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Messages - Simas Polchias

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Yes, you're putting it very accurate about the defect and the belonging (I'm not a native speaker, sometimes it's difficult to express a thought, especially an escaping one).

Maybe that's also Anasurimbor "peculiarity" in context of the sarcophagus? Some uber-stable trait, which manifests itself on many levels from genetics to god know how abstract and subtle.

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The Darkness That Comes Before / Re: My live reactions from Tumblr
« on: April 23, 2018, 04:33:55 pm »
Awesome idea, awesome notes. Like a delicacy, but a text/post.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: Another (perhaps) simple question
« on: April 23, 2018, 04:10:05 pm »
Or perhaps they are scouring the universe for all places like Earwa where the Outside can be reached, and are slowing colonizing the closed worlds behind their Inchoroi armadas.

This.

My guess was about other planets of Bakkerverse can form topoi or be subject to anti-topoi measures (which is technically approaching to the Outside / distancing from the Outside, opening the World / shutting the World). But they have no sorcery. You will have to shut these world manually one by one and hope one day you will find or research some new, more efficient, universe-wide method. Inchoroi were lucky to find sorcery, gnosis  and Shaeönanra, lol.

Assumption is. Sorcery is an "intelligence within intelligence", a rule-breaker. There is mostly empty space in the universe. Sometime there are stars. Even less, there are planets. Life is ever more rare thing. Intelligence? Much more rare. Intelligence capable of sorcery? Maybe the rarest thing possible.

Without sorcery you can create topos-wide planet by torturing it's intelligent population. Without sorcery you can shut the said world through forced evolution (torture is about pain, pain is about experience of tissue trauma, science can destroy the very existence of torure, including psychical one -- nonmen innoculation seems like a botched attempt of it).
But it's just a local event. After making the numerous population, ahem, into 144000 post-specie creatures, you are safe on the shut world. Gods won't recognize it or you anymore. It's better than to just count on your immortality and never dying, but it's still a procrastination. Contitents will migrate, supervulcanos will awaken, stars will grow and devour a whole planet. One day you will have to pack your tekne and find youself a new world, starting the cycle again.

With sorcery you can completely change the field and the rules of this game. So to say, you can gouge out eyes of gods instead of acting stealthy in front of them. Go full assault instead of hiding.

TL;DR Earwa is a final, non-procrastination solution to the Outside problem.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: Another (perhaps) simple question
« on: April 18, 2018, 10:19:17 pm »
Crackpot time.

Do we actually know for a fact that "world" is a synonym for all reality and not just the stellar body? There could be numerous worlds already shut and numerous "crusader arcs" bringing salvation to the rest of the universe. It's just this one arc had a crash story, so it's highest weapon race is totally wrong about history of the shutting endeavour -- shutting was successfull all along and Earwa is a botched land, not promised one.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] - Cnaïur/Ajokli theory
« on: April 18, 2018, 10:05:48 pm »
So, here is my idea. In my reading it make sens that Cnaïur isn't possessed by Ajokli at the end as I can read in many places, but instead become Ajokli.

So... If IF is the portal to the Ajokli's domain and Ajokli ascended on Earwa, wasn't that the very reason inchoroi recognized that Earwa as promised land?

I have trouble imagining that both of them became Ajokli in any shared way. That particular god doesn't war against itself but with others.

Ajoklikellhus dutifuly helps with the plan, but Ajoklicnaiur spreads the fuckery all over it! Bonus points if these two guys never meet each other -- so Ajoklicknealiluhrus doesn't understand why people call him the trickster. To put it shortly, Ajokli is a mad god.

But, all signs in the book point to the Gods existing before Arkfall, why else would it be the promised land??

It's a retroactive existence. There were no gods before Arkfall, but afther Arkfall they were always before Arkfall.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: Identity of the Mutilated
« on: April 18, 2018, 09:53:19 pm »
Do we actually know for a fact those mutilations came from tortures by Consult and/or from war wounds? Could be a self-inflicted thing after getting full access to IF. That way the Unscarred is the one hell of a creepy person. Or he was in a control gropu to have both IFed and nonIFed duniyains. Or he's a mastermind who tested IF with others and just observed the results.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: Erratics and the Ten Yolk Legion
« on: April 18, 2018, 09:43:37 pm »
but when the battle moved into the labyrinthine passages below Ishuäl, they got lost in its depths, they went even nuttier, and ended up burying themselves in desperate attempts to escape.

Suddenly, I've put together their "technical" defeat under Ishual and the WMGs about Ishual being the backdoor of Ishterebinth or some minor cunuroi manson etc. Could those erratics remember something? Like, protecting exactly those (or very similar) halls from inchoroi horde?

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He loves Serwe, Esmenet,Cnaiur, Akkamian and even Proyas, the worst sin however is that he loves himself. Every mistake Kellhus makes is because of love...

My reread of TUC could be a very unprobable thing, so I beg forgiveness if I will mix some fact.

Anasurimbor Koringhus was described as a greater duniyain than his father, right? And one of the main fact about him is saving of defective, little, helpless son with further care.

So I take it some things run in the family and the talent for being  a cold, reasoning, effective thing capable of hacking reality could actually come from being capable of deep emotions -- like, if that conflict is always with you, it's your life-time, personal, permanent gym. In terms of a rpg, you're constanly generating small points of experience by yourself.

That way most duniyains are just anemic and well-bred pug-likes, who have nothing to fight inside them and thus lack most parts, levels and volumes of such skill (imagine an inversion of Moe's issue with Psukhe). They are a deadlock path.

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General Earwa / Re: Dûnyain genetics
« on: April 15, 2018, 07:00:49 pm »
My headcanon is people, who were running from Apocalypse to Ishual, had a greater history with Tekne than Three Seas population. Were they victims of bioweapon warfare? Or did they settle in a repurposed nonmen warehouse, full of ancient inchoroi tropheys?

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General Earwa / Re: Mistakes and things that piss off in the series
« on: April 15, 2018, 06:39:17 pm »
I do however think Bakker has a far better grasp of armour than many other fantasy others. I much prefer scale/mail than suits of armour.

I really liked the lore of the Emiorali, or Bronzemen and imagined them to wear something like this:




Oh my god. A real life Dalek!

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General Earwa / Re: Visualizing the Inverse Fire
« on: April 15, 2018, 06:07:26 pm »
https://youtu.be/6jxRnodaKzE
"As Seen On Quorum!"
.....an analog, "low-Tekne" version of the Inverse Fire.

Aw, I like it so much. Every match is an idea, a belief, an assumption. And all them will burn.

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Lol. I've actually made my progress to the very end. It happend sooner than I've expected thanks to the big Glossary. While reading it, I made a simple definition of my dissapointment about TUC. There is actually no Consult in the book. Great pity.

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Nil'Giccas and Oinaral.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: Who actually liked TUC?
« on: August 27, 2017, 11:00:27 am »
I am very disappointed with TUC. That's all I want to say.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] Inverse fire
« on: August 05, 2017, 06:25:21 pm »
But if you are a hunger there and not fodder, hell ain't a bad place to be.
It may be more uncertain. Like you are a newborn hunger for a weak meat, but still a weak meat for a stronger, deeper, ancient hunger. Or there is a problem with maintaining the "you"-part. Cnaiür, Horiötha? Ouch, doesn't matter in the Outside -- it just merges all prominent scylvendi conquerors into one Scyll cyphrang.

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