[Abyss]

Dog years.

[Gorefest]

Inverted dog years, surely.

Wait, are you calling us dogs?

[BellaGrace]

theocean, on 06 November 2014 - 05:47 PM, said:

It says ealry in HOC that karsa is entering his 18th year of life.

Does it? Because I specifically remember reading he was around 80 because that was the age that they were allowed to go out and be real warriors.

[theocean]

BellaGrace, on 07 November 2014 - 02:56 PM, said:

theocean, on 06 November 2014 - 05:47 PM, said:

It says ealry in HOC that karsa is entering his 18th year of life.

Does it? Because I specifically remember reading he was around 80 because that was the age that they were allowed to go out and be real warriors.

Yea its karsa basically narrating things in his head talking about it. Then later when they attack aother village he talks about the "youth" and says that he was shy of 80 years and that was the point when warriors were allowed typically to become warriors. So its weird to try and figure it out.


it says "newly arrived to my 18th year of life, a warrior in truth" Thats karsa thining to himself.



Im guessing possibly it was a typo never caught?? maybe it was supposed to be 80th instead of 18th.

This post has been edited by theocean: 07 November 2014 - 06:24 PM

[Wolfdrop]

It does actually say "newly arrived to my eightieth year of life, finally a warrior in truth".

Its page 35 of the MMPB

[theocean]

Wolfdrop, on 07 November 2014 - 06:40 PM, said:

It does actually say "newly arrived to my eightieth year of life, finally a warrior in truth".

Its page 35 of the MMPB

Ive been reading it online... mustve read it wrong.

[BellaGrace]

On the subject of Karsa's age...

Spoiler

I'm reading DoD right now and there is a discussion about the number of Tarthenhol left on an island and Bugg says there are 1400 left but half of them are under 70 and not adults - which makes me think it was correct that Karsa would be 80 - although that doesn't jive with TtH and the age of his daughters (and yes I realize that is Tarthenhol and not Toblakais, but they are closely related)

This post has been edited by BellaGrace: 27 December 2014 - 06:12 PM

[tiam]

Yeh he does say hes just turned 80 and also when looking at the older hunter later on that he kills he states that his face is wrinkled like that of a Teblor after centuries of life. So yeh 80 as a definite age. To throw more confusion on the matter Leoman in DG claims that Karsa is 17 for some bizarre reason.

[Spoilsport Stonny]

There are other instances where kids grow up really fast, and usually its because of some kind of magical assistance (at least from the standpoint that there is no other explanation). Thats later book stuff though, so I wont go into details.

I think Leoman was just talking out of his ass.

This post has been edited by Spoilsport Stonny: 28 December 2014 - 04:20 PM

[Traveller]

When Leoman says Karsa's 'seen 17 summers' he might not be referring to years - maybe the weather on the Laederon Plateau is more like Westeros..

or more likely SE only came up with the idea of long-lived Toblakai after he'd written Deadhouse Gates.

[worry]

Maybe Leoman gets a kick out of pretending Toblakai is just a really big human. He's making a joke that only he himself will laugh at.

[tiam]

Spoilsport Stonny, on 28 December 2014 - 04:19 PM, said:

There are other instances where kids grow up really fast, and usually its because of some kind of magical assistance (at least from the standpoint that there is no other explanation). Thats later book stuff though, so I wont go into details.

I think Leoman was just talking out of his ass.

Oh I know its a borderline GOTMism before he gets fleshed out later. A throwaway line but while we were on the subject of his age its the only other reference than he himself saying hes 80 which is the beginning of manhood for a Teblor or whatever.