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'Kaschan sorcery,' Fear said after a time, 'is born of sounds our ears cannot hear, formed into words that loosen the bindings that hold all matter together, that hold it to the ground. Sounds that bend and stretch light, as a tidal inflow up a river is drawn apart at the moment of turning. With this sorcery, they fashioned fortresses of stone that rode the sky like clouds. With this sorcery, they turned Darkness in upon itself with a hunger none who came too close could defy, an all devouring hunger that fed first and foremost upon itself.' His voice was strangely muted as he spoke. 'Kaschan sorcery was sent into the warren of Mother Dark, like a plague. Thus was sealed the gate from Kurald Galain to every other realm. Thus was Mother Dark driven into the very core of the Abyss, witness to an endless swirl of light surrounding her – all that she would one day devour, until the last speck of matter vanishes into her. Annihilating Mother Dark. Thus the Kaschan, who are long dead, set upon Mother Dark a ritual that will end in her murder. When all Light is gone. When there is naught to cast Shadow, and so Shadow too is doomed to die.' (MT UK mmpb, p.139)
'When Scabandari Bloodeye discovered what they had done, it was too late. The end, the death of the Abyss, cannot be averted. The journey of all that exists repeats on every scale, brothers. From those realms too small for us to see, to the Abyss itself. The Kaschan locked all things into mortality, into the relentless plunge towards extinction. This was their vengeance. An act born, perhaps, of despair. Or the
fiercest hatred imaginable. Witness to their own extinction, they forced all else to share that fate.' - (MT UK mmpb, p.139)
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OK, there are a lot of things that I didn't understood here. (I find it to be one of the most confusing paragraph thus far)
1. Kaschan- is it the K'chain Che'malle's warren? if not, whose?
2. What exactly is Kaschan's aspect? It seems to be something with...unhearable sounds? What is the meaning of that? And, does it have something to do with Chaos? Because, I must tell, the whole part about "loosen the bindings that hold all matter together" and "an all devouring hunger that fed first and foremost upon itself" seems quite similar. Although, It also say "that hold it to the ground" so maybe not a matter- destroying aspect but gravity aspect, could I be right? If so, and the Kaschan's aspect is mainly gravity, so it quite explain the whole float- fortresses thing. But what it has to do with unheard sounds and binding light?
3. What exactly the matrons did to mother dark? How "witness to an endless swirl of light surrounding her – all that she would one day devour, until the last speck of matter vanishes into her" will " Annihilating Mother Dark"? and how exactly this fuel sorcery seaeld the gate to Kurald Galain?
4. What is the meaning of "Shadow too is doomed to die"? Something to do with Kurald Emurlahn?
5 The last and biggest question:" The end, the death of the Abyss, cannot be averted": why? and even if Abyss is to be destroyed, why "The Kaschan locked all things into mortality, into the relentless plunge towards extinction"? I mean, it seems like the Matrons somehow started a process that would destroy ALL existence? Really?! How?
Well, if someone here would explain me all this...chaos , I would be more than happy
This post has been edited by greySnow: 02 September 2013 - 12:33 AM