Karsa Orlong and Icarium are chosen as champions to be returned to Letheras by the Third Edur Imperial Fleet. Huh. It is interesting to get this first picture of the Tiste Edur society. They battle each other in war that has rules of engagement and yields something like points, in the form of status marks, but their war with the Letherii is ungoverned. It seems as though the Tiste Edur have a rather exhausting situation. “Of course, battles against the five other tribes of the Edur were strictly bound in rules and prohibitions, and even vast, protracted battles had yielded only a handful of actual deaths.”

Approximate year that Teyan Atovis, the Shake Rise, was slain by the Letherii for debts unremitted in the 1113th Year of the Isle [47] Elade Tharos establishes himself as Warleader of the united Teblor and leads his people into the southlands Calling Your Bathroom Breaks: The two Kenryll'ah demon princes are quite fond of both announcing they have to pee and talking about it to coordinate the act. Among the Tiste Edur — among Trull Sengar's people — it is believed that the darkest hungers of the spirit arrive on the tides from the south, and these tides come at midnight...

So, if one takes the prologue as actuality, presented as it is in third person omniscient, we can see the Edur seem to have a basic error in their belief system—thinking as they do that the Edur were betrayed by the Andii. Funny, but, as an accountant, I see benefits in a life that is lived according to gold! However, it seems to me that the grasping nature of the Letherii is not supposed to be a pleasant one, and we aren’t meant to warm to them. Having said that, the fact that the Tiste Edur enslave them (even to a decent standard of living) means that we really shouldn’t be warming to the Tiste Edur (especially as well noting the way we’ve seen them behave in previous books, and considering their misrepresentation of the Tiste Andii “betrayal.”) Seems like this will be an odd book, with no clear race to cheer for. Two Mistresses to the same Hold. She is one and she is here.”– Well, I’ll go out on a limb and say Seren is one of the Mistresses JAs for the other, I’m not sure at all. Mayen? Going on the idea that the other one is an Edur and we’ve recently seen her become a Mistress. Or is the Mistressing coming in the future?

That’s a lot of detail on Ahlrada Ahn, and that, along with the characterization that he hates Trull, is probably a good clue he’s going to play a somewhat larger role than a Red Shirt. Note his unusual left-handedness, his darker-than-usual-for-a During a discussion on the Kharkanas Trilogy, Erikson did not appear keen on making all the numbers work out. "That's not how histories were originally told anyways. They weren't really about timelines. Herodotus would...basically throw out, 'Well, yeah, this was two hundred years ago or this was five hundred years ago', and you know, they're just random numbers basically...And I like that. I think it's cool." [3] Or as Erikson remarked in a Reddit AMA, "Timeline? Yeah, whatever." [4]I am loving all the complex relationships—the immediate tensions evident between Trull and his brothers, the possible problems caused by Fear’s betrothed and the others’ attitude to her.