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I've noticed something about the conversation around the Eres'al.
http://www.malazanem...read.php?t=4814
This is probably the biggest thread of discussion I could locate.
Now please tell me if this has been discussed somewhere else but in the four pages I've read through so far (in the forums that is) I don't see it mentioned anywhere else.
Abyss comment - "She's in transition when she runs into Trull in the warren, and eventually possessed T'amber, probably in the midst of the campaign in HoC. While with T"amber, she also takes an interest in Bottle.
Plus, with time and location being flexible for her, she can basically be anywhere she needs to be."
Danyahs comment - "I think the blessing just draws her attention, thus bringing her to this part of time. Talking about the fourth dimension in a non-linear way is hard for my brains."
In the speculations around the creature Eres in the book, a tremendous amount of power and potentiel seems to be expected of the creature. From you the readers. Now I admit that it's release of eldermagic in the unwielding of sorcerry/illusion between QB and the K'risnan/mages and it's push of the ships half across the known world is impressive, but that doesnt really make it as strong or stronger than say K'rull or Mael.
I will not mention it's involvement with Icarium since i thought that a bit... out of place/strange. Tinkerbell creature.
But here's the part that gets me every time she's mentioned. People describe her as a timetravler. Now what's this about? Can someone tell me of a place in TBH where the Eres is portraied as actually travelling through time? Granted it's mostly MT and TBH's that's fresh to my mind but I don't remember her mentioned as a timetravler.
I'm guessing the idea that she should be traveling through time stems from Bottles flashbacks of the Eres on some plain in the worlds earliest history. And the fact that she keeps pulling him back and forth through visions. I also remember some other reference but it's eluding me right now. But this doesn't make her a timetravler. She's some kind of god, not elder, something different seing as she seems connected to the Malazworld and it's childhood like a great earthspirit. Unlike the older elemental powers that existed before.
What I see her doing is the same thing as you see K'rull involved in with the rebirth of Nightchill/Tattersail. Or Udinaas and Featherwich visit upon Udinaas own child in the realm/memory of the Tlan Imass. It's not as I see it as much timetravel as it's just travel. Memmories linger like pockets of time in SE's universe. Realms and times are forgotten and rediscovered. There seems to me to be very little distinction between times and places, warrens and time. Critical events seem to live on. The immortal races like the jaghut and the Edur/Andii seem to hardly ecknowledge the passings of time. Their minds easilly wandering back and forth through ages and places. The best evidence I have for this would again be MT, where Silchas Ruin take both Kettle and Brys back in time to see the bringing down of the CG and the piles of dead FA killed by Silchas/the Andii. Also Udinaas travels with Wither to the time of the battle between the Sisters, where they are dragging one off and I think it's Menandore that rapes Udinaas.
Hmm, the Eres playing with Bottles privates, the taking of Trulls seed, the Edur Sister abusing Udinaas... what's up with SE and willfull women and men sexually assaulted?
Back on topic. All these events I hardly think of as timetravel. With K'rull and Eres it's even more evident. I think those passages should merely, if you could call it that, be chalked down to the alien minds of these gods. They are able to think on a much larger scale and plan schemes that transcends hundreds of thousands of years.
To sum up my oppinion, the Eres'al doesn't travel time anymore than the other ancient beings in the stories, she just exists in many timeperiods.
What do you say?
