Of course at this point I still have some confusion going through my head especially on what is going to be the role of many characters going into tCG...
Here are some:
After 10 books and 99% of the 11th book we as readers (or maybe just me as a moron) were led to believe that T'lan Imass were essentially a "good" compassionate race that lost itself because of a huge fatal collective mistake... but I was under the impression that this race in the end will stand side by side with men to fight Chaos... so all this emphasis on the Slayers of Children is rather confusing...
Aside from that, I am totally lost in trying to figure out where all the clans are, what happened with this Second Ritual, how many Imass (as opposed to T'lan Imass) are still around, which clans are under the summon of Onos Toolan and which under Silverfox and in general what they are really up to... if someone could help me figuring some of this stuff out without RAFOing is rather welcomed!
The second most confusing race are the jaghuts... it is clear that they are not extinct even if some of them are undead... it is also clear after DoD that they weren't always (or maybe they have never been) a race of loners who occasionally turned rough and became Tyrants... this people lived in Crystal cities with KCM and collectively waged war against Death itself... the greatest problem I have with Jaghuts is their origins... they are rather old if Icarium is that old! probably older than Imass and of the same age of KCM... they also seem to have several ascendants and therefore they must have a religion of sort... in the end are they a race of Order or Chaos? (I acknowledge that this question is rather simplistic)
Forkrul Assail: I suspect we know almost nothing about those because they are a big part of a reveal in tCG? Apart from knowing that they adjudicate and kil everyone in the name of justice, what are they? from whom they descend? how their society work? why where they deemed extinct? have they been hiding?
Finally, a critique (my first) on the entire series: I understand that the future is not always how we picture it and that overall the series is predicated on pessimism... but why amost all the efforts of our beloved characters always end up in -often incidental - tragedy? I mean, I am OK with the concept of convergence but getting slaughtered by the freshly-returned Na'rhuk after having travelled so far and almost to the point of reuniting with reinforcements is unbelievably unfortunate...
Please tell me Quick Ben is OK and that his shaved knuckle in the hole (Tay) did something to save him from the Na'rhuk magic!
This post has been edited by Sick@Simpliciter: 17 October 2012 - 12:11 AM