My understanding is that Chaz uses a limited form of magical omniscience to apply Torg's (or whoever is using the sword) personal definition of innocence to the target.

I thought I remember Chaz saying something that strongly implied this.

That would be interesting, and would fall in line with Torg's thought about Oasis.



I thought that there must be something like this already discussed. Hmmm...I might take you up on your dare...

So, nobody bothered to link this strip from Wayang Kulit?

Huge flaw in that logic -- Torg (and previous owners) don't know ANYTHING about lots of the bleeding people.

I figured this would happen. A lot of Oasis' behavior and demeanor in this arc plays her more resigned to violence outside her control than violent herself.

Even in regards to Torg and testing her triggers. The way Pete wrote her approach to all of that and her personality as a whole here was really intriguing. She's really come a long way from the deluded loony we once knew.

How many of those came after the hit to the head that caused her to actually realise the programming was controlling her?

We are already assuming that Chaz can somehow read a person's complete life history (or at least the complete history of their innocence related action) from a taste of their blood. Otherwise, how can Chaz apply its rules of "innocence," no matter what they are?

My idea is merely that Chaz's rules change depending on who is holding the blade, and since as we have seen Torg has always had a happy go lucky attitude to creatures committing mass murder (it's possible he might even consider Aylee innocent, despite how many people she has devoured over the strip's history) Oasis qualifies as innocent while Torg wields the sword. Now if Riff were wielding it, she might not.