[Kaamos]

Erm. This is a mite embarrassing, but I just completely lost my poise while reading about the grand re-encounter of these two (incl. Karsa's attempt to fight Traveler over her), and have been chuckling at the scene while brewing morning coffee. Does this ship actually develop into something tangible over the series unlike most others which gurgle in their death-throes after a book or two (Paran/Tattersail springs to mind)? (Yes, you can spoil me. Just a little wary of digging into the other threads in this forum, lest I cast an inadvertent glance at major-er plot points).

If not, any good-quality shippy art/stories floating about? Or do I just have to pick the damn wacom up myself auuuugh perkele...

[James Hutton]

Zorm, on 07 July 2013 - 07:06 AM, said:

Does this ship actually develop into something tangible over the series?

I must say I find it hard to envision Karsa in any kind of loving relationship...

[Kaamos]

James Hutton, on 07 July 2013 - 11:35 AM, said:

Zorm, on 07 July 2013 - 07:06 AM, said:

Does this ship actually develop into something tangible over the series?

I must say I find it hard to envision Karsa in any kind of loving relationship...

I know. But I'm laughing my arse off at the constant tension between the two. Then again, one never knows, he has gone through quite an alteration from the stereotypical barbarian grunt on his route to kill "children".

[James Hutton]

I like reading those parts too.

Karsa has underwent major development, and I'm very much looking forward to the trilogy SE's gonna write about him.

[nacht]

If you really really want to know

Spoiler

You have to read OST
They are almost a married couple

[Kaamos]

nacht, on 15 July 2013 - 11:53 PM, said:

If you really really want to know

Spoiler

You have to read OST
They are almost a married couple

Indeed, what a book. Puts every romantic heart aflutter.

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Especially the part where Havok falls ill and Karsa must replace him with a pastel-colored Jhag unicorn. So sweet when he and Samar ride together into a sunset, the atmosphere only slightly marred by the rotting Goradeth heads the unicorn has speared with its horn and now carries as trophies.

Also:

Spoiler

Ost is cheese in Swedish.

(And looking forward to the trilogy too. With or without unicorns.)

This post has been edited by Torahammas: 16 July 2013 - 06:51 AM

[Vaddon Ra]

And East in German...

I actually really hope Karsa and Samar is a source of humour in the Toblakai books, along with Ublala, cos as much as I can see the poetic grandiosity in what SE is doing with the Kharkanas books... it's often a bit... Heavy going and : /

Here's hoping Karsa's books have lots of conquest, drinking, funnies, tragedies, mage battles, and IF HE KILLS OFF KARSA AT THE END I WILL CRAPALLOVERMYLIBRARYOFFANTASYDONTYOUDARESTEVEN....DONTYOUDARE!!!!!

[nacht]

Ublala/Shurq is definitely a romance for the ages.

[Kaamos]

Vaddon Ra, on 30 August 2013 - 09:00 PM, said:

And East in German...

I actually really hope Karsa and Samar is a source of humour in the Toblakai books, along with Ublala, cos as much as I can see the poetic grandiosity in what SE is doing with the Kharkanas books... it's often a bit... Heavy going and : /

Here's hoping Karsa's books have lots of conquest, drinking, funnies, tragedies, mage battles, and IF HE KILLS OFF KARSA AT THE END I WILL CRAPALLOVERMYLIBRARYOFFANTASYDONTYOUDARESTEVEN....DONTYOUDARE!!!!!

Unfortunately it means nothing in Finnish.
I'd hope for the same. I attempted a start with the Kharkanas volume at one point, but a horde of other novels stampeded over it. Must restart, although I noticed the same ponderousness, which I should be well acquainted with after Stephen R Donaldson, but the utterly over-the-top humor from voyeur soup to Karsa's mighty little orlong splitting everything in half provides a nice counterbalance to the general grimness of the storylines.

Well, guess I must plug in the Wacom and draw some inane crackart myself, as recommendations fell into a bottomless ditch before reaching me and googling returned a nice absence of results.

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Ublala/Shurq is definitely a romance for the ages.