Malazan Empire: GotMisms - Malazan Empire

Jump to content

  • 2 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

GotMisms

#21 User is offline   Dancer+ 

  • A Driven Individual
  • Group: Team Handsome
  • Posts: 2,793
  • Joined: 17-December 06

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:15 PM

The explanation of chaos becoming less prominent after GotM, and probably DG and MoI could be related to the change in the warrens in general, after the CG's onslaught. There could be a perfectly reasonable explanation in this context imo. Although it does seem odd that nothing is given/discussed to explain this change. I'm throwing contentious/borderline points out into the open in order to discount options, having only read the book twice, if that.

The T'lan point is definitely a GotMism then, I was wondering if it was just from Tool's speech that this point had arisen because there are explanations against him revealing too much or just plain simplifying things. But alas, no.
0

#22 User is offline   Lister of Smeg 

  • King of High House Smeg
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 542
  • Joined: 10-January 03
  • Location:Cirencester. Ever heard of it?

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:19 PM

You forgot Orfantal's sex change, too.
Avoid being seen as racist by saying, "I'm not a racist, but ..." prior to making a racist comment.
0

#23 User is offline   Dolorous Menhir 

  • God
  • Group: Wiki Contributor
  • Posts: 4,550
  • Joined: 31-January 06

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:23 PM

I didn't mention it because Aptorian already had, in the first response.
0

#24 User is offline   Obdigore 

  • ThunderBear
  • Group: High House Mafia
  • Posts: 6,165
  • Joined: 22-June 06

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:25 PM

Isn't CHAOS the 'space' between the warrens in the later books, and it appears to be an actual warren in the first book?

- at least, that is what I have gotten out of my re-reads.
Monster Hunter World Iceborne: It's like hunting monsters, but on crack, but the monsters are also on crack.
0

#25 User is offline   Vengeance 

  • High Priest of Shinrei Love and Worship
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 3,978
  • Joined: 27-June 07
  • Location:Chicago
  • very good...;)

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:32 PM

Aptorian;223441 said:

Has that KCCM communication device been used since GotM? in MoI I mean.


If I remember GOTM right (It has been a long time since the last reread) the KCCM communication device was only known to the old Guard. That might be why we haven't seen it since. What with Wiskeyjack dying in MOI and Dujek dying in Bonehunter. Both of them were together in MOI, and we don't know if Laseen knew about the device. There aren't really any other old guard in charge that might know. They are all missing or dead and the missing ones aren't leading armys. That said it is probably a GOTM's.:p

- Hello this is vengeance talking through a old smelly arm, "Can you Hear me now?":heyhey:
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
Hinter - Vengy - DIE. I trusted you you bastard!!!!!!!

Steven Erikson made drowning in alien cum possible - Obdigore
0

#26 User is offline   Vengeance 

  • High Priest of Shinrei Love and Worship
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 3,978
  • Joined: 27-June 07
  • Location:Chicago
  • very good...;)

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:39 PM

Obdigore;223522 said:

Isn't CHAOS the 'space' between the warrens in the later books, and it appears to be an actual warren in the first book?

- at least, that is what I have gotten out of my re-reads.

Togg went into the Warren of Chaos In MOI after the elder gods cursed Kallor. He went into it to look for Fanderay, or to wait for her to come to him. Then when Toc the younger was thrown into it in GOTM Togg found him and kept him alive and took him out of the Warren in MOI. So that would make it not a GOTM. However it is suppose to be a very dangerous place. Togg was born there and was frightened of it.

-It fun to play with chaos. Good building blocks....Just ask Gem:D
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
Hinter - Vengy - DIE. I trusted you you bastard!!!!!!!

Steven Erikson made drowning in alien cum possible - Obdigore
0

#27 User is offline   Dolorous Menhir 

  • God
  • Group: Wiki Contributor
  • Posts: 4,550
  • Joined: 31-January 06

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:43 PM

Vengeance;223533 said:

Togg went into the Warren of Chaos In MOI after the elder gods cursed Kallor. He went into it to look for Fanderay, or to wait for her to come to him. Then when Toc the younger was thrown into it in GOTM Togg found him and kept him alive and took him out of the Warren in MOI. So that would make it not a GOTM. However it is suppose to be a very dangerous place. Togg was born there and was frightened of it.

-It fun to play with chaos. Good building blocks....Just ask Gem:D


Good point. I'd forgotten about Toc & Togg's adventures in Chaos. Consider it removed from the strong GotMism list, though I still maintain that the treatment of Chaos differs between GotM and the later books.
0

#28 User is offline   Vengeance 

  • High Priest of Shinrei Love and Worship
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 3,978
  • Joined: 27-June 07
  • Location:Chicago
  • very good...;)

Posted 13 November 2007 - 10:48 PM

The reason that you think that is because in GOTM we had the very insaine Hairlock who was a puppet who used Chaos. It couldn't have warped his body...He didn't have one...Also the Chaos magic that the CG might be allowing his followers to use might not be the direct chaos that Hairlock used. Remember that the CG wants his followers to be flawed, so he might have made it that when his followers access Chaos through him it warps them.

