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simonroy.bsky.social
Simon Roy
@simonroy.bsky.social
Artist/Writer of such comics as Griz Grobus, Habitat, Jan's Atomic Heart, Prophet, and more
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Yeah I am imagining that embalmers play an important part in all this, but at the end of the day the dead cannot heal, and must degrade!
November 11, 2025 at 4:02 AM
I feel like even a well embalmed fella kept in a stable climate wouldn’t last too long if being used regularly for proper labour
November 11, 2025 at 3:58 AM
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November 10, 2025 at 7:27 PM
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So pleased with this team and this book! And joining the usual crew for a variant is the great @cjward.bsky.social! Beautiful and haunting and grand.
November 10, 2025 at 5:17 PM
huge thanks! Also just thinking along this same line - if you maintain your corpse properly, you could probably get a few years of simple labor out of it before it just falls apart, so you wouldnt even need to be executing tons of criminals to maintain a small cadre of automatons to do grunt work...
November 10, 2025 at 7:53 PM
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His attendant is a “penitent” - a criminal, ritually strangled, reanimated, and doomed to eternal labour (his conscious soul still trapped in his skull, according to local beliefs) (3/3)
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Unlike the peasants outside the great city, all the residents of Karazad wear the wizard’s mask, to hide themselves from the vengeful spirits let loose by their rulers (2/3)
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
It was a bit too complicated to draw on a lazy Sunday, but I imagine penitents being common in jobs we would use machines for- grain mills, furnace bellows, treadmill powered cranes etc, maybe even turning a roasting spit for long hours…
November 10, 2025 at 5:38 AM
His attendant is a “penitent” - a criminal, ritually strangled, reanimated, and doomed to eternal labour (his conscious soul still trapped in his skull, according to local beliefs) (3/3)
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
Unlike the peasants outside the great city, all the residents of Karazad wear the wizard’s mask, to hide themselves from the vengeful spirits let loose by their rulers (2/3)
November 10, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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I love this guy and his toothy grin. A specialist mechanic and his old hot rod
November 8, 2025 at 6:19 PM
exactly
November 8, 2025 at 7:53 PM
I’m not sure but I’m sure he’s helpful in some way
November 8, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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The local beliefs are that the body contains several souls - with the head being the home of the conscious soul/self (a not uncommon real life belief system, where your conscious soul can wander while you sleep, and your body souls can be individually sickened or attacked - thus illness)
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM
The local beliefs are that the body contains several souls - with the head being the home of the conscious soul/self (a not uncommon real life belief system, where your conscious soul can wander while you sleep, and your body souls can be individually sickened or attacked - thus illness)
November 7, 2025 at 4:41 PM