Elohim's opposition to vain

[emotional leper]

Well I can be pretty dense about some things so

I didn't think that his hiding on the fringes of Earthpower had actually corrupted it though. I just thought it sustained him as it had done the first time when he was diminished by the Ritual of Desecration.

There is something that rings a vagueish sort of bell about the onset of the Sunbane (also in a thread on here on the same subject) but I thought it was more about the destruction of the staff that had enabled the earthpower to be so corrupted.

I swear that the Earthpower was corrupted presciesely because it had sustained Foul. I could be wrong, though.

Or it could just be the Inner Foul telling me to say these things.

[KAY1]

I have a terrible memory but I am in the middle of a re-read so I will check it out. I think in the 'soothtell' section of TWL it explains it.

As you say though, could be that Foul getting out

[wayfriend]

Sustaining Foul did not corrupt the Earthpower, but it did grant Foul the knowledge and the leverage he needed to do it willfully. That's my take.