In earlier books, characters were told they were certain things, convenant was the white gold, linden embodied law, following these
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The arch of time will be broken during the final chronicles. Law and White Gold exist outside the arch of time, Covenant was finally able to best Foul when he died (after being stabbed in the real world). Linden is dead, being shot, and will die in the land before breaking the arch. But because the laws of life and death were broken (and time is corrupt), linden and convenant can exist outside the arch, Linden will break the arch using white gold and law, cast foul out of creation, the rebuild the arch using herself and convenant as the components (like vain and findail remade the staff of law. The ending will be the re-creating of the Land without foul, restoring the beauty we first saw in the original stories.
