I agree, they do not have to be seen as time travelers per se. It is clear that not all of them have this knowledge. However, if their name is any indication, then their flow of time might just be backwards with respect to all other beings. They seem to have very long lives, but that could be becaus...

Assuredly, FR revealed much about this universe of SRD's. I'd like to take some time and focus on the Elohim and their Appointings and Durances. What do we know now? 1. According to FR, the Elohim that was bound in the Collosus was done so by the trees . What?!? The consciousness of the One Forest w...

To not believe that Donaldson had conceived the Insequent when he wrote the 2nd Chronicles is to undermine the real creation of this universe, and its creator--SRD. He knew then, and he knows now what he's doing. It's just an immense task!

Spoiler: look at their name..Insequent. In, the prefix meaning "not" Sequent, in order. Not in order. With teh emphasis on temporal continuity, I think the Insequent are a people from the future, maybe End of Time, who used their Lore (non-Law type) to travel back into the far past. A bad ...

What about this as a loose thread: How was it that Foul became imprisoned on this Earth anyway? Wasn't it suggested that the creator made the Earth, and then later noticed that Foul inhabited it? Why would the creator knowingly create a realm so wondrous and beautiful as this Earth only to be used a...

Oooh, something else I just remembered that is worthy of posting... I read a quote last night from something called "A Course in Miracles." The quote goes like this: The resurrection is the denial of death, being the assertion of life. Thus is all the thinking of the world reversed entirel...

It was definitely suggested that Longwrath bears the Earthsight that compelled the Search to act on Seadreamer's vision. His vision was awful, it being the Worm getting roused by Covenant extracting a limb from the One Tree. And he died to prevent the fulfillment of that vision. I wonder if Longwrat...

I'd say that the Insequent definitely have something to do with a contradiction with the normal, linear sequence of time. The idea of them living backwards, as it were, is a neat idea, though the text doesn't seem to give any clear clues to this. But I can't discount it outright. So, let's assume th...

The whole idea of Jeremiah creating a door, or a "new, improved Arch of Time" is a plausible idea, one that is strangely reminiscent of what Zelazny did in the Amber Chronicles when Corwin created a new Pattern for that universe. (It's been too long since I read that series...) Insofar as ...

No matter how ya slice it, I see another host of new characters and/or elements (i.e. the One Rock) emerging in AATE. I mean, Donaldson's gotta explain all this new insanity somehow!