A few of the most important;
- the scene is after Resumption -- no souls may pass, and the soul that encounters Him passes no further -- the Gods bay silently at the gate. Ajokli and the rest are supposed to be blind to the world when the No-god walks.
This is inaccurate, no? The Hundred, anyhow, are blind to the No-God, not the world. They just attribute all the death to human on human violence?
Also, across the seven books and at least my reading of PON Glossary, as I still haven't read TUC canon artifact, we know that Ajokli behaves by different rules than the rest of the Hundred.
Digressing, it also raises the question of what the Ajokli Narindar in the Warrior's WLW vision meant when he suggested that Ajokli sees what the other Gods do not because it clearly didn't mean the No-God as was the long-held suspicion by readers.
My point here is that souls may not pass. If babies are still born it is because there is restriction to the entry of souls from the source to the World. Through the Dreams anmd other references, we are told that Mog takes the souls of those that die. e.g. Skafra says to Seswatha that the no-god ate Celmomas.
However, sorcery still works -- the implication being that souls within the world can still reach the outside indirectly but that the organic connections that govern the cycle of souls are blocked by the Object.
It is stated that the purpose of the No-god is to seal the Outside so many times and in so many ways that it is hard for me to see why people are obtuse to the fact that a God running about ipso facto shows that it has failed.
- possession is simply not how the god's operate. They cannot act directly like that. In the case of Kellhus it is an exception. He is a diamotic sorcerer with sorcerous pacts and artifacts stood on the very threshholds of Hell and the cycle of souls remains open. But not so for Cnaiur.
Quibbling on my part but I attribute that line about "making pacts with the Pit" (paraphrasing badly) to Ajokli, not Kellhus.
You think Kellhus has not made pacts then? The decapitants are clearly bound to his service, are they not?
Quibbling aside, my point relates to comparing how the gods are said to function within the World, the ways in which we are shown their interactions, and the rather obvious differences of Khellus' Diamotic efforts.
For me, it provided answers ... And the question of how the Celmoman Prophecy was delivered (given that it couldn't have been delivered by the Gods from the Outside during the First Apocalypse for the same primary reason listed above). And why Ajokli is obsessed with the Anasurimbors.
Well, again I forewarned people that MG's teasers reflected his interpretation of the text, but he's sure that Ajokli is responsible for delivering the Celmomian Prophecy.
I'm unaware of MG's teasers for the most part.
I do think that the twists of TUC have been largely unappreciated thus far because many posters seem too intent on interpreting events through the lens of their expectations.
After reflection, it seems obvious to me that Aspect Emperor is hugely concerned with the story of Ajokli. Indeed, it was only after entertaining the
The simplest explanation for what happens at the end of TUC seems entirely overlooked. Prince of Nothing tells the story of Kellhus' rise to power. Aspect Emperor shows the birth of a God and the return of the No-god at the end of the world.
Ajokli is different from the other Gods because he is born outside of time - after the Resumption. The gods exist 'all at once' so it does not matter when the original soul that they are seeded in 'births' their existence, obviously Ajokli is unique. Presumably he does not have access to the collection of aggregate experience he has harvested prior to Resumption at the time of his birth, but -- thanks to his manipulations -- he is immanent during the Apocalypse.
Entertain this interpretation and the narrative structure of Aspect Emperor slowly starts to makes complete sense. The Judging Eye was never primarily concerned with Kellhus, it has manifested to witness the end of the world and the birth of a God. Kelmomas is Ajokli's narindar -- or are we really to believe that he just happens to be in the right place at the right time to defeat Yatwer's White Luck not once but twice, and then is critical to Kellhus' betrayal AND ensuring that Resumption happens? I'm 100% that Ajokli knew he was there because he put him there, despite what Malowebi, the Consult and Kelmomas think.
Kellhus and the Consult were tricked by Ajokli. Faced with the prospect of Damnation, Kellhus seems to have accepted that Ajokli would intercede with his soul and that he would become one of Ajokli's ciphrang in the Outside - effectively aiming for the most hellish version of redemption in the Outside, a far cry from Chalahal (refer Glossary) but probably the best he could aim for. Perhaps he has escaped Ajokli by contingency, certainly, there are signs that this is the case. But the Consult are about to deliver a feast to Ajokli and he, alone of the Gods, stands to profit. In truth, it appears the remaining Mutilated are Ajokli's angels of the Apocalypse - the four horns/brothers.
Finally, if you look at the glossary entry for the Incu Holinais, you will find a rather startlingly different interpretation for the origins of the Inchoroi. Ajencis argues that they are not aliens, but rather sent from Hell by Ajokli. His refutation of them as a star-faring race is interesting because from an astrophysical perspective it actually makes a fair bit of sense - from his reasoning, it turns out that the stars from Earwa are positionally static (apparently excluding the Nail) and NOT analogous to our own. At the very least, there are no planets and Earwa does not orbit it's sun.
The fact that this little bit is in the glossary indicates to me that my view of events is at least intended to be interpretable in this way.
**edit: formatting appears screwed up on Tapatalk, not sure why.
