The bane that was in the north and then found release in Mount Thunder is Kastenessen. Really, it's that simple.

Re: Anele = Elena in reverse

I've asked SRD about it in person, and he said that it was just a coincidence, and that he'd not even realised it until after RoTE was released.

Yes, khalgregar ... but such things can be done well or done badly. WGW might have ended by, on the last page, having twelve dozen Insequent jump out from behind a rock and hogpile on Lord Foul, rendering him impotent with bad singing and tickling. That fits the bill of introducing a new element. B...

@ anyone who has mentioned 'deus ex machina' - please look it up, and you'll see why The Insequent are definitely not this. Please, do this for me. They're not 'deus ex machina- esque ' or 'deus ex machina- ish '. That's like being dead- ish . The Elohim were mentioned in the 1st Chronicles indeed -...

I doubt to the highest degree possible that any current character is going to be revealed as a character of 'yore'. It seems cheap to me, and not SRD's style at all. I don't think it's why he's introduced time-travel. I mean, really. If you asked any amateur hack to write the Last Chronicles and giv...

What did Warmark get banned for?

I've always liked the name Lord Foul. From a writer's perspective, it adds weight to Covenant's original Unbelief - if he had been called something arcane and 'otherworldly' it would seem less likely that he had been drawn from Covenant's unconscious mind. SRD seems to have originally put in a fairl...

LFB - A funny thing happened to me on the way back from the Leprosarium TIW - Scent of a loonie woman TPTP - Die Hard, Laugh Harder TWL - Mork and Mindy's Bogus Adventure TOT - FFS give your ring to someone else WGW - Die Hard II, oops actually did ROTE - The (Implausible) Return of the (Dead) Prota...

I liked the idea that several Giants couldn't make Vain budge when he first stood on the deck of Starfare's Gem. The vision of those Giants straining for all they're worth and not moving him an inch makes me laugh, and that they had to work around him after that. As to why he saved Linden, I've alwa...

Yes, it's just a coincidence. I didn't notice the Elena/Anele spelling until a friend pointed out to me--too late for me to do anything about it. Sometimes these things just happen. (11/08/2004) I posted the question that resulted in this answer about a year ago I think, and have also asked him fac...