Then there's Kevin's Dirt. Roger admits it was he and Kas who released it under Mt. Thunder to limit LA. Of course, she practically had it figured out when she was arguing with Esmer.
But I think there's one more coming.But Lord Foul had Jeremiah. Her son had constructed images of Revelstone and Mount Thunder in her living room. And the Masters had reason to think that Kastenessen now inhabited Mount Thunder.
Perhaps he was also responsible for Kevin's Dirt-
Such speculations left her sick with frustration....
It's the timing. The bane can't be Kevin's Dirt, though it's possible the bane could also be responsible for Kevin's Dirt (just as the Illearth Stone could give Covenant the magic tracking hotfoot and blast stuff). For one, Kevin's Dirt had been around a long time, the Fire-Lions not so much. So I'm thinking Kas slipped the Durance (with the aid of Jeremiah and Roger, maybe?), meets up with Roger in Foul's old stomping ground, find a bane that releases Kevin's Dirt (must've been easy), and then use that same bane or find another bane that stops the Durance dead and lets the skurj loose, ticking off the Fire-Lions in the process."Now, however," he said, "the Fire-Lions are restive. After millenia of concealed life, they may be observed at any time rampaging upon the slopes of Mount Thunder. They present no peril to the Land, for they are beings of Earthpower, as condign after their fashion as the Ranyhyn. But the cause of their restlessness must be a great peril indeed. When the unnamed Elohim spoke of 'a bane of great puissance and ferocity' from the far north whch had 'found release' in Mount Thunder, no Master knew the form or power of that evil, though all presumed it to be the source of the Fire-Lions' unrest.
"Upon that occasion, the Elohim also named the skurj."
My money's on Illearth Wood, rolaillimol, showing up later in Kas's hands/hand (perhaps even having a direct relationship to his giving Roger a hand).
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