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>>20928511
Bakkerism combines the dedication and mental control of the most advanced Buddhist monks with the intellectual alacrity the greatest universities and the esoteric knowledge of the Western mystery tradition.

I will no longer be a cause. I will live if the Logos and through the Logos. I will be self moving. I will attain the Absolute.

>>20890125
The Prince of Nothing perfectly fits your description unironically

>>20817513
Holy Based.

Help, just had son. Wut do to turn him into Dunyain and free him?

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“Thousands of years ago, when the Dûnyain first found—”

“After the ancient wars?” Kellhus eagerly interrupted. “When we were still refugees?”

The Pragma struck him, fiercely enough to send him rolling across the hard stone. Kellhus scrambled back to position and wiped the blood from his nose. But he felt little fear and even less regret. The blow was a lesson, nothing more. Among the Dûnyain, everything was a lesson.

The Pragma regarded him with utter dispassion. “Interruption is weakness, young Kellhus. It arises from the passions and not from the intellect. From the darkness that comes before.”

“I understand, Pragma.”

The cold eyes peered through him and saw this was true. “When the Dûnyain first found Ishuäl in these mountains, they knew only one principle of the Logos. What was that principle, young Kellhus?”

“That which comes before determines that which comes after.”

The Pragma nodded. “Two thousand years have passed, young Kellhus, and we still hold that principle true. Does that mean the principle of before and after, of cause and effect, has grown old?”

“No, Pragma.”

“And why is that? Do men not grow old and die? Do not even mountains age and crumble with time?”

“Yes, Pragma.”

“Then how can this principle not be old?”

“Because,” Kellhus answered, struggling to snuff a flare of pride, “the principle of before and after is nowhere to be found within the circuit of before and after. It is
the ground of what is ‘young’ and what is ‘old,’ and so cannot itself be young or old.”

“Yes. The Logos is without beginning or end. And yet Man, young Kellhus, does possess a beginning and end—like all beasts. Why is Man distinct from other beasts?”

“Because like beasts, Man stands within the circuit of before and after, and yet he apprehends the Logos. He possesses intellect.”

“Indeed. And why, Kellhus, do the Dûnyain breed for intellect? Why do we so assiduously train young children such as you in the ways of thought, limb, and face?”

“Because of the Quandary of Man.”

“And what is the Quandary of Man?”

A bee had droned into the shrine, and now it etched drowsy, random circles beneath the vaults.

“That he is a beast, that his appetites arise from the darkness of his soul, that his world assails him with arbitrary circumstance, and yet he apprehends the Logos.”

“Precisely. And what is the solution to the Quandary of Man?”

“To be utterly free of bestial appetite. To utterly command the unfolding of circumstance. To be the perfect instrument of Logos and so attain the Absolute.”

“Yes, young Kellhus. And are you a perfect instrument of Logos?”

“No, Pragma.”

“And why is that?”

“Because I am afflicted by passions. I am my thoughts, but the sources of my thoughts exceed me. I do not own myself, because the darkness comes before me.”

>>20085840
If you want a serious answer, then its Kellhus from a reddit series called Prince of Nothing. He's "intelligent", capable of planning meticulously towards an end goal, neurologically lacks the ability to feel remorse (fakes it pretty well though—), sadistic, and self-serving. What's even worse is that this is the Author's self-insert.

>>19895470
Holy fucking Based.

Truth Shines.

Based autist endlessly advertising the greatest living fantasy author.

>>19742124
Truth shines.

>>19677741
A 'watered-down Tolkien clone' mogs literally everything being currently written in the fantasy space. That is why Bakker evokes so much seethe; not because anyone thinks he is better than Tolkien or Wolfe or whatever now-dead great you like, but because he shits on the current YA tier nonsense and exposes it for the written-for-gamers tripe that it is.

We Won Bakker Bros.

Like we always do.

