I was confused by this at first, but then I became convinced that the comment about the Staff not needing runes was one of Linden's perception and not one from the omnisicent narrator (similar to the comment in ROTE that "Because the ur-viles had betrayed Lord Foul, he had destroyed them all.&q...

We also have evidence that the personality of the Elohim can be lost in such a merger, a.k.a. the Colossus of the Fall.

Okay, ever since reading TOT and WGW I've had some trouble with the issue of the awakening of the Worm. In WGW, Linden asks Findail why Foul doesn't just wake up the Worm himself, since that would achieve his goal of the destruction of the Earth. Findail replies that if Foul were to do so without th...

I'm not saying that the Haruchai know definitively that the caesures allow for time travel; I'm saying that they know there are some time-related disturbances roaming the Land.

Something else occurred to me: given that the Haruchai can tell Anele is filled with Earthpower, this should have convinced Stave that Anele was the same Anele as existed in the past (since they would have recognized that trait in the past too). After all, what are the chances that there are two suc...

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The latest from SRD: Will: Hi Steve, It's been a while since I posted any questions, mostly because I can't think of anything insightful that someone hasn't already asked! Maybe I am grasping at straw here, but is there any significance to the grass stains on Linden's jeans? They seem to have been m...

I've reworded my first question slightly because I'm not sure it was clear what I was asking (based on lurch's response). As to Q#2, I think you may be missing the point of what I'm asking, lurch (or perhaps I don't understand your answer). My question is a literal one: the Dead are supposed to appe...

So to pass the time until AATE comes out, I've started to re-read the First and Second Chronicles, and I also re-read Fatal Revenant. This led to two questions in my mind: 1) In The Illearth War, the Bloodguard kill Kinslaughterer, and the Raver is apparently banished. Yet in The Power That Preserve...

I just gave you an "official" thanks, so here's an old fashioned one too: Thanks! This clears up a lot....although it doesn't really address the question I had, did Troy voluntarily "give" the ring back to Covenant? Sorry, when I wrote "this may be answered", I wasn't ...

This might be answered via a question to the GI I submitted about 4 years ago, and more specifically SRD's response: JP: I have a question about the nature of personal choice as it relates to Covenant's ring. Covenant tells Linden that the reason that Foul hasn't simply possessed him with a Raver to...

It's always bothered me that in all the post-LFB books, Covenant makes a big point about wearing the same clothes and matching his physical condition at the time he's going to exit the Land, but at the end of LFB, he himself notes that he lost his regular clothes prior to entering Mount Thunder, and...

In my 2nd full pass through "Runes of the Earth", I noticed something strange. Stave professes significant doubt at the beginning of the book that Anele is who he says he is, and while at one point he admits that the son of Hollian and Sunder was named "Anele", he insists that th...

If the Skurj are corrupted Earthpower, they certainly could be "healed" by the new Staff of Law, thus setting them up to become the Fire-Lions of Mount Thunder (via some sort of time-travel device).

This timeline makes no sense to me - how could Berek place a guardian prior to arriving at the One Tree with the Theomach?

Because the Theomach would not need to be with Berek for Berek to seek out the One Tree; the Theomach could've simply told him where it was.

I have the same question. Why isn't the following timeline possible? 1. Berek places first guardian. 2. Second guardian takes over for first guardian. 3. Third guardian takes over for second guardian. 4. Theomach defeats third guardian. 5. Berek makes the Staff of Law. I suppose the tricky part of *...

Something I just realized... SRD mentioned in the GI recently that the Theomach returned to the ranks of the dead when Brinn defeated him. Silencing the dead to keep them from influencing Linden seems like something he would do. Doesn't the GI also say that the Theomach also "passes out of the...

The black isn't black to signify other black things. That's said with much definitiveness, but it's not like any of us *know* at this point exactly what significance it has. We all have our theories, but it's not like anyone can authoritatively reject a theory another has. Well, SRD can, but not th...

Actually, the first thought I had about the blackness was related to Vain, since he obviously was ebony and is part of the Staff. But I didn't get any further in my thinking than that.

Wasn't he also called the Kemper? Or was that someone else? Wasn't Kasreyn's croyel solely associated with granting him virtual immortality? You're absolutely right that he is known as "the Kemper"; I had forgotten that. However, I seem to remember that he asked to be appointed "Kemp...