Didn't Sarl and the Captain tell us?  Sometimes old souls awaken behind the eyes of babes.  Sometimes men are too hard for Hell, some souls Bounce!

Though, I still think Kellhus is the Head On A Pole.  They are going to have to reenact the quest for the Heron Spear, only this time they will be looking for their Lord and Prophet's Head.

I actually feel like Aurang may have survived.  Aurax's lamentations and the offscreen way he died suggests that there may be more plot there.

No, Kellhus was possessed by Ajokli, this daemon was, I think Kakliol?  Big time Ciphrang, clearly, but not on the level of the Hundred.

So...let's guess at the final fate of our Lord and Prophet.

Do you think he is hanging from the statues hip in the other head?  Dead and being tortured on the outside?  Dead and become a Ciphrang?  Dead and become Ajokli?  Alive and it was a body double that got salted?  Actually inside of the No-God?

Let's hear it!

For myself, I think he is, himself, the Head On A Pole.  His spirit is tortured in the Outside, but his head is on the statue's belt, and he is not dead, so the Hundred cannot truly torture him.  I think those scenes were flash forwards to this time.

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I don't think there are geographic limits to the No-God's control.  Wasn't there a 'one vast and terrible will' quote somewhere?  There may be a limit in regards to how important the beast is though.  I think Wutteat says something about being beyond even the Black Heaven, and folks seem to think that Aurax/Aurang aren't necessarily just terminals.

and the anarcane ground at Artithau can surely just be overrun by Sranc without any need for sorcery. 

Big question here is whether the No-God's control of the Sranc is, itself, sorcerous enough to be inactive on anarcane ground.

I was meaning more that the children of the present would grow up to be useful vs. the Consult.  Like, the supply of new soldiers/magicians won't dry up for ten 15 or so years.

I've had the 'not Akka's baby' thought a couple of times.  Imhailas seems like the obvious other possibility.