Will Linden Return the Ring to...

[Revan]

Thomas Covenant? I hope she does... I can't stand it when she uses it... It's insufferable... It's Covenants... I see it as his alone, and Linden just isn't suited for that.

Also, if you think about it, it's mentioned several times that she can't use both Staff of Law and Wild Magic together... so what else can she do, but hang the Ring back to it's rightful owner?

[Gart]

I think yes. There's a clear implication that Law suits her much better than wild magic...my feeling is that it's because it's not her power, it's TC's which she's using "on loan". Which would also match with SRD's comment on the GI the other day, about other people who've briefly held the ring (like Troy)

[burgs]

Just for the heck of it....

TC is the wild magic, as stated at the end of WGW. Would he even need the ring anymore?

Linden doesn't like to use it, even though she did some pretty nifty healing with it - healing that impressed a certain someone who obviously didn't think wild magic could be used with such surgical precision.

Maybe the ring will go to Jeremiah?

[UrLord]

TC became a being of pure wild magic...when he died. SRD has hinted that Covenant need not remain dead throughout the Last Chronicles, so it's quite possible that when he becomes flesh-and-bone again, he needs his ring to articulate his wild magic.

[burgs]

SRD just answered a question about this in the gradual interview. Here is his response.

"In the Land, there is always an inherent relationship between the instrument of power and the wielder of that instrument. Mhoram tells Covenant, "You are the white gold." Foamfollower himself powers his boat to Revelstone, even though the boat has a Gildenlode keel."

Covenant reveals to Linden at the end of WGW that it took him a while before he understood what Mhoram meant. Luckily, he figured it out in time.

[Revan]

Doesn't really give a definit answer,

[doubting thomas]

But several times Covenant says he cannot be trusted. We don't know what he has become, so how can she give him the most powerful ring in existence?

On an unrelated note, does anyone know when the second book is planned for? Are we talking every three years?

[dlbpharmd]

Yes, 3 long years (sigh).

[SoulBiter]

I think she should keep it. The ring is hers now.

It was her ring now, granted to her in Love and necessity.

The only real question I have now is why she all of a sudden cant seem to call up the Wild magic at will. She was able to do so even without Coventants violition in the Second Chronicals and yet she seems to have the same problem that Covenant used to have in making the link.

[burgs]

Doesn't really give a definit answer,

I think that's an extremely definite answer. I'm not sure how much more definitive it could be. Granted it's not a *simple* answer; I've scratched my head more than once over it, but it is *the* answer. TC is the white wild magic gold.

[burgs]

But several times Covenant says he cannot be trusted. We don't know what he has become, so how can she give him the most powerful ring in existence??

This is where it gets interesting. As Mhoram said, and as SRD has said, TC *is* the white gold. At this stage in the game, it appears logical that he doesn't need the ring to access its power.