[Fid]

Not sure Corinn is Tattersail - as Tattersail was herself when the mages etc were cleared from Malaz City previously - in GOTM IIRC?

[kaf09]

@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.

[Therion]

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 .

[vaiski]

quote:

Originally posted by Hetan:
These sound more like a Tiste race characterisitic?

True. Was it male or female ? Cant remember...
Phaed or Nimander perhaps ?

[Imperial Historian]

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...

[kaf09]

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")

[vahlar]

I didn't say he was a living Tiste. He seems more of an undead Tiste.

[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