And in TGO the Boy used Mimara's knife pilfered from the Coffers to "make light" scraping a Chorae so Emidilis was able to fashion sorcerous weapons that counteract the effects of Chorae in some way.Actually, all sorcerous artifacts created by Emilidis are immune to Chorae. It's in the glossary.
And in TGO the Boy used Mimara's knife pilfered from the Coffers to "make light" scraping a Chorae so Emidilis was able to fashion sorcerous weapons that counteract the effects of Chorae in some way.Actually, all sorcerous artifacts created by Emilidis are immune to Chorae. It's in the glossary.
And in TGO the Boy used Mimara's knife pilfered from the Coffers to "make light" scraping a Chorae so Emidilis was able to fashion sorcerous weapons that counteract the effects of Chorae in some way.Actually, all sorcerous artifacts created by Emilidis are immune to Chorae. It's in the glossary.
I missed have missed the part in the glossary about his stuff being immune to Chorae.
And nope, no entry on Cinderswords.
And in TGO the Boy used Mimara's knife pilfered from the Coffers to "make light" scraping a Chorae so Emidilis was able to fashion sorcerous weapons that counteract the effects of Chorae in some way.Actually, all sorcerous artifacts created by Emilidis are immune to Chorae. It's in the glossary.
Indeed and his quest to make an object indistinguishable from god's creation.
Cinderswords are covered by the sword's name in the glossary i believe I can't recall what it is called now, but there were 6 of them, and they rendered their bearers immune to dragonfire.
I noticed that Chrorae seemed to work differently. Or worked a bit different from how i thought they did.
The Serwe part is "The quarrel barely stubbed her knuckle and yet it was enough-more than enough."
Remember that the Witch Most Holy is young. Her Mark isn't as deep as middle aged AkkaPretty sure she has one of the most severe Marks in the series. It's supported by Mimara seeing her as "slender Ciphrang", and Mimara never referenced Achamian in such strong terms. I seem to remember there was a passage somewhere (probably around the Last Whelming) stating that Serwa's Mark is deeper than that of Cleric. Not 100% certain, though. [edit] Couldn't find any such passage, so the quote in my post below (http://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=2281.msg36351#msg36351) is a more accurate assessment of Serwa's Mark.
Being damned isn't the same as having the Mark.As far as I remember Mimara always strongly connected a sorcerer's damnation with their Mark. At least that was my reading of her judgments. It always seemed very interesting to me.
She glares up into Serwa’s face, struck yet again by the heinous profundity of the witch’s Mark—as deep as any sorcerer of rank despite her tender years.
Being damned isn't the same as having the Mark.As far as I remember Mimara always strongly connected a sorcerer's damnation with their Mark. At least that was my reading of her judgments. It always seemed very interesting to me.
As for Mimara seeing her as being a Ciphrang while living, that's also the territory of Cnaiur and the Captain and neither of them were sorcerers.Indeed. I also edited my post above, providing a quote from "The Last Whelming".
It's a good quote. Probably her Mark is so strong because of her heinous Anasurimbur strength. In that case, it's probably the fact that it was a graze that allows her to be "merely" maimed. It is, now that I consider the matter, one of the few times we see a glancing hit with Chorae on a sorcerer of rank.
It's a good quote. Probably her Mark is so strong because of her heinous Anasurimbur strength. In that case, it's probably the fact that it was a graze that allows her to be "merely" maimed. It is, now that I consider the matter, one of the few times we see a glancing hit with Chorae on a sorcerer of rank.
I can't find the quote anywhere, but I seem to remember someone, somewhere talking about how the deeper the mark, the MORE influenced by Chorae. Kellhus got touched? Insta-dead(presumably ;)) Serwa gets grazed, and she losses most(?) of her arm. Meta-Gnostic cuts both ways, apparently.
I remember it. There's a line about Nonmen Quya who are so deeply Marked that they'll apparently start salting within an armslength of a Chorae.The way I've read it, something similar happens to Serwa when she catches a Skylvendi arrow at the beginning of TUC and her arm and fist are superficially salted. She didn't touch a Chorae that was affixed to the arrow, it just came close to her body.
I remember it. There's a line about Nonmen Quya who are so deeply Marked that they'll apparently start salting within an armslength of a Chorae.The way I've read it, something similar happens to Serwa when she catches a Skylvendi arrow at the beginning of TUC and her arm and fist are superficially salted. She didn't touch a Chorae that was affixed to the arrow, it just came close to her body.
I remember it. There's a line about Nonmen Quya who are so deeply Marked that they'll apparently start salting within an armslength of a Chorae.The way I've read it, something similar happens to Serwa when she catches a Skylvendi arrow at the beginning of TUC and her arm and fist are superficially salted. She didn't touch a Chorae that was affixed to the arrow, it just came close to her body.
There are other similar superficial saltings. Kellhus's hand or knuckles, I believe, in TJE when Sorweel first meets him. Achamian's cheek in TJE when Mimara and the Skin-Eaters are carrying him through the Black Halls.
EDIT: Now that I think about it, maybe Achamian just gained a deeper mark due to his exercise of sorcery over PON and the following twenty years, which is why he didn't superficially salt in TDTCB with Geshrunni (RIP).
Wasn't the Chorae that hit Serwa the same that had been given to Sorweel via Yatwer? (I remember it being described as suddenly coming out of nowhere...) Maybe it's a combination of the effects of the pouch and the sword that renders it less effective, or makes it so that its effect is not immediate?
The Chorae coming out of nowhere. I was thinking it was little Kelmomas on his way to kill dad, and saw Serwa fighting for her life, and thought 'well, now, another sibling to kill? why not?' He knew no one found the artifact on Sorweel, so he could have stopped on his way to the Golden room to find it real quick.
I think she just miscalculated. It happens even to full Dunyain. Why not to a halfbreed? I'm pretty sure little Kel was being locked up with his uncles during this anyway.
I think she just miscalculated. It happens even to full Dunyain. Why not to a halfbreed? I'm pretty sure little Kel was being locked up with his uncles during this anyway.
On an aside note I was shocked to find after being basically a nonentity for over half this series Serwa ended but being one of my favorite characters. Bakker's pacing is so...odd.
I read somewhere that Bakker was reading one of the Song of Ice and Fire books, and realized that Martin had made a bunch of new characters mostly because he was bored of the old ones. Bakker realized he had, and was, doing the same thing in the Aspect Emperor. I don't remember when he had this revelation, but maybe it made him slow his roll as far as rolling out substantive traits and plot points for his new characters, and instead hoarding them until the very end, and, presumably, the No-God series.
I didn't mind that. I mean, it had been a generation. It makes sense to shift the focus. In that way and a few other TJE and TWLW feel more like a different series from Prince of Nothing than TGO and TUC.