I was thinking that maybe the lesser Ciphrang was impersonating Ajokli and that maybe everyone misunderstood what was possessing Kelhus.

If not, those passages seem odd (if I'm remembering them correctly). Why is it significant that a Ciphrang snuffed Ioykus? Does that demon show up again later?

This is slightly off topic, but my question is related to the Daimos so it seems appropriate to post here:

I may have read these passages too quickly but it seemed like

That's true H, the Progenitors wouldn't likely be anything like the Inchoroi, but does that rule out them showing up in later books? If they crafted the Ark and maybe the warrior Inchoroi we've seen, don't know we know at least that they're invested in interstellar travel?

And thanks Madness, I hadn't seen that interview. Same question though: all the Inchoroi on Earwa may be dead, but that doesn't necessarily mean there isn't an off-world contingent of Inchoroi creators out there somewhere, right?

First time poster, long time reader.

I've seen some people express disappointment that the Inchoroi were vanquished so easily by the Dunyain.

That's understandable, given that they were set up as the books primary antagonists, but isn't there evidence in TUC that the Inchoroi we've been exposed to were just one small segment of the population? The warrior Inchoroi, we're told, acted at the behest of the Ark.

Isn't it conceivable that in future books we'll meet representatives from the upper classes of Inchoroi society? This seems especially likely if the No-God is successful in drastically reducing the number of souls in Earwa.

Perhaps the Ark's creators are extinct or they died along with the Ark, but it also seems possible that the Ark was sent out on a mission by a group of ruler Inchoroi. Since the Earwa team was unsuccessful, there was no reason for them to come to Erwa. Now that the Great Ordeal has been overcome, the Nonmen are virtually destroyed, and the sorcerous might of humans has been annihilated these upper-caste Inchoroi may come to claim this world as theirs.

While Aurang and Aurax were manipulated into submission within a short period of time, there's no reason to think that the intellectual wing of Inchoroi society would be so easily subdued.