Linna Heartlistener wrote:I'm not all the way through with FR yet, so I don't know if any of these have already effectively happened yet...
Powerful, effective forgiveness will somehow be worked for Joan.
Whether her life will last long beyond that won't be of as much consequence as one would expect, because what happens will be that amazing.
This was perhaps the biggest shock for me. I expected her to die, but not like that.
Linna wrote:
Linden will become capable of weeping again. (sorry, folks.)
But her tears will have a different quality to them.
(Perhaps she will save the land with mourning, as Covenant once saved the land with laughter.)
And Linden will die: this has been presented as the most unavoidable fact from the beginning.
Good calls, the last two.
The pattern has always been that someone is left behind to carry on. The big Twist would be if no one is left behind...
Here is my theory: Everyone dies. The Ranyhyn, the
Elohim, ur-Viles, right down the line. All but Jeremiah. His ability to construct and change realities comes into play. The Earth resets via Jeremiah, who is the new Land's Creator. He must return (alone) to the earth, with or without the ability to communicate-- both because he's alive, and because those are the rules for the Creator; he has to be outside his creation.
Remember that Jeremiah has spent a lot of time in the Land (if what he said via the
croyel is true, and it seems to be). He probably knows more of what went on than anybody. He has met and experienced just about every type of person (via representatives in their traveling party) in their strengths and weaknesses.
Somehow through him the Land will find form and life again, and it will include not only those peoples, but the spirits of Linden and Covenant as well. They will be inherent to the Arch of Time and to Earthpower in some way.
Those are my predictions.