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#21 User is offline   Urb 

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Posted 08 May 2009 - 08:27 PM

He also complains a lot when everyone else recieves the newest installment of Malaz weeks before him.
To our amusement...


I have to admit, the warrens being made from K'rul's blood is not easy to visualise. And seeing as how K'rul himself dissapeared into chaos for some time, came back, can manifest himself in the real world... No wonder SE is so vague in describing this stuff.
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Posted 09 May 2009 - 02:01 AM

View PostBlend, on May 8 2009, 02:54 PM, said:

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View PostMappo's Travelling Sack, on May 8 2009, 12:43 AM, said:

Could the concept of antimatter come into this? Maybe Chaos is the antimatter, that annihilates any matter it comes into contact with, and the Abyss is just a vacuum. Although the fact that there is a floor to the Abyss complicates that idea, instead suggesting something more spatial...


Sorry, my original post blew the ground thing. Nether, Nil and the Wickan mages were laying the ground
before them while the Abyss was eating it from behind.



I think he was referring to the floor of the Abyss that Hairlock mentions having been to in GOTM. Though that could just have been an GotMism.


Blend, you remember something as trivial as this from GOTM. Damn, you're good. I didn't/don't remember
the mention in TTH
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Posted 09 May 2009 - 08:55 AM

It's when Nimander (?) is looking for Bellurdan/The Dying God amongst all those stick-puppets.
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Posted 09 May 2009 - 10:37 PM

i think harlocks qoute was one the bottom of the abyss, not the floor, and the floor of the abyss for belurdan... maybe... is it a diffrence? we can think so cant we?




(edit: typos)

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i want to see this world where T'lan imass kneels
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 12:15 AM

View Postberu, on May 9 2009, 05:37 PM, said:

i think harlocks qoute was one the bottom of the abyss, not the floor, and the floor of the abyss for belurdan... maybe... is it a diffrence? we can think so cant we?

(edit: typos)


Probably the same. The spar of andii is "halfway down", so clearly characters are visualizing it in a vertical-ish mentality progressing downwards, so floor and bottom would be the same.

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I kinda love it when D'rek unleashes her nerd wrath, as I knew she would here. Sorry innocent bystanders, but someone's gotta be the kindling.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 08:13 AM

"Floor" and "bottom" are semantically the same thing, but there could be a difference. Not sure what it would be, though.
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Posted 10 May 2009 - 08:36 AM

Floor would indicate that there was levels to the Abyss. Bottom would just imply that it is a hole.
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Posted 14 May 2009 - 07:27 AM

View PostAptorian, on May 10 2009, 10:36 AM, said:

Floor would indicate that there was levels to the Abyss. Bottom would just imply that it is a hole.



that was my point if i was to unclear
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Posted 17 May 2009 - 04:37 PM

Is it not where our resident brain-sucker resides?
Me thinks it is a sort of Limbo where the forces of reality/magic/perception do not follow the norm.
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