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If the world is a game whose rules are written by the God, and sorcerers are those who cheat and cheat, then who has written the rules of sorcery?
—ZARATHINIUS, A DEFENCE OF THE ARCANE ARTS
Which might explain why he said malowebi was his favorite to writeI thought that perhaps he'd been turned into a Wathi doll or something acting on similar principles and that was how/why Kellhus commanded him to go and assassinate the Zeumi leadership. Basically a bigger version of Akka asking the Wathi doll to come and destroy the uroborean circle.
The way I read it is when Kellhus placed the decapitant's head on his body, then the Cphrang is bound by Kellhus's will since he killed it and brought it from the Outside. Of course, there probably has to be some sorcery involved there. Namely, I believe that Kellhus has had Ishroiya ensorcelled, since Malowebi's head still seemed to be "alive".
Part of what is confusing to me is that it seems like Malo's POV continues after his decapitation but with the Decapitant's head fused to Malo's decapitated body. It seems like Malo's POV ought to have ended when his proper head was removed and that Malo's body would now more-or-less be belonging to the Ciphrang.
Akka did talk about soul-trapping earlier in the book with Mimara...perhaps a set up of sorts for this saying that souls are exceedingly complicated...so maybe Kellhus' new assassin is somehow part Ciphrang and part Malo? That would be a crazy POV to have in the next book.
In earlier versions of TTCB I actually explain the logistics of Ishual, the division of agricultural labour among the Dunyain, and so on. But once I realized just how big the info mountain the reader need to climb was, I began ripping out all nonessential details. By time Akka and Mimara reach Ishual...I think a _book of lost tales_ is needed. Atrocity Edits!
Sorry if my misunderstanding of biology and pregnancy are grossly inadequate.Pregnancy is not a one-way street, basically, you don't just get to input sperm and take out baby and the mother is irrelevant other than a tank. You can't increase viability while decreasing physical activity. You can't increase viability while eliminating language. you can't increase viability while keeping women in cortisol state of eternal stress. you can't increase viability when eliminating vitamin D. and on and on and on and on and on. and without even touching on the new discoveries of the profound feedback loops (negative and positive) that epigentics is unraveling.
No-God = Zero-God = Yatwer, amirite???
