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The Darkness That Comes Before / Inrau and the Cants of Compulsion
« on: December 23, 2017, 12:31:27 pm »
So I’m listening to the audiobook version of TDTCB and it’s brought up something I remember wondering over on my first read.
When Inrau first comes to meet Akka at the tavern, is he under the influence of a Cant of Compulsion? The whole sequence he’s in a dreamlike state, and describes “Words that battered whatever will remained to him. Words that walked with his limbs.”
And when he arrives “light spilling from his working mouth. Flakes of sun in his eyes.”
When Akka stops everything seems to come back into focus. All the evidence points at a Cant.
Now here’s my confusion.
1) He later rules out Compelling Inrau as it would leave him with the Mark, and would out him to the Thousand Temples.
2) Wouldn’t Sarcellus and the Shrial Knights noticed him Canting?
When Inrau first comes to meet Akka at the tavern, is he under the influence of a Cant of Compulsion? The whole sequence he’s in a dreamlike state, and describes “Words that battered whatever will remained to him. Words that walked with his limbs.”
And when he arrives “light spilling from his working mouth. Flakes of sun in his eyes.”
When Akka stops everything seems to come back into focus. All the evidence points at a Cant.
Now here’s my confusion.
1) He later rules out Compelling Inrau as it would leave him with the Mark, and would out him to the Thousand Temples.
2) Wouldn’t Sarcellus and the Shrial Knights noticed him Canting?