[Urb]

Bah!
I'm too lazy too search for this and it's really bugging me.
When Heboric is staring at Duiker's dead body at the end of the book, and is incapable of seeing who he is, some God is laughing.
Does anyone know which God it was?

[Aptorian]

I never actually thought it was a real god. I thought it was fate mocking the mortals.

If it was a god I think it was Hood.

[tharinock]

Robert Jordan would say RAFO. I'm gunna guess it was K'rul.

[Dancer+]

Why would K'rul be laughing at the fate of everyone...?

[Urb]

RAFO you say? How annoying.
Not satisfying at all...

[cannabishead]

I believe the laughing god was shadowthrone

[weaverbird05]

There were so many references to Hood in this book that I simply assumed it was him! Though I suppose it could just as easily be Shadowthrone...hmmm...

[Mentalist]

Yeah, I'd say that was Hood... although why would he laugh at the fact that so such souls escaped his reach, i really can't say...

[Crow Clan Baby]

I'd originally assumed Hood too, but am starting to think that it may well have been the CG. Hood doesn't make sense, and while it's certainly in character for ST, there's no real connection.

[Biggles]

I think it was shawdowthrone because like kud13 said, why would hood be laughing about the souls that escaped him?

[Wampyry]

I opt for Oponn

Duiker was the one who arranged for Heboric to escape from the Tanno Hills. Baudin was needed to lead the escape; Felisin was dragged along. Baudin died protecting Felisisn and Heboric. Felisin is now possessed by a Goddess and is planning to destroy her sister and the accompany army. Heboric, a born-again Boar, is looking, without seeing, the man who helped him escape and started the chain of events.
It is the type of irony Oponn loves

[Battalion]

I'm not too sure about who it is, but when Pomqual has his head removed Duiker thinks he hears a God laughing then, aswell.

[weaverbird05]

Wouldn't one assume (though you know what they say about assuming) that since through the entire march Hood gained such a reaping that "he" wouldn't mind the loss of a soul or two? I imagine his laughter (if it be him) was over the intruige and events leading up to that point, as well as the foreshadowing of the multitude of deaths to come. In a similair line of thought, is Hood ever really upset when a mortal Ascends, rather than actually dying? B/c in those cases, Hood is denied a soul yet again!

[Aptorian]

What I've seen of Hood, a scene with him laughing would stun me.

[Mcflury]

weaverbird05;245085 said:

Wouldn't one assume (though you know what they say about assuming) that since through the entire march Hood gained such a reaping that "he" wouldn't mind the loss of a soul or two? I imagine his laughter (if it be him) was over the intruige and events leading up to that point, as well as the foreshadowing of the multitude of deaths to come. In a similair line of thought, is Hood ever really upset when a mortal Ascends, rather than actually dying? B/c in those cases, Hood is denied a soul yet again!

Well... I don't want to spoil anything, but read up to Reapers Gale and you'll have found a few cases in which Hood gets upset

[Aptorian]

Gets upset? Ignoring an arrogant mage in MoI, what are you talking about?

[Mcflury]

well, it's perhaps a small spoiler... but it has something to do with Toc the Younger.

[polishgenius]

If you're talking about what I'm thinking, that's hardly upsettation. Mild irritation at best.

[Mcflury]

when I read it it seemed as if Hood was irritated alot... and thus upset

[Aptorian]

Upset is something women get. Manly Jaghuts become irritated and sometimes genocidal.