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I'd say it's about even odds that Sciona is writing in Alar instead of English. I feel like I may have put some Alar writing on a wall panel or something on some page, but I don't recall what it looks like, so I can't say if it would be easier with a sharpie duct taped to a finger on your non-dominant hand. My alien writing tends to look suspiciously like whatever the last alien/fantasy script I saw, so if Alar text does appear in the comic, there's no telling what it looks like. 

In Gnosticism, the demiurge is a flawed or even malevolent creator responsible for the material world. In this context, Scion (which will become the golem's fairly obvious alias) is using "demiurge" to mean a creator that creates a thing then steps away to let it run its course. Fire and forget, if you will. It's a theistic concept that attempts to explain creation, but also the perceived absenteeism of any divine force afterwards, and doesn't have to answer questions like "why is there evil," or "why aren't my prayers answered?" It's cause god fucked off to mess with his next project. Or maybe he died. Maybe the act of creation killed him and the universe as we know it is his corpse and we're all dancing in his rotting meats. Or maybe he ascended to the next tier. Maybe he descended. Doesn't matter. It seemed appropriate for Scion to label Sciona as his own personal Demiurge.

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Peabody

Page 507-528, this guy?

Christopher Upton

I'm sure the Overlord fans in the audience appreciate the lesson, especially with season V due out this fall

Forecaster

Third panel bubble reads "that is also be limited"

Jared

I'm half expecting Arc-Swat to show up any minute now. With the level of suspicion Max showed earlier, I am expecting Sciona to already have someone monitoring her before she got home.

Town Crier

Since Sydney fingered Sciona as a shady character, I would not be surprised if Dark Arc is in the room, waiting for just the information that they are getting right now, before they call in the troops to take both mother and daughter into custody.

Stephen Gilberg

Since "mature" came right after "dung.," I first processed it as "manure."

ValsheaM

I may or may not also have 'restless tentacle syndrome.'

Jacob Bissey

Per the alt-text, it always kinda baffles me when a new medication does that while "don't take if you are allergic to this product", but not because of the "well, duh" reaction, but rather because I'm like "how would I know before taking it?" Like, some will list a broader allergen, like a particular chemical they include or the broader class of drug or whatever and that makes sense, you may have already discovered that allergy or have been tested for it for some reason, but a brand new drug that was only just recently released and that's why they are advertising for it? The only way to find out you are allergic is to try it in the first place, unless your doctor is allergy testing you for every prescription before writing it, but I don't know how they're go about doing that, maybe using the samples?

JasonAW3

Uhm, Scion? You might want to retract that tentacle a bit. I think she just passed out.

eddi_TBH

Demiurges are definitely in the villain category. I was talking about Frankenstein in another comment thread. He is a perfect demiurge. Takes one look at the new life he created and runs screaming into the night. After a physical and mental collapse, he seeks out his creation only to hear the worst from it's own lips. It is feared and hated. From there their relationship deteriorates. No grand finale at a burning mill. Herr Doktor dies of exhaustion and exposure and the other monster drifts away on an ice floe awaiting it's own death.

Jeff Foarde

Gotta say, seeing the notepad get thicker with each panel as it’s flipped is like 👌🏻