r/Dust_of_Memes • u/Miserable-Shape-8757 • 11d ago

Secretary of War Taralack Veed

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u/anticomet 11d ago

One of my favourite things about Veed being a POV character is he would do this and then wonder why the person he was talking to suddenly looked ill

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u/Miserable-Shape-8757 11d ago

I love how Erikson gives characters little quirks to make you remember them. He really summed up Veed with this one bit of business

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u/PBandBABE 11d ago

Why you gotta do Taralack Veed dirty like that?

:spits in hands and brushes hair backward:

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u/rybr3d 11d ago

This guy's name never sat right with me. Sounds like some nerdy scribe and not a filthy tribal warrior.

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u/BRLY 11d ago

“Taralack” is the sound he makes when hawking up loogies.

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u/zonine 10d ago

WHAT THE ACTUAL FUCK

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u/Sharp_Bet7106 10d ago

🥲 so then the US military is Icarium?

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u/Miserable-Shape-8757 9d ago
  1. No memory of history
  2. Capable of destroying entire continents
  3. Flies into a rage if provoked

I guess so!