Scott R. Bakker
Posted: Tue May 29, 2012 2:15 pm
Hi everyone 
I was thinking about the Prince of Nothing series by the Canadian author Scott R. Bakker, and realised that the idea of Ishual and Kellhus and how this particular human species had bred themselves to almost god like levels would have been very fitting in the Myth World.
The jist is that a group of survivors from the first Apocalypse set themselves up in a remote and secret fortress hidden in the mountains to isolate themselves from the rest of humanity (what was left of it). Over the many centuries they interbred and only the smartest/strongest offspring were allowed to thrive, they called themselves (Dunyain) the tribe of truth.They became a deeply unsettling and impassive religious sect that sought to master themselves and renounce all worldly desires and emotions. They follow something called the logos and do not mingle with world born men. Anyways, one of their number is dispatched to assassinate a rogue member (who happens to be his father making threats). Turns out that the father has become very powerful during his twenty years among the world-born men and has even mastered sorcery (and how) which the Dunyain did their best to suppress back home.
The Dunyain are extremely intelligent fellows and have incredible martial abilities, but they manipulate normal people by reading their facial expressions and other nuances, and are oblivious to love and honour etc. They care nothing for ordinary people and use them to meet their own ends. As is well established in the books, normal people are little more than children compared to them. Kellhus is a cunt in short but gets implicated in trying to prevent the second apocalypse which his father uncovered.
Anyway, to anyone thats read any of the books - do you agree that something similar to Ishual and breeding superior beings would have suited the idea of the Hero in the Myth universe. Even half-blooded Dunyain are far above their ordinary peers - their blood makes them natural born leaders and extremely powerful ruthless men.
I was thinking about the Prince of Nothing series by the Canadian author Scott R. Bakker, and realised that the idea of Ishual and Kellhus and how this particular human species had bred themselves to almost god like levels would have been very fitting in the Myth World.
The jist is that a group of survivors from the first Apocalypse set themselves up in a remote and secret fortress hidden in the mountains to isolate themselves from the rest of humanity (what was left of it). Over the many centuries they interbred and only the smartest/strongest offspring were allowed to thrive, they called themselves (Dunyain) the tribe of truth.They became a deeply unsettling and impassive religious sect that sought to master themselves and renounce all worldly desires and emotions. They follow something called the logos and do not mingle with world born men. Anyways, one of their number is dispatched to assassinate a rogue member (who happens to be his father making threats). Turns out that the father has become very powerful during his twenty years among the world-born men and has even mastered sorcery (and how) which the Dunyain did their best to suppress back home.
The Dunyain are extremely intelligent fellows and have incredible martial abilities, but they manipulate normal people by reading their facial expressions and other nuances, and are oblivious to love and honour etc. They care nothing for ordinary people and use them to meet their own ends. As is well established in the books, normal people are little more than children compared to them. Kellhus is a cunt in short but gets implicated in trying to prevent the second apocalypse which his father uncovered.
Anyway, to anyone thats read any of the books - do you agree that something similar to Ishual and breeding superior beings would have suited the idea of the Hero in the Myth universe. Even half-blooded Dunyain are far above their ordinary peers - their blood makes them natural born leaders and extremely powerful ruthless men.
