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Comment author: gjm 18 August 2015 05:30:41PM 0 points [-]

Well, if we're going to be picky, neither does the owl look like an owl. It's not that sort of picture. But I suggest that "blood" is a more likely answer to "what do those red bits indicate?" than anything like "ketchup".

Comment author: Lumifer 18 August 2015 05:52:17PM 0 points [-]

neither does the owl look like an owl

But it does. It's stylised, but it is certainly an owl, not a crow, a hawk, or a tit. As to the reddish brown bits, they match the colour of the pixel droppings in the bottom left of the cover, I think. Hard to say what was in the mind of the graphic designer...

Comment author: gjm 18 August 2015 10:57:28PM 0 points [-]

Perhaps I wasn't clear. The red looks (I think) about as much like a bloodstain as the owl looks like an owl. That is: no one would mistake one for the other, but the resemblance is there and you can certainly take one as an indication of the other.