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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 14, 2022 4:21:51 GMT
Banedon and Lone Wolf are best friends. At the start of Book 30, they are both 66 years old, but by my reckoning Lone Wolf looks 32. He skipped more than eight years on Aon while he was in the Daziarn plane, which only seemed like a few days to him. Then he started aging more slowly in MS 5070 after he recovered all the Lorestones. The authors describe Banedon as an "aging wizard." I think we can safely assume Lone Wolf has washboard abs.
If I was 66 and my best friend still looked like a ripped 32-year-old, I would try to poison him purely out of spite. I like to imagine this is a running joke. Banedon puts poison in Lone Wolf's food every time he comes to visit, but they both know Lone Wolf is immune to poison because of the Magnakai discipline of Curing.
The two of them are hanging out on the deck of the Skyfort on a warm evening, hovering above the Kai monastery in Sommerlund. They are watching the sunset, drinking kourshah, and talking about old times. Lone Wolf looks down at his goblet and then rolls his eyes.
"It's not khetu this time," he says, swirling the lime-green wine around in the goblet to examine it. "What did you use?"
"Javek venom," Banedon replies proudly.
Lone Wolf concentrates for a moment and neutralizes the poison in his system. "You know," he says, "I actually appreciate the trouble. I'll save the rest of this for the grand masters to practice with."
"There's a clean goblet on the table," says Banedon, gesturing over his shoulder as he turns to look out over the landscape. "Why don't you do some more sit-ups while you're over there."
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Nov 15, 2022 16:50:51 GMT
Is there an illustration on the faces of Lone Wolf and Banedon in book 30?
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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 16, 2022 13:51:39 GMT
Is there an illustration on the faces of Lone Wolf and Banedon in book 30?
I'm glad you asked. Here is Gary Chalk's Banedon at fourteen years old in Book 1.
This is an homage to the same drawing by Richard Sampson in 2019.
Here is Richard Sampson's Banedon at sixty-six years old in Book 30.
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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 16, 2022 13:54:42 GMT
I don't think there is a drawing of Lone Wolf in Book 30, but here is one from Richard Sampson's Instagram.
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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 16, 2022 15:09:49 GMT
I am overthinking this, so here are more notes. Maybe it is more correct to say Lone Wolf and Banedon are no longer the same age. Lone Wolf is 58 because that's how many years he lived. But he still looks 32, regardless. And he has washboard abs. I stand by that. To be clear, I am being funny and I know this is not how the characters behave. Banedon and Lone Wolf aren't catty. They are both the embodiment of bravery and duty. Moreover, they care for each other. If my best friend disappeared through a shadow gate for more than eight years and then reappeared, I would be happy to see him at whatever age he was. It has come to my attention that snake venom is not usually toxic when swallowed. (Although drinking snake venom is still not recommended.) On the other hand, a javek is not a normal snake and Banedon has a whole guild of magicians at his disposal. Also, maybe it doesn't matter whether the poison would actually work because Banedon is only goofing around anyway. By poisoning his friend. The way best friends do.
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Post by gibe on Nov 17, 2022 2:37:30 GMT
Lone wolf ages much slowly than anyone else as a grand master. This is repeated at every introduction of the Grand Master serie (the story so far). " perhaps most remarkably, your body began to age at a much slower rate. Now, for every five years that elapse you age but one year."
Looks like that on the contrary, Banedon ages as a normal human.
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Post by Lucy Van Pelt on Nov 18, 2022 4:19:49 GMT
No use looking younger when he is not getting married.
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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 18, 2022 15:22:11 GMT
Lone wolf ages much slowly than anyone else as a grand master. This is repeated at every introduction of the Grand Master serie (the story so far). " perhaps most remarkably, your body began to age at a much slower rate. Now, for every five years that elapse you age but one year." Looks like that on the contrary, Banedon ages as a normal human. Yes, exactly. Lone Wolf and Banedon both appear in Book 30, but not together until the last few pages. I am stitching together these observations from the previous lore you mentioned. The part about Lone Wolf aging slowly begins in Book 13. Let's not forget that Lone Wolf lost 10 Aon years for being away in other universes (9 in Daziarn, 1 on planet Aavaros in book 19, unknown time lost for being in Naar's Universe in book 20) and that, starting with book 13 (MS5075), he gets older by only 1 year for every 5 years that passes. So, he might be 67 in book 30, but he must look like a 30-35 years old guy. I entirely forgot about Lone Wolf's time in Daziarn until Black Cat mentioned it, so he deserves credit for that bit of scholarship.
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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 18, 2022 15:24:04 GMT
No use looking younger when he is not getting married.
Tell me more about this. I think I saw someone writing about Lone Wolf's celibacy but I don't remember where. Is that canon or is it something the fans put together?
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Post by Zipp on Nov 18, 2022 21:31:32 GMT
No use looking younger when he is not getting married. Tell me more about this. I think I saw someone writing about Lone Wolf's celibacy but I don't remember where. Is that canon or is it something the fans put together?
From what I can tell, it's mostly fan theory though it fits all the evidence we have. By this time, Lone Wolf is a demi-god whose sole purpose is to be the instrument of Kai and Ishir on Magnamund. He's hardly human anymore, in terms of his primal desires and interests. I would doubt he has time or desire to be married nor could he really offer a partner (male or female) anything. He's not going to be present, he's probably not that interested in sex or having children, and he could die at any time fighting gods on other planes of existence. So it's a pretty good guess he's not settling down. |
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Post by Rune Owl on Nov 19, 2022 4:28:18 GMT
Lone Wolf is a demi-god whose sole purpose is to be the instrument of Kai and Ishir on Magnamund.
Yes. I agree that's right, of course.
I haven't started Book 31 and it sounds like Book 32 won't be out for a while, but I was thinking today that Lone Wolf would probably join Kai and Sun Eagle in another plane at the end. Ben and Vincent have already foreshadowed that the player character from the New Order series will take Lone Wolf's place as the head of the Kai order on Aon.
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Post by Zipp on Nov 29, 2022 1:14:41 GMT
Lone Wolf is a demi-god whose sole purpose is to be the instrument of Kai and Ishir on Magnamund. Yes. I agree that's right, of course. I haven't started Book 31 and it sounds like Book 32 won't be out for a while, but I was thinking today that Lone Wolf would probably join Kai and Sun Eagle in another plane at the end. Ben and Vincent have already foreshadowed that the player character from the New Order series will take Lone Wolf's place as the head of the Kai order on Aon.
The big question that folks are pondering is what happens if one side wins the war? So if Kai and Ishir win Magnamund then... is that the end of all chaos everywhere? Do we need heroes to planet hop and go liberate Naar's taken over planets? Are the Kai needed anymore? Or is there even such thing as "defeating" a concept like evil? Perhaps the gods go away and it falls to people to determine what good and evil is from then on. Or maybe there's a nuclear holocaust caused by the Borese and we transition to Freeway Warrior  |
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