(Sorry, no animated version this week. I wanted to have the lights coming on,but the program only allowed for looping GIFs)

To clear something up: Katrina is Asian, not Caucasian. (She’s half Japanese.) I wanted to get that out there before somebody said I had too many white people in my comic. (The only white people in the group are Theo, Davis, Ethan and Andromeda. You could argue Katrina as well.) Also, I’m working on a sort of quiz for fun about the characters. It will hopefully be out next week.

About the Electric Lighting: Not much electricity is used in Yggdrasil, mainly because they have a difficult time generating it. (Davis has a gasoline – powered generator in his workshop, powering the lights in this room.) Since the whole world is basically the inside of a tree, there isn’t oil or natural gas or coal, you can’t get wind or solar energy, there isn’t any water for hydroelectric power, and wood – fired generators don’t work well. (Davis gets his gasoline from our world (which I am now calling the aboveworld.) Oil is easily found in other dimensions, (the caverns has lots), and is refined into kerosene for oil lamps. However, wood from Yggdrasil is fireproof, unless it is cut into small pieces, in which case it burns for days. That is why there are fires in the walls of the treeborn Orphanage without burning the place down. Also, about Katrina’s gold arm things: Yes, they are real gold. No, they are not valuable. Gold is actually pretty easy to come by, (again, caverns dimension), it’s other metals, (most notably rare earths such as iridium, along with platinum and cobalt), that are the rare ones. This is why armor is so expensive: the amount of effort put into one suit of armor, plus the cost of metals.

Also, I guess I lied on page 4 – 9 about not getting into quantum mechanics. Theoretically, if the multiple universe theory is true, that means that there must be a universe somewhere where everything that has happened, and will happen in this comic, happens. Not only that – there actually would be an infinite number of them. Try not to think about it too hard, it makes your head go all loopy and you’ll get lightheaded.