K. J. Parker - Scavenger trilogy - Pattern and Memory

Continuing from the earlier post (see below). Probaply spoils stuff, but not too trastically, I hope. I might spoil pretty badly part of the man/god riddle, so beware. The books should be interesting even after reading this, though. Pattern is mostly an inbetween book. In Shadow, Poldarn gets the first clues of his identity, and in Pattern goes back to the house where he grew up; and finds out what kind of person he is. Because while memories are gone, the man under those memories is mostly intact. Pattern wasn't as good as Shadow; few times I actually had problems carrying on. My friend said he had tried to read this aswell, but couldnt keep on going.

Memory is better, and starts three years after Poldarn found himself at battlefield without clue to his identity. He has more or less found out what kind of person he is, and isint really that enthuastic in reclaiming his memory anymore. He works at a foundry, helping in casting bells for churches.
Then things start to roll. An old schoolmate finds Poldarn, wanting to - if not reclaim his memory, at least telling him the story of his life. But should he trust the man? He is not the first one who claims to know his past -- but previously, people have always lied. And then military seizes control of the foundry. They would be making something never seen in the world before - Poldarn's Flutes, huge metal tubes that shoot fire and rocks.

And while Poldarn is working in the project, he starts to remember the dreams that plague his night... and closing to Poldarn, is the man known as Monach. Like Poldarn, Monach dreams, and in his dreams, he sees the past, the present and - maybe - the future.

It is said that when the god known as Poldarn comes to earth, he dosen't know who he is, but travels from city to city in a cart, doom following. And there are things that Poldarn is said to do in his travels. And nothing can kill a god; only when Poldarn has driven thru the whole world in his cart, and sees himself coming back from the other direction, can he die. And then the world ends.
Story after story, the man Poldarn has filled. But it has all been accidents, mostly in the realms of possible. To the very end the reader has to guess is he man or god... and the solution dosen't hit like lighting bolt from the sky.

The most interesting part of the story is maybe when in the first book Monach comes to Cien investigating Poldarn, and finds an old man who claims he witnessed the god returning people back to life. He back his story very well, and even has something on the line of proof going for him, and so certain magic is backed to the character of Poldarn. In book two, Poldarn is killing ravens, and for a minute he meets, in the foggy fields, a young guy he teaches how to kill ravens. And in the book three; Poldarn remembers how as a young man, he met someone who clearly was not from this world... something divine. These few pages are the only ones that clearly go out of ordinary. Poldarn also gets few dreams about future, but they are easy enough to explain away.

I would recommend you at least browsing the books thru, if you find them in Library. They might be somewhat slow at times, but completly orginal. And books like that dont happen in Fantasy that often.