[Ain't_It_Just_]

Perhpas this was explained in HoC, but I still don't get it: why is L'oric loyal to the Apocalypse? He said to barathol that :you hid here like a coward, whilst the rest of Seven Cities rose up, dreaming of freedom." Why does he care-he's a Liosan!

[Aptorian]

Actually he's an ascendant. He's most likely lived for hundreds of thousands of years. He has to pass his time somehow doesn't he? It's probably like rake, he found a cause or a people he liked.

[Ain't_It_Just_]

Yeah, I'm familiar... You remember that rake spent 200 years as a human bodyguard? Rofl...

[Aptorian]

Who do you imagine Rake fancied was worth playing Bodyguard for? Sounds like something for the Rake story Erikson might write some day.

[Lisheo]

L'oric perhaps found Sha'ik, the original, someone worth helping... We never really knew much about her, actually.
Rake as a bodyguard? Heh, probably Tehol's long lost grandfather lmao.

[D'rek]

L'oric probably doesn't care a whit about the apocalypse, as noted by the fact that the only thing he ever does to benefit it is unpickeling Leoman in Y'G, and that because the QoD made him do it. But, staying in Raraku means he gets to get high with Heboric and talk about flying faces made of rock, but there's like people in them maaaaan...

[Jude]

hahaha OH man. Heboric has to be like the shittiest stoner partner ever. Loric's all trynig to have a good time and Heboric's like "Yeah.. like... I don't think I'm a very good person, man" and Loric rolls his eyes and is like "eeeveryone is special, Heboric"

I'm going to go with that Loric was with the apocalypse because of the original Sha'ik. She seemed solid and they probably had some bond involving her being horribly wronged as a child and her thinking that the malazans and the notions of empire and occupation were indirectly responsible but her cause was still selfless in that she just felt it was the right thing to give the people of seven cities their lives back and blah blah blah and Loric was like "it's nice to see such character in a mortal. In your face, Mael. MY Tehol is WAY better than YOURS!"

[Almar mae' Ka'zole]

Ya he must have been loyal more to the people than the cause although even then he knew who the Whirlwind goddess was didn't he?? It could have started long before the actual rebellion and he coulda just been living with some tribe as head shaman or something.

[Excellence]

If House of Chains said why L'oric was supporting Sha'ik, I missed seeing it.

There was an offhand mention that he was in Seven Cities because he was looking for his dad and that was place he sensed him near.

[The Drum]

Excellence, on Dec 10 2008, 07:38 AM, said:

If House of Chains said why L'oric was supporting Sha'ik, I missed seeing it.

There was an offhand mention that he was in Seven Cities because he was looking for his dad and that was place he sensed him near.

Yeah, I thought he was searching for his Da and was drawn by the impending convergence to Raraku.

[Jude]

ahh the whole power draws power thing again. ooofcourse. that explains it. best deus ex machina ever

[Excellence]

It has nothing to do with the infamous convergence word of the series --- Lory was simply looking for his old man, and felt his last whereabaouts near Raraku.

[Aptorian]

There has to be more to it than that. L'oric has/had invested himself in 7Cs history. You don't just become a High Mage in the Apocalypses Magecadre because you volunteer. L'oric was known, and probably has been for decades during the Malazan fighting on the continent.