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Earwa => The Prince of Nothing => The Thousandfold Thought => Topic started by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:19:21 pm

Title: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:19:21 pm
Quote from: coobek
Doesn't it strike you that through all the novels only HE trully understood Kelhus and his modus operandum.
Even Akka, I feel, is still cheating himself with doubt.

Isn't it also why we love this character so much even through his brutality, he still comes out as BETTER due to this single fact of comprehension.


I really Enjoy Cnaiur's conversation with a BIRD how he sees in him exactly what Dunyain would, and how he tries to persude the worlds greates enemy that he is already ... doomed, that something NEW appeared on benjuka plate of the world. And BIRD of course does not see it.



p.17. Hopefully Meppa is the blinded Cnaiur after sunbathing for 20 years in Zeum.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:19:34 pm
Quote from: Madness
Quote from: coobek
Isn't it also why we love this character so much even through his brutality, he still comes out as BETTER due to this single fact of comprehension.

Lol. Hard sell, coobek. Though, I feel the reader empathizes with Cnaiur for his knowledge of Kellhus... I don't think that Cnaiur comes out better for it.

+1 CNAIUR!
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:19:39 pm
Quote from: Wilshire
Team Cnaiur!

Too bad he ends up a raving lunatic, having sex with Serwe, burying serwe's body with the help of serwe. Talking to birds and not finding it odd that serwe has a penis. Fucking off his rocker. Poor guy, he had so much to offer.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:19:48 pm
Quote from: Madness
His madness is deep.

The scene where one of the Serwes saves Cnaiur by doing the awesome arrow catch dance is epic - and mirrors Kellhus' arrow dodge before Martemus at the Swazond Standard in TWP.

And Serwe helped him bury her...
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:07 pm
Quote from: Callan S.
I think the skill of how Cnaiur was written is how much sense he makes during it. He rarely goes on anything that seems beyond the grasping of the reader, in what is ultimately his madness.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:13 pm
Quote from: coobek
Team Cnaiur indeed!
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:19 pm
Quote from: lockesnow
at times I feel like Cnaiur attributes too much to Kellhus, but in overattributing to him, he doesn't make the mistake of underestimating him.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:25 pm
Quote from: Callan S.
What do you think was the plan for Cnaiur to baby sit Conphas was about?
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:33 pm
Quote from: Wilshire
Quote from: Callan S.
What do you think was the plan for Cnaiur to baby sit Conphas was about?

To have Conphas kill Cnaiur, or vice versa, or hope that they kill eachother. He wasn't in a position, politically speaking, to do anything to Conphas.... though he could have probably killed Cnaiur without much complaint ( I don't remember that exact situation though, so maybe not).
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:41 pm
Quote from: Madness
+1 lockesnow & Wilshire.

I'd hazard that Kellhus doesn't understand insanity, Callan? If it had been Kellhus... Cnaiur would lie dead in the ruins of Joktha with his rats - also, such an epic fight.

However, both Conphas and Cnauir do things that Kellhus doesn't seem to expect. Conphas even stays his hand to the point of we're both Gods, be my Exalt-General.

Honestly, I give Cnaiur a little break when you realize that the Consult are feeding him their party line of drugs and booze. Cnaiur doesn't get that the birds got a head, Serwe and Serwe have dicks and bury Serwes...

None of it matters... Just Moenghus. Just seeing the trackless steppe through. His wager, right?
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:47 pm
Quote from: Madness
Moved our Cnaiur & Ironsoul (http://secondapocalypse.forumer.com/cnaiur-ironsoul-t1275314.html) discussion for spoiler related difficulties ;).
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:20:55 pm
Quote from: Triskele
You jerks are actually going to make me type it out aren't you? 


OK, here goes:

Part 1

The crib stood in the nursery's centre, carved of wood like black rock, standing as high as his waist, and draped with gauze sheets that hung from a single hook set in a frescoed ceiling.  The walls were ochre, and the lamplight dim.  The room smelled of sandalwood - there was no hint of soil.

All the world seemed to hush as he circled the ornate cradle.  He left no track across the cityscopes woven into the carpet beneath his feet.  The lamplights fluttered, but nothing more.  With the crib between himself and the entrance, he approached, parted the gauze with his right hand.

Moenghus.

White-skinned.  Still young enough to clutch his toes.  Eyes at once vacant and lucid, in the way only an infant's could be.  The penetrating white-blue of the Steppe.

My son.

Cnauir reached out two fingers, saw the scars banding the length of his forearm.  The babe waved his hands, and as though by accident caught Cnaiur's fingertip, his grip firm like that of a father or friend in minitature.  Without warning, his face blushed, became wizened with anguished wrinkles.  He sputtered, began wailing.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:21:01 pm
Quote from: Curethan
Perhaps is strange that Kellhus saved Serwe from losing the baby in the desert.
Simply to manipulate Crazynaiur?
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:21:08 pm
Quote from: Madness
Yes, Trisk... where's Part 2 o.O?

What are you drawing attention to here?
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:21:16 pm
Quote from: Wilshire
Quote from: Triskele
You jerks are actually going to make me type it out aren't you? 


 :?:
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: What Came Before on April 25, 2013, 06:21:39 pm
I think Trisk was suggesting that Cnaiur was after Moenghus the Younger.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: Wilshire on May 06, 2013, 07:17:47 pm
If thats the case, Cnaiur probably didnt know what he was after at this point. Just some entity that had the Name he was seeking for all these years. Didn't help that it was his son... Did Moe Sr. has blue eyes? Poor Cnaiur was just confused as hell.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: The Sharmat on February 21, 2014, 03:23:49 am

Honestly, I give Cnaiur a little break when you realize that the Consult are feeding him their party line of drugs and booze. Cnaiur doesn't get that the birds got a head, Serwe and Serwe have dicks and bury Serwes...
Honestly, I don't think it's the madness talking in this one instance. Serwe with a dick is basically Cnaiur's perfect mate.

Quote from: lockesnow
at times I feel like Cnaiur attributes too much to Kellhus, but in overattributing to him, he doesn't make the mistake of underestimating him.
There's an exchange like this between Kellhus and Cnaiur early on that goes something like this

Kellhus: Not everything I say can be a lie, Scylvendi.

Cnaiur: So long as I believe it is, I can never be deceived.
Title: Re: Cnaiurs understanding of Kelhus
Post by: mrganondorf on February 25, 2014, 06:00:24 pm

There's an exchange like this between Kellhus and Cnaiur early on that goes something like this

Kellhus: Not everything I say can be a lie, Scylvendi.

Cnaiur: So long as I believe it is, I can never be deceived.
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LOL, I feel the same way as a reader!