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Can someone summarize what happend w/ Trull & Onrack

#1 obvakhi

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Posted 03 March 2014 - 06:50 AM

I got lost with these 2 somewhere in the middle and just never caught up to what was going on. I plan to read the 5th book eventually but I hear that Trull is the only returning character.
So can someone can give me a brief summary of their storyline so I won't be confused.
Thanks.

#2 D'iversify

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Posted 03 March 2014 - 10:27 AM

Events in Book Five take place before events in Book Four, so it doesn't matter too much if you don't recall exactly where Trull and Onrack got to in Book Four, as that thread is continued in Book Six and Seven. Safe to say, you find out a lot more in MT about the Tiste Edur, Trull's place in Edur society and why he ends up in a flooded Nascent.

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Posted 03 March 2014 - 11:02 AM

obvakhi, on 03 March 2014 - 06:50 AM, said:

Onrack finds Trull in the Nascent and they go from there. This is what HOC is about. Book 5 does only have Trull as a directly returning character but has mentions of some others you will have heard of. You have to read book 5 it ties into the rest of the series.

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Posted 03 March 2014 - 03:37 PM

At the end of House of Chains, Trull begins to tell Onrack his story. Midnight Tides is that story. It wasn't the easiest thing for me to realize cuz I read Night of Knives inbetween the two, so it didn't seem like a swift transition. Then on re-read, I was like "OH SHIT THAT'S COOL!"

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Posted 13 November 2014 - 10:24 PM

I was constantly going back and referencing Trull's storyline in this book as I read through Midnight Tides. At the time I read this book, the Trull and Onrack story were the most confusing sections for me. It took book 5 to really grasp things, and by book 6, The bits with Trull, Onrack, the Edur, etc. just fit nicely.