Posted 28 August 2006 - 12:14 AM
Further idea in support of Kilmandaros as EG of/associated with the FA.
Kilmandaros only appears to use physical force. There is no evidence of magic.
She kills with her arms and hands, and never uses magic once, that we see.
(edit: better hedge that statement, we do see Kilmandaros & Rake "closing gates" to KE. I'm assuming that uses some kind of magic, but it doesn't appear to be the same as throwing around fireballs or waves of darkness or ice)
Just like the FA.
I just had an idea. Could the item that Gothos produces as a Finnest be a part of Silchas Ruin's swords? Perhaps the place where he took Scabby's soul into the Finnest is the place where the Sengar brothers were sent to collect the sword in the glacier field. The remnants of the weapons of the man he just betrayed.
This would then make Scabby the soul in Rhulad's sword, it's been proposed that the sword has a life of it's own but a persuasive case has never been made.
That's the first plausible object I can think of for the Finnest to be...though you have to answer the question of how it got back there from the possession of Gothos.
I also wonder, is Gothos living in the Azath because of Kilmandaros' threat to send her children after him?
Don't have any thoughts on the canoes, except that the "dismantling of the prows" is something Barghast did in MoI, under Capustan, if I remember right. There are three continents we know very little about (Korelri, Jacuruku, Assail), this force could have come from any of those.
Also, if we are going to have a storyline set 2 years before the Edur invasion of Lether, perhaps we will have more scenes with the Ceda!
The lone rider with the crimson scaled mask - possible groups:
Crimson Guard - not a Quon native, so unlikely
Seguleh - again, native to the Awl'dan, not Seguleh island. Also don't think the Seguleh had coloured masks, but not sure about this.
Moranth - possibly, but I don't remember a Crimson or Red Moranth.
I'm inclined to say he's a new person, from a new group. No links to old characters.
The two companions, "dread creatures".
My first instinct was Bauchelain & Korbal Broach, but that's not proved popular, since the masked man is clearly not Emancipor Reese. I still think B & KB are a good fit to the description of the companions though.
Seen KCCM suggested, don't believe that. It's said the companions kill for pleasure, and the KCCM are essentially drones, without emotion as a motive. I don't believe it's credible that KCCM are roaming Letherii territory anyway, with a (probably) human companion.
The dead soldiers are clearly Togg & Fanny followers, you have the large numbers of women, the wolf-head insignia, the strange behaviour of the wolves, as clear evidence of that. But I'm not convinced they are either the Grey Swords or the Perish, can't really say why, I just can't see those two armies losing so badly off-screen. It's very likely T & F have followers around the world we haven't met yet.
As for the heart-eating, there can be many possible reasons for it. Perhaps that is what happens to a T & F follower (need a better abbreviation) when they die, they get their hearts eaten by wolves as a way of ensuring...what, that T & F get their souls in some kind of analogue to Fener's Reve? That some other agent can't come along and use the bodies for some other use?
This comes out of nowhere, but I thought maybe this might be a way for the soldiers to become Soletaken Wolves.
Got to say, this prologue doesn't furnish much new information...I'm not much interested in half-a-million people arriving and vanishing on Lether 2 years before MT even happened.
I want more Rake.