Anyway, I saw the random quote of the day on the front page, and it generated a couple of random thoughts.
In the One Tree, Covenant is searching for the RIGHT kind of power. Searching for ENOUGH power. Even as he is afraid of it.(The One Tree, Chapter 22, "Also love in the world")
"You're afraid of yourself."
For a moment, he frowned as if he were on the edge of retorting, You mean if I were arrogant or inexperienced or maybe just stupid enough, there wouldn't be anything to be afraid of? But then his shoulders sagged. "I know," he murmured. "The more power I get, the more helpless I feel. It's never enough. Or it's the wrong kind. Or it can't be controlled. It terrifies me."
But what power? It is stated explicitly at one point, either toward the end of One Tree or in WGW, but I'll jump back to the original series to see where perhaps the idea might have germinated.
When Foamfollower is thinking about "hope."
He puts it another way? "What use is power, if it is not power over death?"
In the end, all power is transitory, unless it is power over death.
Oh yeah, where it was stated explicitly was in WGW. In Andelain. Covenant was hoping that the breaking of the Law of Life might have some way to redeem him from his loss of life IN THE REAL WORLD.
What do we get at the end of Fatal Revenant?
Well, what use is power unless it is power over death?
Linden has wielded enough POWER to bring Covenant back to life.
"WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?"
She has surpassed Covenant, for one thing.
Just a couple of thoughts. Whatcha think?