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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: His PROOF...
« on: January 28, 2014, 03:54:21 am »


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Everyone knows that Cnaiur uses Serwe as his prize, his proof.  His proof that he is Scylvendi.  His proof that he is heterosexual.

I always thought Cnaiur's "homosexuality" was overblown.  He is attracted to one man (Papa Moe) or arguably two (also Kellhus, who is apparently shockingly like Moe in appearence) in a lifetime, in which he otherwise finds time to rape innumerable women (all presumably attractive) and marry IIRC four wives, one of which, Anissi, he is repeatedly stated to genuinely love enough to reveal his shame too.  That sounds less like a homosexual than a man who was sweet-talked into buttsex he wouldn't have otherwise been interested in while still a vulnerable adolescent.


Are you familiar with the Kinsey scale, with it in mind he very well can be attracted to both women and men. Due to his social conditioning however lusting after the latter is unacceptable and something he suppressed. A truth Moe could see and use.  His rape of Conphas is otherwise completely beyond the pale, recall that the imperials doing such to scylvenndi prisoners was one of the provocations the drove the people to their ill fated attack at Kiyuth. And yes, he is mad but that act otherwise cuts against the grain of his madness. Or my perception of it anyway.

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The Thousandfold Thought / Re: Favorite Scenes
« on: January 28, 2014, 02:32:09 am »
Inrau's death, as my name attests.

Any scene where "weak and foolish" Achamian lays waste with the Gnosis. Seriously, if he's just some low ranked shlub in the Mandate, imagine what his "betters" can do. But mostly it's the juxtaposition between his appearance/demeanor and what he's capable of.

The final scene of TTT. OK yeah, I'm kind of an Achamian fanboy. This scene sealed it for me tho. AC-DC be damned, Akka's got the biggest balls of them all.

Seswatha's dreams. I so want to know more about the first apocalypse era. The tidbits from atrocity tales only whet the hunger.

The few glimpses we get into the Chishaurim. Another mystery among the many that are barley touched upon.

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The Thousandfold Thought / Re: Kellhus & Seswatha
« on: January 28, 2014, 02:03:32 am »

This could simply be evidence that the memories of Seswatha's life are far worse than any torment that contemporary Earwan torturers can achieve, rather than proof of agency. Everyone is an understudy to Mekeritrig and the Mangaecca.


My son has my copy of TWP so I don't have direct quotes but when Xin is about to have his eyes put out and Akka is wavering, the Seswatha within "says" something along the lines of "who is this man to me" and Akka is physically unable to speak of the Gnosis. Yes, Mekeritrig and the consult make conventional torturers look like schoolyard bullies and the torments Seswatha witnessed and experienced vastly exceed what Akka suffered. But I'm not convinced that would explain why cants of compulsion do not work, nor the mental block that keeps them from teaching the Gnosis to unapproved students.

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The Thousandfold Thought / Re: Kellhus & Seswatha
« on: January 27, 2014, 11:33:40 pm »
I think that Akka, and previously captured Mandati being physically unable to share the secrets of the Gnosis, along with the dreams (at least in Akka's case) apparent relevance to current circumstances indicates that Seswatha is an independent agency.

 Possibly his soul was preserved from hell/oblivion in his heart and the ritual involved with becoming a full member of the Mandate places a bit of it in a Madati before they are allowed to learn more than the basics.

Damn I want to hear that conversation.


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The Judging Eye / Re: A Moment of Levity
« on: January 27, 2014, 11:01:03 pm »
I think if we were sitting around those fires, drinking with these characters, their jokes would be far more amusing. But "gazing down" on them as spectators and analyzing the the movements of their souls to discern who's doing what and for what purpose robs us of the relative innocence of being in their moment.

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: What is the No God? II
« on: January 27, 2014, 09:12:55 pm »

These posts, though they may refer to old theories, were generated within the past two years. The quoted portion is from the old rendition of this forum. All of these posts occurred after WLW.


I'm not sure that the No-God directs that "power" or if it's deific (thaumaturgical as we've been calling it round these parts) as you've highlighted.

There was a great theory on the old Three-Seas that the No-God was the trapped World-Soul (that pool of souls from which all souls are drawn and all souls return) but it had its detractors like all other theories.

Certainly possible, Inraus Ghost.

 I did go back and read most of them last night, insomnia's a bitch. Noticed that they did reference things in TJE and WLW and felt kinda silly.  :D
Yeah the world soul theory sounds pretty much like what I'm thinking. And if all souls are bits of The God that would explain the scope of it's effects on reality.  The only direct influencing of reality by gods we know we have seen has been in WLW and I dare say the NG's effects greatly exceed that in scope.

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Introduce Yourself / Hi all
« on: January 27, 2014, 08:21:47 am »
Long time fan of Earwa, occasional lurker on the old three seas board. I recently loaned the books to my son. The ways that our beliefs and perceptions are shaped is something I often discuss with him and they illustrate them very well. So I reread them again to refresh my memory for when he asks questions. Then I got all OCD on the series again which lead me to finding this swell new site.  :D

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The White-Luck Warrior / Re: What is the No God? II
« on: January 27, 2014, 07:23:19 am »
Perhaps this has been broached (I'd actually be surprised if it has not) but I'm new user and not very keen on reading 17pages of stuff, much predating several books.

Several times in the series it is theorized that mortal souls are but bits of the God trying to understand it's self.

The NG obviously has a deific level of power, what with the stillbirths across the known world upon it's arrival to mundis. Perhaps not that it can direct very well but it sure makes a big distortion in reality to have such an effect. Also the constant whirlwind about it, both despite being in a box covered in chorea.
 Second it repeatedly asks "WHAT DO YOU SEE?"
 So my thought is that the NG is a soul, somehow perverted and made (semi)aware of its godhood. The sarcophagus being the containment for the soul and/or life support for the doubtless wracked and mutilated body of whomever it was crafted from.

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