Just found your comment #10, on Page 79, that she isn’t.

It would surely motivate her to seek a replacement mother-figure, and from there it’s easy to see why Tyrande is so obvious a choice, especially given the episode where she is shown rescuing Hani from a spider at a reasonable equivalency of six years of age, for a human.

No, I’m not going to dig out that episode and link to it before hitting “Submit.”

As for the title, it’s actually a very simple and not very meaningful reference – one of Tyrande Whisperwinds’ voiced responses in World of Warcraft (I think it was present in WarCraft III too actually, though I’m not sure) goes “My heart sleeps in the emerald dream.” refering to Malfurion Stormrage. Since it’s Hani dreaming of Tyrande, I thought it’d be fitting, though I’d have to say your interpretation is definitely a whole lot more interesting ;)

And I’m happy to find another webcomic artist on WordPress. I thought I was the only one for a while! From what I’ve seen so far, I think I’ll be coming back. I like your style. I can’t do any of the nice computer rendering that you do, so I just stick to “traditional” hand-drawn comics.

Keep it up! I’ll be back for more! :)

~Kyetsu

At any degree, i like it. I aint one to complain over stuff like a glowing ear or so (no offence ment in that statement btw :P) i like the page. Good on my “Char-developement page” when compared to the entire BotT story. As for the “lesbian” thing, i doubt its enterly “that” which we are seeing. Freinds are often close too. As are Mothers and daughters however i do agree that at times my male mind does “conduct” connections that i doubt is there, so they are killed before given root :P

I have no doubt that Hani loves the priestess Tyrande Whisperwind with all her heart, and in some way feel that she has betrayed that essence with her past acts (whatever they may be). But now im just stateing what all can see. Im excited as to were it goes really. So ill say good page, cant wait to see the next.

ps: Hope you wont have more bad luck with the pc :)

I am defensive though, yes – I was told that my interpretation of Night Elves – one I’ve built on, elaborated on and dwelved deeply into for several years over now is utterly broken with the only reason given being “morality”, and the obvious context given that it’s based on the morality of the one making the argument. That is not constructive criticism, it is arguably a rude and direct insult. People are free to disagree, naturally, but trying to flag the right to do so seems a tad moot when arguing against the right to answer back in turn.

So I’ll give the topic a final run over and then consider the matter closed, because quite frankly I don’t see it developing.

For one, I think Night Elven morality is quite complex, and possibly a fair bit different from how we think things. And to be honest here, out of multiple Night Elven characters I maintain or portray, there’s very few of them I’d completely morally agree with, especially with their willingness to end lives.

Which brings me on to part two: arguing the morality of Night Elves based on the behaviour of Hani Foonmall or Rei Tiny is somewhat moot to begin with, since one of the most important points with both characters are how different they are. Hani is violent, Hani is sometimes downright callous and she’s ultimately a very flawed and troubled young woman. She’s obviously confused, angry and frustrated about her dismissal from the Sentinels – and yet this page exists to point out that in spite of all that.. she can’t bring herself to feel any of that to the one person actually responsible for her dismissal.

And then let’s dwelve further into the subtext, shall we? We have here a situation where it’s implied that Hani Foonmall might have a desire to snuggle up against the High Priestess she’s been sworn to follow, while at the same time it’s also stated that said High Priestess is who’s behind her being dismissed from the Sentinels. Now I’m not saying whether this conclusion is what actually happened or not since I prefer to leave it ambigous, but has it dawned that these two points might actually be related?

The perfect individual would have no need of the Hero Journey, nor would they make a very interesting story.

So to cut things short, I merely wanted the author and other readers to know that the opinion of “omg, more lez pages, this comic is so into the carnal, it’s so shallooow’ is not shared. That there are actually people that like this page because it shows a deep emotional connection between Hani and the figure of Tyrande, whom she obviously has strong feelings for (more than just LezYay, I dare say).

That I used a sledge hammer to make my point? Truth, I did. Glad to see it came across ;) Cheers and cuddo’s. And please remember, we actually do value your beliefs.