Oh no, your (atrium and peter) posts have planted an awful idea in my head that I had banished while reading the First Chronicles -- maybe the Land isn't real after all! Then again, the theme of "unbelief" would be fun to see come back, though I am not sure how it could fit into the curren...

Sorry about that. I wish I could say my mind just cannot hold all that time (as in the beginning of AATE) but obviously I was just reading posts without digesting them sufficiently.

Coincidentally, SRD just posted a response on his gradual interview that is on point: Cambo Morrison: My question has to do with the subtle presence of a lot of Buddhist concepts in the Covenant books. The most obvious are Sanskrit words as character names like the samadhi, moksha, turiya and dukkha...

I think SRD is just having a great old time with the tension and uncertainty raised by an individual's best efforts to do what is right without perfect knowledge or foresight, and with so many factors outside of the individual's control. The theme that the writing is evoking in me is not whether the...

Oops about Shiva - was I thinking of another Hindu goddess (Kali? Tali?)

Ha, you guys have ruined my evening by stirring up a maelstrom of thoughts that will prevent sleep.

Ha, forgot to introduce myself. Hello, I am a lifelong sci-fi/fantasy fan. When I read the First Chronicles during my junior high years, I didn't like them but read through them anyway because I always had to finish books and find out how things are resolved. I then read the Second Chronicles only t...

Does anyone know whether myths commonly involve a creator, destroyer, and a female figure representing life or something comparable, where the female deity is always betrayed? I recently read a book called "The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms," and in the after word the author referred to this k...

Yes, thanks for sharing the questions and answers with SRD with everyone here. I am new here so it is quite fantastic!

To say nothing of the forgiveness/healing of Kevin Landwaster. As someone who has experienced depression, and tried to hide it (as you do when in that state), and was terrifed to be exposed, and received words of grace and healing when I most expected condemnation...well. Kevin's been in despair fo...

Yeah, poor Liand. I liked him myself...kind of innocent and naive, which exuses his apparent worship of LA. I was under the impression, too, that he was destined for greater things at the end of the story...like being integral to the healing of Kevin's dirt, or something. That being said, how IS th...

Speaking of dead, is the Theomach supposed to be dead at the time of the events in AATE? That only occurred to me when Covenant recalled the Theomach participating in the council between Covenant and the Dead High Lords, etc. So Brinn killed the Theomach? Looking forward to learning all there is to ...

So setting him aside for the time being, I keep thinking of the following: TC - Denzel Washington. Not sure why, but he keeps coming into my head and can't shake him. Saltheart & Bannor - Ray Stevenson and Kevin McKidd. You may have seen Ray in some bad roles lately like Punisher Warzone and The...