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Posted 25 May 2005 - 10:35 AM
I seem to recall SE saying he really enjoyed one of the characters created by Esslemont, and that he/she plays a part in BH. Don't remember if he gave us an actual name, but any idea who that might be?
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 12:22 PM
quote:I rather think that as one of Dassem Ultor's bodyguard and a member of The Sword he had more than moderate ability ....and although he would never have defeated the hound he managed to hold it off a while longer than most others would have.
Fair point, i meant moderate ability in the group of really good fighters like dassem, the avowed, segueh and co, in normal company he'd be damned good.
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Not sure why Osserc is in this discussion as he doesn't feature in the book?.
Ceda bought it up, tays mentions that only osserc could have held back teh storm or something...
quote:Of course he wasn't Kellanved... where did that come from?
no idea, ceda bought it up
quote:I still think it's the same guy. People who are fevered do have dark rings round their eyes....
Hmmm possibly... we shall see, personally i hope they are the same person
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Posted 03 July 2005 - 08:47 AM
whatever..
his description gave that away..
his description gave that away..
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Posted 30 May 2005 - 01:50 PM
To be honest i have no idea...
Possibly Temper, who is linked to y'ghatan.
kiska, another possiblility if we meet up with tays.
Then there's the seti tribesman ferrule who was also in the sword, as he may be in the area.
Can't think of any other obvious figures...
Possibly Temper, who is linked to y'ghatan.
kiska, another possiblility if we meet up with tays.
Then there's the seti tribesman ferrule who was also in the sword, as he may be in the area.
Can't think of any other obvious figures...
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 02:19 AM
As you already know this book contains a lot of background information, and I mean a lot. Quite difficult to encompass it in one post so I'll start the ball rolling and pass it on..
1154th Year of Burns Sleep
Among the most interesting points to me -the 'death' of Dassem Ultor and how he and the remaining members of his sword escaped is covered.
Dassem's Sword is made up of Temper, who features prominently in the book, Hilt, Quillion, Point, Ferule and Dassem himself. They operate as a unit to entice out the strongest warriors of any opposing army.
To my mind that part in itself is so worth reading, that and the character of the man...
In fact there is quite a lot on Dassem Ultor and it's going to revive the entire Dassem = Traveller debate again
Temper to Dassem "what will you do?" Dassem "Travel. Head west"
but the eyes are the wrong colour!
Surly and the Claw, Tayschrenn, Topper, the Talon, all feature in the book..
New characters - Temper of course, Kiska a young female talent. An Imass type character called Edgewalker who patrols the borders of Kurald Emurlahn.. a sort of caretaker it appears. Another Jaghut Azath guardian - only this ones trying to get out!
There are two interesting 'powerful' people - Agayla a woman who has taken Kiska under her wing, and a man called Obo - not sure if Agayla isn't actually Jhess Queen of Weaving, but someone else might think differently.
There are the first real descriptions we've seen of Tayschren, Dancer, Dassem and Kellanved too.
We meet the dead Bridgeburner - the one with the scarred face from HoC and learn of his part in Kellanved's return and with him is Corinn a female of the Bridgburner mage cadre...
There are some Crimson Guard details to play with - the characters themselves don't feature, but we hear of Lazar and Halfdan and the ones slain by Dassem Ultor - Shirdar, Keal and Bartok - with Skinner being the only one to come away from their clash.
Tayschrenn features quite prominently and we get another glimpse of how much power he has.
His decription seems so like to that of Banaschar in the Bonehunters prologue...
Interesting pov from Edgewalker at the end... with reference to the throne.. '...how long would this one last? Why was it none of the long chain of hopefuls ever bothered to ask why the Throne should be empty in the first place?'
Anyway that's some stuff to start off with - it's a great read.
1154th Year of Burns Sleep
Among the most interesting points to me -the 'death' of Dassem Ultor and how he and the remaining members of his sword escaped is covered.
Dassem's Sword is made up of Temper, who features prominently in the book, Hilt, Quillion, Point, Ferule and Dassem himself. They operate as a unit to entice out the strongest warriors of any opposing army.
To my mind that part in itself is so worth reading, that and the character of the man...
In fact there is quite a lot on Dassem Ultor and it's going to revive the entire Dassem = Traveller debate again
Temper to Dassem "what will you do?" Dassem "Travel. Head west"
but the eyes are the wrong colour!
Surly and the Claw, Tayschrenn, Topper, the Talon, all feature in the book..
New characters - Temper of course, Kiska a young female talent. An Imass type character called Edgewalker who patrols the borders of Kurald Emurlahn.. a sort of caretaker it appears. Another Jaghut Azath guardian - only this ones trying to get out!
There are two interesting 'powerful' people - Agayla a woman who has taken Kiska under her wing, and a man called Obo - not sure if Agayla isn't actually Jhess Queen of Weaving, but someone else might think differently.
