For the love of god, someone explain Tahm Kench's select quote to me?
"Call me king, call me demon, water forgets the names of the drowned"
??? there's no way this makes sense unless Tahm Kench is drowned and he's talking to water.
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He doesn't care what you think of him; he's too suave to be affected by it. He's just going about his business. He's also saying that once you let him in, or rather trust him to any degree, you're never going to be remembered by the name of anything.
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Names could mean the names that you, specifically, call people. It is a bit poorly worded though.
"Call me king, call me demon - water forgets the names of the drowned"
Hmmmm, it really sounds like a riddle to me?
Well, his title is River King, right? Kings have been renowned for their hubris, and I don't believe that anywhere in his quotes he shows any sign of being humble. So perhaps he's referring to himself as the river?
Or he's been called many things by many people, but they're all drops in the river and without names, faceless to him. He doesn't know or care the names he's been called or by who.
My last idea is that he is one of the drowned. The river made flesh with an inflated sense of importance. It's kind of like the snake eating it's own tail? Drowned, drown, drowned, drown. Maybe 'river king' is a title passed down from one who can beat the River King at his own game, in return they are, i guess, drowned in the same power that the River King held. If you've ever watched Once Upon a Time, the transfer on the darkness from the dark ones is a perfect example of this.
It still fucking-- Might also be a grammatical fuck up, I don't know.
EDIT: okay I found this
His current name, Tahm Kench, is the name of the Gambler that came from Bilgewater. The actual demon spirit had no personal name of its own. It is the embodiment of the person's actual inner flaws
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The current demon's appearance is the embodiment the Gambler's, Tahm Kench's, foibles
This spirit literally does not have a name. I think this thing has had so many name that it's forgotten the names of the drowned, nor does it care about anything but it's next meal... which is souls.
Tahm Kench is saying that when he is going to kill someone or take everything from them(this video states that perfectly,https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=u9RM4HwwoKs) they call him demon, as the quote "You half-hearted demon!" and the word king "I'm sorry my king, please spare me though." I made both quotes up, but they work. The people who call him king want to butter him up so he won't kill them. The people who call him demon know they will die and therefore insult him. The "Water forgets the names of the drowned part," is saying that if you call him names, king or demon, he won't care, will kill you, and forget you. This is backed by some special interactions I think, (https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=9CGFQFawlzs) (yes I watched all his special interactions)But the main part is people call him two names, king or demon, he kills them, and he forgets all about them.