52790: Dave the Not Nightmare - Monday, November 2 2026 - 5:10 AM
Oh would you look at that, the four(five?) major powers. I recognize three of the symbols but the anchor one is lost on me.
52791: someone - Monday, November 2 2026 - 5:54 AM
So, these symbols:
Top: Oceanic Cartel, a loose confederation of pirates and criminals.
Left: Heroland, which we've seen a lot of.
Middle: Holy Crownland of Vallance. We don't know a lot about it yet.
Bottom: Alliance of Sovereign Nation, a group of minor powers under Vallance's protection.
Right: Global Order, I suppose. Though I don't remember that III symbol; I thought they were just using GO.
52792: Soup - Monday, November 2 2026 - 10:23 AM
Justopia is part of AoSN. I wonder if their floating fortress school is going to shake things up in the alliance nations.
52793: Straightbackward - Monday, November 2 2026 - 10:28 AM
@Dave Right now I'm not browsing through the archives for the precise strip, but you can find the anchor in the Burk VS Ariara (Pirate of the Storm) scene, old-ish arc, back in the castle assault, before Eddstadt.
Beyond that, I think I mentioned it. AoSN reminds me so much to Justopea, colours and all.
On the GO matter, I've confused myself about it a bunch of times.
In theory, Nero is president of it, but Nero belongs to the GO Party, has some beef with paladins, and there are several other powers somehow integrated into this conglomerate. Merlin. Co. and Trifecta recently mentioned.
Have in mind that one of the Smile game players was unwaveringly loyal to the Queen, to the point of hunting out a... smuggler, trafficker was it?
There's politics inside politics here.
Is this what it feels like explaining how the EU works to non-EU people?
52794: Radical Dreamer - Monday, November 2 2026 - 11:39 AM
Still don't trust Nero. If Tobi can make them operational there is nothing to stop him from having his programmers change them later. Having the resources of a world government would be really helpful in getting back home but you run the risk of bad people doing bad things with your work. I guess that's how its always been with such things.
@someone
Ah right, that explains why the AoSN is connected to Vallance's crown by that little purple line. They are the "Meekly bow down to it."
52795: Mallory - Monday, November 2 2026 - 1:08 PM
Those are all magic user friendly places btw
So I don’t think that’s the global order in the pic, though I could be wrong
52796: MountainEucalyptus - Monday, November 2 2026 - 1:36 PM
Is the right symbol not the three pillars of the Empire? Noah's place?
52797: MountainEucalyptus - Monday, November 2 2026 - 1:42 PM
Nope, never mind, going back to hoh_tobi_2149, Shalhia calls the light blue three pillars symbol the Global Order.
It does seem odd? I don't remember seeing it anywhere else...
52798: oskarloko - Monday, November 2 2026 - 2:41 PM
Oh would you look at that, the four(five?) major powers. I recognize three of the symbols but the anchor one is lost on me.
So, these symbols:
Top: Oceanic Cartel, a loose confederation of pirates and criminals.
Left: Heroland, which we've seen a lot of.
Middle: Holy Crownland of Vallance. We don't know a lot about it yet.
Bottom: Alliance of Sovereign Nation, a group of minor powers under Vallance's protection.
Right: Global Order, I suppose. Though I don't remember that III symbol; I thought they were just using GO.
Justopia is part of AoSN. I wonder if their floating fortress school is going to shake things up in the alliance nations.
@Dave Right now I'm not browsing through the archives for the precise strip, but you can find the anchor in the Burk VS Ariara (Pirate of the Storm) scene, old-ish arc, back in the castle assault, before Eddstadt.
Beyond that, I think I mentioned it. AoSN reminds me so much to Justopea, colours and all.
On the GO matter, I've confused myself about it a bunch of times.
In theory, Nero is president of it, but Nero belongs to the GO Party, has some beef with paladins, and there are several other powers somehow integrated into this conglomerate. Merlin. Co. and Trifecta recently mentioned.
Have in mind that one of the Smile game players was unwaveringly loyal to the Queen, to the point of hunting out a... smuggler, trafficker was it?
There's politics inside politics here.
Is this what it feels like explaining how the EU works to non-EU people?
Still don't trust Nero. If Tobi can make them operational there is nothing to stop him from having his programmers change them later. Having the resources of a world government would be really helpful in getting back home but you run the risk of bad people doing bad things with your work. I guess that's how its always been with such things.
@someone
Ah right, that explains why the AoSN is connected to Vallance's crown by that little purple line. They are the "Meekly bow down to it."
Those are all magic user friendly places btw
So I don’t think that’s the global order in the pic, though I could be wrong
Is the right symbol not the three pillars of the Empire? Noah's place?
Nope, never mind, going back to hoh_tobi_2149, Shalhia calls the light blue three pillars symbol the Global Order.
It does seem odd? I don't remember seeing it anywhere else...
The empire of Noah is inside AoSN ?