Well...I'm not saying that I didn't...it's really just a question of when I did that....

Who is actually still fooled by this lie?
You are an founding member of the Tartdingsbums (spelling?).
You can't be a simple Fiend.
Maybe Arch-Fiend, Fiendgod, Arch-Fiendgod, or something similiar.

There people go again!

Why do people keep confusing me with the Concordenax? any time we're in the same room together, it's blatantly obvious we look nothing alike.

I have nice, young, supple, greenish-yellow scales, the Concordenax has a brown leathery hide and unlike super helpful me, is a trouble maker that no one has seen in a very long time! Including me!

I am forthright and forthcoming, and am always around to be helpful, while the Concordenax likes to play hard to get, and hide and seek and is very, very good at it.

That's one reason I call the Concordenax a trouble maker, never around when needed! Makes my life very difficult!

Well that's because they were overwhelmed by the preposterousness of the Concordenax thing.

However, I am very fiendish, but only fiendish. And yes, my teeth are a bit long, but maybe some of us just don't want to learn from our years of experience and want to stay we are.

The simple thing is, "with great power comes great responsibility" and since I vehemently don't want any responsibility, I therefore do not want any great power, medium power or small power. Also, absolute power corrupts absolutely, so therefore, in order to stay pure, I must not accept any power.

I am but a simple observer of the universe, just like my old friend Nathan Brazil, we just like to sit around watching the worlds go by.

Again, I think I'd know if I was that leathery trouble maker...

But more importantly, you can ask people who've seen me and the Concordenax together in the same room.

I would, of course say, Orcus, but his memory is even worse than mine at the moment.

Arg-nargoloth! He's definitely been in the same room, as has Darg Krallnom and so many more.

Also, you mentioned gods before current gods--did I mention them in a spoiler? Don't recall now, that's a slight problem with my pipe, it does tend to cause a bit of forgetfulness. Anyway, that, of course, gets to the heart of the issue, now doesn't? That's what caused this entire mess! Or at least half, or a third, or maybe a quarter, but that is what caused a lot of problems that eventually led us to where we are now. That previous generation of gods, or rather the previous previous gods--or maybe they are the previous previous previous previous previous previous previous gods.

The most recent previous generation is, of course, safely locked away in Tartarus holding up planets, getting their livers plucked out repeatedly, etc etc.

Close? Yes, if you mean close in Gormegast Galactic Units, you are within a GLY.

Which is pretty close in terms of ӔV travel times....

Ooh, there is excruciating detail in OOA on this very issue, both in the appendix and in discussions, and in book 4 where they cross over.

The key to keep in mind however, and I admit this was confusing, I said Gormegast Galactic Light Year meaning the localverse, we call the localverse Gormegast, which, of course is kind of dumb, because we also refer to the Visteroth localverse, and they are both the same localverse, just different galaxies, millions and millions of "Earth" light years apart.

And it's also wrong because the Galactic Year and the Galactic Light Year was defined by, us, the Doompire and we use it pretty consistently everywhere where we had space empires, although you are correct in that the speed of light can be different, the GY (pronouced Geee) is not. But the speed of light is completely wacky in many places.

Anyway Gormegast is the "home planet"/capital of the Gormegast Horde Eternal which controls the Antilles Cluster. In the cluster time is measured either in planetary terms or galactic terms. Obviously planetary times change from planet to planet, however the Galactic Units are consistent and independent of planet.

A GY is basically 2.5 Astlan/CoC years or 2.85 Earth Years

The speed of light is pretty close in both Gormegast and Earth, we only have theoretical measurements for the Abyss, and we're not even sure that's accurate, as for Astlan, there are some big error bars on the measurements due to the very different physics.

But coming down to it 1 GLY=1.143859649 Earth parsecs or 1 GLY=2.693e13 Earth km

Yeah, squirm as much as they want, that was really a flub in the original movie.

They had to do a lot of head scratching to come up with a scientifically correct interpretation in "Solo: A Star Wars Story" and I admit, the way they justify the expression there is correct...but it was a flub in the original movie.

Yes, and there is quite a bit of detail on this in OOA and in COA, both feature shamans prominently (obviously Trig is a Shaman in Space).

So there is quite a bit of discussion about dead spirits, and how far back you can go to get them

It's very very different because their spirits eventually dissipate on the material plane (unless they are troubled or manage to hop over to the ethereal plane)

So, for some ancestors you have to figure out how to summon dissipated mana back together to get something out of the spirit--as opposed to a priest reaching out to a spirit in the afterlife (assuming they didn't reincarnate--in which case you are out of luck)

But, very explicitly Shamans of Orcus definitely did summon D'Orcs--see discussion on the Isle of Doom about that, this was done for a while after Orcus' death.

In particular, D'Orcs on the Isle the very few were killed and went back to Mount Doom and were then summoned back by Shamans on the Isle, both D'Orc shamans and mortal shamans. But eventually, they stopped getting killed and sent back

That's how they found out what happened.

Or that's the story they've given. As some people have noted, there are some holes in their explanations--in all the D'Orcs explanations of the aftermath. And that will start coming out in these next books.

Regular shamans, like any, would need to know the name to summon them. But, say if it was one of their ancestors, they'd probably know the name and could summon, but that fell out of fashion because so many ancestral D'Orcs disappeared, the summonings came up with nothing and people stopped trying, for mortal (non Isle of Doom shamans) it would be a crapshot as to who was still around.

Also, even before that, summoning someone you knew was a D'Orc would require a serious need. You really don't want to piss off one of the greatest warriors your tribe (and race) has ever seen, not frviolously. Futher, Orcs are not great at admitting weakness or asking for help. Not unless they had a personal relationship with the individual.

Thus summoning recent ancestors you knew, is the most likely thing, but even then, it's considered a bit disrespectful to disturb the dead. And hard to disturb the long (dissipated) dead.

Korwin, thats pretty much my thought too. That or instead of different personalities, he is just that insane, and has occasional moments of clarity. Thats why the book and his notes are so important. They help him remember the important stuff so that he doesn't get distracted for too long.