@ Jackhehe - Hello! Welcome! Here's my thoughts on Koringhus…
I think that Koringhus is the 'real' descent into Ishual. Bakker denied us a merry tour of Ishual's depths because the real significance was the trip down into a Dunyain's mind to revisit their most fundamental assumptions. HOWEVER, I think it is totally possible that Bakker is still saving the trip into the Thousand Thousand Halls for TUC.
I think Koringhus makes for a striking contrast with Cnauir too--scars/swazond all over.
@ RedSetter4570 - Hello! You know, I got a totally different vibe from Koringhus--I didn't get the sense that salvation was possible, but that there was no escaping the 'greater predator.' I got the feeling that Koringhus came to the conclusion that the only meaningful thing left that he could do was submit to his judgment of damnation instead of resisting it. What do you say?
@ spacemost - Hey there! Great commentary! To add to what you were saying--I think that it's not just that the Dunyain erroneously considered the Absolute in human terms--they did that Oedipus thing--raise yourself up to high and the gods will strike you down.
I wonder to what extent Koringhus' thoughts might be 'privileged' over Kellhus' own intellect? The Dunyain are all about incrementally improving their stock, so it could be that Koringhus has more nascent intellect than Kellhus--that Kellhus will end up coming to Koringhus' conclusions but later.
Got to wonder if the Crab-Kid is super-duper smarter than Kellhus???
@ H - Goddamnit, you are so fucking right! "It would be pretty crazy if it was that Mimara would undo the No-God by simply looking at it and answering it's question of "What do you see?"" Although, maybe it won't destroy NG, maybe he'll finally get to have the conversation that he's been moaning on about.
@ Titan, Viridius, TheDeliverator, Cuttlefish - HELLO FOLKS! GLAD YOU ARE HERE!