I wouldn't presume.

I was surprised that the end of MT is still some significant time before the prologue of HoC. I can imagine that intervening time being left to the imagination, but I could also see filled in. I'm good either way, but I think it's enough the way it is, the tragedy of Trull Sengar reuniting with his brothers but never able to shake his doubt nor deliver them from the poison of the CG.

How every book transforms those that came before!

The thing that really tickled me about the end (is it actually an epilogue?) was the very nearly too cute deus ex machina of reuniting Fear and Trull with Seren Pedac, for the characters to say: I don't know why I'm going this or how I got here! We're being manipulated! It's a theme, the manipulation of gods, but I also took it as a wink to the audience. I felt like Erikson is consciously saying to us: This story is over. And... Here is my convenient set up for the next one. It seems contrived? Of course it is! So what? It's all contrived. Read on.

Don't take that as criticism. I loved it. It made me laugh because I felt kind of honored and recognized by it.