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General Earwa / Fate of the non-men.
« on: April 08, 2014, 01:39:24 am »
So, I've developed a theory that the nonmen will be exterminated by the ordeal.
Supporting ideas are:
- First, we have witchs and men eating sranc - how would the non-men react to this? I suspect both things would be deeply offensive to Siqu.
- Cleric tells Akka that Ishteribinth has turned to the Consult. Lacking any cultural progress or goals, they have turned to tyranny. Cleric's speech before he arranges his death strongly points to a belief that the he and all the non-men must be expunged before the consult can be defeated.
- After 4000 years, there can be no more intact - not truly. The original lifespan of non-men was about 400 years, and the tipping point of erraticism is about 5 lifetimes. We don't know how exactly old the nonmen are, but its been 2000 years since the first apocalypse and the Fall happened quite a few thousand years before the arrival of the Tusk (year 0). Which makes the surviving non-men probably around 7000 years old.
I suspect Serwa is an assassin, and Dagliash is a trap where everyone is planning betrayal.
- Finally, we have the nonmen as analogues to the Tolkien's elves. The elves leave middle earth for the undying lands after RotK. I don't think the nonmen will get such a soft exit from Earwa.
Supporting ideas are:
- First, we have witchs and men eating sranc - how would the non-men react to this? I suspect both things would be deeply offensive to Siqu.
- Cleric tells Akka that Ishteribinth has turned to the Consult. Lacking any cultural progress or goals, they have turned to tyranny. Cleric's speech before he arranges his death strongly points to a belief that the he and all the non-men must be expunged before the consult can be defeated.
- After 4000 years, there can be no more intact - not truly. The original lifespan of non-men was about 400 years, and the tipping point of erraticism is about 5 lifetimes. We don't know how exactly old the nonmen are, but its been 2000 years since the first apocalypse and the Fall happened quite a few thousand years before the arrival of the Tusk (year 0). Which makes the surviving non-men probably around 7000 years old.
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their minds can only hold roughly four or five human lifetimes of experiences, and as the centuries pass the traumatic experiences they suffer crowd out their other memories, until now, almost all Nonmen remember only the pain and loss in their lives.As a group, Kellhus cannot trust them without enslaving them individually. For the dunyain, it is axiomatic - that which cannot be controlled must be eliminated.
I suspect Serwa is an assassin, and Dagliash is a trap where everyone is planning betrayal.
- Finally, we have the nonmen as analogues to the Tolkien's elves. The elves leave middle earth for the undying lands after RotK. I don't think the nonmen will get such a soft exit from Earwa.