Can you tell I was in a hurry getting ready for work when I made that post?
Getting those names so mixed up???
We ARE on completely different pages with the CG. I do not care how much he has been tortured and how long he has been imprisoned - still no excuse to wreck entire civilisations!
I'm sure Satan can seem like a nice guy at times, too. 
And I sure do not think that the followers of ANY God under ANY circumstances have the right to destroy worlds.
But it a testimony to the power of Erikson's writing that you are able to be sympathetic to him, and to his followers.
And by the way - I also LOVED LOVED LOVED Ganoes Paran and his sappers. The tears. The toad burning.
And Hellian (I hope I got the right name this time - at work and still in a hurry
) getting sober - and finding out that someone is in love with her in the middle of a huge battle. (I cannot remember - did she and her fellow make it out of the battle alive? 
)As for Mappo - his betrayal of the children haunted him. As it did most of the others involved wh oalso went on about their own business rather than help the kids.. Yes, there was one person who did not betray them and did his best to help them. Didn't stop some self doubts and self torture on the parts of those who turned their backs on those kids.
Finished the book late last night. Intended to post at work today, but they kept me busy all day (the nerve! 
, so there's no hope of my finding the scene right now), but he started musing about how he forced her to choose to work for him and maybe he should make amends. And I said, "Yes, you rat bastard, in fact you should." And then he did. So, points for Cotillion. 
For my part, I don't think the Fallen One had a prayer of ever getting home. I think he was well and truly stuck there, and clearly was ready to set up shop -- he'd shouldered his way into the Deck of Dragons, after all, and was doing a pretty good job of filling out his House (who was the Leper? Fid?). I think Shadowthrone and Cotillion didn't want the competition. And it was clear to me that they'd planned that ending for him all along.
And Gesler and Stormy -- I understand why their sacrifice had to be made, but I wish Gesler could have made it back to Stonny somehow. 
