Wildling wrote:Maybe 4-6 were destroyed by the sunbane. It killed off most everything else right?

A variation on the same idea is that the Clave could have destroyed any that it found.

Savor Dam, in the cosmology of the Old Lords that was passed down to the New Lords, there is some ambiguity about the Despiser's exact relation to the Creator. See Tamarantha's recounting of the Land's Creation legend in the chapter "Blood-Bourne" of LFB (pp.273-275 in Fontana paperback ed...

Another thing to recall is that in one of his interviews about the Last Chronicles, SRD said that loving parents and their absolute emotions for their children would be a major theme. There are a number of aspects of this theme that have yet to be fully worked out, especially in turns of possible pa...

Maybe the Theomach found a portal so there would be no need of a ship? I thought of that, and it seemed plausible given what we're told about the Theomach's powers, but then I found the quote from Stave that refers to Berek and the Theomach having to deal with nicor and the Soulbiter during their j...

I've never really been clear as to how much of the land north of Doom's Retreat was populated by whatever kingdom Berek came from. Or if it was settled and cultureized in a meaningful way, or if it was a a loose assortment of logging camps in the land. Anyways, if the need was great enough, he migh...

In a conciliatory gesture of fatherly love, Covenant will feed Roger his favourite dish, and Roger will respond by saying "Nom, nom, nom!"

While I understand the idea that Berek and the Theomach must have sailed to the One Tree, we don't know for certain that they did. The One Tree could have been in a different location during Berek's time. I've done some checking, and found Stave saying this to Linden on p.476 of FR (Gollancz editio...

Another important thing to remember is that throughout the first three volumes Linden's overriding priority was to rescue and redeem Jeremiah. Now that Jeremiah is with her, he has been freed from the croyel and his mind has been restored, we can expect Linden to make some important decisions about ...

Two immediate thoughts: 1. Covenant's leprosy is active again, and could be the cause of further disability and/or disfigurement to add to his trials. 2. Roger is still out there causing havoc, and Covenant may want to deal with the "Roger problem" by redeeming him rather than destroying h...

I've mentioned this before (a couple of years ago I think), but there is a dialogue between Pitchwife and Linden in TOT in which he relates the Elohim's cosmology and their conception of the role of the Worm of the World's End in the periodic creation, destruction and recreation of the cosmos. This ...

I've posted some comments in the thread "TLD Chap 3: Not Dead to Life and Use" that are also relevant to this discussion.

SkurjMaster wrote:Isn't it the same one that he received when he smacked his head against the coffee table talking to Joan in the beginning of The Illearth War right before he was translated?

Yes. It's then healed by the Lords, but reopened when Hile Troy hits him with Mhoram's staff.

Whilst we would not want the backstory to overshadow the story in TLD, I'm sure that we all have questions about the Land's history that we'd be interested to see answered. One (which I think I've mentioned in another forum) is the question of where Berek and, after him, Damelon would have had their...

Did Giant Woods survive into the third trilogy? I don't have a map handy. The short answer is yes. The longer answer is that if you compare the maps of the Land in the First and Second Chronicles, you see that Giant Woods is narrower in the latter, but still exists. This must be because, as the onl...

That quote seemed to be the sort of thing that Covenant would say to somebody that he respected enough to feel that they had a right to some explanation or justification of his intentions. The elohim almost certainly don't fall into this category. NB: I use the word "respect" in the sense ...

There are plenty of examples in the Chronicles of incorporeal beings that aren't Dead - the Ravers are the obvious ones.

As a general comment, I'd say that on one hand we're talking about fantasy where the only limits to what is possible are those of the author's imagination (and SRD has one of the biggest and best of those) but on the other hand it would be very unlike SRD to bring something in that would render the ...

Another thought. I wouldn't be surprised if Brinn has used the word simony in some archaic or obscure sense known only to SRD and those of us who take the time to look up his quaint words and their history in the full-length Oxford Dictionary.

After seeing the trailer and reading Chapter 3 twice, I conjecture that Covenant will use the krill to destroy turiya Herem. This is based on (a) Brinn's reference to the krill's powers increasing with use and (b) that we already know that the first two uses of the krill as a weapon were to slay the...

Jeremiah chapters is what I dread. I havent liked him at all in the story. Not in Lindens strange relation to him or his tv serial comedy show 'kid' dialogue while he was croyel candy. I really hope we are not subject to him so much, but I fear we will be. But the strange relationship was as strang...