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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 473

« on: February 13, 2026, 11:30:38 am »

Oddly this whole arc proves me wrong yet again on a major point, which Virmir indirectly confirmed.

I figured that Suzocon-kyo, being a powerful kitsune with full command of kitsunebi, would be the fire kami in this world's pantheon. I was wrong. He was an add-in.

This ancient volcano dragon is probably the fire kami. And pulling a Lord of the Rings on that fake eyestone may have... A lot of undesired effects beyond just killing Roko.

He doesn't even need to have been corrupted by the Puppetmancer. From what Brand has said, mature volcano dragons are corrupt by their very nature and do not care about anyone else's problems.

So what is the Puppetmancer's angle in this? It's obviously the ancient kitsune (?) is still plotting and planning, even as a Voldemort-style mana entity.

To quote Alice: "Curiouser and curiouser."

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 472

« on: February 08, 2026, 10:10:58 am »

They're falling under the Puppetmancer's spell. He's offered only the thing they want the most. All they have to do is let everything out that Vetra captured. As I said that may include things won in battle BEFORE she became corrupted. Smashing the thing might be opening Pandora's Box. Hell even TALKING about it already has Roko running off to do something ill thought out and stupid to stop it happening. He thinks they just want to get rid of him!

Vetra needs to go, not that gem. What's in there needs to be released in a controlled fashion.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 471

« on: February 03, 2026, 05:28:23 pm »

What happens to Roko, I have not the faintest. He's a youkai. Part of why, IMHO, he didn't turn into a Mana Wraith but an actual spirit. If he were a traditional kitsune, O-Inari would judge him and if he was judged worthy, she'd MAKE him a new body. In this universe? Who knows?

And Roko ain't too confident about the outcome.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 470

« on: January 30, 2026, 11:49:48 pm »

Brand actually has a point. There is no richer fertilizer on the planet than volcanic ash mixed with soil. The eruptions are deadly, but once over, plant life will quickly take over  the ashfall areas and begin to grow again.

And he does know his volcano dragons.

But they never truly answered the question of WHAT ELSE WOULD BE RELEASED? Her mother might not have stolen everything in that eyestone. She might have won some of it in battle....

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 469

« on: January 30, 2026, 08:17:03 pm »

Short Rman88; This whole situation stinks like month old fish.

What a bleak, nihilistic world these two inhabit. Saida and Brand deserve better and I hope something breaks good for them soon. They're practically the only ones worth rooting for.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 469

« on: January 27, 2026, 02:04:45 pm »

I guess the ten million gem question is, "What else is in that thing?"

And exactly what happens when their owners regain what was taken and stored there?

Best guess? The key to the Puppetmancer's and his army's prison. Yeah, you'll get back to your normal bodies, all right. And unleash an army of killer mecha across the landscape again, led by (?) an insane kitsune.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 468

« on: January 24, 2026, 04:31:16 pm »

You know, now that you mentioned this, the thought came across my mind that this tree being "deadly to touch" sounds an awful lot like the mythology surrounding the stone prison of Tamamo-no-Mae and how touching that meant death.

This might well be this universe's Tamamo-no-Mae and it ain't no myth in universe.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 468

« on: January 23, 2026, 09:47:49 pm »

Cut the thread. Connecting them. Kind of like... puppets.

I've been wrong a ton in this series because of how much it twists and turns, but I'm pretty damn sure that's the mana from what was a powerful kitsune. Mana so powerful it maintained consciousness. Deception and illusion are the stock and trade of the kitsune and that's exactly the weapon the Puppetmancer is using against them.

"Release the rest?" All I can say is if he's talking about his puppets... Oh, crap.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 467

« on: January 22, 2026, 07:52:57 pm »

Some interesting theorizing on FA that the Puppetmancer may actually be the Big Good fighting against corrupt and evil kami. Another theory that this spirit isn't the Puppetmancer at all but Omin Himself, locked away from the others.

That'd be one hell of a plot twist. But my feeling is the same it's been since early in Chapter 1: Something is WRONG with this world and they've not even started to grasp what the hell is so rotten at its core. Their encounter with Suzocon-sama did not exactly breed confidence.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 466

« on: January 16, 2026, 11:58:21 pm »

Roko is FA with things that he really, really shouldn't be FA with. Because if that's what I think it is, the FO is going to be an absolute - and literal - monster.

If this is this universe's Blasted Heath, that's the Colour Out of Space sitting there... watching. (It's even the perfect shade of unnatural magenta).

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 465

« on: January 13, 2026, 11:40:30 pm »

DARK AVE mana? Roko that's just gross.

Not to mention there might just be something else that wants that mana...

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 463

« on: January 05, 2026, 11:16:19 pm »

With all this, um, extracurricular activity, either that tree is dead as a doornail or it's going to go off like Chernobyl once these two damage it enough.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 462

« on: January 04, 2026, 11:10:09 pm »

To be fair might just be simpler to Run back to sadia and brand. Maybe sadia could de escalate things before they unleash the inevitable army of evil puppets on the world.

Granted we all know that is going to happen. But hey i want to learn more about the Dark aves. So having one that is alive might make things easier.

Not necessarily inevitable but the boy is really playing with fire here. Plus, as you pointed out, maybe the Dark Aves have a few answers if you give them sufficient motivation to provide them. If this were one of my TTRPGs I'd be trying to CAPTURE one of the damn things, not just fry them. Maybe having Saida give one a hotfoot will get them to start squawking.

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 462

« on: January 04, 2026, 12:26:24 am »

The Shock Jockey is about to hit the puddle, isn't it?

This can practically describe the entire series. "Dammit, Roko, no!!"

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Rain Burn / Re: Rain Burn, page 461

« on: December 29, 2025, 10:43:52 pm »

Almost reminds me of Gru facing a fixed carnival game and deciding to take matters into his own hands.

"Now - my turn."

This thing with Roko is both weird and sinister. No surprise Dark Aves are hanging around the Blasted Heath (Lovecraft, "The Colour Out of Space.") Roko taunting them and then letting them have it with Shock Jockey is, um, not a good development.