The Second Apocalypse

Earwa => The Aspect-Emperor => The Great Ordeal => Topic started by: Madness on June 16, 2014, 02:01:54 pm

Title: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Madness on June 16, 2014, 02:01:54 pm
An experiment in social-jamming. If you've found yourself here, welcome to The Second Apocalypse by R. Scott Bakker.

[EDIT Madness: This thread is to serve as an introduction to new readers who find their way here as a result of our disseminating efforts via the "Who are the Dunyain?" bookmarks. Feel free to post accordingly.]
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Wilshire on June 16, 2014, 02:39:15 pm
"WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?" 

A monastic cult dedicated to intellect, hidden in the mountains away from the world. Training in isolation for 2000 years, forever bent to one task, becoming a self moving soul. Forever seeking to free themselves from the chains of ignorance that bind all men and to rise above the cycle of before and after.

Welcome, dear readers, to R. Scott Bakker's The Second Apocalypse. A series that surpasses in scope Tolkien's Lord of the Rings, a world with more intrigue  than GRRM A Game of Thrones, and where Gods and magic are more deeply infused into the world than Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen.

"Take note, one and all, something amazing has begun" - Steven Erickson, his review of the first title in this series: The Darkness That Comes Before.


The journey will be long, and is not for the faint of heart, but for those who hold fast to the course, you will find a fantasy world the likes of which you have never before seen.

This website contains many spoilers for the series. If you are new to the series and are interested in finding out more, here is a pretty safe place to start:
http://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?board=10.0

If you'd like more information, make an account and send a private message to Madness or myself.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: SilentRoamer on June 16, 2014, 02:49:01 pm
WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?

The Dunyain - A secretive sect, secluded in their mountain fastness away from the eyes of the World Born. Here they have bred for thousands of years, reigning in their emotions and desires and increasing their intellects beyond the limits of the World Born' All in their pursuit of the Logos - to be without Beginning or End, to master the Darkness that Comes Before and become a truly self moving soul.

Secluded in their mountain fastness they have faded into obscurity, until the time when an Anasurimbor must return to the world. - "One cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten".
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: mrganondorf on June 16, 2014, 05:32:30 pm
"WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?"

When i think of the Dunyain, so many things come to mind: fremen, mentats, Dunedain, heck even Jedi and grrm maesters!  Dying to find out the truth about the Dunyain! Please reveal it in The Unholy Consult, Mr . Bakker!!! 

The otherworldly intelligence and mastery of circumstance that make the Dunyain so appealing to me is the same thing i love to see in films like Limitless or the BBC Sherlock.

Bakker has raised the bar so high on villains (Sauron who?) its going to take a Dunyain to save the world.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Somnambulist on June 17, 2014, 10:06:05 pm
“WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?”

Walkers of the Shortest Path.  Students of the Logos.  The Conditioned who strive to become Unconditioned, to obtain the Absolute, to come before ALL Circumstance.

What happens when a man like no other, who believes in nothing, enters a world full of meaning?  Simple words.  Strange ideas.  Epic consequences.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: mrganondorf on June 18, 2014, 04:41:32 pm
"WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?"

I forgot about the witches!  If you like the Bene Gesserit, you'll love the Dunyain!
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: SilentRoamer on June 20, 2014, 02:47:35 pm
Who are the Dunyain? Men, like any other and yet unlike any other.

Who are the Dunyain? Are they the ultimate deceivers or the ultimate deceived?

Who are the Dunyain? Ever are men deceived.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Triskele on July 10, 2014, 02:49:35 am
Who are the Dunyain??

Writers, doctors, nuclear physicists, theoretical philosophers...but above all else, they are men...just like you.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Gorgorotterath on July 10, 2014, 09:43:00 am
WHO ARE THE DÛNYAIN?
WHO ARE THE?
WHO ARE?
WHO?
WHAT?
WHAT DO?
WHAT DO YOU?
WHAT DO YOU SEE?


Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: mrganondorf on July 10, 2014, 04:53:56 pm
@ Gorgorotterath - Nice!  But I can't pronounce your name, even in my head! :P

WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?

Cool thing is, people who are entirely new to Bakker and people who have been reading him for a long time are both anticipating MASSIVE REVELATIONS!!!

There is still so much to learn...

Imagine you could be a fan of Tolkien in the middle of his publishing career, that's what's going on here!!!  LONG LIVE BAKKER
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: The Sharmat on September 03, 2014, 12:29:45 am
WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?

Monsters. Abominations. /Cnaiur
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Triskele on September 05, 2014, 05:06:47 am
Did no person get my film reference?  :)
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Cüréthañ on September 05, 2014, 06:10:01 am
I didn't, sorry.  Thought it was a biblical thing actually.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: mrganondorf on September 05, 2014, 06:27:49 pm
Did no person get my film reference?  :)

no me!
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Triskele on September 06, 2014, 06:03:55 pm
Heh, it's Philip Seymour Hoffman in Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master.  Phoenix's character meets him and is kind of awed by him and asks him who he is, and that's the answer he gets.  Then he kind of goes on to possess him, Dunyain-style. 
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Wilshire on June 10, 2015, 12:21:45 pm
who...

http://fav.me/d8wptvr
The question.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: mrganondorf on November 12, 2015, 11:44:12 pm
Whoever the Dunyain are--we will find out more about them on July 5th, 2016!  Overlook Press has CONFIRMED the release date on Amazon!

http://i.imgur.com/bZJbNq0.png?1
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: RedSetter4570 on July 21, 2016, 02:09:48 am
The Dunyain are a bunch of bad guys who were born into a world full of bad guys, who fight other bad guys, all while in the shadow of some really bad guys, and watched over by Gods...who are bad guys. 
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Madness on July 21, 2016, 03:01:28 am
I still have not heard a single declaration by a user that they found the series or the site by the bookmarks.

Maybe we should have left www.second-apocalypse.com on them :-\ ...
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Simas Polchias on July 22, 2016, 11:43:53 pm
The Dunyain are the most pure remains of the Solitary God's super-ego.
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: mrganondorf on March 08, 2017, 04:21:06 am
LET ME TELL YOU "WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?" IS NOT A DEAD QUESTION
Title: Re: Who are the Dûnyain?
Post by: Francis Buck on March 08, 2017, 04:24:16 am
LET ME TELL YOU "WHO ARE THE DUNYAIN?" IS NOT A DEAD QUESTION

Man, that gets me all sorts of psyched.