- New book title ' Fun with Chaos' followed by 'Cooking with Chaos'
How many fucking people do I have to hammer in order to get that across.
Hinter - Vengy - DIE. I trusted you you bastard!!!!!!!

Steven Erikson made drowning in alien cum possible - Obdigore
0

#29 User is offline   Hume 

  • Banned Like a Mushroom
  • Group: Banned Users
  • Posts: 0
  • Joined: 10-July 04

Posted 13 November 2007 - 11:11 PM

Some of those Gotism are really stretching it.

#30 User is offline   End of Disc One 

  • House Knight
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 1,865
  • Joined: 30-January 06

Posted 14 November 2007 - 02:48 AM

Didn't they also say in MoI that Chaos was what the wagon in Dragnipur was trying to get away from?
0

#31 User is offline   Silencer 

  • Manipulating Special Data
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 5,683
  • Joined: 07-July 07
  • Location:New Zealand
  • Interests:Malazan Book of the Fallen series.
    Computer Game Design.
    Programming.

Posted 14 November 2007 - 04:07 AM

@creffett, pretty much, although not quite that concisely.

The major GotMism that I can think of, that hasn't been entirely mentioned yet, is the reference to Quick Ben's "Warren", as in, singular. This changed entirely in later times, and his multiple warrens were at first directly related to his souls "Unleash the Seven within me!" - definitely a GotMism, on both accounts.
***

Shinrei said:

<Vote Silencer> For not garnering any heat or any love for that matter. And I'm being serious here, it's like a mental block that is there, and you just keep forgetting it.

0

#32 User is offline   Fiddler 

  • Fiddler
  • Group: Malaz Regular
  • Posts: 255
  • Joined: 25-January 06

Posted 14 November 2007 - 04:54 AM

Wow i'll have to go reread GoTM since I totally missed any sex changes happening with Orfantal, admittedly 'he' seemed kind of 'light in the loafers' in MOI but I'll give it a reread to see. soon. one day. soon. really.
0

#33 User is offline   Aptorian 

  • How 'bout a hug?
  • Group: The Wheelchairs of War
  • Posts: 24,785
  • Joined: 22-May 06

Posted 14 November 2007 - 07:31 AM

creffett;223640 said:

Didn't they also say in MoI that Chaos was what the wagon in Dragnipur was trying to get away from?


I think they do, but it is also proposed that this was the matron death spell.

I've sort of turned away from that idea, since in RG it's said that the matron deathspell worked by asserting time on the endless/eternal. Slow decay. Eventual death.
0

#34 User is offline   Abyss 

  • abyssus abyssum invocat
  • Group: Administrators
  • Posts: 22,406
  • Joined: 22-May 03
  • Location:The call is coming from inside the house!!!!
  • Interests:Interesting.

Posted 14 November 2007 - 02:40 PM

Aptorian;223660 said:

I think they do, but it is also proposed that this was the matron death spell.

I've sort of turned away from that idea, since in RG it's said that the matron deathspell worked by asserting time on the endless/eternal. Slow decay. Eventual death.


The theory still works, considering it was stated elsewhere that the Matrons tried to use Chaos, i don't have a problem with the notion that chaos comes into play via an attempt to assert time on timelessness.

- Abyss, notes tiiiiIIiiiiiiime, is on my, side, yes it is....
THIS IS YOUR REMINDER THAT THERE IS A
'VIEW NEW CONTENT' BUTTON THAT
ALLOWS YOU TO VIEW NEW CONTENT
0

#35 User is offline   Aptorian 

  • How 'bout a hug?
  • Group: The Wheelchairs of War
  • Posts: 24,785
  • Joined: 22-May 06

Posted 14 November 2007 - 04:46 PM

Abyss;223745 said:

The theory still works, considering it was stated elsewhere that the Matrons tried to use Chaos, i don't have a problem with the notion that chaos comes into play via an attempt to assert time on timelessness.

- Abyss, notes tiiiiIIiiiiiiime, is on my, side, yes it is....


There is of course something in that, hmmm... chaos and time and Iccy... *thinkymeats confused*
0

Share this topic:


  • 2 Pages +
  • 1
  • 2
  • You cannot start a new topic
  • You cannot reply to this topic

1 User(s) are reading this topic
0 members, 1 guests, 0 anonymous users