Yep. Could be. It fits the "there's a bane, and there's also the skurj" idea. The only question is, would the Elohim call Kastenessen "a bane"? Not only is Kastenessen a person, but he's one of the Elohim himself. "A bane", on the other hand, sounds like a thing. "And there are banes buried in the deeps of the Earth"... (Then again, TC is Lord Foul's Bane.)khalgregar wrote:The bane that was in the north and then found release in Mount Thunder is Kastenessen. Really, it's that simple.
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They may not consider Kastenessen an Elohim any longer, if he's given up (or transformed) some of himself to escape. I don't think they'd dare acknowledge him as one of them--it might make them seem responsible for him, and so long as they can say it's someone else's problem, they can stay out of it.
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Probably giant eggwhisks:)Starkin wrote:Yeah, who knows what the heck they are? I'm sure we'll find out in AATE.Murrin wrote:Quellvisks
It's all in the names with SRD, 'quell' comes from OE cwellan, "murder" so I am sure they will be nasty beasts when they turn up...
Interestingly, bane also comes from OE bana "slayer, murderer" so in the past it did refer to a person, not a thing.
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Hmm.. Maybe along the lines of the 'that which is evil need not always be' vein of thinking...earthbrah wrote:Though I don't think the situation is very likely, SRD created the arghuleh and used them in The Second Chronicles. Because of that, I have to believe that we'll see them again in some capacity.
He doesn't seem to be leaving any stone unturned. At the same time, it doesn't seem to fit that these beasts are the banes talked about in this thread, what stirred the Fire Lions. Still, I'd like to see them in battle one more time!
Perhaps the icy arghuleh are somehow recruited to battle the fiery skurj?
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Then are we also assuming that Kast was able to slip his bonds because Jeremiah created a "construct" that he was unable to refuse? In essence, a "door" that allowed him to remove himself from his imprisonment?High Lord Tolkien wrote:I read it that way too.
Kastenessen was the Durance much like I understood the Elohim that turned into the Colossus.
They were the "battery" that powered the construct (durance and colossus) that held them.
(I also like where SRD is going with the whole Elohim fear certain constructs idea!)
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Thinking about Kevin's Dirt: Is it possible that its effect could be reversed... and by that I don't mean mitigated, but flipped...rather than dampening the ability to use Earthpower, perhaps Linden can "heal" the bane that creates it to increase the ability of those under its influence to use Earthpower.
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nice thought.. like flipping a positron to make it an electron. That would cause Kevin's Dirt to be named something else.Skurj Scourge wrote:Thinking about Kevin's Dirt: Is it possible that its effect could be reversed... and by that I don't mean mitigated, but flipped...rather than dampening the ability to use Earthpower, perhaps Linden can "heal" the bane that creates it to increase the ability of those under its influence to use Earthpower.
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I'm not. Roger stated "No, he slipped out. Which he managed to do by becoming part skurj himself."fleshharrower wrote:Then are we also assuming that Kast was able to slip his bonds because Jeremiah created a "construct" that he was unable to refuse? In essence, a "door" that allowed him to remove himself from his imprisonment?
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If he "slipped out", I see that meaning one of two things. The Durance itself is a creation made to hold him, separate from him, something he could slip past only by doing something unexpected. Or,
he is the Durance, his essence was rearranged by the other Elohim somehow to keep him and the skurj in place. Thus, by merging with them he re-altered this essence whereby enabling him to slip past himself. His nature was changed, and so he was able to exceed his own limitation, that is, the Durance that was him.
(Does this line of thought belong on "Durances and Appointed"?
he is the Durance, his essence was rearranged by the other Elohim somehow to keep him and the skurj in place. Thus, by merging with them he re-altered this essence whereby enabling him to slip past himself. His nature was changed, and so he was able to exceed his own limitation, that is, the Durance that was him.
(Does this line of thought belong on "Durances and Appointed"?
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Once again, I feel that understanding the Durance as something to bind Kastenessen is incorrect. The Durance was a prison for the skurj, and was named Durance because of this role.
So when Kastenessen was slipping out, he wasn't escaping the Durance, as he was not imprisoned by the Durance.
But Kastenessen was bound by the Elohim to *be* the Durance. This binding is not the Durance itself. This binding is the will of the Elohim and the strictures of the Appointed.
This binding is what Kastenessen slipped free from.
In other words, we have a being who is imprisoned in order to become a prison. Prisons on top of prisons. We need to recognize which prison we speak of when we speak of one.
So when Kastenessen was slipping out, he wasn't escaping the Durance, as he was not imprisoned by the Durance.
But Kastenessen was bound by the Elohim to *be* the Durance. This binding is not the Durance itself. This binding is the will of the Elohim and the strictures of the Appointed.
This binding is what Kastenessen slipped free from.
In other words, we have a being who is imprisoned in order to become a prison. Prisons on top of prisons. We need to recognize which prison we speak of when we speak of one.
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