[cerveza_fiesta]

The earlier post about the cedance got me thinking about how it relates to other stuff. I might be reaching here but think about this:

SE seems to have created a subtle literary parallel between the Errant / Cedance situation and the Invictad Karos / Tehol's puzzle.

-The errant is frustrated because he can't understand how his inputs or "nudges" to the world will affect the arrangement of the tiles and effect his desired outcomes.

-Karos Invictad is frustrated by the puzzle because he can't figure out how his nudges to the arrangement of the puzzle tiles affects the desired outcome with the insect.

The difference comes in the cause and effect I guess. In the errant's case, his loss of understanding is a result of his weakened power, where Invictad's puzzle is causing his insanity and loss of power.

Are there any other cool parallels you can think of in RG?

[Gem Windcaster]

Whoa, you do a lot of thinking. That parallel never occurred to me. But the outcome is not the same since Invictad died but the errant didn't?

[cerveza_fiesta]

Gem Windcaster;216625 said:

Whoa, you do a lot of thinking. That parallel never occurred to me. But the outcome is not the same since Invictad died but the errant didn't?

I was getting at the "using tiles to f*ck with people" parallel in not as many words. The mechanism is the same, but the outcome diverges a bit

Its definitely possible SE did it unintentionally...This one popped into my head while I was taking a nap yesterday actually.