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Agraba;351228 said:
I have two crazy theories immediately after finishing the book:
This one is put together by both a conversation between Hedge and Emroth(?) in RG, and one between Kallor and Tulas Shorn:
I think the Jaghut are the sole reason that there is an afterlife. As in, before them, death was just an ordinary plain death - ceasing to exist. Then they fashioned a ritual; similar to the Imass ritual that would affect all T'lan Imass, but this one would affect all life in the future; and it was a ritual so major that it took legions of Jaghut as well as dragons to create. And the nature of the ritual is to allow your personality and essence that defines your self to exist after death, free of the body's constraints. So the afterlife is really nothing but a sorcerous spell fashioned by the Jaghut.
My other theory is that the tiny speck that Torvald Nom spots beyond the moon (he mused that it could be a world bigger than their own); the one described by Kruppe as the green, blue and ochre world beyond is Earth, millions of years in the past (our past, their present). Recall that the fragments of the moon took up a third of the sky; even if our moon shattered it wouldn't take up nearly that much! So the fragments that were sailing away towards that distant world would go into orbit and form our very own moon. In the past we were two bodies in binary orbit that were orbiting the sun. But a major catastrophic event will destroy Wu completely and we will be left alone.
This one is put together by both a conversation between Hedge and Emroth(?) in RG, and one between Kallor and Tulas Shorn:
I think the Jaghut are the sole reason that there is an afterlife. As in, before them, death was just an ordinary plain death - ceasing to exist. Then they fashioned a ritual; similar to the Imass ritual that would affect all T'lan Imass, but this one would affect all life in the future; and it was a ritual so major that it took legions of Jaghut as well as dragons to create. And the nature of the ritual is to allow your personality and essence that defines your self to exist after death, free of the body's constraints. So the afterlife is really nothing but a sorcerous spell fashioned by the Jaghut.
My other theory is that the tiny speck that Torvald Nom spots beyond the moon (he mused that it could be a world bigger than their own); the one described by Kruppe as the green, blue and ochre world beyond is Earth, millions of years in the past (our past, their present). Recall that the fragments of the moon took up a third of the sky; even if our moon shattered it wouldn't take up nearly that much! So the fragments that were sailing away towards that distant world would go into orbit and form our very own moon. In the past we were two bodies in binary orbit that were orbiting the sun. But a major catastrophic event will destroy Wu completely and we will be left alone.
I too thought of something kinda like this...
HoosierDaddy;349940 said:
Just a theory here, but why are the Jaghut and F.A. immortal? Could it be because they weren't always, but they fought death (remember there were F.A. in that scene) and somehow earned immortality from it?
Millions of Jaghut and some F.A. band together to defeat an implacable force, do so, and are broken in return. We wonder why they have so little care for each other, maybe in winning their war, they actually lost. If time has no meaning, what is the point of doing anything now You have forever to do what you wish, and I imagine it doesn't take too long for people to start to annoy you. Thus a race that likes solitude.
As for the F.A.: They worship balance. Maybe defeating death and becoming immortal taught them a lesson, that there should be two sides to every coin and immortality is a one-sided one.
Millions of Jaghut and some F.A. band together to defeat an implacable force, do so, and are broken in return. We wonder why they have so little care for each other, maybe in winning their war, they actually lost. If time has no meaning, what is the point of doing anything now You have forever to do what you wish, and I imagine it doesn't take too long for people to start to annoy you. Thus a race that likes solitude.
As for the F.A.: They worship balance. Maybe defeating death and becoming immortal taught them a lesson, that there should be two sides to every coin and immortality is a one-sided one.
No one has talked about K'rul's being the prize in the game. We all assumed that the overall goal was to defeat the Crippled God (for good or just another chaining), but evidently the game is something else entirely. Do both forces seek to take control of K'rul and thus control of all the warrens? This would explain why the Deck of Dragons and the gods representing the Houses would be very wary of the Elder Gods getting in on their game.
This is proof of just how many games are going on: Both Elder and Younger want the Crippled God gone, Crippled God wants to stick around and F with the game best way to do so is to take control of K'rul and his control of the warrens while screwing around with Emurlahn and evidently in TtH Galain as well, the Elder might want in on the new Houses and could do so by back-stabbing the Young Gods after defeating the Crippled God (the Holds are back in play thanks to the Errant), the Younger Gods are trying to defeat the Crippled God and keep the Elder Gods from having influence and perhaps usurping the Houses.
Thus you have a shifting playing field and shifting allies, which we've seen throughout the series but had no understanding as to just why there is such suspicion amongst the parties.
