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- Tue Mar 01, 2016 8:53 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: High Lord Elena
- Replies: 243
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trace the ways in which the various acts of resistance of Covenant, Triock, Whane and Lal, the Forestal, etc., in one location, and of Mhoram, the Waynhim, Borillar, Drinny, etc., at the other, synergised to bring about two significant breakthroughs for the defenders of the Land at a crucial moment...
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:49 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Testing for Lordship
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6717
- Fri Feb 26, 2016 1:37 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Testing for Lordship
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6717
Someone like Baradakas for example, who being a Woodhelven Elder and able to draw magical power from a staff, might not know the deeper lore of the Land making his skills too limited for Lord's work. We know that the lillianrill practiced and delved into areas differing from those of the Lords. For...
- Tue Feb 23, 2016 7:28 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Lore under the Sunbane
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7802
I recall thinking that the rite of Soothtell was in many ways reminiscent, in structure if not in purpose, to the Lords' attempt to exorcise dukkha-waynhim of the Illearth-taint. The rukh is obviously a cognate to a Lord's staff. Really, there are more similarities than one would first think. I beli...
- Thu Feb 11, 2016 6:53 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Lore under the Sunbane
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7802
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 4:24 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Testing for Lordship
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6717
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 2:42 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Testing for Lordship
- Replies: 17
- Views: 6717
Testing for Lordship
We know that all the New Lords have mastered the trials of both Sword and Staff at the Loresraat before they were able to assume the mantle of Lordship. Recall the scene at Revelwood in TIW where adepts of the Sword perform various martial and gymnastic feats for the entertainment of the company fro...
- Thu Jan 21, 2016 1:50 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: The Warmark's Sword
- Replies: 16
- Views: 5641
The Warmark's Sword
Upon yet another reread of TIW, something I remember noticing years ago but not giving thought to jumped out at me. On at least two occasions when Hile Troy is donning or maintaining his sword, Donaldson describes it as an 'ebony sword', or the 'traditional ebony sword of the Warmark'. Not that this...
- Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:00 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Foul Wife?
- Replies: 7
- Views: 6202
Yes, she was referred to as Elena Foul-Wife at the Colossus. No one else was given such an 'honorific'. Myself, I assume that Triock was made to say this to TC due to Raver-influence. In fact, it was possibly even something off-the-cuff to unbalance and befoul TC that his very own Land-born daughte...
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:23 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Donaldson's Obscure Words - Official Thread
- Replies: 208
- Views: 172384
- Tue Dec 03, 2013 5:21 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Donaldson's Obscure Words - Official Thread
- Replies: 208
- Views: 172384
- Sun Dec 01, 2013 5:08 pm
- Forum: The Summonsing
- Topic: Welcome Visitors & New Members !! - Say Hello in HERE :)
- Replies: 7898
- Views: 1270698
Thanks, all. By the way, I should say that I am one of those Linden-supporters that are rumored to exist...and I'm not even sorry about it! Seriously, this forum is great. I have literally no one IRL to discuss SRD with anymore, and judging by the eloquence and lore I have read through so far, I'll ...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:46 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: I missed something.....when did the Worm...
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7712
Frostheart, this deserves a long, well-reasoned, congratulatory response. Alas, I have not time to post one, but Joy is in the Eyes that Read, and your response made me very happy. I should learn more about Finnish myth. Aside from a long-ago read of the Kalevala, I'm shamefully ignorant on this sub...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 11:42 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Lore under the Sunbane
- Replies: 18
- Views: 7802
I agree that the Rede is essentially just a how-to/propaganda gathering of knowledge. (I always wondered if the Riders had a written copy somewhere, like a Sunbane-apt set of Wards) but I assume it is chiefly orally learned. Sunder and Hollian, as well as others (Stonemight WH's Graveler) mention as...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 5:30 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: I missed something.....when did the Worm...
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7712
For the record, I'm very glad SRD's Giants don't behave like the Jotuns! I'm fairly certain Nidhogg and Jormy derive from the same archetypal source, though it has been quite some time I read into such matters. In any case, your recount of Jormy's behavior and effects upon the sky and earth do indee...
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 3:19 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: I missed something.....when did the Worm...
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7712
- Fri Nov 29, 2013 2:50 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: I missed something.....when did the Worm...
- Replies: 32
- Views: 7712
the song has it they play cards, which I'm not sure of, but ,worms are nature's recyclers. In that sense death and rebirth become one , with the Worm. As nightmarish as the Worm was portrayed, bringer of tsunami, devourer of stars and consumer of vast quantities of Earth Power...the destruction of ...
- Tue Nov 26, 2013 10:10 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: The Ravers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14331
Also, the krill was designed by Loric to be a kind of simulated white gold--or to echo as nearly as possible the possibilities thereof. Wild magic was present in the Land; the blade was responding to that. Maybe a white-gold resonant krill being wielded with extreme passion on a willing Raver-vessel...
- Sun Nov 24, 2013 5:45 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: The Ravers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14331
- Sat Nov 23, 2013 4:55 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: The Ravers
- Replies: 35
- Views: 14331
That is pretty much what I figured, also. I'm sure could Wildwood have annihilated a Raver, he never would have let one escape his grasp, after all. I think, as far as animals went, they just lived in the Forest, but took no part in its essential 'tree-soul'. Recall how utterly dismissive Wildwood w...