Made it through Chapter 1:
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upon the high wall the husbands slept,
while 'round the hearth their women wept,
and fugitives murmured tales of woe,
of greater cities lost to Mog-Pharau...
—"The Refugee's Song," The Sagas
This is the quote from the beginning. What way to beging the chapter that sees Sakarpus conquered. The parallel is obvious, showing us that Kellhus has done what the No-God (and Consult) could not. The implication seems clear, Kellhus is more. What remains to be seen is, what does the more entail?
Tell me, why couldn't the Consult conquer Sarkapus? The chorae hoard? Is this why Kellhus hand is salting when he meets Sorweel?
Yeah, we've talked about it before and the two places spared the Apocalypse were Sakarpus and Atrithau.
Sakarpus has the Chorae Hoard and Atrithau is on Anarcane Ground. My speculation was that the No-God could be blind to these places, because of this. An alternative theory could be that without being able to use sorcery, it was not worth the effort for the Consult to take these places.
Both seem pretty plausible. Kellhus demonstates that neither of these things effect him particularly (but yeah, he probably is salting from all the Chorae that are around but more probably Sorweel's).
I can't remember where this came from, but wasn't one of the books of the Tractate devoted to something along the lines of "the strange story of how Sakarpus survived the Apocalypse"?
Am I the only one who thinks of her name as Theliopia? I know it's wrong, but it has a better ring to it to me. Anyway, she is probably my favorite of all Kellhus' kids, Inrilatas aside. She is weird and creepy, but like my enjoyment of Aurang, she never pulls punches. Just the facts mam, just the facts.
Dude, I just now realized there's no
i at the end of her name reading that. Also, I wonder where her name comes from? All the rest of the kids seem to have familial or historical based names.