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About | Extra Material | Buy | Forum Angel-Eye: A name that Golgo went by many years ago. Link. Arctaur: A purple person who lives alone in the abandoned city of Whetton. He fancies himself a historian, and knows much of the history and lore of Overside. He is particularly fascinated by Whetton's dead Tree of Thought, and the magic it once possessed. Link. Avatar: In the old stories, there are three massive pillars called "Avatars" that were left to control and maintain the world once God departed after its creation. There is an Avatar of Time, an avatar of Space, and an avatar of Mind. They were hidden across the world, "never to found, corrupted, or destroyed." One of the Avatars has disappeared, and Ridrom's prophecy says that a Fulfiller will bring it back. Link. Backtown: A town of sand on the Western border of Skortch, where water and hospitality are scarce. Link. Bird: Spatch II's small pet, which says "Fuh" over and over. Link. Black Spirit: A black potion with strange properties. Anyone who drinks it is immortal for as long as he drinks it, but it isn't the same life as before. Extended use is thought to make the drinker increasingly evil, and eventually change his physical form. Few know of the drink, and only Olga knows how it is made. Link. Black Teeth: A mountain range north of Skortch, and the hidden homeland of the reclusive Machine-Men. The symbol of the Black Teeth is a circle over two isosceles triangles, and the colors of its military are dark purple and gold. Bleach Beast: The Slave beast, who serves whoever claims it, and has roamed the world for ages. Link. Book of Spatch: A very large book bound in green. Its contents were dictated by an aging Spatch, a particularly self-confident King of Sunk, to lay down the laws for the continuation of his empire. The last page is marked with Spatch's handprint. Link. Bor the Very Large: An appropriately named large, one-eyed citizen of the Dorlish Wood. He is not very helpful. Link. Brain Child: A massive purple beast who lives in Lonely Land, and seems to be its de facto ruler. He has obsessively filled his land with lightbulbs, towers, and small clockwork machines. The Dimmons fear and respect him. Link. Calabash: T-O-E's old friend and partner in a very difficult job. He was alive and drinking heavily for over 3,000 years, searching for the Fulfiller with T-O-E with varying degrees of conviction. He enjoys vodka, the Occasional Cigar, and in general being a bad role model. In The Book of Spatch, and by those who do not know him personally, he is referred to as the "Round Brown One." Link. Calendar: The calendar of Overside resembles our own. Days are roughly the same length, and are created by the world-disk spinning on a North/South axis. A year, made of five 25-day months, is about a third the length of our years (all times expressed in Rice Boy are in Overside Years). The calendar resets every thousand years, starting a new Age. Each Age is named for a color, somewhat arbitrarily. The year in which Rice Boy takes place is Red 854 OSS (the 854th year of the Red Age, OverSide Standard). Lately, the population of Overside is so decentralized that few actually continue to follow this calendar. Dimmons: Dark creatures with glowing white faces that live in Lonely Land. They feed on the misery and loneliness of those who travel through the land, and they bring donations of food to their old incarcerated master, Father Dimmon. Link. Dolly: Golgo's assistant and sort-of girlfriend. She wears magic boots that talk to her when she is alone. Link. Dorlish Wood: A thick green forest downstream from the Matchwoods. The Dorlish Wood is home to the Tree Keeper, who T-O-E wishes Rice Boy would meet. It is also very large and strange, filled with many magic trees, fruits, and little animals. The fruits that grow in the Dorlish wood are poisonous to diurnal peoples after sunset. Link. Evan Dahm: A liberal-minded young college student in North Carolina, who does the creating of this comic. There is really very little to say about him. Father Dimmon: A massive, many-legged Dimmon. His hands are nailed into the earth of Lonely Land, so he depends on his smaller Dimmons to bring him food. He can only speak in one word phrases. Link. Frog-Men: Native inhabitants of Sunk. Every King of Sunk has been a Frog person, but until Spatch's coronation, the population of the Swamp has been very diverse. Frog-Men are green and three-fingered. Link. Fruit of Thought: A fruit that grows on the Tree of Thought and is thought to cure all ills. They are purple and can be extremely addictive. Link. Fulfiller: The person who Calabash and T-O-E have been searching for for quite a while; one who will fulfill Ridrom's Prophecy. Gerund: An orange horned fellow from the Stone Palm. Eating is definitely his favorite thing to do. Gerund is shy and pretty nervous, and has never fit in with other natives of the Stone Palm. He is traveling in search of the Bleach Beast. Link. God: Believed to be the employer of T-O-E and Calabash, and supplier of their immortality. T-O-E talks to God on a tiny island in the center of a glowing pink lake, somewhere. In old lore, God is the indifferent creator of the World and the Avatars, and is never referred to with pronouns. Golgo: An extremely nasty bounty hunter with a magic |