What is Kellhus's intention?
The maddening possibilities... The study deepens.
Here's my first pass:
Leaving The Great Ordeal must have always been a plan. He was grooming Proyas for that roll since WLW or sooner.
From that, I think returning to Momemn was always in the plan, though I didn't see that coming at all.
If Momemn, then I believe he planned the death of Maithanet. He had to give Yatwer and the White-Luck something. A trade of 'queens' maybe? Maitha for WL. Or, an inevitable gambit he could not surmount until he could have Kelmomas interrupt WLWs not-so-white-luck.
In addition, if saving The Empire was his plan, then he planned to force Zeum into the fray. If Fanayal had won, I'm guessing Zeum would see Kellhus as False and not help TGO.
So, if defeating Fanayal, then bringing Zeum. Since there might be doubts still, he'll murder the King and scare the rest into capitulating.
I'm thinking he plans to destroy the Consult still. He must appear at Golgotterath or otherwise meet with Akka so he can kneel. The why escapes me though.
Recently, I've also been wondering why Kellhus needed Achamian to go to Ishual but I think I've decided that this arc mirrors Moenghus' in PON. Thirty years and still circumstance overwhelmed him. He needed his full-blooded son. Kellhus has had twenty years and still - perhaps - circumstance overwhelms him. He needed his full-blooded son... and Achamian is a Cipher for the Dunyain, a person whom the Dunyain would be intrigued rather than threatened by.
And, unfortunately, when Achamian and Mimara show up at the Ordeal - fucking called that Achamian wants Mimara to use the Eye on Kellhus years ago 
! - Kellhus is going to ask where his son is and instead of Koringhus, he's going to get his defective grandson...
History repeating seems a theme, so Kellhus looking for his son seems reasonable... Except that he could have just grabbed him himself on his way to Golgotterath with TGO. "Hey guys I'll be back tomorrow, I need to go see someone real quick".
On that note, it seems the Anasurimbor line continues to excel. Koringhus' intellect, according to him, baffled the elders. A couple more generations and they might have been unassailable - even as Kellhus and his might may be floundering(?). Too bad the Consult found them first.
Though maybe he needed not his son, but an army of Dunyain, or his whole line. Something that he didn't have time to sit around and spend days convincing the Dunyain to help. Something that Akka would have been able to deal with. I'm not really sure.
What is Kellhus's intention?
I was pretty surprised that we got POVs from Kellhus. I wonder if RSB's test readers were once again confused about Kellhus (much like in the initial draft of TTT) which prompted some rewrites with Kellhus getting POV chapters.
I suppose that up until the end of the battle for Dagliash, I assumed that Kellhus's plan was to defeat the Consult with the GO and then figure out a way to close the world to the Gods (which I think we see in the new version of the Celmomian Prophecy--which blew my mind in slow motion btw). He takes great pains to show Proyas that the Gods care nothing for men (to get buy in for closing the world). Kellhus is completely prepared to sacrifice everyone at home. Then comes the Inch-Nuke and Kellhus's departure from the GO.
I think what surprised me the most in the book was that Kellhus went HOME. He was ready to sacrifice Momemn, and then he returns. Has he decided the GO is doomed? Is he going to try to build another ordeal? It wouldn't seem feasible, considering that all the Schools now march with Proyas. (It's my assumption that Vim-Mithriti was the last sorcerer in the Three Seas). So what's the plan now?
my money is that Bakker has take the utmost pains to hide Kellhus' intention until like the last page of TUC. he'll be foreshadowing multiple eventualities until it's all over i bet
Probably true. At some points in the book I was like, "oh shit, he actually is evil." and then at other points, he seemed benevolent. So I still don't know.
I hope to be guessing till the end
. Kellhus' madness, and his change from absolute certainty to confusion is quite staggering. Love it.
Maybe for a different thread, but the Nature of good/evil are grey to me, even as they are clearly defined.
Like the difference between morality and ethics.
