You've made a very fine point, Spawn. I agree that the lack of other characters to ... and let's face it, this is what it is about ... the lack of other characters to love is very noticible. For me, it goes beyond the characters. The Land itself is no longer a character in the story. No Andelain. N...

Also, the Creator (I think) said that the Despiser can't be killed. Covenant surely said it. If that bears out, we won't see Foul destroyed. The "ultimate answer to evil" won't be exterminating evil from the world. The Mahdoubt, the Harrow, and others have seen that these are the last day...

Would it not better promote despite to force Linden to choose , and force Covenant to stop her? Intimate betrayal with tragic consequence. That actually makes sense... Put Linden in a position such that the only way to save Jeremiah is to use so much power that it will topple the Arch... Covenant's...

I don't see TC buying into that...he is the Arch. And I'd love to see Foul force Cov to choose between Joan, Linden and Roger, one left alive...that would really hit home...Despair, groveler... When has Foul REALLY been able to make TC choose anything? He frustrates Foul by making his own choices.

shadowbinding shoe wrote:Do you see TC buying into Linden's ideology and declaring that the Arch can crash and the Land burn, all that's important is saving his son Roger?

Considering that the title of the final volume is "The Last Dark," I can see the end of The Land.

No need to re-read the First Chrons. Start with the Second, then do Runes & FR again. SRD himself has said the 2nd Chrons contain a fair amount of backdoors & loose threads that directly tie into the Last Chrons. Think about the Elohim (specifically Findail & his stories). Just my own h...

At the beginning of "Against All Things Ending", Linden (& the resureccted Covenant) confront & defeat (without destroying) the Worm of the World's End, using both Earthpower & wild magic. In between there, and the end of "The Last Dark", Covenant destroys both Lord ...