Attack on the kai monastery

[chris777]

The attack on the kai monastery that sets off the events for book 1. It resembles the attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese in WWII. The Darklords came from over the mountains and launched a surprise attack when the Kai lords were resting, just like in Pearl Harbor.

[jan]

LOL. I'm afraid that the attack on the Kai Monastery resembles any other attack in which the defenders were cought by surprise as well. In other words, with this logic anything can resemble anything. You can spend all you life finding comparisons between Dever's books (or the events in the Middle Earth etc.) to the real history, but all this is pretty futile.

By the way - in the case of Pearl Harbour, the most important ships (aircraft carriers) were not there and thus were not destroyed. And most of the battleships damaged or even sunk were saved later - only three battleships were lost out of eight, as far as I know. Whereas in the Kai Monastery, all the good guys but one were slaughtered, weren't they?

[Samildanach]

The battle at Alema Bridge in Flight From The Dark is a lot like the Battle of Hastings, with Prince Pelethar as King Harold and the gourgaz as William the Conqueror.

The Darklands hierarchy, as depicted in Legends, is kind of like the Roman Empire. Hmmm.

It's true that you can compare anything to anything else using this logic, but it's also kind of fun. ;D

[Simey]

And Pearl Harbour marked the opening of a new front in a war that was already happening, whereas Zagarna's surprise attack happened in a time of peace.

Here's a challenge to this logic by which anything can be compared with anything: demonstrate how the Russian Revolution is very similar to that bit where Lone Wolf meets the noodnics.

[Samildanach]

Lone Wolf is Rasputin. He is welcomed by the noodnics/Russian royal family despite being an outsider, largely due to his ability to speak to them/his gift of oratory. Some Helghast/Russian nobles want to assassinate him. Erm...I'm starting to struggle now...

[Beowuuf]

Lone Wolf was Trotsky, and the Noodnic was Stalin, and...no, wait, that's Animal Farm

[Al]

I think it has to do with teh oppressed Noodnics seeking to gain power in a society in which they were treated as second class citizens

[zipp]

Aug 15, 2011 12:44:48 GMT -5 Simey said:

Demonstrate how the Russian Revolution is very similar to that bit where Lone Wolf meets the noodnics.

A bunch of people had their shit unexpectedly stolen and couldn't do anything about it.

If you've ever innocently played through the Noodnic section, you'll see the similarities.

~ Zipp, out