The Mhornym and Naybahn Poll (SPOILER)
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thewormoftheworld'send
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The Mhornym and Naybahn Poll (SPOILER)
So often in fiction some character or characters are presumed deceased, although their bodies have not been found. Then suddenly they turn up alive after all. Will this turn out to be the case for our Ranyhyn friends Mhornym and Naybahn?
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Good question... I think it could go either way, but I'm hoping they're alive... sure, they'll probably just get devoured by the Worm, but still 
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I believe that these two Ranyhyn are still alive. First of all, if they found their way down to Covenant and Joan, they can surely find their way back out. Also, TC and the Humbled have to have a way to get the hell outta there, and I don't see that happening without the horses.
But maybe that's just my optimism.
But maybe that's just my optimism.
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Why else would he need the name of the Insequent's steed?earthbrah wrote:TC and the Humbled have to have a way to get the hell outta there, and I don't see that happening without the horses.
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I'm thinking they're alive because tropes are so common, unless Donaldson pulls a reverse trope. On the one hand, I don't like it for being common to the lamest action movies, on the other hand, I don't want the pretty horses to be killed either.Rigel wrote:Why else would he need the name of the Insequent's steed?earthbrah wrote:TC and the Humbled have to have a way to get the hell outta there, and I don't see that happening without the horses.
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I don't want them to be, but I think they are dead, and the Har. will whistle up replacements...
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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I think it's 50/50..
We have lost several Rahnyn throughout the Chronicles. And they are mortal, it is entirely reasonable that they got caught in the Tsunami..
However.. Donaldson knows his audience love these horses. Never before has he killed 2 off at the same time, and never before have any Ranyhyn died without describing the bravery, understanding, selflessness and love of their final actions.. Thus I find it hard to believe that when the Humbled call the Ranyhyn it will be two different ones who respond.
And whether Mhornym and Naybahn survived or not, it is irrelevant to the question of who / what will Covenant ride. His next horse was the one belonging to the Ardent.
We have lost several Rahnyn throughout the Chronicles. And they are mortal, it is entirely reasonable that they got caught in the Tsunami..
However.. Donaldson knows his audience love these horses. Never before has he killed 2 off at the same time, and never before have any Ranyhyn died without describing the bravery, understanding, selflessness and love of their final actions.. Thus I find it hard to believe that when the Humbled call the Ranyhyn it will be two different ones who respond.
And whether Mhornym and Naybahn survived or not, it is irrelevant to the question of who / what will Covenant ride. His next horse was the one belonging to the Ardent.
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Covenant never rides the Ranyhyn, so from that perspective it is irrelevant. But are Clyme and Branl going to run alongside the Ardent's steed?ninjaboy wrote:I think it's 50/50..
We have lost several Rahnyn throughout the Chronicles. And they are mortal, it is entirely reasonable that they got caught in the Tsunami..
However.. Donaldson knows his audience love these horses. Never before has he killed 2 off at the same time, and never before have any Ranyhyn died without describing the bravery, understanding, selflessness and love of their final actions.. Thus I find it hard to believe that when the Humbled call the Ranyhyn it will be two different ones who respond.
And whether Mhornym and Naybahn survived or not, it is irrelevant to the question of who / what will Covenant ride. His next horse was the one belonging to the Ardent.
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If they lived, we'll get a bit of a back-glimpse of the struggles/cost they went through [kinda like when, I believe it was Mhoram, whistled his up to Revelstone, and it arrived skinny and in pain from the obstacles it confronted]
If it didn't live, two replacements...probably relatives...will respond to the call of the Haruchai. [that's what I think the likelier...but just barely]
I can't wait to see the Ardent's mount when TC names it.
If it didn't live, two replacements...probably relatives...will respond to the call of the Haruchai. [that's what I think the likelier...but just barely]
I can't wait to see the Ardent's mount when TC names it.
[spoiler]Sig-man, Libtard, Stupid piece of shit. change your text color to brown. Mr. Reliable, bullshit-slinging liarFucker-user.[/spoiler]
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
the difference between evidence and sources: whether they come from the horse's mouth or a horse's ass.
"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
the hyperbole is a beauty...for we are then allowed to say a little more than the truth...and language is more efficient when it goes beyond reality than when it stops short of it.
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Upon reflection - and I might be wrong here - but the masters at the end of the book were waiting for the Ranyhyn. I belieeve their superior and heightened senses would be able to determine if they are alive or not.. Perhaps the Masters already know that they survived.
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