Elves have telescopes. The grinding of lenses is very old and possibly goes back to the Egyptians. But there is no record of them being used for magnification. But then most of the scientific records of the ancient world are lost. More than enough room for someone, somewhere to have made all kinds of telescopes and observed the heavens and kept the methods of their magical observations secret.
The framing of the first panel is specific in including the Sword of Kings off to one side. Enlandom is a republic as it made sense to me that a community of miners would be more likely to develop unions and guilds and elected leadership as opposed to hereditary nobility and maybe even community ownership. The dwarfs are commies!
Eslan is the kingdom of the Elves with an elected queen. The queens are elected every few years and are more like a prime minister. They lose their quorum they have to request an election. The Elvish kingdom has its capitol in Eslan but actually rules all the elves in Narthatheia and on the Continent with the exception of an independent enclave in the forest of Azure. But that's not important to this story. Elvish governments are a maze of family connections and political coalitions. And they learned to grind lenses because that ancestry of Ice Age hunting left them with a tendency towards farsightedness and the need for eyeglasses.
In case it matters my elves use Celtic names. Gwalchmai is the original Celtic name of the hero who would become Gawain in the legends of Arthur.
Elves and dwarfs in my world are two offshoots of one common species. They can interbreed. Elves are in fact descended from Ice Age hunters with much of their physiology and culture deriving from that origin. The ancestors of the dwarfs chose to go underground to survive the worst aspects of the Ice Age. Both pre-date humans and their root species still exists as the brutish skags. More on that as it becomes relevant.
I hope the expressions in the last panel indicate that Falkimir may be looking through the wrong end on purpose.
And Happy Thanksgiving to my US readers.
Thanks to all the great readers out there. There's at least one page ready for next week and the first draft of the re-write of Book 2 is done.
Falkimir...dude...we can do this...we can find a way OUT of this marriage...AND you can stay High King...we gotta put our heads together and work this out
El Cid at 8:04PM, Nov. 25, 2017
I embarrassed myself in similar fashion the first time I handled a rifle scope.
El Cid at 8:03PM, Nov. 25, 2017
For a moment there I thought it might be a peace pipe! Wrong hemisphere, I guess!
bravo1102 at 6:14AM, Nov. 26, 2017
Pipe weed is a very rare import, so it would have been a gift befitting a king but I couldn't come up with a convincing scale pipe.
KimLuster at 11:58AM, Nov. 25, 2017
Oooo look at that face and hair!! We got us a Hottie!!! Echoing everyone (and myself from prev. pages) these wardrobes are so rich!!
bravo1102 at 4:33PM, Nov. 25, 2017
That's why that figure was cast as an elf.
jerrie at 1:56PM, Nov. 23, 2017
great pages Bravo....again, your wardrobe designs are great!
bravo1102 at 3:33AM, Nov. 24, 2017
Sorry there's no topless ladies. :)
jerrie at 1:55PM, Nov. 23, 2017
Falkimir...dude...we can do this...we can find a way OUT of this marriage...AND you can stay High King...we gotta put our heads together and work this out
bravo1102 at 12:55AM, Nov. 24, 2017
You'll love Monday's page. ;)
Jason Moon at 11:35AM, Nov. 23, 2017
I like how you included the dwarves sword laid upon the wall and the elf with the telescope behind his back as he bows. Incredible set-up!
bravo1102 at 12:44PM, Nov. 26, 2017
When using real figures you keep in mind where someone is keeping something until they need it. The wonder of theatrical property management.
plymayer at 1:40AM, Nov. 23, 2017
Have a very safe and happy Thanksgiving.
bravo1102 at 1:54AM, Nov. 23, 2017
You too and the comic must go on.