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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] Psalm of Imimorûl
« on: July 25, 2017, 06:43:06 pm »
Quote from: Madness on July 25, 2017, 02:23:37 pm
Quote from: Cüréthañ on July 25, 2017, 02:22:06 pm
It's rendered complete in the Glossary, along with a lot of other great tidbits about Nonman history and beliefs. For instance, Quya translates as 'miner'.

So apparently the Quya do not share the same human disdain for using sorcery for mundane purposes ;)?
Or by analogy they mine reality and meaning


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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC SPOILERS] The Carapace & The No-God
« on: July 25, 2017, 06:41:09 pm »
Iirc the no god was supposed to be a p zombie or something weird like that and it would make sense of we insert the soul as the difference between desire and reality


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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC SPOILERS] Thoughts about the overall story, ending etc
« on: July 15, 2017, 02:13:59 pm »
So what was the deal with: https://mobile.twitter.com/bakkerfans/status/837711331138629634/photo/1

I didn't see any mention of the lord torturer Harapior's son anywhere?

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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC SPOILERS] Thoughts about the overall story, ending etc
« on: July 12, 2017, 03:09:41 pm »
Quote from: Walter on July 12, 2017, 01:58:22 pm
Quote from: generalguy on July 12, 2017, 01:42:56 pm
Disappointed in TUC mostly because it feels a bit too head-up-its-own-ass w.r.t the writing style and reveals.

Sometimes you just want it spelled out for you, rather than hidden in allusions, epithets and metaphors. It took me quite a bit to work out who the hell the blind singer was supposed to be, and even now I'm not entirely clear what's going on in those passages, for example.

I expected more fleshing out of what the No-God is rather than yet more questions.

I think the Blind Singer was Iyokus, right, and the No-God is Kelmomas?

Yeah that's my take.

Kelmomas being the No-God is foreshadowed with his god-blindness but I guess prior to him being the no-god it's explained away by God-entanglement but like is the No-God the black sarcophagus thing or the person inside it? What do they even do?

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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC SPOILERS] Thoughts about the overall story, ending etc
« on: July 12, 2017, 03:00:39 pm »
Quote from: H on July 12, 2017, 01:52:29 pm
Quote from: generalguy on July 12, 2017, 01:42:56 pm
I expected more fleshing out of what the No-God is rather than yet more questions.

That was one of the few things I thought we actually did learn though...

Not really. We already knew that its purpose was to seal the world from the outside. All that we really learned was that it needs an Anasurimbor (why?) and it's a "prostheses" of the Ark itself--whatever that means. And then a bunch more questions regarding the "progenitors" and some waffling about the "absolute"

It's still not clear why the No-God exists as it does, why it needs an anasurimbor to pilot it (or what the pilot does) and the "code"/"system" framing hasn't been explained in the slightest.

A little more explanation from the dunyain-consult and a little less Radiation Victim Fucking would have gone a long way. I mean it is the end of the 4 book series.

And on that:

Why was the whole first half even necessary? To damn the souls of the ordealmen? Why?

What the hell was going on with the nonmen in the battle? Did they get confused and start attacking the ordeal?

What is/was kellhus' plan? Why did he even do what he does with the Ordeal? The ajokli pact gets like a sentence or two and is dropped and even then is viewed through a head on a string cursing Likaro. It totally changes Kellhus as an agent and is barely covered.

(What was the point of Akka and Mimara journeying to the Ark beyond exposition? What were they gonna do there? The Consult clearly was protecting Mimara but why?)

I need a recap, I am just more confused frankly.



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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC SPOILERS] Thoughts about the overall story, ending etc
« on: July 12, 2017, 01:42:56 pm »
Disappointed in TUC mostly because it feels a bit too head-up-its-own-ass w.r.t the writing style and reveals.

Sometimes you just want it spelled out for you, rather than hidden in allusions, epithets and metaphors. It took me quite a bit to work out who the hell the blind singer was supposed to be, and even now I'm not entirely clear what's going on in those passages, for example.

I expected more fleshing out of what the No-God is rather than yet more questions.

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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC SPOILERS] Thoughts about the overall story, ending etc
« on: July 07, 2017, 09:01:11 am »
Quote from: themerchant on July 07, 2017, 06:34:59 am
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The Unholy Consult / Re: [TUC Spoilers] Ch. 1 & 2 Excerpts
« on: June 17, 2017, 10:03:32 pm »
Quote from: FB on June 15, 2017, 06:41:14 am
Whale Mothers breed Dunyain. Esmenet bred Dunyain. The Ark is described as a once living thing, has qualities both aquatic and whale-esque (Nau-Cayuti trying to break a gigantic rib bone in the Seswatha dream). The Ark/Esmi is the Darkness in which Kellhus can "hide".

The Ark is a Tekne super-whale mother?

I wonder if the Ark itself is in fact still a Sentient force, possibly manifest as Shauriatas? Would fit into the idea of a Demirugic figure, an entity which (through ignorance and blindness) has mistakenly come to believe it created the World...

Easier than that my dude, Kellhus has worked out that saving his family is cool and good with the Judging Eye or w/e he considers it. See Koringhus saving his kid as being holy. They are his ticket to getting out of being judged unholy or damned.


9 dimensional chess.


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