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The Unholy Consult / Re: TUC Official Buys
« on: July 25, 2017, 04:04:51 am »
Got the email confirmation that my copy will be available for pick up tomorrow.  The precious shall be mine!

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] The Amiolas
« on: September 28, 2016, 02:35:53 am »
Yes, the list of characters in the back of the book, not the back cover blurb written by some random guy.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Momemn
« on: September 26, 2016, 11:23:48 pm »
Meppa is described as the strongest Cishaurim ever and yes, his fury helps fuel his strength.  He can certainly overwhelm power Anagogic Sorcerers, we've seen him do it and a Grandmaster is certainly not beyond his ability to confront (bring popcorn but keep your distance and shelter under a Gnostic Ward/have a Chorae folks).  Nor is he the only one to demonstrate considerable strength as we saw the Incandanti wreck considerable havoc on the battered ranks of the Scarlet Spires in The Thousandfold Thought.  That makes the Psuhke powerful, but it doesn't make it superior in potential power to Anagogic Sorcery let alone a rival to the Gnosis.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Mimara
« on: September 26, 2016, 01:39:46 pm »
All souls connect to the Absolute and every man could feel the presence of the No-God but the Hundred were blind to Mog-Pheru.  This is going to come down to exactly how the Judging Eye functions and how the No-God's powers operate.   How can a being be sensed by every living man and blind the gods?  How does that work if we're all connected to the Absolute?  From exactly what vantage does the Judging Eye see and what does that mean about the nature of salvation and damnation?  About the connection of the Hundred to the Absolute and who decrees damnation and salvation? 

I think there's a couple more pieces of the puzzle to pick up.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Momemn
« on: September 26, 2016, 01:32:56 pm »
I disagree with your assessment.  The Psukhe does not overmatch Anagogic Sorcery, let alone the Gnosis.   Both Anagogic and Gnostic Sorcery work through language and meaning, accomplishing changes in reality either through more powerful and direct abstractions or weaker metaphorical tools.  The Psuhke does not use language.  What the wielder is attempting to accomplish is not set down using the rigid tools of utteral and inutteral phrases to fix meaning but intuitive and emotional projections.  The range of power that the Psukhe allows between individual wielders is greater than that allowed by conventional arts.  Eleazaras is clearly much more accomplished and powerful than an ordinary sorcerer of rank, but the difference between his power and that of the poor bastard Mysunsai sorcerer he overpowers is not as great as the difference between a Primary and Trinary.  Emotional power and intuitive understanding can vary considerably between individuals (hi Moenghus) , just as greater mastery allows greater power with the cants.  However, since executing sorcery requires sufficient mastery to understand the cants as well as sing them, there less variation between conventional sorcerous practitioners than there is between wielders of the Psuhke.  That's why Eli can fry weak ones three at a time with a single Dragonhead but the Incandanti can burn him.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Mimara
« on: September 26, 2016, 01:14:12 pm »
I wonder if the Judging Eye can even see the No-God.  The gods, after all, cannot perceive Mog-Pheru.

But the Judging Eye isn't a God.  It is the cubit, the fundiment of the creation.  If it is anything, it is the God of Gods.  I don't think that will be an issue, but I'm open to being wrong.

Is it?  If it is sight from the vantage point of the gods then the No-God could be as invisible to it as it is to the Hundred.  It will be interesting, one way or another.

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General Earwa / Re: The Gods - which is your favorite?
« on: September 25, 2016, 01:24:08 pm »
I love the concept of gods rewarding those who struggle against them so you have the god of plague being worshiped by physician-priests.

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General Earwa / Re: The Prince of Nothing: TV series
« on: September 25, 2016, 01:21:29 pm »
It would be awesome to see the same actress playing sweet, long suffering Serwe then go one to play the skin-spy that imitates and watch her cut through Nansur like a hot knife through butter.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] The Amiolas
« on: September 25, 2016, 01:17:40 pm »
Well, this was a goddamn cool part of the book. 

That nonman had to be pretty fucked up to get a death sentence from Cujara, but then he must have done something pretty awesome to get it amended by Nil-Giccas. 

The back of the book says his crime was sedition, which is something that does get you a death sentence.  This is a guy who was called "The Despiser" so he probably said a lot of things that made him enemies.  Kings don't like people saying they shouldn't be running the show and Cujara was "one who valued vengeance over mercy."   He probably hadn't offended Nil-Giccas nearly as badly, which is fair.  Cujara is the one carrying around the "I was tricked into allowing my enemies to genocide my species" card and is probably both more likely to receive biting invective and more sensitive to it.


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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Momemn
« on: September 25, 2016, 01:10:39 pm »
Of course the meta-Gnosis makes all of it look like kids toys, but Bakker has alluded to the fact that the Psuhke is very strong despite being totally unrefined. 

Where has he done that? It's certainly a capable art, rivaling the more sophisticated Anagogic Sorcery in power but nothing beyond that in the text. Meppa is impressive, but he's described as the most powerful Psuhkari ever.  He's not exactly representative.  Eleazaras is able to kill three Cishaurim with a single Dragonhead during their assassination mission in the Scarlet Spires.  Far more promising is the hints posed by Titirga, that aspects of it can be combined with other schools for enhanced effects.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Mimara
« on: September 25, 2016, 12:58:23 pm »
I wonder if the Judging Eye can even see the No-God.  The gods, after all, cannot perceive Mog-Pheru.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] The Parts Appalling
« on: September 25, 2016, 12:55:02 pm »
Depends on the what the gods have decided.  Those that judge salvation and damnation are not good.

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO Spoilers] Embarrassing Question
« on: September 25, 2016, 12:51:42 pm »
That is to say, Ajokli is guess that fits the evidence. 

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The Great Ordeal / Re: [TGO SPOILERS] Prologue + Chapter 1 excerpt
« on: September 12, 2016, 08:44:02 am »
If you trace the pattern from the Holy War to the Wars of Unification to the Great Ordeal, Kellhus is a very enthusiastic and successful warmonger and how can Gilgoal not respect that?

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Is that truly Samarmus, or just one of the "fractions" Koringhus and Kellhus have, which he has tricked himself into thinking it's his dead twin?

That was my interpretation.  I argue with myself in my own head.

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