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Don't K'chain matrons make a similar sound (keening) when they are doing their thing? Aren't the K'chain from chaos? If Icarium's mother was a matron... no?
this is a very good catch. In MT when Trull, Fear and Rulad are visiting scabby's skull before they found the sword, Fear describes the KCCM warren, or Kashan as they refer to it. He also explaines how the KCCM sent thier warren into KG like a "plague", sealing the gate from KG to every other realm and forcing mother dark to the very core of the abyss where she will eventually devour all matter and thus be destroyed.
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"Edur sorcery", Fear said after a time. "is born of sounds our ears cannot hear, formed into words that loosen the bindings that hold all matter together, that hold it to the ground. Sounds that bend and stretch light, as a tidal inflow up a river is drawn apart at the moment of turning. With this sorcery, they fashioned fortresses of stone that rode the sky like clouds, with this sorcery they turned darkness in upon itself with a hunger that no one who came too close could defy, an all-devouring hunger that feeds first and foremost on itself"
Its kind of an odd description. The sounds, as he describes them, are used to manipulate the gravitational forces binding matter. Reading back on the events in BH when Icarium is assaulting the Throne with the Edur, knowing this kind of puts the effects of his "magic" on those defending against it into an interesting perspective.
It could be quite possible that Icarium is half KCNR. I would say KCCM but we know that they have a single mother per brood, who all the KCCM of said brood share thier power with. KCNR on the other hand did not share this practice and may have had the standard male/female individual family society that most of the races do. Maybe a female KCNR slave that gothos fell in love with or some such thing. Being half KCNR would explain Icarium's techical knowhow aswell.
Either that or he is half KCCM and Gothos likes his ladies BIG!! Maybe one got a hold oh him a created the entire Jhag race in one big birthing...ewww.
A little off topic but reading further in the quote above:
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"Kashan sorcery was sent in to the warren of mother dark, like a plague. Thus was was sealed the gate to Kurald Galain to every other realm. Thus was mother dark drivin into the very core of the abyss, witness to an endless swirl of light surrounding her - all that she would one day devour, until the last speck of matter vanishes into her. Annihilating mother dark...."
Sounds to me like mother dark may be at the center of (or in fact is) the gigantic black hole sucking up jade giants.
/using gravitational forces to turn KG in upon itself...yep thats an implosion.