I found some ore SRD might mine

[Zarathustra]

Warning: this entire post could contain spoilers.

In the GI, SRD talks about "mining" his past works to produce new stuff for the Last Chronicles. I wonder if this is prophetic:

"No life except the breathing, dire existence of the mountain, the sentience too slow to be discerned, the intent so immemorially occluded and rigid that it was hidden from mortal perception. Linden felt she was wandering the vitals of an organism which surpassed her on every scale--and yet was too time-spanning and ponderous to defend itself against quick evil. Mount Thunder loathed the banes which inhabited it, the use to which its depths were put. Why else was there so much anger compressed in the gutrock? But the day when the mountain might react for its own cleansing was still centuries or millennia away." [TWGW, p399 (hardback)]

The italics are mine. That last sentence hints at some enormous possibilities. Will this kneeling Titan one day stand up for itself? That would be cool!!

[I'm Murrin]

Interesting. The skurj at the mountain's feet might be the last straw that induce it into action.

[Warmark]

Have read Runes for a while, But 'Certuries' means it could have happened already.
Perhaps MT is now clean?

Any mention of evil activies there in Runes?

[Zarathustra]

Here's another quote from one of the last paragraphs of TWGW:

"There Linden let go. The mountain towered over her, as imponderable as the gaps between the stars. It was heavier than sorrow, greater than loss. Nothing would ever heal what it had endured. She was only mortal; but Mount Thunder's grief would go on without let or surcrease, unambergrised for all time."

There are only two more sentences in the entire story of the 2nd Chronicles (not counting the epilogue): "Then the wind took her, and she felt herself go out. Out into the dark."

So why does the last bit of the story involve a description of the mountain's plight, after all the suffering these characters have gone through? Why bother mentioning it in the last few crucial words of the book? Who cares about this lump of rock? Linden is leaving the Land after achieving the final victory!

I can't help but think that these are clues to the Last Chronicles. SRD wouldn't include a frivolous comparison to the mountain in this climactic, last breath of his narrative if it weren't important.

I don't think it's a coincidence that everything comes back to the Mount. This is where Kevin's Ritual was enacted, where Covenant achieved his very first--inadvertant--victory, and where the 2nd Chronicles climaxes. It's not a coincidence that it was recreated out of Legos in Runes. We're going to see something spectacular happen at Mount Thunder in the Last Chronicles.

Oh, and I think SRD had the title for The Last Dark in mind when he finished the 2nd Chronicles. No where else is this phrase mentioned than in the last 50 or so pages of TWGW, and within that short span of pages it is mentioned at least twice. I have a feeling we are soon going to see just how pre-planned the Last Chronicles are. Like he said, it's going to be a hell of a ride.

[Zarathustra]

Why does the word, "Linduh," appear when I type, "L i n d e n?" I've tried to edit my post, but it remains the same.

[Loredoctor]

Why does the word, "Linduh," appear when I type, "L i n d e n?" I've tried to edit my post, but it remains the same.

You're not the only one - that's because Jay has changed the forum to spell it that way instead. Annoying, yes.

[Seareach]

Why does the word, "Linduh," appear when I type, "L i n d e n?" I've tried to edit my post, but it remains the same.

You're not the only one - that's because Jay has changed the forum to spell it that way instead. Annoying, yes.

He's going to fix it...apparently! Wish I had that kind of power here. Ooooh, the things that I could do!