Much to Durkon's dismay, the rules of the Godsmoot prevent Thor from directly assisting him in the coming battle with Hel's minions. However, Thor is able to tell Durkon about a dwarven secret lost generations ago.
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Transcript[]
- Panel 1
Durkon: An' yer sure tha me exile's officially revoked?
Minrah: I mean, that's what your friends said. They met Rubyrock at the Godsmoot and she cleared it.
- Panel 2
Durkon: Then I get ta go home. After all this be done, at least.
Minrah: Yeah. And assuming you defeat the other vampires and the world doesn't go kablooey.
Durkon: Och, aye. Thar's tha.
- Panel 3
Durkon: Lord Thor, I dinnae suppose ye could just pop down thar an' smash 'em wit yer holy hammer?
Thor: No, sorry.
- Panel 4
Durkon: What aboot zappin' 'em wit divine thunder?
Thor: No.
Durkon: OK, but wha if'n—
Thor: Nope.
Durkon: Even if—?
Thor: Nuh uh.
- Panel 5
Durkon: Wha if'n ye—
Thor: Look, whatever solution you think up that involves me fixing it for you—
Thor: —I guarantee there's a bunch of dumb god laws tying my hands, OK?
Odin: We wrote them that way on purpose!
- Panel 6
Odin: There are fewer Good gods than Not-Good gods, you know.
Odin: If everyone could play in the sandbox all the time, there wouldn't be a lot of castles left unkicked!
- Panel 7
Durkon: Is thar na anythin' ye can do ta help us?
Thor: Gosh, I could give you amazing magical spells on demand every single morning.
Thor: Do you think that might help?
- Panel 8
Durkon: Och, I'm sorry, me lord. Yer right.
Durkon: I just worry tha I willnae ev'n get tha chance ta talk ta Redcloak if'n we cannae defeat Hel's minions.
- Panel 9
Thor: Look, Durkon, I'll...I'll see what I can do.
Thor: But ultimately, once your back down there, it's going to be your fight, not mine. And you'll do great.
- Panel 10
Thor: As far as concrete physical aid...well, there is one thing, now that I think of it.
Thor: A little secret your people forgot a few generations back...
- Panel 11
Thor whispers in Durkon's ear.
- Panel 12
Minrah: Ummm...why are you whispering? There's no one here to overhear you.
Thor: So it'll be dramatic later, duh. Didn't get to spend much time with the kid with the puppet, did you?
Durkon: Right?? Tha's wha I said!
Trivia[]
- Minrah didn't explicitly learn of Durkon's rescinded exile in on-panel dialog, so she must have had that conversation off-panel at some time before the battle in Odin's banquet hall. Rubyrock informed Roy of the end of Durkon's banishment in #1024, "The Unbanished Truth".
- In the last panel, Durkon references #1133, "Call Answering", when he commented on Minrah not seeing the Order being successful in resurrecting him in time.