Do you have a system and method for organizing the naming conventions or inventing names for the enormous amount of Cûnuroi names?

I very much enjoyed the epic catalog of non-men during Sorweel's first audience with the Nin-Ciljiras.

Can you expound upon Emilidis for us? (maybe a preview of a glossary entry I'm guessing Emilidis might have?)

also some connection to malowebi demon head?

or some connection to Koringhus thoughts on blindness?

or some connection to what Emilidis was trying to achieve with the Black Cauldron before it was turned into a prison/punishment after the fact?

I think the demon head is why the nonmen touched kellhus in the WLW, and likewise has something to do with how the nonmen were able to more or less instantly identify that Sorweel was demon touched by Yatwer.  They know some shit about this shit.

Yes, and all the rules of benjuka.

it's 1:29am, I haven't the time to read the whole thread yet.

Kellhus v Meppa was pretty awesome.

But there's a niggling thing about it I don't like.

It feels like fan-service.

I wonder if in an earlier draft Esmenet really did kill Meppa.

But that agency was taken away from her to give fans more Kellhus kicking ass moments? To forestall decades of "who wins in a fight type debates."

I got a little bit of the same vibe off the clumsy line of Kellhus thinking, "I'm more powerful than Titirga." It sounds more like answering fan questions than a natural thought progression.

pfah!

I had no impression that Serwe was going to sing sorcery.

but if she were, poison pin obviously refers to a good old "Math Thesis Point" from the False Sun, and since both the glamour about Golgotteranth and the Agonic Collar were both wrought by Emilidis, and both probably work on similar principles of deflection/redirection (which is why it has to be a circle, an Agonic Collar or an ouroborian circle) then therefore a maththesis point (a poison pin, a key!) directed at the collar ought to disable it just as the glamour was disabled.

So that's how she can probably get out collar if need be, most sorcerors either direct sorcery outward (which just causes them to always miss and hit themselves) or at the collar itself (which likewise just always misses and hits themselves) but a maththesis point would not be able to be redirected.

Kellhus would have derived such a solution because he'd want to know how to get out of one as well.

But I think Hirtius is right and it is going to be 'mundane' singing that turns the court against itself.

On the other hand. The chorae theory could be correct,

"it bounced across the grill immediately before her, clattered through a wagging grove directly toward her face, oblivion promising oblivion. A Concussion wracked the platform, and, somewhere, an anchor snapped, and the whole dropped, tilted to her left. The Chorae chipped to a halt a mere cubit from her face. She followed the fingers clasped about the emptiness of the thing and saw Sorweel, his face blodded for flayed skin, his blue eyes fluttering as he strained to focus upon her..."

It sounds like the ending of the Momemn chapter, the chorae was meant to kill Serwe, just as the Yatwerian sent chorae falling out of the  ceiling of the andiamine heights were meant for kellhus. In the WLW version of the momemn scene, Yatwer even blinks the tears-of-god into existence herself, casting them at Kellhus. Given Yatwer is having all of the Anasurimbor children killed, I imagine the appearance of the chorae is like the appearance of the stork (twice?thrice) in Ishterebinth, direct intervention of the God. What happens here is that Sorweel has rejected Yatwere, and he reaches out and catches and stops the chorae from rolling and hitting Serwa,

I'm disapointed this forum isn't named Ishuäl

Finally got a notice from amazon my preorder was upgraded to release day delivery. I might cancel the Kindle pre order now