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When did Heboric go blind?

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Posted 26 March 2009 - 10:57 AM

Something I must have missed: I am at p595 now, Felisin, Heboric and Kulp are with the mercgant in the desert, and since the last chapter, it was mentioned that Heboric is blind. I think I missed this: he wasn't blind when the book started, right? When and how did he go blind? Can you help me out? Thanks a lot!

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Posted 26 March 2009 - 11:02 AM

As far as I remember...

He goes blind in the desert. His eyes get all sandy and gummed up, and they don't have any water. As they close, he starts to get more visions.

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Posted 26 March 2009 - 03:43 PM

Yeah, I remember being slightly confused about this, even on the reread. The transition was just poorly done.

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Posted 27 March 2009 - 01:25 PM

Ok, thanks to you guys! I wanted to look for myself, but I didn't know where to start. I'll check the chapters in the desert! Thanks again.

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Posted 27 March 2009 - 01:32 PM

Avatar, on Mar 26 2009, 11:57 AM, said:

When and how did he go blind? Can you help me out? Thanks a lot!

In the special edition of Deadhouse Gates, the Authors Cut, there is a small passage where you see Heboric touching himself...

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Posted 27 March 2009 - 07:30 PM

I bet I could eat 100 auto-manipulating ghost-hands

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 11:01 AM

I just reread it a few weeks back, don't have it on me..but I believe he goes blind when he touches the statue.

Then he has "other" senses.

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 07:05 PM

Well, he may not be entirely blind - in House of Chains, he mentions having some blurry peripheral vision (when Felisin Younger visits him and when Silgar draws the image in the sand).

I bet it is cataracts or something like that though.

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 07:18 PM

redJAKO, on Jun 8 2009, 06:01 AM, said:

I just reread it a few weeks back, don't have it on me..but I believe he goes blind when he touches the statue.

Then he has "other" senses.

He still has sight shortly after this when they meet up with Kulp and later when they're on the Silanda, so it's probably not this.

After they fall off the Silanda and are trudging towards Raraku is when he starts having visions, but I think he still has some sight, at least at the start of that part of the trek. When they climb down the cliff wall in the sandstorm, though, he is blind by that point as he uses his ghost hands (can only use them once he can't see). Come to think of it, he uses his hands to throw Kulp in the cavern as well, so it's between falling off the Silanda and that.

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Posted 08 June 2009 - 08:59 PM

Yep, Heboric goes blind once he, Felisin and Kulp run into the Whirlwind. It's from all the sandy grit in the storm and dehydration. It's not true blindness - basically, his eyelids puff up so much that he can hardly open up his eyes any more.

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