The Seven Hells

[SGuilfoyle1966]

Regarding Sunbane fertility - take something good, break it horrifically, and give it back. That's the essence of Lord Foul, because it engenders despair. Uncontrolled growth/fertility is known to us on Earth as cancer.

dw

I get this DukkaWaynhim, but what I was refering to was 'fertility' in the original list as one of the Seven Hells. To me it just doesn't seem to square with the others on the list.

Fertility as a hell? I think anyone who has watched Jon & Kate plus Eight would get the idea. Or the OctoMom.

[Earthfriend]

... indeed, if the Land had been destroyed, it would have been counter to Foul's plans. Foul needed the Land to be miserable, but not dead, in order to manipulate Covenant.

yes, something broken to give back to him. I agree, wayfriend.

[Blackhawk]

Regarding Sunbane fertility - take something good, break it horrifically, and give it back. That's the essence of Lord Foul, because it engenders despair. Uncontrolled growth/fertility is known to us on Earth as cancer.

dw

I get this DukkaWaynhim, but what I was refering to was 'fertility' in the original list as one of the Seven Hells. To me it just doesn't seem to square with the others on the list.

Fertility as a hell? I think anyone who has watched Jon & Kate plus Eight would get the idea. Or the OctoMom.

gives a new thought to being caught out in a sun of fertility without stone to stand on.... imagine a pregnancy taking place in a matter of minutes rather than 9 months... i would rather suffer Marids Fate.

[Relayer]

Have you read the Gap?

[Thorhammerhand]

Fertility could be a hell, think for a moment as a Land-person.

Lack of fertile suns would result in starvation. Sure the shedding of several of your town mates may provide temporary relief but there is no way that several acres of crops/fodder would keep a village going without fertility to bolster your food supplies. (Further, not in Foul's plan though, what happens when LA melds the Sunbane into the 'normal' sun?)

Second to that is the factor of slowing fleeing villagers if they ever turned on the Clave.

However, I concur that the primary aim of the sun of fertility was to give back something broken to the land, as was the sun of rain.

[peter]

I think it was more than this Thor - without rain and fertility the continued existence of the people in the Land would be untenable. Donaldson HAD to introduce some way that the continued existance of the people would be believable, hence he gave rain and fertility - but in a distorted way that would conform to his nightmare vision of the sunbane.