Major character who has only appeared on 1 page in the entire OOTS saga

[Quartz]

How about Boss Monster in the penultimate panel of 619? It's a hanging thread and a blue dragon with goons would be CR-appropriate.

[CJG]

Wait, are we talking about whether Haley is half-celestial again? Like, seriously, and not as a joke?

I know I haven’t been making the best guesses here, but I honestly don’t think it’s any of the gods (Hel tried to get involved and we see how that went) or any of the main characters family members. We’ve done the family thing for everyone but Belkar and I don’t know if he even has a family?

All that said I don’t have any real serious guesses going. There are plenty of one-off nameless characters it can be.

[Stabbey]

The only one I can think of is the King of Nowhere.

[brian 333]

Has no one suggested the contagious sphinx yet?

[Rogar Demonblud]

Obviously it's going to be the beholder from the first book. He's finally finished with the lawyers trying to prevent his big break.

[Peelee]

Obviously it's going to be the beholder from the first book. He's finally finished with the lawyers trying to prevent his big break.

I hear he's eye-conic.

[Rogar Demonblud]

I wouldn't bat a lash at it becoming famous.

[CriticalFailure]

Wait, were we supposed to be taking this seriously?

[D.One]

Wait, were we supposed to be taking this seriously?

Surely. With the same high standards of seriousness we adopt for each and every speculation and predictions in this forum.

[Ruck]

I hear he's eye-conic.

That's eye-rodic.

[Rogar Demonblud]

Are you sure you don't mean eye-ronic?

[Ruck]

Are you sure you don't mean eye-ronic?

Eyes aren't made up of cones and rons.

[Peelee]

Eyes aren't made up of cones and rons.

The Weasley family disagrees.

[Riftwolf]

Farewell my Cone-y eye-land gal?

[halfeye]

why not one of the good aligned goblins?
http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0093.html

We see a few of them just once I think.

Mind you, I’m just guessing for fun. I doubt this will pan out

Because they were teenagers then, now they'll have grown out of their good alignment syndrome, there will be other teenage goblins, but they'll be as low level as those were back then.

[littlebum2002]

Yes, but in her actual sole appearance it says explicitly that she died.

http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0772.html

I don't think it's her, but death is only a minor setback in this universe.

Anyway, it can't be her, because it's clearly That Guy With A Halberd

[b_jonas]

So the crew of the Mechane have probably already heard of Hel's plan and of Xykon. Perhaps not all of them shares Andy's and Five O'Clock Shadow's view from #1028 that the apocalypse is not the mechane's business. The Order can recruit an ally from them.

It turns out that indeed some of the crew of the Mechane only appeared on one page so far. The crewman in yellow clothes and with earrings appears only in #934 third panel. #392 fourteenth panel shows three people throwing alchemist's fire, and two of them only appear on that one page (the middle one may or may not be the same as the person in #933 first panel).

[skim172]

Guys. I've got it. There's only one person it possibly could be. We should've known.

Batman.

*cue dark orchestral music*

Also, the green and orange voices? Green Lantern and Firestorm. It's all coming together...

[Grey Watcher]

Guys. I've got it. There's only one person it possibly could be. We should've known.

Batman.

No good, he's also in Start of Darkness. [/Insufferable Pedantry]

[Tryxx]

My slightly silly nomination is the Ranch Dressing Elemental.

The Order of the Stick having an alliance with an Elemental Prince (even if it's the Prince of Ranch Dressing) seems like it could be both funny and resourceful.

I also like to imagine Xykon being ambushed by these elementals and being covered in dip during the attack, which prompts the Monster in the Darkness to finally turn on and devour him since he smells so delicious.

[Gluteus_Maximus]

My slightly silly nomination is the Ranch Dressing Elemental.

The Order of the Stick having an alliance with an Elemental Prince (even if it's the Prince of Ranch Dressing) seems like it could be both funny and resourceful.

I also like to imagine Xykon being ambushed by these elementals and being covered in dip during the attack, which prompts the Monster in the Darkness to finally turn on and devour him since he smells so delicious.

It may be a different elemental, but when V is sent there the first time a ranch dressing elemental is there

[Ron Miel]

No good, he's also in Start of Darkness. [/Insufferable Pedantry]

However, Robin(aka circus acrobat boy) only appears in one panel in SOD, so it could be him.

[D.One]

Maybe Roy's plan with Roy's Archon will succeed, and Heavens will send Sir Rover, the Blessed Hound, to help the Order.

[Rogar Demonblud]

My slightly silly nomination is the Ranch Dressing Elemental.

The Order of the Stick having an alliance with an Elemental Prince (even if it's the Prince of Ranch Dressing) seems like it could be both funny and resourceful.

I also like to imagine Xykon being ambushed by these elementals and being covered in dip during the attack, which prompts the Monster in the Darkness to finally turn on and devour him since he smells so delicious.

Nah, if you really want to mess with Xykon, you need a Coffee Elemental.

[Reboot]

My slightly silly nomination is the Ranch Dressing Elemental.

The Order of the Stick having an alliance with an Elemental Prince (even if it's the Prince of Ranch Dressing) seems like it could be both funny and resourceful.

I also like to imagine Xykon being ambushed by these elementals and being covered in dip during the attack, which prompts the Monster in the Darkness to finally turn on and devour him since he smells so delicious.

SEMI-elemental!

[skim172]

No good, he's also in Start of Darkness. [/Insufferable Pedantry]

So you think - but that's not the real Batman, that's actually the second Robin who is pretending to be Batman for the purposes of deceiving the third Robin who has now become evil and is trying to kill Batman, with the assistance of the fourth Batgirl and the second Batwoman and the sixth Alfred.

So as you can see, via this artful and not at all ham-fisted retcon, the story totally holds up.

[Quebbster]

Surely, a noted expert would be a valuable ally.

[Tom Lehmann]

Here's a weird possibility: the Priest of Tiamat from #571 (who raised the Oracle). I believe that is the sole page this Priest has appeared in.

We've been given quite a few hints that Tiamat has reached out to The Dark One and she may have oracular powers of her own. While the IFCC has been able to dissuade her from acting against them so far, it may be that their plans for the Gate and her own diverge, forcing her to take action via her cleric and help OOTS oppose the IFCC and their vessel.

[Dausuul]

Wait, are we talking about whether Haley is half-celestial again? Like, seriously, and not as a joke?

Sure. It ties together a couple of long-standing mysteries (the "key way" in which Haley and Sabine are opposed; Haley's un-revealed secret) in a neat little way. It's wild speculation, obviously, but so is this entire thread.

[CriticalFailure]

Maybe they will both viscously avenge the death of their lover.