Sunbane frequency

[BraulioB]

I was thinking that it might be preferable to have a different version of the Sunbane every day than the sequence that the Land was having of 3 days of each sun. Sure, if you know how many days of a particular Sunbane you're going to have will make surviving those days easier, but wouldn't a different sun every day help to amelorate the day before it? I don't think that the sun of Pestilence or Desert would be any fun, but knowing that the next day might be a day of rain would be helpful.

What do you guys think?

B

P.S. maybe after a long time, the Sunbane wouldn't be just one sun a day, it could possibly change evey hour. That would be bad. Important tip, guys, don't cross the sreams.

[I'm Murrin]

I think the threat of the accelerating sunbane was that the rapid cycle from one exteme to the next would tear the Land apart, or at least that's how it came across to me (was it the soothtell when we saw where the sunbane was heading? I can't remember).

[High Lord Tolkien]

I was thinking that it might be preferable to have a different version of the Sunbane every day than the sequence that the Land was having of 3 days of each sun.
What do you guys think?

Do you rave, man?

[balon!]

I suppose that if you had a choice of how many days of Sunbane, well, NO still, i mean.......DO you Rave?

[matrixman]

Important tip, guys, don't cross the streams.

That's it: hire the Ghostbusters to zap and contain the Ravers!

Egon: "Gozer was bad, Venkman, but this Lord Foul goes beyond any ectoplasmic entity we've ever encountered before."

[MrKABC]

I was thinking that it might be preferable to have a different version of the Sunbane every day than the sequence that the Land was having of 3 days of each sun. Sure, if you know how many days of a particular Sunbane you're going to have will make surviving those days easier, but wouldn't a different sun every day help to amelorate the day before it? I don't think that the sun of Pestilence or Desert would be any fun, but knowing that the next day might be a day of rain would be helpful.

What do you guys think?

B

P.S. maybe after a long time, the Sunbane wouldn't be just one sun a day, it could possibly change evey hour. That would be bad. Important tip, guys, don't cross the sreams.

Well, as I understand it, as the Sunbane accelerated in duration from say, seven days (remember the quote from TWL, "in the past each sun shone as many as six or seven days, but now a sun of more than three is quite uncommon") the Sunbane grew in power.

You had a sun of seven days that wasn't too severe, say a light sprinkle during the sun of rain, or a protracted process of melting the plants during the desert sun. As the cycle contracted to two days, the damage it could do was multiplied due to the growing power of the Sunbane.

So you probably would not want a cycle of one day, the damage done would be too great - fatal desert, massive hurricane-like rains, pestilence that would create monstrous things and instantaneously rot all living things, and fertility spiraling out of control.

[dlbpharmd]

You had a sun of seven days that wasn't too severe, say a light sprinkle during the sun of rain, or a protracted process of melting the plants during the desert sun. As the cycle contracted to two days, the damage it could do was multiplied due to the growing power of the Sunbane.

So you probably would not want a cycle of one day, the damage done would be too great - fatal desert, massive hurricane-like rains, pestilence that would create monstrous things and instantaneously rot all living things, and fertility spiraling out of control.

Brilliant explanation, MrK!

[BraulioB]

You know, I never thought that the Sunbane was weeker if it lasted several days, but it makes sense. When it started it might have been just a slight change in weather patterns. Neat.

High Lord Tokien: I do have another voice in my head, but I don't think it's a Raver...

[High Lord Tolkien]

Well, as I understand it, as the Sunbane accelerated in duration from say, seven days (remember the quote from TWL, "in the past each sun shone as many as six or seven days, but now a sun of more than three is quite uncommon") the Sunbane grew in power.

You had a sun of seven days that wasn't too severe, say a light sprinkle during the sun of rain, or a protracted process of melting the plants during the desert sun. As the cycle contracted to two days, the damage it could do was multiplied due to the growing power of the Sunbane.

No, I don't think that's how it worked.
The Sunbane grew in power in the sense that it was a cancer destroying EarthPower not in the sense that the rain fell harder or the desert heat was hotter or that the bugs grew bigger.
It never said in the books that the 2nd day of Rain was worse than the first, for example.
It was the remaining Earthpower that was resisting/limiting the Sunbane to days of 3 or 4.
As the Sunbane "grew" stronger the Earthpower grew weaker.
At the end of WGW, when Linden was just about to expose herself to the Sunbane she saw that it was accelerating and once the last bit of resisting Earthpower was gone it would be free to expand to the rest of the world.

Now maybe you were talking about when the Sunbane first appeared.
I still don't agree.
It made the Ranyhyn leave the Land right away.
A Raver had already taken over the Council and made it the Clave before the Sunbane appeared.
There were no more Forestals that would have resisted (except for Troy and he hightailed it to Alendian. (sp?)
I always saw it hitting the Land with full force in the beginning that we saw at the beginning of the WL.
(Didn't it say the the Forests melted away when it first appeared?)
So the seven days of Rain in the past were just as bad as the 3 days of rain in the WL, imho.

To me, that is more horrible and tragic.

High Lord Tokien: I do have another voice in my head, but I don't think it's a Raver...

Maybe you've got two Ravers in there causing trouble.

[Aleksandr]

You know, I never thought that the Sunbane was weeker if it lasted several days, but it makes sense.

We are told (in the Soothtell I think) that the Ranyhyn perceived the Sunbane in its "earliest avatar", and so departed the Land. This would imply that the Sunbane began rather imperceptibly. That would also fit the very gradual revival of Lord Foul and how we are told that he inflicted the Sunbane by gradual degrees of "mounting abhorence" and also allow plenty of time for samadhi Sheol to infiltrate the Council and slowly corrupt its knowledge of history. A very abrupt, full-blown Sunbane on the other hand would have been remembered as a sudden catastrophe in which most of the Land, unforewarned and unprotected, would have perished.