But in short, there is a lot of confusing information about just whose warren Akhrast Korvalain is and what is the exact relationship between the FA and the Kchain.
+ Akhrast Korvalain is first mentioned by Quick Ben to be the warren of the FA. Apparently it has to do with the power of the voice.
+ There is an extremely confusing quote by Brys, hearing a story about one of his soldiers in DoD, about Akhrast Korvalain being the warren of the K'chain che'malle and somehow responsible for what happened in the Glass Desert
+ More trustworthy sources (Badalle...) let us know that Akhrast Korvalain was indeed responsible for the foul-up in the GD but at the hands of the FA who slew their god
To this point it seems as though AK is, after all, the warren of the FA and the Brys story is just some retold lie, as SE has used a lot and more in the series (e.g. Edur mythology).
However, more confusion ensues.
+ In MT, Fear connects the Kashchan (Kchain) warren to the "sounds that bind everything". We naturally assumed this to mean gravity, because of the Sky-keeps - which to be accurate the KCCM never had until they resurrected the Nah'ruk who was not at all magical, hence the skykeeps have nothing to do with Kchain magic anyway. In light of the above though, it wouldn't be too much of a leap to assume that the Kchain warren is actually connected to sounds => hence voice.
+ In TCG we witness the thoughts of one of the Pures (either Reverence, or the chick that got bit off by Hood) - an apparently ancient and knowledgeable entity - basically spelling out that the FA need to "wrestle Akhrast Korvalain back from the Kchain" or something to that effect.
It becomes more convoluted. Was AK some sort of a battlefield between the KCCM and the FA? Are they related in any weird way? We know KCCM are from space (by Osserc and by Kalyth/Gunt Mach) and not of Wu. And thats pretty much all we know. It doesn't seem to have anything to do with AK.
Some more confusion relates to two specific events connected to the KCCM:
+ Their binding of Mother Dark by somehow introducing what seems like entropy in the world, according to Fear in MT.
+ They are "reviled" for revealing the face of that "other" - Korabas, the anti-T'iam, the antithesis of life (Sag'Churok in DoD)
Now, the two MIGHT be connected. Entropy is connected to Otataral at least in one instance - at the hands of Spite in the prologue to BH.
It seems a viable explanation that what the KCCM did was somehow bring Korabas into existence, thus appointing the eventual end of the Universe as some sort of a twisted revenge by the last crazied Matron at MD for the Tiste invasion on Wu in which she had no part whatsoever.
Which is where a certain quote from TCG comes into play (either in Korabas POV or by someone thinking about her, maybe Silchas), basically saying that Korabas was sort of "chosen" among the trueblood Eleint to become the Otataral Dragon and it is heavily implied that this happens after K'rul's Dragon deal - an event apparently a lot after the KCCM vanished from history.
My head kind of hurts.
I know there is little and less information to connect the dots but couldn't SE have at least not made it so contradictory... ?
p.p. I'm not even getting into the fact that Kilava know shit and less about the K'chain in the MOI prologue, while Tool asserts both races warred against the FA at virtually the same time and clearly knew them...
p.p.p. Speaking of Korabas, Silchas takes Ryadd somewhere to "show him they shouldn't stop the EG from freeing Korabas". Huh?
This post has been edited by Jorram: 21 May 2012 - 08:52 PM