Ok so we know that the Aporos is a sort of anti magic, regardless of the thematurgical implications. Do we think Kellhus has any knowledge and understanding of Aporetic sorcery? Could he manufacture a chorae (given the right materials) do we think he might know how? Could he work it out through inferred facts?

There might be Nonmen alive with knowledge of the Aporos.

Just thought I would start a general thread for Book Deals and Purchases. Interested to know what people are buying and any special deals in stores or any electrical retailer they find. I am UK based but please post wherever you are - please even reccomend the bookstore down the road.

---Purchases---

Ok so today I went trawling through the Works Store, the local market bookstalls and charity shops which I do every 2-4 weeks. I bought the following:

Ursula K Le Guin: The Left Hand of Darkness - Bought this as I have seen it recced. Nice to get in a charity shop.
Edgar Rice Burroughs: The Martian Tales of Edgar Rice Burroughs 1: A Princess of Mars - Bought this for kicks after watching the John Carter movie.
Roger Zelazni: Nine Princes in Amber - Lovely to get the first book in a series at a charity shop.
Brian Aldiss: Moreau's Other Island - Bought Helliconia Spring so may as well get more by the same author and keep my eye out for other Helliconia Cycle novels.
Stephen Donaldson: Daughters of Regals and other tales - I like Donaldson so dont mind a few shorts and what will probably be a novella.
Philip Pullman: The Goldan Compass - Have the other two and my copy was borrowed out never returned.
Paul Hoffman: The Left Hand of God - Nice cover art and a good blurb.
Maurice Druon: The Iron King Praised by Martin.
R. Scott Bakker: The Darknes that Comes Before Bought it to lend to someone else so they can get into TSA. Then they can return it as my other TDTCB was loaned out.

I saw quite a few others that I will be buying the next time I go for a trawl assuming they are still there. There was an R.A. Slavatore Forgotten Realms - a huge fat hardback compendium of the Drizzt ones in really great condition, there were another 4-5 from the charity stores. The wife is such a pain... god love her, if I was on my own I would have bought at least 8 more.

Anyway all of these came in at under £10: some in great condition and others ok, just old and slightly yellowed over time - perfectly readable though.

---Deals---

So the deals which I didn't partake in but will in the next few weeks - from the Works Store in the UK you can get:
David Gemmell Waylander with a new cover art (all of the set together look nice shelved with this cover art - its a white one if anyone is interested ill search and link). £1.99
Dan Simmons: Hyperion with SFClassics cover art (crappy looking) but still a great book and if you have it already its good as a loaner. £1.99
Terry Brooks: The Dark Legacy of Shannara 2: Bloodfire Quest. (They were selling the first one last year). £1.99
They have a deal on 3 for £5 which is a cracking deal, includes the above and a lot more if you are into other things.

Ok so Aurax. Do we think he has Sorcery?

"Species wide graft" is quoted often, but once the Ark were so few in number would they have really forced that issue? I am not sure.

Also what else might he be able to do? He is the supposed surviving master of the Tekne and we have not really seen him yet which I see as a kind of indication he is some sort of reveal.

What do you all think about Aurax?

So how Deep does Golgotterath go?

Are we all in agreement we expect it to be the worst Topos in Earwa? The mostly thinly seperated place from the Outside?

A place worse than Cil Aujus, a place in itself so bad that an eye can grow in your heart, one which you try to see out of... If thought can take form to such an extent in Cil Aujus what could happen in Golgotteraths deepest depths?

I wonder if Golgotterath is bottomless?

Crackpot: The Ark is a very powerful and large Ciphrang (comparisons to Living Womb and the Horns.)

Taking this a step further, the Arkphrang could have escaped from the Outside somehow via the Inward. The Inchoroi on board are the souls which the Arkphrang has been collecting when in the Outside - there is no mention of additional Arks which you might expect from a galactic race. The Inchoroi being damned is their natural state - they are already damned, they escape from damnation to damnation. Their Mother has died and she awaits their Souls back in the Outside. The IF is the natural exploration of the technology required to pull the Ark back Inward.

The Ark and the Inchoroi should not exist. They broke the "boundaries of flesh" when the Ark crafted their bodies and placed their Souls in Flesh Automatons for perpetual servitude. Now the Ark is dead and the last remaining Inchoroi were not born before the death of their Mother - they are like lost children.

Maybe something still remains of the Ark, in one of the scenes a Synthese specifically thinks "Golgotterath will not be happy" - interesting phrasing.

Crackpot and I claim no truth but interesting thoughts. Speculations all?

Couldnt post a new topic in the TUC thread. Do we use this thread for TUC speculation?

Does anyone think we will get a Kellhus PoV in TuC and who/what do you think we will see significantly more of who we have not seen so far?