[caladanbrood]

Poliel and Soliel, I think...

[Abyss]

That was my take.
But oddly, he was wounded in the past by an assassin of D'rek, aka Poliel.

- Abyss, liked the bit with the horse.

[Morgoth]

Abyss said:

- Abyss, liked the bit with the horse.

Best part of the book

[Tiste Simeon]

I thought it was Poleil and Soleil, there were textual hints to ascertain thus. I agree with Abyss and Morgoth - it was great fun when he tried to attack B&KB in BF. I dunno who that other chap was though, the warrior guy who was always at the scene of the crime.
Also who were the two rat catchers? B&KB seemed a bit afraid of them, and I never really got it...

[Morgoth]

Spirits of pretty strong power I imagine.. The perhaps original dwellers of the barrow.. *shrugs* Unless someone noticed something I missed, I doubt there's any strong hints as to their origins and nature

[Tes'thesula]

I think as Morgoth, they were dwellers in one of the barrows, one of the very few powerful spirits - i think they say it pretty clearly

[Abyss]

Yah, it was implied from the start that there were all kinds of things in the barrows in LMoll. I took their story to be that most of the spirits escaped by possessing rats, while the Ratcatchers waited and got human bodies. Hence, the eating rats bit has a few contexts (How are his food tasters doing? I'd say they're done to perfection!' heehee...), as in they are eating the other spirits...

The bounty hunter dude was implied to be hunting B&KB for a while, but we didn't really get his story.

Guld the investigator was great tho'.

Also interesting was the 'Whitemane' soletaken rat (again, heehee...) - 'Greymane'... 'Whitemane'.... coincidence?

- Abyss, on mane street.

[Tiste Simeon]

Abyss said:

Also interesting was the 'Whitemane' soletaken rat (again, heehee...) - 'Greymane'... 'Whitemane'.... coincidence?

- Abyss, on mane street.

Wow... never thought of that! Good point there, 'Byss.

Tiste, enjoys Abyss' current sig series very much

[Veilside]

Abyss;64085 said:

Also interesting was the 'Whitemane' soletaken rat (again, heehee...) - 'Greymane'... 'Whitemane'.... coincidence?

I think that's just one crazy theory too far.

[Dolorous Menhir]

I assumed it was Soleil and Poleil too. They're known to be worshipped by humans, while the Tiste sisters are not, it seems that humans haven't even heard of them. Can't remember any clear evidence to prove that, it just seemed a good fit.

[Abyss]

(my above comment re Drek aka Poliel is clearly undone by revelations in TB - they are obviously not the same god/dess, so ixnay on that idea)

In light of RG's revelations re the human/tiste connection, it's not unthinkable that it is in fact the Dawn/Dapple/Dusk sisters. Unlikely, especially given how overtly 'human' the MS was, but still, not unthinkable. Or even Envy and Spite on that basis.

Soliel being a goddess of healing and Poliel being a goddess of illness, one could see how the worship would be linked. Makes sense from a vulnerability standpoint too, if each sister is only half as invested as a god might otherwise be in a human representative.

- Abyss, due to reread these.

[Diabola]

Just finished BF. Maybe this will help clear things up:

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[...] and the tiny stone altar of Sister Soliel, [...]

There was also something about Poliel somewhere, but I can't find it right now. Those two are obviously important gods in Moll (if not all of Theft). Add to that the fact that Soliel is specifically refered to as Sister Soliel, ...

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"A joke!" Emancipor called out. "Hood's truth - I mean, I swear by the Sisters! Health and Plague divvy my plate - I mean, fate - come back here, man! T'was a jest!"

And here, the Sisters and Health and Plague (capitalized and everything). I think the Sisters being Soliel and Poliel is as clear as can be without saying it outright.

[cannabishead]

i believe the rat catchers were not barrow dwellers but powerful mages

[Tarcanus]

 cannabishead, on 27 October 2007 - 03:50 AM, said:

i believe the rat catchers were not barrow dwellers but powerful mages

And I quote:

"Wards are not eternal," Birklas murmured. "Although, I will grant you, it took us some time to find our way out of the Knoll. Only to find we had been preceded by almost every efficacious spirit and being once interred alongside us in the lesser barrows. They used the rats, you see. Blather and I, however, did not. In any case, enough of all this. Consider yourselves expelled from Lamentable Moll."---page 88 B&KB omnibus


This pretty much states outright that the two rat catchers had previously been in the Knoll Barrow, and that all of the other barrows are empty because all of the other beings had already escaped.