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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] The Seven Revelations of SuJuroit (Kellhus and Ajokli)
« on: August 03, 2017, 04:44:40 pm »I don't see how those words are un-Kellhus like. Could easily be either or both of them speaking, to me.So Kellhus needed Ajokli to get a leg up on the Consult to stop Resumption, great, but what was his endgame after that? Nigga you just struck a pact with the universe's Satan, the world is still open to the Gods, what're ya gonna do now? I don't get it.I think he believed with sufficient mastery of the Daimos he could usurp Ajokli. He was very wrong.
I'm not entirely sure whether it was a failure to control Ajokli. I wouldn't be surprised it was part of the deal as well: For all intents and purpose, Kellhus should have died in Caraskand and he knows that. I think that, just as Saubon (the Mengedda-Dagliash flash-forward/ -back), he got a 20 years lease on life because he managed to convince Ajokli to take the deal.
On the whole, I currently largely agree with SuJoroit. I'll add the Kellhus part of my post from the DEM thread as my two kellics again.
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Concerning Kellhus's power:
We get multiple descriptions of Kellhus's Mark throughout TAE. I got the impression it got deeper and deeper, and more blasted throughout the series, based on the subtle difference in adjectives used in the PoV of other protagonists throughout the series. I've entertained for long the possibility that Kellhus was either having people (Zaudunyani) killed to become more powerful himself (souls basically being dinner) in the Outside, resulting in more powerful magic.
After TUC, I'm expecting him having to sacrifice the Ordeal as a whole, as damned and deceived as possible (remember the Meat), was the price for Ajokli's assistance (since there'd be more dinner for him). I'd even go as far as suggesting that the sacrifice of the whole "maxxed out damned" and deceived (!!) ordeal was a necessity for Ajokli to assist Kellhus, which is why we in my perception get the horrific passages of the Ordeal going bananas both in TGO and TUC.
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I agree hints have ben given throughout TAE that Kellhus had mastered the Daimos. The whole head on a pole sequence, rumours throughout TJE from the "foreign" protagonists, and even through Malowebi in his first TUC PoV. We even know he's been to the Outside through the Head on a Pole passage in TGO. The fact that he's made a deal with one of the gods was, in my opinion, extremely probable.
Also the Head on a Pole is, I was supposing, the tether to the world of the living. Similar to the thread binding a Ciphrang to the world. Now that I type this post, I'm inclined to think it's the reminder to Kellhus that he's alive. Think about the explanation of the Wathi doll: The soul is both living and dead, both in the real world and in the Outside. As long as the soul is alive, it cannot be claimed by the Outside. At the same time, the soul is not alive either because the body is still technically alive.