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HA #3 Pg. 26 by Abt_Nihil

Abt_Nihil

on April 3, 2011

Artwork by myself.

The following is taken from DAJB's "Thrawn" character study.

As with most of the characters in Shades, Thrawn's role is tied up with the British national character. If good old British common sense relies on the ability to see the other side of an argument, Thrawn's "power" is a dark and twisted version of that. Once an enemy is caught in his tentacles, he will take one of that character's darker personality traits (or twist and distort one of which they are most proud) and turn it against them, thereby undermining their self-belief, destroying them from the inside.

For the purposes of the comic, this ability is represented by a spirit energy known as "phisma", a word derived from sophism or sophistry (the art of using a "deliberately invalid, misleading or specious argument" - at least according to my dictionary!)