There are the first real descriptions we've seen of Tayschren, Dancer, Dassem and Kellanved too.
We meet the dead Bridgeburner - the one with the scarred face from HoC and learn of his part in Kellanved's return and with him is Corinn a female of the Bridgburner mage cadre...
There are some Crimson Guard details to play with - the characters themselves don't feature, but we hear of Lazar and Halfdan and the ones slain by Dassem Ultor - Shirdar, Keal and Bartok - with Skinner being the only one to come away from their clash.
Tayschrenn features quite prominently and we get another glimpse of how much power he has.
His decription seems so like to that of Banaschar in the Bonehunters prologue...
Interesting pov from Edgewalker at the end... with reference to the throne.. '...how long would this one last? Why was it none of the long chain of hopefuls ever bothered to ask why the Throne should be empty in the first place?'
Anyway that's some stuff to start off with - it's a great read.
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Posted 22 June 2005 - 02:10 PM
I've been thinking on Kiska and who she may be in later books, and I keep coming back to Adjunct Loren. It's been a while since I've read GotM, but I think this fits well.
One thing that caught my eye in particular is that Adjunct Loren has talent but had never trained to use it.
One thing that caught my eye in particular is that Adjunct Loren has talent but had never trained to use it.
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Posted 06 June 2005 - 11:53 PM
Re-read and a few items of interest..
In the grounds of Deadhouse – Kiska POV.
“Then, so quick and startling did it move, another figure-this one in rags, scarecrow thin and with elongated, oddly proportioned limbs – sprang like a striking snake from the ravaged mound and wrapped it’s arm’s around Oleg’s quarry”
Description similar to Forkrul Assail?
Oleg to Kiska “You were in Shadow. You met the Elder One?”
“Elder?”
“The one who watches the borders”
Is Edgewalker a forgotten Elder God?
When Kellanved arrived in the Mock’s Hold just prior to Surly’s attack– “An overpowering sensation of pressure bore down upon her like an invisible hand. She senses something enormous nearby, silent in the dark.....A gravid deadly presence too huge to grant her notice. She glanced at Tayschreen and saw him grimace........ A droplet of blood fell from his nose.”
This sounds remarkably like the scene in GotM when Rake arrives in Barruk’s house.
“She’d heard the the Queen of Dreams was a practitioner of Thyr”.... hmmm..interesting?
Corinn the BB cadre Mage’s warren was Thyr...
Tayschrenn is confirmed as using Thyr.
Which begs the question why did Tattersail think of it as anathema to her own?
Lots of Thyr in here....
And why would Tays swear upon the Nameless Ones.
I am wondering if he is part of them....but hiding it?
I don’t think the Guardianship Temper accepted was of guardian to the Azath House in the way that Raest and Gothos are. It was more like gatekeeper...which appears to the position Faro held. And after re-reading I would agree with whoever said it that the both Faro and Trenech may belong to the cult of the Nameless Ones.
In the grounds of Deadhouse – Kiska POV.
“Then, so quick and startling did it move, another figure-this one in rags, scarecrow thin and with elongated, oddly proportioned limbs – sprang like a striking snake from the ravaged mound and wrapped it’s arm’s around Oleg’s quarry”
Description similar to Forkrul Assail?
Oleg to Kiska “You were in Shadow. You met the Elder One?”
“Elder?”
“The one who watches the borders”
Is Edgewalker a forgotten Elder God?
When Kellanved arrived in the Mock’s Hold just prior to Surly’s attack– “An overpowering sensation of pressure bore down upon her like an invisible hand. She senses something enormous nearby, silent in the dark.....A gravid deadly presence too huge to grant her notice. She glanced at Tayschreen and saw him grimace........ A droplet of blood fell from his nose.”
This sounds remarkably like the scene in GotM when Rake arrives in Barruk’s house.
“She’d heard the the Queen of Dreams was a practitioner of Thyr”.... hmmm..interesting?
Corinn the BB cadre Mage’s warren was Thyr...
Tayschrenn is confirmed as using Thyr.
Which begs the question why did Tattersail think of it as anathema to her own?
Lots of Thyr in here....
And why would Tays swear upon the Nameless Ones.
I am wondering if he is part of them....but hiding it?
I don’t think the Guardianship Temper accepted was of guardian to the Azath House in the way that Raest and Gothos are. It was more like gatekeeper...which appears to the position Faro held. And after re-reading I would agree with whoever said it that the both Faro and Trenech may belong to the cult of the Nameless Ones.
