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hunters_forestHere is what I found in Fans of the Coldfire Trilogy on Facebook:
Teisha Rowland
Hello, all! I just received some messages from C. S. Friedman herself about the ending of the Coldfire Trilogy! So exciting. She also encourages anyone who would like to chat with her to please visit her at http://www.csfriedman.com/ !
Here is what she wrote:
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…Riven Forrest is the offspring of Gerald Tarrant and the Iezu Mother. Which makes him a Iezu. As with her other matings, she took an aspect of his soul and used it to create a child; presumably that aspect is now gone from Gerald...but who knows? As Gerald's hunter-essence was the very core of his identity, sacrificing it counted as "death", as far as the fae was concerned. Gerald Tarrant as he existed before was, in a very real sense, dead.
Tarrant had convinced Andrys to allow that, in order to preserve his own soul from Calesta's corruption; if Andrys had pulled the trigger, his own life would have been effectively destroyed. But the price he demanded was the "death" of his ancestor in all but body. Now the essence of the Hunter was gone; the Forest he had nurtured was in ruins; Tarrant surrendered the title of Neocount that he had clung to for nine centuries and agreed to sever all ties with his family, forever. His identity, and all the trappings of his former life, were his sacrifice, and because the Patriarch had not yet made his own offering, it was enough. That was why he could not admit to his identity later; it would have compromised the Working.
As for the head..it was fake. Gerald was a master sorcerer, so how much effort did it take to sculpt unliving flesh? They figured that if people saw Andrys carrying Tarrant's head after such a showdown, no one was going to jump to the conclusion it was a fake (look how many of you all didn't think that :-)) Ten minutes later it was burning, and all the evidence was gone.
Andrys did not agree to any of that out of mercy, of course, but to save his own soul. And in the end he cut a pretty good deal, and had his vengeance, stripping Gerald of everything he valued, down to his name. But part of Tarrant's character concept was that he never accepted defeat. And I have no doubt that if there is any loophole in the new rules of the, that allow a man to work it without dying, he will find it.
Of course, that was part of the inspiration for The Magister Trilogy, a fantasy world featuring men who found such a loophole in their own similar system (and wait until you find out how, in Volume III!)
Hope that helps :-) C. S. Friedman
Teisha Rowland
Hello, all! I just received some messages from C. S. Friedman herself about the ending of the Coldfire Trilogy! So exciting. She also encourages anyone who would like to chat with her to please visit her at http://www.csfriedman.com/ !
Here is what she wrote:
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…Riven Forrest is the offspring of Gerald Tarrant and the Iezu Mother. Which makes him a Iezu. As with her other matings, she took an aspect of his soul and used it to create a child; presumably that aspect is now gone from Gerald...but who knows? As Gerald's hunter-essence was the very core of his identity, sacrificing it counted as "death", as far as the fae was concerned. Gerald Tarrant as he existed before was, in a very real sense, dead.
Tarrant had convinced Andrys to allow that, in order to preserve his own soul from Calesta's corruption; if Andrys had pulled the trigger, his own life would have been effectively destroyed. But the price he demanded was the "death" of his ancestor in all but body. Now the essence of the Hunter was gone; the Forest he had nurtured was in ruins; Tarrant surrendered the title of Neocount that he had clung to for nine centuries and agreed to sever all ties with his family, forever. His identity, and all the trappings of his former life, were his sacrifice, and because the Patriarch had not yet made his own offering, it was enough. That was why he could not admit to his identity later; it would have compromised the Working.
As for the head..it was fake. Gerald was a master sorcerer, so how much effort did it take to sculpt unliving flesh? They figured that if people saw Andrys carrying Tarrant's head after such a showdown, no one was going to jump to the conclusion it was a fake (look how many of you all didn't think that :-)) Ten minutes later it was burning, and all the evidence was gone.
Andrys did not agree to any of that out of mercy, of course, but to save his own soul. And in the end he cut a pretty good deal, and had his vengeance, stripping Gerald of everything he valued, down to his name. But part of Tarrant's character concept was that he never accepted defeat. And I have no doubt that if there is any loophole in the new rules of the, that allow a man to work it without dying, he will find it.
Of course, that was part of the inspiration for The Magister Trilogy, a fantasy world featuring men who found such a loophole in their own similar system (and wait until you find out how, in Volume III!)
Hope that helps :-) C. S. Friedman
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Date: 2010-12-30 08:17 pm (UTC)(But then again, there are people who think Riven is Gerald. Which I also never understood ...)
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Date: 2010-12-30 08:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-12-30 08:32 pm (UTC)The painting which loomed over the fireplace was a portrait of the Hunter. With a smile, the creature called Riven Forrest raised the cup up toward it; the red liquid sloshed thickly inside.
"Here's to you, Dad," he whispered.
And he drank.
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Date: 2010-12-30 09:17 pm (UTC)Tell you what, I've got a few bunnies I need to desperately discuss and bounce ideas about, we'll go and have a bunny pow-wow at some point soon.
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Date: 2010-12-30 09:40 pm (UTC)(If I'm not, I'm of course planning to become an undead sorceress, engineer my own ecosystem to live in, and generally arrange the world to my liking.)
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Date: 2010-12-30 08:34 pm (UTC)(Not that there was very much in between, mind you.)
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Date: 2010-12-30 08:41 pm (UTC)Although that one's a given as well. He's Gerald, of course he'll figure something out.
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Date: 2010-12-30 09:16 pm (UTC)(Btw, how long has your website been dead? I only just noticed ...)
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Date: 2010-12-30 09:19 pm (UTC)Though I think I still owe you updated fic links anyway from waaay back, so if you sort of send me the source code again and I could input the AO3 links instead of the website... those look like the most permanent, assuming the archive lives on.
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Date: 2010-12-31 01:28 am (UTC)Could you maybe upload it elsewhere so the pretty Gerald picture comes back? *g*
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Date: 2010-12-31 03:21 am (UTC)Not sure about the size though, sorry!
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Date: 2010-12-31 01:38 pm (UTC)You're right, the size is definintely larger than it used to be - on my 17 inch monitor here I can only see his upper half. *g* Any chance you could shrink it a bit?
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