Comic #666: The Mark of the Beast (Patreon)

I wanted to do something special for #666. So why not have Donald summon the devil?

I did some research on some of the Lovecraftian languages and symbols for this one. The summoning words he speaks are an adapted version of the Cthulhian chant: "Ph'nglui mglw'nafh Fm'latghor D'lrahn wgah'nagl fhtagn", which translates to "In his house in R'lyeh, dead Cthulhu waits dreaming".

I altered two words in the chant, one being "Cthulhu", which I changed to Fm'latghor. Which from my research comes from fm'latgh which means "burn" and the suffix -or meaning aspect of, thus, the aspect of burning. I figured that was the closest word to "Nomi".

I also changed "R'lyeh" to "D'lrahn", ie "Dalaran".

This makes the final translation: "In his house at Dalaran the dead aspect of burning lies dreaming."

The bloody symbols Donald draws contain other Cthulhian symbols. Here's the original shape as I drew it, before I transformed it to fit into perspective:

Also, I was searching for a good font to use for this comic. The font I ended up finding is this Blambot font, which turned out to be called "Mark of the Beast", by sheer awesome coincidence.