Chapter 11
But the plate had changed all too quickly. To realize that the Cishaurim were but a mask for a far more ancient foe. To come so very close, only to discover their sublime deceptions subverted by something deeper. Something new. The Dûnyain.
There was more to this than a son hunting for his father—far more. Their devious methods and disconcerting abilities aside, these Dûnyain were Anasûrimbor. Even without the Mandate prophecies, enmity was a fact of their accursed blood. Who was this Moënghus? And if his son could seize the armed might of the Three Seas in a single year, what had he accomplished in thirty? What awaited the Holy War in Shimeh.
When you get a clue from Bakker, it's a whale in a Gold fishes mouth! Look at those two paragraphs and how packed with meaning and hints. A. Far. More. Ancient. Foe. Can anyone say Seswatha? I know it's about an Anasurimbor on the surface, but I see Seswatha lurking in the shadow as always. To me, it's just one more hint that Seswatha had a hand in the Dunyain. Men? Men could not do what a Dunyain could or would need to do, to even come close to defeating the Consult. The next paragraph compares them to rutting dogs during the First Apocalypse(men).
A son chasing his father across the Three-Seas? No, Aurang says himself, "There is far more going on here." Friends, people of the slog, this is an Ancient foe! Ahhh, this is the diamond in the rough I've been looking for. Its all there.
ETA: also look at the last two sentences. How many times has this been brought up? And yet, so many think that Moe didn't have a plan at Kyudea, and he was just stabbed by his son and died in his lover's arms. Come now, ever are men deceived.
"and boom! goes the canon, watch the blood and the shit spray!"
"To realize that the Cishaurim were but a mask for a far more ancient foe."
The next thought is "something new. The dunyain."
There it is. Two separate thoughts. The cishaurim are a mask for something ancient and the dunyain are something new.
Boom!
Next he thinks specifically about what the dunyain are:
"these Dûnyain were Anasûrimbor enmity was a fact of their accursed blood."
So. Cishaurim are a mask for an ancient enemy, dunyain are something new. Dunyain are anasurimbor. Anasurimbor have cursed blood. inchoroi have enmity for anasurimbor.
Possible Conclusion, Aurang has figured out who founded the dunyain and why (from the readers perspective the only candidates we are aware Titirga, celmomas, or seswatha). From discovering these facts of the dunyain he separately finds out that the cishaurim are a mask for an ancient foe.
So the order of the cishaurim are a conscious construction on the behalf of an unknown agency, possibly the dunyain possibly the agency behind the dunyain, for reasons as yet unknown.
Note the use of "ancient": the context leading into this passage is AURANG thinking about time and that he is older than the stone, so he is describing a foe as ancient while preceding that with thinking about time in very large orders of magnitude.
So what agency founded the cishaurim and why?
Meppa is x where x is a representative of said unknown agency.
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I think close reading indicates that AURANG has clear separate thoughts about the newness of the dunyain and the ancientness of the enemy beneath the cishaurim mask. Perhaps AURANG is merely contradicting himself and merely saying that AURANG has discovered the dunyain beneath the cishaurim. But I think this is not what the text is indicating.
Also note that this construction is an Inversion of what the reader knows. The reader knows that the cishaurim are a new construction within earwa with only centuries of continuity and the dunyain are an ancient order with thousands of years of continuity. But AURANG inverts this and describes the agency behind the cishaurim as ancient and the dunyain as a new construction.
Boom indeed.
Has an ancient enemy followed the inchoroi to earwa to continue their ancient war?
As madness says, shit we never saw coming, hmm?
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