Prince of Nothing
The Darkness That Comes Before, the Aspect-Emperor, Eärwa, the Thousandfold Thought, the Warrior Prophet
By Books LLC
2010
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Chapters: The Darkness That Comes Before, the Aspect-Emperor, E rwa, the Thousandfold Thought, the Warrior Prophet. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 28. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The Prince of Nothing is a series of three fantasy novels by the Canadian author R. Scott Bakker, first published in 2004, part of a wider series known as "The Second Apocalypse." This trilogy details the emergence of Anas rimbor Kellhus, a brilliant monastic warrior, as he takes control of a holy war and the hearts and minds of its leaders. Kellhus exhibits incredible powers of prediction and persuasion, which are derived from deep knowledge of rationality, cognitive biases, and causality, as discovered by the D nyain, a secret monastic sect. As Kellhus goes from military leader to divine prophet, Drusas Achamian, the sorcerer who mentored Kellhus, comes to realize that his student may well be the harbinger of the Second Apocalypse. The key feature distinguishing the Prince of Nothing series from its contemporaries is the importance of philosophy to the work. The plot, characters, setting, and metaphysics of the Prince of Nothing are intertwined with philosophical positions unique to the series. Bakker has mentioned that this series was primarily influenced by the works of Tolkien and Frank Herbert. The Prince of Nothing series takes place in the fictional continent of E rwa, which is separated from another continent to the east (mentioned but unseen), called E nna. The main inhabitants of E rwa are human, but were preceded by the Nonmen (or C nuroi), immortal beings who went mad with the accumulation of centuries of memory, and the Inchoroi, alien beings who crash-landed in northern E rwa. These creatures' machinations led both to the downfall of the Nonmen and, with the aid of a group of human s...More: http: //booksllc.net/?id=141477
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