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Author Q&A / Re: Unholy Consultation - *SUPER SPOILERIFIC*
« on: July 28, 2017, 07:54:20 pm »
WOW, thanks again for putting an end to our misery. You're clearing most of our excruciating doubts.
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The digestion is improving, day after day, but it's like eating a mammoth, it isn't easy to hunt it, eat it and digest it.
You forgot to mention the hot sauce...
The No-God , and ZDC confirmation . A great day. Thanks for coming by .
I worry for Bakker's future publications .
I've mentioned to others but Bakker is well-aware of his loose ends, whichever he brings more life to later. But again I think distinguishing the narrative arcs of TAE as one book from the loose seeds will go a long way towards appreciating TAE as its own story.
I appreciate TAE for what it is, absolutely. However, I can't ignore that major series-spanning questions are still unanswered and may forever go unanswered. That is the source of my disappointment more than anything.
Without TSTSNBN, the entire series will be less than it could have been, for me that's a certainty.
I don't see any problem with not having a Disney fairy tale ending, myself. Hell, the overall series is named THE SECOND APOCALYPSE. Btw, there is still a third series coming.
Has anybody read the Glossary entry for Engus? The mention of a cursed valley in the Demua Mountains, and piles of Sranc bones, seems to suggest that there was something 'wrong' with Ishual, long before the Dunyain got there.
To go back to your original question: I honestly think it's a mistake. The Demua mountains are all the way across the Istyuli Plains and the Aumris River valley away from Meorn and Sakarpus. It's probably meant to be the Osthwai Mountains or Hethanta Mountains, not Demua. Doesn't make much sense for the Sakarpi to have 'legends' of something so far away from themselves. Things far away tend to lose their potency, so something close seems more likely. Which is why I thinks it's just a mistake. (shrugs)
I think if Bakker were to come out and say, "Yes there will definitely be a third series", I would feel better about it. As it stands, I liked the book a lot, but I have very mixed feelings about the ending.