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Atrocity Tales / Re: The False Sun
« on: May 11, 2013, 08:11:53 am »
That's a terribly logical veiw for an erratic.

I found the synthesis of the POV in 'four revelations' and Cleric/NG's arc in AE strongly shows that Erratic's are not the non-men they used to be. 

Their ancient personalities only assert themselves in response to trauma (or Mimara's manipulations).  CJ is lost in memories, completely disconnected from reality much of the time - some variant erratic is driving him around the Nansur borderlands in the meanwhile.  Akka never understands that about Cleric, he keeps appealing to someone that isn't there.

The clearly possess memories of things whilst they are erratic; they are trying to remember who they are - not the totality of their lives or some intricate plan to escape damnation.

The Erratic's just do whatever it takes to put themselves in those traumatic situations.  E.g. In Cil'Aujis, NG comes to the fore and recalls the hundreds of years he has spent there hunting Sranc (and hanging out near the topos).

Getting into the arc wasn't any sort of masterplan to find the brothers and convert the Mangacea, imho, just an erratic trying to remember...

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If it has Seswatha's memories already, then it can grasp the gnosis as soon as it can 'sing'.

@ Callan;
We're all blind in the womb, no? 
That's another option - straight from the womb and into the carapace, held in an eternal inversion of birthing to block the circuit of souls, Maggot becomes the no-god.


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Mandati are forbiden to have wives iirc... 
Mimara is of the Few
Remember that the ability to use sorcery was always hereditary among the quya.  Something to do with qirri use? or maybe that both parents were magic users.
Perhaps Maggot will sing the psukhe with his/her first cry?

I'll go with Seswatha's memories seeing as Akka/Kellhus has already shook them loose and there seems to be a strong emphasis on paternal lineage in Earwa.

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It's interesting how only Mimara can rouse Cleric's true persona.  Despite Akka thinking he knows best how to deal with the nonman (as usual), it is Mim who succesfully connects with him as a person 'in the now'.  (He remebers her name, she divines his pre-Incariol identity - Akka is always Seswatha).  Her actions in doing so are always 'instinctive'  i.e. they arise from her DTCB - and of course, she is conditioned.

Maggot seemed apropos - that's what Pokwas and Galian refer to him as.  But yeh, not a nice name  :'(
Be super creepy if he comes out complete with Seswatha's memories - like the Mau'dib's sister from Dune (I forget her name).

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General Misc. / Re: Manga/Anime
« on: May 09, 2013, 06:24:36 am »
Didn't know trigun and cowboy bebop were considered anime.

Out of curiosity, what makes something an anime and not a cartoon?
Generally, anime is adapted or derived from manga.  But really they are just Japanese animations. 
A cartoon is actually not even animated - its an extension of the olde world term for satirical or humurous illustrations iirc.

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Atrocity Tales / Re: The False Sun
« on: May 08, 2013, 11:22:14 pm »
But then why was he the one trying to destroy the Barricades? Why lead the Mangaecca to the IF if he was trying to suppress its nature before?

He's Erratic.  Staring at the Inverse Fire would be the crack cocaine of trauma.

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Latest dip into the crackpot trance has suggested that the Judging Eye may be caused by Kellhus 'riding' Mimara's soul.
Consider what K's dunyain vision would be like if you were ruled by emotion.  Galian's butterfly seems like a great example of the kind of thing Kellhus would unearth from someone's past and use to rule them...

Following deeper into the Crackpotoverse, I have divined that Maggot (Mim's unborn) is probably Seswatha reincarnate.  Celmoman prophecy, Akka as a dad and all that. 

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I can't remember anything anyway so anywhere is fine by me. 

But you could sort all the individual posts into nice organized topics, none of them are about what they start off being about.
I jest, I jest...

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I like to rotate the music I listen too pretty regularly.  Good for the brain, I reckon.

Latest addition to the play list.

Pallbearer - Sorrow and Extinction.
Doom metal
8/10

[EDIT Madness: Title.]

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Literature / YOU MUST TELL ME ... What else are you reading?
« on: May 04, 2013, 06:57:07 am »
I imagine that many forumers manage to read other stuff in between obsessive reads of TSA.

Just picked up Planesrunner by Ian McDonald.  Looks fun.  Interdimensional airships!

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: The Dialectic of Esmenet
« on: May 02, 2013, 08:23:39 am »
Do I understand you correctly?
People Khellus mind rapes become psychicly linked to him!?
Could this also form some kind of explanation for the haloes?

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It doesn't have to be violence, but there needs to be some action to propel events.  Conflict is an intergral part of most stories - but that doesn't need to mean violence. Man against wild sounds like the conflict you are aiming for?

Social interaction affords dialogue, which is a valuable means to inform the reader of things above the menial level.  Perhaps some internal monologue would work, otherwise it sounds like it might be a very dry travelogue.

Narrative lends itself to an episodic nature.  It might be villages scenes or any other informing scenes - action or other social intercourse.  We aquire meaning in our lives by linking internal scenes in a meaningful manner, so it is natural to do the same in a more 'properly' fictional story.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Cnaiur and Fate, After Anwurat
« on: April 25, 2013, 04:46:43 am »
Of course.  Speculation is highly subjective.  But it does hang from ambiguity that the author injects (intentionally or otherwise). 
I'm only shooting of my thoughts because I agree with locke that this seems like an intentionally ambiguous easter egg. 
The kind of thing that is intended to be interesting after reading later material only because it perhaps 'excuses' the revelations that come after.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello (t)here
« on: April 24, 2013, 12:12:20 am »
Yo.

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Introduce Yourself / Re: Hello
« on: April 24, 2013, 12:11:46 am »
Good to see you Harrol.

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