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I agree with what awas said earlier, about Kevin being a younger persons name.
Every time I've read anything on Kevin in the Chrons, I picture him as a 20something guys with wild ambision, but determined honesty in his eyes.
But of course he lived to be , what 1000 years?
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amanibhavam wrote:I like that... "my name is Basil Fawl.. erm, Landwaster and this is my true servant Manuel. I'm so sorry for the Desecration, see, he's from Barcelona."
'So sorry about the Staff of Law, I made a terrible mistake . . . So sorry about the Staff of Law, I made a terrible mistake . . . .

'Oh, hello! So sorry about the Staff of Law! Foul-wife has made a terrible mistake! You know how the Dead are, they've only got one brain between the lot of them, well not all of them, but some of them have . . . Good heavens! Is that the time?'
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drew wrote:I agree with what awas said earlier, about Kevin being a younger persons name.
Every time I've read anything on Kevin in the Chrons, I picture him as a 20something guys with wild ambision, but determined honesty in his eyes.
But of course he lived to be , what 1000 years?
I agree, when i was pictureing Kevin he never even had a beard nevermind lived a millenia.
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I also agree, I always imagined Kevin as fairly young. Saying that, the Lords didn't age physically the way normal people did so maybe he did look youngish, in spite of his years. Was there a description of him in TIW when Elena called him fro the Dead?
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From memory - only that he had a bandage on his head.
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LOL I always wondered where that came from cos who was there to bandage him after the Ritual and why would they if he was dead? Or was that from some previous battle? If that's the case though surely a smidgen of hurtloam would fix it?
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KAY1 wrote:LOL I always wondered where that came from cos who was there to bandage him after the Ritual and why would they if he was dead? Or was that from some previous battle? If that's the case though surely a smidgen of hurtloam would fix it?
I think there is a thread about this somewhere.
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God - just when you think you have most everything figured out, as much as you can, Kevin comes in with a band-aid on his darn forehead.
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This is the thread Warmark might be referring to: Kevin's Bandage

The idea that there is some kind of correlation between Kevin's head wound and Covenant's head wound in TIW is very interesting to me. The possibility of a Kevin-Covenant connection seems more plausible in my mind than the Berek-Covenant connection other folks subscribe to.
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SRD wrote that before he conceived the final two chronicles, so it's unlikely to have any lasting significance. Unless that was something he "mined".

The text said that the bandage appeared to mask a mortal wound. Anything could have happened to cause that. Could it be Foul taunting Covenant? I doubt it, because Covenant had zero response to it. Besides, the Law of Death had not yet been broken, so Foul could not have "altered" Kevin's specter.

I think it's just a bandage, covering a wound Kevin suffered during his final hours. Imagine he and Foul at the Ritual of Desecration. There could have been a struggle. Perhaps Kevin didn't die immediately, and once the Ritual was performed Foul offed him.

Remember, SRD only tells us what he thinks we need to know. He probably thought that we didn't need to know what caused the bandage, and that a struggle between Kevin and Foul prior to or directly after the RoD was not only logical but likely, and expected us to pick up on that.
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We don't know what the dead like Kevin did in whatever afterlife they went to before Elena broke the Law of Death. Perhaps Kevin got his wound in the Ritual of Desecration and bandaged it in the afterlife because open wounds look gross.
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I always figured that the dead were just dead until the Law of Death was broken. Dead, gone, finished, existing only in the memory of the living, buried, taking dirt naps, dead.
I never pictured them gathering in an afterlife waiting for something to happen.
But, that's not to say it couldn't have been that way. :)
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It could also be an oversight by SRD.
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