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- Fri Nov 08, 2013 9:51 am
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: TLD. Fusing the psychological alloy - an allegory unravelled
- Replies: 54
- Views: 25473
How is this the enduring solution to the problem of evil, and entropy? Sure, if you give your characters the inexplicable power to remake worlds, it sure looks like an answer to entropy, but that's magic. It's fantasy. It has no relevance to the real world, to us. What's the real world counterpart ...
- Thu Nov 07, 2013 9:38 am
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: A Critique of The Last Dark
- Replies: 51
- Views: 21374
- Wed Nov 06, 2013 12:55 pm
- Forum: The Last Dark
- Topic: I liked being in the Land again, but wish the story....
- Replies: 29
- Views: 9292
- Sun May 26, 2013 10:54 pm
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Did the Old Lords Sabatoge the future Generations?
- Replies: 48
- Views: 10042
I have to wonder why exactly a capacity to lash out in an ecstasy of destructiveness is so essential in Kevin's Lore. Because the capacity to lash out is essential to humanity. A central theme of the Chronicles is to learn how to accept yourself as human - flawed and destructive as we are - and mov...
- Sun May 05, 2013 11:02 am
- Forum: The First and Second Chronicles of Thomas Covenant
- Topic: Could Troy have convinced Covenant, if he wasn't so angry?
- Replies: 37
- Views: 11651
- Thu May 02, 2013 2:47 am
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Insequent and Unfettered
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18633
It's hard to integrate the Haruchai's meeting the Insequent with that story. They met the Vizard before they marched into the Land and encountered Kevin. That was thousands of years before the events in WGW. Negatory. The Haruchai of the 1st and 2nd Chronicles DIDN'T meet the Vizard. It's not until...
- Tue Apr 30, 2013 11:51 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Insequent and Unfettered
- Replies: 40
- Views: 18633
- Tue Jul 17, 2012 5:03 am
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: How bad is it?
- Replies: 577
- Views: 116122
- Wed Jul 04, 2012 7:32 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: How bad is it?
- Replies: 577
- Views: 116122
Anyway, I think the world of the First Chronicles didn't contain any Insequent. I think the past was retroactively changed to contain Insequent. A good example of this principle in action is the climax of TPTP where Covenant faces down Lord Foul. Then in AATE Covenant in spirit form time-travels to...
- Sat Mar 31, 2012 12:51 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: How bad is it?
- Replies: 577
- Views: 116122
The lack of an editor (or at least one as involved and competent as with the 1st and 2nd chronicles) seems like the root of the problem. There is all this disagreement between readers in part because of how much work is required to get at the same old SRD stuff. Some are enjoying the work more than ...
- Thu Jan 05, 2012 7:45 pm
- Forum: General SRD Discussion and Other Works
- Topic: "Reave The Just" and "By Any Other Name"
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2033
- Thu Nov 03, 2011 1:54 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: How will the Haruchai be redeemed?
- Replies: 72
- Views: 21659
“Mayhap the insight we require lies elsewhere in Anele’s utterance. Did he not state that the Worm will bring destruction ‘If it is not opposed by the forgotten truth of stone and wood—’? I'd hazard that this is more a question of the One Rock and the One Tree, the communion between Anele and the r...
- Mon Oct 31, 2011 11:04 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Krill's blade and the heals of the staff
- Replies: 12
- Views: 8870
- Mon Aug 01, 2011 7:02 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Clues in the glossary?
- Replies: 4
- Views: 2211
- Sat Apr 30, 2011 5:30 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: The Cursed Staff
- Replies: 5
- Views: 2080
The Cursed Staff
Haven't had time to pull up page numbers, but was thinking about how all the people with access to Linden's black staff die soon after. Mahdoubt is shown the staff in Garrotting Deep, and then succumbs to the Harrow soon after. Harrow gets Linden's staff to enter the Deep and then gets sucker punche...
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:42 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Foreshadowing the world go boom? :)
- Replies: 6
- Views: 2240
Hrm.... Sunder couldn't have been the law breaker because Sunder had no power. The krill was involved in the law breaking but could not have broken the law itself (from the descriptions we have of it in FR anyway). All Sunder did was plunge the knife, but it was Caer-Caveral's power that did the act...
- Sun Sep 05, 2010 5:24 pm
- Forum: Against All Things Ending
- Topic: Demeanor of the ancient lords
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1501
I thought the same thing on my most recent re-read. I think what we have on the face here is another case of the stand-alone first chronicles being expanded into the larger universe of the complete series. There are all kinds of in-story rationalizations and explanations that can be offered for the ...
- Sat Apr 18, 2009 9:52 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: The meaning of The Last Dark
- Replies: 47
- Views: 25867
If I remember correctly, it wasn't so much that anybody _planned_ for the white gold to obviate the first wards... the white gold was just so powerful that it completely overwhelmed the safeguards and activated Amok. Which also makes sense when you consider that the new lords took WAY too long to re...
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:21 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: The one stone.
- Replies: 21
- Views: 8472
- Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:18 pm
- Forum: Fatal Revenant
- Topic: Perspective: The Old and the New
- Replies: 19
- Views: 5912