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 Post subject: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:03 am 
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Who dat Meppa guy? Speculate. Pretend you have proof.
100 cool points for whomever is proved correct if he turns out to have been someone previously named in the texts.

I'll go with the crazy powerful guy (whatshisnameagain?) who faced off with Aurang and Shauritas in the False Dawn.

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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 1:40 am 
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Titirga? Man, that guy was only in one short story, and he's already one of the more badass characters in the series.

If I've got to guess somebody we've already seen as being Meppa I'm going with that one random kid. You know, that kid trying to gather salt from the remains of sorcerers after the final battle. Why draw our attention to him?


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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 2:23 am 
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Curethan wrote:
Who dat Meppa guy? Speculate. Pretend you have proof.
100 cool points for whomever is proved correct if he turns out to have been someone previously named in the texts.

I'll go with the crazy powerful guy (whatshisnameagain?) who faced off with Aurang and Shauritas in the False Dawn.

I think I crackpotted that as well. :D

I do think Tirtirga survived, and plotted the creation of an ascetic philosophical cult later known as the Dunyain...

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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 6:02 am 
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Oh you guys, Nerdaneling away.

I'm always for my Meppa is either Moenghus the Elder or one of Moenghus' sect of Cishaurim, neuropunctured into some Metapsuhkari.

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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sun May 20, 2012 3:55 pm 
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Meppa is one of Big Moe's Cish. I don't think it's anything more than that. If he was Big Moe himself, he'd have the Scylvendi scars.

He's likely there to kill Fayanal at the right moment.

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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
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yeah I don't think Meppa is Moe unless Moe has figured out how to transfer his soul to a new body.

Crackpot: Meppa is a skin spy, but Moe has wrested control of the body and transferred his soul into it in order to survive death.

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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
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new crackpot: Meppa is Inrau, he had a Fane-like Conversion after surviving the fall and journeying through the desert. Maithanet converted him, actually, using some dunyain trickery (and also faked his death).

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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 4:35 pm 
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That is impossible, but the best crackpot I've ever seen.


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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 8:43 pm 
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Keep in mind that he is described as having nut brown skin, so any Moe theories have to have some really impressive crackpot like getting into another body.

Also, Meppa seems to very much believe in The God, and his Water is wicked-strong which follows our understanding of how passion is the key for using the Psukhe.

My best guess is that he's one of the incandati. We know that there are nine of them, or we at least know that the SS believed that there were nine of them. Did they all take the field at Shimeh? Did Meppa survive the battle and get amnesia or was he never on the field at all?

The one thing that I think is strange is that in the little glimpse that we get in WLW it does not appear like there is any effort to train more Cish. If I had one like Fanayal has, I would think I'd be desperate to get some more. The only alternative that I can think of is perhaps they believe that striking the Empire now represents their best chance, so they're going all in.


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 Post subject: Re: Meppa is X
PostPosted: Sat May 26, 2012 10:03 pm 
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Does anyone recall how old Meppa is described as being?


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