Gothos;237663 said:
my usual manner, eh. who the fuck are you? who's the little twit here?
Jayblah said:
Did you even bother reading my posts in this thread before launching into your typically tactless diatribes?
I am a long time lurker, recently registered poster and therefore familiar with your nigh worthless posting manner. One needs only to look back into the annals of forum history to see some of the utterly retarded posts you've made. In any case, thanks for lending veracity to my quoted words. Also:
Now, onto people worth replying to.
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Aptorian said:
Generally from HoC through BH to RG, Karsa is developing. In HoC Karsa is enlightened. He becomes aware of the world and tries to adjust to this new world with its politics and swarming masses of humans. In BH we see his political or philisophical views of humanity and civilization come into focus. Karsa is not just adjusting, he is judging and finding human civilization too light. In RG his social and political outlook seems to have been fixed. He now see's himself as a leader and liberator. Someone better than what he see's is the norm.
I'm not so sure I agree, Aptorian. Yes, Karsa has developed, but I still find him insufferable and don't see this tremendous growth that others speak about. I actually liked BH Karsa the best, personality wise. RG Karsa seemed to be a step backward. I honestly think alot of people's personal love for a big asskicking barbarian causes them to view Karsa with rose-colored glasses. That's not to say I'm not overly harsh of him due to my finding him a boring character and my disdain of his early-HoC behaviour. Am I hoping he ultimately turns out to be a likable fellow? Sure. It hasn't happened yet for me. I've begun my reread now, so I'll be giving Karsa's arch a solid take-two.
Regarding "Karsa makes every fight a farce;" I've qualified this multiple times as him having not lost a fight after he matured physically (its stated he's a Teblori-teenybopper or something at HoC's start) and/or once he forged the sword and subsequently uttered "IDDQD." Urko, Malazans, etc. happened prior to the latter.
Mcflury said:
are you sure the female seguleh in RG had 11 stripes? I thought she only had 2 stripes really... well, it doesn't matter... the point is: when the seguleh with no stripes on his mask comes into play, things are bound to get freaky.
Fiddler and Cuttle remark that it was the Eleventh, if I recall correctly. I can't recall how many stripes the mask had, but I thought it was two as well...