[Gem Windcaster]

Just google define:Wu and you'll get some interesting results.

I especially like this one:
Not-Being. Not synonymous with nothingness, wu is an immense void containing all potentialities. It is thus interdependent with yu, Being.

It defines what the malazan world is to me, somehow. A void containing all possibilities. Just imagine all the different 'gates' to different dimensions.

Also: Chinese term for story and also for storyteller.

[Pallol One Eye]

ashork;257171 said:

"Barghast, Trell, Tartheno,Toblakai" said the seventh priest his voice a rumble. These are the surviving threads of Imass blood
So it seems Trell and Tartheno and Toblakai are under the Imass branch.

ashork

Rath Queen of Dreams says the same thing in MOI.

[Pallol One Eye]

Let's call it:

Bob, Planet Bob.

Shaken and Stirred

[Sinisdar Toste]

ashork;257171 said:

Helllo all

my first post to the forum. Hope I am not repeating something already discussed. I sort of jump pass a few pages when Onrack went out to left field.

I just began my second read of Bonehunters and came across a quote in the Prologue which might answer some of the question marks in Skywalkers evoluntionary tree.

It is during the release of Dejim Nebrahl the T'rolbarahl, Page 10

"Barghast, Trell, Tartheno,Toblakai" said the seventh priest his voice a rumble. These are the surviving threads of Imass blood, no matter their claims of purity. Such claims are inventions, yet inventions have purpose. They assest distinction, they redirect the path walked before and the path to come. They shape the emblems upon the standards in every war and so give justification to slaughter. Their purpose therefore is to assest convenient lies. By the Warren of Tellann, I invoke the ritual of release."

So it seems Trell and Tartheno and Toblakai are under the Imass branch.


ashork

Sorry if i seem to be pushing a seemingly insane idea, but if humans were actually descended from imass, wouldnt they be mentioned here? someone on this forum mentioned that imass are neanderthals. maybe they dont know that neanderthals died off and that homo sapiens are not descended from them. i know this assumes alot of similarities between our evolution and evolution in wu, but imass and humans arent the same. imass and all their descendants are what SE thinks neanderthals would have become if they had been able to survive. and magic was real:(

[Aptorian]

You are looking at a cut out from a bigger scene, never trust a quote you don't know what relates to.

Humans are related to Imass, it's plain from many other references we have in the book. The reason to why he doesn't mention human on that list is probably that humans are the direct link to Imass. the other races mentioned are mixed blood.