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Withal and the Sword

#1 scott8833

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Posted 19 June 2012 - 04:25 AM

I've been reading the Malazan series for the second time, and there's an issue that's been bugging me since my first read that I still haven't figured out. How oh how does Withal get back to the island to destroy the sword? I can't find any other topics on this, so I'm guessing that it must be explained somewhere that I've somehow missed twice.

#2 worry

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Posted 19 June 2012 - 04:42 AM

Doesn't Mael get him there? Maybe that was just an assumption I made.

They came with white hands and left with red hands.

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Posted 19 June 2012 - 04:45 AM

Mael got him off, Mael put him back.

And the best way to break an aspected sword is by shattering where it at the site it was forged.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

#4 scott8833

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Posted 20 June 2012 - 12:52 AM

I suppose that has to be it. It still bugs me that Withal had to sail away from the island, but appeared to be able to get back very quickly. Oh well, there are plenty of other nits I can obsess on. :-)