Show Posts

This section allows you to view all posts made by this member. Note that you can only see posts made in areas you currently have access to.


Messages - citizensnips

Pages: [1]
1
General Earwa / Re: Mistakes and things that piss off in the series
« on: October 06, 2017, 03:57:33 pm »
Achamian is mentioned as being the only known Wizard, a sorcerer without a School. What about Pafaras the captain of the Stone Hags? Apparently he was scourged from the Mysunsai and run off into the wilderness. And he was specifically outlawed by the Empire so it's not like his continued existence was unknown. Wouldn't he fit the criteria?

2
General Earwa / Re: Mistakes and things that piss off in the series
« on: September 07, 2017, 06:19:01 am »
Oh no worries, you didn't ruin anything. It's nice to have somewhere to muse over these things.

3
General Earwa / Re: Mistakes and things that piss off in the series
« on: September 07, 2017, 04:47:10 am »
Quote from:  citizensnips
Wait, how do the Dûnyain even make their super awesome swords? Do they have their own super localized mining operation set up, or the most efficient recycling program in history?

I admit, every time I ask a question about the Dûnyain I think of 10 more about the logistics of their whole operation.

Bakker said in the Q&A after TGO that he had a whole section about the ins and outs of the Dunyain that he never did put in the books or get into because it's not part of the story. Ishual was self sufficient and that's all you need to know really.

Well, booooo. Most people on this board wonder about the real identity and meaning of various characters, I wonder "How do the Dunyain make candles?"

(Wait, scratch that, I just thought about it and now I don't want to know that answer)

4
General Earwa / Re: Mistakes and things that piss off in the series
« on: September 06, 2017, 08:00:06 pm »
Wait, how do the Dûnyain even make their super awesome swords? Do they have their own super localized mining operation set up, or the most efficient recycling program in history?

I admit, every time I ask a question about the Dûnyain I think of 10 more about the logistics of their whole operation. 

5
So in addition to intellect and motor reflexes, do the Dûnyain breed for insane finger strength? In TWP Kel survives an assassination attempt by reaching behind himself and catching the oncoming blade between his fingers.

Also, the first time he encounters a skin spy he reasons it's face is made of cartilage, "like a shark". How would he know what a shark is?

EDIT: These are probably less "loose threads" and more "little things that bugged me", but I've been needing to get that off my chest for a while now.

6
The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Whale Mothers
« on: August 20, 2016, 05:02:24 pm »
I can tell you where I draw the line. Snatch arrows from mid-air, OK. But that scene in one of the first books where Kel is fighting skin spies in a darkened basement and he gets them to rush into one corner by throwing his voice there? Not feeling it, because a) that's not really how "throwing your voice" works and b ) are parlor tricks a normal part of Dunyain conditioning?

Also, how the heck did Kel know what a shark even is?

7
The Almanac: TAE Edition / Re: The Slog TJE - Chapters 1-3 [Spoilers]
« on: March 10, 2016, 06:43:33 am »
Quote
Made it through Chapter 1:

Quote
upon the high wall the husbands slept,
while 'round the hearth their women wept,
and fugitives murmured tales of woe,
of greater cities lost to Mog-Pharau...

—"The Refugee's Song," The Sagas

This is the quote from the beginning.  What way to beging the chapter that sees Sakarpus conquered.  The parallel is obvious, showing us that Kellhus has done what the No-God (and Consult) could not.  The implication seems clear, Kellhus is more.  What remains to be seen is, what does the more entail?

Tell me, why couldn't the Consult conquer Sarkapus? The chorae hoard? Is this why Kellhus hand is salting when he meets Sorweel?

Yeah, we've talked about it before and the two places spared the Apocalypse were Sakarpus and Atrithau.

Sakarpus has the Chorae Hoard and Atrithau is on Anarcane Ground.  My speculation was that the No-God could be blind to these places, because of this.  An alternative theory could be that without being able to use sorcery, it was not worth the effort for the Consult to take these places.

Both seem pretty plausible.  Kellhus demonstates that neither of these things effect him particularly (but yeah, he probably is salting from all the Chorae that are around but more probably Sorweel's).

I can't remember where this came from, but wasn't one of the books of the Tractate devoted to something along the lines of "the strange story of how Sakarpus survived the Apocalypse"?


Am I the only one who thinks of her name as Theliopia?  I know it's wrong, but it has a better ring to it to me.  Anyway, she is probably my favorite of all Kellhus' kids, Inrilatas aside.  She is weird and creepy, but like my enjoyment of Aurang, she never pulls punches.  Just the facts mam, just the facts.


Dude, I just now realized there's no i at the end of her name reading that. Also, I wonder where her name comes from? All the rest of the kids seem to have familial or historical based names.

8
The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Who destroyed the [spoiler] monastery?
« on: March 03, 2016, 04:43:12 pm »
That or Leweth actually survived and went back to take his vengeance on Kellhus' old friends. Either or. 

9
The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Who destroyed the [spoiler] monastery?
« on: March 02, 2016, 09:14:55 pm »
Well the important thing is that I'm here and can finally write down all my half baked theories!


10
The Darkness That Comes Before / Re: Trying to trace a scene...
« on: March 02, 2016, 09:09:26 pm »
] The thought dizzied Cnaïur with its implications. Suddenly, everything he had witnessed and heard since joining the horde possessed different meaning: the buggery of their Scylvendi captives, the mocking embassies, even the positioning of their privies–all calculated to gall the People into attacking.



I always wondered what that line was supposed to mean. Like, did the Nansur send envoys to the Sclyvendi just to insult them? Wouldn't the Sclyvendi normally just kill foreign envoys who showed up at their doorstep, regardless of what they were saying?

11
The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Who destroyed the [spoiler] monastery?
« on: March 01, 2016, 09:56:20 pm »
Please, raise dead threads all you like, citizensnips :).

Also, welcome to the Second Apocalypse, officially (though, it looks like you've been registered for time).

Thanks. I was doing a reread of the series before the next book comes out and I for some reason I couldn't get a new account to register. Then I ended up trying an old email address and I found this account I made a couple years ago and never used...

I couldn't find the quote (thought it was in this thread somewhere...) he Kellhus turns around once as he leaves Ishual and watches those on the wall leave the ramparts. Its definitely not in shambles when he walks out. It was destroyed sometime between when he turned around and when Akka/Mim finally find it.

Yeah, I figured that it was unlikely. It has gotten me thinking about the logistics of Dûnyain society though.

12
The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Who destroyed the [spoiler] monastery?
« on: March 01, 2016, 03:46:39 pm »
Thread necro, and this is probably directly contradicted by a passage in an earlier book but....maybe Ishual is just like that?

It's a 2,000+ year old castle. Given their rules about staying in one place and their (presumably) small population pool, it seems unlikely the Dûnyain would have the resources and expertise to maintain such a large structure. Especially if they destroyed any magic runes or such that might have been propping it up. Maybe they just live around and below the ruin.


13
The White-Luck Warrior / Re: How to kill a No-God without a Heron Spear?
« on: February 29, 2016, 10:36:47 pm »
I feel like I missed something, I always see the Heron Spear referred to as a laser weapon. Where does that come from?

Pages: [1]