MSJ, I'll get back to your points when I finish chapter 9.
For now, Chapter 8:
Hated or adored, Seswatha was the pin in the navigator’s bowl, the true hero of The Sagas, though not one cycle or chronicle acknowledged him as such.
I have always found this interesting. We are constantly poised between the knowledge that there is a shroud of lies around Seswatha the legend and Seswatha the actual historical figure. The Dreams seem to alternatively support and refute some of it. In other words, the Dreams seem to be yet another layer of obfuscation to the truth of Seswatha. I still feel like something isn't quite right about it all, each is a lie, yet a
different lie. To go back to something that came up a few other times in our Slog here, is viramsata, the Saga as propaganda and the Dreams as the same.
Not that the Dreams are necessarily false, but that they are purposely incomplete. We kind of know this from the way Akka talks about them
changing. Although, it is a whole can of worms asking if the Dreams are becoming more truthful or more misleading. I guess that depends on what we think the Dreams are doing in changing. Are they changing as revelation to the truth? Or are they changing as a realignment of goals?
Golgotterath would not be pleased with this new disposition of pieces. But the rules had changed …
It's interesting how he refers to Golgotterath in this way. It seems to imply a multiplicity of agents there. We know there aren't many Inchoroi left, but besides Shae, I wonder how many others are really left.