I think Stave will make the ultimate sacrifice at some point. In all the Chronicles thus far, some valuable member of the Haruchai bloodline has bit the big one in the end. Donaldson is unforgiving about killing off people we've emotionally invested ourselves in and Stave seems a likely candidate to me. After all, he exiled himself from his people to follow Linden so it only seems right to me that in the end he sacrifices himself to assure Linden's/TC's success. And that seems to be the plight of all Haruchai anyway. And of course that'll make his loss that much more poignant to Linden who's relied on him so heavily thus far.Ur Dead wrote:Roger will bite the cryptic apple. Maybe a few of the Humbled will also. Stave is a possiblity at the end. Anele will have a total makeover. and Jerry will be lost.
Liand will make it as he will be the new Sunder, if you will, to remake the Land and give its inhabitants their birthrights back.
Anele is toast, IMO. Only way to ease his suffering is to kill him. And seeing as how he's the "last hope of the Land", I imagine he'll experience the fate of Vain/Findail/Hile Troy where he morphs into something else to save the Land.