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Posted 07 June 2005 - 04:29 PM
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Posted 20 June 2005 - 08:01 AM
that was kurald thyrlan and tellan.
thyr and telas are the children of these warrens.
is there any rule that a powerful mage like tays cant have mastered two warrens within his long lifetime?
anyway just finished it - and really enjoyed it! ICE has a really good style.
few points, i'll add more as i remember them.
the crimson guard fought the malazan army to a standstill on 4(not sure of this number) continents. it seems as if the crimson guard are a pretty large organization. you have got to wonder how kellaved annoyed them in the first place
my view of the stormriders were as jaghut acolytes some sort of cult dedicated to jhenna, maybe her family?
thyr and telas are the children of these warrens.
is there any rule that a powerful mage like tays cant have mastered two warrens within his long lifetime?
anyway just finished it - and really enjoyed it! ICE has a really good style.
few points, i'll add more as i remember them.
the crimson guard fought the malazan army to a standstill on 4(not sure of this number) continents. it seems as if the crimson guard are a pretty large organization. you have got to wonder how kellaved annoyed them in the first place
my view of the stormriders were as jaghut acolytes some sort of cult dedicated to jhenna, maybe her family?
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Posted 21 May 2005 - 11:24 AM
@IH, As far as Kiska = Blend is concerned, I doubt it too - I merely wanted to canvas opinion (if Kiska is indeed Blend she must have had a major falling out with Tayschrenn to end up in the Bridgeburners; anyway the details we've already read in MoI etc. might preclude her). Kiska might be well be a High Fist somewhere now.
As regards the duel between Skinner and Dassem, the feeling I got (and of course I acknowledge I might be egregiously wrong) was that Skinner was lucky to survive the encounter. Dassem was simply just too good, even survival against him was a mark of prowess (cf. Possum, or Whiskeyjack, whom of course DU was not trying to kill). Anyway I hope there are more novels from ICE.
As regards the duel between Skinner and Dassem, the feeling I got (and of course I acknowledge I might be egregiously wrong) was that Skinner was lucky to survive the encounter. Dassem was simply just too good, even survival against him was a mark of prowess (cf. Possum, or Whiskeyjack, whom of course DU was not trying to kill). Anyway I hope there are more novels from ICE.
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Posted 21 June 2005 - 10:09 AM
quote:it seems as if the crimson guard are a pretty large organization. you have got to wonder how kellaved annoyed them in the first place
Kellanved 'annoyed' them by annexing Unta and ousting Price K'ass D'avore, who ruled there or was successor to the throne.
Edit: Arghh! It consumed my whole post apart from that last part above
Anyway, once more:
Corinn might be Tattersail.
The stormriders are probably servitor creatures like the Nacht, created by Jhenna foreseeing the risk of imprisonment. Only the last scene in the book kinda confuses that nice and tidy theory ...
Tayschrenn could well have mastered Telas and have some skill with Thyr as well - Biditahl in HoC used Thyr, Meanas AND Rashan. And his being impressed by Tattersail's mastery might well be another pointer - to truly recognize a master, you have to be a student yourself ...
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Posted 02 July 2005 - 06:42 PM
re: Edgewalker - By impression & description (from Kiska's & Temper's POV) he seems to be Imass. And yet, ICE emphasizes that Edgewalker is not quite an Imass. But he's definitely no living Tiste.
BTW, can someone clarify Aragan and Jhess (Queen of Weaving) for me? Seems the next re-read of the BotF is due.
BTW, can someone clarify Aragan and Jhess (Queen of Weaving) for me? Seems the next re-read of the BotF is due
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Posted 08 May 2005 - 08:20 AM
What puzzled me about the jaghut jhenna who tries to escape from deadhouse is this... she is apparently the unwilling guardian of the azath, and tries to escape, yet as I recall gothos is the guardian of the deadhouse and I had assumed he had been there for a long time, but this seems to not be the case.
As to temper, he's just a man with moderate ability with the sword who is quite strong, he's not going to be able to stand up to Rood a hugely powerful hound of shadow, he only managed to stand up to the jaghut because of the help of the azath in my opinion.
And Temper wasn't rescued by dancer from the hound, he was rescued by the shadow acolytes, who may have recognised him due to the helmet, he is fairly famous after all to all those who watched the battle of Y'ghatan.
I wouldn't say that temper is now the azath guardian, seeing as he left the house, I think that role belongs to either jhenna still or someone else will take the role at another time.
I seem to remember a passing reference to something in the straits between malaz isle by kalam which were inhabited by the stormriders, something about the jakartan pirates, perhaps most people do not believe in the existence of the stormriders and don’t pass through the straits because of rumoured pirate activity.
As to tays knowing the power of osserc, he doesn't, osserc is just rumoured to be the most powerful of mages, and so he assumed that only the most powerful of mages would have been able to hold it off, as he didn't think he could.
And the guy who was holding off the storm was supposedly a simple fisherman, not kelanved, that guy intrigues me more than anyone else in the book who was he, why was he so powerful?
Agayla being jhess queen of weaving makes sense, but I don't think we can confirm that.
