Ling makes her way through darkened tunnels littered with the corpses of adventurers who have come before, suffering falls, losing her torch. They find her unworthy to see the dragon and take away her sight. Her bravery does not matter, nor does the fact that she killed them in self-defense. In short order she comes face to face with several ghosts, among which are represented some of the Khan’s men that she has killed. It is the dead who will judge her, and he tells her that she carries her dead with her. She must get past him, but he is only here to witness her arrival. He also recognizes her for having her own beliefs and traditions. In an interesting bit of discourse, he confesses that he cannot haunt the pagan rites. She is met by the skeleton of a Christian king. On her rope, Shahi comes to a stop hanging upside down at a ledge. He feels he has too little time remaining, and shoves her into the dark, flinging a torch in after her. She claims that, as a scholar, she is more useful to him alive. On a nearby mountaintop, at a mine entrance that presumably links to the same location, Margul Shadgur grows impatient with Ling, accusing her of being weak by not taking more aggressive action. She is having some trouble thinking clearly, and they push her over the edge. As they tie her securely in a web of ropes, they ask if she knows why they are called the People of the Dragon. Where she is going, the dead meet with the living and judge them. She refuses, but they assure her it is not wine. The Druids give Shahi a goblet of something to drink. But for some reason, the Druids seem to believe their Cauldron is safe.Ĭompass: The Cauldron of Eternal Life #3 opens at the top of a sea cliff which is also the secret gateway to the Barrow of Annwn. She admits that she seeks the Cauldron, but warns them about the Khan and Hua Ling. Following this slender clue, she is caught by the local Druids. In the little time she has, she realizes the pictures contain a coded message. Ednyfed orders everything in the church to be burned Shahi begs permission to go through his papers to find out more about the Cauldron. At the church where she met the Abbott, she and Lord Ednyfed are attacked by one of the assassins, who is also a leper. She is not alone Margul Shadgur has come with an army, assassins, and Shahi’s old friend Hua Ling to find it himself. Previously in Compass: The Cauldron of Eternal Life: Shahidah El-Amin, a scholar from Baghdad, has come to Wales to find the Cauldron and see how it works. Writer: Robert Mackenzie and David Walker You can purchase this issue via the comiXology affiliate link COMPASS: THE CAULDRON OF ETERNAL LIFE #3 What does this mean? And who guards the Cauldron? Find out in Compass: The Cauldron of Eternal Life #2 from Image Comics! Shahidah is granted entrance to the Barrow of Annwn where, she is told, she will be judged by the dead.
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