#comet king

[joking-hazard]

Some sketches of the boys!

[quotes-from-the-bookery]

"Do you know,” interrupted Jalaketu, “that whenever it’s quiet, and I listen hard, I can hear them? The screams of everybody suffering. In Hell, around the world, anywhere. I think it is a power of the angels which I inherited from my father.” He spoke calmly, without emotion. “I think I can hear them right now.”

Ellis’ eyes opened wide. “Really?” he asked. “I’m sorry. I didn’t…”

“No,” said the Comet King. “Not really.”

They looked at him, confused.

“No, I do not really hear the screams of everyone suffering in Hell. But I thought to myself, ‘I suppose if I tell them now that I have the magic power to hear the screams of the suffering in Hell, then they will go quiet, and become sympathetic, and act as if that changes something.’ Even though it changes nothing. Who cares if you can hear the screams, as long as you know that they are there? So maybe what I said was not fully wrong. Maybe it is a magic power granted only to the Comet King. Not the power to hear the screams. But the power not to have to. Maybe that is what being the Comet King means.”

[joking-hazard]

Lunar Eclipse! Aka Comet king 👑

[quotes-from-the-bookery]

“‘I know the rules as well as you do. Take her. But as God is my witness, the next time we meet face to face I will speak a Name, and you and everything you have created will be excised from the universe forever, and if you say even a single unnecessary word right now I will make it hurt.’

The grin disappeared from the demon’s face.

‘You can’t harm me,’ said Thamiel. ‘I am a facet of God.’

‘I will recarve God without that facet,” said the Comet King.’”

Unsong, Scott Alexander

[erudipitous-art]

The Comet King, more or less, although I took some liberties from the description from @slatestarscratchpad's wonderful book, Unsong