I think I was probably wrong. The descriptions of the Creche have a lot of stuff about "a being who knows perfection" and sounds much more clinical than something the Creator would make for people. From what I can find with Amazon's SearchInside, it looks as though the secret doors are jus...

Edit: Since I went on and on, about this, I decided to put a disclaimer up front. I'm really not motivated to *convince* you. I will explain the context that led me to my conclusions. But I think if SRD were to respond to this discussion, he would suggest that different readers will view things diff...

...some of you have said 'create' the watch, others mention 'carving' out the stair. I have a hard time picturing any Earthpowerful being getting their chisel out to chip out the stone. I would guess that Kevin could've easily called out the stone to form the stair.

Not to be a bring-down, but my assumptions regarding the Ritual of Desecration have been more shaped by Trell's wounding of Revelstone and...well, Andrea Yates, than anything else. The Ritual of Desecration was horrible not in terms of simple explosive destruction, but because it represented the mur...

Am I overstepping to suggest that we discuss how we feel the Last Chronicles will end? We have a fair amount of information to give us ideas: 1. The Runes of the Earth If we assume that TROTE has set us off in approximately the right direction, this gives us some ability to gauge the direction of th...

In reference to the 'leprosarium' quotes from MatrixMan, I agree that the second leprosarium tale -- the woman with her smile -- is powerful. I appreciated the way that it foreshadows... Troy took a deep breath, trying to shake off the effect of Covenant's tale, but he could think of nothing to say....

I actually have quite a bit of experience coding and building on MUDs. CircleMUD was always my area of choice, just because it always has seemed to be the cleanest foundation of anything around. (I'm responsible for a few commonly-used code packages that people add to stock CircleMUD...several years...

I don't have the books with me, so I'm definitely not the best authority. However, I can relay the impressions I had when I first read the part of the novel going through Foul's Creche. It's perfection made me think of the Creator, who had tried to make this wonderful world for the people inside. Cl...

Thanks for the welcome. And I agree with you -- it seems unlikely that Foul would directly use the caesures for himself. But he is a huge fan of secondary consequences, so that every victory is a loss and every loss is an even bigger loss. I don't want to get too hung up on the Demondim being part o...

Hi all, New poster. I have been a fan of Donaldson for the past 10 years -- I was fortunate to be able to skip the agony of waiting between books, simply because I wasn't even able to read until after the 1st and 2nd Chronicles were written. So, here's the thing... If Foul can make use of the caesur...