@ curethan - really like this idea of digging too deep. The end of TTT took us to what Cnaiur considered "too deep" so maybe TUC will take us deeper still. Thank you for pointing out the dragon, I didn't notice it being out of place. This is not Gringots! Does this add a third category to the bakkerverse? Outside, inside, *underneath*
@ wiltshire - the "death came swirling down" made me think of Homer, "dark came swirling down":
http://home.ubalt.edu/NTYGFIT/ai_01_pursuing_fame/ai_01_tell/iliad06.htmgods as avatars has a homery ring to it
WHAT YOU SAID ABOUT THE TUSK ROOM BEING AN ANTI-TOPOI. That sounds strange and wonderful and oddly fiiting since that tusk thingy is an inchoroi artifact! Is it just a thing or is it still fulfilling a purpose for the Consult, like listening to conversations or messing with reality or i don't know what
where the hell do you get a tusk that big? another abomination will see crawl out of the ark at the last battle?
@ lockesnow - the facts surrounding the fall of the ark really fascinate me. Why did it crash on *this* world when it was so successful elsewhere? Did a god strike it from the sky? I can't think of any other entity powerful enough to harm the ark to the point that it becomes a dead womb and only 1/100 survive.
about the entire race trapped in hell--this is what I'm wondering the ultimate motivation for Aurang and Aurax is--they have some kind of absolute loyalty to their species and the advent of the NG will eventually let them reclaim Inchoroi souls form hell? Resonates with what the synthese says at the end of TTT about not even the dead escape the benjuka plate. Possible motivation for dunyain? Reclaim dunyain of old?
topoi like pit--esmi's harlot womb like a topoi--NG special effect on wombs--WHAT DOES IT MEAN???
@ madness - i gotta agree with you that the inchoroi want earwa because it is the most connected to the outside--brilliant!
I like the idea of Atrithau being the oldest topois--I don't suppose it's soil is exported to help form chorae? And btw, whatever chorae the great ordeal bring with them, they could be dwarfed by the number the consult have, right? Unless the consult lost the art…
that bit about the place where sejenus ascended, was this guy beaten to death with a guilded thigh bone AND THEN ascended? that sejenus life-narrative is hidden from us, mostly, makes me wonder if we're going to get revelations about him in TUC
@ locke - woo! that's a neat idear about a weaponized topoi! sure am glad i started hanging out here, i didn't know how many speculations i didn't know
about cnaiur feeling the "great inversion of ground" -- what if the mansion Old Moe was using was also topoi? what end what that serve and what effect would it have on the captive skinspies and kellhus?
@ sciborg2 -- you got me thinking--is there an angelic counterpart to the daimos? would mimara be connected to that?
@ auriga -- your quote reminded me--i'm really bothered that we don't know what happened between the event of akka being carried away by demon and akka waking up in a hut? HIDING SOMETHING BIG IN THERE