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The Something Awful Forums > The Finer Arts > The Book Barn > The Malazan Book of the Fallen: Too many wor'ds.
 
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Daico
Aug 17, 2006

02-6611-0142-1 posted:

It looks better that way, you're right. If somebody comes up with a better thread title we can just ask a mod to change it later.

I'm still a fan of "Witness!" personally.

Great OP though!

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Daico
Aug 17, 2006

the periodic fable posted:

someone - i don't know if it was you - made the argument that he described kalam as 'black' or 'dark' and quick ben as 'black-skinned' but i feel it's weird to draw the conclusion from that fact that we're meant to think of quick as literally the colour black as in the colour of these spoiler tags or the silent void of space.


This made me chortle and imagine Quick Ben as the villain from Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zpjBct8mD2I&feature=player_detailpage#t=14s) just casually walking around the Bridgeburner camp.

"I have news about the K'Chain Che'Malle!"
"Oh? What's that, Be--OH GOD I SEE ETERNITY IN YOUR FLESH!"


For the record, I side with Quick Ben being Tiste Andii black, but mainly because I think it's cooler that way.

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Daico
Aug 17, 2006

A Nice Boy posted:

Meh, I feel like that's predicated on some unwritten rule or something, which does not exist. Erikson wanted a world full of magic, so that's how this world is. You can like it or not, but I think saying that "magic should be used sparingly if at all" is putting rules on imagination, in a sense, which is silly.

But don't worry about the magic thing. As many crazy rear end old badasses and mages and gods and dragons and poo poo there are, there are always mortals waiting to gently caress them up...That's not to mention that, overall, the series is really more about amazing characters and themes and plots more than the magic itself. The magic is a means to an end, but it's not the FOCUS of the story at all.

If he'd written the books just to write crazy magical porn, the series wouldn't be nearly as amazing as it is...It'd just be lovely DragonBallZ fanfiction. Give the magic a chance. :)

Oh man: The Malazan Book of the Fallen: Give the Magic a Chance!

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Daico
Aug 17, 2006
 TCG Spoiler Heh heh, Hood turning up and eating Equity. "I have never much liked Forkrul Assail."

That said, was that foreshadowed or mentioned at all and I missed it?

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Daico
Aug 17, 2006

Tooter posted:

I think this was more with regards to Rake being able to see that he had more than himself residing in his body. Not necessarily Andii blood, just that he wasn't a normal guy with one soul.

edit: Does anyone else feel like they're reading some redacted CIA brief or something every time they come to this thread? Even regarding stuff that happened in books half a decade old.

Well yeah, but even in the last page or two we've had people comment that they're just starting the series.

Though new thread title: The Malazan Book of the [Redacted]

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Daico
Aug 17, 2006

Waddley Hasselhoff posted:

Great, thanks. Maybe I haven't forgotten as much as I though I have.

Edit: one more question, sorry. On the same topic, are Watered and Shriven new as well?

Unless I miss my guess, watered are half-breed forkrul assail and shriven are just dudes.

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Daico
Aug 17, 2006

Junk Science posted:

Finished. What a ride.

Now, can anyone tell me in three sentences or less what exactly ST and Cot's master plan was and why?

Uh...at first I thought they were trying to create a place for themselves in the ranks of Godhood and then they wanted to make a decent afterlife for everybody except then they got distracted by figuring out how to free the Crippled God? gently caress, I don't know. Anybody?

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