[Morgoth]

The only way to get it was order through the net as there were too few for sale. There probably aint anyone left though, but you can try.

[Imperial Historian]

correct, kalahinen

And i also would enjoy ICE writing a few novels about koreli and assail.

[Imperial Historian]

Well the sides facing each other isn't really clearcut... there’s kelanved dancer and the talons fighting lasseen and her claws. Temper, exmember of dassems sword fighting pretty much everybody, a group of ex-bridgeburners who are going for lasseen, the hounds and various shadow creatures creating havoc everywhere, tays who gets in a fight with soem shadow cult members, and well there’s a few others floating around...

And then there's the ice spectres assaulting the entire island, with tays and some other powerful figures opposing that, and then a jaghut trying to break out of the azath being opposed by everyone.

So yeah... no real clearcut sides there... chaos sums it up nicely I think

And the ice spectres... well that’s sort of complicated and not fully explained, there is a hint that they have somethign to do with the jaghut, and may I have been released accidentally by them, they have icelike powers, swim aroudn in the sea, they generally swim in the straits next to malaz isle and sink ships, but in the book they mount a full out assault on the isle of malaz possibly to free the trapped jaghut

[Set'alahd Crool]

Yup. That was me

[Morgoth]

I liked NoK, it was a bit stumbeling in the begining, but got better as it moved along.

The Dassem part was the best part, i've got to agree with that. Especially since it put Whiskeyjack's and thus Kallor's skill with a sword in a better perspective.

Also, I got the impression that Temper was the most competent fighter of in the sword. No matter his technique, he managed to hold of a champion assumed to be the better of all but Dassem. He dispatched an elite member of the claw in mocks hold with little difficulty. And most importantly, he stood his ground against a Jhagut tyrant (or so she seemed to me).
Also, Kiska i think it was, describes Temper as a huge man, and he is shown several times to hold an almost inhuman strenght.

Dassem being traveler fits even better now.
"What will you do?"
"Travel. Head West"
He just fits so nicely as Traveler.

Gothos can travel between Azaths, is it not then natural to asume that the other guradians can as well? If so the the female Jhagut could have come from any Azath.

As an end note, I think Ferrule is Barathol from the BH prologue. Ferrule is of Sethi heritage, Barathol is described as a tribesman from the south. Ferrule returned to his homeland, Barathol lives on the subcontinent. My knowledge of the timeline is not perfect yet 11 years does sound fairly right to me. Also, Ferrule is described as a man fond of close in fighting, more a brawler than a swordfighter. An axe would be the right weapon for such a man I think. And he also has a special helmet, just like Temper

[Folken]

Answer my question damn you!...ANSWER!

[Imperial Historian]

quote:

Kellanved 'annoyed' them by annexing Unta and ousting Price K'ass D'avore, who ruled there or was successor to the throne.

That's what i initially thought... but then we find that the d'avorans had rebelled previosuly and got beat by the untan royal house, and i think they were kicked of there lands then, u'd have thought kelvenned invading unta and defeating the royal house would have made them allies of a sort...

Perhaps the reason for the hatred is that kelvanned didn't return the land to them...

Corrin being tatersail... i don't think so, one we surely would have heard if tatersail had been in the BB's at any point, two tatersails first action in the service of the malazan empire was in the mouse, before Nok, after which she got shipped out... so i don't see her coming back to malaz so soon... plus corrin is a veteran, and you don't become a veteran in 6 months.

Good to see you've finally joined us Dakk