Hi everyone, Just receiving the following message from the listserv in reference to the attached email:
"Sorry, your message was not sent out to 'feistfans-l' because the message is identical to a message you sent to 'feistfans-l' recently. If you believe you are receiving this message in error, resend your message with slightly different content." The content does bear some similarities to a message I sent to the list a long time ago but it also has some significant differences. I'm hoping the email I sent a few moments ago arrives in everyone's mailbox. Robert -- "Robert's Law of Negative Accomplishment: the more nothing you try to do, the less nothing you'll get done." - Robert Meyers Begin forwarded message: > From: Robert M <[email protected]> > Date: July 11, 2012 12:43:31 PM EDT > To: "feistfans-l" <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: The Nameless One > > Spoilers >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> > > > > Hi everyone, > > We've been under the impression that Nalar has been "evil" since the chaos > wars when the new gods replaced the blind gods of the beginning. Same goes > for Arch-Indar, the goddess of good. However, if I am understanding things > correctly, Ishap prevented the balance between them from tipping too far one > way or the other. As a result of the chaos wars, Ishap and Arch-Indar are > dead (for now). So, the current gods used their power to keep Nalar in check. > At least relatively speaking. > > The question that comes to mind isn't so much is "Nalar the big bad guy?" > It's more of one that relates to the dread, the children of the void and the > void itself. In one of the books in the Dark war, it's implied the Void > itself has awareness. I can't remember if this is in Into a Dark Realm or > Wrath of a Mad God. Same goes in Rage of a Demon King that it is implied that > the universe itself has awareness on some level and that everything happening > in it is a part of its overall education. > > So, I'm thinking the chaos wars and everything that's happened thus far isn't > so much about the gods and goddesses of Midkemia and the universe of Midkemia > but a war between the universe and the void and who allied with whom and the > consequences. The books we've read so far have been about the consequences > and the efforts of the gods and goddesses to restore the health of the > universe and put the void back in its place. > > In my mind, the chaos wars was more than just a changing of the order of the > universe. It was a war between good and evil on both a universal level > (universe vs void) and the war between the gods and goddesses and the valheru > (and their allies). Basically, there was a whole slew of stuff going on at > once. 'course, to say it that way is an understatement but you get the > overall idea. > > Robert > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > "Robert's Law of Negative Accomplishment: the more nothing you try to do, the > less nothing you'll get done." - Robert Meyers > > > > > > > > > On Jul 10, 2012, at 7:39 PM, Radu Catrina wrote: > >> Hey Ray, >> >> Longtime fan, thank you for years of highly enjoyable reading, can't wait to >> see how it all ends. >> >> My question is regarding the Nameless One: essentially, what's happened to >> him? Around the time of RoaDK he was revealed as the big bad, pretty much >> the orchestrator of all the nefarious plots and other evildoings on >> Midkemia, but after WoaMG, I don't think he's been mentioned once, and it >> seems the attention has been shifted to the Dread, and their rise from the >> lower levels of reality upwards. Similarly, from the last chapter of aCI, >> the beings from the higher planes of existence seem to have been marshalling >> to combat this threat for a while now. >> >> But where does the Nameless One fit into all of this?
