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The White-Luck Warrior / TUC pt 1 BLURB ANALYSIS
« on: October 16, 2015, 07:21:59 pm »
Not sure if there is much to see here..
- What do you bet Esmi witdraws all of her forces from the Scylvendi frontier and lets the shrieking mob run straight into the approaching Fanim. That would be very Kellhus of her.
- Maybe Kelmomas goes on being missing? I hadn't thought of that. Esmi is unwilling or unable to send troops into the Shadow Palace? I know she doesn't want to give it's secret away, but I assume she would want Kelmomas back even more.
It could be that Kellhus has told her that it is a life and death issue that the Shadow Palace remain a secret? Or maybe she needs to make use of it in order to hold the empire together, so she can't risk secret getting out. I bet Theli could find him, but I'm not sure that she is willing.
- Consequences of eating sranc that Kellhus hasn't forseen? Please. He's probably had outposts of dudes eating sranc for years to see what happens. And yet...I am still worried that the Consult will use the Great Ordeal's new food source to deliver poison or plague. What do you bet we get some humor about the men cooking sranc in different ways? On the menu tonight: Sranc stuffed with sranc. Cooked sranc. Uncooked sranc. Sorcerer cooked sranc (market price). Cooked sranc with salted sorcerer (limited availability).
What do you think?
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Praised by fans and critics worldwide, R. Scott Bakker has become one of the most celebrated voices in fantasy literature. With The Great Ordeal, Bakker presents the long-anticipated third volume of The Aspect-Emperor, a series that stands with the finest in the genre for its grandiose scope, rich detail, and thrilling story.
As Fanim war-drums beat just outside the city, the Empress Anasurimbor Esmenet searches frantically throughout the palace for her missing son Kelmomas. Meanwhile and many miles away, Esmenet’s husband’s Great Ordeal continues its epic march further north. But in light of dwindling supplies, the Aspect-Emperor’s decision to allow his men to consume the flesh of fallen Sranc could have consequences even He couldn’t have foreseen. And, deep in Ishuäl, the wizard Achamian grapples with his fear that his unspeakably long journey might be ending in emptiness, no closer to the truth than when he set out.
The Aspect-Emperor series follows Bakker’s Prince of Nothing saga, returning to the same world twenty years later. The Great Ordeal follows The Judging Eye and The White-Luck Warrior, and delivers the first half of the conclusion to this epic story. Returning to Bakker’s richly imagined universe of myth, violence, and sorcery, The Aspect-Emperor continues to set the bar for the fantasy genre, reaching new heights of intricacy and meaning.
- What do you bet Esmi witdraws all of her forces from the Scylvendi frontier and lets the shrieking mob run straight into the approaching Fanim. That would be very Kellhus of her.
- Maybe Kelmomas goes on being missing? I hadn't thought of that. Esmi is unwilling or unable to send troops into the Shadow Palace? I know she doesn't want to give it's secret away, but I assume she would want Kelmomas back even more.
It could be that Kellhus has told her that it is a life and death issue that the Shadow Palace remain a secret? Or maybe she needs to make use of it in order to hold the empire together, so she can't risk secret getting out. I bet Theli could find him, but I'm not sure that she is willing.
- Consequences of eating sranc that Kellhus hasn't forseen? Please. He's probably had outposts of dudes eating sranc for years to see what happens. And yet...I am still worried that the Consult will use the Great Ordeal's new food source to deliver poison or plague. What do you bet we get some humor about the men cooking sranc in different ways? On the menu tonight: Sranc stuffed with sranc. Cooked sranc. Uncooked sranc. Sorcerer cooked sranc (market price). Cooked sranc with salted sorcerer (limited availability).
What do you think?