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mrganondorf:
Rereading and came upon this bit just as the holy war leaves the desert:


--- Quote ---Two hundred thousand corpses marked the Holy War's march from the oasis of Subis to the frontier of Enathpaneah.  Two hundred thousand dead, beat into black leather by the sun.

For generations the Khirgwi would call their route saka'ilrait, "the Trail of Skulls."
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From chapter 19, page 412 in US paperback, near the beginning of the chapter, bold added.

Perhaps a hint that the world lives on past whatever happens at the end of TUC?  Generations means babies!  Maybe just the Khirgwi survive.  :P

Wilshire:
Generations means a minimum of 2. Roughly speaking, a generation is 20 years, meaning the world must only live for about 40.

Aspect-Emperor spoilers:
(click to show/hide)AE starts out 20+ years after the day you references. Could be that the no-god/inchoroi takes another 20ish years to accomplish whatever it is they are doing. The world could die around the conclusion of TUC without there being internal inconsistency

mrganondorf:
It seemed like more in the text!  Had the feeling of the story trailing off into indeterminate future. 

Khirgwi become the new FREMEN!!!

mrganondorf:
A thread with a similar premise is in The Judging Eye section:

(click to show/hide)http://www.second-apocalypse.com/index.php?topic=417.0
begins with this:

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--- Quote from: What Came Before on April 26, 2013, 04:35:59 pm ---
--- Quote from: Truth Shines ---Reading this book for the third time, and stumbled across a sleeping T-Rex...  Did, did, did he really just accidentally give away the outcome of the Great Ordeal?!  :o   Or am I hallucinating?  ;)

USA First Edition 2009, Hardcover, Page 163-164:

"... an endless train of supplies wound in front of the southern horizon, bearing arms, wares, rations, and more rations...  Vast herds of sheep and cattle, bred solely to accompany the march, were also beaten across the horizon, so many that some Men of the Ordeal began calling themselves ka Koumiroi, or the Herdsmen -- a name that would later become holy."

If the Great Ordeal fails, there would be no one left alive in the world to talk about it, to make it "later become holy" (similar to how the word "Veteran" became holy in the aftermath of the Holy War).  This must mean the Ordeal will eventually succeed, somehow, in preventing the rise of No-God for the second time.

Or am I crazy?!
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Wilshire:
Yes, I vaguely recall shooting down that topic too lol. Headshots all around.

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