Meppa is X

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« Reply #210 on: March 11, 2014, 05:02:33 pm »
The longevity of some people is frustrating.

Yeah, all these octogenarians getting fucked up to stay alive really screw with the statistics ;).

Lol.  Old Cnaiur emerges from the Ark, "I am the breaker of my own hips and teeth!"

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« Reply #211 on: March 11, 2014, 11:56:52 pm »
Sometimes I really do just not communicate to lace the metaphor.

I was riffing off the fact that our oldest surviving Players are: Aurang/Aurax/Mekeritrig(whichever came first), Shauriatas, Iyokus, Achamian... The former are alien/a thing of soul, the latter addicted to chanv (possible Inchoroi artifact), addicted to Qirri (possible Inchoroi artifact).
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« Reply #212 on: March 12, 2014, 02:16:54 pm »
My brain wants to discount all humans past the age of about 40 or 50. It just seems unreasonable to be actively participating in forced marches and world-scale battles. This just isn't the case, especially with Chanv and Qirri. Iyokus is well over 100 years old in AE isn't he?
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« Reply #213 on: March 12, 2014, 02:20:42 pm »
I believe we worked it out to 129 in TJE?
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« Reply #214 on: March 12, 2014, 03:40:42 pm »
Sometimes I really do just not communicate to lace the metaphor.

I was riffing off the fact that our oldest surviving Players are: Aurang/Aurax/Mekeritrig(whichever came first), Shauriatas, Iyokus, Achamian... The former are alien/a thing of soul, the latter addicted to chanv (possible Inchoroi artifact), addicted to Qirri (possible Inchoroi artifact).

Wonder if the erratic-memory thing happens to the Inchoroi/Mangaecca at all?

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« Reply #215 on: March 15, 2014, 01:12:41 am »
Don't know where to put this:

Malowebi looking at Fanayal

"He wore a helm of shining gold, five spikes rising from the peak, and perhaps the finest coat of mail Malowebi had ever seen--a mesh of inhuman manufacture, he eventually decided."

WLW, p 121 US edition, couple pages into chapter 5

Nimil?  Gift from Meppa?

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« Reply #216 on: March 15, 2014, 02:02:41 pm »
We were just discussing this in another thread somewhere...

EDIT: Lol - it comes up in The fate of Cnaiur and goes on for a couple pages from Somnambulist comment.
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« Reply #217 on: March 15, 2014, 05:52:23 pm »
I see exactly what happened: I read Somnambulist's observation, waited a few days, then my brain relabeled it as my own.  :P

A Fanayal and Nonman or Kellhus connection would be cool.  Maybe Fanayal is just a Moe skin spy, he got the nimil on his first day at work.

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« Reply #218 on: March 19, 2014, 02:37:28 pm »
You've been incepted ;)
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« Reply #219 on: March 19, 2014, 02:55:57 pm »
Meppa is Manet. It is known.

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« Reply #221 on: March 20, 2014, 09:37:49 am »
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« Reply #222 on: April 05, 2014, 04:23:31 pm »
Thinking about Meppa as a decoy to blind us from the presence of other Cishaurim-- ACishaurim spy: pop a couple of fake eyes in and carry a monkey on your shoulder.  Or if you have the meta-psukhe, maybe you can just use everyone else's eyes and all the animals/bugs in the area or maybe it just works like the blind atreides.

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« Reply #223 on: April 15, 2014, 11:27:02 pm »
Can't remember if this has already been kicked around: Meppa a nonman Cishaurim?  Someone (maybe old Moe) figured out how to remove/hide his mark, popped out his eyes?  His physical appearance is a psukhe glamour or some such.  Or maybe he's a new nonman, recently made (or remade) or a nonman with the Gift who was like frozen this whole time.  The savoir of the the prophecy for nonmen?

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« Reply #224 on: April 16, 2014, 12:59:42 am »
What?  The Nonmen have a prophecy of a saviour?  I don't think so.

It would be interesting to know the Nonman perspective on the Solitary god, or the Inrithi divided-god, though.
Monotheism seems to be a concept that arose well after the cultural interactions between Men and Nonmen ceased.
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