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Can someone clear up the entire ship from the Island with Blues and crew... i do a lot of reading late at night so might have missed some aspects of the whole story.
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Posted 27 March 2015 - 07:54 AM
Which part do you need clearing up? Blues and his blade took a ship to Ottateral Island in order to free the imprisoned mages. Two of the blade (Blues and Fingers I think) infiltrated the prison and convinced the mages to escape. They then all boarded the ship and set sail for Quon Tali. In order to hasten their arrival they enacted a ritual and took their ship through Chaos. That's the gist of it.
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Posted 27 March 2015 - 12:48 PM
heavymetaltroll, on 27 March 2015 - 07:54 AM, said:
Which part do you need clearing up? Blues and his blade took a ship to Ottateral Island in order to free the imprisoned mages. Two of the blade (Blues and Fingers I think) infiltrated the prison and convinced the mages to escape. They then all boarded the ship and set sail for Quon Tali. In order to hasten their arrival they enacted a ritual and took their ship through Chaos. That's the gist of it.
Really on whos behalf was Yath working on and how did that all come about. Basically how was he able to take over the power of the ritual, and why? He talks about invaders of his land, yet attacks both the Guard and the malazans, why both. Was he just taken over by chaos somehow, or was he a willing partner in the tear. What was his end game.
also just a side thing about the book... Really liked Nait on the re-read, no real memories of him on first read through.
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Posted 27 March 2015 - 11:51 PM
Yath was a very powerful mage, one of the Seven Cities Falah'dan, or holy protectors or something like that. Then he was exposed to otataral in the mine which maakes mages insane, and he also cracked the riddle of the jade statue, possible being infected by the crippled god's power in some way, or figuired out a way to tap into it. Im sure the trip through chaos didn't hurt.
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 12:08 AM
theocean, on 27 March 2015 - 12:48 PM, said:
heavymetaltroll, on 27 March 2015 - 07:54 AM, said:
Which part do you need clearing up? Blues and his blade took a ship to Ottateral Island in order to free the imprisoned mages. Two of the blade (Blues and Fingers I think) infiltrated the prison and convinced the mages to escape. They then all boarded the ship and set sail for Quon Tali. In order to hasten their arrival they enacted a ritual and took their ship through Chaos. That's the gist of it.
Really on whos behalf was Yath working on and how did that all come about. Basically how was he able to take over the power of the ritual, and why? He talks about invaders of his land, yet attacks both the Guard and the malazans, why both. Was he just taken over by chaos somehow, or was he a willing partner in the tear. What was his end game.
also just a side thing about the book... Really liked Nait on the re-read, no real memories of him on first read through.
He wanted to inflict upon Quon Tali the same "damage" he felt that Malazans had inflicted upon 7 Cities. He was the mage that was "in charge" of orchestrating the mages involved in the ritual, and he he viewed the entire continent of Quon Tali as "Malazans" which proves his ignorance and insanity. The Rent was absolutely intended, his goal was to create something that would devastate the entire continent.
Was that a result as to his messing around with a Jade Giant? Perhaps. He was certainly crazy.
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Posted 28 March 2015 - 12:18 AM
theocean, on 27 March 2015 - 12:48 PM, said:
Really on whos behalf was Yath working on and how did that all come about. Basically how was he able to take over the power of the ritual, and why? He talks about invaders of his land, yet attacks both the Guard and the malazans, why both. Was he just taken over by chaos somehow, or was he a willing partner in the tear. What was his end game.
also just a side thing about the book... Really liked Nait on the re-read, no real memories of him on first read through.
He was working on his own behalf in seeking revenge on the Malazan Empire for conquering 7 Cities. He didn't so much take over the ritual, he lead it and that was his intent from the start. He simply misled the others as to his intent and by the time they realized it was to late. His end game was to create the tear and have it destroy the Empire, or at least weaken it to the point where it could no longer sustain itself. Basically he was bat shit crazy and wanted to destroy the Empire regardless of the consequences. As to why he attacked both the Malazans and the Guard, like most not from the Quon Tali continent, he doesn't know of the differences and just considers all Quon Talians as Malazan.
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