As IH remarks, we all noticed the problem of the age of the daughters, but no-ones thought of a probable solution.
First there's Karsas own age. There's always been two conflicting sources on his age, first there is Leomans boasting/warning to Kalam in DG:
DG p. 200
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This is of course strange as Karsa, in a internal monologue, remarks:
HoC p. 35
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People have always put this down to Leoman not knowing Karsa's past. Now we have the TtH prologue with Karsa's daughters - and they <i>are</i> his daughters, you can't get around that. Here's a couple of clip-outs, just to refresh their scene in the prologue:
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I would like to start with what I'm guessing might be a mistake. In the last quote, within two lines, Erikson calls the daughters both girls <u>and</u> women.
I'd also like to note, that the quote about them gathering weapons and rations, do not state that the weapons are theirs. Perhaps they just took them because they knew they'd need them. Do girls even learn about fighting? Are they heading into terrible peril as Gigantic mountain bears can eat them and they could be raped and stolen by other tribes?
So here's the <b>FOCUS: If Teblors take at least 4 times as long to age "as far" as human beings/normal mortals do, how can the daughters be coming of age?</b> I've been trying to wrap my mind around this and I just can't find an easy solution.
1) Perhaps Karsa's own idea of his age is a HoCism. But that can't be right seeing as the two farms, that Karsas grandfather Pahlk attacked, grew to become a thriving seaport with hundreds, if not thousands of town people, a garrison, etc. Karsa himself remarks that:
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I'm ignoring the possibility that the entire city grew up in a matter of years or decades because of a need for a seaport to support trade, etc.
2) Karsa lived in Raraku A LOT longer than it seems. But that doesn't make sense either, since Leoman states that Karsa has only seen 17 summers. If Karsa had lived long enough in the dessert for his daughters to just mature a bit, he had to have stayed there for decades.
3) Time moves in different ways in the Teblor lands, compared to time outside the mountains. This could actually have been an Icarium construct/ritual and would help the Teblors to cleanse their blood faster. But it's just incredibly improbable. It would mean that for the Uryd, Karsa had been gone for 50-60 years... I don't like that solution.
Can any of you come up with a probable theory? I'm stumped.
EDIT: Been 5 years, went in and reformatted the quotes and stuff from the forum transfer.
This post has been edited by Apt: 19 September 2014 - 07:33 AM