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General Earwa / Re: So, the state of Kellhus's kids - Yatwerian sanction?
« on: November 25, 2013, 03:13:33 pm »
I always took Kellhus' reproductive problems to be a successful long term strike at him by the Consult.  Remember when Esmenet did it in the allyway at Momemn with that nameless blonde guy? Well, IIRC his semen is black like that of Aurang in his first encounter with Esmenet.  That didn't make sense to me unless intercouse with the synthese had tainted Esmenet in some way and thereby damaged her fertility, which would then effect every subsequent coupling.  This might mean that the defectiveness of Kellhus' children is not the product of his seed being "too heavy" for mortal women to bear but not heavy enough to overcome the Inchoroi pollution in every instance of conception.

And, of course, it is another nod to Dune, specifically the
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Literature / Re: "The broken empire" by Mark Lawrence
« on: November 24, 2013, 05:19:53 pm »
Quote from: Royce on November 24, 2013, 07:39:43 am
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Oh look, a publisher allowed someone to blog on their website trashing a product sold by one of their competitors.  That's shocking.

I am not into who publishes what in the US/UK etc, but if what you imply seem to be the case, then it is not shocking at all :)

Indeed, it is quite predictable. :)

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Was just highlighting some of the criticism against his books.

I am sorry if I came off as aggressive towards you, I just find the unspoken commercial context of that review so blatant.

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Literature / Re: "The broken empire" by Mark Lawrence
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:39:03 am »
Quote from: Royce on November 18, 2013, 02:12:53 pm
here is a little taster: http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/08/qpeople-who-like-this-sort-of-thing-q-being-a-review-of-mark-lawrences-prince-of-thorns

Oh look, a publisher allowed someone to blog on their website trashing a product sold by one of their competitors.  That's shocking.

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Yatwer and the Greal Ordeal
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:26:43 am »
Tangent: does the strong opposition of the goddess of Motherhood to Kellhus imply that his support for women's lib in the New Empire is somewhat self-serving and spotty?

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Japanese get Bakker.
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:21:38 am »
Quote from: sciborg2 on November 23, 2013, 11:11:31 pm
Honestly, I think the series might work better as an anime than as a live action film.

It does remind me of Berserk actually.

Almost any quality fantasy series would, the limits of an audience's attention for a single sitting are too narrow to accommodate the sort of scale a story like that would need.

Looking forward to bishounen Kellhus.

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Literature / Re: Mark T. Barnes - Echoes of Empire series
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:19:16 am »
I've got Garden of Stones, will review when done.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Kellhus and the No-God
« on: November 24, 2013, 01:05:01 am »
Quote from: Curethan on November 17, 2013, 01:47:11 am
I would like to know more about when and how the Scylvendi went to the consult.

I have a theory, perhaps not a crackpot one:

When Cnaiur is reminiscing about his childhood with Skiotha he has a flashback to a scene where his father shows him the stars in the night sky and says that they are really holes in the tent that is thrown over the earth, and that this is how they know the world is a lie.  I thought that was important for several reasons:

1.) It's classically Gnostic, if you pardon the use of nomadic tribal imagery in the metaphor Skiotha applies to the world; that the world was in some sense a fraud was central to Gnostic ideology.

2.) It suggests why the Scylvendi are so violent and uncaring of death in battle: they regard this life as a dream or delusion of some sort, and so do not see it's end as a measureless tragedy, just a transition, and probably one that is good in and of itself.

(The scene is also important because it is the only time we hear Skiotha speak, and because he is clearly showing affection to his son, which is hardly what you would expect given the rest of the Scylvendi ways we see, to say nothing of Cnaiur's persona).

If that is correct, then the Scylvendi might see a "no-god" that is capable of permanently stopping the cycle of rebirth and ending the earthly life of Men as a power of salvation, because this would mean that the entire human race was no longer trapped in the world of lies.

Too bad the No-God is probably eating their souls.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Kellhus and the No-God
« on: November 24, 2013, 12:56:44 am »
Quote from: Madness on November 16, 2013, 06:02:35 pm
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It would seem so.  Only a year to wait...

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Nonmen Society
« on: November 16, 2013, 04:43:10 pm »
Quote from: Madness on November 12, 2013, 01:21:57 am
Sorry for the piecemeal response.


Quote from: Ciogli on November 11, 2013, 11:00:01 pm
T don't think their civilization was in decline at the time of the Fall, their were nine high mansions at that time.

I'll have to find the quote but Bakker's written that Nonman Civilization was declined far past their peak by the time of the Fall.

Please do.  If they were in considerable decline by then it would imply inter alia that the Inchroi would not have been as much of a difficulty for them had Nonmen strength been at it's peak during the Fall.

How long did the Inchoroi wait in orbit? And why didn't they just land? What damaged the Ark to badly that it could not fly any more? Crackpot:
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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Kellhus and the No-God
« on: November 16, 2013, 04:33:08 pm »
Quote from: Madness on November 05, 2013, 02:08:01 pm
No pet theories, EkyannusIII?

All feel the No-God's tug from the horizon. All are stillborn. The Xiuhanni must have reacted.

Indeed, but I have no basis for thinking anything about their reaction beyond the obvious inference that it was probably a vastly destabilizing event for their societies.

I do, however, want to bring this up:

Quote from: Madness on October 21, 2013, 11:35:58 am
These posts might have to be moved. I can see us quickly straying into spoilers.

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I think that
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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Kellhus and the No-God
« on: November 05, 2013, 03:35:46 am »
Quote from: Wilshire on October 16, 2013, 10:00:47 pm
EkyannusIII might have meant the still born birth thing when the no-god walked. Womb plague would seem to semantically.

Yes, that was what I meant, thanks.  :)

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: Nonmen Society
« on: October 16, 2013, 06:41:32 pm »
You're very right about the caste system paralells (which show up in odd locations in scifi/fantasy - c.f. the Mimbari in Babylon 5, who also follow the I.E. caste pattern), but this caught my eye:


Quote from: Auriga on October 16, 2013, 09:43:23 am
So, yeah, a very caste-oriented and status-oriented society, with the men massively outnumbering the women. This gender disparity, and the weird sexual dynamics that resulted from it, would've led to lots of female hypergamy and male homosexuality ("the sodomite kings of Eärwa", as the Tusk calls them).

My impression was that the gender disparity was the direct result of the Womb Plague, since all the women died out, and that the sodomy was the outcome of that since, well, you know.  Did I miss something?

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The Forum of Interesting Things / Re: Richard Dawkins defends ‘mild pedophilia’
« on: October 16, 2013, 06:28:57 pm »
Quote from: Callan S. on September 13, 2013, 11:36:26 am
So I appreciate and acknowledge his own stance that he wasn't gotten to. But I think he's a dumb ass for applying it to anyone else automatically.

This.  Dawkins may speak for himself but it is arrogant for him to generalize his experience to others.

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General Earwa / Re: Chorae
« on: October 16, 2013, 06:11:32 pm »
Randumb question - could a Chorae be sterilized and then surgically implanted using high medieval medicine? Keep in mind that these things are only possessed by the elite, so the best medical care of the day would be available to them, not the butchery of the village medicine man.

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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Kellhus and the No-God
« on: October 16, 2013, 06:08:00 pm »
I want to know what the peoples of Eanna think about the Womb Plague.  It happened to them too. What do they remember, and how do they explain it?

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