Now, cast it forward, Moe is dead, Kellhus has averted that future, so the vision is different now. The war is somewhat beyond that of simply Kellhus versus the Consult. Now, the stakes are higher, or at least different, it isn't just about averting the No-God, it's about warring against the Hundred. It's about ending damnation all together, without the No-God. It's about Kellhus being the Zero-God, the Absolute.
It reminds of a few things:
- The game-changing rules of Benjuka, which is mentioned regularly, at least in TPoN
- Forks becoming void because the cause had become impossible, as the Synthese mentions to the Skin-Spy in WLW (when talking about respecting all prophecies) , and the general way of working of the Probability Trance.
In TGO, Kellhus tells us that the Voice is not sane. He tells us he doesn't trust it. But he still listens. Why? Because what it tells him is correct. What it tells him from the future happens. Kellhus directs himself from the future. Before and After is sane. The voice is beyond that. We've asked ourselves time and again, why this, or that? What allow Akka to live? Why allow Fanayal to live? Why the Great Ordeal? Why everything with Proyas?
I've had about the same feeling in the Throne Room scene with the two scenes where Kellhus lives and dies, but through the perspective of Kelmomas. The sentence "Something's wrong" uttered by the Voice is the main cause for that. It feels like Kelmomas is being guided in the same way as Kellhus, though I can't pinpoint how.
I'm not sure there is no relation between the head on a pole and the visions though. In my view, both the head on a pole and the visions have to do with death.
For the first, we know Kellhus starts having visions and hearing the voice after either almost dying himself, or the death of Serwë. I was not aware of the meaning Zero for Cypher, thanks!
For the latter we have the information that the Voice's first words come after the death of Samarmas and are something like "took you long enough".