And there’s only one jaghut, jhenna the azath guardian who is trying to escape, and I think she has something to do with the stormriders.
Oh and tays seems to have a similar description, save his eyes are completely different, he has sunken black eyes, whilst banaschar has flaming eyes as I recall.
Oh and anyone else think that Faro balkat and Trenech are nameless ones? If not who are they? Oh and there seems to be a lot of swearing by the nameless ones... which we haven't seen in other books...
As to temper, he's just a man with moderate ability with the sword who is quite strong, he's not going to be able to stand up to Rood a hugely powerful hound of shadow, he only managed to stand up to the jaghut because of the help of the azath in my opinion.
And Temper wasn't rescued by dancer from the hound, he was rescued by the shadow acolytes, who may have recognised him due to the helmet, he is fairly famous after all to all those who watched the battle of Y'ghatan.
I wouldn't say that temper is now the azath guardian, seeing as he left the house, I think that role belongs to either jhenna still or someone else will take the role at another time.
I seem to remember a passing reference to something in the straits between malaz isle by kalam which were inhabited by the stormriders, something about the jakartan pirates, perhaps most people do not believe in the existence of the stormriders and don’t pass through the straits because of rumoured pirate activity.
As to tays knowing the power of osserc, he doesn't, osserc is just rumoured to be the most powerful of mages, and so he assumed that only the most powerful of mages would have been able to hold it off, as he didn't think he could.
And the guy who was holding off the storm was supposedly a simple fisherman, not kelanved, that guy intrigues me more than anyone else in the book who was he, why was he so powerful?
Agayla being jhess queen of weaving makes sense, but I don't think we can confirm that.
And there’s only one jaghut, jhenna the azath guardian who is trying to escape, and I think she has something to do with the stormriders.
Oh and tays seems to have a similar description, save his eyes are completely different, he has sunken black eyes, whilst banaschar has flaming eyes as I recall.
Oh and anyone else think that Faro balkat and Trenech are nameless ones? If not who are they? Oh and there seems to be a lot of swearing by the nameless ones... which we haven't seen in other books...
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Posted 17 May 2005 - 11:55 AM
Agreed on the timeline.
Just in relation to Y'ghatan, was that the place where there was a fire storm or something like it, and where Kalam and Quick Ben (probably as defenders) found out what happened to otataral when it get hot? Of course this info is from the Erikson novels; there was no mention of a firestorm (or the rat Diver's whose name I have forgotten) in NoK. (Gryllen that's it, "flushed out of Y'ghatan into the fire")
Just in relation to Y'ghatan, was that the place where there was a fire storm or something like it, and where Kalam and Quick Ben (probably as defenders) found out what happened to otataral when it get hot? Of course this info is from the Erikson novels; there was no mention of a firestorm (or the rat Diver's whose name I have forgotten) in NoK. (Gryllen that's it, "flushed out of Y'ghatan into the fire")
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quote:How is Dassem's physique described?
There is no idea of height given, although the idea is of stature by nature.
He is described as having long black hair, plaited back and tied at the neck, with blazing black eyes.
His helmet has a black horse-hair plume.
IMNSHO he is the coolest of cool dudes...
quote:The other characters like Temper etc, how are they described in terms of arms and armour, power etc.
Temper took on Rood.........and he managed to hurt it before shadow acolytes called the hound off.... He also took on the Jaghut...and lived
He was armed with sword, shield and heavy armour when he fought as Dassem’s sword.
His helmet is identified as black steel with articulated lobster tail neck guard and T-shaped vision slit.
Later he carries two swords belted across his back with daggers in hilts at his hips.
I get the idea that he’s a pretty big guy....
quote:Interesting about the Jaghut trying to escape from the Azath, any more info on that, a name and motivation?
Her name is Jhenna... she doesn’t seem to have accepted her incarceration at all.
quote:Who is this "Obo" then? Race, physical description, why would you consider him powerful?
He is described as an old man in shapeless brown robes, bald with a fringe of long white hair. Apparently the purge of talent in Malaz City ordered by Surly had serious repercussions. It’s a bit tricky to explain all that here. Anyways, Tayschrenn refers to Obo and Agayla as two powers facing annihilation under the heels of an enemy of incalculable might.... so that’s good enough for me.
quote:Re-Crimson Guard; Skinner again. He seems to be truly top notch. Is he mage or warrior, or both? Anything on the Prince himself?
“It was said the Avowed were unstoppable, but Dassem had slain every one who had challenged him, except Skinner”. Nothing on the Prince.
quote:Any thoughts on who the new major character might be, the one haven't met yet but who will feature in TBH, according to Patch..?
Did Patch say it was a character from NoK? I don’t recall. I suppose it could be Temper....it could be Kiska... it could be Ferrule who also escaped Surly’s trap.
