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What is Wu

#1 TheWhiteWalker

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 06:10 PM

What is Wu? Is it just the Malazan world, or does it include the warrens, holds, etc.?

Also, if it is either or the above options, what is the other option called?

PS: please limit the answers to The Bonehunters level

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 06:53 PM

Wu is not an in-fiction name for anything (except that one poem, hmmm)

Wu was, if my memory is correct, simply the name SE and ICE used to describe the world they roleplayed in.

As far as I am aware the planet in which the Malazan Empire exists upon has not been named. Not in the same way we for example call our planet Earth.

If the world had a name it would probably be Burn, seeing as much like our Gaia, Burn represents the Earth and Stone and the physical reality of the planet.

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 07:41 PM

I didn't get this at first. I always considered WU to equal "Whiskeyjack's Universe."

Doesn't really matter in the end, just a shorthand name as Apt said.

Trouble arrives when the opponents to such a system institute its extreme opposite, where individualism becomes godlike and sacrosanct, and no greater service to any other ideal (including community) is possible. In such a system rapacious greed thrives behind the guise of freedom, and the worst aspects of human nature come to the fore....

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Posted 12 January 2016 - 08:35 PM

TheWhiteWalker, on 12 January 2016 - 06:10 PM, said:

Kinda like "Planetos" (Or the awful replacement "Grrth"

) on the ASOIAF forums. Like Wu, neither of those are ever mentioned in the books, but they are used by fans.

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Posted 13 January 2016 - 11:18 AM

Sorry if I didn't make this clear before, but if one says 'Wu', what do they refer to? Just the Malazan world, or the collection of the Malazan world, the warrens, holds and whatever else exists in the Malazan universe?

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Posted 13 January 2016 - 11:50 AM

Just the world/planet.

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Posted 13 January 2016 - 03:04 PM

It's just the main setting, like Thedas [THE Dragon Age Setting, I can never get enough of that fact)

It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes short again and again; because there is not effort without error and shortcomings; but who does actually strive to do the deed; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, who spends himself in a worthy cause, who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement and who at the worst, if he fails, at least he fails while daring greatly. So that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who know neither victory nor defeat.

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Posted 13 January 2016 - 04:58 PM

TheWhiteWalker, on 13 January 2016 - 11:18 AM, said:

worry, on 13 January 2016 - 11:50 AM, said:

Just the world/planet.

What Worry said. There are things we don't quite understand about the "cosmos" that "Wu" exists within, so it's uncertain if Wu is the center of the universe/solar system/ warren-sphere or if it's just one of many.

When people use the word Wu on this forum they are generally always referring to the Planet on which the continents of Genebackis, Quon Tali, Lether, etc. are located. When discussing other places, other worlds, they are generally referred to by their warren names, like Kurald Galain, The Nascent Realm, Aral Gamelon, etc.

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Posted 16 January 2016 - 12:01 AM

Apt, on 12 January 2016 - 06:53 PM, said:

Which poem?

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Posted 16 January 2016 - 03:14 PM

It's a reference to the Steely Dan song Dr Wu. I'm a little surprised it blew up so much, really.

Hello, soldiers, look at your mage, now back to me, now back at your mage, now back to me. Sadly, he isn’t me, but if he stopped being an unascended mortal and switched to Sole Spice, he could smell like he’s me. Look down, back up, where are you? You’re in a warren with the High Mage your cadre mage could smell like. What’s in your hand, back at me. I have it, it’s an acorn with two gates to that realm you love. Look again, the acorn is now otataral. Anything is possible when your mage smells like Sole Spice and not a Bole brother. I’m on a quorl.