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In any other piece of media (preferably books), which characters' struggle and sacrifice compare to that of either Tavore or Anomander Rake? I'm wracking my brain and I can't think any comparisons?

(I'm ok with spoilers for other books in this case)

(a little initial aside, I'm not sure if this seems obvious to most readers, but coming to this realisation about the series was kinda mind blowing to me personally)

Okay so, having gained a good year since finishing The Crippled God, at the time I couldn't quite articulate what made the turn during Dust of Dreams where it became evident what this was all really leading towards (the freeing of Kaminsod) so personally unexpectedly delightful and captivating in the strangest way.

A great deal of popular media that deals with huge events like this set expectations in the plot that we consistently see followed through on, a status quo is set, a threat to it emerges, the characters go through a

The sections in The Crippled God that are in italics with Kalam and co. Why are they in italics and why does SE take his whole not giving away the names of the character in the scenes thing to the extreme of sometimes never even naming them, it just seemed a little strange I guess.

I can completely understand the italicised interludes with the discussion between Shadowthrone and Kaminsod, that felt like it needed to have a different feel to all the other sections of the book, similar to Gallan & Fisher's sections in The Kharkanas Trilogy.

After watching the recent The Northman, I couldn't help but think of First law, the setting, the visceral bloody action, the story and themes, its a long shot of course but I think it could be something incredible.

I loved recently reading The Dark Forest by Cixin Liu and I'm wondering what other pieces of scifi media have tackled this huge mystery in an interesting manner.

What weird "epics" have you read that has been told on a grand scale? Dealing with huge concepts across time. I guess I'm being intentionally vague, the crazier the better, any genre, I'm open.

(I am a big fan of the ending of Death's End by Cixin Liu.)

What other books deal with events and concepts on the scale of Deaths End by Cixin Liu?

The crazier and more out there the better.

Are there any speculative fiction books where the authors create a fundamentally different kind of universe, as opposed to the typical make-up of planets, solar systems, galaxies, etc. Think the absurtity and creativity of the world of Discworld but on a larger scale.

Damisk's fate.... Jesus Christ lol

loved it, Steven Erikson wasn't kidding, Chapter 19 was really something.

Throughout the series, we get a lot of vague and conflicting information about Shadowthrone and Cotillion's plans involving Sorry, whether they meant for her to assassinate Laseen as Sorry, or become Sha'ik reborn, or even a longer goal of fighting alongside Tavore in the end.

What do you believe their end goal was?

This is in response to this original post: https://old.reddit.com/r/printSF/comments/k9xpvx/jeff_vandermeer_blog_post_query_on_weirdest_most/

I went through the comments on the original page and collected all the recommendations I could into this one spreadsheet, hope this is helpful.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/16EFAkcQ70LkldcKurX1jMiyMMPcuQxNU/view?usp=sharing

A lot of weird stuff here, a great deal isn't strictly sci-fi and fantasy but all very interesting.

Feel free to let me know if I missed anything.

I remember a podcast episode ending with them all singing Cherry Pie, I need to know which episode this is, any help would be great

I remember him being so stone cold but I don't have the best of memories, does he ever snap throughout the entire show?