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General Earwa / Re: TSTSNBN
« on: October 04, 2013, 12:32:47 pm »
Its possible, but since he did use Gordian Knot to describe how he's going to finish things up, I imagine that everything won't be as clear as you'd think. But hey if he really wants to break genres, there arn't a ton of SFF-erotica novels out there, or at least not ones that are 1000+ pages. Maybe that will be his big break?

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General Earwa / Re: TSTSNBN
« on: October 03, 2013, 10:32:15 pm »
My largest issue with that whole idea is that... well... it makes sense. It is too faintly hidden. People have said that kellhus is the no-god since the very beginning, or at least have claimed too. It would be almost an anti-climax if this is how it turned out. Maybe "anti-climax" is too strong, but I would be marginally disappointed.


I now believe that the final series will indeed be named after whatever happens to Kellhus, this seems logical. It does fill the criteria of spoiler.

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General Earwa / Re: TSTSNBN
« on: October 03, 2013, 08:00:28 pm »
Kellhus went from Prince to Emperor... is there another step up from there that would fit into the title somewhere? Though if you consider something like the Divine Right of Kings, then really God is the logical next step.

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General Misc. / Re: Manga/Anime
« on: October 03, 2013, 04:48:30 pm »
How many episodes are there (of Attack on Titan)? I've at 9 now, and the site i'm using shows somewhere around 21. Is that it?
its great so far and I hope there are more!

EDIT:
Also, are there any good websites that you people prefer to watch anime on? I find that a lot of them are intolerable.

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General Earwa / Re: TSTSNBN
« on: October 03, 2013, 03:43:28 pm »
I guess this is a speculative topic about what might it contain, and why even naming it would spoil the books before it.

So you're good.

I never thought the titles that way. Already at forehead slap moment.
I could see this potentially going either way: Another step up the ladder of power, or falling off completely.

It could be something regarding Kellhus dominating over the outside, since we whet from king of nothing, to king of all humanity, then to king of everything... or whatever remained. That would make the title something like The Ruler of Darkness, signifying that he now comes before everything. Or maybe if there is some kind of successful sealing of the outside, he could simply become the only god within the borders of Earwa


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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: What is the No God?
« on: October 03, 2013, 02:41:15 pm »
Who did they blame for that? Was there another Kellhus figure that they decided to blame everything on? More questions, no answers.

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General Earwa / Re: TSTSNBN
« on: October 03, 2013, 02:39:21 pm »
Though, we most certainly get the best ride.

Yeah, I mean we had to wait in the interminably long line to sit in the front car of this roller coaster, but I submit that it will be well worth it.

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General Earwa / TSTSNBN
« on: October 03, 2013, 01:13:49 pm »
TSTSNBN

For those of you that don't know, it is an acronym that Bakker uses to describe the series that will come after The Unholy Consult. It stands for "The Series That Shall Not Be Named".

I guess this is a speculative topic about what might it contain, and why even naming it would spoil the books before it.


I had a thought last night after reading Bakker's most recent blog post discussing TUC, probably sparked by his answer to some of the comments. Specifically:
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Thanks, litg. The end of TAE is the end of the tale as I originally conceived it decades ago. All the plot threads from the two trilogies are cinched into a kind of Gordian knot (I fear you’ll have to wait to see what I mean). Fate had forbidden any mention of the two books I have planned after this.
.... so then what would be left for the books afterwards? (btw see wiki about Gordian Knot: It is often used as a metaphor for an intractable problem (disentangling an "impossible" knot) solved easily by cheating or "thinking outside the box" ("cutting the Gordian knot"):"

I thought that maybe the final books could be something like companion novels. Maybe they would follow the same story from a different perspective. Then I though, well who could that possibly be? I could think of the following: Moenghus, Kellhus, the Nonmen, the Inchoroi, the other Consult member(s), or the Gods themselves. Once we find out who/what is the master manipulator, the ultimate conditioner (I don't mean Herbal Essence), which I now thing is likely to happen by the end of TUC, I think that we will get a book with a master POV. Someone or something that has been pulling the strings for decades, centuries, or millennium.

That of course assumes that TUC does come to some kind of conclusion, though given the statement that sparked these thoughts I would not consider that a given.

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General Earwa / Re: Trying to solve the Whodunit? (As in who is Damned?)
« on: October 02, 2013, 09:58:49 pm »
"eye-bleedingly extreme" and "enough", what a wonderful descriptor, because some parts where already at that level but he wants more lol.

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General Misc. / Re: Manga/Anime
« on: October 02, 2013, 09:57:32 pm »
Yeah I watched the first 2 episodes a few weeks back, I liked it. I'll probably get around to watching it all sooner or later.

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: What is the No God?
« on: October 02, 2013, 09:52:04 pm »
Is not the No-God supposed to be invisible to the gods?  If so, could the visions of the White-Luck-Warrior concerning the future killing of Kellhus be seen as evidence that Kellhus is not the No-God?

That is a very good point.

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General Earwa / Re: Trying to solve the Whodunit? (As in who is Damned?)
« on: October 01, 2013, 08:43:06 pm »
lol "Perhaps the Voice lied".

I guess thats the problem with having such fallible narrators... or the advantage? Maybe this is why Bakker keeps re-writing so much of TUC, because he can literally write anything he wants and just suggest that anything we 'knew' was misdirection/out-right lies.

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Nonmen religons.
« on: October 01, 2013, 08:40:59 pm »
Oh yeah, I forgot that bit. But the Tusk wouldn't have changed any Nonman philosophy, so they would have had to have some reason for believing they are damned.

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General Earwa / Re: TSA related art and stuff.
« on: October 01, 2013, 08:33:04 pm »
If you really dont want me to do it then I guess i dont have too

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The Thousandfold Thought / Re: Favorite Scenes
« on: October 01, 2013, 08:31:53 pm »
Kellhus & Cnaiur's journey across the Steppe is one of my favorite fantasy sentences ever.

Welcome to The Second Apocalypse, v0id_walker.

Also, Wilshire, numbers will drop a few once I can reliably identify the remaining Spam-Sranc among the Nonmen Erratics...

Don't you squash my dreams.

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