I guess as well this creates all sorts of questions as to how long warrens have actually existed for, not to mention that if K'rul physically created warrens (with some help it seems from aspected dragons of some kind, though i'm sure I'll learn more as to that as I finish this book) then where did the Elder Gods exist before then? Did they all exist in the same place? Togg, whom we also see in the prologue to MOI disappears into what I assume is the realm of chaos at the end of said prologue, and if I had to guess I would assume that the Skykeeps we have seen in this book had spent some indeterminate time in Chaos before appearing in the Imperial Warren, else I can't see why they hadn't already been discovered. Safe perhaps to assume then that Chaos predates the coming of the Elder Gods, but is Chaos actually a warren? It is referred to as such in GotM, but from the manner in which it has been spoken of since (admittedly very sparsely) I always assumed this was simply a discrepancy caused by the fact that GotM predates the rest of the series by a number of years. Similarly do the Jaghut and the T'lan Imass and their warrens predate the coming of the Elder Gods? Certainly the KCCM seem to have been long gone even when we see Pran Chole in MOI, but we have no way of knowing how long the Imass or the Jaghut had been around using Tellann and Omtose Phellack by that point, so if they predate the coming of the Elders that causes another problem. And of course there is all the Kurald's and how they fit into the whole grand scheme, especially pertinent regarding Draconus, who's particular heritage I'm not really sure of, Eleint, Elder God or both? I'm guessing alot of this will have been answered by series end, but also from the manner in which warrens are talked about by people who have read all the books, I don wonder how much the reader is still in the dark.
Anyway to revisit my original question, the Imperial Warren cannot be the racial warren of the KCCM, can it? In that vein do we ever actually find out for sure if the KCCM had a racial warren, or whether or not their sorcery was somehow different in origin? I know we get that very oblique reference to their sorcery (as Kaschan I think) by Fear, when he and his brothers visit the site of Scabbandari Bloodeye's shattered skull in MT, I was never very sure how much of that scene was truthful or simply Tiste Edur mythology though.
This post has been edited by WinterPhoenix: 11 January 2016 - 12:11 AM