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 ...

Agree completely Condign. There was no structure to TLCs and so the entire enterprise fell flat. Never thought I'd say it but I miss Lester Del Rey... never would have let this happen.

Whenever SRD has spoken about "the purpose of fantasy," he talks about how fantasy is the externalization of internal conflict: making the things we can't confront about ourself real so that we have to confront them. It's about the intangible things that matter, transformed into living for...

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...

peter wrote:I never even thought that Troy did fail. How did he?

Well on his own terms he failed by planning poorly and setting up his army for decimation. Making the best of a bad situation was a good outcome all things considered, but Art of War and all....

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...

The fact that they would destroy the Arch of Time seems like a sufficient means of preventing people from "screwing up time". Also, since this is an age of the Land where Time has been weakened by the breaking of the Laws of Life and Death, an age that has lasted 3500 years, I would expec...

ussusimiel wrote: I would say that I feel that the Insequent are 'not fully woven' into the fabric of the Chrons.

Like something inserted into the previously existing, correct timeline after the fact, perhaps?

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...

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 ...

SRD admitted as such in the gradual interview a few years ago.

“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...

The idea's been floated before, but Berek's original staff was NOT black. The Forestal goes so far as to call the color of Linden's staff "lamentable." TLCs involve time travel but the old staff and new staff are (probably) not the same.

Given his treatment from his publishers I believe that the glossaries have been copied directly from each series to the next with new terms added as the arise. For instance, Quellvisk appears in FR's glossary and is copied into AATE's. I'd guess that the choice of "apparently" is in relati...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Ah the drunk-post... at least I _hope_ that was a drunk post.

Otherwise, wow.

wayfriend wrote:It's an old joke. It ends with "thank god I didn't step in it."

Yeah, I was making a Happy Gilmore reference... "You eat pieces of shit for breakfast?" .... "No...!"