Aptorius, on 19 February 2012 - 07:12 PM, said:
WhiskeyJackDaniels, on 19 February 2012 - 06:05 PM, said:
Aptorius, on 19 February 2012 - 05:48 PM, said:
Yea. He did a chat on Tor awhile back and confirmed it. I asked him about the name and here was his answer.
32. StevenErikson
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WJD, yeah, up till now only my TW editor knew the title. This trilogy takes us back to before the Tiste diaspora, and involves the eponymous peoples, along with a few others you know well, or think you know well, not as well as you think, as I think you'll see
That answer says nothing about not including current time characters. It just says he will be telling the story of the first times in KG. I don't think he spent the last 3 books of the MBOTF building up the andii and shake along with the Liosan for the ending of TCG. He did all that work as foreplay for what is to come in the Kharkanas Trilogy. Surely. Otherwise there was absolutely no point to in their storylines. Also I am pretty sure Orchid is going to be a central character, in the Kharkanas trilogy, ICE handed her over to SE at the end of OST. There's going to be some story there about Rake mixing the blood of Andii and dragons there.
Similar story with the Karsa trilogy. Erikson is probably going to show how the TTTs fell and how they ended up in the Loaderon Mountains and what Calm and Iccy were doing there. Then in present day he will show Karsa returning to his home lands and showing what happens from there.
Unless he just set up Nimander and Sandalath as a wrap up to the current time Andii issues and the true fall out of Rake's sacrifice and plan to free the TA of their millennia long ennui.
I think the whole thing will be set in the past. I think it will encompass a lot more than just KG, including the TL, TE, Eleint and Elder Gods. And then it'll end in typical Malazan fashion with the tragic diaspora of the Andii to Wu.
and @the broken...I'm pretty sure Lostara just did a shadow dance. Cotillion wasn't involved