Truth Shines

Daily reminder that we still do now know where the Dunyain came from, hence being futile calling them human to begin with. They might have been a Consult Construct.

>Smartest most powerful man in existence
>Enters quantum-hyper-bigbrain mode weighing up all possible actions and their consequences
>The answer is always rape

Based.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aspwxl6Cyzw

This is the only guy I've seen on YouTube that actually recognizes Bakker's true value.

Definitely worth checking out.

"The Aspect Emperor" edition.

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>>16950320
Prince of Nothing semi-kinda maybe I guess.

what do I read next?

>The Black Company - Glen Cook
>Re-read of The Second Apocalypse - /ourguy/ R. Scott Bakker
>Re-read of Revelation Space - Reynolds
>The Diamond Age - Neal "he might just be a modern day warlock" Stephenson

>>13885391
Not even when he impregnates his daughter and gets her hooked on elf coke?

>>13435955
>rapes you to instill doubt in his Divinity

>>13409830
>Blocks you path

>Bakker has hinted several times that there is a huge twist in TUC that will knock your socks off
>That bakkerfans guy posted on westeros that TUC ends with a "big deal" that sets up TSTSNBN

What is it?? TUC when??

REMOVE SRANC remove sranc.
you are worst tekne. you are the sranc abomination you are the sranc smell. return to agongorea. to our kyranean cousins you may come our false men mansion. you may live in the mediel screw….ahahahaha ,golgoterath we will never forgeve you. rascal FUck but fuck asshole sranc stink bashrag consult consult..sranc genocide best day of my life. take a bath of dead sranc..ahahahahah CONSULT WE WILL GET YOU!! do not forget apocalypse .cil-aujas we kill the king , nonmen return to your precious mansions….hahahahaha idiot sranc and nonmen smell so bad..wow i can smell it. REMOVE SRANC FROM THE PREMISES. you will get caught. Kunuiri+Aorsi+Eamnor+Meori+Kyraneas=kill consult…we will ordeal, titirga alive in cil-aujas, titrga gnosis in cil-aujas.. . deep gnosis titrga meorn. we are in mansion and have nimil now hahahaha ha because of gin'yursis… you are evil stink sranc… you live in a arc hahahaha, you live in a horn

titirga alive numbr one #1 in meorn….fuck the kuniuri ,..FUCKk ashol srancs no good i spit in the mouth eye of ur arc and no-god. titrga aliv and real strong wizard kill all the sranc farm aminal with gnosis magic now we the meori rule . leader of the mangaecca shauriatus fukc aurang and lay egg this egg hatch and no-god wa;s born. stupid baby form the eggn give bak our clay we will crush u lik a skull of sranc. meorn greattst nation

5 MONTHS TILL THE UNHOLY CONSULT

*translocates behind you*
*unsheathes Enshoya*

The Dunyain had sent him into the world as an assassin. His father has imperiled their isolation, had threatened Ishual, the great sanctuary of their meditations. They had no choice but to send Kellhus, even knowing that they served Moenghus's ends...

So Kellhus has walked the length of Earwa, from the ruined wastes of the north to the raucous cities of the south. Every advantage had been exploited, be it a smile or a thousand fists. Every liability had been minimized. He had learned as much as this world would yield.

He was Dunyain, one of the conditioned. At every turn he followed the Logos, the Shortest Path.

And yet he had come so far.

>2 days until The Great Ordeal
>get hyped

>>8264190
Sorry, I'm a bit late this time.
In case we don't get another thread, thanks for putting up with me /sffg/

>Son of the god of gods
>Has grasped the absolute
>Master of the logos
>Created the metagnosis
>United the three seas
>Performed multiple confirmed miracles
>Descended from superior Norsirai seed
>Heir of the house of Anasûrimbor
>Cucked the heretic, Drusas Achamian
>About to lead the Great Ordeal to the gates of Golgatterath itself

Reminder there are still followers of the No-God in 4132 Year-of-the-Tusk