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Trace transforming Mary (Raine's mother and ex-Grand Templar) into a white wolf like Euchre as his twisted idea of poetic justice during the overthrow of the Templar. Once changed, Mary was suddenly unable to use magic without crystals and thus unable to fight back any longer. Suggested by SpeedLimit!

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MoppyPuppy

Tom needs to do a history recap because I don't remember any of this stuff.

Calvin-Skye

It looked painful before. Now with the impressive art skills, ouch! The darker side of transformations here.

Quinn Auer

Really happy to see this get redrawn. It's a pretty pivotal moment of backstory for the comic and one of the casts least well known members.

InkFire

Clicked the link and was blown away by the amazing progress in art skill since I started reading years ago. Gosh, I forgot that had even happened!

ArcadeDragon

I have a feeling that's going to change. The group is heading straight to her, and she doesn't seem the type to let go of grudges easily. I don't think she'll care that new Trace is essentially a different person, she'll want revenge.

ArcadeDragon

Yep, been reading since 04 and the progress over the past decade and a half has been astounding. Can't wait to see where it goes from here!

ArcadeDragon

It's gonna be a little funny if she's been planning for years to get revenge on Trace by turning him into a Keidran and when they finally meet up again that's actually what he wants.

Direktor da slav

"Dead , no big surprise" -Heavy from TeamFortress 2

The Sexy Beast

I wouldn't mind seeing this one get colored.

Quinn Auer

She's seen Trace since then, and didn't forgive him, but accepted him as a different person on page 195. That said we have no idea where Mary is, we're presuming Lyn'knol but we don't actually know.

Kevin Cason

i wouldn't say that, i heard she was a bigger monster than old trace was.

Keith Keiser

That sure does look particularly painful

Inglorious Bastard

Doubtful but that would've been a beautiful twist of irony.

Anonymous

I'm surprised Mary didn't brainwash Raine into seeking revenge against Trace no matter what... or did some kind of possession on her daughter who she no longer viewed as a daughter for being tainted with keidran blood to be made into a super mage/soldier to kill Trace...

Miftox 01

And again, a beautifully expressive sketch by Tom.👍😍 Damn I wish I could draw faces that well... That the transformation is painful is just natural since one's jaws and legs get completely deformed. Which is why I believe that old Trace must have had a good side to him when he made the collar, since it apparently has an extra spell cast on it to dull the pain of the transformation. Because of that it would be nice if Tom if he could somehow analyze or dissect at least some of the finer details of some of Trace's spells. But that's just an idea of mine :)

Miftox 01

At least when you destroyed her plants and/or backyard XD

coredumperror

Holy carp, that scene was drawn 15 YEARS AGO!

Ordithus

This looks extremely unpleasant. Poor Mary! She is far from a saint, but still. We laugh about transformation when Nora does it... at least Nora's work isn't cruel. Don't forget that Mary worked with Neutral to get her human form back.

steelabjur

Euchre doesn't seem to suffer any pain from his Perfect Transformation, and Raine doesn't either. I'd suggest the pain we're seeing here is either from the battle she just fought with Trace (no doubt the cause of the blood from her mouth), or Trace changed the spell to cause a painful transformation. One could argue that Evil!Trace appears to have not only mastered but improved on Euchre's original spell, as Euchre hasn't shown the ability to permanently transform others, or perform partial transformations (like Trace did to Karen).

noxamillion

It is page 52 of the comic. Trace was having a flashback.

noxamillion

There is a sketch suggestion yet to be voted that has that scenario or his transformation spell backfired.

SCD

Mary: AUTOBOTS, TRANSFORM! (Turns into a giant robot.) Trace: Oh crap, I cast the wrong transformation spell on her!

Sylvrwolflol

It’s like Raine’s human form. Fluffy tails in disguise!

Silent Thunder

It has been specifically stated that it was an intentionally-flawed and painful version of Euchre’s spell

Miftox 01

True😅 forgot that

HikariSnep

ouch that gotta hurt, even bleeding because of it

Jaye

Jeez

Lock1001

Is me or I would like to see a side comic of hold things like how he overtook the old templar

Colonel Fox

I hope this gets colored

Argonwolf

Yeah, she definitely ended up being much less of a bitch as she initially appeared. Even though in this picture she's... literally a bitch.

