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Ray the Telesorcerial
Ray the Telesorcerial plays a heroic, though complex, role in Book 11. He assists in the defeat of some of The Eight Elemental Constructs while also using them and other characters for his own purposes, which apparently involve some form of social research.
As the following excerpt reveals, Ray's entry into the saga is a classic example of Brahe's device of epicness through studied unepicness. The ironic use of excessive adjectives and adverbs (in classic fantasy style) contrasts sharply with the preceding section, which describes the traumatic experiences of a troubled bathtub furniliar in relentlessly arid prose.
The large bureau groaned as three loud thumps rang through the chamber and flames began to trickle from its mouth.
"What is it this time? I've already told you, we don't have any pickled supplies of any sort," muttered the desk pluckily as it turned irritably.
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"No, no, this can't possibly be the right plane, Mr. James. The mad Dr. Octopus has clearly taken up a life of crime in this one," echoed a nervous, high pitched voice from within the bureau.
The desk turned, curious. None of the previous entities in the bureau had spoken, nor had the flames appeared quite so...convincing. With a sudden roar and a groan, the bureau shattered open amid a burst of flames. Losing a bit of its pluck, the desk pushed itself against the wall in fear.
Amid the charred remains of the poor bureau, there stood a befuddled man with tired eyes, darting nervously behind his dully glinting spectacles. Though charred and covered in a thin covering of ash, he maintained a starchy appearance, standing swathed in a strange black overcoat. Beneath the curious overcoat he wore a jerkin particularly unsuited to a sorcerer: white and starchy, without a hint of the prized billowiness that marks any true wizard's robe. And, as if manifesting some hidden, desperate deathwish, he wore a long, thin cravatte around his neck like a noose. After a few moments of nervous glances, convinced that he was alone in the room, he muttered with quivering voice, ;:;:;:;:;:;:":;:;:Oh my. This isn't right at all."
The desk overcame its initial shock, which was soon replaced with a nightstand's rage, "Not even an apology, you sick bastard!?!" ::::::::"You realize that killing a bureau in transtemporal telebirthing is a first degree offense, don't you?"
- Book 11 The Hierarch Wars Continue
Following this section, the story line is broken by a ten page digression into the mating and courtship practices of Dim Elves, which is eventually woven into the story line of Ray the Telesorcerial.
Ray goes on to discover the disastrous events unfolding in Battal, and lends himself to the effort of defeating The Eight Elemental Constructs, playing the most central role in the dispersion of the Lift Maiden. His motives and the nature of his "home plane" are never entirely clarified.
Fan Theories about Ray's origin
He is sometimes believed by some to be a chronoclone of Yar the Sorcerial, because he engages in a struggle with and against the Constructs in a storyline parallel to Yar's struggles to bring "balance" to the warring factions of Chronosorcellors in the volume. Aside from the obvious similarities of the names and the parallel story lines, there are a number of other parallels obvious to careful readers of the series, such as Ray's "birth" in a burst of flames.
Other's point to this passage:
Ray leaned forward and took on a conspiratorial tone. "Listen Jarvelos. When my people left Nar..." but Jarvelos was softly snoring on the sedan chair and Ray merely patted him on the arm and quietly stepped out of the room.
Some fans say that this is proof that Ray comes from an alternate plane where the decendants of the Great Nation of Nar fled after that kingdom's decimation, others theorize that when he says "my people" he is merely talking about all Telesorcellors. Since the revelation was cut short, it is difficult to give a definative answer.
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