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The Unholy Consult / [TUC SPOILERS] Who has the worst fate in the series?
« on: August 08, 2017, 06:42:30 pm »
Bakker is really good at providing horrifying and grisly demises for many of his characters. Who do you think had the worst fate?
(Let's forget that most people in Earwa qualify as you have only like a 4% chance you aren't going to hell)
Number one on the list has to be poor Proyas. This guy really was put through the mill.
Through the Holy War he had his faith and resilience tested many, many times. He was broken when he ordered the execution of Kellhus and his subsequent conversion to Team Kellhus.
Then you have the whole Ordeal segment. He has his faith shattered by his prophet, he gets raped by his prophet. He has to lead the Ordeal on the worst leg of the march,
becoming a Sranc-mad cannibal in the process. An to top it off he is then betrayed yet again by Kellhus, who turns him into the badly needed scapegoat the Ordeal needs to
continue.
He is hung in wrappings and humiliated before the whole Ordeal. The final indignity is he is then suffocated by his nephew.
Awful.
(Btw, where is Akka when that whole thing goes down in the tent with the Scylvendi? I thought Akka was right there, seems very odd he would just peace out and leave Proyas there when he was so frantic to save his life??)
Perhaps the only character to me that competes with Proyas in terms of misery is Nau-Cayuti.
This guy was a badass and a hero. Yet he ends up being betrayed by his mistress and sold down the river to the Consult. He is taken into Golgotterath and subjected to untold torture/rape/horror. Then he gets exposed to the Inverse Fire and stuffed into the Carapace, the ultimate betrayal to his cause.
(Let's forget that most people in Earwa qualify as you have only like a 4% chance you aren't going to hell)
Number one on the list has to be poor Proyas. This guy really was put through the mill.
Through the Holy War he had his faith and resilience tested many, many times. He was broken when he ordered the execution of Kellhus and his subsequent conversion to Team Kellhus.
Then you have the whole Ordeal segment. He has his faith shattered by his prophet, he gets raped by his prophet. He has to lead the Ordeal on the worst leg of the march,
becoming a Sranc-mad cannibal in the process. An to top it off he is then betrayed yet again by Kellhus, who turns him into the badly needed scapegoat the Ordeal needs to
continue.
He is hung in wrappings and humiliated before the whole Ordeal. The final indignity is he is then suffocated by his nephew.
Awful.
(Btw, where is Akka when that whole thing goes down in the tent with the Scylvendi? I thought Akka was right there, seems very odd he would just peace out and leave Proyas there when he was so frantic to save his life??)
Perhaps the only character to me that competes with Proyas in terms of misery is Nau-Cayuti.
This guy was a badass and a hero. Yet he ends up being betrayed by his mistress and sold down the river to the Consult. He is taken into Golgotterath and subjected to untold torture/rape/horror. Then he gets exposed to the Inverse Fire and stuffed into the Carapace, the ultimate betrayal to his cause.