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Mother dark, tiam, basic family tree?

#1 hayley

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 12:08 PM

Sooo I'm trying to grasp the family tree I guess you could call it between mother dark, the tiste andii/edur, tiam etc. I vaguely remember reading in a previous book -it was when silchas and scabandari were having their battle- about mother dark having 3 children with father light or something like that but didn't one of them have a child with tiam? Can anyone elaborate on this for me please? Thanks

This post has been edited by hayley: 02 July 2014 - 01:17 AM

#2 hayley

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 12:09 PM

Yeah my phone changed tiam to team in the title and I don't know how to change it as I'm new here! Lol

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 02:07 PM

There's a lot of RAFO here in this statement. You'll have to read the next few books and then the first book in the Kharkanas trilogy and then, even though it may make things MORE confusing, at least you'll have a better idea of how these things stack up. TCG itself lends to some interesting Tiste history, but that's all I have to say about that.

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 02:33 PM

If you click the "edit" button in the right hand corner of your opening post, you can edit your title.

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 06:13 PM

Spoilsport Stonny, on 01 July 2014 - 02:07 PM, said:

Pretty much what Stonny says, except that I'll add that after FoD most of us know even less than we thought we knew about general Tiste genealogy (it's heavily hinted that some of the family trees we're used to from the main series are constructs of later myth and misremembering which do not directly correlate to the actual historical ancestries).

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#6 Spoilsport Stonny

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 08:02 PM

Apt Hoc, on 01 July 2014 - 02:33 PM, said:

If you click the "edit" button in the right hand corner of your opening post, you can edit your title.

I think he's browsing via the mobile site, which is pretty scaled down from the full version, and may not have that edit button. Click the link at the bottom to browse the full version, if this is the case OP and edit the title that way.

As far as grasping the family tree, just accept for now what you have been told in the books on its face value. When you get further down the line, things should pop out at you. And don't forget to re-read everything when you've finished.

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Posted 01 July 2014 - 08:18 PM

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#8 hayley

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Posted 02 July 2014 - 01:23 AM

Haha dance moves for days. Cool thanks, think I'll just keep going and try to figure it out as I'm reading. This is my first read of the series.. Was thinking about reading all except for CG, and reading it after doing a re-read. To kind of maximise how amazing CG will (hopefully) be. Anyone done this? Don't know if I'll have the will power.