[Monoch Ochem]

Hear that Pallor??? Now you've got Ascendants on your tail....time to 'disgorge'!

[Monoch Ochem]

Ascendance said:

Maybe I'm tempting fate. I'll shut up now.

No....he'll torture us anyway. Elder gods fed on blood, Pallor feeds on the Forum's collective anguish and frustration. But not to worry for Abyss WILL one day feed too....

[Agraba]

There's no way we're going to see characters like the Bonehunters, or Karsa/Icarium (maybe a slight 3rd-person non-POV glance at them, like we saw Icarium in HoC), or Ammanas and Cotillion, or most of the main players in Bonehunters. Because you're forgetting Erickson's law of the series: Each book must divert.

So we're probably going to focus mainly on Silchas's party. Then, we're probably going to get some insight on Black Coral, and involvement of its inhabitants. Then, guys like the Eleint and Edgewalker will start playing a bigger role. And without a doubt, as is Erickson's wont, we will see new players in the scene.

And, of course, it probably takes place at the same time as The Bonehunters.

[Werthead]

Riiiiight.

So the fact that two people who have actually read the damn thing say otherwise is of no consequence? It has 100% been confirmed that Reaper's Gale will take place on Lether. It's also been heavily intimated (and I'm guessing Kallor or Malacalypse can confrim this at least) that the book picks up after the end of The Bonehunters. I'm guessing this is why there are so many unresolved cliffhangers at the end of Bonehunters, as the next book will resolve them after a (relatively) brief 12-18 month wait.

Also, Erikson's format for the series changed with Midnight Tides. Now the whole series will take place in a more linear fashion (or at least more linear than it has done). That said, Toll the Hounds (which Erikson long ago confirmed will take place on Genabackis) may take place simultaneously with Reaper's Gale, based on the ending of Bonehunters (Cutter & co. seem to be headed back for Genabackis whilst everyone else is headed for Lether).

The final two books, Dust of Dreams and The Crippled God, apparently take place in hitherto unexplored lands (but not Korelri or Assail, which ICE will cover).

[Agraba]

Alright I was wrong about it taking place at the same time. But I still don't think it will focus on the main players of the Bonehunters. And anyone who read the first two books of Bonehunters would confirm that the book takes place on Seven Cities, without knowing that it would divert to Lether and Quon Tali. So who knows, we might see from Black Coral. It seems like the whole story with Scabandari is the kind of thing that Eleint and Eleint-soletaken would get involved with. And how would Midnight Tides change it from its clustered structure to linearity? Even Midnight Tides wasn't linear; it took place before House of Chains. Bonehunters advanced because he has to advance eventually (just like with DHG and HoC). The fact that it takes place on Lether only helps my argument, since Lether was only a vague presence in TBH, and we didn't get much from it.

[Set'alahd Crool]

@Werthead
Cutter s on the boat with Spite, Pust, Mogora, the Mule and Mappo. If they're not going after Icarium I'l eat somebody's hat(I don't have one of my own). This leads me to believe that TtH will be after RG, so that both Cutter and Karsa have time to get home and rally their respective peoples.

@Agraba
Linear AFTER MT. DG overlapped MoI. MoI ovelapped HoC. MT was a jump backwards. From now on it5's one book followed by the next in linear chronological fashion. Apparently. If we don't see much of tBH cast in RG when will we see them?

[Agraba]

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If we don't see much of tBH cast in RG when will we see them?

In Toll the Hounds.

Sorry for the misapprehension.

[Folken]

Why would the characters be heading for Darujhistan? Cutter and co. perhaps but the rest have no reason to go there. I'm sure we'll see a crap load of characters from BH in RG

- Folken, hopes Ganoes Paran is in Repear's Gale

[Kallor]

@agraba...does too...though i was very surprised at the arrival of *post edited by mods*

[Folken]

...for safe measure

[Werthead]

Agraba said:

In Toll the Hounds.

Sorry for the misapprehension.

But Toll the Hounds takes place in Genabackis, as confirmed by Erikson. Why would the 14th go to Genabackis?

Also, whilst there's no reason that we can't have some chapters in Black Coral (and there rumours are certainly building about Anomander Rake turning up in RG even beyond the flashback we know he's in), the focus of the next book does seem to be Lether (I'm guessing eastern Lether is the setting for much of the action, rather than the western part we saw in MT, based on the fact that the 14th and co. will be landing on the east or north-eastern coast if they go in a straight line).

However, I was forgetting Karsa's 'destiny', so there would be something in him going back to Genabackis to rally the Toblakai, and that will only be possible in Toll the Hounds (unless SE plans to have sections of the story partially set on Genabackis in the last two novels).

[McLovin]

You might say they're hell-bent for Lether...

*realizes virtually nobody will get this pun*

[Werthead]

longhorn said:

You might say they're hell-bent for Lether...

:eek3: :eek: :hand:

Oh my God, that was painful.

[Agraba]

We might and we might not see them in #8. If not in #7 or 8, then in #9. But who's to say they have no reason to go to Genebackis? It seemed that Ganoes Paran had no reason at all to leave his retirement and go to 7 Cities, but he was there at the beginning of TBH before we even saw his rationale. Maybe the Wickans retreat to Genebackis, and the angry Wickan killers go after it only to find that there are gods playing around with wickans and power draws power convergence blah blah that stuff. The guy's so unpredictable, you really can't even predict one book forwards (while with something like Wheel of Time, you can predict what will happen four books later).

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@agraba...does too

:confused: :confused: :confused: Huh?

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though i was very surprised at the arrival of Hairlock

GASP!!!!!!!!!! GASP!!!!!!!!!