Imagine a sheet of blank paper and consider that the map of the Land. Then place a stack of transparent sheets on it - each of them is a moment in Time. Place a dot with a marker on the same place on each transparent sheet; from above, you only see a dot, but if you look at it from the side, the va...

I made the same argument about time-travel and free will in the "Surely Linden has served Despite" thread. Can you go back and kill your great-great-grandmother or not? (Please don't say you wouldn't so it doesn't matter.) Anyway, I think the only way to make sense of the caesures and &quo...

I predict that Jeremiah will have some sort of gift/power/capability that gives him some importance. As with Covenant and Linden, he brings his own particular strength and weakness. Even though he will be out of his shell, his traumatic childhood will still be evident. His gift will be related to hi...

Does it matter that through the vast majority of the Land's history, Covenant's ring is not present in that world? I think of the ring as a tool to strengthen or weaken the Arch. Covenent's death in the Land transforms his relationship with the Arch. But I guess you could correlate the forging of th...

the exit of a caesure is always in a future time from the entrance, (except when altered by an interdiction of power by one within it) it should not be possible for Anele to have gained the time in which he is living when Linden entered the Land. Maybe in later books someone will reverse a caesure ...

OK. Take your example from the point of view of the time traveller. He sees me buy the cheesecake, then goes back one hour as I enter the store. He doesn't know anything about the existence or timing of my decisions. They don't matter (to him), they change nothing. The point, I guess, is that even t...

Maybe Roger doesn't just buy a ring because Foul wants Covenant's ring. Foul considers Convenant's ring the ring and it wouldn't occur to him to get another one. Also, Kasreyn's discussion of the power of gold in the One Tree seems to indicate that any gold would have some power. Too bad Linden didn...

I agree that the "meaning" and consequences of any particular choice are still valid (which is probably enough for a story). But in order for time travel in one timeline to work everything is preordained regardless of the perception or meaning of any choice a person within the timeline mak...

Her ability to choose has not been violated by the idea that she had already done something that she was going to do. Yikes! Maybe I'm a time travel dummy but I can't get this. The staff was missing because she went back and took it, therefore, she must go back and take it, therefore she has no cho...

Didn't Berek (as a shade) show up at the end of TPTP to witness Foul's defeat?

I'm with you on the absence of the Staff causing/allowing the Dirt.

SRD mentioned in the gradual interview that he hadn't thought of the leprosy = Ritual relationship but maybe he can work it in.

Q: What do you get when a time-traveling tornado chews up a bit of the One Forest? A: A Ceasure salad! :D The time travel stuff bothers me too. Once you allow that others times exist in a way that can be traveled to, the idea of past, present, and future are just perceptions of people living in one ...

I could be WAAAY off on this, but as I read the last bit of Runes with Covenant showing up, it felt the same as The Illearth War. There are 2 stories going on in that book, and after Mhoram and Troy get to the end there's a big explosion and then Bannor and Covenant show up floating down a river. A...

I think the Demondim can be defeated or at least weakened because the Staff can close/destroy the caesure through which they access the Stone.

Anele's communication with the Earth seems like the most obvious connection to the title but its clear that the stones speak and he listens. "Runes" signify written characters or glyphs.

Can someone post the explanation of the Clints being sisters?

I recall a Mr. Clint being Sarah's husband which makes Amy a likely daughter.

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