[TGO SPOILERS] Kellhus and the Voice.

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« Reply #30 on: March 14, 2017, 11:10:14 pm »
I understand your point, Wilshire. Just not sure if I totally agree.
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« Reply #31 on: March 15, 2017, 12:00:56 am »
Yes, we have to disagree to even have a forum, ya know?

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« Reply #32 on: March 15, 2017, 12:59:17 pm »
Proyas the Place is the important part. He is certainly extremely important during the timespace of TGO, even in PoN. What we are saying is extremely similar, but I'd phrase it as such: The Kellhus made people special by choosing them, not the other way around. I think your definition is closer to "the author made the character, so its therefore specials" which, while true, doesn't satisfy my need for in-world explanations. 

As Madness says, he might have been groomed before we even saw him on screen by Maithanet/Moenghus specifically for Kellhus. That's something like 30+ years of conditioning directly and indirectly by Dunyain. He's a well shaped tool, but uncoupled from the dunyain who knows what he might have been.

Also, Achamian isn't really special either. He's the Mandate-Place that was stepped upon to gain the Gnosis. The Prince-Place was fulfilled by Proyas, but could have been any number of Princes that had functionally similar experiences - which is what I was attempting to demonstrate above.

The point is this :They are all parts of a plan that gets from point A to point B (TTT). The Places (people) in between are inconsequential in the specifics, but extremely vital in their generalities. Kellhus needed to be taught the gnosis, he needed a prince to back him, he needed later a queen to bare his children, good generals to lead his war efforts to groom to be his exalt-generals, and eventual general-in-fact while he was gone. He needed many different positioned filled, but they are all just pieces on the benjuka plate. When he moves them, the rules change - the pieces just do what they are told.

I'm thinking that it is important to keep in mind the contingent aspect of Kellhus' quest. He has to use the tools at hand. As Kellhus is introduced to the Earwan ruling class, he chooses Proyas as a result of his scrutiny, the Probability Trance, and his search for the Shortest Path. His use of Cnauir was contingent, and the reverberations of that choice may still haunt Kellhus.

I believe that Kellhus chooses Proyas because he is the best tool for a certain project. So in that sense, he is special (and perhaps irreplaceable).
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« Reply #33 on: March 15, 2017, 01:47:46 pm »
Kellhus made tons of mistakes along the way, that's for sure, and he did the best he could with what was available. I forget what we were originally talking about lol... But i'll concede to Proyas being the best tool available at the time.

Though, the idea that he was being manipulated by Maithanet/Moenghus  for years before Kellhus got to him really appeals to me. Its a nice, long lasting connection to Moenghus.
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« Reply #34 on: March 15, 2017, 03:54:53 pm »
Kellhus made tons of mistakes along the way, that's for sure, and he did the best he could with what was available. I forget what we were originally talking about lol... But i'll concede to Proyas being the best tool available at the time.

Though, the idea that he was being manipulated by Maithanet/Moenghus  for years before Kellhus got to him really appeals to me. Its a nice, long lasting connection to Moenghus.

I'm with you on that, Wilshire. To support your view, isn't it interesting that Akka becomes the tutor of Proyas? Akka, who just happens to be attached to Esmenet? Small world, Earwa.
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« Reply #35 on: March 15, 2017, 05:11:50 pm »
I'm with you on that, Wilshire. To support your view, isn't it interesting that Akka becomes the tutor of Proyas? Akka, who just happens to be attached to Esmenet? Small world, Earwa.

And that Kellhus would meet Mekeritrig, of all people, along his way?  And come out in the same place as Cnaiur's father's burial mound?  Or Cnaiur would be there at that time?

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« Reply #36 on: March 15, 2017, 05:39:14 pm »
Its not a historical text, its a narrative written by Bakker. Sometimes things are plot devices lol.
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« Reply #37 on: March 15, 2017, 05:45:37 pm »
Its not a historical text, its a narrative written by Bakker. Sometimes things are plot devices lol.

WHAT???  Not a historical text?? Heresy!

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« Reply #38 on: March 15, 2017, 06:13:48 pm »
Its not a historical text, its a narrative written by Bakker. Sometimes things are plot devices lol.

WHAT???  Not a historical text?? Heresy!

"Sometimes a plot device is just a plot device."
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Fixed the quote. Inserted more irony. Though a less ironic citation would have been MacGuffin
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« Reply #39 on: March 15, 2017, 08:02:36 pm »
Its not a historical text, its a narrative written by Bakker. Sometimes things are plot devices lol.

WHAT???  Not a historical text?? Heresy!

"Sometimes a plot device is just a plot device."
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Fixed the quote. Inserted more irony. Though a less ironic citation would have been MacGuffin

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