Fabula Fantasia - Vol. 1 Ch. 4 - The Lionheart

[MangaDex]

 

[alacaelum]

Layamon is an example of admiration without understanding, turning into obsession.

He has created in his mind a narrative that at face value is beautiful... but his juvenile understanding already shows he doesn't have the maturity to understand Bard's actions.

Giving away your youth like that... AT ELEVEN... poor boy has latched in desperation to someone, something, to validate his views of life.

I had hoped this would have taken time... but it is clear the zealotry that would give birth to the Inquisition was born much earlier than I had thought, in the heart of a scarred boy too smart and too young to truly understand the weight of what he desires.

 

[alacaelum]

I am curious... if Hontza is of the same "race" as the "little people".

At this point, we have Mir and Daemo as clear examples of the "little people", but... Mir is a half-breed, he clearly has a "fluid" existence, with the ability to shapeshift, which obviously comes from his father.

Daemo can change too, and we see the obvious differences in her form, there is much more "fluidity" to her body, and her ability to "drink worlds" is a whole thing, but I won't stay on that for now, I will leave it for when we get more details.

Point is... "fairies" in myth always have changing forms, but Hontza feels different from Daemo, but Mir said the "little people" were just one "race", there was not the variety of beings Seth heard in folk tales.

My best guess, if Hontza is "little people"... their form is adapted to the task they have taken, guiding the souls of people in the next step of their journey.

Curious too, if Mir was born at this point... I can't say exactly why... but I don't think so, this story feels like it may happened a little before.

 

[alacaelum]

Gauwal, Name, Asterisk, the whole team of the Artemis Institute, again... thank you for your effort, being able to read this story is truly a privilege, and your work in allowing that is much appreciated.

Sorry for taking up your time, but if possible, answer me this... what is the status of the main story?

It has been some time since the last volume, and I searched around a bit, but as far as I could find, there wasn't anything new, but the world of Radiant clearly is VERY popular... two spin-offs of this HIGH quality... so happy Tony's world is receiving its due recognition.

Edit... almost forgot to mention... THOSE COLORED PAGES ARE SO AWESOME, Tony's coloring style tickles my brain, it has perfect diversity in colors and brightness without losing shade and shadow.

It perfectly guides you to the understanding that this is a world of beauty and wonder... but of hardships and troubles.

 

[NameTheFamed]

I am curious... if Hontza is of the same "race" as the "little people".

At this point, we have Mir and Daemo as clear examples of the "little people", but... Mir is a half-breed, he clearly has a "fluid" existence, with the ability to shapeshift, which obviously comes from his father.

Daemo can change too, and we see the obvious differences in her form, there is much more "fluidity" to her body, and her ability to "drink worlds" is a whole thing, but I won't stay on that for now, I will leave it for when we get more details.

Point is... "fairies" in myth always have changing forms, but Hontza feels different from Daemo, but Mir said the "little people" were just one "race", there was not the variety of beings Seth heard in folk tales.

My best guess, if Hontza is "little people"... their form is adapted to the task they have taken, guiding the souls of people in the next step of their journey.

Curious too, if Mir was born at this point... I can't say exactly why... but I don't think so, this story feels like it may happened a little before.

I think it's possible but I'm unsure if Hontza is supposed to be part of the little people. I mean, maybe they've formed their own culture and this is part of it--but I don't think so. I think it's a byproduct of how their world works. The populace imagined something that would guide souls to the land of the dead, and so it was. I think that everything in the Sidh is the byproduct of general beliefs/imagination. We'll have to see if "souls" become relevant in the future.

This spin off recontextualizes everything we know about the Sidh, so some certain scenes become a lot more interesting... like Melie's internal turmoil in chapter 128.

Hopefully we learn more soon. I need to know!! I crave anything that is Radiant.

 

[NameTheFamed]

Gauwal, Name, Asterisk, the whole team of the Artemis Institute, again... thank you for your effort, being able to read this story is truly a privilege, and your work in allowing that is much appreciated.

Sorry for taking up your time, but if possible, answer me this... what is the status of the main story?

It has been some time since the last volume, and I searched around a bit, but as far as I could find, there wasn't anything new, but the world of Radiant clearly is VERY popular... two spin-offs of this HIGH quality... so happy Tony's world is receiving its due recognition.

Edit... almost forgot to mention... THOSE COLORED PAGES ARE SO AWESOME, Tony's coloring style tickles my brain, it has perfect diversity in colors and brightness without losing shade and shadow.

It perfectly guides you to the understanding that this is a world of beauty and wonder... but of hardships and troubles.

Thank you very much! We all love Radiant, so we appreciate fans like you! I like to read all your comments after every chapter.
From what we know, volume 20 is supposed to release sometime in July. I don't know how well Radiant sells, but we got some numbers when volume 18 released. It had hit 1 millions sales (Before the spin offs) so to put that into perspective, it would be like a manga doing 60k per volume (Granted we don't know how well it sells per volume, maybe most of those are from earlier volumes).

Now to look on the brightside, while July is a ways away, I am confident in the future of the release schedule. So, for one thing, Tony Valente had health issues, which he mentioned he think he's resolved/is confident for the future. And also, I think a major factor in the release is Ankama themselves (The publisher that releases Radiant/Others). So from what I've gathered, he doesn't seem to work on more of any series so long as the previous volume hasn't gone through the process of the publisher. So I think that he can publish things at faster rate since he has Radiant, Cyfandir Chronicles, and Fabula Fantasia. Like from what what we saw, around the time volume 19 was published, he was at the later stages of finishing volume 20 (See his instagram). But anyways I'm hopeful for future releases. He's mentioned that CC and FF could be up to 5 volumes long, so he'd have to be producing these at a good rate for that to happen. I'm personally hoping for us to get 1 volume of each series per year (2 of Radiant if we are lucky, fingers crossed.)|

Tony Valente is more aware than any fan might be and he's mentioned that he wants to release two volumes of Radiant a year, SO that's what I'm hoping for, but it might be the best case scenario.
The double page spread in color is a fanart done by Naokuren, the artist of Cyfandir Chronicles. It's really well done.

 

[Enlawed74]

Layamon is an example of admiration without understanding, turning into obsession.

He has created in his mind a narrative that at face value is beautiful... but his juvenile understanding already shows he doesn't have the maturity to understand Bard's actions.

Giving away your youth like that... AT ELEVEN... poor boy has latched in desperation to someone, something, to validate his views of life.

I had hoped this would have taken time... but it is clear the zealotry that would give birth to the Inquisition was born much earlier than I had thought, in the heart of a scarred boy too smart and too young to truly understand the weight of what he desires.

That's right. He don't understand what she's really trying to do.