Where did this "Rake trilogy will be from his PoV" idea come from??

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Where did this "Rake trilogy will be from his PoV" idea come from??

#1 caladanbrood

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 12:59 PM

I've seen this a few times now, and to quote Illy (vaguely), it's silly and wrong.

I'm honestly intruiged, why do people assume that just because we know it's going to be about Rake, that it must be from his PoV? We know he's had a decent number of companions and enemies over the millenia, the most likely idea is that it will be from their PoVs.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 01:08 PM

I agree.
A POV by Rake may cheapen his image for me.
It should be someone like Osserc and Triss and Spinnock and Endest and Korlat etc.
Oh a POV by the first person in Dragnipur would be great.
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Posted 17 July 2008 - 02:44 PM

Well Steve never said it (yes I'm calling him Steve now, big whoop, wanna fight about it) and given that I still haven't found a Rake POV I doubt it will be. It would damage the enigmatic mystique of the man/dragon.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 02:51 PM

What is this 'Rake trilogy' you speak of?

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 02:59 PM

I've heard nowt of this Rake trilogy either... pray enlighten us? Cheers.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 03:01 PM

Steve said at a few of the book signings, certainly the Manc one, as I heard it with my highly sensitive feline ears that he would be doing a trilogy on Rakes earlier life (obviously) but not at a book a year since this was too high a pace for him.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 03:18 PM

copied over from another topic since it's relevant.

re: anomander rake pov, SE mentioned at the bbq that it has been a deliberate choice of his not to use an anomander rake pov, as he didn't think he would be capable of writing the pov of someone hundreds of thousands years old, with such immense power as he believed he couldn't even begin to understand how such a person thinks. So unless it's very early in rake's history, don't expect a POV in my book.

he also mentioned that he was aiming to get the series out at a rate of a book every 18months, as a book a year was killing him, but I wouldn't be surprised by a gap of a couple of years between tCG and the new rake book as I suspect he will take a break between books for once.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 04:27 PM

For those who haven't heard anything about it, SE confirmed at a few signings that he is signed up for two more trilogies, one about Rake's earlier life, and one following on (ish) from tCG. He was very vague about both though, so details are yet to be decided, I imagine.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 05:23 PM

Yays!

I could've sworn there was a PoV of Rake's in GotM...or the closest thing to it we've had....right before he goes down to fight the Demon near the end....oh well.

The series after tCG....hmmm....

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 09:32 PM

its not so much a Rake trilogy though, is it?

at the Glasgow signing he said it would be about the whole Tiste early history, not just Rake, all three races. I believe the term cosmological mythos may have been mentioned.

meh. Link was dead :(

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:19 PM

Even better, though it seems Rake is the central Tiste persona....with only Osseric rivaling him for importance overall.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:24 PM

ooh thats a good term

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:26 PM

I was immensley aroused by this when I heard it at the signing, minutes late SE humiliated Brood, which made it even better.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:27 PM

How did he humiliate Brood? Make out with a woman in front of him?

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:28 PM

tell brood that he could never have lifted the hammer?

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:31 PM

Well, one can hope he will do a single chapter or similar looking though Rake's eyes. If anybody could pull it off, it would be sir S.E.

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:33 PM

Explain to Brood what contacts are?

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Posted 17 July 2008 - 10:34 PM

We were sitting at the back and Steve said "hey aren't you that guy off the forums" a clearly delighted broody says "who me" to which Steve replies "no, the guy next to you" which was Tiste. Steve then followed up with " I recogise you because you are always in pictures with hot girls" Simeon beamed, whilst Broody quietly died inside and Stone Monkey, Grumble, IH, Mezla and I laughed our arses off.

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