Abyss, on 14 September 2010 - 04:45 PM, said:
Well that is the question... the Helms' Destriant certainly suggests that Tana' may not be working towards the same goal as Krughava. No one asked Setoc if she wanted to be Destriant to a couple of gods her home country didn't even recognize. In MoI Gruntle cheerfully disregarded Rath'Trake's orders that supposedly came from Trake. Heboric even appeared to have switched from Destriant to Shield Anvil by virtue of necessity. Dassem broke from Hood but appeared to retain a lot of the power that he held as Death's Knight. FW basically forced the Errant to take her as Destriant and then tried to force the SA role on Udinaas who denied it. And I'm fairly sure Rake never asked anyone to make Clip his mortal sword. All of which is to say, investing power in a mortal can happen a few different ways and the God/Ascendent isn't necessarily in 'control' of what happens next. Sure, Itkovian, Brukhalian and Karanadas were religious fanatics sworn to their god, but that is clearly not always the case and as with Karsa, a decision to invest a mortal can really backfire on the god.
Point taken, cannot come abck to this as I can only agree. reading Heboric's POV from the beginning of the book, it shows that the Wolves are watching, I cannot help but wonder what they want in all of this, I am re reading DoD so I am at the beginning again but what is their goal do you think? And as you pointed out above they may have no control over the decisions that mortals make but they can plan for them and that is why they have so many players within the game, maybe they have different people in different places ordained to do a certain thing, and if one fails then another one will try to succeed, that type of thing?
The thing is, the House of War is massive, it has the bridgeburners led by Iskar jarak. It has treach and all of his players, it has togg and fanderay and their players, it has the KCCM led by Gruntle and Stormy, if I rember correctly. Is this, as Heboric stated, A war between the Gods of War and Justice aka the FA and Jade Statues? is this the main theme now do you think, with tCG as the prize? Or the Saviour? Heboric said nothing can stand in the Jade Statues way, but maybe the Crippled God is the only one who can and he is the one that will step up to the plate?