From page 315:
The Insequent regarded Linden with one eye and then the other. "Sadly," she said, "the Mahdoubt has no knowledge of this. It transcends her. In some measure, she has made of herself an adept of Time - as did the Theomach as well, assuredly, though in another form. But she beholds only the time in which she manifests herself, neither its past nor its future. Thus she is unable to witness her own future. Her present is here. Beyond this moment, she may estimate intentions and perils, but she cannot observe deeds and outcomes which lie ahead.
"The Theomach's powers were greater than the Mahdoubt's."
And 335 & 360, after the Mahdoubt defeats the Harrow:
"That is difficult knowledge," he remarked when he was able to speak evenly. "It emulates the Theomach's. Yet I am not displaced."
"My lady," he Mahdoubt sighed, "knowledge precludes knowledge. Our mortality cannot master one thing, and then another, and then yet another. The Harrow unmade the Demondim. The Mahdoubt could not have done so. But she has given centuries to the contemplation of Time. He has not. He passes from place to place as he wills - oh, assuredly - but he cannot journey among the years.
"The Mahdoubt gained his oath by revealing that her knowledge might displace him to another age of the Earth, a time in which the objects of his greed would not exist. There he would remain, abandoned, useless to himself, until his spirit was broken.
"For that reason, he acknowledged defeat."
The Mahdoubt can travel through time. She can also send others through time. And yet the Theomach's power is greater than hers, and her knowledge only
emulates his. These things being the case, it doesn't seem logical that the Theomach
can't travel through time, too.
Hellfire, what does "Insequent" mean anyway?? Argh!
Roger knowing him so well also gives me that impression. Or did Roger get to know the Theomach's "stink" so well because
he has time-travelled so often? But yes, Damelon might be right about the knowledge coming from
Jehannum. Or even from Kas, since Roger has his hand.
The Theomach's knowledge also gives me the impression that it is largely first-hand. I mean, he knows
everything! In
extreme detail.
"Other puissant beings occupy this age of the Land. And the forces at your command are misplaced here. Any encounter threatens a disturbance of Time which I will be unable to contain." He knows it all, and can work anything into the knowledge of Berek's time. I suppose he could have cast a spell that gave him all knowledge of all time. But since I thought he was from the future, I figured he got his knowledge from millennia of living and studying all he could.
*shrug* I don't know...
Seppi2112 wrote:Also, he's described as existing in multiple places at once, almost standing beside himself... so isn't it possible he's split himself and one part becomes aHKA and the other doesn't?
Very interesting idea!
