Waynhim and ur-viles cannot physically see, which means they have to perceive the world around them differently, which could be why the laws are different for them. I'll never get that one. If Laws are external to you, then why would a law care if you can see or not? And if they are internal to you...

Had I been High Lord Berek, Damelon, Loric, or Kevin, that is what I would have attempted to do. I wouldn't expect any of the old Lords to do anything like that. It seems like a certain kind of manipulation. Not sure what the right words are, but I think that the old Lords would have thought that t...

I mean, a post that mentions how LFB ends isn't a spoiler. How long does it have to be out before talking about it isn't 'spoiling' it?

Slightly off topic... First, I really enjoyed the book. Second, I was surprised at how little time it took me to get frustrated and angry with Linden. She knows she is in the Land, she is familiar with the territory, she knows it has been 3500 years since she was there. Yet she has the patience of a...

Ho-Ho's of DOOM!

OK. I guess I lose :( I know that it all boils down to "This is a book of Fantasy. Anything can happen here and the author can do what he wants". I'll buy that. I still enjoyed the story, and I'll probably read/listen to the rest of the books in the series (although I have learned from sta...

My only point is that, Elena did not suspend the Law of Death (just for Kevin), she "broke" the Law of Death, literally, in the sense that the Law of Death doesn't work well anymore. Actually, that appears to be the case. Time certainly seems to be just a little bit broken. Since the Law ...

As I tried to point out, SRD's Laws are never broken that way. They are not suspended; they are altered. So this analogy doesn't hold up - you break the speed limit, but the Law remains. A better analogy would be "You could apply some power (take a case to the State Court) and have the speed l...

I like this discussion of 'law'. I think SRD is playing a little fast and loose with us. Look at it this way... the speed limit is not a law. It is a guideline. You can apply some power (get an 8 cylinder car) and you can break the speedlimit. The law of universal gravitation is a law. The force bet...

Is it just me, or are the Laws of the Earth not very good laws. If the Law says "You can't do something" but you can do it, then the Law isn't very powerful. To Donaldson, they are more like the Suggestions of the Earth. "You shouldn't bring people back from the dead", not "...