Dornroschen

Tchaikovsky for new templar. No magic, just a huge symphony... And 21 CANNONS

Supreme Leader Porg

Am I crazy, or was there a sketch/page somewhere where it was Trace after just transforming Mary where he called for the guards saying something like there's a wolf trying in the grand templars clothes. I thought it was in the flashback scene in chapter 3, but I guess it's not. Am I just remembering something that isn't real or?

Supreme Leader Porg

Depends, she didn't really take her chance when she saw him last in the mask parts, and saw how he saved flora, so who knows

Supreme Leader Porg

That crazy to realize that I'm just under 6 months older than that original scene

Supreme Leader Porg

I don't know specifically on that part, but she obviously wasn't a benevolent person or anything, but she didn't have the Templar run literally everything else, and make it more into a secret police type thing. So while she's not perfect, I wouldn't say she was worse than Trace was, or if she was, she was good at not making it open or known to be common kind of thing

Supreme Leader Porg

Yeah it was mentioned in the comic that this was a purposely modified version of Euchre's spell to be less advanced in that it caused immense amounts of pain intentionally.

Supreme Leader Porg

Part of the bleeding was from wht appeared to be a fight beforehand, but that doesn't make it any less painful unfortunately for her

Supreme Leader Porg

To see how he took the Templar from being a school/semi independent organization that focused on magic, to being a secret police force that basically runs the entire nation, making the king a puppet leader, and having quite large and advanced fighting force.

Twokindsfan

No you're right, there is a page where it shows Trace turning Mary into a keidran and calling for the guards and lying to them by saying Mary was a keidran trying to steal some of the Grand Templars cloths if I remember correctly.

ProudLoneWolf

Correct. In a nutshell: "You're crazy, you can't just declare yourself Grand Templar!" "F*** you, you're a Keidran now."

Keimori

Man that page takes me back! You've improved so much over the years Tom! It's so cool to see!

Lock1001

Yes like that and to see what templar was before trace took school

Lock1001

become i do see how he kill all the old templar and got away with that alone

Lock1001

And we see how the characters was before the Events of the Main series

Kaija (edited)

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2026-10-08 12:00 It's at those moments that I wish to a full re-drawing of the firsts pages >w> !! (But it would really deeply slow down the updates TwT)
2019-03-22 09:01 It's at those moments that I wish to a full re-drawing of the firsts pages >w> !! (But it would really deeply slow down the updates TwT)

It's at those moments that I wish to a full re-drawing of the firsts pages >w> !! (But it would really deeply slow down the updates TwT)

Steve Gloria (edited)

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2026-10-08 12:00 Glad we're finally seeing more of the untold past in the story <3
2019-03-22 12:19 Glad we're finally seeing more of the untold past in the story <3

Glad we're finally seeing more of the untold past in the story <3

Supreme Leader Porg

Ok, that's what I had thought, I just can't find where it is in the story

FuryoftheStars

I would like to see this, too! I wouldn’t mind sacrificing sketches or side comic updates for that. :)

Torbjörn Larsson

Well, I believe he redraw the oldest ones once already...

Kaija

Torbjorn, only 3/4 of the hundreds first 'o' !

David

I'd love to see an animated serie. Just dreams... :' )

UnawfulPlayz

1. This would make a great backstory for the comic. 2. This would be awesome in color.

Kaija

Aaaaaaa~ the dream~ !

Tevin Escobar

Damn, this is dark. Would love to see more.

Silent Thunder

Man, that is brutal... but I agree. I can imagine her process being similar

Lexio

Her life is ruined as Trace just stares down at her blankly... This aint even the worst thing hes done!

Supreme Leader Porg

Ugghh this is Annoying me since I can't find where in the comic the specific scene I was thinking of was, I checked a list of appearances of Mary, but couldn't find it there