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"You're like a big bear Dev!"

#1 Jason

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 04:14 AM

So whats the go with Samar Dev bonding with that big bear eh?

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 06:29 AM

Pedantic War Bear Gods need love too?

I take several things from this exchange:

1. Spirit magic/witchery seems to relate to Burn
2. There are a lot of War Gods
3. War Bear God will make another appearance, a la Quru Kan, Imperial Ceda at another important juncture.
4. The whole "wolf & bear" quote makes me believe that Semar Dev is more powerful than S.E. would originally have had us know, and very similar to Seren Pedac in that respect.

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 01:15 PM

Uhm... wasn't the bear mortally wounded or outright killed by one of the Hounds?

I think it was just plain weird that bear god showing up. Karsa and Dassems reaction to its first apperance was equally strange.

At first I just thought it was one of Eriksons funny ideas, like Detoran and the Bull in MoI.

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 09:23 PM

well the bear was pretty torn up, but then dev captured its soul in that nifty little knife of hers.

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 10:09 PM

And was there not some kind of mention of Ms Dev being a priestess or somesuch of Burn at some stage? If memory serves, she was not exactly thrilled at the idea.

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 10:41 PM

So is her dagger turning in to Dragnipur TNG?

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Posted 23 August 2008 - 10:44 PM

Trenchgrave;373789 said:

And was there not some kind of mention of Ms Dev being a priestess or somesuch of Burn at some stage? If memory serves, she was not exactly thrilled at the idea.

That was Tulas Shorn who said that... Tulas seems to know a bit, but I don't know how how coherent its thought processes are anymore...

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 02:59 PM

I took it that the Pedantic War Bear was there because Burn wanted Samar Dev protected during the convergence.

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 04:03 PM

Bubba;373803 said:

So is her dagger turning in to Dragnipur TNG?

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 10:22 PM

Abyss;374357 said:

I took it that the Pedantic War Bear was there because Burn wanted Samar Dev protected during the convergence.

- Abyss, not to be pedantic or anything...

Then do you think she's not quite as asleep as we think she is...? Waking up perhaps?

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 10:28 PM

considering the stuff thats been goin on i'd say she is very close to waking up... in MoI brood lost his temper and raised a mountain range, then QB and pannion froze her large intestine or whatever. in tBH a bunch o jade statues thudded into the earth, granted heboric mitigated that some, but it was still a big shock. i expect burn to wake up once the CG's poison is gone

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Posted 25 August 2008 - 10:31 PM

Sinisdar Toste;374587 said:

considering the stuff thats been goin on i'd say she is very close to waking up... in MoI brood lost his temper and raised a mountain range, then QB and pannion froze her large intestine or whatever. in tBH a bunch o jade statues thudded into the earth, granted heboric mitigated that some, but it was still a big shock. i expect burn to wake up once the CG's poison is gone

I don't think those statues really made contact. If their impact destroyed! the moon, then the impact of those 12(?) jade statues would have had a massive affect on Wu.

Burn's got a fever, and the only prescription is another chaining!

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Posted 26 August 2008 - 03:25 AM

HoosierDaddy;374588 said:

Burn's got a fever, and the only prescription is another chaining!

I sincerely hope not!

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Posted 26 August 2008 - 01:18 PM

HoosierDaddy;374581 said:

Then do you think she's not quite as asleep as we think she is...? Waking up perhaps?

Her servants rescued QB in MoI. various priests and mages still draw on her, hence, she is active in SOME way. She's a goddess... no reason to think a little thing like a multi-millenial coma is going to completely remove her from events.

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Posted 01 October 2008 - 01:17 PM

HoosierDaddy, on Aug 25 2008, 06:31 PM, said:

Burn's got a fever, and the only prescription is another chaining!

Or a new "Sleeping Goddess" when Burn dies... Mhybe, perhaps, in her newly created pocket of a dream, complete with Togg and Fanderay?

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Posted 01 October 2008 - 01:26 PM

Wordmerchant, on Oct 1 2008, 02:17 PM, said:

Or a new "Sleeping Goddess" when Burn dies... Mhybe, perhaps, in her newly created pocket of a dream, complete with Togg and Fanderay?

I sincerely hope that's not the case. :thumbsup:

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Posted 01 October 2008 - 02:21 PM

I think we will see Samar Dev evolve into a reluctant priestess of Burn. It has already been mentioned that it seems any form of spirit magic not using Aral Gamelon (Path of Demons) or Hood's Path (guess its not his path anymore lol), is directly related to Burn.

As to the bear, a thought just occured to me. Perhaps it woke up because it sensed someone who would remember it? After all the mentioning of time, and history in TtH, I think its plausible.

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Posted 03 October 2008 - 03:32 AM

It was an Okral de lom, I think. There was a Kron Bonecaster with that name, minus le. Perhaps the bear is like Baaljag, a god taking a normal form.

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Posted 06 October 2008 - 05:26 PM

Ain't_It_Just_, on Oct 3 2008, 03:32 AM, said:

It was an Okral de lom, I think. There was a Kron Bonecaster with that name, minus le. Perhaps the bear is like Baaljag, a god taking a normal form.

I don't think that's a perhaps, I think that's outright stated in TtH isn't it?

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Posted 15 October 2008 - 01:12 AM

HoosierDaddy, on Aug 25 2008, 06:31 PM, said:

I don't think those statues really made contact. If their impact destroyed! the moon, then the impact of those 12(?) jade statues would have had a massive affect on Wu.

Ok yeah what's the deal there. I was under the impression that the moon was destroyed by the Jade statues too...

only in RG it's back, and then in TtH it gets destroyed again because moons being destroyed is hardcore!

is there more than one moon in Wu? Is THAT what I'm missing here?