Bellurdan's exact racial make-up is unknown, but it is said that he and Nightchill came out of the ice fields in northern Quon Tali continent. This is also where there are Fenn (or used to be Fenn, since in HoC some soldiers say Fenn haven't been seen in centuries, which may or may not be true). On the other hand, they could've been there *because* of the Fenn and Bellurdan isn't actually from there originally.
Regardless, Thelomen (a general term for Thelomen Toblakai and their related races - Teblor, Tarthenal, Fenn, etc) can still be mages. The whole "warren unto themselves" thing is a one-time, off-hand comment with no elaboration, and even then Rath'Thurvian says nothing about that being more than a once-in-a-millenia occurance, so take it with a grain of blood oil...
and speaking of which, blood oil is the reason Karsa (and the Teblor in general) is the whole defying-magic thing. If Bellurdan is from Fenn or other Thelomen stock that hasn't been consuming it for generations, there's no reason to assume he'd be anti-magic at all.
jitsukerr, on 25 October 2010 - 09:53 AM, said:
I thought Bellurdan was a Thelomen, but not a Thelomen Toblakai. We know there are degenerate Thelomen of various origins (from interbreeding with the other races) scattered around the world. It's not inconceivable that they would latch onto warren magic as their own personal warrens waned in strength with the dissolution of their blood.
Ah, but Tool names one of the warrens in the Bellurdan-Tattersail conflagration as "Thelomen Toblakai" (or something similar), so it would appear that he has not given up his own racial/traditional Toblakai magic (of which we now about zero) - or you can consider Tool's statement another GotM.
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Other GotMisms - WJ says he had like 12 or 15 soldiers in his squad the morning before the tunnels collapsed at Pale - these soldiers are never mentioned again in the many recaps of "the old squad" (then again Sorry almost never is either), nor do we ever see more marine squads with more than 8 or so soldiers.
- Tool labels the T'lan Imass marching into the Jhag Odhan to fight an enclave of Jhag/Jaghut right after the T'lan Imass massacre of Aren as the 28th Jaghut War (later revealed to be against Aramala and numerous Jhags), to which Lorn is surprised, expressing she had thought there were only 27 (evidence that they do go up by 1 each time). In the MoI prologue, Pannion's mother dying is called the end of the 33rd Jaghut War, and the Ritual of Tellann hasn't even taken place yet. This could be considered a GotMism. On the other hand, it's possible that the Kron and Logros armies keep separate counts of their wars.
This post has been edited by D'rek: 25 October 2010 - 07:44 PM