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Will the Mutilated step out of the shadows?
H:
Well, also Bakker did say he was leaning toward the next series being written more like The Sags rather than how the rest of the books were. I take that to mean less first-person perspectives, so if we do "see" them, it is probably only glimpses of them from afar.
SmilerLoki:
--- Quote from: H on May 24, 2018, 01:51:49 pm ---Well, also Bakker did say he was leaning toward the next series being written more like The Sags rather than how the rest of the books were. I take that to mean less first-person perspectives, so if we do "see" them, it is probably only glimpses of them from afar.
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Actually, if we take it at face value and imagine something along the lines of the Silmarillion, then I'm worried about his readership. A narrative structure of this kind doesn't seem to engage contemporary readers.
profgrape:
--- Quote from: SmilerLoki on May 24, 2018, 09:11:51 pm ---
--- Quote from: H on May 24, 2018, 01:51:49 pm ---Well, also Bakker did say he was leaning toward the next series being written more like The Sags rather than how the rest of the books were. I take that to mean less first-person perspectives, so if we do "see" them, it is probably only glimpses of them from afar.
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Actually, if we take it at face value and imagine something along the lines of the Silmarillion, then I'm worried about his readership. A narrative structure of this kind doesn't seem to engage contemporary readers.
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I had the same reaction. As much as I like the stories Bakker tells, what I really love is the way he tells them. And so much of that comes down to perspective -- seeing things through the characters' eyes.
Yet it might also be that he meant that the books might be structured around shorter, more self-contained arcs. As Esme notes in TTT, the through line for the Sagas was Seswatha -- he'd appear and disappear and played a number of different roles. So I could imagine something where there are a lot of new POV's that experience TSA with Akka and his ragtag band as the through line.
ThoughtsOfThelli:
--- Quote from: profgrape on May 24, 2018, 10:44:03 pm ---Yet it might also be that he meant that the books might be structured around shorter, more self-contained arcs. As Esme notes in TTT, the through line for the Sagas was Seswatha -- he'd appear and disappear and played a number of different roles. So I could imagine something where there are a lot of new POV's that experience TSA with Akka and his ragtag band as the through line.
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I like this idea, having not only the Akka POVs but also seeing him from new (or returning) minor or secondary characters' eyes. Remember how Seswatha was seen as villainous, or at least morally ambiguous, in some of the books of the Sagas? It's very likely we'd have the same happen in Akka's case, especially since he's already the infamous Wizard who renounced their late Holy Aspect-Emperor...
MSJ:
--- Quote from: ThoughtsofThelli ---It's very likely we'd have the same happen in Akka's case, especially since he's already the infamous Wizard who renounced their late Holy Aspect-Emperor...
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And, most of the world will believe Kellhus the No-God. Setting Akka up as the "not as crazy as we thought" Wizard. As you alluded to with Akka renouncing Kellhus and then writing a book denouncing him. He almost definitely will be the moral compass to many.
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