct. Anyway, i still agree with the basic idea, it is possible that Archmage and Richard are the Good/Evil halves of each other.

Great. Now I'm imagining Richard coughing up a rabbit.

...or a rabbit coughing up Richard. o.O

I think there should be a pinned thread for this sort of thing since people seem to make threads like this every week or so.

The real problem is that there is never any threads that have been posted in within the last few weeks, and posting in a topic that old is considered bad forum decorum (haha, rhyming...).

My other main theory is that Cale, Richard, and the Archmage are all the same person.



((Also, I knew that my dragonball knowledge was flawed, but I knew the basic idea of what happened... I figured that if it was close enough to right, it would work. But curses! Foiled by a nerd (again)))

The main problem with your drawn parallel between AM/Richard and Kami/Picollo is that unlike Kami the Archmage is something of a manipulative dick and lacks much in the way of moral fiber.
As for the Archmage being a future Cale... what?? Did his ears fall of or something?

My theory is that Krunch is the great-grandfather of the Archmage.

This so made me think of Richard coughing up a hairball.

So, Dick as dark (Arch)mage, Dick as son of mommy Cale, Dick as the future son of Cale and Benny who ended up trapped in the lpast for whatever reason. Split Dick (Kami/Piccolo or, as Terror used ot cal the latter, as he was her favorite character, Pickles, because he's green like a pickle and she loves the character like she loves pickles...loved, actually; not sure how she feels about him lately).

Ahem. Digressing into DB/Z from LFG on the QT.


The Archmage being a manipulative Dick? *runs*

I believe that richard is possibly the future archmage, but from facts that we know, richard was a lord, and i think that maybe he was a lord looking for more land, and he hurt a lot of people trying to get more land. And by land, i mean like power, cause more land = more power. So he being somewhat of a mage, heard that he could increase his power by becoming a lich.

For anyone who doesnt know what a lich is, its a being that puts its soul into a certain object, and carries it around with them and it must be on them at all time, (and yes i know that some liches dont keep it on them, but some fantasy artest bend that rule) anyways, this makes their body die, but stay animated, so they can keep studying and become more powerful.

Anyways thats just my theory, that richard is actually a lich, but maybe the archmage had to become a lich to fulfill something, hmm. Give me your thoughts.

Although interesting as a normal theory, it isn't nearly ridiculous enough.

You must remember who is our writer. If someone who's main food groups are red bull and snack cakes writes your comic, it won't have a normal outcome. That is to say, with that much hyped up shugar and energy, you will not be able to think in any which way but completely crazy. Just reading LICD for about five seconds will tell you that (I, although I can't speak for all of you, have never had thoughts like that unless unbelievably tired or hyper) he has some really weird ideas.

That being said, I doubt that Sohmer is going to give us an Occam's Razor to play with, rather, he will make the ending so ridiculous that it will only make sense if we review every teensy tiny bit of information up until that point.

((Also, due to that last bit of insight about the ears of Cale/Archmage, I have a small theory snippet to add to that last theory. Since future Cale went into a past and a city that were fighting the elves (and purged their army of them, quite brutally), he had to change his appearance to look more human.))