This thing about Pahni & Bhapa and the Masters has fascinated me from the time that the Ardent took Pahni and Bhapa away to Revelstone. Covenant, through Anele, addresses Phani and Bhapa: In some ways, you two have the hardest job. You'll have to survive. And you'll have to make them listen to y...

On my second read of AATE, I did make a time-line for the ending, to try to keep tabs on who was where & when. If the time when the company splits up is day #1, then... Rest of day #1 is a travel day for both TC and Linden, Night #1, Linden does her "cutting" thing. Day #2 is, once aga...

I've been re-reading FR, and taking my time with it this time, and I've come up with a couple of things that seemed to invite a different take. This the first of those. In Berek's camp, the Theomach "teaches" the Words to both Berek and Linden. ================== "The tale is told tha...

Is it anywhere stated that an Elohim is actually required to make the second Staff of Law? Did the Elohim elect an Appointed so that any new Staff would not be restricted to the Law as the ur-viles wished? The Dead gave Covenant a gift, but all things have risks. Perhaps the reason Covenant had to l...

Covenant, once summoned, stays in the Land until his summoner dies, then he returns to his world. How can Hile Troy remain in the Land after his summoner (Atiaran) has died? Since he is in the Land, he can never be returned, since his summoner can now never die, and how is it that Covenant never see...