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The Thousandfold Thought / Re: Favorite Scenes
« Last post by Madness on August 29, 2025, 02:21:56 pm »Quality writing 
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The Thousandfold Thought / Re: Favorite Scenes
« Last post by Yellow on July 31, 2025, 05:20:11 pm »Ah, just re-reading the sections in TDTCB where Cnauir is recounting (to himself) how Moenghus seduced him, and how he subsequently came to realise what had happened. And then Kellhus tries the same thing. Perfection.
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The Warrior-Prophet / Re: Aurang or Aurax?
« Last post by Yellow on July 31, 2025, 04:15:03 pm »At the same time, I can see why many think it's Aurax. it speaks through telepathy, whereas as Aurang always uses his Nonman or Synthese head to physically speak. It also uses the royal 'we' in its speech, something Aurang has never done either to my knowledge.
I'm re-reading the series at the moment, and I've always wondered which of the two it was. I think these particular arguments are the ones that have always swayed me towards it being Aurax. I don't want to spoil later books in this particular subforum, but despite what I just said, it's hard to reconcile this depiction of Aurax (if it is him) with stuff that happens later in the books. I doubt we'll be getting anything from the author on this any time soon.
I'll keep an eye out as I read for whether Aurang ever uses the "royal we" as I'm not 100% on that.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: TUC Reviews
« Last post by Wilshire on December 17, 2024, 02:59:22 pm »We're coming up on those 7 years..Haha. Unfortunately, a new Bakker publication has never felt farther away.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: TUC Reviews
« Last post by mostly.harmless on December 14, 2024, 07:37:17 pm »We're coming up on those 7 years..
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The Crabikiad / Re: Crabby Fails
« Last post by mostly.harmless on December 14, 2024, 07:17:45 pm »Perhaps enough time has passed for an another update - is he still writing? 
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The Darkness That Comes Before / Re: Internal chronology error in the first chapters?
« Last post by SmilerLoki on November 02, 2024, 10:36:42 pm »Probably depends on where you're from, but seasons in a year can go like this: Winter - Spring - Summer - Fall - Winter. Such as, December would be a winter month, and so would be January and February. So winter is sorta bisected by the New Year, a chunk of it in the previous year, and a chunk in the new.
In your example, say, Achamian arrived at the Mandate School in January 4110 (winter), stayed for a bit, then left for Sumna and arrived there in, say, March 4110 (spring).
In your example, say, Achamian arrived at the Mandate School in January 4110 (winter), stayed for a bit, then left for Sumna and arrived there in, say, March 4110 (spring).
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The Darkness That Comes Before / Internal chronology error in the first chapters?
« Last post by WarriorPoet on November 02, 2024, 09:12:43 pm »Hi, everyone.
I'm from Italy and I'm a huge fan of Bakker's masterpiece since the first book was out.
A few days ago, Italian publishing house Mondadori finally released an omnibus containing the entire first trilogy and so I'm re-reading The Prince of Nothing in my native language.
I have a question, a detail I didn't notice during my first reading, twenty years ago: in Chapter 2, in late winter, Year-of-the-Tusk 4110, Achamian returns to the Mandate School in Atyersus and then he's sent to Sumna, trying to understand the target of the incoming crusade.
Chapter 3, starting with Achamian's arrival in the Holy City, is set in the early spring of the same year. As far as I know, Earwa's seasons are similar to ours, so winter should be a year's final season.
How's that possible, then? Shouldn't Chapter 3 be set in 4111? Or Chapters 1 and 2 set in 4109?
Thank you so much for your help.
I'm from Italy and I'm a huge fan of Bakker's masterpiece since the first book was out.
A few days ago, Italian publishing house Mondadori finally released an omnibus containing the entire first trilogy and so I'm re-reading The Prince of Nothing in my native language.
I have a question, a detail I didn't notice during my first reading, twenty years ago: in Chapter 2, in late winter, Year-of-the-Tusk 4110, Achamian returns to the Mandate School in Atyersus and then he's sent to Sumna, trying to understand the target of the incoming crusade.
Chapter 3, starting with Achamian's arrival in the Holy City, is set in the early spring of the same year. As far as I know, Earwa's seasons are similar to ours, so winter should be a year's final season.
How's that possible, then? Shouldn't Chapter 3 be set in 4111? Or Chapters 1 and 2 set in 4109?
Thank you so much for your help.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: The Dûnyain, Shaeonanra, and the Mangaecca
« Last post by H Wilson on September 13, 2024, 06:35:19 pm » No one from the Consult knew of Ishual, and none of them had enough time to invent the program, nurse it through the infancy, and then somehow transition it into some kind of safehouse to begin the real breeding program.
This is the thing I question. They could have known and forgotten: Bakker has stated that the Inchoroi have grown decrepit in the manner of Nonmen, and though Shae seems the most "with it", he's just a cosmic ping pong ball, so who knows how his memory works!?
Again, I agree that this idea is unlikely, but Shae was knocking around for 1000 years prior to the Dûnyain finding Ishuäl, so there was plenty of time to build this little side project and then forget all about it.
This is the thing I question. They could have known and forgotten: Bakker has stated that the Inchoroi have grown decrepit in the manner of Nonmen, and though Shae seems the most "with it", he's just a cosmic ping pong ball, so who knows how his memory works!?
Again, I agree that this idea is unlikely, but Shae was knocking around for 1000 years prior to the Dûnyain finding Ishuäl, so there was plenty of time to build this little side project and then forget all about it.
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The Unholy Consult / Re: The Dûnyain, Shaeonanra, and the Mangaecca
« Last post by Wilshire on August 15, 2024, 12:47:07 pm »This is the first I can remember hearing of a theory that the Dunyain were created by the Consult. It seems very unlikely. The Consult aren't ancient like the Nonmen or the Inchoroi, so them just forgetting about it seems very unlikely.
The Dunyain were an unimportant and tiny cult. If not for the 1st apocalypse they probably would have remained this way. Their whole breeding project thing was only possible because they found an abandoned castle in the woods. No one from the Consult knew of Ishual, and none of them had enough time to invent the program, nurse it through the infancy, and then somehow transition it into some kind of safehouse to begin the real breeding program.
The Dunyain were an unimportant and tiny cult. If not for the 1st apocalypse they probably would have remained this way. Their whole breeding project thing was only possible because they found an abandoned castle in the woods. No one from the Consult knew of Ishual, and none of them had enough time to invent the program, nurse it through the infancy, and then somehow transition it into some kind of safehouse to begin the real breeding program.
