Kellhus leads the Holy War to a decisive victory in the Battle of Caraskand, smashing the Kianene forces and killing the Padirajah himself. Achamian follows his pupil, now at the head of the Holy War, towards Shimeh. 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. be exactly the same if magic didn't exist; but Bakker has clearly given this considerable thought, and convincingly portrays not Achamian and Xinemus travel to Caraskand aboard Meümaras’s ship Amortanea. When he arrives, he finds that Kellhus has been hung from a circumfix as a false prophet and that Esmenet has become Kellhus’s lover. Though filled with hatred at Kellhus for taking Esmenet from him, Achamian saves him when he reveals that he can identify Consult skin-spies.

who is in search of his father. The Dûnyain are bred for intellect, and trained, through an absolute apprehension of cause, to Cnaiür urs Skiötha is a Scylvendi barbarian chieftain of the Utemot tribe, whose relationship with Moënghus 30 years previously makes him the only character with knowledge of the Dûnyain. He is also the first to meet Kellhus, and accompanies him to Momemn to join the Holy War. The central figure of the book is Drusas Achamian, a spy/sorcerer of questionable value to his school of Sorcery, The Mandate. While being the smallest school, they are unquestionably the most powerful one. The reason for this is The “Gnosis,” which has been passed to them by the ancient sorcerer Seswatha. The tradeoff for this power is the sharing of Seswatha's spirit which causes them to relive the final battles of the apocalypse every night in their dreams. They are a ridiculed school because of their belief of The Consult, an ancient force that served the No-God and survived the first apocalypse 2000 years earlier. Their belief that they will return has made the Mandate outcasts since The Consult has not been seen since the First Apocalypse and has become stories to scare children. narrative is made denser still by an abundance of descriptive detail, lengthy interior monologues from the viewpoint Strikingly original in its conception, ambitious in scope, with characters engrossingly and vividly drawn, the first book in R. Scott Bakker’s Prince of Nothing series creates a remarkable world from whole cloth—its language and classes of people, its cities, religions, mysteries, taboos, and rituals—the kind of all—embracing universe Tolkien and Herbert created unforgettably in the epic fantasies The Lord of the Rings and Dune.companions -- but Bakker realizes them in surprising ways, with an unusual setting that recalls the cultures of ancient Mesopotamia,

This article consists almost entirely of a plot summary. Please help improve the article by adding more real-world context. ( August 2015) ( Learn how and when to remove this template message) But the fate of men - even great men - means little when the world itself may soon be torn asunder. Behind the politics, beneath the religious fervour, a dark and ancient evil is reawakening. After two thousand years, the No-God is returning. The Second Apocalypse is nigh. And one cannot raise walls against what has been forgotten... Awesome book. If you like an adult-version of Bakker mixed with the depth of of Frank Herbert's 'Dune' then this could be for you. Forget Tolkien, Martin and anyone else. This is dark, complex and easily the best Fantasy series of books I have ever read. Outstanding. Moënghus takes Kellhus to a room where he holds two captive skin-spies. The skin-spies had been first discovered by the Cishaurim about twelve years prior, Kellhus deduces. The Cishaurim, assuming this was the work of the Scarlet Spires, assassinate their Grandmaster, Sasheoka. Only Moënghus realized that the skin-spies weren’t sorcerous artifacts, but engines of flesh. So he kept the creatures and interrogated them for years, learning from them about Golgotterath and the Consult — about the Second Apocalypse. Kellhus realizes that his father poses a threat, if Moënghus were to learn of the damnation that awaits him he would be no different from the Inchoroi. He stabs his father and leaves the mansion using the Cant of Transposition just as Cnaiür and ‘Serwë’ are about to enter the room. Kellhus appears on the battlefield over Shimeh and destroys what remains of the Cishaurim. [21]Samarmas, twin of Kelmomas. Samarmas seems not to have inherited any of his father's Dûnyain traits. The first series, The Prince of Nothing, is set during a Holy War in a medieval world where Functional Magic exists and an obscure Ancient Conspiracy, Shrouded in Myth, is plotting The End of the World as We Know It. The characters who are embroiled in this conflict include a tired Badass Bookworm sorcerer, a cunning prostitute, and a mentally unstable barbarian chieftain.