Wanted to copy/paste my comment to some doubts expressed in the previous pages about the motivation of the Spirits! Might be useful if you're wondering WHY they act so out of logic. Here:
They had bad lives but they should have seen there are good people on Earth. This is obvious, what a logic and reasoning person would think; well, they all got MAD, they don't use this logic, and ALSO they're Gods, they basically know they're more powerful than humans and think respect was owed to them. It's like...they suffered but were also offended by what happened to them, like a dispotic king would go mad if a peasant disrespected him. No logic! That's why they're the evil part of this all: the evil here is the blind, non logic hatred. AND, for what concerns the Bear, we already know he loved humans! He had a wife and a daughter, he loved humans as much as Gimkhana or Leonidas did! So, we know for sure, by this "flashback" that they all gave actually a good chance to humans, but the difference stays in what they do AFTER the bad happening. The Lion, despite Leonidas is what it is, is wiser than the Bear, here, that's the difference between a good person and a bad person. As a writer, I want you to see how mad these Spirits-character are, in fact! You should...simpatize a bit, but it's good that you see no "logic" or stay angry at them, but I suggest anyways to read the whole story to give a global judge on everything! ^^ It'll take a while but...that's webcomics </3 the good protagonists will be somewhat and partially defeated by this hatred, that's why the comic has a bitter-sweet end, quite a partial triumph of injustice; but, on the other end, the sweet part of the ending will give importance to hope as the only "weapon" we all have left in the end!
Okay, I really didn't like the "bitter-sweet end" part, but guess that was expected. And at least we are being given a warning...? Just, please be gentle with our hearts ;-;
Set between 1720 and 1770, it'll bring the reader to the native tribes of Florida, the aristocratic salons of Seville and then in Boston, during the War of Indipendence.
Five Spirits (Courage, Justice, Shrewdeness, Strength and Gratitude)
born from the very first human action that showed up those values, placed themselves as silent guides of human feelings and actions; but they decided ( at undefined time, not reported by any historical source) to slowly destroy the mankind, since it had proved inept, stupid, cowardly and injust.
Still, one of the Five, Spirit of Courage, wants to give humans another chance of redemption, wants to let them live;
but at one condition.
The Spirits would have lived once as humans among humans, each one in a different place and a different time, trying to test humans' behaviour and teach them their values: if their test had had negative results, the Five would meet again after their human death, and unleash their powers against the undeserving humankind, erasing it forever from the face of the Earth.
During her human experience, one of the Spirits finds out that, after all, even if humans can be evil, unjust or stupid, there are little sparks of goodness that don't deserve to be destroyed; but her Spirit comrades, filled with rage and disappointment, won't agree...
The stories of Gimkhana, the other Spirits, the noble Ferrer family and many others meet in a single story that will lead you through love and death, good and evil, determination and regret.
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