Posted 26 December 2009 - 11:47 PM
I usually just read the forum on my phone, and for some reason I can't get this forum to work on it, but I felt I needed to join in on this converstation. There is way too much conjecture required to actually figure out who Gudd is, but we might be able to peel back some of the options a bit.
I have been trying to figure out who "She" is, as in ; "She answers, as she has never answered before"
Looking at the situation, she obviously has to be somebody with enough power to impress somebody thousands of years old, that narrows the list of possibilities down to a few handfuls that we are aware of. And because of how she answers (with ice, turning him into a stormrider basically) we can narrow that list down quite a bit further. Then we should even be able to narrow it down still further by the fact that she is answering differently or stronger than ever before.
To my mind that leaves us about 4 possibilities of powerful females that could help him and do it in that way. From least likely to most IMO.
5. A random Jaghut - there were several females one of who was even in the area recently to help trap a demon in ice in a lake.
4. Queen of dreams - We haven't seen to much of her, but we do know she is a powerful mage, and friend with the master planner Rake, and as a God is probably involved in this whole mess somehow, maybe Gudd is her main piece besides Leoman and she answers stronger than before because it is needed.
3. Mother Dark - She would obviously be answering stronger now than previously as she is no longer turned away. Ice is right up her alley with what we saw Draconus's sword of darkness do, plus the cold feeling of her gate in dragnipur.
2. A random TA mentioned as a rival to Rake, Ruin, Andarist, etc. - This is slightly more likely than MD herself, just because MD has been turned away for so long, that Gudd most likely isn't old enough to ever have had her respond before. There were several other TA's mentioned by name in TtH, several of whom were female, and I don't think we ever learned the fate of any of them. one group could have made landing on Assail or Jacaruku and not denied her followers like Rake did. As my previous reasoning went, she would be able to respond more strongly now with MD paying attention again, and ice is right up KG's alley.
1. Burn - Greymane and Ruthan Gudd go back quite a ways. Greymane is by all appearances involved somehow with Burn,and has a special Burn-sword, plus has had dealings with stormriders and has issues with frost and ice covering him. Burn now has a pair of Jhags living in her belly. They are getting close to where the CG is actually chained to Burn, and infecting her, which might be a bit more tender to try and ascribe human terms to a god who is a planet. All of this could easily add up to the fact that she is now answering, answering differently, and answering stronger than ever before.
I can't think of any others who it could be; Killy, Kileva, OE, Ardata, Spite, Envy, etc. and others that are powerful enough either don't seem likely for various reasons or don't seem like they would respond in that way (ice). Others just wouldn't be capable of responding at all in that magic eating desert at a time with all of those gods and ascendants gathering close, or if they were capable, probably wouldn't risk drawing that attention to themselves. If anyone can think of another person who does fit, feel free to add them. If others can think of a reason to take a name off of the list add that reason and we can narrow it down. I want to take MD off because like I said, she has been turned away for a LONG time, and a random Jaghut doesn't seem all that likely either for a race that doesn't like to act, and at a time when there is a bunch of T'Lan Imass gathered including OE who is basically their god. Random TA who they haven't shown in the whole series to this point also doesn't seem that likely, but possible.
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masan, on 23 October 2009 - 09:32 PM, said:
