Along with Col, Ermo, and Aloys, Bogdan survived the ruin of his village by Vaagen's mischief. Bogdan blames not the vampire, but the witch. Bogdan has a hate for Merunga, a little thing as yet, but festering all the time.
The mischief of the vampire brought sickness and death to Ermo's village, he is only one of four to have escaped. Older than the other survivors Ermo travels with the caravan not to find a new home as the others do, but to escape the ruins of a town that dwell ever in his memory.
From a nearby Roman castle, Haimo's village was plagued by an unknown horror. Scared beyond reason, and slowly dying, the townsfolk rose up and attacked the castle, a monster was killed, yet Haimo heard what others had not, the monster called out to her Master. So Haimo has followed, first the footprints in the forest floor, and then the wheel ruts in the dusty roads, until he has come to the Caravan, still searching for the Master that terrorized his home.
To this day, I still wonder why Haimo went to chase the second vampire alone. I mean, they all heard the she-vampire calling out for her “master”, the secret tunnel out of the castle was visible to all, why did he go alone?
And why did he keep going when he knew the others would worry if he didn’t come back soon?
Well, that’s kind of an interesting conundrum for me. Originally, Haimo joined the caravan under much different circumstances, and a much different timeline. Much different. He wasn’t supposed to be a cast member for another year, but The Prisoner’s Mischief storyline seemed to bring him in easily and conveniently, I felt like it would be a wasted opportunity to not bring him in at that time.
That being said, he’s here now, I’ve got plans for later, but his motivations are different when they would have been. And the Villagers are an added complication that I’m not 100% sure how to iron out. So that’s a longer explanation of the problem than is necessary, and honestly it’s what I should have put into the blog for the day instead of what I did say, (which was useless, but there was a vacation time crunch looming, so you got what you got, but I’m still sorry about it.)
So in terms of an actual answer, what I’m going to say is, upcoming story. I wanted to throw this strip out here to lay some ground work. Things are going to get fleshed out in a couple of stories. When the Menagerie leaves The Stone they’ll be heading slowly north and working through some of my original ideas for the strips and taking the opportunity to spend time with the Villagers as the focus, and cement the Villagers to the caravan.
This. This you shall not do again. The words, they are too many. The brains, they feels numbs. All that exposition. Weak :p
That all felt pretty obvious, too. What happened to your praised “out-of-panel” text technique?
Offline.
To this day, I still wonder why Haimo went to chase the second vampire alone. I mean, they all heard the she-vampire calling out for her “master”, the secret tunnel out of the castle was visible to all, why did he go alone?
And why did he keep going when he knew the others would worry if he didn’t come back soon?
Well, that’s kind of an interesting conundrum for me. Originally, Haimo joined the caravan under much different circumstances, and a much different timeline. Much different. He wasn’t supposed to be a cast member for another year, but The Prisoner’s Mischief storyline seemed to bring him in easily and conveniently, I felt like it would be a wasted opportunity to not bring him in at that time.
That being said, he’s here now, I’ve got plans for later, but his motivations are different when they would have been. And the Villagers are an added complication that I’m not 100% sure how to iron out. So that’s a longer explanation of the problem than is necessary, and honestly it’s what I should have put into the blog for the day instead of what I did say, (which was useless, but there was a vacation time crunch looming, so you got what you got, but I’m still sorry about it.)
So in terms of an actual answer, what I’m going to say is, upcoming story. I wanted to throw this strip out here to lay some ground work. Things are going to get fleshed out in a couple of stories. When the Menagerie leaves The Stone they’ll be heading slowly north and working through some of my original ideas for the strips and taking the opportunity to spend time with the Villagers as the focus, and cement the Villagers to the caravan.
This. This you shall not do again. The words, they are too many. The brains, they feels numbs. All that exposition. Weak :p
That all felt pretty obvious, too. What happened to your praised “out-of-panel” text technique?
Aha but you felt forced to read it! That was my plan all along.