Ishterebinth

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« Reply #60 on: March 31, 2014, 11:27:27 am »
Fake, but the next best thing!  Maybe if you could daimos a nonwoman soul out of hell into a skin spy vessel...

Maybe that's the part of the deal Serwa doesn't know about: her dad intends for her to be possessed.

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« Reply #61 on: March 31, 2014, 12:46:56 pm »
Fake, but the next best thing!  Maybe if you could daimos a nonwoman soul out of hell into a skin spy vessel...


Haha you go so deep. TUC needs to come out before you go crazy.
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« Reply #62 on: March 31, 2014, 03:36:42 pm »
:P I'm fine, I just have to microwave my bacon because I know if I use the gas stove, Kellhus will watch me through the flames.

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« Reply #63 on: April 04, 2014, 02:12:25 pm »
Kellhus must have spent time with Cleric before Cleric met Kosoter. It's not even a question in my mind. Kellhus absolutely knows that his bulldog (possible embodied Ciphrang) is watching the Nonman King.

Absolutely.  The look Kosoter and Cleric share when traveler finds them is confirmation to me.
Btw, that scene also confirms that Kosoter IS a veteran of the first Holy War.
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« Reply #64 on: April 12, 2014, 10:12:49 pm »
The civil war in Ishterebinth: divided between Nin-Ciljiras vs Nin'Janjin?  Nin'Janjin wins and finally gets to rule a mansion since losing Viri!

Maybe Nin-Ciljiras is just Nin'Janjin renamed?

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« Reply #65 on: April 25, 2014, 12:32:38 pm »
Potentially. Seeing how Cleric changes his name when he 'becomes' another person, I think its likely that this is something that happens a lot of what remains of the nonman society.
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« Reply #66 on: May 07, 2014, 02:27:18 am »
Anyone have any insight into this?  In the TTT glossary, the entry on the Cuno-Inchoroi Wars, mentions Sin'niroiha, a rival to Cujara-Cinmoi who becomes the king of Ishoriol/Ishterebinth through marriage.  CC makes peace with S and when the nonmen gather to fight the Inchoroi after the Womb Plague, S leads the nonmen's retreat after CC is killed.  As far as I can tell, S is not mentioned anywhere else in the series.

Perhaps Sin'niroiha IS either Nil'giccas or Nin-Ciljiras.  But it would be weird if he is N'G because N'G is mentioned later on in the same entry.  Anyways, this S person is really formidable having fought to a stalemate with CC and because of his actions in battle.

P.S. Also, reading the Cuno-Inchoroi war entry, I was reminded that CC was killed and his head was not recovered.  Bakker loves CC, so maybe we'll get to see CC's reanimated head in TUC.  Headless CC reminds me of what happened to the dwarf king in Tolkien in the events that led to the Goblin Wars.

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« Reply #67 on: May 07, 2014, 02:38:08 am »
Akka:  WTF, its a flying head-in-a-jar!?
CC's head in a Jar:  DID YOU HUFF MY BODY MOTHERFUCKER?
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