October 29, 2012
Page 156 Book 5: The War Diaries
Another comic on time?! I’m on a roll! And apparently so is Lying.
This is basically Lying’s equivalent of a “Sherlock moment”, or that point at the end of the mystery novel where the detective pieces everything together to the stunned faces of everyone involved.
Admittedly, it would be a lot more impressive if me from 4-5 years ago were a lot better at writing than he was, because then he would have laid a lot more groundwork for figuring out where the Shades are from, why Vilkarlig is important, and what Lying’s conclusion here fully means. But yes, as this page dispenses, the Shades are demonic, meaning they hail from the Abyss (home of all demons, Vilkarlig inclusive). Vilkarlig is also credited with the incorporeal possession-type demons (one of which we saw back in Book 4), which ties into his own backstory and why he happens to be in Hell at all.
Fortunately for us here in 2012, knowing who Vilkarlig is happens to be a lot less important right now than knowing that Lying knows who Vilkarlig is.