In answer to Edelaith's: 'A complete victory of the Despiser over the Land was preferable' I would pose the question for whom? For the people of the land? I think not. For Foul? Probably not - if the people of the land had suffered a total defeat, then there would be no Lords and so how would the De...

Note to self.......must learn how to use the 'quote' function - not that I am new to this or anything....... Covenantjr wrote: 'Quite. Also, as I just posted in another topic, we see Berek's ghost during the confrontation with Foul in TPTP, and there is no mention of him looking eerily like Covenant...

Maybe.... Because he has built up a reputation for telling the truth (however twisted and veiled) and so, instead of people being able to dismiss what he says outright as potentially lies, they are forced to accept that there is truth in what he says. As such, it gives them more to worry about and s...

Ref: If someone says "Nom!" and Nom comes, then there's some new factor involved. (Wayfriend) But that was the case with TC at Revelstone in WGW - Nom didn't come back because he was compelled. He came back for TC presumably because he felt that he owed TC for not killing him. As for the s...

I prefer the UK one.

The American one looks too much like sooooo many others

To possibly link this thread with another....... The Raver that Nom 'rent' was Sheol. Who was the raver who: 'mastered the heart of Berek's liege — Sheol who slaughtered the champions of the Land, and drove Berek, half-unhanded and alone, to his extremity on the slopes of Mount Thunder' (again, than...

Sheriff Lytton - thanks, I obviously got my timelines wrong. (I do not have the books to hand), I thought that 10 years in our world was about 3000 in the land (from a quote somewhere in wounded land), which would make his leprosy diagnosis about 2000 years before the ritual; at about the time of th...

Hi all Found this forum yesterday - wow!! I offer the following thoughts - the info that it is based upon pretty much all comes from the first 2 trilogies and it is all speculative!!! Any thoughts? I saw a thread on this forum which said something along the lines of: “It is likely that Foul had no i...