/lit/ - Literature

>>20161536
>Most violent of all men
>Physically dominated like a child by a Dunyain
>Intellectually and emotionally dominated even harder.
>Even inhabited by Ajokli, it just means Ajokli gets dominated.
He is still like a child compared to the Thought Dancers.

>>19963201
I think Kellhus serves a few roles.

>He takes the ideas of the Mentat and Bene Gesserit witch from Dune and shows how alien and abhorrent such people would probably actually be.

>He uses Kellhus as a counterpoint to show the problems with utilitarianism. The Consult is so vile and so dangerous, almost anything is justified to stop them. But then Kellhus is an absolute psychopath who predates on the world born, which makes you question if his version of Dune's Golden Path is worth it. In this respect, Bakker improves on Dune because the threat Leto II stops by becoming a genocidal abomination is always amorphous and not defined well. Then he ups the anti by showing that the Consult might actually be justified in genetically engineering rape monsters because sentient life is doomed to Hell after death.

>The Dunyain represent the faliure of pure rationalism, pure intellect, pure Logos, to fully embody the Absolute in his semi-Absolute Idealism philosophy sections. The recursive intellect only gets one so far, feeling, the Atman of perception, love, i.e., the recognition of the self in another, are all essential too.

>Kellhus makes for cool scenes where he outsmarts smart people, BTFOs a great Nonman warrior and the most dangerous world born man (pic related, RIP Cnauir's ego) physically, and in terms of sorcery goes SSJ and Gokus all comers.

Why did Cnauir want to find Khellus? He would obviously just get btfo again. He had no plan it seemed except thinking being really angry would help.

Cnauir is such a psychopath piece of shit that I almost liked Khellus for long stretches for cucking and absolutely mogging him, except in the second series I concluded Khellus is a Mao tier monster, basically as bad as the satanic forces of the Consult.

This part felt good though.