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I'm rereading and I could have sworn Conphas used a mass rape of Scylvendi prisoners to provoke an attack? But I read the initial fight and it doesn't appear? Did I fail to read it, or does it happen in a latter battle? Or am I from an alternate time line where it's in the book?  :shock:  :lol:

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it's described in III.7, the same scene wherein CuS rapes IC.

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Thanks, Sologdin! Wow, now that's a transfer of memory on my part...does that occur at all in Kiyuth?

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yeah, it's a dicussion of kiyuth by the nansur staff while held at joktha.

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Oh thank goodness it tied into Kiyuth - had the right historical position, just had a bad record of the revelatory point!

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I think it also explicitly happens in the first book, prior to Kiyuth, as a means to goad the Scylvendi. It's all part of Conphas' masterplan to wrongfoot the Scylvendi, in this instance to get them so mad they charge right away. It should be in the Cnaïur part, but I don't recall if it's him reminiscing or if it's from his eavesdropping on Conphas and Martemus.

Edited: I’ve found it, on page 180 and 182 of the TDTCB UK paperback:

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In the beginning of Cnaürs pov, when the chieftains are holding a war council:
Xunnurit leand forward and spat across the grasses–a gesture of disrespect. “Foolishness? The Nansur shit, piss and poke asses on our hallowed land, Utemot.

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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.

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] 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?