But he did indeed plan the Final Chronicles when writing the Second, so that there will be things that point to Final Chronicles in the Second.
The importance of stone, rock, is found in the First Chronicles -- The Unfettered One in The Power That Preserves was trying to read the stone, was able to pick up on the history of the Ravers through his study.
But they say how slow the stones speak.
We know from the first two in Final Chronicles, that the Fire Lions are restless.
I read Runes, reread the First Chronicles, got Fatal Revenant, read it, then reread the Second Chronicles. Really cool stuff pops out.
Anele has no friends but stones. He has said, repeatedly, the stones speak, but they haven't noticed yet a lot of things very recent origin. They speak too slow for mere mortals to pick up on what they say.
This is directly set up in White Gold Wielder, when Linden feels that she cannot sense any life in the Wightwarrens --
That's a general prediction. Money in the bank that speaking to the rock will be key. My guess at a prediction is I think she is going to find the One Rock, One Stone, whichever, under Mount Thunder and "read" it somehow.No life except the breathing , dire existence of the mountain, the sentience too slow to be discerned, the intent so immemorially occluded and right that it was hidden from mortal perception.
But ALSO, something very specific I thought of as a precursor --
The Fire Lions are restless. I think they are about to react for their own cleansing in Final Chronicles.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.
My guess is the mountain, which perches atop the Upper Land and straddles the lower, is going to come tumbling down.[/i]
Wayfriend once compiled a list of "potential open ends from the 2nd Chrons" or something like that. He might know where his post is.
