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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:32 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:34 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:35 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:37 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:39 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:39 pm
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themightyjello There need to be more fantasy settings that involve people having ONE, SHORT NAME. None of this Teredexiniel est Delenitinaeum Ker'talla of the Utannakidoutyeh province. Why aren't there more people named like... Jael. No surname, no affiliations other than maybe where they hail from so that people know which person with one name that they're referring to. Hell, even DC Comics had it right. Kal-el, son of Jor-el. Prince of Nothing actually has a mix.
The casteless rabble usually have only one name - Esmnet, Serwe, etc.
Then you have the important folk, like Anasurimbor Kellhus, the Barbarian/Mongol fellow that Fen mentioned, and others.
The names of anyone that matters aren't hard to follow - it's the Goddamned cultures, religions, languages and so on. Bakker went NUTS with world making, to the point it's very difficult to fully follow. Once you can, though, it becomes amazing. Fortunately, he has an Index in the back of each book that categorizes all of it.
One thing I can never put down are the similarities between that book's races and our own. I was never able to tell if the Scylvendi were similar to the Norse or the Mongols. I also thought that the Men of the Tusk were similar to Arabic persons, but then they described their enemies to be similar to that.
I think I'm just gonna give up on it and assume that the world is actually Pandora and they're all a vibrant shade of f*****t blue.
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:43 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 6:47 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:21 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:22 pm
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The Hanging Man themightyjello After not reading for so many years, I expect the first book I pick up to have impossibly high standards. One of the characters has the title "The Most Violent Man" and rapes one of the other male characters to prove a point. He's something of a role model for Gamma.
Also he never raped anyone did he?
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:25 pm
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Posted: Fri Mar 26, 2010 7:31 pm
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