Theo doesn't have knowledge of the future - he has access to the natural progression of time... that's why he appears to be in multiple places at once (but notice these shadows never appear further from Theo than we could expect him to be able to move in real space - sort of like quantum fluctuatio...

now now Mr. Broken...

Dont be gettin all Broken over this thing.

As i already said in the beginging there are characters i like and will finish the series because of them.

You are right i was getting a bit flustered.

Attitude adjusted.

All foul would have to do is get ahold of one when they were "young" and directly or indirectly taint them to his purpose. Thus totally screwing time out of exsistence. Maybe that was the Theomach?? Without introducing lore to Berek, without giving the Seven Words to Linden, without the S...

The "problem" if there is one. Is that most if not all of us were hoping to get TC back into the srtory and that he would indeed take it back over and finish what he started. Instead what we find out is that frm srd's pov TC is a done deal. fini. We also learn that he really likes LA and t...

Makes me realize that i dont get this story at all. And further i dont think any of you do either... :biggrin: There's nothing spoiler-ish about your "schedule" question; but I'm sure I've already answered in somewhere in the GI. By personality, I'm the kind of guy who needs a routine. In ...

I am wondering how big is the Earth actually? 1. How many contentants, races and people groups are there actually? 2. Is the Land the center of the Earth? or is it just one corner? 3. Are there other planets? Stars a Moon? IS the Arch of time covering a Universe? Is the Earth a Planet? or is it a co...

Further its plainly stated by the characters in this book that Theomach inserted himself and changed history. Not only do the characters not state it, Donaldson in the GI flat out denies that the Theomach did any time traveling whatsoever. He was always there. I am and remain puzzled as always why ...

Exactly they are imo a total cop out plot hack to take care of issues raised by al this mucking around with time. If these guys exsisted prior to this would they not be key targets of lord foul for centuries? They can totally travel through time. They are mortal, they "learn things" throug...

A further thought i have had regarding the end of the book. "You are the only one who can even make the attempt" Obviously Lindedn is the only one who could wield Wild magic and Law and use the krill to resurect TC. She is litterally the only one who could do it. Given the other clues of &...

The more of these threads i read and the comments from SRD himself the more i believe that he has lost site of the "Story" and is caught up into the telling of the Narrative in a proper way. What you have here is one train wreck in the story after the next that need vauge ambiguous explain...

Have you guys seen the Anime Series RahXephon? I think we are headed to something similar to that. There is no way to undo the damage that has been done. The only way to go forward is a new or renewed creation. As has been mentioned before. TC, Linden, Jerimiah, Anele. together could acomplish some ...

On a posotive note. I think that TC absolutely had to be resurected. Its His family thats creating so much havock he should be the one who has to deal with it. Why should LA have to deal witb Roger and Joan? It y mind that is a mess that only TC can deal with. This makes me a little excited for the ...

ad: "- It destroys the mythology of the back story of the series, by exposing what happened directly and eliminating much of the cool stuff (such as the Earth speaking to Berek)" It doesn't, not in my book. It provides a wholly plausible story to see how those legends came into existence,...

I just finished the book. I started out excited but became more and more frustrated with the book with virtually every page. Most of you here are talking about the narrative and how great the book was and totally ignoring the real issues here. Like George Lucas Donaldson has totally corrupted the hi...

Runes spoiler: Linden's trip through a caesure to secure the Staff of Law kind of proves that good CAN be accomplished through evil means, so I ask: Would it be evil to possess bush and make him throw himself off the grand canyon? And then make Cheney turn his own shotgun on himself? Or is that goi...

I should point out that Islam the only other monotheistic religion to have influence in those areas did not come around until the 7th Century A.D. Early writings in Genesis or Psalms, dating thousands of years before, simply do not support a "trend" in religious thinking towards monotheism.

I have to disagree here. Elohim have nothing to do with the earth being destroyed with the Flood. Elohim is a plural form of a word that is used to describe God in Genesis. It interestingly is only paired in sentences with Singular forms of Verbs. Which is simply not normal. It is an oddity in the l...

aaah, That makes sense...

thank you..

I was looking in the book for like, literal "Runes" Like "Runes of power". etc..

You know like they need to save the land by finding the Runes of the earth, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Wurd etc

Remember you can have good and bad things happening and troubles etc without a sentient force of Evil corrupting and making plans. It is obvious that Foul was not a part of the original plan and that he just got thrown in there. i think this was even specifically addressed in the past. (its been a w...