I always think of the ubiquitous (there's an SRD word for you) hop-board games...Skyweir wrote:well his "side" won .. and he came out relatively unscathed ..
the cost of his ruse .. is what has always bothered me ..
Joyse had to choose between saving individual pieces and winning the game, between protecting the people he loved and saving the world.
In a way, he did to his daughters what the Creator did to Covenant: maneuvered them into untenable positions to give them the opportunity to do great things. They all made their own choices.
Of all three daughters, I think maybe Torrent was the most free--she'd been manipulated the least. In some ways, that makes her decision to go after her mother the most admirable .
I still like Myste the best though. She's the one I could most see myself being friends with.