In the sixteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Pyramids<\/i>, everyone converges on the necropolis, desperate to stop the Great Pyramid from ruining their world any further, and Dios\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret is exposed. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld<\/i>.<\/p>\n
THIS IS SO EXCITING, EVERYONE. Oh, the potential. THERE IS SO MUCH OF IT.<\/p>\n
Teppic<\/b><\/p>\n
I think one of my favorite things about this journey is seeing Teppic come into his own. He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s such an uncertain person at the opening of\u00c2\u00a0Pyramids<\/i>, even when it comes to his role at the Assassin\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Guild. I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think his reluctance was necessarily a fault, but it was also clear that once he got home to Djelibeybi, he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t sure where he fit in. Understandably so! He\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s told that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a king and a god, and then Dios demonstrates that\u00c2\u00a0he<\/i> is the one with all the real power. However, by leaving home and gaining a new understanding of it (again!), he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s able to examine all of the mainstays of his culture and his religion in a new light. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s certainly the case when he returns to the palace and discovers that the gold mask of the kings is just as fake as practically everything else in his life. If Dios lied about the mask being gold, what else did he lie about?<\/p>\n
However, Teppic doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t expect that his power will become literal. HELL, NEITHER DID I. I should have realized that! It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s an incredible sequence, especially since it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so exciting to see Teppic with such purpose in his step. There are a ton of callbacks to the beginning of the book, and it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so great to see that all of his training at the guild mattered<\/i>. It mattered because it helped him save his kingdom.\u00c2\u00a0Well, he doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know\u00c2\u00a0exactly<\/i> what he needs to do to stop the pyramid because\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 shit, how\u00c2\u00a0do<\/i> you kill a pyramid? How do you stop the real from making everything else unreal? And hell, how do you un-do\u00c2\u00a0history?<\/i> I know it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a wonderful visual joke to have the entire history of the Djel shuffling around the necropolis, but how much of this will be undone if Teppic is successful? Do the spirits of the kings merely pass on, or does history just straight up disappear?<\/p>\n
I guess I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll have to find out in the next section because TEPPIC IS CLIMBING THE PYRAMID. All he needs to do is cap it\u00c2\u00a0once<\/i>. But what then?<\/p>\n
Dios and History<\/b><\/p>\n
Even though I figured out Dios\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret prior to the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153reveal\u00e2\u20ac\u009d here (THIS IS A MIRACLE, RECORD THIS FOR POSTERITY, IT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LL NEVER HAPPEN AGAIN), I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think that deflates the importance of the kings of the Djel confronting Dios about what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done. I didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t actually know if they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d get to, but as all of the major players in this novel began to converge on one spot, I hoped for it. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s why I said that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s so much potential here; Pratchett has stuffed\u00c2\u00a0everyone<\/i> into the same scene, so it feels like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s only a matter of time before they finally interact with one another. (There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s one exception, though, and it still concerns me. Where the hell is Ptraci? What happened to her?) And I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want to ignore the impending war between Tsort and Ephebe.\u00c2\u00a0That<\/i> could be a disaster, too, but it mostly makes me giggle because they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re both using the same Trojan horse technique on one another. Also, what happens if Teppic saves the day right at the moment the battle starts? THAT\u00e2\u20ac\u2122LL BE WEIRD.<\/p>\n
But I wanted to focus on the scene where Dios finally talks about what he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done for over\u00c2\u00a0seven thousand years<\/i>. Every single king or queen had completely believed that the name Dios had been handed down over time, and none of them figured out that\u00c2\u00a0it was the same person who assisted every single one of them<\/i>. Ever since Dios had first ruled the Djel, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been convinced that he wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done. He had more work to do. And you know, I could believe that he accidentally discovered the power of his pyramid:<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I did not mean to,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d he said. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153There was so much to do. There were never enough hours in the day. Truly, I did not realize what was happening. I thought it was refreshing, nothing more, I suspected nothing. I noted the passing of the rituals, not the years.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n There comes a point, however, where I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t necessarily buy this anymore. Sure, maybe for a few kings, maybe past the point of life expectancy, but then Dios because\u00c2\u00a0intentional.\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>His manipulation of Teppic is evidence of that! He knew exactly what he was doing, and he lashed out at Teppic (in that quiet, domineering way of his) for questioning the ritual and the tradition. So when this happened?<\/p>\n \u00e2\u20ac\u0153But the kingdom will be just another small country,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d said Dios, and to their horror the ancestors saw tears in his eyes. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153All that we hold dear, you will cast adrift in time. Uncertain. Without guidance.\u00c2\u00a0Changeable.<\/i>\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t feel all that terrible for Dios. It is admirable to want to protect and save your culture, and I get wanting to preserve a legacy of sorts when your country is tiny and unimportant in comparison to those around you. But change is inevitable. Asking people and a country and a culture to remain immutable\u00c2\u00a0forever<\/i> is inappropriate! I think Dios knows this, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s hoping that he can appeal to the royalty in a way that will ensure that they support him. Unfortunately, he forgot about Teppic, and Teppic is most likely going to undo all of this.<\/p>\n I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122M SO EXCITED.<\/p>\n The original text contains use of the word \u00e2\u20ac\u0153mad.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EP5abMJ7RSQ<\/p>\n Mark Links Stuff<\/b><\/p>\n – Mark Does Stuff is on Facebook!<\/a> I’ve got a community page up that I’m running. Guaranteed shenanigans! In the sixteenth part of\u00c2\u00a0Pyramids, everyone converges on the necropolis, desperate to stop the Great Pyramid from ruining their world any further, and Dios\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s secret is exposed. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to read\u00c2\u00a0Discworld.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[451],"tags":[463,484,248],"class_list":["post-3090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-discworld","tag-mark-reads-discworld","tag-pyramids","tag-terry-pratchett"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3090"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3090\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/markreads.net\/reviews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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